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Tim Hortons employee won’t face criminal charges in death of customer (r/news)

• centipededamascus: Imagine finding out your grandmother died because she started a fight with the staff at a Tim Horton’s.
• RudolftheDuck: Ripped a chunk of the employee’s hair out and then put it in her purse. She took it like it was a trophy. For 75 that’s not very mature.
• MagicTheBurrito: I feel bad for the young employees. Hopefully they don’t blame themselves. The entitlement by some of the older folks are ridiculous. Especially in “customer service” settings. Source: am a server in a retirement town in Florida.

Two people are dead after a military helicopter crashes in Texas, sparking a fire (r/news)

• igetproteinfartsHELP: It was the AH-64 U.S. Army Apache attack helicopter
• IneptFortitude: This seems to be happening a little more regularly than usual
• john-know-nothing: The political comments in this thread are unhinged. I’ve worked in these Army heli units and the maintenance and operational schedules are insane. This stuff happens more than it should, yes, but the problem environment for it existed well before this administration, and the one before it as well.

People over 35: What is something you invested a massive amount of time or money into in your 20s that turned out to be a complete waste? (r/AskReddit)

• Bodgerpoo: My job at the time. I prioritised it over spending time with family. I wish I hadn’t done that.
• cantfrag: Avoiding things that made me anxious, instead of confronting them. I missed out on so much socialization and so many opportunities because of my anxiety - I started to really challenge it in my mid 20’s, but I still mourn the complete waste of lost time.
• ThatCarlosGuy: Seeing people say their hobbies are a complete waste is sad. Hobbies are what get you through day to day. That’s NOT a waste imo.

Married people of Reddit, what’s your most unhinged marriage hack? (r/AskReddit)

• pzschrek1: If your marriage is getting stale, start a feud with another couple. Nothing restores marital solidarity like having mutual enemies
• EvilAbed57: We both suck at deciding on low stakes stuff, so we have a rule. If we can’t pick a movie or show to watch within a strict 5 minutes (we literally set a timer), we have to watch Sharknado.
• needmoredoggos: [We’ve agreed that I’m the boss of him and he’s the boss of me. But only when one of us is refusing to do something for ourselves that we need to do.

For example: putting off making an appointment with the dentist? “I’m the boss of you and I say you have to call them.” Boom, gotta call the dentist, the boss said so.

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Staff is the new Senior now (Blind)

• carpet2 (Microsoft): Senior is the new Staff now*
• fish 🐠 (Lyft): Senior Staff is the new Senior actually. Staff is the new mid-level. Senior is the new entry-level. Anything below that is intern.
• gkdnwodrnn (ex-Amazon): Senior is the new staff, staff promos and interviews are harder across the board What you’re describing is 2021 Covid market where anyone was getting in as senior or staff

Being polite to LLMs (Blind)

• Maximum10! (Vanta): I am still being polite out of habit. I don’t see why you would not be. Maybe skipping a thank you or please occasionally to minimize typing, but I don’t see why anyone would try to be impolite.
• c8ycyloy (Salesforce): I’m still polite. Old habits die hard. I figure it’s fine to stay in practice lest I start being super curt to people 😂
• griwi029 (Pixar): [I am polite because it doesn’t cost me any more money or time or effort to be nice than it does to be a prick, and the latter doesn’t make it work any better. It’s how I converse normally and it’d be an effort to be rude.

I see the people whose prompts are abusive and cruel and wonder how damaged they are to be like that and I bet they would treat humans the same way if they could. Power over another shows a person’s true nature, frequently.](https://www.teamblind.com/post/being-polite-to-llms-jx0goiws#comment-51665866)

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Multiple USS Abraham Lincoln sailors have tried to go overboard amid extended deployment, families say (r/news)

• traceyh415: My father was deployed for six months with no port of call during the Cuban missile crisis. It changed him as a person. He would NEVER wait in lines, did not like confined spaces, did not really like to be around people that much. My understanding is that it was like doing a jail sentence especially the way they were isolated from outside communication.
• AstralElement: As someone who was stationed on this very ship 23 years ago on a year long deployment, I really feel for these sailors. Deployment sucks, extended deployment really sucks. Your whole life is on pause. You can’t be with your family, you often have few friends, the food is often not great and really bad watch rotations if you’re early in your Naval career. The only saving grace for me with videogames and reading. People talk about how big they are, but it gets really small really fast. You don’t really have internet, maybe some email… that’s it.
• Whatdoesthibattahndo: We’ve never had a carrier from this era deployed for this long. Things are going to break in ways we didn’t even know they could break. Normal schedule is 6 months deployed, 6 months work-up, 6 months qualification and preparation for the next deployment. USS Lincoln is probably going to need longer and some maintenance might have to be pulled forward due to increased wear without proper work.

