bithead

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by bithead 10mo ago
The very notion of IQ reduces the mind to a receptacle for some ineffable thing called 'intelligence'. One may as well have a CQ - Comedy Quotient and start speculating who has a higher GQ - Robin Williams or Dave Chapelle.
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by bithead 10mo ago
They will then need to be all encrypted traffic if such a law survive legal challenge.
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by bithead 10mo ago
As a network engineer I regularly participate and mediate 'vendor support shootouts' between vendors like cisco, juniper, arista, verizon, at&t, and, microsoft - all often amongst each other. It is at times maddeningly frustr
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by bithead 10mo ago
Either that or microsoft and/or google will send someone to my house to Raymond Reddington my ass if I install W11 with only a local account.
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by bithead 11mo ago
Do LLMs ever ask for you to clarify something you said in a way a person who doesn't quite understand what you said will do?
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by bithead 11mo ago
I have to wonder what edge AI would look like on a laptop. Little super mini Nvidia Jetson? How much added cost? How much more weight for the second and third batteries? And the fourth and fifth batteries to be able to unplug for more th
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by bithead 11mo ago
What - their AI couldn't find it sooner? Better get those RAGs in order.
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by bithead 11mo ago
Solar at least is a much faster way to add capacity to the grid than coal or natural gas, particularly residential rooftop solar. In a competition with China for AI predominance, trump shot the USA in the foot by deep sixing renewal incent
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by bithead 1y ago
America was founded by lawyers
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by bithead 1y ago
When I was on the team migrating datacenters, we got ahold of tcpdump.exe which didn't need winpcap presumably because it was staticly compiled under cygwin - I'm fairly certain someone didn't write the entire thing includin
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by bithead 1y ago
As a network engineer I once had a project involving an infrastructure for a deployment of thousands (so I was told) of SQLServers. My part was pretty straightforward and ready well ahead of schedule, but the DB team got stuck because the
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by bithead 1y ago
If people are stupid to fall for the subscribe model, they likely need AI.
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by bithead 1y ago
I worked in academia for years before moving to the commercial sector, and in academia management seemed to run on the "in the real world" mantra. Yet if the managers in academia did half of what I saw them do in the commercial s
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by bithead 2y ago
Social media makes me miss USENet
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by bithead 2y ago
Takes less time than other CAPTCHAs
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by bithead 2y ago
>A study by the Mutagenesis Group of the UAB Department of Genetics If I drink this tea will I gain latent mutant powers?
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by bithead 2y ago
"To shreds, you say"
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by bithead 2y ago
>These scams will continue until regulators get serious about putting people in jail for them. Which is so much more likely under turmp.
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by bithead 2y ago
"In the process, SciAm played a small but important role in the self-immolation of scientific authority—a terrible event whose fallout we'll be living with for a long time." Which is it - small or important? All that seems l
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by bithead 2y ago
I think it's possible they may. I used to get 50 - 150 of those "I hacked the camera on your computers and videoed you wacking. Pay me bitcoins and I won't release it to all your friends". Many come from .kz, .cn, .in
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by bithead 2y ago
I wrote a role playing game I called 'Heroes' in the 80s. I should file something.
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by bithead 2y ago
Isn't it true that at the time there wasn't anything like weather radar? What would have happened if a zeppelin got caught up in a strong storm?
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by bithead 2y ago
A fee schedule would help, but I think what may end up happening is what happened to spamcop. The realtime black hole list at one point shutdown open SMTP relays, but how spammers got around it was Spam As A Service providers like mailchim
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by bithead 2y ago
I can remember when you had to have a credible account of a coding run to converse with people who were self-described 'hackers' - EMACS/TPU skills notwithstanding.
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by bithead 2y ago
Brew makes me cringe. Apt just installs what you need and then it's done. Brew makes a thing about updating everything - I'm always reluctant about it. It does make having multiple versions of python fairly easy.
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by bithead 2y ago
Yeah they are, as in this case.
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by bithead 2y ago
>Those deliveries were made by Shipt workers, who shopped for the items and drove them to customers’ doorsteps. I've seen Shipt's operations internally, and they don't go shopping for stuff at stores and then deliver them,
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by bithead 2y ago
Ignorance is bliss.
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by bithead 2y ago
No wonder AI gets so much shit wrong. Asked ChatGPG a pydantic V2 question yesterday and it got it so wrong it would have hurt to watch if it were a person teaching a class. I hope AI doesn't start running operations and building pla
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by bithead 2y ago
Every time I've been a situation in building cloud infrastructure when multiple vendors have been involved in a complex problem and one of those vendors was microsoft, they've always been the worst to deal with.

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