thatoneguy

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by thatoneguy 3y ago
I think the real nuke will be that we're already at some basic level of AGI because human consciousness isn't as complicated as we think it is. I'm guessing we're only 10 years out from lowly generative AI getting advanc
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by thatoneguy 3y ago
Google AppEngine used to have that but — presumably in the interest of additional profit — they removed it. Now I have to make do with an alert that warns me long after I could be hypothetically bankrupted, i.e. in seconds.
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by thatoneguy 3y ago
Isn’t “hybrid cloud” mixing “on-prem” servers with remote servers at a cloud provider?
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by thatoneguy 3y ago
Sounds like a lot of companies. I got hit by an SUV a few months ago while I was riding my bike and the driver's insurance company said that "they weren't sure he was insured". And then, the day after I filed the police
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by thatoneguy 3y ago
That's too bad. In 2008 and the years immediately following, referring my friends for jobs as ad raters while I was at El Goog helped keep several of them off the streets. Nothing but fond memories of helping my friends and hearing sto
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by thatoneguy 3y ago
Man, this is a nightmare. I spent my freshman year of college homeless because I had bad credit (thanks, former roommates!). I couldn't even get a checking account to get a debit card...the bank would only give me a cash in / cash
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by thatoneguy 3y ago
It's bad because most of the reviews will be for items you can only get on Amazon or another retailer with an affiliate link program and not for items available elsewhere. I've seen so many "Best $WHATEVER of $YEAR" and
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by thatoneguy 3y ago
I met my first girlfriend on Usenet back in the mid-90s. She sent me a mixtape I still have and her writing Bush(x) next to some of the Bush songs confused me for many years. Lots of college-aged people were around Usenet for help, advice a
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by thatoneguy 3y ago
It was killed I think because it was a “distraction”. Can’t have two social networks at the same time, unlike messaging services and plenty of other Google products, apparently. I don’t think it was ever staffed heavily (and that long piece
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by thatoneguy 3y ago
I quit in 2015 because the place was becoming like any other big company and I’d already been there for a decade. Larry becoming CEO in 2011 again probably started it…once he took the helm, Google soon got really concerned about expenses, l
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by thatoneguy 3y ago
n+1 but that’s about how long I’ve been gone from there. I left because Google was just becoming any other big company so I figured I’d go work for a different one that let me live wherever I wanted.
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by thatoneguy 3y ago
And then six months later, it's gone because it's not on target for a $1B ARR and no one is getting promoted for something that's already launched.
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by thatoneguy 3y ago
Makes me wonder if they train their data on everything anyone has ever uploaded to Creative Cloud.
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by thatoneguy 3y ago
Willy Beamish for the Sega CD had something similar, too. It was a godsend because that game's scenes took forever to load...I've only been able to revisit it thanks to flash carts that mostly eliminate the loading speed.
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by thatoneguy 3y ago
This is about as believable as a cryptobro saying "fiat currency will not be around for very long, for better or worse". You can't produce genuinely new things with a human point of view based on lived experience with generat
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by thatoneguy 3y ago
It's still a device wedded to an OS that wants your data shipped off to a company that knows how to use it against you vs a device iOS put out by a company that seems so wildly inept in this space that they just went whole-hog on priva
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by thatoneguy 3y ago
I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not but the jump from 2.5% to today’s 8% doubles the monthly payment, so I can see why people complain about it.
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by thatoneguy 3y ago
I was a "broadband technician" around then and AT&T Broadband did not give AF if you were stealing cable or not. I only handled cable modem installs and quit after a year to go major in philosophy and because: - Getting quietl
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by thatoneguy 3y ago
Awesome, that's so good to see. IIRC the founder was ex-Cisco. I haven't lived in San Jose in over a decade but Slice of NY is the only thing I miss other than my friends.
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by thatoneguy 3y ago
Wow, I haven't thought about that application in a long time! I used Forte Agent to read USENET in the '90s and met my first girlfriend on there.
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by thatoneguy 3y ago
Hopefully the drugs and trip are done in a safe place like a lab. Anything that increases brain plasticity also increases suggestibility which can be extremely dangerous if you're doing ayahuasca in Peru with a bunch of strangers or ev
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by thatoneguy 3y ago
All those words and not a peep about his board game Darwinopoly. I played it in college with some members of my anthrpology class as part of a class exercise and let me tell you, asking random classmates if they want to have sex and then ro
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by thatoneguy 3y ago
Yeah, I remember meeting someone who designed ASICs back in 2000 or 2001 and he made ~$260k/year ($1000/work day) as a salaried employee for a certain large printer company.
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by thatoneguy 3y ago
Generally speaking, I no longer buy any device that requires a smartphone app or otherwise not built into the device itself.
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by thatoneguy 3y ago
Since you probably haven't worked at Google, this sort of thing is what many googlers have wanted since at least the closure of Google Reader. But executives and engineers won't get promoted doing anything but launching products,
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by thatoneguy 4y ago
That's pretty much how it works now, at least with IVF, pre-implantation genetic testing and known mutations/deletions.
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by thatoneguy 4y ago
The first organic dye (cyanine) used for CDRs back in the '90s rotted faster than the more expensive phthalocyanine (20-50 years vs 50-100 years)[1]. [1] https://www.canada.ca/en/conservation-institute/service
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by thatoneguy 4y ago
The $245,000 loan from his parents in 1995 to help start Amazon begs to differ.
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by thatoneguy 4y ago
California let Priuses in to the carpool lanes for awhile with a "Carpool OK" sticker I think due to their reduced emissions. BEVs later got the same stickers but they were either limited in number and/or eventually were phas
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by thatoneguy 4y ago
Making and having lots of friends and being willing to listen has always worked for me.

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