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mrayycombi··on Microsoft disguises Bing as Google to fool inattentive searchers
They'd have to disguise themselves as duckduckgo to fool me. Maybe throw a weird looking duck on their landing page or something.

I've avoided Google for years. Quack.

mrayycombi··on Hitting OKRs vs. Doing Your Job
https://blog.appliedcomputing.io/p/okrs-are-bullshit
mrayycombi··on Human judgment must remain central to health insurance claims: California law
Even if this headline were true, they'd find another rationale to deny claims if that's their strategy.

If AI didn't let them deny claims, they'd avoid it. See?

mrayycombi··on Engineer eats efficiently for $2.50 a day (2016)
Eliminating meat, eggs, cheese, and dairy often done for various reasons, also eliminates what are often expensive elements in the diet.

Rice, beans, vegetables, fruit and nuts in moderation, produces a relatively inexpensive diet.

mrayycombi··on After Layoffs, Why Do Tech Firms Still Claim Talent Shortages?
It's a temporary strategy. Chinese factory workers and Indian workers know they're being underpaid and gradually get paid more and more. This offsets the cost savings and makes logistics and managerial barriers more glaring.

If you're a hotshot Serbian developer making a two thirds of an American, you're going to look for ways to reduce that delta.

But that's years away.

mrayycombi··on After Layoffs, Why Do Tech Firms Still Claim Talent Shortages?
The legislators who allow h1b are "destroying" it.

Trump I was against h1b (remember?). Trump II w Elon DLC is OK with it.

And if by "destroying" you mean creating super profits for a few already rich companies, you are right.

mrayycombi··on Killed by LLM
Bragging about how LLMs defeated maginot line defenses that can be trained around, makes us feel warm and fuzzy.

Too bad the real world isn't like that.

mrayycombi··on Duolicious – Open-source dating app
Admit it. You just don't want people to know you're into Nigerian basket weaving.
mrayycombi··on In my life, I've witnessed three elite salespeople at work
For the would be thief, a real or imaginary victimhood is eagerly sought, or welcomed, to justify your actions.

Maybe this is the real motivation behind the "victims" of the PC mindset: its a cadre of justifications to plunder the status quo.

mrayycombi··on After Layoffs, Why Do Tech Firms Still Claim Talent Shortages?
Even if h1bs aren't a practical substitute for tech talent, they can act as a threat to reduce wages for regular workers.

They can also act as an impromptu talent pool of workers for work that might otherwise need to be sent to expensive consultants.

And they are a soothing balm for the burnt fingers of talentless middle managers who find no push back, non-confrontational employees assuring to their egos.

mrayycombi··on Ask HN: Is it a bad idea to make an email domain with an uncommon TLD?
I have an .org address that very rarely bites me, but usually works in large majority of cases.

You should be fine- of course doing business with a silly domain name ymmv:

Shypooper.party or valiumlover.me might give employers & recruiters pause to think.

mrayycombi··on Waymo Robotaxis Much Safer Than Any Human-Driven Cars
They're on highways
mrayycombi··on Washington Post cartoonist resigns after cartoon satirising Jeff Bezos rejected
Speak truth to power? Lol.

Journalists and cartoonists sell the appearance of transgression to make their brand edgy.

You work for power. Speaking truth is just a slogan to assuage your guilt.

mrayycombi··on Do Kwon pleads not guilty to US fraud charges in $40B crypto collapse
How about the death sentence if it exceeds a certain number of victims or dollar amount?

Executing these fools might act as a deterrent.

mrayycombi··on Nearly half Dell's US workforce has rejected RTO. Rather WFH than get promoted (2024)
Mediocre managers hire, create, and retain mediocre reports, with an emphasis on create.

I welcome AI that replaces the mediocre bottom 80% of managers that lower a companies bottom line. The top 20% won't be replaced soon.

mrayycombi··on Nearly half Dell's US workforce has rejected RTO. Rather WFH than get promoted (2024)
I welcome our new AI middle management overlords.

