jcgrillo

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by jcgrillo 3mo ago
Sure, and why not? And there's an even higher level of government above that one. And if we really start misbehaving, there's an international level above that one... I think computer nerds call that kind of thing "defense
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by jcgrillo 3mo ago
You don't need to print anything, just visit your neighborhood hardware store
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by jcgrillo 3mo ago
You can make all of those things. First you pick up two sticks and rub them together real good (maybe use the inner bark of a hickory tree or similar to make some cordage s.t. you can make a bow drill and rub them even better.. you may find
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by jcgrillo 3mo ago
Manufacture a bunch of guns with a lathe instead lmao. Or if they try to take that away, forge weld smoothbore musket barrels the old way with bar stock spiraled around a mandrel. Just make sure you use enough 20 team mule and hear a crack
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by jcgrillo 3mo ago
The next town over from where I live has basically no rules. No zoning, if you want to turn your property into a junkyard go right ahead! Even still, people are successfully fighting against a trash company putting in a landfill. I believe
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by jcgrillo 3mo ago
In a lot of systems the kind of rigid guardrails we have in computers are counterproductive. It descends into a epicyclical, fractal mess of special-cased exceptions, none of which faithfully models the actual system [EDIT: an example which
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by jcgrillo 3mo ago
OK but I already gave it 2yrs. How many 2yr grace periods do they get before it becomes clear they're simply lying? It really doesn't help to have stuff like this in print: > a technology that could power a surge in productivit
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by jcgrillo 3mo ago
It's a Scott McNealy quote[0]. [0] https://www.information-age.com/mcnealy-and-ellison-usher-in...
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by jcgrillo 3mo ago
> a writhing mass of copulating tapeworms What a metaphor! I will file that one away for some glorious future opportunity.
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by jcgrillo 3mo ago
Why not include 6 then? I remember when I got the Marathon Trilogy Box Set from the Apple store (before they were called that) in Keene, NH whenever the fuck it was before 2000--maybe 1998? It came with 3+ CDs, a book, a crazy box, and a po
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by jcgrillo 3mo ago
children of the zombie corn
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by jcgrillo 3mo ago
idk anything about games these days, but that mudbogger stang is sick
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by jcgrillo 3mo ago
Thanks for the link, that is an interesting writeup!
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by jcgrillo 3mo ago
> Nobody got "left behind" from the Internet, even cranky 80 year olds... This is actually false. There are plenty of 80+ year olds in care facilities and living alone that are disadvantaged by the implicit assumption that ever
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by jcgrillo 3mo ago
As far as I'm aware they never explicitly kicked the generational hornets' nest, but I'm not a scholar of AI goober drivel
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by jcgrillo 3mo ago
> You guys have the opportunity to be generation AI—where you come into the workforce saying, ‘I know this a lot better than all of you' Yeah, it was expressly my intent to shut this kind of nonsense down. This is just a different v
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by jcgrillo 3mo ago
I'm old too, it isn't about that. He's desperately trying to guilt young people into glomming onto his profoundly uncool thing by playing on some ancient "digital native" trope. It's, well, some boomer type shi
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by jcgrillo 3mo ago
Such an out of touch attempt to get the youths onboard the hype train.. ok boomer.
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by jcgrillo 3mo ago
They're all clowns. None of them are credible. TBH this extends much further down than the C-suite. Generally it seems like something happens to people's brains when they hit roughly Director+ where they just start spouting absolu
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by jcgrillo 3mo ago
Yeah unfortunately there will be some high quality reports that get erroneously discarded, but so long as the signal/noise ratio improves sufficiently that's an acceptable price.
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by jcgrillo 3mo ago
The problem always existed, but nobody amassed a sufficiently large army of trolls to exploit it until now. So it wasn't a priority to solve it before, but now it is. We're going to have to learn to differentiate reports that matt
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by jcgrillo 3mo ago
Yes, it's a pyramid scheme. There has been no real tech growth products since Web 2.0/mobile. VR/Metaverse? No. Web3? No. AI is another attempt at a manufacturing a synthetic, viral "growth technology" because we&#x
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by jcgrillo 3mo ago
Yes, however the companies that are responsible for doing it have already shown their asses a little bit with all the jailbreaking stuff, and we know they produce really awful code from all the recent harness issues... To my mind that ind
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by jcgrillo 3mo ago
Yeah giving up is totally a viable choice, but it isn't the only option.
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by jcgrillo 3mo ago
Assuming the analysis is right, and most (or all) of these AI companies will default on their debts, what consequences might that have?
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by jcgrillo 3mo ago
There's a secret third option: learn. At one point, all of us were "nontechnical", but we learned. The trick is to never stop.
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by jcgrillo 3mo ago
No, but you always have the option to opt out of being a maintainer. If "the community" is going to behave badly and bury you under a barrage of vibeslop you can just leave. EDIT: there's a version of this that could be pos
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by jcgrillo 3mo ago
Yeah I don't dispute they have (had?) successful products. Just saying for a company to abandon successful products in favor of a wildly costly gamble is insane. To even arrive at the point where it seems like a "tradeoff" is
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by jcgrillo 3mo ago
Absolutely unhinged behavior. If orcl goes nuts over chatbots and dies that will make this strange and profoundly icky era in tech all worth it.
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by jcgrillo 3mo ago
ayy lmao play stupid games win stupid prizes

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