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I'm a technical kinda guy, doing technical kinda stuff.

  • Next minute, here comes that sweet DARPA grant.

  • I'm just waiting for the closed-source AI industry to have their Black Swan moment.

    Something's going to come out of left field from the open AI community and all that investment in proprietary models and mega-compute is going to be rendered useless.

  • Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale

    Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus

    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Torment_Nexus

  • Surely there should be settings in their NTP clients regarding skew as well. If you're trucking along and then your time server says, "Hey I know we've been sync'd within 3 milliseconds for years now, but you just need to step the time back 19.8 years real quick for me", then that should raise a tiny red flag with your client?

  • Here's a little feedback for you: Never trust the user's browser.

     
        
    Ctrl-Shift-I -> Console -> "this.proManager.enablePro()" -> <Enter>
    
    
      
  • that unions are “not meritocratic,” “prevent innovation,” and “hold back earnings of top performers.”

    When they make comments like that, they always assume that they are the "top performers", getting the best deal already (edit: or on track to be one of them in the future). That assumption is usually wrong.

  • Obligatory insurance company ad featuring everyone's favorite spider.

    Had one slooowly stick its legs out from where the dash met the driver's side door one day while I was driving 100km/hr with the wife.

    "Ok honey we just need to pull over for a second somewhere to sort something out 😬"

  • You can generally go with the rule of thumb of "one foot per nanosecond" for the speed of light. Signals rattle along data lines a little slower because they are contained on a circuit board and not in free space, so it's more like "150mm per nanosecond" is the metric equivalent of propagation delay. That sounds pretty fast - and it is! It's like 50-60 percent of the speed of light.

    But your average 3GHz multi-core CPU is doing a half dozen instructions per nanosecond. That means if you have your RAM over here and your CPU over there on your motherboard, you're going to have wait a measurable, impactful, amount of time for data to go back and forth between the two.

    So the mobile/Apple idea of sticking your RAM directly on top of your CPU has some merit.

  • But they needed those .env files to transplant an entire software stack from the developer's laptop into production in a reproducible manner! How else were they ever going to get software into prod? By good documentation, broad version requirements, and following the Robustness Principle? Ha! How are you supposed to move fast and break things then?

  • If you design and print the thing though, that is still creating something, just using different tools to construct the thing that you visualised in your mind.

  • I see this, "I just can't deal" a lot in younger generations. I do wonder if they have been conditioned to respond like this due to social media overreaction videos and memes.

    Prioritisation is a learned skill. So is communication, that way you can talk to others to determine a task's priority if you can't figure it out yourself.

    Education systems really need a few classes on stuff like this, not just letting everyone experience the disaster of a "group project" for themselves.

  • Oh hey, you can still get views! You just need to open an advertising account with them, and them pay them anywhere between $50-$1000 and they'll then show your one sponsored post to anywhere between 2 and 50 percent of people who like that kind of thing, for anywhere between 3 days and two weeks. Just select how much you want to spend to get that sweet exposure!

    What's that? You want to reach all your friends and followers? All of them? For free? Sorry, they don't do that kind of thing anymore.

  • Pfft, amateur.

    If you can't manually adjust ignition timing and air:fuel ratios you can't really drive a car.

  • The problem is that an algorithm defines "less consequential posts" and it doesn't have your best interests at heart, at all.

    I did wonder if posts from friends were deliberately delayed so that you would be guilted into responding to their Big Thing that you didn't see on your feed. Eventually, you'd be trained to keep scrolling to find posts from your friends, and they'd be trained to keep checking for replies days after their Big Thing, thus maximising user engagement and profit.

  • They could have verified that shit!

    There's no "They". There's nobody home. Nobody's looking at this shit, it's all just algorithms and machine learning, there's nobody customer-facing at Google who's job it is to vet this crap. Your scammy website passed some set of automated metrics Google uses to determine scamminess, so it's off to the front page of search results it goes.

  • It'll come in handy later on when you're in that government doomsday shelter and you need to print a hard copy of the nuke disarm codes on the line printer that was big enough to need a tarp as a dust cover.

  • Essentially they pushed so much crap into your feed that your friends got pushed out.

    So then what was the point of posting your current status when your circle might only see it two or three days later?

    The immediacy was lost, and thus so was the usefulness.

  • Bit late now, but a tiny squirt of WD-40 into the ribbon cartridge often got you another few hundred pages out of it.

  • All hail laser.

    No love for the 9 pin dot matrix?