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Volmarias posted:Large Language Model. It's what the current version of AI is based on. They take the entirety of reddit (and we know it's reddit) and find a way to tag every very words so that when you offer a prompt it and it will break your prompt down into tokens which it searches its database for and creates a response ala autocomplete to just match what you asked for with what was already written. I knows nothing beyond it's tags. It only understands the relationship between tags in that they have a frequency to appear next to eachother.
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Main Paineframe posted:Just because it's not wages doesn't mean it's just prices being cranked up for no reason whatsoever - food costs and rents have risen significantly over the last few years, while supply chains have been quite shaky during that same time period. The former has a big impact on pricing in the notoriously low-margin restaurant business. And while fast food usually has better margins than regular restaurants, they build those high margins via highly optimized supply chains, which tend to be very vulnerable to supply chain issues. But in that particular case, McDonalds has been very open about trying to pursue more upper middle-class customers, and it has generally worked. That's why they went all in on McCafe back around then, and why they announced they would model new menu offerings based on Smashburger back in 2015. While this quarter has lower-than-expected sales growth, generally McD Gross Profit have been going up massively since they started this in 2015.
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BRJurgis posted:I hope they replace everything with "AI" as quickly as possible. Even if it didn't meaningfully shift the paradigm, it would be morbidly hilarious. I don't. I understand the urge but the result is just depressing overall. Sort of like the fad of "hoverboards" leading to the bizarre PSA that the NYC MTA had to put out
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If you have a Glassdoor account, probably a good time to delete that poo poo because they are adding people's real name and other personal information to accounts without your consent. https://mastodon.sdf.org/@rhialto/112090738952458213 quote:PSA: Time to delete your Glassdoor account
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I remember making an account once to leave a super terribad review for a company I worked for. I'm pretty sure I used a fake name and a burner gmail but I have no idea and now I can't read the reviews because it only lets me read 1 page before asking me to log in. Well anyway is there a way to make sure I wasn't a dumbass and used my real name without, you know, making an account? E: Found out I had an account tied to a real email that had no reviews on it. Tried to delete it and lol quote:We have received your Glassdoor personal data request. To process this request, we need you to first verify your email address. Please note that this request will apply for Glassdoor and Fishbowl Services. So to delete my poo poo I need to verify my email, which means they'll open an account for me at Fishbowl whatever that is. The delete data option also says that they'll delete OR anonymize data. Boris Galerkin fucked around with this message at 11:46 on Mar 15, 2024 |
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Sounds similar to Facebook in the EU, where to invoke the right to be forgotten and remove your shadow profile you have to make an account and give them a scan of your ID first
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Volmarias posted:I don't. I understand the urge but the result is just depressing overall. Sort of like the fad of "hoverboards" leading to the bizarre PSA that the NYC MTA had to put out I don't know, it already sucks to interact with most services. Making accounts, automated phone menus, downloading apps... Least they could do is go full on mask off Idiocracy. Collapse with levity. Are the Segway/hoverboards a big thing? I've only ever seen one, but I live in the sticks. (they are fun when you're drunk!)
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My favorite thing about Glassdoor recently has been their Fishbowl thing, which I think was a semi-recent acquisition? At any rate, I work at a smallish company, though big enough to be on both Glassdoor and Blind. The company board on Blind is a ghost town, a post maybe every 6 months. Since this Fishbowl thing started up, I've noticed two things that seem like hilarious and shady growth tactics. I'll get emails about some new post, and the email shows, every time, that there's 1 comment on it, and every time, there are 0 comments on it. I know Hanlon's razor tells me that this is just a bug, but I'm pretty inclined to go with a growth tactic to make me more likely to look at it since it's had engagement and has more content not shown in the email. The better thing: despite the Blind board being empty, the Glassdoor thing has a pretty regular cadence of posts (roughly weekly), and not a single one of them is specific to my company in any way. Totally generic. I'm absolutely convinced they're just auto generating content. A sample: "Any suggestions for tablets that offer similar features to an iPad but at a more reasonable price point?" "Are you a fan of the chatter that tends to happen at the begining of a message or meeting with another person? Or do you prefer to just cut right ot the chase?" "How far do you think you can get in your career as an introvert? I just can't see a world in which I'm comfortable doing all the things that seem required to put yourself forward. " "Sooo what if you've been very conservative about PTO and then suddenly start taking a lot of trips and random days? Are they going to flag me? Not sure if I should mention that to anyone?" "Are you involved you in your investments in terms of what the portfolio is? Not sure if it's worth me putting in the effort to follow exactly what's going where. Have some crypto investments on the side, feel like my time is better spent following those" "Anyone else feeling burnt out?" Since it's anonymous, I'm guessing they figured this was fine because how is anyone to know that nobody real actually asked the question?
