AFKBRBChocolate
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- Comment on Don't we all? 1 week ago:
Apparently it stems from the days when women had servants who helped them dress, while men generally didn’t.
- Comment on Bringing Back Trelane | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 2 weeks ago:
My dad was friends with Bill Campbell, the guy who played the original. Pretty funny guy. He told me that he had this thick accent - I want to say it was Bronx - and his parents sent him to a voice coach to give him a more upper crust accent, but they just couldn’t completely get rid of it, so he ended up with that odd speech that became kind of trademark.
I ran into him at a local wallmart years ago and he had a bunch of action figures in a basket. Turns out they had just come out with the Trelane action figure, which he thought was great, and was buying some for kids in his family.
- Comment on Anon is Illiterate 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, it really throws me off. I’m a little overly sensitive to body language and other cues about what a person is thinking and feeling, and some of that is messed up when the speed is increased.
- Comment on These totally legitimate comments 2 weeks ago:
Awesome.
“This glowingly price review is almost perfect, it just needs something… I know, a scream emoji!”
- Comment on These totally legitimate comments 2 weeks ago:
I love that each has three emojis, and most of them make no sense.
- Comment on Anon is Illiterate 2 weeks ago:
I’m with you, I like written things that I can digest and refer back to, though it’s worth mentioning that if you have questions, it much quicker to work through those face to face.
- Comment on Anon is Illiterate 2 weeks ago:
Eleven Labs Reader
Thanks for the recommendation. For it to be useful for him, it would have to work on Windows (where the emails and documents he’s reading are). I’m seeing a phone app, do you know if there’s a windows one? I’m sure he’d have to have a paid version for corporate use.
- Comment on the elder gods 2 weeks ago:
There are different types of fossils, some of which apply to soft tissue:
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Impression: A shallow imprint of a fossil organism that does not retain any organic material.
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Compression: A fossil that has been crushed or flattened but retains some organic material, although it has been chemically altered.
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Carbonization: A process that occurs during fossilization in which complex organic molecules are converted into a more stable carbon compound that generally has a dark brown color.
This appears to be an impression fossil.
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- Comment on Anon is Illiterate 2 weeks ago:
I’m good with distilling information in whatever form, but I do get impatient with audio/video sometimes. I can read faster than people talk, so I want the audio to go faster. I’ve tried upping the playback speed, but we encode a lot of information in the pauses and cadence of speech, and the faster playback screws with the perception of that. Doing that is fine for technical information, but I don’t care for it with a novel.
- Comment on Anon is Illiterate 2 weeks ago:
Oh, yes, we use BLUF at work a lot, but it’s not really useful if you’re trying to pass along detailed knowledge.
- Comment on Anon is Illiterate 2 weeks ago:
The text in question would be behind a firewall, but I believe there’s a corporate LLM now. I’ll suggest it.
- Comment on Anon is Illiterate 2 weeks ago:
He’s been working at the company for more than 15 years and still struggles to read any significant block of text, so I’m worried for him. It’s not that he prefers audio, it’s that text is a real problem for him.
And don’t misunderstand me: I’m the guy’s biggest cheerleader; I very much want him to succeed and am happy with any viable workaround he finds. I’m not pushing any sort of personal bias on him. The company works with a lot of text.
- Comment on Anon is Illiterate 2 weeks ago:
Life is hard enough without those extra challenges. Hang in there.
- Comment on Anon is Illiterate 2 weeks ago:
I read a lot of science fiction, and a younger friends at work frequently asked me for recommendations, and he liked talking about the books after reading them. At some point I found out that he exclusively consumes them as audiobooks, which is fine and I didn’t think much about it. Some years down the line, when I was getting ready to retire, I had to pass on things to him. There was enough of it that, in addition to working elbow-to-elbow with him, I documented all the details in some long emails. When we meet, I’d say “The details are in the email,” and focus on explaining the big picture.
It became obvious that he never read the emails. When I talked to him about it, he admitted that he really struggles with any long block of text. The guy is really smart, and he knows a lot about a lot of things, but he gets all his info from audio and video because struggles to consume text. There’s clearly some kind of learning/mental issue going on there. It’s going to make the job tough for him, but I hope he works it out.
- Comment on Thoughts?? 3 weeks ago:
We were restricted even on some proprietary software (especially if it was from a foreign owned company), but you’d be surprised how much scrutiny some of the major packages have had.
- Comment on Thoughts?? 3 weeks ago:
A lot of government stuff requires that they have complete provenance of all code in the system. When you have people contributing to it from different places - potentially different countries - they get nervous about it.
- Comment on Who's the most ridiculed POTUS of history? 3 weeks ago:
Silly me
- Comment on Who's the most ridiculed POTUS of history? 3 weeks ago:
I’ve never thought so. I mean, I guess it’s hard to quantify, but that’s different from being ambiguous. If someone asked you, “Who in your high school class did people make fun of the most,” you might know right away who it would be, or there might be multiple contenders. Other people in your class might have different opinions, but that doesn’t mean you all don’t know what the question is, just that it’s hard to measure.
- Comment on Who's the most ridiculed POTUS of history? 3 weeks ago:
Made fun of
- Comment on Thoughts?? 3 weeks ago:
Where I worked, many of the contacts specifically said we could not use open source software, so no, it is not always available.
- Comment on How do you wash a weighted blanket, is it just the outside you wash after removing it? 5 weeks ago:
Some have a removable cover that you take off and wash. The ones that don’t I think are generally surface wash only, but all should have a tag with instructions someplace.
- Comment on Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman 5 weeks ago:
I can’t wait to pay for groceries with my free healthcare.
- Comment on Why is lemmy.ca so much faster than lemmy.world? 1 month ago:
Okay, makes sense
- Comment on Why is lemmy.ca so much faster than lemmy.world? 1 month ago:
Excellent, thank you. I just cleared my cache and it does seem to have helped a fair amount. Not nearly as fast as in a private window, but probably as fast as .ca is now. Much appreciated, I’m glad I asked.
I guess that would explain why people who access it with an app don’t seem to have the same issue, correct?
- Comment on Why is lemmy.ca so much faster than lemmy.world? 1 month ago:
Oh, much, much faster! Interesting. Okay, why is that?
- Comment on Why is lemmy.ca so much faster than lemmy.world? 1 month ago:
I honestly don’t know where either of them are hosted. I’m in the US, in Southern California.
- Comment on Why is lemmy.ca so much faster than lemmy.world? 1 month ago:
I’m in the US, in Southern California, so for sure could be contributing. Not sure where .ca is hosted.
As for an example, I just went to .world on my desktop browser (firefox) and loaded /all /new. It was 16 seconds between the click and all the visible graphics being loaded. The same thing on .ca was just under 5 seconds. On my tablet, the difference is greater.
- Comment on Why is lemmy.ca so much faster than lemmy.world? 1 month ago:
That would make sense, ty.
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- Comment on The butchered this beautiful cake 😭 1 year ago:
Wait, so they dusted it with cocoa powder and then put those frosting dollops on top of that? The lid might have been the only thing holding those in place.