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CaptCurmudgeon t1_jdzul1f wrote

Reply to We're One Step Closer to AI Handling Zoom Meetings for Us by LanceOhio

Taking meeting notes and transferring them into action items with deadlines and follow ups takes my org way too long. That's like 10 minutes per meeting. Lots of us are fully remote and have 5 meetings in a day. That's a lot of manual effort!

I've been looking into MS Copilot because we're in the MS stack, so the Teams functionality is nice.

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doubledip10 t1_jdzuinc wrote

Reply to Got a tech question or want to discuss tech? Bi-Weekly /r/Technology Tech Support / General Discussion Thread by veritanuda

I'm looking to upgrade my wifi, we have a 3 story home that's about 2500 sqft, with Xfinity cable broadband provider at 1000 Mbps(allegedly). We currently have an old shitty router and modem.

Do I need both a router and a modem, is the WiFi mesh the way to go, any brands you recommend, or recommend I stay away from?

Thank you!

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bortlip t1_jdztlvl wrote

Reply to AI Is Exposing Who Really Has Power in Silicon Valley by nastratin

>But actually trying out these features for yourself—or at least the ones that have already been publicly released—does not come cheap. Unlike ChatGPT, which captivated the world because it was free, GPT-4 is currently only available to non-developers through a premium service that costs $20 a month.

So, you need to pay to access GPT-4. Ok.

I'd love to comment on the rest of the article, but The Atlantic won't let me see it unless I subscribe.

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-UltraAverageJoe- t1_jdzrgj3 wrote

Reply to comment by MrSrsen in Big Tech is making its stuff slower and stupider — on purpose by treetyoselfcarol

When your user base has reached critical mass, the founders are rich beyond belief, and investors/Wall Street are breathing down your neck, it’s really easy to focus on short-term goals instead of your users.

And this is why we as a people should truly be focused on competition and anti big company. No one can compete with Google or Apple or Microsoft and those who may will just be acquired if they are a threat.

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fatnoah t1_jdzraz4 wrote

Reply to Big Tech is making its stuff slower and stupider — on purpose by treetyoselfcarol

I can only speak to Facebook since that's what I have knowledge of, but I agree with the premise that user experience gets sacrificed to juice numbers. The market rewards growth, so that's what companies optimize for. When the growth doesn't happen, a company that still makes tens of billions of dollars in profit takes a huge stock price beating.

The people who work at the company are paid partly in stock, and that stock becomes 40-75% or more of their compensation at higher levels. Throw in an employee review process where increasing metric X by Y% can be called success and net you a nice multiplier of 25%-300% to your annual bonus and annual stock grant, and you can be damn sure the employees are focused on the stock price as well.

TBH, focus on AR and the Metaverse is one reason I have more respect for Zuckerberg. Current offerings are the equivalent of early tech demos and don't represent anything approaching a "final" result. This is a long range vision and will require many years of work for the hardware and software to even be remotely capable. This comes with a big hit to stock price, though.

Who knows if it'll be successful, but it's nice to see a company take a gamble on a long range vision, even if it's partly out of necessity due to the current market being tapped out.

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kungfu_panda_express t1_jdzqnvb wrote

Reply to Apple illegally fired five labor activists, union says | The workers, who were disciplined and fired for attendance-related issues, believe they were let go because of their union organizing by chrisdh79

You weren't at your desk while you went to the bathroom Frank. That was 3 minutes that you could have been entering data instead of doing human requirements. As per paragraph 5 subsection 3, Apple employees transcend humanity and therefore do not need or want personal time. It's right there Frank. We don't poop. Our glorious leader doesn't even have a butthole... We are gonna have to let you go.

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C0ldSn4p t1_jdzq9tv wrote

Reply to comment by noorbeast in Why Link Taxes Like Canada’s C-18 Represent An End To An Open Web by The1stCitizenOfTheIn

It is, but if you decide to tax something, the people and companies affected should also be free to exit the market.

If the government decides that red cars should be taxed 300% more, then it is reasonable to expect that car makers will only sell cars of other color in your country, or try to avoid the law by selling "burgundy" or "dark pink" cars.

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bubblebuttmcgee t1_jdzq72v wrote

Reply to Apple illegally fired five labor activists, union says | The workers, who were disciplined and fired for attendance-related issues, believe they were let go because of their union organizing by chrisdh79

The people in my organization that want to unionize are the least productive and most likely to not show up. Unionizing would protect their jobs, but should it? Im sure unions are great, but I can imagine they get abused by the lowest performers

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