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I literally can't believe that people sign up to blind with their company emails and then post poo poo about their company on the site. Like there's no way that it's 100% anonymous.
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Boris Galerkin posted:I literally can't believe that people sign up to blind with their company emails and then post poo poo about their company on the site. Like there's no way that it's 100% anonymous. Neither can I, but boy is it sometimes useful that they do, as someone who likes to keep up on what people are willing to say when they think they're anonymous.
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Case in point, someone recently posted a vehemently queerphobic, transphobic screed as their review of the company we work for, using language typically reserved for the kinds of internet pits where mass shooters are bred.
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Steve French posted:The better thing: despite the Blind board being empty, the Glassdoor thing has a pretty regular cadence of posts (roughly weekly), and not a single one of them is specific to my company in any way. Totally generic. I'm absolutely convinced they're just auto generating content. A sample: Might not be entirely automated. There are consulting services out there that will have actual human beings fluff out content like this by just working through chunks of their userbase and picking generic content to post or drop in a response from a script.
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Fishbowl wanted me to sign up to get paid to post on it.
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I absolutely understand why Glassdoor wants you to register an account and leave a review in order to see other reviews, since otherwise you really only get people who absolutely hate the company leaving reviews. I say this as someone who absolutely refuses to do so.
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I rather like the posts where the guys are like "I'm healthy, fit, work out, and I make 200k TC why won't women date me?"
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Boris Galerkin posted:I literally can't believe that people sign up to blind with their company emails and then post poo poo about their company on the site. Like there's no way that it's 100% anonymous. You'd have to be an absolute loving idiot to sign up for a site like that with your PII. I tried signing up once and couldn't believe what I was seeing. Morrow posted:I absolutely understand why Glassdoor wants you to register an account and leave a review in order to see other reviews, since otherwise you really only get people who absolutely hate the company leaving reviews. I say this as someone who absolutely refuses to do so. I think it's fine, and would have stayed fine, except for the news that Glassdoor is asking for PII and now every account that signs up (and old accounts that accept the new terms) will be associated with that PII *and* a review of the company they work for unless they're smart enough to write something that sounds plausible but isn't real. Tiny Timbs fucked around with this message at 17:17 on Mar 15, 2024 |
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BRJurgis posted:Are the Segway/hoverboards a big thing? I've only ever seen one, but I live in the sticks. (they are fun when you're drunk!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8elK8Go-3g I know several people with similar EUC (electric unicycle) devices like this. Long range, quick, easy to pick up and carry into buildings, and I'd imagine extremely dangerous.
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MixMasterMalaria posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8elK8Go-3g 4000 dollars for that thing, that could buy a brand new actual motorcycle.
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Lmao I have a coworker who bought one of those (maybe not that one, but one of those electric unicycles) and the first ride he took on it shattered his wrist and forearm in a crash and couldn't ride it again for like 6 months.
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Mercury_Storm posted:4000 dollars for that thing, that could buy a brand new actual motorcycle. you can get one for $250, that market is a race to the bottom ever since the segway patent expired. lithium fires aplenty
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Crain posted:Lmao I have a coworker who bought one of those (maybe not that one, but one of those electric unicycles) and the first ride he took on it shattered his wrist and forearm in a crash and couldn't ride it again for like 6 months. I'd definitely get a motorcycle before riding one of those fuckin things, they look absolutely terrifying.
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Mercury_Storm posted:4000 dollars for that thing, that could buy a brand new actual motorcycle. You can ride these things a lot of places where riding a motorcycle would be impossible and you can just pick it up and carry it inside so you don't have to park or you could use it for last mile after mobby_6kl posted:There's a pretty famous video of a guy riding one on the highway and wiping out while trying to show off at full speed. Yeah I've seen that video. My friends have offered to let me ride but no thanks.
