KevonLooney

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[–] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

There's a basic problem with replacing human experts with AI. Where will they get their info from with no one to scrape? Other AI generated content?

They can't learn anything and are just "standing on the shoulders of giants". These companies will fire their software developers, just to hire them back as AI trainers.

[–] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Conservatives were the people who defended King George. They have no business waving an American flag. Benedict Arnold was a conservative.

[–] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago

I've used Target for groceries and they're routinely cheaper for most things.

[–] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Vacation time is not sick time. If you want any type of vacation at all, you need to plan ahead of time. Offering only 2 weeks is a joke. If you get sick one day, you lose one week of vacation.

Monitoring and rationing sick time is like limiting bathroom breaks or coffee time. if your job does it, you have a crappy employer.

[–] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Workers in the US may not even have sick time. They do make more money though, probably because lots of European tech workers come to the US for better pay.

[–] KevonLooney@lemm.ee -5 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 6 points 7 months ago

True. Most poor people are pretty good at managing money because they are forced to. They just don't have any money to manage.

[–] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 10 points 7 months ago (3 children)

For some people "use a budget" is revolutionary advice. Most people don't literally track every dollar they spend, although apps and software make it much easier now.

Some middle class and wealthy people make a decent amount of money but spend it all on leasing a few luxury cars and going on vacation. These are the people who "budgeting" works for.

They literally cut back on eating out and save $500 - $1000 per month ("cut back", not eliminate). They end a lease and save an extra $1000. They use this money to pay off their $50K credit card debt and it's eliminated in less than 3 years.

[–] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago

This is the real answer. Ideally you keep track of most of the things you spend money. That way you can see how much you are spending on each category.

Maybe you eat out less to save for something you really want, like a jacket or pair of shoes. Or you stop reflexively saving and go on vacation.

[–] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 8 points 7 months ago

You are putting yourself down unnecessarily. You want your resume to talk you up. Whoever reads it is going to imagine that you embellished anyway. So if you just write it basically, they'll think you're unqualified or just don't understand how to write a resume.

[–] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 12 points 7 months ago (7 children)

I'm sure someone out there is using them in a way that helps, but I haven't seen it yet in the wild.

That's because those responses are indistinguishable from individually written ones. I know people who use chatGPT or other LLMs to help them write things, but it takes the same amount of time. You just have more time to improve it, so it's better quality than you would write alone.

The key is that you have to use your brain more to pick and choose what to say. It's just like predictive text, but for whole paragraphs. Would you write a text message just by clicking on the center word on your predictive text keyboard? It would end up nonsensical.

[–] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's not how reality works. If your goals are time-based and you hit your goal, then you did a good job. Quality is different. It's the managers job to balance speed and quality.

You just say "I achieved my time limit for tickets" and leave it at that. If they give you incompatible goals, that's the manager's fault. Just tell them it's not possible to do a good job quickly.

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