When you visit the Google’s chatbot bard’s website in Microsoft Bing. A New Button pops up besides the search bar which lets you compare bard results with Bing chat’s. I have no idea why they implemented this, well maybe to show off the their chatbot is better than bard or something?
I’m in my 40s and the “rah rah steak!” Folks are dying from cancer and illness. I had to reduce my meat intake.
My tin foil hat believes the lax US laws on meat means it’s being pumped with some serious bad shit to keep meat prices from being so high compared to other countries. Not to mention our general health (and lack of affordable healthcare) means many more folks are succumbing to these illnesses.
Alright, what’s up everybody! I’ve been dm’ing for 5e for YEARS and after beating Baldur’s Gate 3 I’ve found that a lot of party build theory transfers pretty well. So here’s my attempt at passing along some of that theory to you!...
Around my 30s, I would get sick a lot because I took public transportation. Also the air quality in the city I lived was really bad. I lived near a major road so car fumes was a normal smell.
In my 40s, pandemic taught me to wash my hands better. I have a lot better habits. I moved to a city where the air was way better. I now reduce situations where I’m in like funky situations where I can get sick.
I went from being sick 15-30 days a year to like 1-5 days a year. It’s been a crazy transformation.
Clearly the UK cannot, and should not, be held to ransom by US tech giants. But the services they provide are widely used by millions of people. And rightly or wrongly, there is no UK-based alternative to those services.
Looks like the UK is in no position to do jack shit, and continuing to spiral to a point of irrelevancy.
Block all services to the various telecoms in that area. Do IP blocking too. Tech savvy folks can get around it with TOR, but the vast majority will not. And a tech company won’t get in trouble with the new UK laws, the citizen who be.
If the UK makes it illegal for a multinational to do day to day business, they are more likely to build around the problem than submit.
I’m rooting for this! Countries shouldn’t be relying on the whims of a few companies. Twitter is a huge example of what happens when a country relies on a service.
“Actors who are asking me to add some tracking code are mostly interested in reselling users’ data,” Anashkin said. “Actors who want to purchase it outright will stuff it with malware depending on their level of greed: hijacking affiliate links, tampering with search results, showing popups with shady websites, etc.”...
My coworker had a liver transplant. The few months leading up to it, he was really really sketchy. He said a few things that came off like he was ready to sell company secrets to find some random backalley liver.
Desperate life issues can lead to desperate decisions, like selling out. And it’s hard to even be mad in those circumstances.
There’s a difference between disagreeing over pizza topics, vs over feeding children in school. And the problem is conservatives continue to move the goalpost and argue in bad faith.
Right now, cities are passing laws to provide food for kids and conservatives are either:
Disagreeing that our tax dollars should go to food for kids (the original argument.)
Disagreeing that kids should be fed food that isn’t nutritional (moving the goalpost after they recognize it was a shit position)
The company I work in switched to a new building, and we have those stupid doors with RFID cards on them. I’d be damned if I’m going walk with that I’m-working-in-hightech-company-card dangling of my belt. I wonder if there is a way for me to use my phone for credentials. I tried searching for it, and all I could find is...
Mine was on a card, but most of the card was just extra material with the company logo. I cut only the part that it needs and made it into a dongle on my keys.
Probably won’t recommend it if you aren’t friendly with IT like I am who ok’d it.
When the scheme was launched in May 2021, the then-home secretary Priti Patel said: “Winners of these awards have reached the pinnacle of their career and they have so much to offer the UK. These important changes will give them the freedom to come and work in our world-leading arts, sciences, music, and film industries as we build back better.”
Patel may have thought that, but the plan had a fatal flaw – the “best and the brightest” did not want to come to post-Brexit Britain. Only three applications have been received in total, RPN found, all of which have been successful. Two of these applied in 2022 with the other applicant applying this year.
100% of those who take this offer are successful! Nice job Team Brits!
I absolutely loved the idea of Game Pass. I had it for two years. I actually stopped buying Steam games.
I was annoyed of their whole file structure (like it’s extremely difficult to move saves from a PC Game Pass game to a Steam/Epic Game). It’s using some weird Windows DRM and has constant connection issues with the Microsoft server. But the value was good and I accepted that hiccup.
After the Steam Deck dropped, I quit PC Game Pass.
As a busy parent, Steam Deck is way too convenient and the future of PC gaming is portability. And once the Steam Deck reaches critical mass, if PC Game Pass isn’t on there, it’ll be the Bing of gaming and play second fiddle.
Taco trucks make the taco on the spot. They have a full kitchen inside (compared to a ice cream truck that typically only has a fridge and a soft serve)
Based on how many people upvotes… I’m guessing people never actually interacted with a real taco truck?
A real estate billionaire said Fridays are ‘dead forever’ for offices and remote work guru Nick Bloom says he’s right—it’s part of a new 3-part week
BYPaolo Confino and Jane Thier
August 11, 2023 at 1:13 PM PDT
New data shows Friday is the day when most people work from home, according to think tank WFH Research.
Masafumi Nakanishi
In June, Steven Roth, the billionaire chairman of Vornado, one of New York City’s biggest commercial landlords, said that as far as in-office work is concerned, Fridays are “dead forever.” He added that Mondays weren’t far behind (“touch and go,” as he phrased it).
