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That worked!

Thanks!

FYI, your second link is not working or it's set to private.

The commenter you are responding to asked a perfectly valid question. I found your response and attack to them quite out of place.

I would say Italo Calvino scratches a very similar itch like Borges and Chiang.

> I especially love that Gross taped his login and password directly on his keyboard, which makes the object more relatable. I may never know what it’s like to manage billions in assets from a Bloomberg Terminal, but I absolutely understand the trial of remembering my passwords.

Wow, what a great history artifact. It is hard to look at this and not wonder where did we go wrong. Everybody _should_ know better, and yet here we are. And now immortalized in the National Museum of American History for all posterity.

"Tower of Babylon" is an excellent story.

Agree with that assessment

Wow! Nice coincidence. I've read "The Memory Police". I will add "Earthlings" to my queue. Thanks for the recommendation

I'm jumping across several short story collections:

- "Exhalation" by Ted Chiang - "Ficciones" by Borges - "I have no Mouth and I Must Scream" by Harlan Ellison.

I'm also slowly plowing through "The Big Book of Science Fiction" edited by Jeff and Ann Vandermeer.

I love short speculative fiction. And the above are among my favorites.

This is one of the subplots of Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die. Great film.

I don't think we understand yet the kind of world we are building.

All the small decisions we are making will shape our future: algorithmic decision making, social network broadcasting and "self-reporting", light-speed meme transmission, always-on audio and video surveillance... the list goes on and on. One day we'll wake up to see we've build a jail around us we can't escape.

Are you speaking from personal experience or do you have data to back that up? I honestly would love to see some study around this. I haven't done my research but --anecdotally-- everyone around me is ok with it or even enjoying AI to some degree. No strong stances either way tbh.

For those who would like to watch in Youtube (and save it to their playlists?):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1b9xKRC74E

Fascinating. I don't think you meant it this way, but it took me almost until the end to realize I had transposed the roles of human and ai. It made for a very interesting first read and second read.

They could be giving you a subtle hint to not send messages outside of work hours.

This is a tough one in my opinion because the content of the article is valuable. Yes while reading it i noticed several AI tells. Almost like hearing a record scratch every other paragraph. But I was interested in the content so I kept reading mostly trying to ignore the "noise". The problem I fear is that with enough AI generated content around, I will become desensitized to that record scratching. Eventually between over-exposure, those who can't recognize the tells, people copying the writing they see..., we might have to accept what might become a prevalent new style of writing.

> But at the end of the day, the last 10% always takes up 90% of the time and, as always, the difference between good enough and great is the amount of love you put into the work.

Nicely put.

I’m reading "Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage" and was surprised to find such a rich collection of original photos from the expedition.

(Title shortened to fit HN limits.)

I don't find open spaces noisier than cubicles but I am able to easily block out distracting sounds.

I am interrupted, and when I am is generally somebody giving me a useful quick update or an informal greeting from an office buddy when they notice I make welcoming eye contact.

I don't think I ever felt a lack of privacy in the office or expected it in any way? I wonder what kind of privacy I would need that the restroom doesn't cover, I'm sure there are some instances since it's been called out.

Here is where I share science-fiction short stories and flash fiction:

https://maxzsol.com/stories

About 100,000 rolls on average.

About 2.7 rolls per day for 100 years