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Black Mirror's Christmas Special (White Christmas) comes to mind. Seem to fit the bill almost to a T.

The only difference being that the AI's are clones made from real humans.

Think about it from Meta's HR perspective. If someone reads something in their internal platform that causes them substantial mental anguish, then it's Meta's problem.

Whereas if they listen to that same opinion by overhearing two co-workers talk, then it's not their problem anymore.

This isn't Meta taking a stance on the actual abortion issue, it's just them being pragmatic.

I think that we are missing the point here. Meta is banning open discussion on their internal platform. It does not mean that you can't chat about it with a co-worker that also happens to be your friend.

I think it's reasonable. It has nothing to do with not getting people distracted, but all to do with having one less problem to deal with.

Whilst I disagree with getting a whole degree in order to have some authority in the field, I wholeheartedly agree with the message.

I remember a section of the book "The Art of Thinking Clearly" by Frank Dobelli dedicated specifically on that subject. I don't remember the exact quote, but it is something along the lines of:

"We cannot forget that news anchors are nothing more than perfectly coiffed teleprompter readers".

One example that the author brought in the book was how these same TV anchors/news readers types often are invited to moderate debates on subjects they have absolutely no knowledge of.

It's been a hot minute since I saw a release of major software on Sourceforge. Wow!

But the energy release from the gasoline would be much slower, right?

As a quasi sidenote, most gyms already implement this on a smaller scale on their elliptical and spinning machines as they're usually self powered and you can regulate the resistance the machine offers, which I assume must increase or decrease the number of magnets around the flywheel.

I agree with you, nobody should. But what took me by surprise was that they get angry even about their headspaces. For instance, sending someone a text and saying "don't worry about this until you're back from your break" will yield little to no effect, as they value being completely disconnected from work during any hours they're not being paid for.

Which I think is perfectly reasonable.

I wonder if such a disruption is the reason why some people seem to be excessively prone to blackheads, like yours truly for instance, my nose looks like a strawberry up close.

Sounds like a mirror of wash trading of the crypto world.

Depending on how dumb the battery controller is, all it takes is pumping the right voltage back into the appropriate pins.

I'm pleasantly surprised at the effort being put into avoiding false positives.

I can easily imagine a doctor put in a tough spot whilst deciding to treat a possible early stage cancer. If he gets it wrong a malpractice lawsuit is surely to ensue.

I really hope we live to see a future where physicians have less noisy data to work with, especially regarding early detection.

Yuck! Thanks for the warning though!

All in all it was all a very incidental experience. Our CTO came out of the blue showing this thing, he spent an afternoon designing a floor flor the developers that mimics the IRL office.

At the beginning it all felt gimmicky and felt like the novelty factor would wear off quite quickly, but there was this one specific instance that made it "click" in everyone's head, and it happened right at the end of a regular meeting.

We finished the discussion and most attendants quickly dispersed, some people were still at the table trying to fix a bug, and we needed some input from this one specific person to do so. So someone just strolled to where that person was, and asked him to come to the table. It all felt very natural, and the way we were able to quickly get the information we needed without having to awkwardly drag a bunch of people into a Google Meet was just magical.

Today we use it everyday, full time, it all feels very natural and we don't really think about it, because it works so well.

Recently the CTO also opened a "floor" (I.E another Gather instance entirely) for the sales and marketing team (whose headcount in the hundreds) and linked both "floors" using their "portal" feature. Awesome!

I wholeheartedly second this. I have an unique lens on this issue as I'm in a unique spot. Despite being Brazilian myself, for most of my career I worked and managed US based developers, and just very very recently shifted to working directly with Brazilians. I saw no major difference in responsiveness and "get shit done" (aka initiative) between those two cohorts.

The only thing that took me by surprise is that Brazilians DO NOT take well to getting busy outside of working hours. If you text someone during their lunch break, expect to hear a complaint along with your response.

I wonder how they would verify that with foreigners, especially those with a history of poor record-keeping. I surmise that there must be at least a couple of countries where a marriage certificate is nothing more than a plain sheet of copy paper with something along the lines of "I hereby declare that X and Y are married" in their local legalese.

Although I can't help but snicker at the image of a bunch of poor cops desperately trying to memorize marriage certificates from around the world.

This seems to be a take on Gather.town with more realistic graphics. My team has been using Gather for almost a year now, so I'll give it a shot.

Sorry if I come across as aggressive or condescending. But why? I'm don't immediately disagree with your opinion, just curious.

This feels more like a half-baked supermarket marketing campaign than an actual push for innovation. But hey, I'm all for it! It's one of those rare market conditions that allow creative people to bring wacky new ideas to life.

I can 100% relate to that. For most of my 12 year long career I wrote, spoke and produced technical documentation exclusively in English.

Now that I work with a bunch of Portuguese speaking people, I find that I have a hard time communicating about anything related to work in an informal manner.

That leads to some awkward (albeit funny) situations in which sometimes I forget non-domain-specific words in Portuguese, and just Google Translate them (back into my own native language!).

In one instance I could not come up with a good enough translation for the word "henceforth", so I translated it and got "doravante", which I obliviously used it when establishing new deploy procedures. I got some laughs from my co-workers because apparently "doravante" is an absolutely archaic word.

The latter makes a lot of sense, if people have to put in more mental work to extract a meaning from it, they might treasure their findings more. Cool concept.

Not very well actually. that idiom is used almost exclusively in a joking manner when referring to HIV testing in specific.

Kind of off-topic but, why does the angloworld keep using a translation of the bible that's written in an almost "archaic" English (yes I know, I'm exaggerating, but I can't think of a better description from the top of my head).

Coming from someone that was born and raised in a Portuguese speaking country, their version of the bible seems much more "accessible", But I acknowledge the fact that it might come at the cost of the accuracy of the translation.

This is so prevalent all around the world, that there's even a saying in my native Brazil: "You're only sick if you get tested"

I'm curious, how does VPNs break the internet? The only angle I can immediately see is the shortage of IPV4s.

I think that in most scenarios it's fair to assume that public servants (especially those wielding force) should be held to higher standards.

Sans the "contactless" cooling I'm assuming?

Well, not to bash the OP, but a "votable" title does distracts us from a conversation about the actual changes to Mac OS.

Someone really ought to archive this website.