If I got murdered I hope that every single true crime podcast, tv show and youtube tells my story. Please describe me as full of life and deeply caring. Also cut in some stuff about being gone too soon, and don’t mention that I was holed up in my house for months without leaving or speaking to another person before they murdered me.

I was on the BART the other day coming back from SFO and one of those idiots with a giant speaker came on an started swinging from all the bars in some kind of dance I guess? It went on for way too long - almost the whole time between SF and Oakland. Then he had the gall to ask for a tip? Are you out of your GD mind? STFU and get your swinging feet out of my face.

Here is my take - They are adding a new metric called “Engaged Views”, this is the same metric that a “View” was previously, something like - the person stayed after 30 seconds so they are “engaged”. Then they are going to sell ads based on the now inflated view number and use the “Engaged view” metric against creators so they can cut the amount they are paying for monetization.

Understood like a true MBA, congrats.

Hard disagree, its not the developers who make these ideas, they just have to build them to keep their job.

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I choose NA beer for that exact reason and its been a really big tool for me to keep my sobriety. It works for some and for others it doesn’t but I am glad its available as an option for me. But had I never started drinking in the first place I would not like beer, so I am not sure why anyone would buy NA beer unless, like me, they are trying to scratch an itch that can’t be scratched like it was before.

Ok, I did the digging on this because you asked. I actually just assumed because I was carded for NA beer that this was a law.

In the US, federally it is not illegal to sell less than 0.5% without carding. But many states treat NA beer the same as normal beer and they require the person be over 21. In the states that do not require 21 and over for NA beer many (most) stores and bars will still card because its better safe than sorry when it comes to ABC and losing your license.

So even tho it might be legal, you are probably still going to get carded, except at this place I guess.

But also I am struggling to understand why someone would choose to drink NA beer if they didn’t already know what real beer was like and was trying to avoid it by getting the NA kind (like me). Like - NA beer costs the same as real beer, just buy literally anything else to drink and its cheaper.

If this store is in the US they are stupid for making this sign and they can get in quite a bit of trouble for this with ABC. NA beer is still 21 and over, its not “beer for kids”

You still have to be 21 to buy NA beer. Even if its 0.0, the stores will get in trouble for not carding.

Potatoes are also vegetables.

Yes, if your immediate family has had the same type of cancer you are already at an elevated risk. I would suggest she get gene testing done as well. I know it sounds crazy from the other side, but if I had had the option to have a preventive mastectomy and reconstruction and called it a day with cancer instead of years of treatment with chemo, radiation and multiple surgeries with complications, I absolutely would have.

No, not for Kaiser at least, but if you have history, certain genes or additional risk factors to be screened early you can. Once you are 40 Kaiser will let you get one if you request it. Once you are 50 they push you to get one once a year.

First, as a “young” (40s) breast cancer survivor, this is my worst nightmare. I was diagnosed with Stage 1A. I was very lucky to have caught it when I did, I was 42 and you normally don’t get your first mammogram until 50. I finished treatment almost 3 years ago. I still have consent anxiety about a recurrence or worse - recurrence + it metastasized. In my support group you join and then you leave when you die and I have watch far too many young women leave in the last 4 years.

Secondly, Stage 4 might be incurable but its not a quick death sentence anymore. With proper management de novo breast cancer like this can be kept in check for decades. It’s not the same as life without cancer, but also, if you get stage 4 breast cancer, its not the end.

Bottom line - don’t let anyone tell you you are too young to get checked for any cancer and if you have been putting it off, do it now. Its better to know at Stage 1 and do the treatment when its the most effective and the easiest.

I hate that I did this exact thing last year.

Caveats: I work in software development, its a small company and I am the head of our development dept. I was the one who championed AI use at my company. I trained our (Gen X aged) engineering team on how to use Claude code. I set up the Claude code guardrails for our internal systems.

It’s a force multiplier, not a replacement for a person. If you already know the stuff you are using it for, and you already have a structure in place for QA and deployments, it can help you complete tasks much faster. The log analysis and code building alone has completely changed my job. We did not lay anyone off due to our AI adoption at our company and we are completing jobs much faster and we are accepting jobs we could not have worked on previously due to programming language limitations, by using it as a tool in an already existing workflow. And most importantly, we are not accumulating more tech debt by using AI, because we already have structure in place to prevent the build up of tech debt. We have actually started chipping away at some of the super old debt we’ve been putting off.

We only use AI in the development and IT depts of our company, we don’t use AI for design or use it customer service which is one of the things I personally hate AI being used for.

That being said, since we adopted AI use, my workload has increased, because its a force multiplier the expectation is that we can deliver faster, which is not always the case, but now its a bit harder to argue it, especially with sales guys who don’t even understand the product they are selling let alone how the development cycle works.

Personally, I used AI to help me do some painful long data migrations I have been putting off because they were going to be so long and painful. I also used it to build some reference quick reference tools for games I play. I don’t use it for anything other than code work.

Politically, I think it needs to be rained in and regulations put in place for both the hardware for building data centers shitting up the environment and the software and its sycophantic behavior that twists people in to AI psychosis. I think exposure to AI is making people stupid and kids today are at risk of not developing the critical thinking skills they need due to outsourcing all thought to AI. Although, we cannot close Pandora’s box now, but I like to see us do something to prevent the monsters in it from running amok. I understand the hypocrisy in my AI use and my stance on AI and the environment.

EDIT: Downvoting me isn’t going to change how I feel about AI.

I can still see it while not logged in but I assume it is only a matter of time. https://old.lemmy.world/ ftw

I think if I am presented with an are you a robot captcha check box every 10 refreshes on lemmy.world for being on a VPN, that is the least we can do for bots.

I know we are talking about my short dad having gratuitous sex, but I never want to think of his penis again thx.