Notices by draNgNon (drangnon@hachyderm.io)

@inthehands these persons are known. do not the families who are affected have the right to press charges?

@skinnylatte suburbanites

@thomasfuchs anything you want can be real, if you drop enough LSD

@skinnylatte he appears to have misplaced the comma. "David, Little MBA"

@skinnylatte this

@thomasfuchs health care is a thing. Google's is superb.

I would have left in 2023, but I stayed becuase of healthcare. I was pretty upfront about it when asked, too. I finally couldn't take it anymore and took a VEP last summer. even so, I was surprised & dismayed by these i\o announcements.

I wish the US had universal health care, though.

@mattly I have had it since massive earaches when I was 3 or 4. it is just part of my life.

3 years back, I got pulsatile tinnitus. that is a physical thing, and a stethoscope can hear it. you absolutely do not want that. UCSF has a clinic for it.

@inthehands I'd put Rogue One above the oh-there's-more? simply becuase it's the glue between Andor and the original

but I did literally LOL becuase your list is pretty close to mine

@mattly oh oh oh! I got you!

Just start using another app to fill your time, for sure the app updating itself will foreground itself at the wrongest moment evar

@mattly there's https://5calls.org/issue/age-verification-internet-privacy/ but it's pretty generic

@piebob

@mattly (writes and deletes Very Very Long reply which makes it obvious I am still burned out) at Google we were always encouraged by document word limits and style guidance to use semicolons instead of conjunctions. it was the most egregious for performance evals.

I don't recall ever seeing an em dash used

@mattly I confess I have increased my use of em dashes in my writing in the last 18 months or so just to be a butt

@skinnylatte let's see if they still do next week, ha

...is the information in the post incorrect? I'll not boost anything else till we see fallout, but if the post is correct I'll leave my boost as is

@skinnylatte look at those teeth! did you know they have teeth on their tongues?

@mattly wrt people, a long-time strategy is to cut people out of my life who operate at unacceptable levels of untrustworthy. sometimes I have used the term "emotional vampire" for this, but other times it's just ... life is too short. eventually (like now) I am left with a group of close friends.

some people are unreliable in only certain ways. I just remember and cut out those kinds of interactions.

in general I do not ever trust people to pay me back any money loan. so if a friend needs money, I set my expectation that's gone. then I am not feeling betrayed if they never pay it back, and I am happy if they do.

the rest of what you say, well, I am still trying to figure it out. push where I can to make things better? try not to deal with companies and systems that are damaging? there is sometimes no choice. but I'm coming up on 6 months not working, trying to figure that out.

@mattly you can't have it both ways

if they can do that they can hook in modules/microservices to answer factual questions with factual answers and only use the LLM for phrasing.

i think they should solve for that anyhow. very strongly.

@thomasfuchs I'd say they were more performative, but then again, that's hairsplitting, so it's not really an argument!

@thomasfuchs no. It's a prayer for intervention by the great god Murphy

@mattly all I do is run privacy badger and yet get complaints about my "ad blocker" all the damned time

@mattly I'm ~40% in and not happy with it honestly, although I understand how the humour appeals to many.

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