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by chasd00 5mo ago
anyone can choose any version string convention they want for their project. Comparing two different pieces of software by their version string doesn't make sense.
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by chasd00 5mo ago
further, California is a big state. For the concept to work you'd have to split California lengthwise, the Western 1/3 would align politically how the op is assuming but the Eastern 2/3 would not. If the counter argument is m
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by chasd00 5mo ago
I'm beginning to see this in my industry (consulting). I was at a client site last week and in a room with some heavy hitters both from my side and client side but in a casual setting (lunch). Everyone was discussing how they sometimes
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by chasd00 5mo ago
idk, all the code i've seen produced by an llm doesn't appear to be derived from anything. Also, the source code they were trained on does not exist in the model, it's impossible for the llm to return a code snippet from some
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by chasd00 5mo ago
> It will take significant time to build trust again and nothing of value was lost. What did the US get out of the relationship?
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by chasd00 5mo ago
> You guys have to work a lot harder to fix your issues. As an American, that's pretty funny seeing how allies of the USA are constantly hostile toward Americans at every turn (unless we're buying a tshirt or something) and hav
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by chasd00 5mo ago
trust or not, US vs EU or somewhere else, you should be in charge of your data and your data should be subject to your laws and yours alone. It only makes sense. /lives in the US
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by chasd00 5mo ago
this is good, there's money to be saved in many many cases with self hosting. Cloud was supposed to save money but it's gotten so overdone that now companies have dedicated devops teams just like they use to have dedicated sysadmi
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by chasd00 6mo ago
When i was in college I was soldering something really small (don't remember what it was) and flicked molten solder right in to the tear duct on the inside corner of one of my eyes. Not fun but didn't hurt anything permanently.
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by chasd00 6mo ago
I tell my boys (both in HS now), the combination of a specialized skill/knowledge + competent computer programming is the sweet spot. For example, my oldest wants to go into Petroleum Engineering which is great but I told him to still
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by chasd00 6mo ago
tar -czf - /path/to/folder | gpg -c -o folder.tar.gz.gpg then scp/POST that somewhere /s..kinda
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by chasd00 6mo ago
Also, you have a compass. Just drive South until you reach the Gulf of Mexico, then drive East until you reach the Atlantic ocean, then drive South until you reach where you're going ( it will be daylight by then ). /edit i guess
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by chasd00 6mo ago
I don’t like PDFs either but adding that format to your list is a little extreme.
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by chasd00 6mo ago
A friend of mine worked in one of the consulting practices at IBM. One of the silverbacks there had their own shadow consulting firm complete with offshore resources operating within IBM and their clients. I thought that was particularly br
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by chasd00 6mo ago
I’m sitting in an airport after spending a week with a client. They’ve killed off one of their enterprise saas subscriptions with an internal ai assisted effort and are looking to kill more. Granted, they are extremely competent but softwar
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by chasd00 6mo ago
Interns getting “truck loads” of work done has not been my experience. Potted plant is a better metaphor.
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by chasd00 6mo ago
In mountain states everything exposed to nature is just beaten into an average. The environment is so harsh it makes sense things affected aren’t much of a status symbol or at least don’t remain one for long hah.
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by chasd00 6mo ago
wouldn't that mean every piece of cctv footage that has me in it also belongs to me? i don't see it (no pun intended).
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by chasd00 6mo ago
My kids call those “free candy vans” hah.
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by chasd00 6mo ago
> The role of AI in non-software shops is going to be interesting I have friend in west Texas who does industrial electrical gear sales (like those giant spools of cable you see on tractor trailers). He’s 110% good old boy Texan but has
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by chasd00 6mo ago
If Books Could Kill did an episode on How to Win Friends and Influence People, it's an interesting listen. iirc the book was written by someone documenting what they learned while breaking into high society or some other class they wer
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by chasd00 6mo ago
> My 992.2 has AA/CarPlay, and an outstanding user interface kind of ironic because, IMO, the only priority for UX in a car like that is a steering wheel, gas pedal, and brake pedal. /not jealous.. well maybe a little :)
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by chasd00 6mo ago
the way it was explained to me is if you see the flares then something is wrong. It may not be catastrophic or anything serious but something isn't going according to plan. Because you're right, why burn it off when you can sell i
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by chasd00 6mo ago
AI has been used in defense for a while now, a modern tomahawk cruise missile and its associated targeting systems is a good example. I think most people fear AI taking their job and only source of income.
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by chasd00 6mo ago
> First of all, if the goal is to prevent instability OPEC is doing a terrible job. I mentioned this upthread, the instability OPEC is trying to prevent is civil unrest from not being able to fund their social programs and governments. T
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by chasd00 6mo ago
> The goal of the cartel was to stabilize prices right in the sweet spot to keep the world addicted. If the price of oil remains low the gulf governments can't fund their social programs and risk instability. That may not be the onl
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by chasd00 6mo ago
> virtual reality was a thing back in the mid- to late-90 even in pop-culture, see the movie Lawnmower Man.
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by chasd00 6mo ago
I linked this in another comment but Azure has problems and OpenAI is tired of waiting. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616242
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by chasd00 6mo ago
This gives OpenAI the ability to goto AWS instead of exclusively on Azure. I guess Azure really is hanging on by a thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616242
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by chasd00 6mo ago
I know this is old but I was just at stargate abilene and the photos in the linked article are not what I saw. My wife and I drove around the North side to the security station and then also up the main road from the South side. I only saw

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