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- Comment on turned them into their final form! 3 days ago:
I was on a cruise once. Upper deck mini-buffet had a plate of piped black bean croquettes.
They were lumpy like the beef here, and because they were piped, one side of the ends was pinched off.
The head chef for the boat was making his rounds. We were laughing at the presentation. He smiled at us probably thinking what are these assholes laughing at, he looked down, frowed, what za fuk were zey thinking putting shit out like this. Within a few minutes the pan disappeared and the next day that buffet was quite pretty.
- Comment on Gemini AI tells the user to die — the answer appeared out of nowhere when the user asked Google's Gemini for help with his homework 4 days ago:
Hell, even if you are a programmer and have no memory issues, it’s a hell of a lot faster to have it boilerplate something for you for a given engine with certain features than to sit down and write it from scratch or try to find a boilerplate. Stack exchange usage has been going down regularly as LLMs are filling the gap.
It doesn’t get you to third base or anything. But it does get you started and well-structured within the first couple minutes of code for any reasonably simple task.
Last year I worked on a synchronized Halloween projector project. I had the first week of work saved into my repo, but as Halloween approached, I wrote a lot of it on the server. After Halloween, I failed to commit it back and inadvertently wiped the box.
This year, after realizing my code was gone, I decided to try having copilot give me a head start. I had it start back over from scratch, asked it in detail for exactly what I had last year, it was all fully functional again in about 4 hours. It was clean, functional well documented code. I had no problem extending it out with my own work and picked up like I hadn’t lost anything.
- Comment on "What Is Your Dream for Mozilla" - Mozilla is doing a survey, questions include "What is most important to you right now about technology and the internet?" 4 days ago:
My dream for Mozilla is that it does not descend into a capitalist marionette full of silent information gathering and black-box AI widgets. If you’re going to do AI, I want it open, like training data open. Whitepaper open. I want to be able to trust the company and it’s projects and especially it’s browser.
- Comment on Comcast, Disney, and IBM Are Among Advertisers Returning to X After Ad Freeze 6 days ago:
the writing on the wall and money are not mutually exclusive
- Comment on 10 newborns killed in India hospital fire 6 days ago:
My boss, a few jobs ago, used to tell us all the dirty stories. My favorite was he was at some place to get some form of business license. He had waited a really long time to get the appointment. Apparently, the guy’s secretary was supposed to tell my boss about the expected bribe, and its amount. He went on into the office and sat down. Did you speak with my secretary on the way in? Yes. Oh good. long pause Didn’t she tell you something? No. Are you sure she didn’t… Look, we both know you need a bribe, so stop pussy footing around and tell me how much you want and we can both go about our day. Oh um, well bribe, um no, um you’ll have to go talk to her. No just tell me what you want and lets be done with it.
Stories about driving and traffic were always gems too.
Later, he went home and started a company in a tax-free zone, outsourcing most of our development for 1/4 of the cost. We had one project that got behind, it was promised on Tuesday, ran into Wednesday, at EOD her time she said she needed to leave and pick it up tomorrow, asked for permission. we were 30m away from being done, we asked her to stay. She became very upset and started to sob a little, we asked her what was wrong. Apparently if she was out after dark wild packs of dogs chased her home. I never did find out If that was a euphemism for rapists. We had another lead developer literally get run over by a bus. After then ran over him, they stopped and backed over him again.
- Comment on Comcast, Disney, and IBM Are Among Advertisers Returning to X After Ad Freeze 6 days ago:
I have no love for big corps, but they’re likely just reading the writing on the wall. they have to deal with retribution for the next 4-12 years and they have no interest becoming the rebels. I’m kinda impressed they stepped away at all other than it probably was money spent for nothing.
- Comment on Omnivore Alternatives? 1 week ago:
The directions specifically lead through using a docker host and an elastic search host, But there’s certainly no reason you couldn’t just do that on your own.
- Comment on Amazon is shutting down Freevee 1 week ago:
I think Wil Wheaton had something that was supposed to air on Freevee, the link his PR person gave him just threw you back into the Amazon video page, I’ve never actually seen any information about the service or a working video stream surface.
It seems like a lot of places are ready to throw millions of dollars into system and just never freaking marking them.
- Comment on AI PCs flow into distribution pipeline, but who wants them? 1 week ago:
You can get a lot done currently with ARC. The mobile ARC versions share system memory, So if you get a mini PC with ARC and upgrade it to 96GB, you can share system ram with the GPU and load decently large models. They’re a little slow it not being vram and all, but still useful (and cheap)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyKEQjUzfAk
I have it running on a zenbook duo with 32GB so I can’t load the 70B models, but I works shockingly well.
- Comment on AI PCs flow into distribution pipeline, but who wants them? 1 week ago:
I certainly don’t wan to run windows on it :)
I’ve been running llama keep my telemetry out of the hands of Microsoft/Google/"open"AI. I’m kind of shocked how much I can do locally with a half assed video card, and offline model and a hacked up copy of searxng.
