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All the models do is hallucinate. They just sometimes hallucinate the truth.

>Plus, tech was not controlled by large corporations as it is now. Back then there were many small hardware/software vendors competing and in many cases helping each other advancing. Now, everything is vanilla and controlled by Large Corps.

Yes. My mother’s first computer was made by a company in Northern Kentucky called Thoroughbred Computers. It was tremendously expensive but locally made.

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I can imagine what years of that diet would do to a person because, like you, I come from a small town with similar food options. The poor diet made my father morbidly obese and diabetic; he died at 60. My mother is also morbidly obese. I am addicted to sugar and can barely keep myself just out of the overweight category with intense effort, including dietary coaching and a personal trainer.

The entire food system is fucked, and it takes Herculean strength to overcome it.

Let me ask a similar question as another user asked: what attribute do animals lack that, if a human also lacked, would justify eating a human?

I searched for a FedNow app and couldn’t find it. So, it doesn’t appear to actually exist for use by someone who just wants to send money to another person now.

People might find it necessary to complain about work when their work is physically unsafe, or they are being harassed or exploited, or they are not being fairly compensated for their work, or they are being discriminated against, or many other reasons. Complaining about work is so necessary that in the US, it’s a form of protected speech.

This article is about Slack and the like, which has replaced much of the communication that people do at work. So, it is necessary to complain about work “online” if one wants to complain at all.

FTA:

>Arizona-based startup AskRadar.ai sells Maxwell, which leverages ChatGPT and its own software to take the emotional temperature of a workforce in Slack channels—if we’re generally happy or hate our jobs. Maxwell anonymizes the data and only analyzes public channels, Chief Executive Nils Bunde says.

This is a terrible idea but unsurprising. Expect neurodivergent and other people who don’t meet the AI’s definition of sufficiently performative of happiness to be punished.

If you want to read what this is leads to, see: “We have been harmonized : life in China's surveillance state“ [0]

[0] https://search.worldcat.org/title/1148138970

The US has the most powerful navy in the world as measured by tonnage and it’s not even close [0].

What it doesn’t have, and hasn’t had for about 20 years, is a foreign policy.

The US is simply disinterested in policing the world’s shipping lanes because the US is a net oil exporter and will be for the next 100 years. Globalization brought cheap goods but stagnating wages. With the oil problem solved, the US is far more apt to build up local and regional capabilities.

[0] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/largest-n...

What is most horrifying about this story is it is not about a person who is poor, or stuck in their ways and refusing help. It is about a person with both the will to get better and a caring family member advocating for him. If that kind of person can't get help, what chance does anyone else have?

You're in luck, globalization is already ending thanks to the American general disinterest in patrolling global shipping lanes + the shale revolution.

No one died from the incident at Three Mile Island, so I hope that with better access to information people can be persuaded to change their minds.

If you are happy about your relationship with work such that you would prefer to do it rather than rest, then what I have to say next is not relevant to you. For others whom this might not be the case: You need rest. If your only or primary form of rest is Netflix on the couch, such that you feel you “should” work instead, you might consider if other forms of rest might be better for you.

Rest benefits you and your employer. Working while ill is a sure path to burnout. Burnt out employees are less productive and more likely to quit.

It’s okay to not grind 25/8.

Yeah. My reaction to the leadership for this kind of mandate would be: you first. Release your badge-in metrics for the C-Suite, then progress down the chain from there. They can all afford houses right next to the office, as well as nannies and private schools and a house on the coast. So when the highest paid employees show they’re in office 5 days a week for a single quarter, then let’s talk.

I doubt this would be the case. The L10s get to wfh from there vacation homes while the L5s get commutes.

> That money's untaxed so you're basically getting a 25% or whatever discount on whatever you buy with FSA money

This is the same with an HSA. The difference is that you can invest funds from an HSA and the growth is tax free.

The user you're responding to is probably in the US, where medical billing has no real relation to the amount of money an individual is expected to pay. It's just numberwang.

> If you or your child were sick, if you had some sort of house emergency, if you were on the road seeing customers or partners, if you needed a day or two to finish coding in a more isolated environment, people worked remotely. This was understood, and will be moving forward as well.

This is Amazon having it both ways, which is what a lot of companies are doing. You can work remotely 'sometimes,' with a secret definition of 'sometimes,' operating in the background.

I found this paragraph to be somewhat galling since, like, if you're sick you shouldn't work at all, you should be focussing on getting well. Ditto if your kid is sick. Raising one or more whole other human/s is a super important thing. One result I saw from the pandemic is fathers doing more of the childcare, and what full-RTO like this fundamentally does is shift that dynamic back to where it was before.

Shame on Amazon.

Out of curiosity, does your health plan have an HSA? After learning about these I decided that FSAs are a total rip off. Why would my money expire?

This was one of the worst articles on the topic I’ve ever read. Full of faulty assumptions, ill-defined terms, and just flat out misleading statistics. Numerators without denominator. The list goes on.

If Taiwan is invaded, wouldn’t the Taiwanese nationalists come to the US? I thought that was the plan.

Isn’t TSMC building in the US?

The Volt is still perfect for a vast majority of people in the US. Sad they killed it.

I’m an EV fanboy and I find this argument very unconvincing. I don’t want to learn the workings of a new car when I’m on vacation. I don’t want to add two trips to the rental place. I want to go on vacation!

There’s always a catch.

> Kia wouldn’t confirm if it’ll get Tesla’s NACS standard and Supercharger access when it goes on sale here.

>Mac laptops may be eligible for an extended battery-only repair period for up to 10 years from when the product was last distributed for sale, subject to parts availability.

If you’re in South Austin, the Apple Store in Barton Creek Mall will help you. For North Austin, it’s in The Domain.

Out of curiosity, is that go-out-side-and-run-around recess, or just a break between classes? I imagine it takes some time to get kids out and back in.

It is difficult to overstate the intentional underinvestment in public education by conservative states in the US. Quite simply, conservatives see public education as liberal indoctrination and would prefer it not exist. For example,

* Project 2025 calls for eliminating the Office of Head Start, which would lead to the closure of Head Start child care programs that serve about 833,000 low-income children each year.

* In place of a federal Education Department, the it calls for widespread public education funding that goes directly to families, as part of its overarching goal of “advancing education freedom.” This is to enable the public funding of private religious schools which do not have regulatory oversight.

* The federal school meals program should be scaled back to ensure that only children from low-income families are receiving the benefit.

> Our group, Alabama Families for Recess, began one evening in September 2017 on a front porch during a party. At this time, I had a kindergartner in public school and was shocked by the lack of recess. The result was a pent-up child so tired from being on-task all day that the night ended with a tantrum or, worse, quiet crying in the tub. She simply hadn’t had enough of a break in her seven-hour day, and my efforts to take her to a playground first thing after pickup couldn’t counteract that.

See also: Alabama ranks 47th among states in annual report on well-being of children [0]

[0]https://archive.ph/PLkWR