HobbitFoot
@HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club
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- Comment on No machine (or person) can replace the exercise of thinking for yourself. 19 hours ago:
One of the things I’ve seen with current junior staff is that they have grown up with computer text for everything, which makes reading non-OCR text very difficult and a learned skill for them. Since I work in a field with scanned handwritten documents, this makes their work much slower.
I wonder if the same problem will happen with AI, where future generations will expect a computer to create connections between different documents.
- Comment on Is it weird to juggle in the park? 4 days ago:
Compared to other public spaces, no.
- Comment on Rooftop solar can be torn out of capital’s hands | Decentralised solar has the potential to support co-operative, municipal and other forms of community ownership and control 6 days ago:
It is a combination of that and the cost of maintaining the grid typically gets paid by power usage, which falls apart when people self produce most of their power.
- Comment on When society completely transitions to cash-less, what happens when the power goes down? End of the world? 6 days ago:
What happens if the power goes out now? We’re already going to be in a very degraded living situation with battery backups providing a minimum amount of connectivity.
- Comment on Reddit will tighten verification to keep out human-like AI bots 6 days ago:
Meta is paying to make its bots, Reddit gets it for free!
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI is Now Coming May 26, 2026 - Rockstar Games 1 week ago:
The problem is that Rockstar is trying to make a new engine with modern graphics, when the industry has been moving away from the cutting edge because of costs.
- Comment on Meta's Reality Labs Has Now Lost Over $60 Billion Since 2020 - Slashdot 1 week ago:
Employees like this usually cost the company at least double their salary in support and benefits, so you’re probably talking about half that at most.
Along with that, there is probably a lot of R&D expenses as well.
Finally, Meta seems to be subsidizing the consumer hardware, so that’s probably hurting the bottom line even more.
- Comment on The Anti-Capitalist Case for Standards 1 week ago:
The development of standards doesn’t have to be seen as capitalist, though. There are benefits for non-capitalist economies to define standards as a way to achieve interoperability across different devices. For instance, I don’t see why a communist country wouldn’t standardize a power plug.
- Comment on Report: Apple CEO “cares about nothing else” Than Building Breakout AR Glasses Before Meta 2 weeks ago:
But you’re going to get a lot of people who don’t want to be around Glassholes as all AR includes a camera.
- Comment on Report: Apple CEO “cares about nothing else” Than Building Breakout AR Glasses Before Meta 2 weeks ago:
You can?
S**t!
- Comment on What is the evolutionary benefit of loving a pet so much you melt into a puddle when they are around? 2 weeks ago:
Given that domesticated animals adopted some human baby like actions, it is a plausible theory.
- Comment on What should I do if someone applied to a job at a company I work at without being able to legally work in my country? 2 weeks ago:
My post isn’t bait. We’ve gone through the process with HR and then found that the applicant may not have work authorization.
- Comment on What should I do if someone applied to a job at a company I work at without being able to legally work in my country? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, but I’m trying to keep this interaction from being a red flag.
- Comment on What should I do if someone applied to a job at a company I work at without being able to legally work in my country? 2 weeks ago:
I’m not going to report them to ICE, but I’m trying to address all the issues of going non-responsive.
- Comment on What should I do if someone applied to a job at a company I work at without being able to legally work in my country? 2 weeks ago:
We already expressed going forward with the candidate.
- Comment on What should I do if someone applied to a job at a company I work at without being able to legally work in my country? 2 weeks ago:
US. We’ve tried to get the applicant to fill out an I-9, which failed.
- Comment on What should I do if someone applied to a job at a company I work at without being able to legally work in my country? 2 weeks ago:
I’m looking to try to unwind this with as little blowback to the applicant as possible.
- Comment on Instead of Orange Man doing Tariffs would it not have been better for him to talk about shopping locally and so forth. And giving more tax breaks to companies that stay and sell in the US? 2 weeks ago:
He’s trying to raise revenue in a way he can control.
- Comment on What should I do if someone applied to a job at a company I work at without being able to legally work in my country? 2 weeks ago:
The problem is that there is a recruiter as a middleman. This would be a lot easier if there wasn’t a third party fiscally interested in this.
- Comment on What should I do if someone applied to a job at a company I work at without being able to legally work in my country? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been consulting with HR. They’ve come to the conclusion that the applicant probably isn’t able to work. I’m just trying to wind this down.
- Comment on What should I do if someone applied to a job at a company I work at without being able to legally work in my country? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, it is hiring. I edited this.
My issue is trying to unwind this as humanely as possible for the applicant.
- Comment on What should I do if someone applied to a job at a company I work at without being able to legally work in my country? 2 weeks ago:
We were going to hire them, but they can’t show proof of working in the country.
And since I recommended that they get hired and they can’t show the right paperwork, it is becoming my job on how I should proceed.
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- Comment on Traveling Salesman is NP-Hard, yet Uber Eats delivery route optimization algorithms exist 2 weeks ago:
Uber Eats has it easy. It is a problem for the USPS and delivery companies, including Amazon.
- Comment on Are we all suffering from "future shock" in 2025? 2 weeks ago:
Eh, I’m not surprised. I’m more surprised at how comfortable with people being racist in public.
- Comment on More Americans are financing groceries with buy now, pay later loans — and more are paying those bills late, survey says 2 weeks ago:
The idea is that if you are throwing a party or buying something big, then this will be useful for those purchases.
It isn’t a good idea, though.
- Comment on Why is the NFL draft day so "special"? 2 weeks ago:
To add onto this, you’re also seeing a greater development of the nerd fan, propped up by fantasy football and gambling.
Before, a fan would be interested in their team and maybe a few others. You now have people dedicated to the league, treating it as the RNG running their games. That means knowing all teams, all players, and even how coaching staff will use players as that affects their own games and possibly even their own bottom lines.
- Comment on Does anyone else feel guilty or very depressed after accomplishing anything? 2 weeks ago:
I was labeled as gifted growing up, part of it being I was the smartest kid in the classroom in a lot of my classes. That generally meant that no one really celebrated if I did well academically since it was expected. It was really only a celebration if someone beat me. So I never got used to celebrating what I did since it would just piss people off.
My mom would also usually claim my accomplishments as her own since she raised me and my success was due, in large part, to her.
So I got used to not getting a sense of accomplishment when I accomplished something.
- Comment on Do you have any “headcanons” (so to speak) about the Star Trek TNG characters? 2 weeks ago:
Not characters, but places.
Earth is extremely competitive to gain any notoriety, which is really bad for a lot of people as notoriety and talent have become what is valuable in human society. People leave Earth because, while it is comfortable to live there, it is really hard to move up the social ladder. It is a lot easier to move away to get a better position, hence why humanity still colonizes other planets while Earth is paradise.
The Vulcans, Andorians, and Tellarire civilizations were going into decline when the Federation was formed. This is why Humanity became the dominant species of the Federation; the other species effectively gave up trying to be powers.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
There’s nothing like a cool body on a warm summer night.