Garry Davlin
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Garry Davlin
@gdavlin
Guitar Enthusiast and Pick Collector. Bachelor of Science in Physics and Mathematics. Retired Analyst/Programmer 2 from the University of Oregon.
Lowell, OR Katılım Nisan 2009
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Actress Laura Benanti got her ego bruised while boarding a plane when she ran into a group of teenagers from a theater program and none of them recognized her.
Her caption read: “I guess they weren’t alive to watch The Tonys in 2008.”
How many of you know her?
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@michaeljknowles I think the background was real, but he wasn't. 🤔
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A viewer demanded I touch the grass behind me to prove it wasn’t CGI on a green screen.
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@straceX And now you can read the kernel (6th edition) with line-by-line commentary!
10,000 lines: 100 pages times 100 lines per page
Available on Amazon!
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Psychologists say if you recognize this picture you've been traumatized
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I briefly worked for a large company that went through a reorganization to make things more efficient. The result was the creation of 12 additional vice-presidents and various other middle management positions. Unsurprisingly, it didn't work.
Just to give you an idea - their average response time for any IT issue was 23 days. And they bragged about it - it had been worse.
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Most CEOs have no idea what’s really going on
David Senra@davidsenra
IBM built a cloud of suits to make sure the CEO never talked to anyone actually doing the work. @elonmusk does the opposite. "Elon's method is extreme focus on substance. Extreme focus on getting to the truth. In any organization with multiple layers, there's compounding lies. Each layer wants to look good. Each layer puts a little spin on things. If one layer lies to the next layer above it, maybe that's okay. When that happens two or three times, the lies compound. If that happens six times, the lies really compound. If that happens 12 times, the CEO has no idea what's happening. That was IBM. By the time I got there as an intern, I calculated there were 12 layers of management between me and the CEO. They even had a term for it: the great cloud. A cloud of men in gray business suits who followed the CEO around and prevented him from ever talking to anybody who was actually doing the work. When he would come to visit, it was like a visit from the king. A completely impervious bubble. That's the polar opposite of the Elon approach." — @pmarca
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been feeling kinda stressed lately so I made a little prototype
is this anything
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@vapohcrl @nahtuREHbah @Rothmus Yes, it was from an Arkansas State Police dash cam in 2022 (this snippet trims off the normal ASP dash cam info on the screen). I watched the original right after it was posted.
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@nahtuREHbah @Rothmus This video is real and very old.
People like you sound dumb
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@BuzzPatterson This girl is probably 30 something by now. Oldie but goodie
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@culturewarnotes @MattWalshBlog An em-dash and a "it's not this, it's that" are the main giveaways.
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@MattWalshBlog "It's unmistakeable" yet no tool can reliably identify it.
Huh.
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The number of people who clearly use AI to craft basic posts on this site, and replies to posts, is pretty shocking. Once you learn how to spot AI writing, you see it absolutely everywhere on here. It’s unmistakable. The tech has existed for 10 seconds and already huge swaths of people have completely given up on even the simplest forms of creative writing.
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@GadSaad That's really strange. I have to read more about this. Thanks!
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@SteveLovesAmmo Wow, my parents would have sure been surprised if I was born in China, especially since they lived in the US.
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@FactionNFantasy @historydefined Thank you! That was really bothering me.
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Photorealistic image of George Washington if he lived in the present day.
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I lost my brother today.
Saw him at Thanksgiving, he was just fine. 3 months later he was diagnosed with metastatic cancer with "too many tumors in his lungs to count." Two weeks later he was gone.
Please, if you have cancer in your family, get screened. This is the second brother I have lost to the Big C.
I'll link one below to a good comprehensive test for cancer screening.
I'll be on X less for a while. Or maybe more to take my mind off it. I don't know. I'm knackered at the moment.
Thanks for listening.
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@JohnRamboFilm What are they going to use AI to make him look young?
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A message from Sylvester Stallone, Executive Producer of JOHN RAMBO - Now in Production.
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