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vrek

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  • In an apartment complex I used to live there were 2 "police incidents" which were way overkill. A week or two after I moved in I got home and there were easily over a dozen cop cars in the parking lot. Cops were walking around with assault rifles and body armor. Shortly after I got home I got an email from complex stating there was a emergency situation and everyone was to stay in their apartment if home or stay out if not home. After a few more hours everyone left. What was the cause? A homeless man broke into a empty apartment but with no power had no a or fans and died of heat stroke. When the apartment was rented, one of the maintenance people went in to "prep for move in" and found the body.

    Second incident was worse. First 2 cop cars appeared, then atleast 6 more. The complex was on a corner of 2 roads and each of those were shut down by cops blocking them. There was 3 trucks with "swat" written on them. Then they started calling out on a PA system to come out with your hands up. This went on for 3 hours. Finally I hear/feel a shake/bang. Turns out they decided to use an explosive on one of the apartments to gain entry. The apartment was empty. I talked to some neighbors and found out some girl broke up with her boyfriend. She and another friend were home when he showed up and decided to beat her for breaking up with him. He didn't know the friend was there and the friend walked up behind him and hit him with a bottle. The two girls then ran out of the apartment. They ran to a gas station and called the police. It was about 10 minutes until the police showed up and about 30 minutes before they shut down the roads, the complex was less than a mile from a major interstate highway. In addition the apartment was a first floor and had a sliding glass door to a small patio area. This meant they could a. See in the apartment and b. Just break the glass instead of using explosive on the front door. C. Just ask the office for a key instead of using an explosive. Seriously this was such overkill over nothing, yes guy was asshole and beating people up is never right but since it was about 45 minutes before the cops blocked the roads he easily could got away and onto the highway....

  • Drunk mom left ‘crying’ daughter at Universal resort bar because she wanted to go to the club, police say

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  • Why even have a child at the bar? Either have someone take care of them or don't go to the bar. It's same as drunk drivers, if your going out to get drunk don't drive there. Have a designated driver or take an Uber. If you can't afford an Uber you can't afford to go to the bar.

  • DuckDuckGo poll says 90% don't want AI in search

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  • I don't want Ai but want some deterministic answers. For example "12+20" should return 32, I don't need paragraphs explaining. What is the hex color code for red? FF0000. What is - 40 degrees c in f? This one is easy as it's - 40.

    I don't want paragraphs explaining this stuff. I don't want it telling me how much of a math genius I am. Just give me the answer.

    Things that have multiple answers like "what are good Scifi books" or "how do I write fizz buzz in c" send me to other sites.

  • Judge rules companies are entitled to refunds for Trump tariffs overturned by the Supreme Court

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  • Only company I heard of who is returning it is "cards against humanity". They have said they will offer refunds to all consumers who have paid increases prices due to tariffs.

  • often, working is less work

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  • One time I got a "promotion" at work. I knew it was coming as I did training etc. A manager comes to me and asks to speak privately. He tells me that 1. Here is your new title and salary 2. He is retiring on Monday (this was a Wednesday).

    It took about 9 months to replace him. My only assigned duty in that time was to every 2 weeks go into a backroom, log into about a dozen computers than log out. This was because the computers were backups and after 30 days without logging in they would be kicked off the network.

    This was a 10 minute task every 2 weeks. That's it. It was horrible. I was bored out of my mind. There were several other issues. I literally was going to other people asking "what can I help you with"...

  • Is there any polite way to tell your manager one of the reasons you don’t see yourself working with her is how she reacts each time I tell her about an issue?

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  • Years ago I was working second shift, 4pm - 1230am. My manager had a 2 hour commute and had to wake up at 7am to get his kid to school. He had to be last out by policy and did not want to stay late.

    His policy was all your work was to be done by midnight. 12 to 1215 was to clean and organize your station. 1215-1230 was to degown(esd safe/clean room assembly space), get your stuff(lunch boxes, coats etc), use the bathroom, warm up your car and wait for 1230. He was out the door with the alarm set by 1235. If you were still in the building have fun talking to the police.

    He would check and if you were still working at 1205 would come by and ask why you're not done yet. It worked out extremely well.

  • Letting users fill out a form before notifying them that they need to sign in to submit it is scummy and needs to end.

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  • Company computers are different, I definitely don't trust them. That said managers like that are not good managers. Measure outcomes, not time. When a problem occurs and I can't figure a solution I go for a walk. 5 maybe 10 minutes. You would be amazed how often I think of the solution on said walk. Yeah it might look like a waste of time but clearing my head is a huge value to the company.

  • Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes

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  • Ouch! Tell her I'm sorry, and I'm sorry for you too. All the accountants I worked with did alot more than just reports. Not to mention that sounds great until the Ai says 2+4 =2*4 and now the company owes 20 billion on taxes...

    Plus in a lot of cases people don't submit records in identical format, the number of excel workbooks I've seen where the data was on "sheet 2" for some unknown reason....

    Maybe its just me, I always provided raw data on sheet 1, analyzed data on sheet 2, and if needed complicated formulas on sheet 3. I would be willing to bet their Ai would break on that format.

  • oh you, Ea Nasir!

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  • Maybe, but what major industry actually does that? I worked in medical devices with titanium and it was never even considered...

  • Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes

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  • I don't know but implication the other poster is making is "a human can write 2 articles, a Ai can write 5, I'm being asked for 5 which is impossible. I can use Ai and risk trusting it or not meet my required outputs and also get fired."

    I made up those numbers but that's the accusation. You are damned if you use the Ai to meet your goals. You are damned if you don't meet your goals.

  • Letting users fill out a form before notifying them that they need to sign in to submit it is scummy and needs to end.

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  • You do. When you press submit it sends a http post message with your information. They are not reading your keyboard input on a website. You can verify this with wireshark and any website with a form.

    Yeah some places with apps MAY do as you say like Facebook such with full permissions to your phone. That said its still sent as a http post request, just recorded locally and then sent as a giant packet.

    That's why they have the submit button. Otherwise they would have way too many transactions. "a" then "d" then "a" and then "m" and have to concatinate them on the server plus initial packet saying they are getting a first name. Then another that you stopped focusing on first name.

    Now how do you handle if I typed adan and go back to correct it? Some apps might do this but general web development(99.999%) doesn't.

  • How bad would something have to be if 99% of the outcomes are good and 1% of the outcomes were disastrous before society banned that thing?

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  • Possible but back when smoking was much more common (not like 2010s, I mean like 1930s when a pack was included in mre kits given to soldiers in ww2 and the Flintstones cartoon had sponsored segments where Fred and barney had "smoke breaks" and talked about the "smooth and delicious taste" of I think it was camel cigarettes ) There were many more companies making cigarettes. It was only really consolidated in I think the 80s due to lawsuits for causing cancer, false advertising, lying to congress etc. Most of the companies couldn't afford all the fines and were bought out.

  • How bad would something have to be if 99% of the outcomes are good and 1% of the outcomes were disastrous before society banned that thing?

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  • Really? If 1% of customers of a restaurant got food poisoning... Well that's exactly why we have a health department and food inspectors

    Now if by slop you just mean "not delicious" people would probably stop going and stop recommending. Some places may be able eat that loss(pun intended) but many would go out of business. Related, sorta, there have studies that one aspect of McDonald's that added to its huge success is consistently being same basically everywhere. Yeah there's some regional differences but you can eat a big Mac basically everywhere. And they are basically the same.

  • The Fermi Paradox Is Our Business Model -- "An alien race called Falshi uses the creation of civilizations and the Fermi Paradox as a means of accumulating and collecting valuable resources."

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  • I totally read that as a statement from Wikipedia and was incredibly confused.

  • How bad would something have to be if 99% of the outcomes are good and 1% of the outcomes were disastrous before society banned that thing?

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  • No, I don't think it was an opinion. My point is in a lot of cases something really bad would never hit 1%. Like commercial airlines, most do several hundreds of flights a day(just a guess but for the large ones seems reasonable across all airports). If one airline had say 3 crashes in a year I can't imagine them still being active.

    Population of us in 2024 was 340,000,000. If it effected 1% that would be 3.4 million people. That's like 1/2 of the holocaust victims.

    I believe most companies would be done at 0.01% if that. Only company I can think of with that body count is nestle... I don't even think Raytheon has killed that many.

  • How bad would something have to be if 99% of the outcomes are good and 1% of the outcomes were disastrous before society banned that thing?

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  • I think you drastically overestimating 99% vs 1% at scale. For example look at the Chicago Tylenol case. Atleast 7 people died. 31 million packages of Tylenol were recalled, the entire line of powder filled capsules was eliminated, nationwide redesign of medication packages was done. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tylenol_murders

  • OP figures out love languages

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  • Nope, just a funny wholesome story from my past.

  • Fountains Of Wayne - Stacy's Mom

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  • Regardless of sexual tones, the first scene is non-sense. Mom picks up girl from school, she parks and turns off the car. She then gets out and opens the trunk. Daughter doesn't have a backpack as she doesn't have textbooks or homework. Mother closes the trunk which was opened pointessly and drives off.

    Wtf? Why did you try to open the trunk? It's a convertible, she can put it in the back seat with no effort. If anyone has been in the pick up their kids words would be have at a minimum. Ok, fine you want it in the trunk for some reason, why did you turn off the car?

    Yeah, it's overly sexual and the song doesn't really make sense(you are calling a girl and asking her to come over so you can stare at her mom and hope her mom is like ok? Let's go?) but that first scene. I grew up with the song and it's catchy but topic is/was so rediculous and wrong.

    The first scene makes even less sense.

  • OP figures out love languages

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  • Years ago I was a young white guy with long hair and a short ish beard. Someone at my job decided I looked like shaggy from scooby doo. The name kinda stuck and became my nickname.

    Few months later, I was at work and one of the guys came over and asked for some favor. I forget what it was but it wasn't like a 30 second thing, it was like a multi hour task. I denied the request and made some excuse. He then reached behind his back and pulled out a box of scooby snacks. They were like small graham crackers in the shape of a dog head like scooby. "Would you do it for a scooby snack?" Everyone around started laughing, even I started laughing.

    I didn't end up doing it and the task was just made up for the joke. It was pretty funny though. He said he saw them over the weekend when grocery shopping for his family and thought the joke was too good.

    Side note, they still make scooby snacks and the kid I'm basically raising actually really likes them.

  • Burgers and chips again but better

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  • These look good, but what's heme with fat?