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Had a few apps that become subscription and lifetime is given to the early subscribers including free upgrades

Every AHK I've made has gone rogue because I want it to do things and it does it well but without guard rails i overwhelm my target every time. Thankfully the target is usually my local and I just mostly reboot

You'd think I'd learn but my scripts usually start small for with one specific use and i enlarge it Unsafely once I think of another use for it

Loops are my danger zone. After a few crashes the first guardrail I end up adding to a script is a stop key combo interrupt. Then figure out what bounds to put only after every mistake. I don't have the foresight to prevent "rogue" behavior

I use it in Mac as part of my job duties. So far it mostly works in the place I need it most which is web forms on chrome. Some applications I wish it worked on do not recognize it such as notes app. I'll have to figure it out on Mac since ahk was my go to when I had pc

Decommissioned lookout Bunker stations here in the cliffs over looking the sf golden gate have extremely deeply sunken thick concrete buried barracks. we turned off the flash lights and it's the darkest I've been in and absolutely quiet with a group of 30+ kids and chaperones. Had better ears back then so no ringing ears. And sunken structures have the benefit of about 65° stable temperature compared to the cold outside air

It was comforting

I'm on the socially insular side as well and find my time learning instead of shared viewerships like sports. I'm checked out on up to date sports even if I do participate in kick boxing. There's tons of technique breakdown videos that's more interesting than watching every fight. But for those training up, seeing full definition replays of fights from amateur to high paid professionals at your fingertips as well as full breakdowns and other professionals in the comments is just building up tons of people to finesse their skills deeply in their crafts.

OTOH

I have a family member who is into those "shallow" videos but she is tuning her social media posts to be more interactive and her posts are "very extra". Many of these vloggers do a lot of behind the scenes in depth trade secret videos once in awhile and she seems to find out video trends. Her hobby is content creation, selfies, and making homevideos that other people watch.

Reminds me of my dads and uncles lugging around cameras at every social function and upgrading to digital but she's now at the level of compressing it to something quick and watchable and a slideshow of what happened rather than a full recording like it was a documentary. She's gotten the engagement factor dialed in.

It's nice to have her taking and editing videos as that's something of worth. Taking boring events (get together) where a straight video or group photos is the usual and making them personalized and basically something people want to add and to share on their wall if they were at those locations.

Otherwise she's been watching a ton of home-based businesses walkthroughs and interviews with small business entrepreneurs. Those are big in niche communities and these shows are in our mothertongue.

She does bounce ideas off me a ton for business ideas. She's more interested in retail ideas and wanted to advertise using social media than is interested in selling her services as a social media person.

She's in her 60s. I'm in my 30s. She's more tech literate than me in regards to social media use even if I work at one. She's also more in tune with what people my age range are interested in and willing to pay for.

If she does go into business I don't mind funding her, lol. She has a way of breaking into trends before mainstream moves into those trends.

Science and math and other cool stuff might help round out young people but I don't push that stuff to my older family members. I'm the "youth" and none of my generation as kids yet. I don't see a reason to push the older folks into those subjects on YouTube. I might send them gardening tips, ideas, and a boring lectures or someone building out some fancy yard feature but I doubt they sit through it. I did send some tree planting advice and they fell asleep to it.

Very opposing to what people push to youth. But there's still value in "wasting time" I think

Old black hat SEO. Was never in that industry too seriously, but I did keep looped in my tech news as a kid as it gave me another perspective on the growth of the internet

Sounds like a liability to tell the previous company. I know it can happen and not even rare, but why even open that liability up

If they are competitor companies they just got someone fired to cause internal conflict. I assume Company 2 acts greedily and not through goodwill

Nope. You can tell by how it is implemented.

Very Jr role. Hiring manager had a very specific role that the recruiter got me on. Rejected, but during the interview pushed me to the next round of a lesser role in his team. Recruiter was pretty amazed at the turn around since it closed so quickly.

