The Octonaut

Ukraine certainly was one of the most corrupt nations in Europe. Pre-pandemic its CPI score was 30, placing it between Bolivia and Myanmar.

Russia scored 28 (ie, worse). So I’m not sure what outcome you expect from Ukraine losing. I’m also interested to hear if you think countries like Mexico, Nigeria or Cambodia, also below Ukraine in the ranking, are “evil” and don’t deserve statehood.

https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2019

Just say no to healing wizards

If you protest, and the company being protested actually backs down/complies or even compromises, and you then continue to protest, do you understand that you’ve taught them to just ignore your opinion?

It’s a joke my friend. The FBI don’t actually have a lemmy server

She’s like 7 years old and roughly that size too.

@fbi@fbi.gov deal with this guy

I build software that’s used in call centers and have therefore been in several of them, including 2 in India. My team builds things that help with voice and chat.

I can’t stress enough two things: the aim is and probably always will be to deflect away things that people could have Googled themselves. LLMs, if trained on the right stuff and not hallucinating, would genuinely be good on this.

Secondly, CCs and telecoms in general have not escaped the business cultural shift in the last 10 years to the frantic obsession with g r o w t h. So yes, they definitely are trying to sell you something on every call. However this really depends on the human personality involved, and any near-future LLMs would definitely struggle to sell you anything. Some of these people are magical at talking you into buying stuff. Do j mean scamming? No. The easiest thing to sell is the thing you’d probably benefit from, the hurdle being that you didn’t know about it or aren’t in the mood to buy because you called to complain about coverage. For European telecoms at least, there are severe penalties for misselling, too (that’s part of what our software tracks).

So in summary, LLMs might replace the link you’re sent to the FAQs page or the bit where you confirm who you are. But they are at least many years away from replacing the agents who can do what telecoms currently want them to do - turn the call into a sale.

The icon itself is probably more than 8kb. It’s either incorrect or literally just a desktop URL shortcut

Don’t clean his new aquarium for like months.

If you can see this response (this half baked Mastodon integration annoys the shit out of me), I’d be happy to talk you through it.

Reddit and Lemmy are supposed to be what you want: link aggregators.

We’re supposed to link to sites and pages and people vote on how good they are in the context of the sub community topic.

Of course, then Ron Paul happened, and now it’s just memes and Yank politics so… maybe deploy Lemmy and turn off comments.

But that’s Orcs?

Dryads: I’ll breed with anything

Dryads (earlier that day): I don’t care for Lizardfolk

Yeah I get that but you dig deeper and that implantation was just throwing an error that needs to be handled elsewhere. The “real” code is what is handling that error.

But then we’re back to act acknowledging a meaningful point of having commits that do one thing and do it well and understandably, and I’m back to appreciating the difference between the kernel and our app.

Little bit unfair as this was already an existing thing that got a new way to be triggered rather than a completely new feature needing code to handle not following symlinks.

To accurately guess you’d need to know that “don’t follow symlinks in this particular scenario” already exists and we’re just adding an OR to an if statement.

Please attend a very basic civics class

Dicorini*

That’s what you think, Michael

Please tell me you can play a single campaign without playing the horny bard, buying slaves, or torturing goblin prisoners

So does nobody read the spell description for Mending, or…

This spell repairs a single break or tear in an object you touch, such as broken chain link, two halves of a broken key

How many people are neatly snapping their phone into two halves?

Right, but they’re specifically talking about breaking your pact with (the Christian) god. Like, y’know, the devil did. Warlocks were devils, not protégés of devils.

“$3 mln” is somehow a lot less explanatory than “$3m”