Spuddaccino

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[–] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 3 points 2 years ago

My store has shift work, but does it in a sane way. The people whose schedules could change bid for schedules on a week by week basis, and they're awarded by seniority. In theory, you could get stuck with a closing shift going into an opening shift, but in practice it never happens because all the opening shifts get snapped up by the senior employees every week.

[–] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 12 points 2 years ago (5 children)

This doesn't strike me as odd in the slightest. When you go out into a crowded room with a lot of conversations going on, your brain will filter out a lot of it, but there is one thing you'll always always always hear, and that's your name. Your 'name' includes anything used to refer to you, like nicknames or pronouns.

Your brain develops special circuitry to recognize your name, and it strengthens with use. It's almost like a reflex.

I don't know how long you've gone by "Eshe," but it will be a long time before your brain develops those same shortcuts, if it ever does, and the old ones may never go away entirely.

[–] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 1 points 2 years ago

I think what happened is Musk wanted to change the signage, and gave them 2 days to do it. While they were working on it, the cops showed up and stopped them because no permits, so they put the original signage back. They report back to the Chief Twit, and he's just like, "All I'm hearing is you have 4 hours to go and my sign isn't up yet."

[–] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There's an incorrect assumption here that makes the whole math portion meaningless. That assumption is that ancestors must be unique.

In reality, you can have two parents each having two children, and then those two children having two children, etc.

Hell, you can do it with two initial parents, and then each generation only having 1 child, which then mates with its parents, and then the family tree looks kind of like a braid.

So, in reality, you only need 12 ancestors to be the 12th generation. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

[–] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Actually, I was referring to 'it.'

People don't like using it for people, because it's traditionally only really used for objects ("It's a chair!" ) or creatures where the gender isn't identifiable or doesn't matter ("It's a bear!") , but that's the exact use case here.

A nonbinary person is a creature whose gender is either not identifiable or doesn't matter.

People just decided that it meant nonbinary people were objects, when in reality we use it for objects because they were the only truly nonbinary concepts we had.

[–] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Yeah, but you're using it to mean "I don't know which pronoun to use." This is a different meaning than what's being describes here.

What's being described here is a person who decided that they don't want to be referred to as he or she, and has chosen to make themselves plural instead of using the singular nongendered pronoun already present in English.

Since that is a grammatical error, and this is the internet, I am obligated to ridicule this person, regardless of how well their meaning is conveyed.

/s, by the way.

[–] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 7 points 2 years ago

This is blatantly false. Chuck Norris wasn't born, he got tired of wearing his mother.

[–] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I ran into this just now.

I had blocked feddit.de, because I don't speak German and didn't want to see German posts in my feed. It turns out that it blocks comments from the instance as well, so I'm going to un-block it and go back to manually filtering communities as they pop up.

[–] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No, it's not.

What the philosoraptor is saying is that literally any computer program is machine learning, which is untrue.

An expert system is a system designed to simulate an expert. It's something you would seek advice from in some way. They're used in medical diagnoses and stock market trading, for example.

[–] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Am I contagious, or showing symptoms of something contagious? Stay home.

Am I incapable of doing my job or driving to work? Stay home.

Otherwise? Suck it up.

[–] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 9 points 2 years ago

People who can write printer drivers get pissed off at printer companies, too, and needing/wanting to print things isn't going away anytime soon.

[–] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 3 points 2 years ago

I didn't know about Indiana Jones and the whole backstory behind this scene though.

My dude, you are missing out. Raiders of the Lost Ark and Last Crusade are fantastic. This scene is from Last Crusade.

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