@retoor I've had a few rants recently reach the heady highs of 16 upvotes! Go back a year and it was 27! I remember the days of 100++ rants...

@TeachMeCode I don't know what your point is, that sounds exactly like my HR person.

@Lensflare so marketing does require some imagination, and a CEO isn't going to replace themselves. But HR is a function mostly defined by following law, talking to people, etc. Most of them are incompetent, so an LLM wouldn't exactly be worse.

@ragnar @retoor

@jestdotty TIL lung damage is permanent and can never heal. Fuckety fuck. So I can make the rest of my lung tissue more efficient but I'll probably cough for life due to scarring...

Fuckety fuck.

We're all crazy, so probably crazy things. All the normies will have left by now.

If he's racist towards everyone that's not really racist that's just hating everyone which, frankly, in my experience is a very sensible position to take.

@sidthepajfuk OK so it was a metaphor just a different one directly relating to the LGBTQ community. Are you looking to explore your identity? This is a safe space.

@sidthepajfuk I mean, you specifically cited the LGTBQ community... Not sure how feathers in butts relate otherwise. And good morning sir.

Is "feather" a metaphor for dildo, and is "chicken" a metaphor for gay? And is this secretly a confession?

OK but isn't this basically a question of timescales? If you've got physical access to a device it's mostly a question of how long it takes to hack. Don't get me wrong that's a good timescale, but if your HD isn't encrypted I can pull it, connect to a different device and hack. If it is encrypted, I can mess with your bios. If you've got boot protection given enough time I can swap components and spoof hardware signatures.

The lesson should be "Don't let people have physical access to your hardware. Your wireless cards are probably insecure too so for critical stuff switch them off. For really secure stuff use a SCIF." Anything else is a question of time. I remember Facebook used to not be https (firesheep) so I could view other users on the same network their PMs. Then use kali to get on someone's network. Old hacks are new again.

@sidthepajfuk no, I genuinely think they have brain damage. "What the fuck?" also has no suggestions.

@sidthepajfuk they don't have any suggestions for "are you brain damaged" 😑

@jestdotty jesus that's so accurate.

Crime, the answer is crime.

You lie.

They're telling me I should have asked them to do a risk assessment. After I told them about risks that could result in my death. I don't have any other explanation than brain damage.

@retoor it's HR I need to ask. I'm not sure they'll see it as caring.

Maybe try to speak their language. "Has a risk assessment been done for the disclosed risk of my death?"

@antigermanist I think it's a bit masochistic but once you get into biking up massive hills it becomes easy. Getting started is like running into a brick wall but once you can go 50m up hill, 100m isn't too bad. And you see more of the world than you do when running.

Based on a real conversation. Like, he really told me they were hard to read and I flatly just said yes.

I used to be a biking nut. Less so in London, I used to live in the countryside with hills and valleys and would do 15km out of boredom.

@lorentz I live in London which is unfortunately very flat. And drugs I'm on mean if I fall off a bike I'm liable to get a bleed in my brain, fall into a coma then die. It's less likely now cuz I'm on a lower dose but also it's London. People get run over.

@valentinfngr yes. I know. But if you're gonna bitch that someone can't do something make damn sure you know exactly what you're talking about otherwise you're just complaining that someone is slightly more incompetent than you.

I am here for the sarcasm and pedantry.

@valentinfngr the derivative of Max{x, 0} is undefined for x=0 as there is a second order discontinuity at x=0. Your answer didn't address that so your answer was incomplete. I know what backpropagation is. I also know university level calculus.

The derivative is also undefined at the second order discontinuity, so you can't answer the question either.

@sidthepajfuk are you trying to tell me a pharmacist is going to be replaced by AI? Because someone that describes themselves as an "import engineer" is going to be replaced by AI.

You just explained that you're easily replaceable. You'd have had more job security in chemistry. At least then you'd have had some domain knowledge that can't be learnt in a weekend.

That sounds like a pretty poor bisection search.

@antigermanist *amazing. Congratulations.