bobjordan

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by bobjordan 1y ago
You can change "software" to "hardware" and this is still an all too common viewpoint, even for engineers that should know better.
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by bobjordan 1y ago
Working for my own companies 15 years now, I can say I enjoy it as I have long stretches of being able to mostly work on technical things and projects I enjoy. However, this lifestyle takes becoming comfortable with a level of uncertainty t
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by bobjordan 1y ago
I got frustrated with the new o3-pro mode today. I just wasted a few hours of my day waiting 15-20 minutes for answers that were totally out of line with the workflow I've had since the first o1-pro model came out. It's a complete
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by bobjordan 1y ago
Thanks for the call out on this model! I have 42gb usable VRAM on my ancient (~10yrs old) quad-sli titan-x workstation and have been looking for a model to balance large context window with output quality. I'm able to run this model wi
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by bobjordan 1y ago
I had to call it a day and cancel this year. Yearly sub approaching $700 per year just to open photoshop files a few times per year and maybe edit a pdf file? Fk it I’ll find another way.
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by bobjordan 2y ago
I'm an American that owns/operates a design and manufacturing company -- we build customer products in China and export to USA buyers. Let's say we build the customer product and sell it to them for $20 ex-works China. That m
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by bobjordan 2y ago
I’ve been using my 10-year-old ThinkPad X250 and a decade-old workstation without feeling any need to upgrade. However, the possibility of running powerful local LLMs that require a lot of GPU or unified memory has finally increased my inte
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by bobjordan 2y ago
What in the Berkeley kind of logic is this? You have a pretty solid core logical structure. But, the conclusion is weak. The argument’s weakness lies in its simplifications and the final political assertion, which, although plausible withi
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by bobjordan 2y ago
Really? This surprises me because I use open-AI pro for $200 per month and I still fall back to using my Gemini $20 per month account a lot these days, I like the new 2.0 experimental speed and how it defaults to diving into producing usabl
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by bobjordan 2y ago
Have you tried the o1-pro mode model today, because now it sucks!
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by bobjordan 2y ago
I have been paying $200 per month for 01-pro mode and I am very disappointed right now because they have completely replaced the model today. It used to think for 1-5 minutes and deliver an unbelievably useful one-shot answer. Now, it only
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by bobjordan 2y ago
The issue you raised here is valid but you must expect some downvotes given the religious level fervor many have been converted to feel, when it comes to anything that might step on someone’s feelings, even when it is backed by strong logic
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by bobjordan 2y ago
I don't think anyone "sent Zuck out there" - this policy reversal isn't a bottom up decision.
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by bobjordan 2y ago
Lets give them time to cook. It's likely the team refactoring these rules are mostly the same team that was leading the previous censorship. It's going to take some time to open back up.
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by bobjordan 2y ago
After living in China for 10 years and experiencing true suppression of freedom of speech, the desire of many here in America to silence others in the name of curbing "misinformation" is wild to me. I have no desire to replicate w
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by bobjordan 2y ago
The sales page shows the $20 plus plan has 32K context window.
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by bobjordan 2y ago
Here's why I think it's worth it: 1. Larger Context Window (128K) With Pro-Mode, I can paste an entire firmware file—thousands of lines of code—along with detailed hardware references, and the model can actually process it. This i
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by bobjordan 2y ago
Wow, I subscribed to pro-mode and have been using it like crazy since release to assist my firmware development. Extremely helpful. Now it's changed my workflow so much, I don't even want to work when it's down.
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by bobjordan 2y ago
I expect this can be abstracted and include other fields, too. My particular affliction has included electronic lab equipment. Like, did I really need that specialized tool to measure and verify the performance of my oscilloscope? Did I rea
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by bobjordan 3y ago
While I do believe in "the harder I work, the luckier I get" mentality, what you said there about "keep working even if you don't get paid much for a while" is the critical factor. I had to stop comparing what I cou
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by bobjordan 3y ago
My background pre-MBA was in manufacturing, not necessarily contract manufacturing, but factory operations heavy positions. If I did anything that was "savvy" was just recognizing that it was a relatively great time to start a bu
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by bobjordan 3y ago
I graduated with an MBA in 2008 from a top 10-ish school, just before the Great Recession. I had no desire to be an entrepreneur. I pursued the consulting track and landed a full-time offer from my summer internship, but I got laid off in 2
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by bobjordan 3y ago
I had an issue with my bookmarks where I used chrome for about a decade and then one fateful day, I allowed Microsoft edge to try to clone my bookmarks. It corrupted everything. Now I have hundreds of copies of duplicated folders and links.
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by bobjordan 3y ago
Yes that’s true. I’m not making the argument that “wages have no bottom”. As another poster has noted, the wage paid in this case is above the local minimum. But as the US participates in global trade, solutions that are extremely uncompeti
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by bobjordan 3y ago
If a worker effectively performs the required tasks for $1.46/hr, this demonstrates the work's intrinsic value quite explicitly. The onus to make a higher wage to improve their lifestyle is on the individual, given the freedom the
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by bobjordan 4y ago
This is a serious problem for us in my business as our business banking software we are forced to use by our bank in mainland China still only works with IE. I spent an hour last night ultimately inputting shady commands into my registry, t
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by bobjordan 4y ago
FYI - from Wikipedia. A straw man fallacy (sometimes written as strawman) is a form of argument and an informal fallacy of having the impression of refuting an argument, whereas the real subject of the argument was not addressed or refuted
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by bobjordan 4y ago
I have no experience with Russia or Ukraine. I do however have 10 yrs experience in China, and a lot of people have no idea that 1.6B Chinese vehemently assert ownership of Taiwan. Your question is off topic and add no value.
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by bobjordan 4y ago
American here. Lived 10yrs in China, still own a business there now primarily operating in Shenzhen. What I learned living there is, the Chinese mainland population are 100% certain, that Taiwan is wholly owned property of Mainland China. N
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by bobjordan 4y ago
There’s lots of good comments about mental health support, agree with those recommendations. But, I just want to mention, how very beneficial a program of physical exercise is for a man in their 40s. I’m 47, my experience is, I had let myse

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