darkmarx

Robot was introduced to the english language in a play called R.U.R. It's a play about artifical humanoids taking over, ensuring human extinction. Even in the first incarnation of the idea of robots, humans didn't survive. The Matrix, Terminator, Mass Effects, and countless more sci-fi examples spell out how bad they are for humanity. Yet, we keep researching. We keep building. We keep marching forward to our own eventual demise.

If Kalshi doesn't offer gambling, then PornHub doesn't offer Porn. Looks like they'll be able to ignore the states that forced them to geo-block too.

I always schedule them the same day if I can. Waiting between them does noone any good. I do a 45 minute with them for a one-on-one interview. I have a few the people they'd be working with ready to do more of a technical interview for an hour or so. If things don't go well after either, I let them know, and we part ways. If they do well, I put them in the yes pile. After one week from the first yes person, I choose the one I think best. Sometimes there is just one. When there's more, I let them know.

One time, when hiring a qa, I had two people who were both great. I really hated having to tell one of them no. A month later, a qa position opened on a different team and I passed on her resume. After she was hired, I sort of poached her from the hiring manager. She still reports to them, but she works entirely on my projects. But that's an aside.

My point is, a single interview is more than sufficient to hire anyone. The multiple interview crap, that's become so common, is done solely to stress someone out so they'll take a lower salary to stop the stress.

The transformer will output 12w of power and use just over 50ma, but your wall outlet can supply significantly more. Using the transformer to try to say voltage kills or that your outlet supplies the same as a battery isn't acurate.

Rubbing a glass rod with a silk cloth will generate thousands of volts but very low current. Power would be in the low millijoules. It will give you a nice shock, which would hurt, but isn't lethal.

A 12v car battery can output 700+ amps through low resistance. In the right conditions it can be lethal, though it would most likely result in burns.

Voltge pushs amperage through resistance. Ohms law (Voltage = Amps x Resistance) shows that as one value increases, the others adjust.

The simplified expression is voltage hurts, amperage kills. Mostly due to the high resistance of a body.

If you're trying to shortcut the dev process by running an llm agent for reviewing PRs, you deserve every cost overrun you get. Letting an llm review anything written by an llm is one of the dumbest things I can imagine. If one of my devs suggested that to me, they'd have their access removed. I have zero sympathy for cost overrun, the litany of production incidents, or the amount of unmaintainable code that will inevitability come from such a decision.

The original house was a set built at a school. They covered everyhing is red and green to make it feel more like Christmas. The rugs, drapes, wallpaper, and everything wasn't put in for style as much as for matching the theme for the movie.

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Can Jeff Hays be cast as everybody's voice. I don't care if it's animated or live action, they need to dub his voice on everyone.

I like my job. There are new problems to solve everyday, which keeps it interesting. There's a sense of accomplishment when things are completed. I like helping my folks advance. I take a lot of pride in my work. Without that, I'd still want to work. I get bored otherwise. I don't sit still well and the idea of laying around to relax sounds miserable to me. My wife is that type of person. Taking a Sunday to put on music and read a book is a perfect day for her. For me, it's torture. I'd rather remodel a bedroom or pull weeds in the garden.

This is happening to me, or something very similar!

Tired beyond belief. Sleep doesn't matter, or at least doesn't seem to help. Everyday, it takes hours to feel awake, and only lasts for a couple hours at best.

Slow to find words when speaking, though I know what I want to say. It coupd take seconds to think of a simple word. I've started speaking in very broken, sometimes reversed, sentences. Someone said it was like listening to a slow version of Yoda, but worse.

The world feels off, as if experiencing everything through a memory rather than actually being there. The best way I've been able to describe it is, it's as if being far back in my head. Everything is at a distance, like my eyes are binoculars turned around, or like looking through tunnels.

I used to have a great memory, now I'm lucky if I remember a conversation from a week ago. Not just what was said, but I might be only vaugly aware that the conversation even happened.

Movement isn't sluggish exactly, though slower than I used to be. Doing anything, even routine tasks takes a ridiculous amount of concentration.

I've also developed weird ticks. I'll sometimes speak outloud as I'm thinking of a sentence, or lyric, or whatever, but its just one or two words. I then repeat the word over and over without realizing it. Once I notice, it takes me a second to stop. I've also started geaturing with my hands without meaning to, when not even talking or anything. Like I'll randomly point or gesture like I'm speaking.

None of it was sudden, it's been a slow build up to the point that I don't know when any of it started. The symptoms are finally enough to overcome my anxiety of talking about it, and I've scheduled an appointment with my doctor. Whatever is happening, I figure it will be better to know than not.

I'm not saying we have exactly the same thing, it just sounds like we have some similar symptoms. Whatever it is, know that you aren't alone. Take care of yourself random internet stranger, and please call a doctor.

The market is about to implode. They want the government bailout to be easier while lining their pockets in the meantime.

Tell that to the student who gets expelled because they're writing was falsely identified as AI and then takes their own life.

Tell that to the person falsely identified with facial recognition and is arrested and loses their job.

Using AI to detect AI is as bad as using AI for any important decision.

This isn't hypothetical. It happens. People will lose their livelihood or die because of it. 7 in 100 is not accurate enough when any penalty is applied to detection.