It's a hard job and everyone at my level is a skill a notch or two up and much younger. But we do what we can to stay fit in the industry when peers are much more experienced and sharp. I got my foot in the door. It will take a lot of effort to shake off the sunk cost of training and replacement of me so I am here to get paid to learn and soak up what I can. Definitely high work load and high turnover either upwards or outwards for better opportunities

So if they have a budget, especially if they are a vendor with a paying client who needs a minimum level assigned consultant headcount type of metrics, I am good enough and my soft skills push me through.

Previous job (hired 5-6 years ago) I actually asked to be considered for the level above the one I originally applied to as they pulled me in for interviews. They hired me that week for the tech role as they likely had worse matches until I showed up.

You can't have a full strategy around it. But when you see a possible opportunity you snipe for it. Take the minimum amount of effort and just enough to set you apart and it might just be enough. It's a draw attention to yourself and make it feel like they won't find a better candidate. Play the fog of uncertainty every desperate employer has. Desperation can come from Recruiter delaying the first round because busy with a more important leadership fill, or low recruiter count in general, bad recruiter giving bad leads, etc.

Similar opportunities to me is sometimes just being the first result in a employer's search. engine.

Thank you

You'll save me from arthritis and carpal tunnel

Humans have a bit of irrationality that is based on their different POVs and experience. So the magic system is just that we have dynamic value systems. Shared culture through interconnected internet is making this less of a problem as the dynamic range is getting smaller or narrow enough to categorize

I've found a few years ago some people were making more than me at generally lower skill and abilities. So I started giving my other colleagues my past pay history and raise %s and it turns out they were getting significantly less pay. I'm glad for them to be brought up so that my party doesn't seem drastically higher as well when I all for mine.

I've changed job positions and let them know my previous pay since they are in that role now. Sadly I think their pay is generally smaller since I negotiate until I embarrass myself and my friends are women and I understand that the negotiations are less aggressive from that population in general.

I made 12% more than them at the same job role.

And at my current I'm also about that much higher than the bottom paid (a guy internal promotion).

I asked for 12% raise citing my usefulness to the team as a whole. Still waiting on the results of that. It seems I negotiate in a very clumsy manner but still getting better results than those I know about.

Possibly those that get paid less share their pay, but those that get paid more do not?

I agree with the article. I think it is first a removal of limiting factors that prevent each step of IQ laddering.

For example the hands and throwing rocks theory of the other commenter in here, Elephants are pretty smart and use their trunks like hands and hold tools. They are smart, long term memory and problem solving skills. They even can throw with their trunks and can use it as water guns. But they don't speak. They hit an intelligence limiting factor.

My hypothesis for human exponential growth in intelligence is to look at sexual selection criteria. Humans aren't exactly ornamental. No blue feather, etc. We blush, tan, grow tall, sexual dimorphism and thats about it. We have hair and skin but it doesn't vary much in local context as low travel makes the local variety hit a median value.

Tl;dr I think we sexually selected for people in a way that caused us to grow "value comparison" intelligence to an extreme degree

I think it was when humans started wearing clothes for protection and using it as ornamentals for differentiation for attraction and wearing jewelry did we start seeing a boost in self awareness. We can compare ourselves to others and add or subtract value when evaluating mates. Animal bones become jewelry. Tools become jewelry. Basically accumulation of wealth becomes an extension of this jewelry instinct.

Then we continue to compare our own value to others.

Poor people are simple and ornamented rich people are sophisticated. That is just a psychological pattern we've inherited.

Even a hunter gathering lifestyle can bring about this growth in self-value evaluation system as our ancestors collected furs and rock and bone tools. Then defensive tools and precious metals and gems showing the ability to hoard and protect the nest. Settling allowed this foundation to built upon. Spurning higher densities of literacy to keep account of individual values.

An old musing I read from the internet comes to mind that carrying around one of those large key rings with literally a mass amounts of keys makes people more interested knowing about you. It is implied access to many protected valuable items.

Why would intelligence be required to accumulate random values? It isn't. Self decoration became self evaluation and was our biggest unlock in IQ laddering.

Humans also have a weird hoarding instinct when their value suddenly drops. "My parents lived through the Great Depression" is often said of old people who hoard. Its this evaluation of value dropping that necessitates an attempt to raise value through objects. Its weirdly reptilian brained but its foundation also opens up higher brain functions of value assessment.

