will_a113 @ will_a113 @lemmy.ml

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If robots, AI and automation create the efficiencies everyone is breathlessly predicting will a reduction of the workforce size even matter? Would it be a bad thing?

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Well, I didn't know these existed, and now I'm forced to waste the next several hours watching them. Thanks.

I'm surprised that there hasn't been more of a push for B Corp style corporate governance in tech considering how many tech leaders claim to be working for the greater good. There are plenty of options for doing well and doing good at the same time.

Really though, shouldn't we all love proully, create incusaility and celebrate voicesy?

We need that guy from Reddit who makes useless products…

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I don't think so. Most of the big LLMs have guardrails to prevent them from spitting out hate speech.

Is this old enough to be called a classic yet?

I can second this. I bought one for $60 on Amazon after leaving my 1ZPresso at a hotel and not being willing to shell out for another. As far as I’m concerned they function identically, only the KINGrinder was 1/3 the price.

A lack of real penalties for these companies just means they have no incentive. If they can make $1B on your data and then maaaaayyybeeeee have to pay a $50M fine because of a breach, why wouldn’t they continue doing that?

You can kinda do it with Google Customizabe Search Engine, which is basically a thin wrapper around Google. In a regular Google search you can use syntax like -site:ignorethisdomain.com to exclude specific domains (i do this with Pinterest whenever searching for images, for example). But manually typing in a large list of black listed domains would be tedious so instead you can set up a CSE with everybody you want to ignore and then just use the special URL as your search engine.

There are two in my area and both have the same problem: there will be a single non-pro bank of 8 self-checkout lanes, and then a bunch of empty lanes, one or two of which will have cashiers. Of the 8 self check-outs , one or two are always broken, so that leaves 6. Add in a bunch of large/heavy/bulky items that are hard to scan and now the line for self check-out is pushed back into the store, blocking multiple lanes and aisles. And as soon as you have certain items in your cart (molding/lumber by the LF, loose fasteners, etc.) you need an assistant to come help you anyway. Maybe it's just the customers in my stores, but it's just a terrible, slow, inefficient process.

haha no, seems to just be a coincidence.

There's a thread from last week where some other alternatives were discussed: among them

• Nuggets: News & Conversation: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nuggets-news-conversation/id6462796101
• Feeds & Fediverse: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/newsbite/id1478566472
• Feeeed: https://testflight.apple.com/join/ixRrWfQL
• Feedly: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/feedly-smart-news-reader/id396069556
• Perplexity https://apps.apple.com/us/app/perplexity-ask-anything/id1668000334
• NetNewsWire: https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire

I think the concept of a "mixed reader" that can pull in Big Social / Fediverse / RSS and other curated sources has a lot of potential (Nuggets is the most interesting one to me here)

I know this isn't the most popular opinion, but I love self-checkout systems when they're available and used correctly. My local supermarket closed 2 10-item-or-less lanes and put 6 self-checkouts in the same space. I probably make 2 trips/week to the store for fewer than 10 items, and being able to check myself out has been a huge time saver. There are still another 8 lanes with cashiers for larger shopping trips. If the supermarket can avoid the race to the bottom thinking of "well, we replaced 2 lanes, maybe we can also replace the other 8), it'll be a nice compromise.

Now contrast that with my local Home Depot, which typically has 1-2 cashiers MAX at any given time. They have turned the checkout process into a tedious pain in the ass, and I've more or less stopped shopping there as a result.

Both are inexpensive (and if on a really tight budget, can almost certainly be found second hand), why not try both? From my perspective pour-overs always taste a little "brighter" or more tart/acidic, while French press tends to taste stronger or more coffee-e, if that makes any sense. That said my favorite method is still an old fashioned percolator, so maybe I have odd tastes.

Florida man here (sigh). Was at the Dr for a routine physical a month ago. My doc is a stand-up guy and very well versed in dealing with the crazies down here. When it came time to discuss vaccinations, he said, "so, have you gotten the flu vaccine yet?". I noted that I had an appointment at CVS later that day. Then he said, "and the Florida Surgeon General recommends that people under the age of 65 do not get the Covid vaccine..." (I am well under 65) and let it hang in the air. We stared at each other for a few seconds. Then I said, "yup, getting that one at CVS later too." He sighed, said "ah, perfect" and moved things along. As it turns out, the hospital the doc is affiliated with had sent out several memos about exactly what should/should not be said to both try and encourage people to get vaccinated but NOT incur the wrath of the state. It's a different world down here...

draw.io is a capable web-based flowcharting program. Source code is on github but I've never tried locally hosting.

Still amazes me that for well under $1 I can send a letter from Maine to Hawaii and it'll get there within a few days.

Since the above seems to just be a link to a JPEG, here's the link to the actual study.