> suing for invasion of privacy and emotional distress
Invasion of privacy? After entering someone else's private property without their consent? Surely they will be laughed out of court!
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I mean, it's also an anti-pattern with wallets if you hand them your wallet full of cash and tell them to take a tip. A PIN is not a bad idea though.
I think this might be an actual generational difference; I feel weird letting someone else use my phone or using someone else's phone now. I can remember a time when phones were much more communal - the family shared a phone, and public phones existed, and I wonder if older folks are a bit more locked into that way of thinking. Obviously a phone is much more than a phone now however.
I don't know if it's a scam but there's been guys hanging around the local greyhound station with stories like "my phone battery died while I was on the bus, can I use your phone to call my buddy to pick me up". And I don't want to be a jerk but something about it felt a bit too pushy, and if I give then my phone I was probably never going to see it or them again. Now just giving it unlocked to a squeegee kid? Hell no, that's just plain naive.
MonkeyMalarky commented on It’s Game over on Vocal Deepfakes daringfireball.net/2023/0... · Posted by u/burlesona
For some folks , they would just want to have a conversation with your favorite actor, author, celebrity psychologist just for fun.
Now there's an idea! Chat with a psychologist using your dead parents voices. I wonder what Freud would make of that.
MonkeyMalarky commented on It’s Game over on Vocal Deepfakes daringfireball.net/2023/0... · Posted by u/burlesona
So who's going to build the sex phone line where you can talk to celebrities like Marilyn Monroe?
This is just turning out to be the acid craze of our generation. We need a PSA.
If you take a heroic dose of a powerful hallucinogen with little prior experience or preparation you stand a chance of breaking your brain. Doing ayahuasca with some unknown "shaman" in a jungle "wellness retreat" is not the same as going to a spa and getting acupuncture. It's more like going skydiving with an "instructor" that just hands you a parachute and says Jump!
Just take this 5-strip of acid at a 3 day music festival surrounded by 20,000 people for your first time bro!
MonkeyMalarky commented on IPCC climate crisis report delivers ‘final warning on 1.5C’ theguardian.com/environme... · Posted by u/m1
Do people in capitals not understand or believe this? What do rich people (some of whom control large parts of the media) plan to do exactly? Die? Bunker? I mean seriously.
Die? I think it's die. Look at Biden, Putin, Xi, and Rupert Murdoch they range from old to really fucking old.
MonkeyMalarky commented on Show HN: Side-Project: FlowChartGPT – Turn Text into FlowCharts fastflowchart.com/... · Posted by u/jacky2wong
Now it's the senior engineers and architects turn to panic!
I saw that Mr. Z. was getting into MMA in his free time, but this is taking it a bit too far isn't it?
MonkeyMalarky commented on Self-Admitted Technical Debt neverworkintheory.org/202... · Posted by u/zdw
People always have stories about technical debt at work and open source, etc. Does anyone have stories of projects with no technical debt? Perfectly maintainable code?
We like to blame bizdev and sales for putting pressure on us, but that feels like a cop-out to me. Maybe I'm just a bad programmer but even if you took out the deadlines and "requirements" I'll probably still ship code with some warts here and there. Complaining about people in other positions is no way to improve.
Sorry, maybe a bit of an extreme take. Am still interested in stories of especially maintainable codebases, as I'm probably over-correcting here.
I have micro-services that haven't been touched in years because they do one thing, and the requirements of that one thing never change.
The Hawaiian goose (Nene) was down to 30, but captive breeding and reintroduction has been going well. The population is up to about 2500. It seems contact with outside humans was pretty bad for Hawaiian bird species.
Human contact has been a bad thing for a lot of bird species.