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by chasd00 11mo ago
Don't forget, the bubble talk is more around "AGI is right around the corner, don't get left out!" and not so much the application of an LLM to business process flows. There's definitely value in some use cases to u
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by chasd00 11mo ago
Yeah the F150 is a strange vehicle. It has a proven reputation as a blue collar workhorse. However, a fully loaded Raptor trim is a 6 figure price tag easy.
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by chasd00 11mo ago
My boys are 16 and 13 and went through middle school without a single sleepover.
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by chasd00 11mo ago
> The Navy tested a C-130 on the USS Forrestal and accomplished 21 landings. my son plays DCS and that game just got a C-130 module and he showed me youtube vids of people landing on carriers. I had to think hard if that was an actual th
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by chasd00 11mo ago
ugh i had forgotten all about this game until I clicked your link and then promptly closed the tab. Carrier landing was frustrating enough but the re-fueling was another level. I played this at my friend's house whenever I would go the
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by chasd00 11mo ago
I work on large systems where security incidents end up on cnn. These large systems are running as fast as everyone else to LLM integration. The security practice at my firm has their hands basically tied by the silverbacks. To the other co
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by chasd00 11mo ago
It's not realistic, money doesn't make hard things easy. Paying someone more doesn't make them more capable, at best it an incentive to work longer/harder. That doesn't make them more capable either, it just makes t
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by chasd00 11mo ago
> Now imagine you save $10M a year doing it only after the move is complete and assuming it's as successful as you think it would be. What usually happens is the migration takes on a life of its own and is a multi-year if not multi-
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by chasd00 11mo ago
> It is mostly within budget, estimated in 2005 were 5.5 billion €, total cost as of today are 5.9 billion € That’s incredible! The project managers and contractors should collaborate on a book about how they did it. Heh staying on budge
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by chasd00 11mo ago
I was listening to a podcast about people becoming obsessed and "in love" with an LLM like ChatGPT. Spouses were interviewed describing how mentally damaging it is to their partner and how their marriage/relationship is serio
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by chasd00 11mo ago
I bought a subscription to claude code to use at work. I’ve never paid for a tool to use at work that wasn’t paid by my employer. I have to admit, it may not just be a flash in the pan.
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by chasd00 11mo ago
I love Let's Encrypt A small VPS + LetsEncrypt + Dokku is a fantastic way to run personal side projects/hustles at minimal cost.
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by chasd00 11mo ago
A few years ago I was visiting a friend of mine in Ft. Lauderdale. We wanted some scooters to ride around on but there were none near him, so we drove and grabbed some off the sidewalk in downtown and threw them in the drunk and went back t
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by chasd00 11mo ago
> I offered no aid. My teens call them “clankers” and are by no means fans of them. I’m surprised those things aren’t constantly stolen or vandalized.
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by chasd00 11mo ago
this isn't an investing site but Coreweave is what I watch. All those freaking datacenters have to get built, come online, and work for all the promises to come true. Coreweave is already in a bit of a picklye, I feel like they are the
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by chasd00 11mo ago
i've seen many attempts to turn a widely used spreadsheet into a webapp. Eventually, it becomes an attempt to re-implement spreadsheets. The first time something changes and the user says "well in Excel i would just do this...&quo
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by chasd00 11mo ago
i mentioned this upthread but an LLM with enough access to be fully integrated into all apps/services/files in an enterprise managed workstation sounds like privilege escalation attacks just waiting to happen.
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by chasd00 11mo ago
> This lack of real integration is basically the core design of most Copilot products. I think they're scared of the very real security issues with LLMs that may be unsolvable. It's not wise to give an llm free reign, at best m
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by chasd00 11mo ago
> to guarantee they've learned from trustworthy sources. i don't see how this will every work. Even in hard science there's debate over what content is trustworthy and what is not. Imagine trying to declare your source of
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by chasd00 11mo ago
> The problem is, you have to know enough about the subject on which you're asking a question to land in the right place in the embedding The other day i was on a call with 3 or 4 other people solving a config problem in a specific
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by chasd00 11mo ago
> So I don't know what the point of "superintelligent" AI is if we aren't going to even listen to it I would kind of feel sorry for a super-intelligent AI having to deal with humans who have their fingers on on/o
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by chasd00 11mo ago
On my list for 2026 is a suite of tools for my coworkers who work in the same tech I do (we’re consultants). I get thrown a small bone from the silverbacks come bonus season for these kinds of thing. Your project fits perfectly with what I
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by chasd00 11mo ago
Im a software engineer but have been around the block enough times that I now lead large teams. It annoys me a little when people here talk about how worthless management is. I just want everyone to know that good management is very hard, w
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by chasd00 11mo ago
> And the reason standardization won't happen: the feudal lords of each of those branches of the hierarchy strongly believe their way is the only way that can meet their business/tech needs I work in implementation of large ent
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by chasd00 11mo ago
to be fair to bootcamp developers, i don't think they ever did "believe that there's virtue" in the setup, they were just told this is what you use and how you use it.
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by chasd00 11mo ago
Or you could just learn cobol. Using an LLM with a language you don’t know is pretty risky. How do you spot the subtle but fatal mistakes they make?
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by chasd00 11mo ago
> - mov ax, 0 - needs 4 bytes (66 b8 00 00) - xor ax,ax - needs 3 bytes (66 31 c0) iirc doesn't word alignment matter? I have no idea if this is how the IBM PC XT was aligned but if you had 4 byte words then it doesn't matter i
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by chasd00 11mo ago
I worked on some very large very emergency contact tracing, disease surveillance, and vaccine management implementations during covid. Someone on one of my teams ended up in an inpatient facility after a breakdown. Having senior leadership
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by chasd00 11mo ago
“Consulting: if you’re not a part of the solution there’s money to be made prolonging the problem” - despair.com :)
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by chasd00 11mo ago
Accenture is a big place, it has a “nice part of town” where there’s genuinely good people who do good things. There’s also the boring part of town where they just “turn the crank and go home”. There’s also “the wrong side of the tracks” th

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