I find people who try to stand out and play up their work insufferable. What I find more insufferable is that this works for getting ahead
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These are my grandfather’s words not mine: no matter how much of an idiot your boss is, he is still your boss
I watched a Director level employee get let go during a round of layoffs because he caused to much trouble by fighting for his employees.
A corollary to your first one: if you take on extra work people will forget it is extra work when it’s not delivered on time or has issues. It does not matter how much the first three people fucked it up, you touched it last.
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movies@piefed.social•Felicia Day is crowdfunding a movie spin-off of her popular web series The GuildEnglish
301·6 days agoI think the low budget was part of its magic.
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Technology@lemmy.world•AI error jails innocent grandmother for months in North Dakota fraud caseEnglish
1·8 days agoIf I was the architect of the system that is how I would do it. However a high enough score could still be sufficient in this case. The system made an assertion that lead to damages even if the assertion was 60% match.
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Technology@lemmy.world•AI error jails innocent grandmother for months in North Dakota fraud caseEnglish
1·8 days agoIt’s not the woman it’s the police officer/department that would agree. So, if there is language saying the user knows and understands that the system is not accurate then it becomes harder to go after the developer.
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Risa@startrek.website•That one time when he made cheese and it broke the shipEnglish
8·8 days agoRobert Picardo even says this
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Technology@lemmy.world•AI error jails innocent grandmother for months in North Dakota fraud caseEnglish
3·8 days agoThere are 4 things that need to be true for a defamation case. The statement must be false. The statement must be presented in away a reasonable person would believe it. The statement must be published for at least one other person to see. The statement must cause harm
The hardest part will be the second condition. The software publisher probably has all kinds of disclaimers in their EULA to cover this one. It also depends on how the software presents the information to the user.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over featuresEnglish
12·20 days agoI am sure they are also seeing a growing demand for more privacy, the only reason own a pixel is because of GrapheneOS. If I could buy a phone with the OS pre installed I would, don’t know if they are going to do that. Also, by patterning with GrapheneOS they don’t has the development cost and they can trade on Graphenes name
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Technology@lemmy.world•Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over featuresEnglish
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•The same people who rage against authority love moderating communities where their ideology is the only one allowed
2·20 days agoThey exist in the US you don’t hear about them because those leaders don’t make good headlines.
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News@lemmy.world•Scouting America says transgender kids are still welcome after Pete Hegseth claimed they weren’t
18·20 days agoAnother Eagle jumping in. It is so clear these clowns know nothing of what scouting is about.
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TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.world•She sticks to her convictions
23·21 days agoJaneway advocated her crew members that could not advocate for themselves
You still have trace each cable between the patch panel and the switch or thing could end up on the wrong subnet.
God forbid you have to swap out a cable or a port does on the switch. You will spend 20 min trying to figure out what cable goes where
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Game Deals@lemmy.zip•Steam Deal: Save 80% on Detroit: Become Human on SteamEnglish
3·24 days agoThis is a great game if you like story focused games.
The house isn’t even playing a game, it’s all statical models. The slots are designed to pay out less money than they take in. As long as you can keep people coming into the casino you will make money.
I worked in casino finance, it is staggeringly difficult to bankrupt a casino.



There is a third problem. It assumes talented people are will return to jobs where they can be fired at the whim of a presidents.