Source: I work at Amazon, and have worked on Alexa
They don’t spy on you without your permission. Comments like these devalue actual instances where companies genuinely steal and manipulate data. Take the tin foil hat off…
If you had any remote idea about the tech industry, you’d know what kind of reputation Amazon has. If Amazon were stealing data, you can bet your ass that one of its employees (probably one of the ~6% that gets fired every year) would happily rat them out.
Comments like these amaze me. Even cesspools like Reddit and Twitter wouldn’t be so out of touch and stupid.
I know it invites downvotes, but I really don’t get this.
Isn’t the entire point of federation to remove closed spaces? By blocking Threads, it basically means that the sole interaction many people will have with the fediverse is that it’s a closed ecosystem that deems itself too important to converse with you.
Even if you, like most, hate Meta, what have their users done wrong other than try to interact with your communities? If your fear is that Meta will control the fediverse, then you’ve built a closed ecosystem that’s essentially no different to Reddit. If your fear is that their community won’t like the same things you like, again, it’s a closed ecosystem.
The best thing the fediverse could do is to embrace threads. Make this place the best place on the internet, and make them want to actually join in. If they break rules, by all means, ban them, but to dismiss so many people is as closed as it gets.
A lot of people laugh at this, but it’s painfully true.
Hell, I do Brazilian Jiu-jitsu three times a week, and lift/run on the other days. At a certain point for many, you just can’t outrun a bad diet, and maintaining anything other than a dad bod requires all that exercise AND a strict diet. Good fucking luck doing all of that with a screaming baby at home!
I never thought I’d be fat, especially since back when I was 18 I could smash a meal at McDonald’s and exercise right after, while keeping a six pack. Now, it requires double the exercise to not have tits…
He’s a white belt, so still very much at the beginner phase. He’ll also almost definitely be one of those celebs that only does privates and rarely spars.
He’ll almost definitely have strength and size at his disposal, but in terms of fighting, we’ve already kinda established what would happen at UFC 1. A skilled bodyguard would (I really hope) have solid grappling knowledge, alongside striking.
I’ll go first. Mine is that I can’t stand the Deadpool movies. They are self aware and self referential to an obnoxious degree. It’s like being continually reminded that I am in a movie. I swear the success of that movie has directly lead to every blockbuster having to have a joke every 30 seconds
It’s often clear to see that Linus hasn’t experienced the “and find out” part of what happens when you fuck around. I know that many of us techies aren’t the most confrontational types, but I’m surprised that no one has hit him yet.
Funny enough, there have been a few attempts to create this for combat sports sparring and competitions, and every time, it gets immediately shut down due to liability. No gym would want to host a bunch of unvetted randoms and take liability for what they choose to do to each other, and few people were up for app-based competitions.
In that case I’m not really sure what you’re expecting from AI, without getting into the philosophical debate of what intelligence is. Most modern AI systems are in essence taking large datasets and regurgitating the most relevant data back in a relevant form.
Hank is also mostly a product of his environment, yet a caring father that accepts his family for who they are. If all boomers were like Hank Hill, we’d all be happy.
Comments don’t describe the code. They describe the decision to use this business logic.
If you stick to good engineering practices, like small methods/functions, decoupling, and having testable code, you don’t often need many comments to show what your code does. I always recommend a method signature, though, because you can save a few seconds by just saying that a block of code does, rather than me needing to read exactly how you turned one dict into another dict…
No, commenting a function should be commonplace, if not only so that your IDE/editor can use the documentation when the signature is found elsewhere in your code.
Within a function, though, basically means that something gnarly is happening that wouldn’t be obvious, or that the function is doing more than it (probably) should.
My wife went to school with someone from a popular TV show a few years back, where she’d be in sex scenes fairly frequently (from what I hear, I watched a few episodes and hated it). She had a long-term boyfriend at the time, and it didn’t take long for him to not be cool with it.
She also went to school with a musician that had a stab at a solo career. She had some raunchy scenes in a music vid, and that quickly led to her breaking up with her boyfriend.
Those are my only two frames of reference, but I imagine it’s quite hard to deal with emotionally, even if you know it meant nothing and is just a part of the job.
YES! I wish more people knew about RFC 3339. While I’m all for ISO 1601, it’s a bit too loose in its requirements at times, and people often end up surprised that it’s just not the format they picked…
No, not really. They kinda created the culture where tech workers can work on moonshot ideas while having a great income and zero personal risk. Sadly, that culture is dying out with recent layoffs, but many people in tech worked on a lot of cool stuff that worked out (and even more that didn’t).
I don’t really think there is a special relationship any more.
Iraq war aside, there hasn’t really been much of a relationship. Brexit helped destroy this, because we’re now a tiny country begging for trade deals with nothing other than a weak pound and cheap labour to offer, with zero desire to engage with the US’s poor food standards and heavily privatised healthcare industry. Biden has been closer to Ireland, if anything, and probably for good reason.
What is very surprising is that the US hasn’t engaged in a trade deal to install parts of their tech infrastructure here, or to allow US students cisa options to live/stay here, given the UK has world-class universities. Pair this with a UK-specific visa akin to what Australia has with the US, and it gives benefits to both sides.
The special relationship was always a bit of a meme here in the UK anyway. Tony Blair was Bush’s lapdog, because it kept him looking powerful.
I think it dragged on in places, but the ending was an absolute masterpiece. My fear was a half-assed resolution, but they had clearly planned how to end the show, and everyone’s ending was perfect and final.
Lies, deception! (startrek.website)
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Here as well (lemmy.world)
If you ever feel useless (lemmy.today)
What is your unpopular flim opinion
I’ll go first. Mine is that I can’t stand the Deadpool movies. They are self aware and self referential to an obnoxious degree. It’s like being continually reminded that I am in a movie. I swear the success of that movie has directly lead to every blockbuster having to have a joke every 30 seconds
Need a rust version too. (sh.itjust.works)
What country are you using lemmy from?
Me U.S.A. Just country is fine, but if you like you can include city too.
BREAKING NEWS (lemmy.world)
Linus does not fuck around (lemmy.one)
An oldie, but a goodie
“Rumblr” (sh.itjust.works)
this AI thing (lemmy.world)
It's all downhill from here (lemmy.zip)
Yeah, yeah, yeah... (lemmy.ca)
Bill is a pro grammer (sh.itjust.works)
Always wondered how they feel (lemmy.world)
Wolverine really does look like two Batmen kissing
Japan is on its own wavelength. (lemmy.world)
I guess openai's ex-ceo is now #OpenToWork (discuss.tchncs.de)
official announcement here: openai.com/…/openai-announces-leadership-transiti…...
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Alliance with benefits (startrek.website)
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