Lodespawn

@Lodespawn@aussie.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon saves up⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting, I got the impression it was a regulatory requirement. My wife’s firm did the same thing, but maybe it was just company policies where we worked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon saves up⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What a champ!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon saves up⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah the company I worked for let you shift 5 but you had to take them within the first 3 months

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon saves up⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No no, this was multiple old guys and in addition to long service leave, they just never took leave.

  For the UK I think the policy is in support of worker rights, in a round about kind of way. If you let people pay it out then they might never take leave and won’t get the benefits of actually having had a break from work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon saves up⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They just get lost in the UK too, most places seem pretty good about making sure you take them though.

  At the first full time job I had in Oz there were a bunch of old dudes who had each accrued over a year in untaken annual leave. The company had to crack down on it and make them start taking it because it was a huge liability, both financially and as a risk to actually getting work done. They had to develop plans for them to take it a couple months at a time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Greens and Coalition bristle against Labor’s changes to the standing orders [to allow kicking out MPs for longer and to avoid recording the names of MPs who on some motions]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If they really wanted to be counted either not supporting or supporting a bill depending on where the mi ority sat, then they’d make the effort to get in and vote, otherwise it can be assumed they are sideing with the majority. They are voting with their actions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨cursed knowledge⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s a roach bin?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Greens and Coalition bristle against Labor’s changes to the standing orders [to allow kicking out MPs for longer and to avoid recording the names of MPs who on some motions]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If someone didn’t attend a likely majority vote then I most certainly will assume they agree with the majority, and will treat them as such.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Greens and Coalition bristle against Labor’s changes to the standing orders [to allow kicking out MPs for longer and to avoid recording the names of MPs who on some motions]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh? Can’t you just assume that if they were a sitting member at the time and their name isn’t in the 6 or less that voted nay then they voted yay?

  Seems like a nothing burger …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mushroom learns to crawl after being given robot body⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’ll be pretty funny if a mushroom learns to drive before Musk’s cars

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's really not okay⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because paper is just thinly sliced tree, like prosciutto

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have a good trip⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Blurst Bong …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grok got a Nazi patch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hoo boy Netanyahu is gonna be invading Elon Musk and having settlers selling up shop in 3, 2, 1 …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah we’ve structured the system so companies are mostly only responsible to shareholders, and shareholders really only care about short term gains with their only liability from the company is financial. Companies are always going have a focus on short term gains because thats what the system demands.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah the whole missing entry level job thing for most industries is going to backfire with exploding wages for experienced people. Without training grads and apprentices there’s an ever decreasing pool of experienced people to pick from.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I find the AI summary can be helpful when searching, but also not much more helpful than a summary of the first few search results which are mostly only loosely related paid for advertising …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So do you frame the problem to the LLM, get it to spot out an example piece of code and then run through that initial attempt to get an idea of how to approach the problem? Kind of like prototyping the problem?

  I take it you find that more efficient than traditional code planning methods? Or do you then start building flow charts/pseudo code from that prototype and confirm the logic to build more readable or efficient code?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My gut feeling, based on the kind of repetitive nonsense I see them produce and bang on about, is that a lot of management types see AI efficiency because the work they do is repetitive and easily aided by AI input so they assume everything can be improved by it.

  Not to say I don’t see the benefits of a good manager, I just don’t think they are that common.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s pretty great, what kind of things do you use the PowerShell scripts for?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Does anyone here actually see productivity improvements to their roles from using AI?

  I’m a telecoms engineer and I see limited use cases in my role for AI. If I need to process data then I need something that can do math reliably. For document generation I can only reliably get it to build out a structure and even then I’ve more than likely got an existing document the I can use as a structure template.

  Network design, system specification and project engineering are all so specific to the use case and have so few examples provided in public data sets that anything AI outputs is usually nonsense.

  Am I missing some use cases here?

  Also, if you do see productivity improvements from AI, why would you tell your employer? They want a 5 day working week but they know what they expect to be achieved in that week, so that’s what they get.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair Russia is at war with the US as well, just they’ve captured the government

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨℞osaur⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  OP is named hippo and has an icon of a hippo …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ye song glorifying Hitler gets millions of views on X while other platforms struggle to remove it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He knows the Nazis would have straight up murdered him without even blinking right?

  It seems Mr West has been on a wild algorithm ride over the last few years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My Tesla Model Y Insurance Safety Score Keeps Dropping When I Drive, But I Can’t Tell What Tesla Thinks I’m Doing Wrong⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if her GPS chip is cooked or theres something physically stopping it from seeing enough satellites accurately and it’s reporting her jumping around the road at high speed as it struggles to get a good location lock.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Greens' Adam Bandt in danger as seat of Melbourne remains on knife's edge⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well at least he’s not potentially losing his seat to that evil prick Tim Wilson.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft has created an AI-generated version of Quake⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that’s just Facebook, surely no people actually use it any more?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft has created an AI-generated version of Quake⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe they can sell their AI Slop to AI slop? Really cut people right out of the equation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PROTEIN BRO⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure supplements are ever fun … but they can help with getting enough protein if you’re lifting or an additional energy boost via creatine … protein powder can taste nice but you need to watch out for macros if it’s too delicious, I’ve never had a nice creatine.

  Or by fun do you mean preworkouts? I think there’s limits to preworkout value when what you really need for workout energy are easily digestible carbs over caffine or other cruft.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PROTEIN BRO⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah you can’t run off a bad diet, you do need to make sure you are getting enough protein aligned with your goals, and some fats, but outside of that, you just need to eat less than you burn.

  Running might help increase the deficit a bit, or give you some extra food, but you’re probably going to struggle to cover thousands of additional calories.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump rejects Australia's bid for tariff exemptions⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We should put a matched tariff on aluminium and steel exports just to make sure the Americans really feel how expensive their shit is about to get, also to skim some sweet government revenue for ourselves