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by jcgrillo 1y ago
I had a 1984 W123 300TD Turbodiesel I bought with 356k miles on the odometer (which was broken, total mileage unknown). I drove it for over 100k more miles before I sold it. It had no blowby and no perceptible oil consumption between change
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
Money can't (necessarily) buy a breakthrough. It could take 10 or 100 or 1000 years, we just can't know. This kind of technical risk isn't usually so prominent. It's usually more diffuse with fallbacks, offramps, less pa
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
Yeah to your point earlier a graphics driver issue seems a likely suspect, still haven't found any evidence yet though. Will keep looking.
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
The really scary thing is all the value in the AI boom is predicated on the belief that the technology is "early" and that it will improve over time. We're seeing the opposite. Instead, all the competing models are basically
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
~ freebsd-version -kru 14.3-RELEASE 14.3-RELEASE 14.3-RELEASE-p1 ~ uname -aKU FreeBSD t14 14.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE releng/14.3-n271432-8c9ce319fef7 GENERIC amd64 1403000 1403000 ~ pkg repos -el | sort -f
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
> In ten years, I expect the primary interface of desktop workstations, mobile phones, etc will be voice prompts I doubt it. The keyboard and mouse are fit predators, and so are programming, query, and markup languages. I wouldn't d
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
Vast quantities of extremely dumb money
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
Your blog was super helpful getting my machine set up, thanks!
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
This is very helpful information, thank you!
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
I'm currently running FreeBSD on a gen3 Intel T14. It's been excellent so far, however one minor annoyance has been S3 suspend/resume. Well, suspend works fine, but resuming triggers a restart. I'm hoping the recent S0ix
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
I'd drive my 1995 Toyota anywhere.
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
Yes, because big market crashes don't just impact the previously inflated sectors. They hurt all the sectors. So the wipeout could easily exceed the current perceived value of AI.
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
It's not all that wild, just an observation that narcissists and sociopaths tend to excel at navigating the corporate ladder. Doing good work is not (usually) rewarded, self promotion and taking credit for others' is.
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
when bubbles burst crashes follow. this is a colossal bubble. i do walk around with that belief every day, because every day that passes is yet another day when this overblown AI hype bullshit fails to deliver the goods.
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
what? crashing the economy for a psychotic sci-fi delusion "makes sense"? how?
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
I think we're already starting to see the cracks with OpenAI drastically tightening their belt across various cloud services. Depends how long it takes to set in, but seems like it could be starting this quarter.
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
this also happened rapidly: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byford_Dolphin
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
Learn how to stab your colleagues in the back and play petty mean spirited office politics games. That's most of what being employed in this industry actually is, and if you accept that now and optimize yourself around it you can save
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
I'm shopping for a truck atm because I need one . I am pretty routinely overloading the towing capacity of my Land Cruiser, and a decent flatbed pickup would obviate the need to hook up the trailer most of the time. Being able to tow&
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
seems like they could turn this into a lucrative side hustle "super premium secret support" embrace the technofascist feudalism!
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
Surveillance? They have an exceptionally valuable product if they package it right.
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
> it's easily possible that these companies are integrating AI into existing lines of business to make them more profitable Has this effect been demonstrated by any company yet? AFAIK it has not, but I could be wrong. This seems lik
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
it's that those 9 billionaires are a very small, tractable problem
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
There's no fsync in the async version, though, unless I missed it? The problem with the two WAL approach is that now none of the WAL writes are durable--you could encounter a situation where a client reads an entry on the completion WA
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
I can't think of a single case where it has actually been true that the cheaper tool was better somehow apart from jackstands. I got some pretty decent 6 ton jackstands from harbor freight. Don't know that i'd actually trust
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
> factoring in huge safety and tech improvements safety... maybe. tech? no. Having to plug in an expensive proprietary diagnostic device to diagnose problems, dozens of computers, hundreds of sensors many of which can render the vehicle
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
Does the tool degrade gradually over time or is it sudden? If the former, you're much better off over the 10 year span with the high quality tool, because the time you spend dealing with its degraded performance is much less. IME it&#x
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
Grade inflation seems like another facet of the same economic problem.
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by jcgrillo 1y ago
Excellent thread, nicely juxtaposed to this utterly insane sentence: > One is that attributes like durability — which used to be a major factor in how people judged a product’s quality — have lost relevance. I've noticed this in clo
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No record left behind: How Warpstream can withstand regional outages(warpstream.com)
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