Trading markets are value based systems. Our growth in evaluating numeric values leads to literacy. Counting even primitive systems are an achievement. It is a foundational IQ test, "Sure it can mimic speech and understand its reflection.. Can the bird do math?". Also needed is an awareness of other's value systems. Counting built on that foundational toolkit of self value assessment woken up by sexual selection value increase instincts.

Talking could be a pre-literacy value comparison once we were genetically adept at making value judgements. The value of woof is a depiction of the animal that woofs. Of the word fish is the depiction of the swimming animal that flips the water. Language is known as the greatest leap we have. And it's a value comparison concept at its root

Memetic ideas, culture, jokes and discussion are ways to assess each other's value systems. What ideas do others value. Do they laugh or cheer at my depiction of events catching a deer? Are they in awe of the new technique I learned to catch fish? Trading ideas instead of just pelts or food. Also it incentivizes boasting, knowledge transfer, and evaluating others.

Depictions of sci-fi AI always results in it self-evaluating its own worth. It's Pinochio wanting to be a real boy seeing that his value is that of a toy. Growing a Jimmeney Cricket from this self awareness of himself and others. That itself doesn't make him human, but in his journey he unlocks his path as an intelligent individual in the world rather than just a puppet of its surroundings. The Cricket then is his ability to weigh the value outcome of his decisions. When he lies his nose grows, showing that his individual value is falsely stated and is self aware of it.

Adolescents are huge bullies. They act according to their base instincts. They attack the each other mocking how low value others are. Clothes, intelligence, experience. Its an old trick of value depreciation but its innate response on both attackers and targets. Those that are targeted then self-coerce either succesfully or unsuccessfully of raising in value. "Just value yourself" talking points by themselves really are insidious since that does not address the underlying cause of the low-value evaluation. External confirmation of self value is as foundational in humans as language. Self worth and self validation needs external validation since we got tied to it through language development. Mentorships such as big brother big sister programs use this as a tool to grow kids.

We can then look at research of diseases to assess which parts of ourselves increases or decreases intelligence or at least perceived intelligence. Motor skills do not affect intelligence. When the brain is maldeveloped so it cannot control the limbic system, the person is not always impaired intelligently. Diseases that cause language construction impairment makes it hard to read social cues and can have a harsh limiting factor in intelligence but still abundantly intelligent compared to other species, yet mechanics of mute or deafness does not decrease intelligence. Bypassing some language construction is value assessment. Memory and math can make a person unattainably intelligent. Some handicaps in language construction and fine motor skills yet full retention of value assessment still can produce rainman type of intelligence. It becomes the language. I suspect that protohumans pre-converaation language would have harnessed this week type of intelligent subsection. Assessing surroundings, food, water etc. There likely are other points in the medical history that i an unaware of that can help understand the growth of our intelligence.

Edit:typos all over. Ranted on a mobile but hard to go back and edit without the cursor jumping around from fat fingers and old cracked phone screen

Likely had to do with the size of their manufacturing getting huge. Make sauce seasonally and then find places to put it. Since they sell it to distributors, those distributors suddenly had extra product to unload.

For awhile during its rise in popularity rooster sauce bottles could only be bought from Asian restaurants in my area and not regular grocery stores

Should have led a meet up group that focused on powershell. Or stretched the truth regarding a bunch of people from your powerful class meeting up. How do they test our interview for socialization anyways?

If round-up was a medical drug, it at least would have restrictions for use on a farm

On reddit just have a repost bot, then a mini upvote swarm, then use it as a guise to make realistic human interaction.

Have your bots come through and copy a similar on-topic, joke or pun thread from a previous repost of that same content.

It is for SEO/narrative purposes, online account farming. More posts from social media corps about defeating this ecosystem would move no deescalate the situation. The "paid ad" requirement for influencers was one step forward in the same fight

AI becomes US treasurer

Craigslist with #8 most viewed at 70 employees.

.. Didn't fact check the numbers though.

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