lazystar

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by lazystar 10mo ago
So.. is this where the AI hype train starts to lose steam? One AI hallucinated and caused the incident, and another AI program just wasted everyone's time after it was unable to verify the issue. Sounds like AI was utterly useless to
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by lazystar 10mo ago
yeah, been thinking about that... but itd feel kinda weird. my village (named Seattle, funny enough) is ~20 years old, and has both mine and my younger brother's characters. Whatever I decide to do with it in 2031, it'll feel li
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by lazystar 10mo ago
speaking of caves... I just picked up an old gamecube. it's refreshing to play purely offline content from an age without any AI art of any kind. some games, like animal crossing, will break in 2031 though, so there's only a goo
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by lazystar 11mo ago
The site appears to have gotten the ol' hug-of-death. For those who have seen the contents, can you answer if this is SFW or NSFW? The existing comments in this thread imply the latter. Edit - downvotes for asking a question? Hackerne
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by lazystar 1y ago
and who manages the HR department employees? not being facetious, Ive wondered this for a while now. seems like they have almost unchecked power to run a corp into the ground.
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by lazystar 1y ago
Side note.... one thing I wish all cloud provider websites would provide is a recycle bin in the GUI. its far too easy to bulk delete resources, and the cost of a misclick/tampermonkey script bug occurring while doing so can result in
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by lazystar 1y ago
who in the world thought that a .ass file extension would be a good idea, sigh. https://fileformats.fandom.com/wiki/SubStation_Alpha
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by lazystar 1y ago
> they do not care about anything other than the bottom line. if all companies focused on fixing each and every social issue that exists in the world, how would they make any money?
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by lazystar 1y ago
Even if they did, who would replace him? The risk of choosing someone that could end up making things even worse is pretty high.
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by lazystar 1y ago
> The people with opinions of value are already giving them internally. interesting take, in light of all the brain drain that AWS has experienced over the last few years. some outside opinions might be useful - but perhaps the brain dr
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by lazystar 1y ago
the thing that scares me is that AI will never be able to diagnose an issue that it has never seen before. If there are no runbooks, there is no pattern recognition. this is something Ive been shouting about for 2 years now; hopefully thi
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by lazystar 1y ago
> Since this situation had no established operational recovery procedure, engineers took care in attempting to resolve the issue with DWFM without causing further issues. interesting.
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by lazystar 1y ago
40% from a team of.... 10? 100? 1000? 10,000? my guess is 4 out of 10, which would make it a single sub team rather than "all devops roles in aws". would love to see something more official.
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by lazystar 1y ago
did some digging - that image is fake, but there is a study with that name. Doesn't contain that data though.
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by lazystar 1y ago
> What comes after lost pets? Very open ended endangered animal conservation groups looking for rare birds
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by lazystar 1y ago
> FSD which is a scam. fixed that for you.
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by lazystar 1y ago
> In reality, there is significant latency between Hetzner locations that make running multi-location workloads challenging, and potentially harmful to performance as we discovered through our post-deployment monitoring. found this littl
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by lazystar 1y ago
> In reality, there is significant latency between Hetzner locations that make running multi-location workloads challenging, and potentially harmful to performance as we discovered through our post-deployment monitoring. the devil is in
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by lazystar 1y ago
No one wants to get paged on christmas and find out that they have a dependency on an external service that was turned off for good.
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by lazystar 1y ago
> After announcing its retirement, many generous people and organizations offered help - thank you! The project is now transitioning to an RIR (Regional Internet Registry), which will continue running the site in the public interest. wel
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by lazystar 1y ago
reminds me of the attempts that companies in the game industry made to get away from steam in the 2010's - 2020's. turns out having your game developers pivot to building a proprietary virtual software market feature, and then co
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by lazystar 1y ago
have you tried... talking to them, instead of permanently hirting their chances of staying employed in a shit economy? its great for you principles - perfect job security, sitting up on your thrones casting judgement on entry level staffers
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by lazystar 1y ago
spectre/meltdown, finding out your 6 month order of ssd's was stolen after opening empty boxes in the datacenter, and having to write RCA's for customers after your racks go over the PSU's limit are things ya'll gre
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by lazystar 1y ago
this was a plot in a Mr. Robot episode, heh. Life imitating art?
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by lazystar 1y ago
> I am shutting the site down, with a target of "during winter break" (December) 2025. there is an engineer somewhere out there who will get paged on christmas due to a hidden dependency on this site being up, heh. that old xk
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by lazystar 1y ago
> Amazon broke in 2020 nah. jassy taking the reigns in 2021 is when the nosedive began.
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by lazystar 1y ago
one wonders what jassy's list of accomplishments is after 3 years at the helm....
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by lazystar 1y ago
> What external factor makes the models less useful? Life. A great example can be seen in the AI-generated baseball-related news articles that involve the Athletics organization. AI articles this year have been generating articles that
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by lazystar 1y ago
> The use cases where it gets applied are far more than the valid ones Yeah, and im seeing the same pattern with AI i think
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by lazystar 1y ago
> There are good use cases for machine learning, AI, etc. But sadly, the best ones are masked by the hype-train AI junk that is either useless or incredibly expensive in comparison to the amount of money being charged for it. so ive been

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