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dandare··on I don't want to read what you didn't write
>I had someone write me a personal message about a sensitive topic that was clearly workshopped with AI in an effort to nuance the conversation and not offend me. But the message became impersonal, dispassionate, and disjointed. It had all of the parts, but it didn’t make sense as a whole. I wasn’t interested in reading it, or responding. I would much rather someone be themselves and write with their own voice, or with some passion, even if they can’t quite find the words, or risk offending me.

Only a privileged person can say this. Not everybody is a native speaker or good communicator. As an IT guy somewhere on the spectrum, I have damaged my career on multiple occasions by clumsy writing.

dandare··on The Waymo effect: how AI is quietly making research less collaborative
Tangential: We need to invent some kind of personal wireless setting that will signal to strangers that you are open to meeting new people or starting a conversation.

Otherwise, all this technology will totally isolate us.

dandare··on Simulate cassette tape audio profiles using FFmpeg
Easy-to-access examples of different sounds would be nice.
dandare··on Map of Metal
This is amazing! But I need SEARCH feature :)

Btw, the map interface is very well implemented, what is it based on?

dandare··on Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good
>The Tenet Cook Forgot: make products you’d be proud to use yourself.

You see, I don't think people like Cook (and the majority of corporate managers) can even tell the difference between good and bad products when they use them.

dandare··on Adobe Animate will be discontinued
I would love my kids to have access to Flash and learn to build games the way I did. Unfortunately, £32.98/month for Animate is just too expensive.

As far as I know, there is nothing comparable to the Flash experience on the market.

dandare··on Made to discriminate: UN's Gender Inequality Index always finds women worse off
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46310243
dandare··on 'Ghost jobs' are on the rise – and so are calls to ban them
I am not sure if more regulation is a solution, but the lack of respect for job seekers is a real problem.

And not just with ghost jobs. My recent experience as a job seeker was harrowing - even with large, proud companies. I would pass multiple rounds of interviews with senior/director-level interviewers only to never hear back from the company - even after a direct request for an update or feedback. Just total ignorance. Again, this happened with a FAANG+ company.

dandare··on Don't Guess My Language
Spotify is the worst.

EDIT: not any longer?

dandare··on A layoff fundamentally changed how I perceive work
I keep saying this: A company is a legal person, and you should not try to be loyal to a legal person because legal person can not be loyal to you,

You can, however, be loyal to your boss, and your boss can be loyal to you, as long as this does not conflicts with his duties to the company.

dandare··on Air Con: $1697 for an on/off switch
People underestimate the economic side. This person probably earns 6 figures (if not, he should). Fixing this himself probably costed more than $1697 in his time.

Now imagine a service doing this, with a manager and all the overhead.

dandare··on Birmingham council's 'equal pay' bankruptcy provided cover for Oracle disaster
Frustratingly the article makes no effort to explain what they mean by equal pay liability.

The same goes for something called "savings delivery rate" that supposedly dropped form 91% to 70%.

And the mentioned "£131 million" for the Oracle finance and human resources system, is that annual or lifetime?

dandare··on Permutation City (1994)
Just came here to say that Diaspora by Gregg Egan is my #1 book ever :)
dandare··on 'Stupid,' 'shameful:' Tech workers on Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan's rant
This is a campaign website done very well! I wish more websites were this informative.
dandare··on Robotic "Companions" Are Testing the Scope of Privacy and Sexual Freedom
>Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University.

What does it mean to be a Shapiro Professor?

dandare··on The Mating Psychology of Incels – The Journal of Sex Research
To me, the biggest issue is the hostility of certain crowds that prevents us from discussing and exploring these phenomenons. There is this whole "women don't owe you sex" overreaction that is very quick to silence any discussion.

At the same time sexual satisfaction is strongly correlated with happiness (or depression) and both genders experience very different phenomena here.

dandare··on The Mating Psychology of Incels – The Journal of Sex Research
Overestimate compared to what? Compared to women's self reported preferences?

I ma going to read the study to find out :D

dandare··on What seven hours in London teaches me about surveillance capitalism
And who is the source? Capitalism, the economic and political system? BS.

On Wikipedia, you can find that:

>Economic pressures of capitalism are driving the intensification of connection and monitoring [...]

Which is partly truism and partly straw-man. Truism because "Economic pressures" are "driving the intensification" of everything, yet we don't use terms [something]-capitalism anywhere else. And straw-man because capitalism is only one of many possible sources of economic pressure.

If all you want to is distinguish the source from state-actor surveillance then "for-profit surveillance" or even "surveillance marketing" are much more fitting terms.

dandare··on What seven hours in London teaches me about surveillance capitalism
The term "surveillance capitalism" is needlessly loaded - it has nothing to do with capitalism, neither as economic nor as political system.

All it tells me is that whoever started it had a left bias and whoever is using it does not know any better.

dandare··on How to Work Effectively with Someone You Don't Like
Because it almost never works.
dandare··on How to Work Effectively with Someone You Don't Like
>and it usually is a he

My toxic boss (she) was a diversity hire (women in tech) with limited experience (fast tracked for management) but unlimited support from the top (diversity quotas). I ended up bullied out of the company with damaged mental health (anxiety attacks).

dandare··on Is Math Real?
>Math is a model of the universe

And I would dare to disagree right here. Math contains many structures that we don't know from our universe and that probably do not exist in our universe. If math is a model of universe, why is there a Mandelbrot set?

dandare··on Google settles account settings lawsuit less than one week after being filed [pdf]
Reminds me of how google moved maps.google.com to google.com/maps so that they can ask for location permission in your browser for the whole google domain.
dandare··on Better cognitive ability from less snacking of processed carbohydrates
While the article talks about PROCESSED carbohydrates, the study talks about REFINED carbohydrates. What are these and how the impact differs from unprocessed or unrefined carbohydrates?
dandare··on Black holes might be defects in spacetime
Are you saying that we have evidence that universe is not infinite?
dandare··on Black holes might be defects in spacetime
> Since we know that infinite densities cannot actually happen in the universe...

Lol, and how exactly do we know that?

dandare··on Bank Failures Visualized
Well, yes :)
dandare··on Bank Failures Visualized
The "Bank failures" title is misleading, when only FDIC banks failures are included.
dandare··on Squawk bots: Can generative AI lead us to understanding animals?
Thanks!
dandare··on Show HN: Thoughts on Flash in 2023, in Flash, in 2023
My professional career was:

ActionScript 1 -> I am making silly games!

ActionScript 2 -> I am making cool games!

ActionScript 3 -> OO, classes, IDEs, SDKs, oh my got, I think I can write code now!

JS -> What is this crap??

TypeScript -> Thanks Flash, I am a software developer thanks to AS3.

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