- Comment on Blizzard just quietly released Warcraft 1 and 2 remasters, and they look like Zynga games made by a blind duck 1 week ago:
That’s because crappy mobile game art looks like 1993 computer games :)
- Comment on Godot Engine 4.4 dev 4 released with interactive in-game editing 1 week ago:
Oh damn, I just started learning Godot yesterday…
- Comment on Signal gets new video call features, making it a viable alternative to Zoom, Meet and Teams 1 week ago:
I worked for a healthcare / health insurance place some time ago. They monitored absolutely everything. They had everything. We ran appliances to Man in the Middle HTTPS sites, We had sneaky SMTP servers that would detect credit card numbers or social security numbers block the emails from going out and send them to a secure web portal. The recipient would just get a message that there’s a secure message waiting for them and they have to go login and retrieve it.
These days if you run slack Enterprise, The workspace managers can get access to even the most private of chats. I’m not sure about teams I’ve managed to stay away from it. I believe you could do this in Gchat but it would probably require a lot of legwork maybe somebody makes an application for it already I don’t know.
I didn’t mean to say that no companies would go for it has anybody even just running small business versions of software don’t have access to that kind of thing, The places that have any intent on decent operational security are going to want their tentacles into all the things.
- Comment on Blizzard just quietly released Warcraft 1 and 2 remasters, and they look like Zynga games made by a blind duck 1 week ago:
shrug
Dunno, I was involved on some of the Zynga titles, so maybe I’m biased.
Two looks really decent. Maybe One could have had a few more cosmetic upgrades. It looks to me like maybe they leaned in a little hard into HDR.
If they were going to take the art much further than they did it probably would have been prudent just to make a new version.
- Comment on Signal gets new video call features, making it a viable alternative to Zoom, Meet and Teams 1 week ago:
TBF, the level of privacy afforded at work will never be usable in most companies.
At scale, it’s a security nightmare. PII, HIPAA, PCI, If OPSEC can’t at the very least go back and see what happened in private channels, it’s going to be a hard sell.
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 1 week ago:
A: the driver knows they’re locked from the inside
B: they’re always locked form the inside, they didn’t just stop working because the car lost power
C: lithium fire/smoke makes thinking more difficult than an ICE engine fire
EV complicates it
Tesla made it really bad by electric-only locks.
- Comment on 6.8 magnitude earthquake shakes Cuba after hurricanes and blackouts 1 week ago:
Since the US is about to become buddy-buddy with some communist entities, maybe they’ll relax restrictions?
- Comment on Lack Of Interest In The PS5 Pro Is Forcing Scalpers To Sell Them For A Loss 1 week ago:
sounds like if you can’t scalp it inside the return period, you probably shouldn’t have bought it in the first place.
- Comment on Ukraine : Russia says dozens of drones target Moscow 1 week ago:
The edge of Ukraine to Moscow should be something like 450 - 500 miles.
Quadcopters we’ve been seeing on the news aren’t anywhere near efficient enough to make it that far much less carrying a payload. Off the shelf dragon link uhf would only give them vision for about 27 mi.
Commercial fixed wing planes could carry a little more and go a little further.
If they’ve managed to get their hands on some proper military drones They could get there at low altitude with almost enough range to get back.
- Comment on Somebody moved UK's oldest satellite, and no-one knows who or why 1 week ago:
I was reading up on the satellite hacking communities back in the 00’s. 1969, that old stuff had only basic security if any at all. It’s possible that anyone all the way down to an amateur might have commanded it to move.
From the description it sounds like it’s orbit has become somewhat elliptical. If some state entity was trying to screw with it, they probably would have left it in more of a stable geosynchronous position. You don’t have to move it far to make a point.
Seeing that it’s dead and they’re not likely to have logs from it, maybe it had a malfunction or a propellant leak.
- Comment on What would North Korean soldiers do in Ukraine? 1 week ago:
It would be interesting if they defected to the Ukraine and became part of the resistance.
- Comment on Facial Recognition Firm Announces Way To Punish Retail Workers, Shoppers For Forming Relationships 2 weeks ago:
“If you go into a shop and you pick up a few groceries, usually you would pick any of the cashiers that is around and you go scan your goods,” he said. “When someone is planning a sweethearting theft, they will always go to the same cashier, which is most of the time a relative of theirs, and this is an anomaly in the behavior compared to the other customers. Our system is able to identify this anomaly and alert on that.”
I usually go to one of two cashiers because they are faster and actually know what they are doing. I will always return to them simply to save time.
The system sounds costly. It’s merely another version of the “inventory robots” that never gained traction. They’ll end up spending six figures per store on hardware that constantly triggers false alerts until they eventually shut it down. Weren’t groceries supposed to be fully NFC by now, allowing you to scan everything at once on your way to the door?
The managers know who’s gonna steal. They see them sweet-talking and complaining about fixed income.