[-] fubarx@lemmy.ml 5 points 13 hours ago

VW announced a $5B joint venture with Rivian a couple months ago. Wonder how all this will affect that deal?

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/25/24185946/vw-rivian-joint-venture-investment-software-r2

[-] fubarx@lemmy.ml 5 points 21 hours ago
  • Catch 22
  • Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (series)
[-] fubarx@lemmy.ml 4 points 21 hours ago

Where you rotate so far right you end up at the left.

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From the makers of demand-priced car rides, concert tickets, and rents comes VariPay, a new Demand Based Salary calculator.

Instead of a fixed salary, employee income will be based on how much work there is to do, and when there is enough work, how efficient they were and how much effort they put into it.

The system is purely driven by AI, so nobody can accuse the vendor of favoritism. It runs continuously 24x7, making instant salary calculation updates no matter where in the world you live.

The service can automatically integrate with the previously announced AutoHR system, so firing and re-hiring replacement workers are handled with minimum friction. Efficiency levels can be charted in units of currency, aggregated worker heart-rate levels, or kilo-teardrops.

It comes with a management dashboard showing the amount of salary saved vs a traditional 'time-based' pay system. It also allows alarms to be set and parameters adjusted to accelerate cost-saving measures. Optional modules dynamically calculate management bonuses and maximize shareholder buybacks.

[-] fubarx@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 days ago
[-] fubarx@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 days ago

Back in college, a local doughnut shop would open at 3am to start making the run for the day. If you were stoned or pulling an all-nighter, it was worth the 15m walk. They would sell you fresh, warm doughnuts out the back.

Nowadays, a lot of places do the fresh doughnut thing. But it's not the same, getting it at 3am.

[-] fubarx@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

https://www.espressif.com/en/news/ESP32-S3-BOX-3

There's a model with a more expensive dock, or one without. The one without worked fine. But it had to be the Box 3 not Box 2. It worked pretty well and you could create custom images to indicate whether it was listening, thinking, etc.

Instructions here: https://www.home-assistant.io/voice_control/s3_box_voice_assistant/

The box isn't powerful enough to run an LLM itself. It's just good enough as an audio conduit. You can either use their cloud integration with ChatGPT, or now, Anthropic Claude. But if you had a powerful Home Assistant server, say an Nvidia Jetson or a PC with a beefy Nvidia GPU, you could run local models like Llama and have better privacy.

This is from earlier this year. I imagine they've advanced more since then.

[-] fubarx@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 days ago

Their LLM integration is super cool. I messed with it for a previous job. Way better than Alexa or Google Home.

[-] fubarx@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 days ago

They missed speculation, hearsay, and guesstimation.

[-] fubarx@lemmy.ml 31 points 3 days ago

A few jobs ago, everyone hated the tech stack. The people who had come up with it had long left. I talked to everyone, then came up with a plan to transition to a modern stack. Got buy-in from management.

Half the people (and all who had said they hated the status quo) threatened to quit if we made the change.

Fortunately, it was just in time to collect the 1-year retention bonus. Life's too short. Walked away.

[-] fubarx@lemmy.ml 24 points 3 days ago

Let's hope no single person worked on that thing for the full 8 years under development. Would be crushed.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/19787296

Archive link: https://archive.ph/H0jBD

"As the ninth inning drew to a close at San Francisco’s Oracle Park on a recent afternoon, the mood in the stands was dour — the Giants were losing to the White Sox. But in the skies above the stadium, the real game was just getting started.

California and Western gulls glided overhead, scouting the bleachers for garlic fries and ketchup-smeared hot dog buns. The gulls soared steadily by the dozens as the bleachers emptied. Soon, the birds were left alone to engulf any leftover food they could find."

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"As the ninth inning drew to a close at San Francisco’s Oracle Park on a recent afternoon, the mood in the stands was dour — the Giants were losing to the White Sox. But in the skies above the stadium, the real game was just getting started.

California and Western gulls glided overhead, scouting the bleachers for garlic fries and ketchup-smeared hot dog buns. The gulls soared steadily by the dozens as the bleachers emptied. Soon, the birds were left alone to engulf any leftover food they could find."

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Earlier today, at Oakland, CA charging station.

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Not sure if true, but someone raised an issue when this was first announced. That you can no longer refuse to unlock your phone when stopped, since you'll have to unlock it to show your digital driver's license.

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Samy Kamkar's latest at Defcon.

Archive link: https://archive.ph/UtTtp

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Samy Kamkar's latest at Defcon.

Archive link: https://archive.ph/UtTtp

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Apologize if this is a dupe, but is there a way to transfer one's acoount from one lemmy instance to another? Ideally, it involves one's posts and comments, but definitely one's saves. Both accounts are active and in good health.

Thanks!

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Next step would be realtime updates from journalists on breaking news.

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