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by asciimov 11mo ago
Ford needs to step up, if it can’t find mechanics. Pay is too low for entry level people, at maybe $14 an hour. That’s before the Snap-on Truck comes by and saddles that tech with $40k of debt. Give entry level workers a living wage, and gi
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by asciimov 11mo ago
Grants are given to those that can make the mundane seem new and exciting.
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by asciimov 11mo ago
What is your favorite Firefox alternative?
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by asciimov 1y ago
Are you looking for an ide experience or just a text editor with some options? If a full IDE is what you are seeking go with DOOM. It will give you a fully put together experience. If you just want a text editor that you want to slowly add
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by asciimov 1y ago
I’m really surprised at the numerous comments here admonishing the use of box mix. For most Americans, we don’t do enough baking to warrant having flour and leaveners on hand. It’s just cheaper and more efficient to buy the box mix under $2
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by asciimov 1y ago
For Judith it’s about the nostalgia of being a girl and having her mother make these cookies with this method. Judith’s mom was likely over-worked and buying a box was a timesaver. Who cares if it’s not “properly” made?
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by asciimov 1y ago
Not sure the last time you went on reddit, but I wouldn't be surprised if around 20% of posts and comments there are LLM generated.
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by asciimov 1y ago
That’s both easy to game and will filter out candidates that don’t have work to show.
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by asciimov 1y ago
Our world is burdened with SEO filler, AI slop, writers who shouldn't or worse can't, the summary is all you have to see if something is worth going further than the title. tl;dr- Write better, stop abusing the privilege of our ti
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by asciimov 1y ago
> on the other, hours long podcasts, Netflix documentaries, and one-person YouTube videos on esoteric subjects are all quite popular. There's no lack of demand for longform content, but it's mostly not writing. Those are all th
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by asciimov 1y ago
And why I still use paper. Hard drives die, and I don't expect any one to be going through them when I'm gone. Paper on the other hand they at least will pick it up to throw away, likely flipping through it just to look for anythi
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by asciimov 1y ago
I'll be curious of the long term impacts of AI. Such as: do you end up spending more time to find and fix issues, does AI use reduce institutional knowledge, will you be more inclined to start projects over from scratch.
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by asciimov 1y ago
My family had a '79 Thunderbird that was our main driver from 91-97. I haven't seen any of them on the road in over a decade. I have several memories of that car. - The water pump going out, as we drove up a mountain, and rolling
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by asciimov 1y ago
I agree, if your linked pc wasn't from aliexpress it would be a compelling alternative. Not that these n100 mini-pcs are any better, but I can get one tomorrow off amazon for under $150. I do think they bridge the server gap between us
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by asciimov 1y ago
There are nvme to sata adaptors. It’s a little janky with these as you’ll need to leave a cover off to have access to the ports.
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by asciimov 1y ago
The selling point for the people in the Plex community is the N100/N150 include Intel’s Quicksync which gives you video hardware transcoding without a dedicated video card. It’ll handle 3 to 4 4K transcoded streams. There are several s
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by asciimov 1y ago
I have a nice garden going right now. TAM Jalapeños have taken the longest to flower, almost thought they wouldn’t. Sweet cherry peppers have been plentiful. Lost my zucchini crop to squash vine borers.
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by asciimov 1y ago
> What bugs me is the absolute tunnel vision of "for principled reasons I must find this thing completely and utterly bad, no matter what". AI companies also only sell the public on the upside of these technologies. Behind clos
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by asciimov 1y ago
Great, tell that to someone who spent years honing their skills that it's too bad the rug was pulled out from beneath you, time to start over from the bottom again. Maybe there would be merit to this notion if society provided the nece
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by asciimov 1y ago
Maybe we have a different Google AI down here in south Texas, but the Google search AI results I receive are laughably bad. It has made up tags for cli functions, suggested nonexistent functions with usage instructions, it’s given me operat
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by asciimov 1y ago
For the past 10 years we have been telling everyone learn to code, now it’s learn to build AI prompts. Before a poor kid with a computer access could learn to code nearly for free, but if it costs $1k just to get started with AI that poor k
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by asciimov 1y ago
It would only be interesting if the problem was truly novel. If the AI has already been trained on the problem it’ll just push out a solution.
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by asciimov 1y ago
Out of curiosity how much are you spending on AI? How much do you believe a programmer needs to layout to “get good”?
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by asciimov 1y ago
How are those without that kind of scratch supposed to keep up with those that do?
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by asciimov 1y ago
Of course Sony was, because they own the patent for it. The reason other labels, and most cd units, don’t use CD-Text is companies don’t want to pay for the license.
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by asciimov 1y ago
I’m all for a new design esthetic, even if they have to iterate it a few times to improve usability.
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by asciimov 1y ago
Can’t wait to be told, “You’re viewing it wrong.” /s But yes, terrible visual usability. Otherwise it looks nice, better than flat.
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by asciimov 1y ago
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. I don't have to prove that the LLM can't reason. The claims that they can have yet to be proven.
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by asciimov 1y ago
I include a bag of assorted dice in my Catan set My two house rules are: 1. 2 dice are pulled from the bag at random. If dice are too similar for the Cities and Knights expansion, pull another die. 2. First 7 is re-rolled until not a 7. I h
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by asciimov 1y ago
The dice deck has a perfect bell curve of dice rolls, this means the same number of 6’s and 8’s, 4’s and 10’s. If you go on a tear you can pull most of the 6’s from the deck in short order, a flood. Making it difficult or impossible to pull

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