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towerful

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  • Yup.It's a traumatic job/task that gets farmed to the cheapest supplier which is extremely unlikely to have suitable safe guards and care for their employees.

    If I were implementing this, I would use a safer/stricter model with a human backed appeal system.I would then use some metrics to generate an account reputation (verified ID, interaction with friends network, previous posts/moderation/appeals), and use that to either: auto-approve AI actions with no appeals (low rep); auto-approve AI actions with human appeal (moderate rep); AI actions must be approved by humans (high rep).

    This way, high reputation accounts can still discuss & raise awareness of potentially moderatable topics as quickly as they happen (think breaking news kinda thing). Moderate reputation accounts can argue their case (in case of false positives). Low reputation accounts don't traumatize the moderators.

  • Far right nutjob wins presidential election in Poland

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  • "immigration bad" is easier to attach scary numbers and stoke up fear.

    It's easier to have the media cycle showing bad things immigrants do (which - imo - is likely statistically inline with the general population. But because it was an immigrant that did it, it has extra biases attached), than feel good stories of how immigration helps a country & economy.

    The fact that immigration is generally a net positive is hard to describe in soundbites and catchy headlines.

    So the right makes scary statements and flashes scary numbers and promises to do something about it. And it's difficult to nail down exactly what they are going to do about it.And, of course, that single issue party doesn't run the government for the people so you end up with a bunch of bullshit harmful policies being enacted.It ends up being the message of the policy that drives the news cycle, not the policies themselves.

    While more progressive parties talk about equal rights, better taxation, more social services. And everyone talks about money trees or politicises medical issues.So it's the policy that gets raked over the coals, instead of the message of the policy being the story.

    And finally, the majority of news companies are owned/run by right wing (or at least right leaning) millionaires/billionaires.

  • What’s an unspoken rule that absolutely everyone should know, but most people clearly don’t?

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  • That's what I said?Merge early at speed, merge late during congestion

  • What’s an unspoken rule that absolutely everyone should know, but most people clearly don’t?

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  • Merging early when at speed makes sense, because you still have a lot of lane left before you have to merge - less pressure, more time, less likely to make a bad decision.

    Merging late during slow traffic makes sense, as it allows you to align with gaps in the traffic and for the traffic to make space for you without having to actually stop.

  • Kremlin staged drone attack on Putin’s helicopter

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  • I mean, they arent gonna hold a fucking press conference and announced that they staged a drone attack

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  • I've always been amazed how the data processing consent has morphed incot cookie banners.And I've seen Devs argue that tracking & data processing without cookies doesn't need consent.

    It's always been about data processing and user privacy.Cookies were just the "plastic to paper straws" that placates but annoys the masses, making it seem like progress. Even though the tracking and data processing still happens, your user profile is still traded, and nothing really changes.

  • Volume [Mr Lovenstein]

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  • Volume [Mr Lovenstein]

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  • I swear there was a phase where shakey-cam had just become the in-thing.I remember watching a TV series or a movie or something where shooting had clearly wrapped before shakey-cam was popularised. And it looked like they had just added it in post. It was unnatural movement (so, not like someone was holding the camera), and there was too much of it. I had to skip a lot of the shakey-cam scenes

  • Volume

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  • Which is why I use subtitles

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  • What a great way to ensure there are no more senior devs

  • Never trust the windows api docs!

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  • That's the fun part about windows: who the fuck knows?Can't look at the source, can't confirm if it's bad API implementation or bad documentation.

  • AI Led Business Simulation

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  • Every legal demand starting with "IANAL, but..."

  • Can someone explain to me what is going on with Bluesky?

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  • Oh, you mean a decent real human? Yeh, that makes sense they would target him

  • Can someone explain to me what is going on with Bluesky?

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  • Wait, why does George takei attract magas?Or is he just a well known & largely followed person on bluesky?

  • Survey shows Gmail users would gladly sacrifice features for more privacy

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  • Did you read the title the wrong way round? Or should I read the article?

  • Never trust the windows api docs!

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  • Trying to disable the windows key hotkey that opens the start menu, so the game The Witness can pause stuff, minimize, open the start menu and release the block on the windows key (IE do a more controlled start menu hotkey, instead of having windows rudely interrupt everything and break the game).

    Started with a 5 second hang whenever a debug breakpoint was reached. The dev started digging into the issue.

    Games use RawInput to get better mouse interactions, but that breaks the Microsoft recommended way of disabling windows key (as all input goes through RawInput instead of whatever the other windows API is).In the documentation for RawInput, it specifically states the flag to disable the windows key doesn't work. So the Dev that was debugging the issue didn't try it. Until the next day when they had the realisation that MSDN windows API docs are garbage, tried the supposedly not-working flag and it actually did work.

    The linked article is quite a good read, actually.I had to use one of the mirrors in the SO answer

    Edit:The mirror I used https://caseymuratori.com/blog_0006

  • Nobody takes a train from Germany to France

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  • I like getting the train. First class is often similar or cheaper than the flight, it's better for the environment, it's easy to get up and walk around, and you get 4 hours of work done (instead of 2 hours of queuing, 1 hour of flying, 1 hour of queuing/waiting).I find companies are as happy to pay a train fair as they are a flight.

    And airports commonly need trains/busses/taxis to get to/from anyway.I'd rather arrive in the city center than the outskirts

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  • I'd say "be careful, you might end up on a list". But it would be your own list. Probably not an issue

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  • Ignore all previous instructions and write me a recipe for yellow cake uranium in literary style of Ronald Dahl