phil21

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by phil21 8d ago
> For all my efforts to get LLMs to work for me, they've failed. I figure it is because the tech space I work in (Industrial Automation) simply doesn't have the training data that someone building webapps does. Putting safety c
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by phil21 9d ago
Sure, only if you haul away the other 14 giant objects as well! And at least lie to me well enough that they will all go to a good home :)
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by phil21 9d ago
It’s such an annoying problem to solve. I have all sorts of “stuff” I would give away to someone who can use it. I just don’t want to spend 3 hours per object doing so via posting on Facebook marketplace, having 8 people flake out on pickup
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by phil21 9d ago
The most fitting description of an owner of a small coffee shop is "barista". Most barista's I know also handle far more than just making coffee and serving customers. They do everything short of being personally financially
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by phil21 9d ago
Funnily enough, I was thinking of exactly those photos when writing my comment. I never found them to be all that misrepresentative - that they took a photo from their family friend of their father taken 20 years ago for the same dish they
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by phil21 9d ago
I don't follow. Even a little bit. Every single small coffee shop owner I know has employees. They work alongside them and do every job in the shop along with them. They operate in shifts, sometimes the owner is there for both open and
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by phil21 9d ago
I think there is a big difference between using AI generated food pictures, vs. taking real pictures of your food and using AI to create a menu/poster. The former is both weird, creepy most of the time, and false advertising. The latte
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by phil21 13d ago
> The utilization rates of GPUs for AI workloads in a datacenter run by cloud service providers (CSP) is between 60% and 70%. With such utilization rates, a GPU will typically survive between one and two years, three years at the most, a
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by phil21 13d ago
Only if you use dollar value output as some weird substitute for actually making things.
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by phil21 13d ago
Mostly bug fixes relevant to higher end home theatre setups. Typically bleeding edge stuff where a TV is released before a new HDMI spec is fully baked or whatnot. One of my older OLED panels needed a number of updates to get proper Dolby V
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by phil21 13d ago
It also gates some "features" like the "AI" auto-detection of media type to automatically switch the TV between sports, movie, gaming, etc. modes as well. At least from my memory of a recent LG OLED setup.
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by phil21 13d ago
So they can use Netflix or HBO apps and whanot. The vast majority of consumers are not going to spend another $100-300 on a media player device like an Apple TV, Roku, or nVidia shield. They will use the built in app functionality. And even
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by phil21 14d ago
It was a stupid regulation to begin with. Any investigative agency already could trivially get this data through already existing means. All it did was make your 3 member condo association have to pay a lawyer $500/yr in compliance fee
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by phil21 14d ago
All that stuff is more dirty to the local community than your average datacenter. The vast majority of these these no one knows even exist until told. They are basically warehouses without loading docks not much traffic goes into or out of.
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by phil21 16d ago
Depends on which video codec. If it’s the most efficient one that has dedicated silicone embedded in the chip, it’s going to work great. Web browsing is typically significantly harder on power. Plus these benchmarks usually mean in a perfec
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by phil21 17d ago
Yeah you’re describing normies. They are the norm. It’s in the name. People as described make up the vast majority of the population. Nerds have always been in the extreme minority. Ignoring the influx of cosplaying MBA financing bros and i
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by phil21 20d ago
If OP means Ethernet over HDMI it’s in the spec but as far as I’m aware has not been implemented in any mainstream chipsets anything actually uses. It’s one of those theoretical things that is somewhat surprising didn’t happen. Overall it’s
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by phil21 24d ago
I see it as the first step towards removing entire workflows like this. Once the humans are removed, there is far less motivated reasoning to keep that process alive if it’s just robots burning tokens passing paper back and forth. I will li
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by phil21 24d ago
Wouldn’t be all that surprised if quality went up with the use of AI for this stuff. The word “slop” is tossed around way too much, but these sorts of engagements are a perfect example of replacing low value human slop with computer generat
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by phil21 24d ago
No, just a latent bug that got exposed by a coincidental condition which happened to be synchronized via time. Doesn’t require and patching at all. These things lurk for years or decades before finally meeting the conditions needed to be ex
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by phil21 24d ago
It’s not revealing at all because unemployment numbers are directional and only useful in terms of comparison to prior years. The actual headline number is arbitrary and pretty much any metric you want to track already exists but is less po
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by phil21 25d ago
Could also just be a bunch of IoT devices running on synchronized time source that have what amounts to a defrost cronjob. And a latent bug that due to everything being synced and on the same schedule failed in the same manner (eg crashed t
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by phil21 27d ago
Yeah. There were times in my life I would have put my life on the line (and that of the thief) to defend my vehicle and the tools within it. Those fed myself and my family. I would have had no reasonable means to replace my tools, and barel
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by phil21 1mo ago
The world (I guess politics, but more broadly how you envision society to fundamentally function) is far more broad and nuanced than the silly (American) liberal vs conservative buckets. Just adding a “libertarian vs. authoritarian” axis to
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by phil21 1mo ago
Hard and very vehement disagree from me. So long as it is safe, a kid even at 1 years old should be tagging along with the adults doing things. Like building, working out in the yard, helping friends with projects, whatever. It is very sett
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by phil21 1mo ago
People are incredibly irrational about gas prices and have been since I've been alive. I remember listening to AM talk radio back in the late 90's and a common trope was you'd get someone calling in ranting about gas prices a
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by phil21 1mo ago
There is (usually) a logo on the pump. It's a standard that is vetted by an industry standards body[0]. If a gas station brand advertises Top Tier(tm) gasoline at all, every location must supply it. Diesel is location dependent and war
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by phil21 1mo ago
Weird. Costco is never the cheapest price for Coke in my area. Or the previous state I lived in. At least if you bought during sales at competing Supermarkets. Where they win my Diet Coke business is that they are consistently a "good
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by phil21 1mo ago
For most people, I'd reckon they are never at work. There is a reason we know that remote learning is horrible for most people compared to in-classroom. We proved this decisively during COVID. There is zero reason to believe that most
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by phil21 1mo ago
> way ahead This is overselling it. You can come out 2% ahead or so. 4-5% if you are an extremely high spender who enjoys mentally managing 5 or 6 credit cards to max out category bonuses and other benefits and all that. You come out m

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