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As someone who does have one at work, they are all plastic and Fully ANSI rated. I don't wear it, mostly because it's ridiculously impractical for tight quarters, but also the opening for your head is a fixed size, and my head is just a little too big, so it doesn't really fit me that well. Still, it's funny to whip out on occassion

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"I built this"... No, you didn't!

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In my nowhere near professional opinion, I think it's because in the phrase "You didn't build this", "didn't" is in the present tense, so "build" has to follow in the same tense. If the phrase were "You hadn't built this", because "hadn't" is past tense (or at least acts that way), then "built" would follow. My only justification is that this sounds right to my ear, and it's a loose theory as to why. The only consistent thing about English is the inconsistency

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AI is just an compression algorithm

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Do we know that for sure, or is the LLM telling us it came up with new ideas? All LLM does is average things. It can't think, it just works quickly enough to convince people it can. LLMs just aggregate opinions, perhaps apply some weighting system devised by the creators of the LLM, and spit out the average result. Nothing new created, just averaged with no respect for truth or reality.

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‘Who dreams this crap up?’: Kevin O'Leary slams new rule that allows employees to ignore their bosses after hours

If you are in an industry where an emergency at 2 am cannot wait until 0900 (or whenever shift starts in the morning), fucking pay a swing shift to be there. Or fairly compensate your employees for calls off the clock. Either way, stop expecting free labor from your employees. And if your business can't afford to exist without fairly compensating those who work for it, then your business should not exist.

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Tucker Carlson: Putin takes charge as TV host gives free rein to Kremlin

"Sooner or later this will end in agreement," was Putin's message, arguing that Nato was coming to realise that defeating Russia on the battlefield would be impossible.

Does Putin realize that NATO is effectively fighting Russia with both arms tied behind it's back right now? We're funding Ukraine (who are doing a phenomenal job, fwiw), but we're not even giving them the top of the line hardware. If the US actually got involved, Russia would pretty much instantly lose any glimmer of air superiority they have, and Ukraine could advance all the way to Moscow under NATO air cover. Like, the only reason Russia still exists is because NATO hasn't even tried to fight Russia on the battlefield yet.