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This. Add some agents installed on employee's PC and AI could have exact picture of whole company at any given time, without these weekly managerial meetings - status relays. No politics. No overseeing. If everyone works remote, the better AI is, because all communication channels could be monitored. Perfect estimation, almost perfect allocation of resources.

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I never was good at these human power things. Years after happening, I realised I was the object of a manipulation. I never cared about promotions and stuff like that. I change jobs because I am bored by it after couple of years anyway. I do not mind, well, I will welcome, when AI takes jobs of managers. No more politics, power plays, setting coalitions.

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> LLMs are honestly rather amazing for product search and comparison.

True, LLMs are quite good in things where I have limited knowledge. It shortens exploration phase considerably. Before, I would need to go to web pages, compare parameters (somewhere), think out why this, not that.

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> Counter to myself, a co-worker of mine who's been at the company I just joined longer than me, he gets to set things up, make decisions.

This is the most funny part I am encountering all the time. Either one has more experience (job hopping), or one has more weight in decision making (staying longer at one company).

It is unusually hard trying to convince a manager who had their tech stack calcified the day he was promoted to manager role.

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I have feeling that microservices improve overall design when they can live on their own, as microapps perhaps, also with their own UI. What is the point of service if it is not usable beyond its original design and just bound to other similar services?

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Please, do not. Nobody will do a real code review for such a person. Nobody will start a discussion if this or that change makes sense. If you have managerial position stick to it and do not make other people's lives miserable

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Usually, when travelling, a lot of things, like architecture, or people are different, that is why I want everything possible in focus. That is why my perfect combination for travel is (in 135 format): - 24mm/f2.8 for indoors - 24-90mm/f8, for streets, parks, forests

When I started using TG-7 for street photography I noticed that full range of focal lengths is used, 24-100/f11-f27 (in 135 format), so 28mm is too limiting. Then, telephoto 80-300 turned out to be pretty useless during last vacations. Even in mountains, photos made with wider angle were better for me, maybe I do not have good eye for it.

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It is/was quite popular in Poland. 35 years ago, as a kid, I was assembling paper models. Planes were the easiest, usually it took about 2 days to do one. Couple of years ago I wanted to get back to it, so I bought a plane. Well, it turned out that fashion for paper models had changed and now 'reductionist' models are in full swing - being as close as possible to original. That plane has 160 pieces (a lot of them also subdivided), and every part that has size about 10cm in real life, has been modelled. In two weeks I was still in cockpit. Here is paper model of SR-71: https://www.sklep.model-kom.pl/sr-71-model-samolotu-rozpozna... From drawings it looks like it is more than 167+, not including subparts.

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In Poland it is opposite. Public Health Service raised salaries for nurses, since average age of nurses was around 54 years old. This is seriously demanding job, so I assume not a lot of people were willing to take it. But when salaries were raised more men appeared.

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> When someone is hired into a professional job, is there something in the laws of physics that prevent them from doing wrong?

No, but work of journalists is highly visible. Probably, this creates more incentive to write according to rules of the trade. There are examples of journalists who went with ruling regime and got monetary prizes. Some are switching to it now, betting that regime change again and their dedication will bring rewards.

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I think it is fair, because professionals do not use cheap tricks, but at least they are trying to distance themselves when writing a report. I like discussions when Sławomir Sierakowski (from Krytyka Polityczna) is present, because he always have some new ideas, new ways to describe reality. Although, I do not follow Krytyka Polityczna.

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Living in Poland ruled by trumpists for 8 years I have these experiences:

- Get subscription of high value newspaper or magazine. Professionals work there, so you will get real facts, worthy opinions and less emotions.

- It is better to not use social media. You never know if you are discussing with normal person, a political party troll, or Russian troll.

- It is not worth discussing with „switched-on” people. They are getting high doses of emotional content, they are made to feel like victims, facts does not matter at all. Political beliefs are intermingled with religious beliefs.

- emotional content is being treated with higher priority by brain, so it is better to stay away from it, or it will ruin your evening.

- people are getting addicted to emotions and victimization, so after public broadcaster has been freed from it, around 5% people switched to private tv station to get their daily doses.

- social media feels like a new kind of virus, we all need to get sick and develop some immunity to it.

- in the end, there are more reasonable people, but democracies needs to develop better constitutional/law systems, with very short feedback loop. It is very important to have fast reaction on breaking the law by ruling regime.

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It is interesting, that this forum might be „AI poisoned” for other AI bots, because training AI on content generated by AI = garbage.

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Sometimes I observed how it worked after being stung by a bee. It is better to remove sting using force from one side. When two fingertips are used to remove a sting all venom is being pushed into the wound.

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What I noticed is that pitch of buzzing is higher when bee is attacking, not after sting. Higher pitch means probably higher frequency of wings, so bee has more velocity and it is more nimble. When I was kid visiting frequently a place with 100 hives in a summer. I started to recognize that pitch of attacking bee and learned to keep head lower, between arms. Sometimes I was chased by a bee several tens of meters. It is good to use cover of some trees or bushes. I believe bees are aroused by smell of venom itself. Sometimes, when hive is opened, bees turn their abdomen higher, towards opening showing stings. I think I saw that drops of venom forms around end of sting. Smoke particles, probably bonds to venom vapors, neutralizing its influence on other bees, because after couple smoke puffs venom smell is not noticeable any more. Also, smoke causes bees to change their process, from „intruder alert”, to „tree is burning”, and are turning on ventilation. Each summer, first sting swelled the worst, but consecutive ones were less so, so I think some tolerance develops, but it won’t last a year. The worst is being stung in fingertip, because it causes nail deformation, for some time.

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My whole experience of working 18 years as a software developer can be summed up with two words: ‚it depends’. Every nice architecture set up front breaks at some point. There is no silver bullet.

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True, they are for likes. Images with the most likes are kind of kitschy to me, sunset, mountains, or stuff like that. As a mediocre, or even bad photographer i can photograph whatever pleases me, and as amateur I am out of that race.

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I noticed that all my edits lately were lighter and lighter, so I switched to jpeg and I am Adobe free. Thing is, no amount of postprocessing would help if photo is bad, then, when photo is good, tweaking it is not really needed.

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True. Good photo is either good light or something extraordinary happening - that is content quality. Technical quality is all that noise, edge sharpness, full frame, and this does not matter. If 40 years ago people were able to create masterpieces on 135 film, then it is also doable using camera in cellphone.

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Is in the middle of black hole zero gravity? Then, is there another event horizon somewhere inside black hole?