AP Exclusive: ICE plans to give officers gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks (r/news)

• One-Environment-1444: These are good to repel people. You shock them and they want to get away. But people are already trying to get away from ICE not attack them. So these will mostly be used for holding someone down and shocking them while they are already in custody. I bet there is no way to determine when they have been used also. You watch.
• HallucinogenicFish: [The manufacturer warns the device should not be used as punishment, against people merely exhibiting “verbal defiance or belligerence” or on high-risk populations such as children, pregnant women or elderly or disabled people.

ICE agents will use this list like a bingo card.](https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1vlxppb/comment/p3555l8/)

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Sold my company, now I don’t know what to do (Blind)

• dronegirl (Amazon): Well bud you can make up for rest of it now. Congrats and enjoy.
• ulyss (Google): Get married. Get divorced. Lose everything. Start over
• p4head (Google): [You remind me of this tolstoy story - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Much_Land_Does_a_Man_Need%3F

You dont have to run anymore buddy.](https://www.teamblind.com/post/sold-my-company-now-i-dont-know-what-to-do-cj1hviz5#comment-51649155)

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Lauren Boebert’s son arrested on sexual exploitation of a child charges (r/news)

• sortasolar: [She’s a hypocrite.

The hypocrisy isn’t that Lauren Boebert has a messy family. Everybody has a messy family.

The hypocrisy is that she built a whole political brand around turning other people’s worst facts into permanent public identities: registries, panic, public shaming, “protect the children” theater (pun intended), etc.

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Meta’s BIG comeback?? Thoughts on Muse Glimmer? (Blind)

• 6666661 (Netflix): [Are you an infant? Do you lack object permanence? Do you forget everything you learn about meta mere seconds after you are exposed?

For fucks sake stop paying attention to this trash company. They participated in a genocide in Myanmar, they have stolen data, they have not had a single innovative idea since ranking the hotness of women at Harvard. They have had more layoffs than they have had successful products.

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Taylor Farms recalls salsa and guacamole over salmonella risk (r/news)

• littlepup26: Friendly reminder that you can identify Taylor Farms products by looking at the production code stamped right next to the “Best By” or expiration date on the package. Letters like TF,  TFRS, TFRB, or TFPM indicate the item was packed at a Taylor Farms facility, even on store-brand or private-label products.
• 1877KlownsForKids: Guys, I’m starting to think those boring government folks who make sure our food is safe to eat might be important.
• TheGaslighter9000X: Third fucking recall for salmonella in a week? Jesus. Walmart and Chipotle now this.

Wildfires burning in British Columbia force 20,000 to evacuate (r/news)

• Regnes: Summer in British Columbia has been dystopian the past decade. You smell the smoke in the air, you hear of the devastation caused to entire communities, you see the refugee camps and support services being setup around town, and each year you wonder if this is finally going to be it and it will be your turn to flee for your life.
• ol_lordylordy: We cancelled our week long vacation in the interior because of air quality. Its insane to be in. There was a summer a few years ago when we had to clean our picnic table of ash every morning. It sucks that planning around forest fires has become part of the process for such a beautiful part of the world
• humansomeone: So happy Carney and Smith are building a new pipeline to vancouver. Keep the oil flowing for us all. Such a help while the country burns around us.

What was considered a major sign of status 10 years ago, but is now seen as cheap, cringe, or a waste of money? (r/AskReddit)

• Kobe-62Mavs-61: It wasn’t “status” but 10 years ago I feel like podcasters needed to be a bit more professional and prepared. Now it seems like every loser you know has one and the production value is atrocious.
• sagewhat: Limos
• Leading_Emergency218: A blue checkmark

Who’s the most famous person you went to school with? (r/AskReddit)

• nkmetcalfe: My grandmother went to school with Jim Jones. I remember when I found out I asked her if they were friends or ever hung out, and she snapped back, “NO! He was weird then, too!”
• KnittingKitty: I went to college with Jim Morrison (The Doors). Yes, I’m o-l-d.
• ravenlynne: The guy who founded Khan academy was my valedictorian.

