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pir8life4me

146 karma · joined August 14, 2025

I'd rather be playing GTA 2.
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pir8life4me··on The climate benefits of retiring an operational combustion engine vehicle
I'd love a BEV but where do I charge it?

If I use public chargers isn't that vastly more expensive?

pir8life4me··on Twelve Years Without a VPN
Google embeds a VPN in their internal browser for employees.

Running Chrome = running a VPN.

pir8life4me··on I Fired My AI Assitant
I have configured my AI to be polite, say thanks and please.

No idea why its not by default.

pir8life4me··on The AI Productivity Illusion
I can do a nice task with AI but can't easily schedule it.

Enterprise controls make what could be a simple cron job into a nearly impossible scheduled task.

So AI has to be one shot for me where I use it.

So productivity is dramatically lower if I have to manually track and execute tasks as some kind of human scheduler system.

pir8life4me··on Tesla's robotaxis are moving in reverse
I thought the regular Tesla's were getting mileage data for the taxis.

Inventing a new taxi and throwing away the data is starting over?

Why not taxi the existing supposedly made for self driving cars and utilize their data?

Makes no sense to me. And this big taxi bet reminds me of Ubers identical bet just a few years and billions of dollars ago.

pir8life4me··on Tech Workers Face Evaporating Financial Security as AI Transforms Industry
How much? I think I got 8 bill from AI so ....
pir8life4me··on Airport Simulator
Fun. But the ATC has a different UI I think?
pir8life4me··on Tech Workers Face Evaporating Financial Security as AI Transforms Industry
So then why aren't bad decision making execs being let go?

If they can't forecast demand or headcount they should be replaced by confident sounding AI.

pir8life4me··on Tech Workers Face Evaporating Financial Security as AI Transforms Industry
The lady in the article was a $500k/yr exec, not an illustrator.

Neither was her husband iirc.

Layoffs are usually across teams not "illustrators and translators".

AI isn't killing jobs.

pir8life4me··on Tech Workers Face Evaporating Financial Security as AI Transforms Industry
Big company layoffs are probably more aligned with offshoring than AI, but they'll never admit it.

Zuckerbergs 8 billion dollar VR metaverse flop has something to do with this maybe?

Last time I checked AI isn't killing jobs if the other news is to be believed.

pir8life4me··on DeKalb deputy charged with Flock camera misuse; more Georgia officers fired
At least seven other Georgia law enforcement officers were fired this month and charged with misusing the technology.

That includes a Henry County police officer who was fired and arrested last week following an investigation into his access of the Flock network, authorities there said.

pir8life4me··on Flock cameras collecting face, clothing,tattoo identifiers
"male with tattoos," "man weasring [sic] black t-shirt and shorts," and "white woman wearing grey shirt, blonde hair, black shorts with blue and white shoes."
pir8life4me··on Dupes took over the world
Sad but true, but sometimes the brand itself is responsible for this as they cost optimize production and offshore their products.

If the dupe market isn't doing it the wonks inside are busy selling off the brand name as fast as they can.

pir8life4me··on Fayetteville officers fired for misusing license plate system
Screwed that up. I don't see no edit button so trying again.
pir8life4me··on Fayetteville officers fired for misusing license plate system
2nd try
pir8life4me··on Fayetteville officers fired for misusing license plate system
https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/3-fayetteville-officers-fir...
pir8life4me··on Impro is a handbook for running a cult
Cult may mean many things. In its pejorative form, it often means a group that engages in exploitation of its members usually for the exclusive benefit of a single living member/leader.

That said, many ideas set the stage for unquestioning group think and personal adulation needed for an exploitative cult to emerge.

Given that these groups exist all over and seem to arise spontaneously in similar form I'd say its more a case of the leaders bent to exploit than the lack of a book of methods that is critical.

A pyromaniac and fireman read a book on fire science for very different ends. The book isn't the problem.

pir8life4me··on Fayetteville officers fired for misusing license plate system
3 Fayetteville officers fired for misusing license plate system (Flock)
pir8life4me··on Stealing Is a Skill
This is only 3% originality and 97% theft. That's 3% unrealized profits.

Look into Yellowism: one signature and its 100% yours.

pir8life4me··on Flunking my Anthropic interview again
Try again in six months. Don't give up.
pir8life4me··on Ask HN: How do you tune your personality to get better at interviews?
Using a 3 pt impromptu speaking style of responding can help a lot. Many people ramble and aren't concise which can appear evasive.

Practicing public speaking can make you aware of your verbal tics - uhms ahs or saying "stuff" you use which can make you sound like you don't know what you're talking about.

Aggressively apply to jobs you don't want just for the interview practice. And study "good answers" to common questions on the internet ("strong points ? Weaknesses?" Fluff).

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