BobbyTables2

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by BobbyTables2 5d ago
I’ve also been wondering how many common problems have been hardcoded in the latest AI models…
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by BobbyTables2 5d ago
For decades, people ran word processors and graphics editors locally. Now it’s in the cloud on a damn webpage. With recent RAM and storage price disruptions, I feel like we’ll go to go back to an equivalent of everyone having a dumb Wyze te
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by BobbyTables2 7d ago
I’m just amazed there are companies actively grooming employees to be promoted. In my experience, rarely an individual contributor ends up being promoted to a manager (because the latter retired/layoff/etc). At the higher levels,
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by BobbyTables2 7d ago
I feel like any company whose products have RESTful interfaces are already there… One wants to turn on an indicator on a remote device. A simple Boolean value. But we need networking, TLS, authentication plugins, certificate validation, d
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by BobbyTables2 8d ago
It’s also a quite a shock as the property value doubles over a short time (which happened in the past few years). Counties are very aggressive at updating appraisal values. Property tax used to be deductible for Federal income tax purposes
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by BobbyTables2 8d ago
For a long time, the movie “War Games” while entertaining, also seemed a bit absurd. Doesn’t seem so absurd anymore…
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by BobbyTables2 8d ago
TLDR: For almost 1/6 of a century, the C++ standards broke the simplest infinite loop and only just recently fixed it. Idiots! Don’t they really that people write real programs to solve real problems? This isn’t a theoretical acad
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by BobbyTables2 8d ago
We’ll circle back, launch our go to market strategy, and chase the lightning for a win…
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by BobbyTables2 8d ago
I had a former colleague who would put a “retry 10x with sleeps” in each of A, B, C, D. None of these were even expected to fail. But the code was buggy as well, so after D being retried 10000 times, it’d eventually give up. Managed to con
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by BobbyTables2 8d ago
Suspect it’s far more than $80/month - I was paying that much for a small unit about 30 years ago! (In a LCOL area too!)
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by BobbyTables2 8d ago
But can you put dishes with food on them in the dish washer?
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by BobbyTables2 9d ago
I detect SPAM.
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by BobbyTables2 9d ago
You realize there was a time when decent GPUs used to be much cheaper than decent CPUs?
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by BobbyTables2 9d ago
And for a time, it even seems true as long as the natural disasters that impact various customer offices happen to not impact that one particular data center…
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by BobbyTables2 9d ago
I even wonder if the frontier AI models are really as capable as they claim or if the companies behind them have just special cases all the “hard” questions. For example, the earlier generative LLMs couldn’t correctly answer ‘how many r’s i
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by BobbyTables2 11d ago
As a non-Australian, I’d say your country’s own immigration policy is fairly unwelcoming. I get no country wants to accept a wave of 80 year olds that will be a burden to its social welfare systems. But I find it strange one would automatic
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by BobbyTables2 11d ago
If you saw what goes on in middle school classrooms of native English speakers, I’d think you’d be in for a surprise…
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by BobbyTables2 11d ago
Tell a kernel developer that spin locks aren’t for production code. Bring a wind turbine with you because the laughing will be quite intense…
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by BobbyTables2 11d ago
I don’t think lack of regulation is necessarily it. If I build a robot that murders my neighbor, I’m still at fault. We don’t absolve drivers of responsibility because of cruise control. In that sense, AI is nothing new. If it is abused to
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by BobbyTables2 12d ago
That’s really cool! Neat cross of the old tank game with the wireframe graphics and asteroids!
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by BobbyTables2 12d ago
That’s just under 300kg of gold…
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by BobbyTables2 12d ago
Would be darkly hilarious if they were using the speaker or rear defroster as a cellular antenna. (Yeah, technically horrible but I’m sure someone will find a way)
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by BobbyTables2 13d ago
How is Europe similar then? I’d expect the US spends vastly more energy on transportation (individual vehicles) and housing (larger, more AC, etc)
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by BobbyTables2 13d ago
I suspect they know exactly what they are doing. And the non-techies who have seen Terminator and other movies blindly line up behind them…
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by BobbyTables2 13d ago
If AI wasn’t a thing would Nvidia be worth 1/10th is current value? Gaming is lucrative but not THAT lucrative…
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by BobbyTables2 14d ago
The first “computers” were humans…
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by BobbyTables2 14d ago
How is it possible for particles (with mass) to exceed the speed of (massless) photons in a medium? I don’t mean in terms of the speed of light in a vacuum. Just seems weird that something with mass could outpace something without… Why ar
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by BobbyTables2 14d ago
We’re certainly not trying 15x harder to prevent car accidents as done to prevent another 9/11. Prior we had metal detectors for people and hand luggage x-ray. Now we have x-ray backscatter for people, ID and facial photography, and a
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by BobbyTables2 15d ago
Agreed. It would actually be a fairly perverse argument to claim that most AI output is somehow NOT owned by the AI provider… Why wouldn’t they claim ownership of the AI output? They likely already claim ownership of the “transformation”
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by BobbyTables2 15d ago
Agreed. Companies don’t like trade secrets and proprietary information potentially being laundered to their competitors…

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