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mobby_6kl posted:There's a pretty famous video of a guy riding one on the highway and wiping out while trying to show off at full speed. Well like, just don’t do that poo poo?
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Tiny Timbs posted:Well like, just don’t do that poo poo? These things have a unique fail case. They use regenerative braking so if you fully charge it and start at the top of a hill the brakes could stop working completely.
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Vegetable posted:They’re two sides of the same coin. The difference is happy hours means you pay more most of the time, whereas surge pricing means you pay more some of the time. It’s purely marketing that you think there’s some fundamental difference. One key difference that isn't pure marketing is that surge pricing increases arbitrarily without limit (or at least with a limit unknown to the user). If I order an Uber to leave a concert and all of the drivers are busy, I can either wait for a few hours or vastly more than what I'd expect normally a ride. And the amounts in surge pricing aren't usually small percentages - it's not like 'oh, you might pay $25 instead of $20 for a ride', it's more 'you might have to pay $250 instead of $20'. With 'happy hour' pricing, I know that my combo at McDonalds or beer at the bar won't cost more than the menu price. It might be lower if there's a 'happy hour' going on or if there's a 'no one in the drive through, offer a discount' promotion, but I know that I won't pay more than $8.29 + tax for that Big Mac meal (the cost in my area) in the worst case. So if I'm going out to grab lunch, I can probably only go to one place, as getting in line to see the menu takes up a large portion of my lunch hour. If I go to McDonalds (who's using Happy Hour pricing in this example) know I'm paying under $10 for my lunch, and might get an even lower cost. If I go to Wendy's (who's using Surge pricing in this example) I have no idea what I'll pay, and using Uber-level surging, could easily end up with the choice of having to skip lunch to get back to the office on time or paying $50 or more for my combo. That's a significant difference between 'fixed price with occasional discounts' and 'fixed price with occasional increases'.
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I got free tickets to a thing some months ago. It cost me $20 to Uber in and $70 to Uber back home. $20 being normalish for the trip I made.
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For surge pricing on Uber, how does it work for the drivers, do they get the same flat rate as if they done an ordinary 3pm Tue arvo bog standard fare?
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There is a guy who rides one of those electric wheely things on the multiuse path near me, but he wears a motorcycle helmet, head-to-toe black leather with various red LED highlights, and some kind of personal speaker system that blasts rock music while he rides. It is cyberpunk AF.
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Boris Galerkin posted:I rather like the posts where the guys are like "I'm healthy, fit, work out, and I make 200k TC why won't women date me?" Blind is a cool idea in theory but it’s just littered with this humblebrag garbage
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ianmacdo posted:These things have a unique fail case. They use regenerative braking so if you fully charge it and start at the top of a hill the brakes could stop working completely. Physics can always find a way to gently caress you up.
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Tiny Timbs posted:Well like, just don’t do that poo poo?
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Electric Wrigglies posted:For surge pricing on Uber, how does it work for the drivers, do they get the same flat rate as if they done an ordinary 3pm Tue arvo bog standard fare? The drivers get paid more for surge-priced fares. That's the point of surge pricing for Uber - the drivers can see where surge pricing is in effect, and will naturally tend to head to those areas in hopes that they'll get surge fares. Rather than reducing demand by discouraging people from booking rides, surge pricing is meant to increase supply by attracting drivers to areas that don't have enough drivers to meet demand.
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nachos posted:Blind is a cool idea in theory but it’s just littered with this humblebrag garbage The true garbage is whatever the gently caress this poo poo is:   
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I had the signup confirmation email blocked by IT filters so I'm free from seeing poo poo like this  
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is it just me or have websites over the years gated/walled off some basic info(phone numbers, prices, HQ location), ? like either the info is signup or account gated. like at best I want to say this is a bot scrapper counter measure. prevents bad netwroks from getting biz numbers/email addresses. which fair, but at worse is just another dark pattern to juice signup numbers and get more data.
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PhazonLink posted:is it just me or have websites over the years gated/walled off some basic info(phone numbers, prices, HQ location), ? like either the info is signup or account gated. I haven't noticed it and listing that sort of contact info publicly is a legal requirement in a lot of places. Maybe it's more common for smaller companies or local shops? For big tech companies I think hiding any sort of contact info or HQ address would get them smacked down for doing so.
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