ItsBob

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by ItsBob 4d ago
I'm of the opinion that the greenest car you can have is the car that you currently own! No matter what you buy, energy was expended to make it! The car you own already has spent the energy. It's done. So, assuming you're not
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by ItsBob 4d ago
When I was referring to ICE vs electric I was referring to personal transportation only. Sometimes you just _can't_ use less oil. My own situation is that I make 5 sub-100 mile round-trip journeys each week now. It's the poster-ch
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by ItsBob 5d ago
Every car has a 4G/5G modem in it now! Unless you cut off your search at about 2018, no matter what car you buy, you're giving up data! I don't like it either but you have to pick your battles these days.
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by ItsBob 5d ago
Unfortunately it's not as black and white as that. The alternatives here in the UK are limited. It's basically ICE or electric. We have a staggering number of people that live in apartments so charging is out of the question excep
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by ItsBob 5d ago
In what way is it not worth it? I'm genuinely curious. I used to be dead-set-against electric cars but I just bought one and am loving it. The maths is staggering. It's secondhand though as I don't believe new ones are worth
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by ItsBob 5d ago
I've just bought my first electric car. It's a 3 year old Skoda Enyaq Sportline Plus. It's lost 60% of its value, has only done 57k miles and has a battery state of health of 97.4%. I paid £22k. I still maintain that new cars
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by ItsBob 1mo ago
I haven't read the transcript yet but are there no "human in the middle" loops here? Surely we could just get a pair of eyeballs on everything flagged and if it's not 100% crystal clear what's going on, then it gets
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by ItsBob 2mo ago
I don't think Microsoft would fail if it all crashed. Nor would Google or Amazon as they all have alternate revenue streams. It's the pure AI companies like OpenAI that will hit the wall. However, the tech companies are increasing
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by ItsBob 2mo ago
> It’s mostly private credit I believe that some of the private credit is the banks' own private credit arm! It's absolutely mental: the bank can't lend to them so they have a private credit company/division that can
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by ItsBob 2mo ago
> Further, unlike during the dotcom crisis, most of this spending is not driven by debt. Unfortunately, that's not the case. Between the big 5 (Microsoft, Meta, Amazon etc.) they're spending more than $600 Billion in 2026! They
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by ItsBob 2mo ago
You'll be able to buy used H100s. One careful owner. Never overclocked etc. They'll be knackered though, unlike a good Herman Miller chair. :-) We might even be able to afford RAM again!
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by ItsBob 2mo ago
It's hard not to be fatalistic about all of this now: In my mind, it's crystal clear that the investments will never be paid back. The revenue streams from all the companies involved don't add up. It must fail at this point.
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by ItsBob 2mo ago
> I don’t know if the public would be as accepting of a bailout for AI companies It won't be framed as bailing out the AI companies. It will be sold to the public as bailing out their pensions and investments. It's all about th
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by ItsBob 2mo ago
It won't just be America though. I include others like Canada, UK (where I am), parts of EU etc.
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by ItsBob 2mo ago
Honestly, at this point I don't care about that. I don't use it for medical stuff or anything like that. However, my real worry is that governments will make these models illegal in the west. They'll cite national security or
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by ItsBob 2mo ago
It's not losing yet but I think it will. I use Gemini Pro (got it with my 5TB of Google storage) and for a while it seemed if Google had pulled the rug as I was running out of quota after only a few hours. That seems to have been diall
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by ItsBob 3mo ago
Apparently I know 70,000 words... I got 90 out of 100 and it thinks I'm Stephen Fry!
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by ItsBob 3mo ago
It's built into Android/iOS and an accepted way of logging into an app. The app store page (when it's released) shows exactly what I need: practically no information at all. Google handle the payment and the subscription too
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by ItsBob 3mo ago
I took this article to be more along the lines of the author perhaps loving the idea of being a snowboarder, rather than actually becoming one. I know it sounds a bit cynical but I think that's the case for me in a lot of ways: I love
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by ItsBob 3mo ago
It's more for performance that you shouldn't use them as PK's - If you insert a lot you'll get massive fragmentation over time. A sequential Id avoids that and still gives you a unique row. The Guid is purely for an exte
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by ItsBob 3mo ago
It's for your login and payments. I need to verify that you are authenticated somehow and Google/Apple also handle payments. You "Login with Apple" or "Login with Google". They manage the login entirely and pas
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by ItsBob 3mo ago
These days I treat other people's data like it's a live hand grenade. Case in point (bit of a shameless plug here :) I'm working on an App called Hockeytastic. It's an ice-hockey stickhandling app that my son's been
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by ItsBob 3mo ago
Sorry, but it's a hard "no" on that. It's a danger at age 15! I guarantee that without constant supervision, he'd use it for everything.
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by ItsBob 3mo ago
No, that's not the case and I don't think comparing Gemini and the internet is the same. The internet (to stretch your analogy) is more like a shit load of library books that you have to look through but Gemini is the guy that goe
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by ItsBob 3mo ago
My rule for primary keys and id's is simple: Sequential integer (or bigint) as the PK and if I need to make it public, I have a GUID (or UUID) in the row too, e.g. tbl_person would have Id (int|bigint) and person_guid as (UUID). The In
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by ItsBob 3mo ago
They worry me. A lot. My son is 15 and I use Google Family Link to control what he does on his phone: it's pretty open for the most part (I receive notifications of installs) but Gemini is a hard-ban. We've spoken at length of the
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by ItsBob 4mo ago
I live in the UK :-)
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by ItsBob 4mo ago
I'm hoping to retire in the next 12 months (52 years old). When I do, I'll be buying a Chromebook. Any and all PC-related shit is being sold off. I will quite literally never write a line of code again... with any luck!
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by ItsBob 4mo ago
Interesting read. I'm going through that same issue at my work where my boss wants me to "educate" the rest of the devs on the use of Copilot to make them more efficient, however, I have no time to put anything together and I
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by ItsBob 5mo ago
In the UK, any car that used a 3G modem is fine now: we have no 3G networks here any more.

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