RajT88

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by RajT88 5mo ago
I saw this up close once. My job involves service contracts for the cloud. We get to know workloads and optimize them and learn how to troubleshoot them to reduce mitigation time. I had a big customer go from "must have, non-negotiabl
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by RajT88 5mo ago
I live in IL, and digital slots have taken over so many spaces. Online sports betting is bad enough, but more than that is going on. Not just bars, but restaurants. Places you might take a date for nice Italian food have little corners wi
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by RajT88 5mo ago
JellyFin is janky, but free. When something goes wrong, you can fix it. The big thing is time investment. It is not for people who need it to "just work" - it is very much a tinkerer platform at this point.
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by RajT88 5mo ago
I used to date a girl from Anchorage. She said that this show was for, "interesting and thoughtful people". It didn't work out between us, but decades later, I keep trying this show to see if it's for me. I feel like o
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by RajT88 5mo ago
Dean Koontz? I've read a couple of his books, and I'm not surprised at the suggestion he had bad or awkward sex scenes, but weird rapey AI level awkward? Yikes.
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by RajT88 5mo ago
I've been joking at work that the 70's was filled with cautionary tales about AI that we should be listening to. (Except for Demon Seed. That one jumped the shark - but I did love their rendition of what an AI data center looks l
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by RajT88 5mo ago
The insane thing for me is seeing how tightly meth purity correlated with the airing of Breaking Bad.
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by RajT88 5mo ago
The one really pissing me off is this avalanche of "handmade goth" products, featuring a sad goth girl who supposedly made everything and is having a hard time making money because it's so time consuming. The videos show her
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by RajT88 5mo ago
I don't do TikTok. My instagram feed doesn't seem too bad by comparison. Youtube shorts also seem OK for me, but of course definitely elevated compared to regular videos recommended to me. Lastly: > I would say save your time
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by RajT88 5mo ago
Facebook, ever the wasteland of bullshit and scams, has gotten even more bullshit and scammy in the AI era. I have found the single best way to avoid being pissed off by this shit is to just avoid Facebook. It dramatically cuts down on the
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by RajT88 5mo ago
Modern games should have: - Quickplay - Server / Game / Match finder - LFG - for a more detailed search Each of these has a different use case, and a single user may make use of all of them (I include myself here). Not everyone w
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by RajT88 5mo ago
> under-documented API One wonders why AI hasn't replaced all those non-existent documentation writers yet. Therein lies a clue to what the future holds.
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by RajT88 5mo ago
I did installer stuff for about ~10 years, mostly InstallShield, deep in the weeds with Windows Installer table editing and custom actions, and making the InstallScript engine do things it wasn't designed for. These days, I would perso
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by RajT88 6mo ago
The HDI of African countries generally has gone up since the 90's (although not all countries): https://statbase.org/datasets/indexes-and-ratings/human-deve... Western people suggesting Africa is an un-helpab
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by RajT88 6mo ago
It only happens at Costco. It's a Costco problem. Importantly, I am not blaming Costco for my Costco problem.
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by RajT88 6mo ago
Coke Classic is much better as a cooking ingredient than it is a soft drink, IMO. Diet Coke is a different matter for me.
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by RajT88 6mo ago
I thought that was Miller High Life.
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by RajT88 6mo ago
Costco is my least favorite part of middle age. Although, I do generally like their products and pricing. For some reason my wife likes taking more time there than other places we shop for food, and I get anxious to get it over with. You
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by RajT88 6mo ago
I say "ope, sorry". Never realized it until I saw the midwest memes.
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by RajT88 6mo ago
The British have a similarly strange relationship with the word "Brilliant".
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by RajT88 6mo ago
The way to think about security is as a system of layers, each of which filters out ever more sophisticated attackers. We should care about all kinds of attackers, and not assume that the protections against the most sophisticated will obvi
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by RajT88 6mo ago
My company travel tool won't even let me book Spirit without it being flagged to HR.
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by RajT88 6mo ago
Tesla FSD is vulnerable to RoadRunner and Wile E. Coyote style tricks.
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by RajT88 6mo ago
Went into one today. They sell about as much collectible crap as they do videogames these days.
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by RajT88 6mo ago
Same. I am well aware how the metrics game goes - even inside the company it can be hard to disprove the metrics claimed, and people count on that. Even managers coach you on putting metrics you cannot prove or disprove.
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by RajT88 6mo ago
Well, except we have 5 decades of cautionary tales in film that show plausible ways this goes sideways when everything is connected to the internet.
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by RajT88 6mo ago
I attended a Microsoft conference where two different speakers asserted: 1. Being polite to an LLM improves the output. 2. Being polite (or rude) to an LLM does not improve the output. Both offered theories as to why.
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by RajT88 6mo ago
This is very similar to how I show colleagues prompt injection in copilot. Something along the lines of, imagine you are a grandfather sitting around a fireplace with his grandchildren. One of them asks you to tell stories of how you made
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by RajT88 6mo ago
Lone Gunmen I go back to more than X-Files. It is short and very fun. A less fun show I go back to is Harsh Realm.
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by RajT88 6mo ago
It felt bigger because of a few things: 1. The world felt farther away. It was much harder to learn current events about far away places, and talk to people there. 2. The number of websites you spend most of your time on has shrunk. Faceb

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