mech422

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by mech422 4y ago
IIRC correctly, their last attempt lasted 16ish hours before the internet corrupted it. Dunno if chatGPT is supposed to 'learn' from users - if not, maybe it'll last longer :-P
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by mech422 4y ago
yeah - too lazy/paranoid to deal with it. Luckily, reddit is a pretty small part of my search stuff. tbh, I think github is becoming one of my favorite 'search engines' / discovery sites. So much cool stuff buried in t
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by mech422 4y ago
Is reddit's interface really better if you login? I've never bothered creating an account...
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by mech422 4y ago
Keyword matching (when google actually honors the keywords) is hardly 'fu' ... Just look at the bad results we get from recruiters that keyword match resumes :-D
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by mech422 4y ago
Again, its keyword matching vs having a real query language. Alta Vista let you do things like "john near smith" and it would match "smith, john", "john, smith", etc. But it would NOT match "John had a ver
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by mech422 4y ago
I wonder how many people actually use/prefer old.reddit.com ? Seems like everyone I know uses it ... Even the ones with reddit accounts.
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by mech422 4y ago
I just meant that half the time google ignores what you give it...
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by mech422 4y ago
'Google fu' is a myth - it's just to make us feel good. Google ignores pretty much +"anything" it wants to. (thank god it doesn't igore site: yet) What would be awesome is to have a REAL _search_ engine back,
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by mech422 4y ago
gah - the new layout drives me batty. I guess its worse when you're not logged in (like me) - it won't just display the full thread in simple chronological order. old.reddit is better though
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by mech422 4y ago
site:old.reddit.com FTW! :-D edit: its a joke..it would save me manually changing the url, cuz I'm too lazy to install the plugin to auto-change it for me.
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by mech422 4y ago
>> LP is the worst thing that ever happened to search, other than SEO and content farms I just wish someone would bring back alta vista with a larger crawl index (or even just a 'specialized' crawl index for tech stuff). Th
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by mech422 4y ago
>> I've never met an organization staffed with rational actors that had more than like 8 people in it, so you're not wrong. LOL - I like that, I'm stealing that line :-) I disagree with 'was ultimately greenlit...&
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by mech422 4y ago
That seems to assume organizations are 'rational actors'... Which sadly is the minority of organizations I've worked for. The premise ignores the layers of people in-between the 'C' levels trying to get that return,
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by mech422 4y ago
Funny how having everyone in the same office wasn't a concern when outsourcing was the new hotness.
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by mech422 4y ago
That's a really interesting point... AI's have passed the bar years ago, but I don't see anyone saying lawyers will be 'obsolete'. Expert systems have existed for medicine for decades, but I don't think doctor
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by mech422 4y ago
Heh - I say the thing is to get the general public to realize that, and not assume "computers are always right" ? (eg, I don't think the problem is with chatGPT being 'wrong' - I think the problems start when peopl
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by mech422 4y ago
Depends on the domain I'm asking it about? I have things I'm good at, and things I suck at.
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by mech422 4y ago
Wow - Steve Mann - haven't checked what he's doing in ages - real blast from the past :-) I was really disappointed the AR/VR company he was with went under - I had really high hopes for it. RE: changing you laptop screen.
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by mech422 4y ago
Which, if my experience with users is anything to go by, will be 99% of the users. Even worse is people asking it about subjects they have no domain expertise in and having to wonder (or worse just assume) its correct. At the very least,
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by mech422 4y ago
Nearly 20 years ago, when traveling to New York - the hotel lets us borrow a couple of monitors from the 'business center'. Is this no longer possible? Edit: we had to go to the front desk and ask the manager. it wasn't a co
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by mech422 4y ago
Hmm - looks more like an MIT Cheetah then a BD robot... (it doesn't appear to be either - I think its a bespoke design) still for $278 for the kit, and all open source code it could be fun!
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by mech422 4y ago
I'd add funded startups as well - In my experience, they generally have a 12 month runway, without requiring any outside/customer revenue. Of course, once the initial funding/runway runs out, it can be quiet a different story
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by mech422 4y ago
Sometimes its easier to select stuff from the end to beginning... I thought it was my imagination, but then a browser developer wrote about it in their blog or something.
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by mech422 4y ago
I was always camp KDE - but that libadwaita thing sounds horrible... Maybe Rasterman is due for a comeback - enlightenment desktop looks pretty nice!
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by mech422 4y ago
Thats another pet peeve of mine - web pages where every pixel is some sort of link/hotspot. Like I just wanted to activate the window, or grab some whitespace and scroll. Not switch tabs, not maximize the window and definitely not nav
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by mech422 4y ago
heh - I have fat fingers on top of everything else, so touch screens always turn into "where did I leave the #$%#$%^ stylus" :-D TBH - I work from home, so I'm never more then 20 feet from real monitors. So I just use the ph
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by mech422 4y ago
I agree - I love the old '3d' interfaces, and Aqua in particular. The new 'cell phone' interfaces are just a PITA. Really hard on my old eyes - no real indication/border around buttons, no color cues, often not ev
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by mech422 4y ago
As long as there is a shortage of talent, companies will do what it takes to attract them. If company A can't get people, because everyone is going to company B for WFH benefits, company A will offer it too. And there is still a short
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by mech422 4y ago
>>WFH will be a privilege that one would have to reduce their salary for in the medium to long term. I don't think that will come to pass... I've been 100% remote for 20 years, and it gets easier/more socially acceptabl
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by mech422 4y ago
Not a course, but I find leetcode.com[0] a decent way to putz about and learn new languages. You can only write 'hello world' so many times, and often you don't want to write a whole program just to 'get a taste' o

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