Semi_Hemi_Demigod

Semi_Hemi_Demigod , 6 hours ago to Technology in Google AI making up recalls that didn’t happen

That's how I used it to write cover letters for job applications. I feed it my resume and the job listing and it puts something together. I've got to do a lot of editing and sometimes it just makes up experience, but it's faster than trying to write it myself.

Semi_Hemi_Demigod , 2 days ago to Technology in "Maybe This is Too Cool" - After years of layoffs and pay/resource freezes, Amazon execs treat themselves to a private Foo Fighters concert worth millions

I'd pay for that. Let's start a Kickstarter.

Semi_Hemi_Demigod , 2 days ago to Technology in Update: IRS successfully launches their own free Direct File - now ALL of my fellow 'murcans are eligible for 2025

There's a worksheet that usually comes with it where you answer questions about your living situation - single/married, homeowner/renter, how many kids, etc. - and it gives you a number to put in. It's pretty accurate. I've done it at every job and aside from years with tax credits I've never gotten back more than a few hundred bucks.

Semi_Hemi_Demigod , 2 days ago to Technology in Update: IRS successfully launches their own free Direct File - now ALL of my fellow 'murcans are eligible for 2025

I've had 1099s and tax credits and I've never sent in a paper return. I keep the records in case of an audit but it's not like e-file hasn't existed forever.

Semi_Hemi_Demigod , 2 days ago to Technology in Update: IRS successfully launches their own free Direct File - now ALL of my fellow 'murcans are eligible for 2025

No, we have 50 states to get through as well. And then all the municipalities.

Semi_Hemi_Demigod , 2 days ago to Technology in "Maybe This is Too Cool" - After years of layoffs and pay/resource freezes, Amazon execs treat themselves to a private Foo Fighters concert worth millions

They drove a dump truck full of money up to my house! I'm not made of stone!

Semi_Hemi_Demigod , 2 days ago to Comic Strips in Portable convenience [The Square Comics]

It's not just the software either. I really like the feel of the Apple trackpad. It's glass instead of plastic like a lot of others. And the haptic feedback feels exactly like what a click would feel like

Semi_Hemi_Demigod , 2 days ago to Comic Strips in Seeing a lot of this lately...

That's exactly my philosophy: You don't vote for better. You vote for less worse.

If you want better you gotta work for it. And probably get your skull cracked in.

Semi_Hemi_Demigod , 2 days ago to linuxmemes in Toxic linux communities moment:

The closed-source devs I've worked with also lack it.

This is why the humanities are important.

Semi_Hemi_Demigod , 2 days ago (edited 2 days ago) to Memes in gotta wonder why the aliens would build these rooms

That is clearly a gate room with the stargate removed

Edit: I see now that it's a THPS2 map but I stand by my assessment

Semi_Hemi_Demigod , 2 days ago to Comic Strips in Seeing a lot of this lately...

I have never voted for the person I want my state's delegates to go to, because that person lost the primary.

Semi_Hemi_Demigod , 3 days ago to Selfhosted in Why You Should Self-Host Everything

You can’t automate away all the unpleasant and technical bits.

But it's our job to try

Semi_Hemi_Demigod , 3 days ago to Technology in Internet Archive is continuing to face DDoS attacks after several days, says “this attack has been sustained, impactful, targeted, adaptive, and importantly, mean”

The Internet Archive needs to be distributed somehow. We can't have a single point of failure like this or we've learned nothing since Alexandria.

I've got several terabytes just laying around that I'd happily devote to ancient copies of web pages.

Semi_Hemi_Demigod , 3 days ago to Comic Strips in Seeing a lot of this lately...

Well Better should hurry the fuck up because it's been getting more or less worse my entire life.

Semi_Hemi_Demigod , 3 days ago to Comic Strips in Seeing a lot of this lately...

We agree on all of this. You just have some small glimmer of hope and mine's been crushed by reality.