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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers Tattooed Tardigrades. They Promise It Will Be Useful⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  We do what we must because we can For the good of all of us Except the ones who are dead

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google created a new AI model for talking to dolphins⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They have a brain as complex as ours, they’re social, and they’re believed to be really smart.

  If they’re actually dumb, very dumb, I swear to god I will buy a single non-dolphin-free tuna can out of spite.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fintech founder charged with fraud after 'AI' shopping app found to be powered by humans in the Philippines | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is scandalous! We were supposed to get a different kind of fraud!

  They even probably worked better than real AI, the shame!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dude, tell me you haven’t been in a management position without yadda yadda etc.

  They’re not genius or more valuable, their workflow is different. In development I could solve the same problem for days, and know the ins and outs of it; as a manager. When I pivoted to management, I understood I have people who know their shit, so I don’t have to worry about the details while I make sure they have everything they need to accomplish our compromises.

  I had to learn to let go of the tech work so I could be more effective as a manager. I’d love to talk about Postgres optimization during dinner, but I can’t devote much time to that during the work day. That’s someone else’s job. I’ll just give them the resources.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This. OP is mistaken if he thinks all people had to carefully read all email. We techies love to explain things too much, but executives are administrators, they don’t delve into technical details unless needed.

  My technique to get busy executives to answer my emails is being direct and brief.

  • Subject: As concise as possible, and then more
  • In bold, one thing I need from them. Asking three things is a sure way to get two unanswered things.
  • Two line breaks
  • In bold “Details”, another line break, and a bullet list of any info they might need, but not necessarily read.

  That’s it. If they need more, they will ask you. If you need more, send three emails, or make it very clear in the first line that you’re asking three things, and make them a bullet list.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple shipped five plane-loads of iPhones and other products in three days to beat US tariff deadline⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow. Aren’t we inventive?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple shipped five plane-loads of iPhones and other products in three days to beat US tariff deadline⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Apple has teased with making the iPhone-as-a-service, meaning you lease it instead of owning it. The tariffs might give it the pretext it needed to go ahead with the idea, because the alternative would be sacrificing some of its abundant profit margins.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo delays Switch 2 preorders over tariff concerns⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would never had imagined that in my lifetime I’d see gringos reverse-smuggling game consoles from Mexico. I guess you could smuggle them from Canada too, but Mexico has always smuggled merch from USA. We even have a term for it: “fayuca”.

  The lucky ones that live near the border can cross, shop switches 2 at non-orange prices, open them and smuggle the back as personal devices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An AI avatar tried to argue a case before a New York court. The judges weren't having it.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Guess they will start teaching vtubing in high school then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Offers Apps With Ties to Chinese Military.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  TBH Apple is closed mainly because it makes them boatloads of money, not because of security. It could still be open and responsible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have I Been Pwned owner, pwned.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t blame him, they had that bias because we’re friends, and I would be perfect if not for my excessive modesty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We all deserve better than this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is what I got from the article as well. Jesus, buy a previous gen GPU and fiddle a bit with your graphic settings, it’s just games, not life or death.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do spiders poop ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Adult mayflies don’t, they don’t even have a digestive system or even mouth. They just reproduce and die.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Open Source Github Repositories in Danger of being Deleted⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t recall reporting any comment today. Can I fix that if I reported it somehow?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit could soon punish users for upvoting violent content.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t even serve shareholders, they serve the money they will give them if profits increase short-term.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Milestone: NASA achieved GPS signals on Moon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d be okay with that, honestly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨low iq in love with high iq person, is that bad??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, IQ tests are a learnable skill. You can become surprisingly better at them without actually increasing your intelligence, by becoming familiar with the exercises.

  A smart non-native English speaker would likely score even lower the first time because many old tests tie reasoning to English proficiency and western culture.

  Last but not least, being intelligent is different from being smart. I’ve seen intelligent people get left behind by regular people because they took unwise decisions and wasted their potential.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨low iq in love with high iq person, is that bad??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Bhank you for not doxin me pal, I would be devastated if odders knew about my low iQ

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What RSS feeds are you subscribed to?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A question for the ages: why are so many young cybersecurity furries?

  Does the field attract furries, or does it create them?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nobody Wants a Nazi Electric Car⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think he would be relieved to get rid of Tesla if someone would buy it. The full self-driving promise was always a matter of interpretation, and the cars they build are more expensive symbols of status than practical products. Tesla can’t compete with global EV manufacturers, that’s a Damocles sword waiting to fall.

  SpaceX is where the money is now, and all the electric innovation Tesla did can be used for something else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People are using Super Mario to benchmark AI now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes Timmy, we spent months finding the best Marios and then made them have offspring. The wonders of AI!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People are using Super Mario to benchmark AI now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Mario! Get your dirty growth mushroom off the princess!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does it seem like many Americans have an arrogant personality trait?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s seems like USA’s culture rewards individual success above all else, hence successful people behaving like main protagonists, or even as of others were NPCs.

  To be fair, other comments that speak about selection bias are also spot on: not all people there do commercial tourism, even domestically. The ones that do are successful enough to have that disposable income.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GARBAGEOLOGY⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I know! The United States of North America!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would a stateless society handle serious threats such as mass murder and terrorism?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  PixelPinecone you did a criticism! It sucks but aren’t you adorable? Bless your heart.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta admits Instagram error flooded Reels with violent and pornographic content⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It was a stunt. Janet did the classic porn reaction of seeing her own boob and looking at it incredulously while shaking her head and not trying to cover it at all.

  The normal human reaction is covering the exposure at the speed of light.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google launches a free AI coding assistant with very high usage caps⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Google recently bundled Gemini with Google Workspace and increased the price, regardless of you using it or not. Guess the plan was for paying users to subsidize this free tier so Google can save on training.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No. Archival means copying, destructive archival means copying and destroying the original. If the copy was as smart as you, it would know the original you was left in meatspace. It would be stupid to claim the copy is you but in a different individual, not different than wishful thinking.

  The copy would be based on you, but from its startup it would become a different individual, as your experiences diverge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If the upload is me, it will know it’s a clone, not me, but also his own person from now own.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What I loved is that both knew what needed to be done next because he planned it before being copied.