May the PHBs R.I.P.

mrayycombi··on A mole infiltrated the highest ranks of American militias
The amount of supposed criminal activity by "militias" pales in comparison to the massive transnational mexican cartels - who have their own militias, whose ideology is money.

But manufacturing a right wing conspiracy is more important than discussing real narco terrorism that kills thousands of Americans and Mexicans every year, floods our country with lethal drugs, and finances North Korea and Chinese crime organizations.

How many headless corpses did the Oath keepers leave on the street last year?

How many metric tons of fentanyl did they smuggle?

Yep.

mrayycombi··on I'm quitting the Washington Post
Good riddance. Traditional media is just the latest tool for plutocrats to sway public opinion. They'll find new ones.

Behind every sports team and media outlet is a billionaire. Trust me.

mrayycombi··on Meta scrambles to delete its own AI accounts after backlash intensifies
Plausible fake Facebook friends would make it more sticky. The elderly are already subject to manipulation, are less tech savvy, etc.

Facebook, like Google, is a surveillance advertising company that tricks you into using their products so you provide targeted ad information to them. They know when or if you poop regularly l, and what brand of TP you use. Your AI friends will help them advertise better.

mrayycombi··on Meta scrambles to delete its own AI accounts after backlash intensifies
This surveillance advertising model wants "authentic" content for ad revenue. Natch.

It goes to assume that all statements that contradict the idea of maximum ad revenue are false. Remember "do no evil"?

mrayycombi··on Show HN: AI that generates 3blue1brown-style explainer videos
Those videos are apex quality videos. You might as well ask for Nobel prize literature quality essays from ChatGPT.

You can probably imitate the structure/scaffolding of a 3b1b video in a cargo cult way, but you are losing domain expert level verification of quality (which is why AI fails, because it's not a domain expert).

So heres how I'm hearing yoir question, and it answers itself: "how do I get domain expert quality from a non-domain expert AI?"....

mrayycombi··on A path to O1 open source
I didn't flag it, I flamed it.

Seems like it stunk enough for others to flag it. Lol.

mrayycombi··on F-Droid Fake Signer PoC
Great work.
mrayycombi··on A path to O1 open source
From the first few paragraphs it doesn't pass the sniff test for me.

"Now AI has made everything more complex!" "AI is embedded in everything we do"...

Sounds like marketing gibberish and obfuscation, combined with self promotion.

That's just my read at first sniff.

mrayycombi··on Apple auto-opts everyone into having their photos analyzed by AI for landmarks
I'm sure, like the siri spying lawsuit where Apple gives you $20 for your privacy(if you ask for the $20), there's another lawsuit & $20 pahment waiting for this "privacy respecting company" to give you.
mrayycombi··on Time to check if you ran any of these malicious Chrome extensions
Chrome, Google's Spyware browser, infested with non-Google Spyware.

Amazing.

mrayycombi··on Tell HN: Impassable Cloudflare challenges are ruining my browsing experience
Set up your own vpn on AWS ec2. It will bypass the vpn blocks they have. Problem solved.
mrayycombi··on Ask HN: Where to Work After 40?
Where to work? Same place as you did before 40.

Put the fries in the bag, bro.

mrayycombi··on AI Predictions for 2025, from Gary Marcus
Marcus clearly threw a lot of spaghetti, seemingly pessimistic "it socks and won't get better" and then cherry picks confirmations, for the bits that stuck to the wall.

How about he indicates: 1. How he came to these conclusions (coin flip? Pessimism?) 2. How many predictions he missed. He's implying a very high rate of success, which is a big red flag of shenanigans for me.

This is little more than vague generalities and coin flipping with retroactive cherry picked "See?! I was right!" analysis.

A gypsy at a traveling circus serves up about the same.

mrayycombi··on Pornhub Is Now Blocked in Almost All of the U.S. South
As porn has been a driver of technology adoption, like the internet, maybe we'll see a rise in porn manufacturing using AI on the PC (now there's a reason to buy an AI PC)?

Indeed, what stops kids from generating their own porn using these same tools? Do we need age verification on them too?

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