TeamAssimilation

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[–] TeamAssimilation 3 points 3 months ago

This is scandalous! We were supposed to get a different kind of fraud!

They even probably worked better than real AI, the shame!

[–] TeamAssimilation 10 points 3 months ago (4 children)

My extensive expertise tells me it depends.

[–] TeamAssimilation 7 points 3 months ago

Is that simulation in the room with us ri

WARNING: Unexpected false vacuum decay.
Reverting current state.
3,245,333,345,728,345,876 recoveries until reboot.

us right now? Hurrr durr

WARNING: Unexpected false vacuum decay.
Reverting current state.
3,245,333,345,728,345,875 recoveries until reboot.
[–] TeamAssimilation 3 points 3 months ago

Dude, tell me you haven’t been in a management position without yadda yadda etc.

They’re not genius or more valuable, their workflow is different. In development I could solve the same problem for days, and know the ins and outs of it; as a manager. When I pivoted to management, I understood I have people who know their shit, so I don’t have to worry about the details while I make sure they have everything they need to accomplish our compromises.

I had to learn to let go of the tech work so I could be more effective as a manager. I’d love to talk about Postgres optimization during dinner, but I can’t devote much time to that during the work day. That’s someone else’s job. I’ll just give them the resources.

[–] TeamAssimilation 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

This. OP is mistaken if he thinks all people had to carefully read all email. We techies love to explain things too much, but executives are administrators, they don’t delve into technical details unless needed.

My technique to get busy executives to answer my emails is being direct and brief.

  • Subject: As concise as possible, and then more
  • In bold, one thing I need from them. Asking three things is a sure way to end up with two unanswered things.
  • Two line breaks
  • In bold “Details”, another line break, and a bullet list of any info they might need, but not necessarily read.

That’s it. If they need more, they will ask you. If you need more, send three emails, or make it very clear in the first line that you’re asking three things, and make them a bullet list.

Also, this works surprisingly well with people other than executives.

[–] TeamAssimilation 5 points 3 months ago

Try it a few times, his laptop catches fire.

[–] TeamAssimilation 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Isn’t their secret sauce that you’re obliged to proselytize, otherwise the souls of the filthy heretics will be unsaved and will burn forever in your fantasy fire world?

It’s a religion that aggressively displaces other religions.

[–] TeamAssimilation 53 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Okay, it’s not a dire wolf, but it might qualify as a concerning wolf, don’t you think?

[–] TeamAssimilation 1 points 3 months ago (5 children)

The base has to be the target species. If, like Jurassic Park, they had an almost complete dire wolf genome, and slightly patched it with grey wolf genome to make it viable, few will argue that it wasn’t a dire wolf, at least predominantly.

[–] TeamAssimilation 12 points 3 months ago

This must have been terrifying for the ant.

[–] TeamAssimilation 9 points 3 months ago (3 children)

BREAKING NEWS! AUSTRALOPITHECUS HAS JUST BEEN DE-EXTINCTED!

[–] TeamAssimilation 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (8 children)

TL;DR: Gray wolves and dire wolves are different species that had a common ancestor. These wolves are still gray wolves with 20 or so one-letter edits to their genome to express some dire wolf characteristics.

They’ve not become a different species, they’re still genetically-engineered gray wolves that resemble dire wolves.

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