What is the WORST song you have ever heard? (r/AskReddit)

• beefstewforyou: A really bad Christian song from the 90s about cartoons getting saved.
• brittlebk: 1-877-Kars for Kidz
• GamesOfOdin: Baby Shark. Not because it’s technically the worst song ever made, but because once it gets into your head, it apparently signs a permanent lease there. 😂

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SpaceX is doing so well! Who could have ever predicted this? (Blind)

• TBjy63 (Amazon): One of the most innovative companies in the world and then some braindead rando is bullshitting on their stock… lol
• UdXw86 (Carta): SpaceX is thriving, and real investors are doing just fine. Dumb money ate some 💩 - nothing new there. I’m up 18% on SPCX and expect 100% returns long term
• wmeB00 (Oracle): It’s overvalued at IPO anyway. Will go up in the next few years if story continues. Note Meta also fell below IPO price after going public, which is normal.

OpenAI no more Leetcode (Blind)

• Twduit (Google): It’s never been LC what are you talking about? They went fully practical a while ago. I can share the general prep material if you’re down to compare notes.
• insideball (JPMorganChase): Glad to see Leetcode die. Finally.
• abcxyz420 (Google): OpenAI has never done leetcode interviews

MIT students are dropping out of Computer Science (Blind)

• DarkMAGA (LinkedIn): Honestly, the better major is probably applied math, electrical engineering, or data science. something actually rooted in real engineering not just coding.
• out of (ByteDance): Kids are dumb and easily swayed by hype and propaganda.
• code4lyfe: It makes sense. What is the point of a cs degree with you can ask codex to do everything? And I’m sure most students are doing exactly that. Your degree becomes a joke.

San Francisco “AI” chatbot revealed to be one man manually answering every prompt, reaching 5,000 queries an hour. (r/technology)

• Quenz: Human: Become Detroit
• lazyhustlermusic: Reminds me of all of those articles like the Amazon Go stores.
• Donnicton: tldr it’s the guy’s art piece and does not actually cost anything unless you sign up for the “pro” tier which is made clear is a useless tier and is just to support his art.

Anthropic is turning Claude Code’s auto mode on by default (r/technology)

• agm1984: I only use auto mode with dangerously skip permissions
• kir_rik: Well, unfortunately it’s unusable the other way. I’ve wrote a hook that bans python and node completely. Permissions list just broken for months and they never fixed it
• Exponential-777: Claude needs to learn how to use less words. Example. The solution to my issue is very simple. I need to change a typo in code on line 888 from kButtFloss to kbuttFloss. Instead Claude insists on telling me how that typo wrecked 20 things downstream with elaborate detail. He will write 1000 words and sometimes not even include the solution.

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A 2-year-old at the center of a Texas brain-death dispute is taken off life support and dies (r/news)

• lilsqueakyone: Google Jahi McMath. That was a crazy situation. She was declared brain dead, but her parents refused to accept it. She has 2 death certificates 4 years apart.
• comefromawayfan2022: It’s sad that a two year old died. But I think we all knew that this was the outcome all along. That poor child died the day she drowned
• commandrix: I feel bad for the 2-year-old. Sure, you want to give the kid every chance to recover if recovery is at all reasonably possible. But at some point, you’ll do better to admit that there’s no point in keeping a brain-dead husk alive.

Child standing in seat and refusing a seatbelt cancels flight from Victoria, airline says (r/news)

• JurgusRudkus: Something very similar happened to me on a flight from PDX to LAX when my twins were 2.5. I was traveling alone with them and the entire journey was exhausting. On departure my son didn’t want to sit down in his seat and the flight attendant made clear that if he didn’t, the flight wouldn’t take off. So I had to literally strong arm him into his seat and PIN him down while he was screaming like he was being boiled in oil. It was the single suckiest moment of my life as a parent thus far but there was no way in hell I was going to let my child disrupt an entire plane full of people.
• succsforever: Every parent who has had a grouchy traveler child will read this and say “well, I’m not doing so bad”
• ninjplus: victoria sub has people who were on the flight talking about it. The girl was around 3 and they wasted an hour trying to get the child to stay in her seat while the runway was set to close soon. Totally idiotic on all levels. Dipshit useless parents who are fully to blame and crew members who should have turned around early enough to kick the family off so the rest of the passengers could get to their destinations. I would have been pissed.

