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  • That fridge competes with a dumb fridge from a budget brand that costs 200 to 300 bucks. You can even get self-defrosting ones at that price point.

    Unlike TVs, which need to display content, fridges can work just fine when they’re just a heat pump, a thermostat, a light bulb, and an insulated box (and optionally also a fan and a heating element). The biggest technical difference between a cheap fridge today and one from the 50s is in materials and using an LED bulb.



  • Water hardness matters a lot, too. When I visit my family and shower with their super soft water, I could use industrial degreaser and my hair would be just fine.

    But when I’m at home where the water is super hard? I better use a shampoo without sodium laureth sulfate and condition regularly or my hair will become an uncombable abomination within a few days.






  • I got tired of it in 2013. While it does work in some places (Android does it reasonably well), I haven’t yet seen a good flat design on the desktop.

    Windows 8 and 10 looked garish and hard to read, especially since everything is a rectangle with a one-pixel outline. Is it a button? Is it a text field? Maybe a thick progress bar? Who knows, they all look extremely similar.

    While Apple did overdo it in the later big-cat OS X releases, I’ll take a felt-textured widget panel and a calendar bound in leather over an endless sea of hairline rectangles.



  • We’ve been productively using AI for decades now – just not the AI you think of when you hear the term. Fuzzy logic, expert systems, basic automatic translation… Those are all things that were researched as artificial intelligence. We’ve been using neural nets (aka the current hotness) to recognize hand-written zip codes since the 90s.

    Of course that’s an expert definition of artificial intelligence. You might expect something different. But saying that AI isn’t AI unless it’s sentient is like saying that space travel doesn’t count if it doesn’t go faster than light. It’d be cool if we had that but the steps we’re actually taking are significant.

    Even if the current wave of AI is massively overhyped, as usual.




  • Jesus_666@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldHiring is broken
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    Gender?

    Present.

    Sex at birth?

    No, my first time was well over a decade later.

    Are you trans?

    Transtabular, from your position.

    Are you gay? Bi?

    I prefer professionalism to gaiety during interviews. This meeting isn’t over yet.

    Ever been depressed?

    Not in the button sense, no.

    Abuse alcohol? Drugs?

    Neither physically nor emotionally. No, thank you, not now.

    Ever been arrested?

    Have you been?

    Ever been in the military?

    Even if I was, you’re not getting veteran’s benefits through me.

    Well what about your spouse?

    Even if they were, you’re not getting veteran’s benefits through them.

    Ever work for the government?

    Why, are you paying public service rates?

    That degree you mentioned, we can’t ask your age but uh, when did you earn that bad boy, huh?

    I think it was sometime around when I graduated from college.