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Hours of PTO?

Sure, you did a great job on that last project, we've added 8 hours of PTO for you. No, you can't take it any time soon, we're far too busy for you to take any time off

What if you have "unlimited" PTO

First step is to stop living a lie. Maybe there's someone who prefers "unlimited" PTO, but I think most would rather know the real limits.

See "unlimited" data offered by mobile carriers a decade or two ago. (Is that still going on?)


FWIW at this job I don't feel like PTO days are a limitation. The limitation is my ability to plan and execute well, and I appreciate the flexibility of not having to deal w/ counting or thinking in terms of days in that way.

Yeah, that's fair.

I have a prescribed quantity of vacation. To be honest, I never think about it either, because I have more than I use. I guess when I leave, I'll get it paid out? Or take a 4 month vacation when I leave? I'd probably announce my intent to do that. In any case, I'm comforted by knowing that there is some quantity. But I guess I'm undercutting my own point here. PTO is probably not that motivating to me either.

I guess I don't know.


> I guess when I leave, I'll get it paid out?

yeah in my opinion this is the big question on whether you're getting screwed by unlimited PTO. But I don't manage other aspects of my finances so tightly, so it's kind of an "eh" for me.

> PTO is probably not that motivating to me either.

Yep, same here...


I read it a different way. There's less upside to an LLM being "honest", since they're already making false statements regardless of intent. They're already non-trustworthy. So there's less to lose by being marketing channels.

I don't know what's inside, but I see a car with an EV1 body around my city. I only ever see it parked, not driving, but it's not always parked in the same spot, so I guess it must drive some time.

I know it's intended to be dismissive, but I would appreciate the choice.

Even if the new model that came out last week totally fixed all the problems this time for real, most people's experience with chatbots is that they are prone to misunderstanding or making false statements. "Hallucinations"

I have yet to experience any degree of confidence in any output from an LLM, so I'd rather leave the message. I don't know how common this point of view is.


Within a few years people will be accustomed to the idea of AI chatbots selling them stuff and it will be obvious then too. The first time paid placements appeared in a catalog, it was probably also not obvious then.

catalog ads are labeled. "what's the best something I can buy?" is begging for unlabeled ads that go against your interest. if you literally cannot tell between ad and not ad, you can't skip to actual results, it's useless.

We're talking about music coming from a phone. Not a person. Just turn the phone off or uninstall tiktok. Or put it in your bag.

"Just following orders"

Pretty much. But the outcome being a bunch of emails and court action instead of like, genocide.

Totally unrelated to this post. Get a grip.

Rolling coal can be useful in theory, for pissing people off. As intended.

Why would anyone play chess in 2010? The drawbridge is rapidly being raised on human competitiveness.

The vast majority of programming languages ever created never aspired to win and I don't think that's going to change now.


I used to live in Marshfield WI. It's kind of jarring to see it mentioned "in the real world", the the extent that HN resembles that.

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