htx80nerd

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by htx80nerd 5mo ago
AI customer support is trash and everyone hates it , but it makes the Wall St numbers go up, so it's a good thing.
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by htx80nerd 5mo ago
Dark Matter : supposedly makes up a big amount of the mass of the universe, but cant be seen, does not emit, absorb, or reflect light. Also it can 'pass through' other normal matter, and other dark matter. It's basically mag
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by htx80nerd 5mo ago
>"if you do nothing to organize politically against it" how does one politically organize against a billion dollar industry which is friends with, and donates to, the ruling class? they do whatever they want and we just post ab
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by htx80nerd 5mo ago
I'm old enough to remember AT&T room 641A
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by htx80nerd 5mo ago
The author uses a measurement I'm not familiar with so I used AI to translate it. >Using the broader initial AI water use estimate of 32,000 acre-ft/year to 290,000 acre-ft/year Note : 1 acre-foot is approximately equal to
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by htx80nerd 5mo ago
>The irony is that AI is best at replacing the work of the upper classes. Synthesizing different opinions, summarizing them, and producing outputs based on statistics are things AI does well. AI just repeats whatever the prevailing opini
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by htx80nerd 5mo ago
Asking $200+ billion AND still need private investors. Is the rail made out of gold? >Under current projections, assuming funding and construction proceed as planned, service between San Francisco and Bakersfield could begin around 2033,
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by htx80nerd 5mo ago
Not all tech companies are like this, though too many are.
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by htx80nerd 5mo ago
Friendly reminder the US Gov printed ~4 trillion dollars during the Covid years.
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by htx80nerd 6mo ago
This is the thing - Google is a real company with well established business, money of their own, hardware, server farms, etc. ChatGPT and Anthropic have none of that in the same way google does. They have an incentive to lie and 'fak
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by htx80nerd 6mo ago
Ruling Elites and Banker Class are pals. They wont let each other down too much.
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by htx80nerd 6mo ago
I dont care about replacing the battery but doing a 'battery pull' is very useful sometimes. Esp when Android locks up.
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by htx80nerd 6mo ago
how dare that commoner insult the Money
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by htx80nerd 6mo ago
almost every year there is a news story of some Western tourist visiting another country dying from bootleg methanol alcohol
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by htx80nerd 6mo ago
less than ideal if I had to be frank.
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by htx80nerd 6mo ago
this has been happening on and off for ~10+ yrs. MS cost are too high and you need more expensive computers to have the MS sub-par experience. the main thing that keeps people locked in is (a) "Im use to windows" and (b) MS gives
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by htx80nerd 6mo ago
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by htx80nerd 6mo ago
Artix (Arch) and MX Linux (Debian) are very nice
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by htx80nerd 6mo ago
I started with Claude for a basic JS project. It failed over and over. Gemini sorted out the same problems faster. Claude was always wanting to rip out huge blocks of code and replace them. Did it fix the problem? Almost never. It was
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by htx80nerd 6mo ago
I continue to find the non-stop claude spam fascinating. Gemini and ChatGPT have been very good for my needs, Claude not so much. Every week, if not every day, Claude spam is all over this site. But barely a peep about Gemini or ChatGPT
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by htx80nerd 6mo ago
Thanks. I've used ChatGPT a million times and never had any input issues.
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by htx80nerd 6mo ago
Half the people in IT have no business being here.
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by htx80nerd 6mo ago
this is very naive. go compare the Olympic men 5k times to the womens 5k times. i was a very below average cross country runner in high school, if not flat out poor. my times were still fast by female standards.
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by htx80nerd 7mo ago
Radio is very useful during natural disasters. When you're sitting for hours (days) without power, internet, etc, listening to the radio can be the only connection to the outside world.
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by htx80nerd 7mo ago
I'm bored of the everyday Claude spam. I've used Claude extensively and it was very sub par.
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by htx80nerd 7mo ago
I started on 35mm and dark rooms then went to digital. 35mm is more fun and more rewarding.
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by htx80nerd 7mo ago
do you really expect us to believe ms is pushing 'far right news'? perhaps youre just so far left that anything slightly in the center feels 'far right'? when bing / edge recommends me stories it's never ever &
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by htx80nerd 7mo ago
>"It’s quite common for companies to work their way up to the line of the most user hostile version of their product that users will tolerate." developer delusion. devs who barely use their own apps. who dont understand the d
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by htx80nerd 7mo ago
>A few more words: they’re struggling to find a niche where their ungodly expensive product makes more sense than the readily available alternatives pretty obvious you never worked for an ISP and forgot about all the `middle of nowhere`
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by htx80nerd 7mo ago
Have you ever programmed with AI? It needs a lot of hand holding for even simple things sometimes. Forgets basic input, does all kinds of brain dead stuff it should know not to do. >"good catch - thanks for pointing that out"

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