My employer provides us with a “tech allowance” as a bonus every month

It’s not enough to buy a barely functional work laptop, but you can “buy a laptop” through them, and then forfeit the bonus until it’s “paid off”

I’m kinda awful with money, so I pretty much need every cent I can get. That bonus goes towards keeping my head above water in the debt trap I’m in.

So my “work computer” which requires their spyware antivirus to be installed is a virtual machine. It’s been two years and no complaints so far. Great antivirus.

Is this like getting banned from an escape room because you brought (and used) a live grenade to solve the puzzle

(I think they have a strict no-grenades-from-home policy, usually)

Are these MF DOOM lyrics

America sneezes, the world catches a drone strike or something

Sure whatever

Will they stop dropping bombs on civilians in Gaza now?

“Hey Bob, you’ve worked on the Linux kernel before, can you handle this CPU scheduler problem we’re having? Shouldn’t take you too long. We need it done before lunch”

did you really give the robots a slur to use on us

Any time I hear about a hammer being used as a weapon I just immediately think about this:

Oh that kind of bass

They really selling musical instruments out of there?

sometimes meat companies do a pro gamer move and turn dead donkeys into extra profit

rascals

give pregnant mums zyn

remember to be back by 12:30 for the standup at 12:45

you should have finished eating by then

I assume it’s a typo since it’s not capitalized nor in the community name

I’m not brave enough to verify. If it turns out to stand for ferret or something, I don’t think I could survive seeing that.

I feel like saying the full thing relieves some of the stress caused by said unfucked shit

they didn’t have to do that but they did it anyway

this is how history is made

beautiful actually

thirsdy bag

If hell is real it won’t be adequate punishment for these assholes

Feels weird calling that a bruise, even though that’s what is

Like, they should have a different name for it when it’s that brutal holy shit

The participants judged GPT-4 to be human a shocking 54 percent of the time.

ELIZA, which was pre-programmed with responses and didn’t have an LLM to power it, was judged to be human just 22 percent of the time

Okay, 22% is ridiculously high for ELIZA. I feel like any half sober adult could clock it as a bot by the third response, if not immediately.

Try talking to the thing: https://web.njit.edu/~ronkowit/eliza.html

I refuse to believe that 22% didn’t misunderstand the task or something.