GetOffMyLan
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- Comment on Anon tries to understand his coworker 6 days ago:
Yes
- Comment on Anon tries to understand his coworker 6 days ago:
Exactly. We only have his side of it and I’m just suggesting ways it could make sense.
- Comment on How screwed would one be if their email provider shuts down? 6 days ago:
I get an email from LinkedIn about jobs roughly every hour so wouldn’t be long
- Comment on How screwed would one be if their email provider shuts down? 6 days ago:
I use a free email service with my custom domain. If it went down I’d just switch to another. Down time would likely just be while DNS records proliferated.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand his coworker 6 days ago:
Indeed. But some people come across like that. I had a friend who never realised they were seeming super flirty all the time when really they were just being nice to people.
Also 4chan so easily a lie.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand his coworker 6 days ago:
She didn’t go that’s the point. He could have had her backed into a cupboard when he asked for all we know.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand his coworker 6 days ago:
Completely possible anon was a creep and she felt uncomfortable saying no.
- Comment on Petition: Create a public consultation on freedom of speech and disinformation 1 week ago:
In Political Order & Political Decay, Francis Fukuyama talks about a national narrative. It is a political tool for citizens to have a common understanding of their history, which then leads to a common understanding of its future. With this common understanding, the people become more unified, thus enabling the nation to accomplish many great things.
- Comment on GOG’s new preservation program intends to keep classic games playable ‘forever’ 1 week ago:
If you’re trying to save as many games as possible and the vast majority are on windows it completely does.
- Comment on GOG’s new preservation program intends to keep classic games playable ‘forever’ 1 week ago:
The problem is it’s a tiny fraction of games and users. It’s a lot of resources for little gain.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Because you aren’t a 6 year old and have to use your big boy words in the adult world.
- Comment on Warcraft 1 and 2 Remastered and the long-awaited 2.0 patch update for Warcraft 3: Reforged have just launched on PC for Warcraft's 30th anniversary 1 week ago:
Orks and humans had no multi select 🙃 apparently they’re adding that in though which might make it playable.
- Comment on END OF NYT TECH GUILD STRIKE 1 week ago:
Set rules for on-call work during emergencies, defined rules for termination and communication regarding work from home policy changes.
The strike was called for the week of the election to put pressure on the negotiations. They are still ongoing.
- Comment on END OF NYT TECH GUILD STRIKE 1 week ago:
The Times Tech Guild’s decision to strike during the election is not coincidental. The strike comes after a two-and-a-half-year back-and-forth between the union and The New York Times. This September, the union gave Times management an ultimatum: if demands were not met before the Sunday leading up to election day, Times Tech Guild members would go on strike, leaving the news organization vulnerable.
That’s all well established. They have been negotiating for a long time.
- Comment on END OF NYT TECH GUILD STRIKE 1 week ago:
No it sends the message that they can do it. And that is massive all on its own.
It’s designed to bring them to the table without starving the workers. Indefinite strikes would obviously be more effective but then you’re forgetting about the people who do need the jobs.
If nothing changes they can just do it again.
- Comment on Anons discuss PC vs console gaming 1 week ago:
Yeah literally. This is just a setup issue.
- Comment on How am I supposed to get a job when I am Job? 2 weeks ago:
I got into programming when my disabilities hit as a teenager.
So fucking lucky I did as I now get paid decent money to sit in my pjs in bed at a computer.
- Comment on Not all PDFs are documents; some are apps! Insurance company sent me a form to sign as a PDF with JavaScript. Is it a tracker? 2 weeks ago:
Indeed. But the pdf file itself isn’t the issue here.
- Comment on Not all PDFs are documents; some are apps! Insurance company sent me a form to sign as a PDF with JavaScript. Is it a tracker? 2 weeks ago:
It’s literally just the format of the file here. If you skip the java serialisation header it’s a normal pdf file.
I did explain what it is. I just don’t know why certain programs encode it this way.
I’m trying to help you out there’s no need to be a dick.