Now, Nick Bloom, Stanford economics professor and head of WFH Research—a group that has been digging into remote work data since before the pandemic—has officially deemed Roth correct.
“Friday has become the day to #wfh,” Bloom tweeted on Friday, adding that it “looks like [Steven Roth] was right.” But as always with Bloom and his vaunted remote work research, there is more to the story.
Despite the fact that offices have been completely desolate on Fridays for over three years now, Bloom told Fortune that he was nonetheless surprised that Roth’s prediction has ended up bearing out. “I thought this would be more stable, but I guess…Friday [is] increasingly winning out in the WFH stakes,” Bloom told Fortune by email on Friday. “I think it’s part of the bigger push towards coordinated hybrid, whereby we have firms pushing for folks to come in on the same days.”
In-person socializing and collaboration, as always, is the main appeal for office work. As a result, Bloom said, it makes sense to coordinate with one’s coworkers, among whom the consensus has been made clear: “That includes coordinating to be home on Friday.” Indeed, coordinating in-office days among teams is the best way to pull off “organized hybrid,” the term Bloom uses to describe the gold standard working arrangement.
The new Friday calculus shows Bloom that there is now a “three-part week,” he tweeted. Mondays through Thursday are one thing, the weekend, when offices are closed, is another—and then there’s Friday. Back-to-work mandates rarely include Friday
While it’s certainly unlikely that cubicles will ever be populated on Saturdays and Sundays, Fridays may still have a fighting chance—especially given how many major corporations have finally put their foot down about returning to the office. For years, many high-profile companies have faced fierce resistance from employees they’ve ordered back to work.
Amazon instituted a three-day minimum for in-person work back in February. The policy faced its latest snafu earlier this week when some employees got a disciplinary email even though they’d been complying with the new rules. Google also has a policy of a mandatory three days in the office, and will reportedly only consider full-time remote work in exceptional circumstances.
Meanwhile, Salesforce upped the ante even further, with an obligatory four days in-person for some teams. Based on Bloom’s research one might suspect the lone work-from-home day for Salesforce employees might naturally be Friday.
Bloom also has data to back up that employers and employees don’t see eye to eye on the number of days they’re meant to be in the office. On average, there’s about half a workday’s difference between the number of days workers would like to be in the office compared with what their bosses expect—or require, WFH Research has found.
Per a recent report from real estate consulting firm JLL, bosses have mandated a return (at least some days per week) for 1.5 million workers, and another million are set to be given the same threat in the back half of this year.
Even though more and more companies are beginning to formalize exactly when employees are allowed to work from home, the practice remains widespread. An estimated 58% of workers—a figure that when extrapolated to the entire U.S. workforce would be equal to 92 million people—can work remotely some days of the week, per June research from McKinsey. Naturally, the fact that at least one of those days will be Friday is all but a given.
Microsoft now has implemented "compare with Bing chat" button when you visit Google Bard in Edge (reddthat.com)
When you visit the Google’s chatbot bard’s website in Microsoft Bing. A New Button pops up besides the search bar which lets you compare bard results with Bing chat’s. I have no idea why they implemented this, well maybe to show off the their chatbot is better than bard or something?
Dataset confirms that a vegan diet is dramatically better across a range of environmental measures (phys.org)
A (Somewhat) Comprehensive Guide To Party Roles
Alright, what’s up everybody! I’ve been dm’ing for 5e for YEARS and after beating Baldur’s Gate 3 I’ve found that a lot of party build theory transfers pretty well. So here’s my attempt at passing along some of that theory to you!...
The era of cheap streaming is officially over (www.cnn.com)
'Don't Ask Why': South Korea grapples with back-to-back 'Mudjima' stabbings (www.bbc.com)
A knife darting out in a packed subway car. An assailant, chasing shoppers, stabbing wildly in the street....
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Why US tech giants are threatening to quit the UK (www.bbc.com)
Archived version: archive.ph/2Y3u6...
How was life back then? (lemmy.world)
And what was the state of Linux when proprietary instant messaging apps were popular?
Maker of Chrome extension with 300,000+ users tells of constant pressure to sell out (www.theregister.com)
“Actors who are asking me to add some tracking code are mostly interested in reselling users’ data,” Anashkin said. “Actors who want to purchase it outright will stuff it with malware depending on their level of greed: hijacking affiliate links, tampering with search results, showing popups with shady websites, etc.”...
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Is there a way for me to upload my rifd Keycard to my smartphone?
The company I work in switched to a new building, and we have those stupid doors with RFID cards on them. I’d be damned if I’m going walk with that I’m-working-in-hightech-company-card dangling of my belt. I wonder if there is a way for me to use my phone for credentials. I tried searching for it, and all I could find is...
King of Jordan approves a bill to criminalize online speech. Human rights groups call it draconian (apnews.com)
Brazil police arrest Amazon deforestation gang leader (brazilreports.com)
Brexit Britain’s Got No Talent: Visa scheme gets just three applicants (www.theneweuropean.co.uk)
The TV streaming apps broke their promises, and now they’re jacking up prices (arstechnica.com)
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This is the $300 Android phone to beat in 2023 - and it even has a stylus (www.zdnet.com)
From El Arroyo in Austin (lemmy.world)
A real estate billionaire said Fridays are ‘dead forever’ for offices, and remote work guru Nick Bloom says he’s right—it’s part of a new 3-part week (fortune.com)