ferminaut

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by ferminaut 3mo ago
This was great timing for IBM employees with RSU's. Many folks had RSUs which literally unlocked this morning.
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by ferminaut 2y ago
secrets, too. Org's already knee deep in vault / vault-agent for PKI and secrets wont be eager to switch.
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by ferminaut 2y ago
If you're a offline kind of guy, try LM Studio + Cline :) /not affiliated with cline, just a happy user
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by ferminaut 2y ago
the context limits on google are nuts! Being able to pump 2 million tokens in and having it cost $0 is pretty crazy rn. Cline makes it seamless to switch between APIs and isnt trying to shoehorn their SAAS AI into a custom vscode (looking a
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by ferminaut 2y ago
vscode + cline extension + gemini2.0 is pretty awesome. Highly recommend checking out cline. it quickly became one of my favorite coding tools.
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by ferminaut 3y ago
Hopefully the weather holds out in Dallas. I'll also be in town for the eclipse...but may wind up heading out east if cloud cover predictions hold. https://www.pivotalweather.com/eclipse2024/?m=cmceens&p=clou..
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by ferminaut 3y ago
I personally write myself a letter once a year around new years. Covers what happened over the last year, my 3-5-10 year plans, goals, family/friends/health, photo of myself, etc. Then the next year rolls around and I compare the
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by ferminaut 3y ago
Do yourself a favor and integrate GPT4 into your workflow. I use it probably 20 times a day at this point. example: "I ran performance tests on two systems, here's the results of system 1, and heres the results of system 2. Summar
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by ferminaut 3y ago
I have to ask, why use 3rd party booking sites at all? From what I can tell, the prices are usually the same as the hotel... needlessly adding middlemen into the booking process.
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by ferminaut 3y ago
I doubt reddit itself runs the bot farms that enable modifying public perception.
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by ferminaut 3y ago
> As a cultural critic, I have always been wary of the impact of technology on human communication and understanding. While AI and ChatGPT are impressive technological innovations with many potential benefits, they also carry significan
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by ferminaut 3y ago
yeah -- the concept of world ID if it worked is actually pretty interesting. I just dont trust Sam Altman/crypto/private industry to do it safely.
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by ferminaut 3y ago
Yeah I agree. Singling out the largest player is silly. We've basically given different nations the ability to control the thoughts of society. Social media hasnt been organic for a long time. Organic social media grows until it is con
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by ferminaut 3y ago
Facebook (and much of social media) is the modern day Philip Morris peddling addictive experiences...except the harm is way less obvious. Folks arent getting cancer, but they are wrecking their mental health. The difference is social media
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by ferminaut 3y ago
it's more secure on the back end. The DB will store a hashed unique pass phrase that isnt shared with anyone else. You enter a pin, the web server sees a public key that only your side has the private key to.
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by ferminaut 3y ago
I would assume there is a lot of overlap in these "general and administrative" roles between IBM and RedHat. I'd guess more of this work will be moved to existing roles within IBM?
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by ferminaut 3y ago
Learning how to install ShowEQ to cheat in everquest got me my first real exposure to linux...then trying to build a emulator for it took me down a rabbit hole. Was probably 12 at the time
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by ferminaut 3y ago
I asked chatGPT to summarize this like I was a child: > Imagine you have a toy that you're not sure will work perfectly or not. The people who made the toy say that they're not sure either and that you have to take the risk of
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by ferminaut 4y ago
If you are designing something, being able to rapidly iterate is great. The difference is 4-5 prints a working day vs 1-2 prints a day.
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by ferminaut 4y ago
I own two MK3s+'s. They are solid machines if you are looking to print PLA and some PETG. The stock extruder is a PITA. The MK4's redesigned nozzle/heat break & 10:1 extruder are basically a Bondtech LGX + Revo & shou
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by ferminaut 4y ago
I've had the idea that a deposit in free to play games would be sufficient. Put some amount of money in, say $20. When you are done with the game, you get the $20 back. If you cheat, you lose the $20.
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by ferminaut 4y ago
IBM Watson is the result of IBM being led by sales people instead of engineers. Prior to the role of CEO, Ginni Rometty was head of global sales, marketing, and strategy @ IBM. I dont think that was a coincidence that over Ginni's reig
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by ferminaut 4y ago
brexit is about setting the stage for things to come. brexit will make fewer people a lot of money. Is it far fetched to see NHS getting bled dry, paving the way for privatized health care?
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by ferminaut 4y ago
I first ran across this scam in about 2002 with SD cards back when digital cameras were much more popular. I recall a vendor "proving" it was legit by plugging it into a computer in front of me and showing the SD card had 1gb of s
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by ferminaut 4y ago
IBM would do these layoffs regardless. The whole "everyone else is doing it" is just convenient timing. IBM has lots of dead areas / legacy software & typically those areas are the ones hit hardest.
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by ferminaut 4y ago
I think a lot of folks can get by without a Prime membership. My prime subscription ended almost a year ago now and I don't miss it. Amazon shipping has got progressively slower as time went on. Prime video is terrible UX with subpar c
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by ferminaut 4y ago
> All US charities have received $400,026,236.70 as of December 2022. $400 million in donations to charities and Amazon has the gall to say "the program has not grown to create the impact that we had originally hoped."
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by ferminaut 4y ago
I've personally used chrome extension "Smile Always". It automatically converts all amazon links to amazon smile links. This is sad. I am currently at $417.30 in donations to my local charity. Amazon is in denial if they thin
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by ferminaut 4y ago
Recently sold an item on ebay. Buyer opened up a dispute with ebay saying the item didnt work. I provided a return label. Buyer then claimed the post office couldnt return it because the item had over 100 mg of mercury in it (a new one to m
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by ferminaut 4y ago
There shouldn't be any coming back from this. There are failures on multiple levels here & CircleCI demonstrated no one should keep any sensitive data with them. > Zuber said that while customer data was encrypted, the cybercrim

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