- Comment on Not all PDFs are documents; some are apps! Insurance company sent me a form to sign as a PDF with JavaScript. Is it a tracker? 2 weeks ago:
The file is a serialised java array that contains a pdf file. I’ve seen a few things online about this. Some pdf readers accept it, some don’t.
And I’m not sure why an application would output a pdf this way. But there’s nothing harmful going on.
- Comment on There are Minimum Wages, Why Not a Maximum Wage? 2 weeks ago:
You’re never going to have to worry about it. If you won the lottery every week you wouldn’t be close to what these people have.
Your labour value is already massively capped by the super rich. You earn a fraction of what you produce for others.
- Comment on There are Minimum Wages, Why Not a Maximum Wage? 2 weeks ago:
One day I might be mega rich and then people like me better watch their step!
- Comment on If there are motherboards and daughterboards, are there fatherboards and sonboards? 3 weeks ago:
The observant will have noticed one of these early uses of mother-board are in conjunction with baby-board, and not today’s common daughterboard. A mother-baby relationship seems more appropriate in this context than mother-daughter.
- Comment on Anon gives up dating apps 3 weeks ago:
This dude is clearly looking to get laid and I bet it’s very clear from the way he approaches people. You’re assuming they aren’t creeping.
- Comment on AI Seeks Out Racist Language in Property Deeds for Termination 4 weeks ago:
No it’s not. It’s pedantic and arguing semantics. It is essentially useless and a waste of everyone’s time.
- Comment on AI Seeks Out Racist Language in Property Deeds for Termination 4 weeks ago:
I literally quoted the word for that exact reason. It just gets really tiring when you talk about AIs and someone always has to make this point. We all know they don’t think or understand in the same way we do. No one gains anything by it being pointed out constantly.
- Comment on AI Seeks Out Racist Language in Property Deeds for Termination 4 weeks ago:
I mean they literally do analyze text. They’re great at it. Give it some text and it will analyze it really well. I do it with code at work all the time.
Because they are two completely different tasks. Asking them to recall information from their training is a very bad use. Asking them to analyze information passed into them is what they are great at.
Give it a sample of code and it will very accurately analyse and explain it. Ask it to generate code and the results are wildly varied in accuracy.
- Comment on AI Seeks Out Racist Language in Property Deeds for Termination 4 weeks ago:
One of LLMs main strengths over traditional text analysis tools is the ability to “understand” context.
They are bad at generating factual responses. They are amazing at analysing text.
- Comment on What metrics are deoderant companies using to calculate their "72hr protection" numbers? 5 weeks ago:
"Yes, Head & Shoulders contains ingredients that have anti-fungal properties:
Zinc pyrithione Also known as ZPT, this ingredient is an active ingredient in Head & Shoulders dandruff detox shampoo. It can reduce the amount of fungus on the scalp, which can help prevent dandruff. ZPT can also help manage seborrheic dermatitis, an inflammatory scalp condition. However, it can cause contact dermatitis in rare cases.
Selenium sulfide This ingredient acts as an antifungal and antibacterial cleansing agent. It can help prevent the growth of Malassezia, a type of yeast that causes dandruff. However, it can cause excessive oiliness and yellow discoloration in the hair shaft. "
I think you had fungal infection mate
- Comment on Why, in English at least, is the letter W called "double U" and not "double V"? 1 month ago:
The letter “W” is called “double U” because the Normans invented it by combining two pointed capital letters to represent the sound “w” in Anglo-Saxon words after the Norman Conquest of England in 1066. The name “double U” still indicates how the letter was created.
Before the Norman Conquest, the Latin letter “V” was used to represent both the “v” and “w” sounds. The Anglo-Saxons created a separate character called “wen” to represent the “w” sound. After the Norman Conquest, the Normans combined two pointed capital letters to create the “W” to represent the “w” sound in Anglo-Saxon words.
In early Middle English, the digraph “uu” became popular again and replaced “wynn” in common use by 130