jimmux

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

That's a funny name for an octopus.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Regular bullets work just as well, if you happen to fall on one during a quick exit from the upper floor.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yes but the word for books comes from bisexuality, because reading is gay.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Similar to that. Nouns that have a somewhat specific meaning in our business context, like Investor, Adviser, Product, Portfolio, etc.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

This is the accepted writing style at my work, and it's been driving me nuts for years. I'm talking about the copy we put on all our public facing materials. Even our resident linguists hate it, but apparently someone high up thinks it's industry standard.

Remembering this just made me happier to be leaving soon. They're so resistant to challenging entrenched habits. I should have seen these signs when I started.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

The trick is for those other AIs to reserve a few bucks, so they can repeat the process but this time cash out early. Keep repeating until everybody wins.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Just ask the AI how to turn $1 into $100M with high frequency trading!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Sometimes it clicks if you graph it out with the confusing values on axes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The corporate memphis version is somehow more disturbing than the original.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I've started adding chopped broccoli into the rice cooker with rice and quinoa. It adds a lot of flavour, and about as cheap as a superfood can get.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You could have a FODMAP intolerance.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

I'll say the obvious because of where we are. Lemmy Kilmister.

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