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[–] [email protected] 7 points 19 hours ago

I don't put short-term jobs on my CV. Problem solved.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 19 hours ago

I didn't keep track of them. (I kept track of the programmers. They were nice and they landed on their feet.) But it would not surprise me, actually, if they landed in jail.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 19 hours ago

Oh, this predates cryptobros by decades. No, they were "consultants" who were making a "CASE tool". Except their programmers sat me down and had a very long talk showing me their "product" and mentioned they already had other jobs lined up and were just waiting so they could give their 14-day and walk into the new job. So I handed my resignation in promptly.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

For your issue, it is sane to wait until you get paid before resigning given the number of companies who routinely "forget" to pay the final paycheque and generally make it a pain in the ass to collect.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 20 hours ago (5 children)

Started in the morning. Resigned by noon.

As far as I was concerned it wasn't a business I was working for, but rather a criminal enterprise (the crime being fraud), only a really incompetent one.

They were a "tech firm" but their product changed literally daily, depending on who they were trying to sell to. They had no actual product. They had a couple of programmers who would be told every day what the product actually was today who would gnash their teeth and cry. Then they didn't even have that much. Which didn't stop them trying to sell it anyway.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
  • cerulean is a word that just has so much more class and gravitas than "sky blue"
  • gravitas is a word that simply has no other word providing such ... well, gravitas (dignity, solemnity, etc.)
  • charlatan is a word we need to apply every time a politician or a CEO or such speaks
  • the Holy Triad: whence, whither, wherefore
  • nubivagant is a word that doesn't mean anything like what it looks and sounds like
  • niggardly is another word that doesn't mean anything like what it looks and sounds like (and can get you fired if you have uneducated colleagues)
  • frippery is just fun to say

I would also like to see some further German words imported into English like we imported "Schadenfreude":

  • Backpfeifengesicht as an alternative for 'a punchable face'
  • Fremdschämen to express being embarrassed for someone who's done something cringe
  • Weltschmerz is a word I'll let you look up so you can see how it might be super-appropriate for this day and age

There's also a Chinese word I'd like to bring into English and make common:

  • 三观 (sānguān) which is pronounced kinda/sorta "san gwun", means literally "three views", and means idiomatically the alignment (or lack thereof) of worldviews, values, and ethics between individuals
[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago

Surely you mean Star Period 4?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago

The novelist's meticulous attention to historical detail—from the cadence of 19th-century dialogue to the texture of hand-stitched corsets—lent her story an uncanny verisimilitude, making even the most outlandish plot twists feel hauntingly plausible.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

There's a little trick you can do that will improve even crud like Tetley's or Red Rose or their ilk into something approaching drinkability.

Wash the tea.

Put in the bag (the real crud's ALWAYS in a bag!). Pour scalding hot water on top. Swish it around a few seconds. Throw it (the liquor) away. Then brew as normal. It won't be great tea by any means, but it will be drinkable, if only just.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

I once told an embarrassing story on a public forum.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

"Oriental Beauty" is an English name for a tea blend for English people. CHECKMATE! :D

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

What? Even for green, yellow, and white tea?

 

 

… that everybody who confuses correlation with causation winds up dying.

 

 

I'm not joking …

… but he is.

 

So when they return to port they can just Scandinavian.

explanation if needed"scan the navy in"

 

Recalling that LLMs have no notion of reality and thus no way to map what they're saying to things that are real, you can actually put an LLM to use in destroying itself.

The line of attack that this one helped me do is a "Tlön/Uqbar" style of attack: make up information that is clearly labelled as bullshit (something the bot won't understand) with the LLM's help, spread it around to others who use the same LLM to rewrite, summarize, etc. the information (keeping the warning that everything past this point is bullshit), and wait for the LLM's training data to get updated with the new information. All the while ask questions about the bullshit data to raise the bullshit's priority in their front-end so there's a greater chance of that bullshit being hallucinated in the answers.

If enough people worked on the same set, we could poison a given LLM's training data (and likely many more since they all suck at the same social teat for their data).

 

 

They are, after all, what they are.

 

Because proper tea is theft!

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