What is a dark or unethical industry secret that you can finally share because you no longer work there? (r/AskReddit)

• lawlesstoast: The shear amount of mice present in long term care facilities. The city I live in, I have worked multiple sites. All have infestations they cannot control.
• Grim1067: The major cell carriers are pure profit in terms of the actual service. Most just don’t manage the infrastructure well on a regular basis. And most executive relations teams will just about give you what you ask for as a “one time exception”
• Cuddarfish: Not really “dark” but the markup you’re paying on prescription eyewear is absolutely criminal. Lenses + frames is a few dollars worth of materials.

Redditors who lost their spouse, what secret did you find out after their passing? (r/AskReddit)

• Dry_Clothes7489: My husband was conning gay men out of money via romance scams…
• daffodil-tears: Not me but my mom. She looked in my dad’s nightstand and found a little bag of white powder. Suddenly, all the little straws she’d found in his laundry made more sense.
• prunepicker: Ex-spouse. He had an affair while we were dating (1972), which resulted in a son, born three months before our wedding. I found out two years ago.

Medical workers, what is the scariest thing you have ever heard a patient say? (r/AskReddit)

• AlaskaTech1: I work in traveling eye care. When I was up in the Alaska bush, I saw a 21 year old patient who came with her 2 year old baby for an eye exam. She told me she became blind in her left eye when her boyfriend (notice I didn’t say ex) got drunk and punched her so hard he detached her retina. I was stunned and my face showed it. She then said, “Don’t worry. Everything is better. He’s nice to me now.”
• belfry_bat: Behavioral health patient once said to me “I’m a vegetarian because otherwise I would eat people.”
• quiksilver2101: Had a 2 vehicle head-on collision I responded to. Both occupants in one car seemed ok, then the driver says his back hurts. I asked what the pain felt like, and he said it felt like burning, almost like something was tearing…not too long after that he tanked very quickly and that was it..

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My coworkers talk like LLMS (Blind)

• XrLz00: Sooner or later that’s how everyone will be communicating. Get used to it. Adapt, Improvise, Overcome.
• boredddddd (Microsoft): I have a PM who always starts response with “you are right” whenever I confront him
• ImYourMgr (Amazon): My lead gave me feedback that is so blatantly AI generated that I almost got offended before I realized it just validated how stupid I knew they are for thinking anyone wouldn’t notice

I got my first offer after being laid off but the pay is really low (Blind)

• ktgD25 (Google): I would accept and keep looking. Better some income in the meantime than none…
• FauxAI (Microsoft): Yes just keep looking. If a company offers you shot pay, they shouldn’t expect you to stick around
• godandme (Capital One): What did you do for 360k in your previous role? If you don’t mind. I am asking this to prep myself to reach there. I can’t suggest you anything, since you seem to be doing the right thing.

Are the newest models really better than opus 4.6 for coding? (Blind)

• oshiokiyo (ServiceNow): They’re better at being agents: taking multiple actions, testing, fixing, looking at the rest of the codebase, etc.
• ClaudeCide (DoorDash): I think Fable is genuinely better than 4.6 but 4.7-5 are regressions. GPT models are far better than Opus now.
• pantaloon (NewRelic): Opus 5 is so bad I break my brain trying to understand why they released it

Amazon secretly circumvents community vote for massive AI data center using 45-year-old rules — Gilroy residents locked out of public comment window (r/technology)

• TheFatalOneTypes: Lets see how upset people really are, then :)
• AvailableReporter484: It’s a shame that there are no severe consequences for politicians and corporations that deceive and undermine the general public. I feel like France had some good ideas on this topic back in the day 🤔
• That_Jicama2024: Interesting. They’re not locked out of burning it down and sabotaging it for its entire existence though, are they?

AI creates 16 new viruses that never existed in nature after learning DNA pattern from 9 trillion nucleotides experts warn such applications are way ahead of necessary guardrails (r/technology)

• traveleasily: Cyberdene systems.
• philodendrin: How long until a virus is created for the sole purpose of selling its cure?
• HeartoftheHive: Oh sweet, manmade horrors beyond our comprehension.