Jgrubb

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by Jgrubb 3d ago
I mumble this line to myself off and on over the years - Everybody's job looks easy until you have to do it yourself. It occurred to me yesterday that this AI moment is an extreme expression of that for most people, ie managers who don
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by Jgrubb 11d ago
Rumsfeld put in the work and was very smart. His natural disposition was such that, when given the ring of power, things went badly. The current head of DoD is basically a manosphere influencer that bumbled into this job. Now, I'm not
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by Jgrubb 12d ago
Maybe doesn't mean that when _you_ do it, but do you work in this team at OpenAI?
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by Jgrubb 14d ago
In short, a rock solid data analysis artifact takes a lot longer than just running the queries.
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by Jgrubb 14d ago
I don't know "how big", but I do know that it's a 7.2kV line, and that there are 6 houses on it, and that mine is pretty far away while the other houses are quite close to the transformer. Like I said, it routinely drops
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by Jgrubb 14d ago
This. Putting together a complaint in the language of a electricity service professional(?) with proper citations etc.
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by Jgrubb 14d ago
I read and article on here some months ago titled something like "Leftist usecases for LLMs" and one of them was negotiating bureaucracies, and that reminds me, I need to call back JCP&L about my Board of Public Utilities comp
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by Jgrubb 21d ago
What's he gonna do? There is no "enough" with some personalities, there is only "more".
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by Jgrubb 1mo ago
I think you're misunderstanding me. I'm saying "It gets paid by the word and you get back walls of text." - ie, what you don't want to think is happening is very obviously what is happening. It charges by the unit
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by Jgrubb 1mo ago
What's tin foil about that? It gets paid by the word and you get back walls of text.
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by Jgrubb 1mo ago
I guess we'll see about that.
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by Jgrubb 1mo ago
What is there even to say about this? Where does one even begin?
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by Jgrubb 3mo ago
I suppose if you observed every Facebook product development since those days it would seem like a founding value.
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by Jgrubb 3mo ago
No, he actually became one of the richest ppl in the world by stealing that idea from somebody else.
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by Jgrubb 3mo ago
"Privilege is thinking that something isn't a problem because it doesn't affect you personally." is a sticker I bought once.
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by Jgrubb 3mo ago
On the other hand, basically every beat lines up with our experience, so :man-shrugging:
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by Jgrubb 3mo ago
I asked Claude some ways I could make my teeth whiter, it suggested DuckDB!
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by Jgrubb 3mo ago
I believe that the explosion of software _production_ in the last 6-12 months in all areas of society is beginning to run headlong into a global bottleneck in the capacity to _deliver_ and _distribute_ that much more software. Unlike previo
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by Jgrubb 3mo ago
I have too much actual wood to split but I like where you're head is at.
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by Jgrubb 3mo ago
Yes, but obviously this toy faces a challenge when folks who take this stuff seriously walk by. I immediately want a bungee to put around it so the wood doesn't go everywhere. I also want to split it finer than in quarters. Had to n
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by Jgrubb 3mo ago
The tokens are still being burnt, they're just doing so in a parallel dimension from the users main context window.
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by Jgrubb 3mo ago
Feels like it's geared toward actually enabling the "dark factory", which is pretty difficult with enterprisey, seat based SaaS like GitHub and Jira. Will definitely check this out.
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by Jgrubb 3mo ago
If only there were some interest on the part of Big Telco to solve these types of problems.
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by Jgrubb 3mo ago
Yes. Not to mention, I have several crates of records that I've had since the 90s. Some of those were taken from my dad collection that he bought new back in the 60s. Those albums still play just fine, despite less than archival care t
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by Jgrubb 3mo ago
Vinyl is a terrible technology?? Have you never put on an old record and considered the miracle of it? 70 years ago Miles Davis vibrates some air with his horn, which is translated into electricity by a microphone, which is translated throu
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by Jgrubb 4mo ago
I don't know what's gonna happen man, but I'm gonna have my kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames. - Jim Morrison
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by Jgrubb 4mo ago
I think actual thinking is now more valuable than ever.
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by Jgrubb 4mo ago
Part of the magic of their account rep strategy is how they keep them on your account for so long, you get to develop not just a rapport but a trust that they truly understand your business. It gives me faith that when they advise us on the
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by Jgrubb 4mo ago
Railway has not had the best month in the tech press have they? And in both cases it was an automated process belonging to some other party that put them there, damaging their reputation. I was going to talk to our google rep about their ki
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by Jgrubb 4mo ago
"All the new data centers" are being built everywhere.

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