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With a little extra irony, I’m honestly certain our HR dept could easily be replaced with AI to far better effect. They would surely disagree.

The job description should be sufficient prompt to replace the HR, add some RAG and skill files based on a few months of in-company chat tool data and paperwork, I don't see why there's still HR around. The AI HR can choose to hire entertainers etc. for some tasks but why would keep HR on payroll al the time?

> I don't see why there's still HR around

Main reasons…

1. HR doesn’t work with you. They work for your CEO or Board. Consider them a toxic entity if you ever have a real problem.

2. HR is a socially accepted jobs program for people without any discernible skills, beyond basic data entry and organization. Effectively no one else wants to do it. The issue is that with point one, these people are told they are important and it immediately goes to their heads.


Oh, sorry you missed Exlir and WASM, and rust and programming socks of course. Half credit.

IDK. I sort of like the idea that now instead of dead internet theory being a joke, that it’ll be a well known fact that a minority of people are not real and there is no point in engaging… I look forward to Social 3… where people have to meet face to face.

How quickly would that meat-space renaissance spin through our whole cyberpunk heritage, speedrunning the same authentication challenges..?

The cornucopia of gargoyles, living their best life as terminals for the machine.

The strange p-zombies who don't show their gargoyle accessories visibly, but somehow still follow the script.

Eventually the more insidious infiltrators, requiring a real Voight-Kampff test.



Ah, another you can’t, but they can.

I’m still a little humored over peak web3 and the DAO / soft contract nonsense. Like in order to stop fraud entire coins were forked…


Sure you can, if you have a legitimate case you can ask npm to unpublish and they handle things manually :)

I have had to do this, well over a decade ago now, when working at a place that was a pretty big deal in the node world, and node was still pretty new. They helped us.

I would imagine GH would do the same if its a high enough profile issue.


Yep, we had to do this recently with Renovate, where we had too many releases, and new publishing hit a size limit on the registry, so we needed support to help us unpublish a load of old releases

If not on the surface, we’re all deep down aware that an initial era of an advertising-free new technology is once again almost over.

See you on neural links before “sponsored thoughts”.


It's already over, the problem is the missing transparency. With an LLM you have no idea what influenced the answer, and there is no good way to show it to the user.

Firefox multicontainers are pretty cool. But it’s an advanced process that most people wouldn’t do or do correctly.

I love the containers too. My current use case is to keep my YouTube account separate from my Google one. Google doesn't need all that behavioural data in one place.

It's a pity Firefox doesn't get the praise it deserves half as much as it cops criticism.


It is absolutely not an advanced process. It's clicking a gui. It's not advanced thinking to understand profiles. It's a basic ability to hold multiple things in your mind at once. Telling people that's difficult only increases the societal problem that being ignorant is ok.

“Difficult” is a relative term. They were saying it was a difficult concept for them, not you. In order to save their ego, people often phrase those events to be inclusive of the reader; it doesn’t feel as bad if you imagine everyone else would struggle too. Pay attention and you’ll notice yourself doing it too.

“Ignorant” is also infinite - you’re ignorant of MANY things as well, and I’m sure you would struggle with things I can do with ease. For example, understanding the meaning behind what’s being said so I know not to brow-beat someone over it.


Mostly right; it’s not that it was difficult for me. It’s that normal people are never going to do it.

I’m almost endlessly surprised by the probably-autistic-spectrum responses to tech things from people with no idea how things seem to other people.


Mostof the people I met outside work wouldn't understand this concept.

I think you're lucky to hang around people whose heads don't hurt when they think.


The possibilities with Firefox multi containers and automation scripts as well are truly endless.

It's also possible to make Firefox route each container through a different proxy which could be running locally even which then can connect to multiple different VPN's. I haven't tried doing that but its certainly possible.

It's sort of possible to run different browsers with completely new identities and sometimes IP within the convenience of one. It's really underrated. I don't use the IP part of this that I have mentioned but I use multi containers quite a lot on zen and they are kind of core part of how I browse the web and there are many cool things which can be done/have been done with them.


Do they not also make posts on Indeed or other non-social sites?

The difference is that the recruiters come to you on LinkedIn. This is quite handy when you're currently employed since opportunities come to you that you wouldn't have otherwise looked for.

Cool, even more reason to dislike it. I want my people doing their work, not wondering if the grass is greener somewhere else.

Your personal opinion does not (and should not) dictate how others behave.

Ah. So another way to say it doesn’t get your location every 4 seconds.

Yeah, I could agree to that.

If I could wave a wand, I would reduce the number of Linux distributions down to 10 and absolutely no more.

It is a ridiculous waste to have this many duplications of work and bugs, along with the lack of collaboration.


I’m still on the Linux Mint part of the transition from Windows and I just for no reason see going back.

I’m dealing with sub-par Office on my work machines. But as MS moves/forces Office into online modes and I’m hoping that it’ll just be an electron app I can pull up.


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