ryanmcbride

Why wouldn't we start with the biggest offenders?

You're getting downvoted but you're right, more and more people cannot afford to pay for life's necessities.

Wages have stagnated for decades as prices have increased. What possible solution is there other than to address the biggest elephant in the room.

I'd be perfectly content with this model, but the problem is then they'd have to hire employees to do things! Stores would much rather have us pick everything ourselves, checkout ourselves, and have our cars remote detonated by robots automatically if the crime computer deems it appropriate.

That way they only have to hire two employees. One to drag carts around the parking lot and one to drag keys to all the locked cabinets of soap and shampoo and diapers and whatnot.

new user signups disabled?

You can make comparisons all you want but you can't change the fact that it just plain looks bad.

You're right they probably wouldn't be able to to it, but that child isn't being marketed as an invaluable business tool to assist doctors in diagnosing cancer, or whatever.

I see this argument every time this particular failing is brought up and like, regardless of the reasoning, it's still completely failing to do something a second grader should be able to do and until it stops failing in that way, being like "Um technically it's a lot harder than you think" isn't going to win over AI skeptics.

Because they want to contribute to the fascism of mass surveillance

Yes and your job as a manager is to determine whether or not the reason is valid. And it'll be easier to do that if you ask for a 1 sentence explanation instead of 4 paragraphs.

reread the comment you're responding to because I don't think you read it all the way. Specifically this part:

>If someone wants a new computer they should just have to say why. And if it's a good reason, give it to them. If not, don't.

Sounds like your company needs to spend some time working on their onboarding process. Probably more effective than just hoping no one ever needs a new computer.

This is the sort of workplace philosophising that I hate the most. Employees aren't children. They don't need to have artificial bullshit put up in between them and what they need, the person approving just needs to actually pay attention.

If someone wants a new computer they should just have to say why. And if it's a good reason, give it to them. If not, don't. Managers have to manage. They have to do their jobs. I'm a manager and I do my job by listening to the people I manage. I don't put them through humiliation rituals to get new equipment.

Trying this on windows after installing from npm and when it asks for my chatgpt api key, doesn't seem to let me paste it, or type anything, or submit at all. Just sits there until I either go back or force quit.

edit: setting the key as an env variable works tho.

Yeah unfortunately we live in a gerontocracy so it's the same people in charge today that were 25 years ago :(

Cool that there's a workaround but bonkers to me that companies still don't understand that if they create something that _can_ be plugged in 24/7, there's a number of their customerbase that WILL and they should handle that usecase

jumping to a mad level of conclusions here to justify your discomfort with other people

That's cool but I'm not talking about Germany.

This is such a weird hill to die on

Interesting thanks for the information.

Regardless, people have been calling it Juneteenth for over a hundred years, it was made a national holiday as Juneteenth, I'm gonna keep calling it that.

The prisons. I mean more specifically the state or federal government ultimately but the prisons more practically.

The 13th amendment specifically carves out an exception to allow prisoners to be enslaved. They aren't just using political rhetoric: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_exception_clause

You know in movies and cartoons and stuff when you'd see like, a whole bunch of prisoners in striped pajamas, chained together breaking rocks or digging ditches or whatever? Those are depictions of an enslaved workforce.

Well they've got plenty of time to learn.

As far as I know most people consider Emancipation Day the day that the Emancipation Proclamation was signed into law in 1863, whereas Juneteenth marks the day 2.5 years later that the last known enslaved people were freed from the people who decided to just not tell them about the law.

your phone can't dial 911 out of the box? I find that kind of hard to believe.

I always use em because I'm the laziest type of designer: a dev

I've pretty much always struggled with this too. I have a numpad that I can touchtype easily but if I'm taking my hands off homerow I may as well use a mouse at that point.

thinking of how pissed I'd be if I saw that awful in-betweening example in a show I liked.

Okay bootlicker

I don't care it should be free.

I'd say the BART administrators overpaying themselves is the bigger moneysink. Not to mention the spending 73M dollars to overhaul the gates to stop fare evaders, when it SHOULD just be free for bay area residents.

Guess I'll just use a competitor then

signed up for the Windows beta hope I get to try it out sometime