siffland

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by siffland 7mo ago
My issues is with false arrests due to people blindly following AI. People pulled out of their cars are gunpoint due to the AI misreading a single letter on the plate, the lady who was arrested for stealing amazon packages just because flo
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by siffland 1y ago
The issue is a lot of times it takes a senior level programmer to reason with a LLM to get the results needed. What happens when there are no Juniors to replace the Seniors. I guess by then AI will be able to program efficiently enough. So
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by siffland 2y ago
When I saw Loki as the name, I instantly thought of Grafana Loki for logging. I click on the GitHub and get Libr-AI and OpenFactVerification. I am not commenting on the actual software and I know names are hard and often overlap, but with
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by siffland 3y ago
I remember play a game years and years ago (cannot recall the game), you come out of a mountain cave halfway up turn left and then enter another cave. However i stopped and you got a view of a desert landscape (i remember it as awe inspiri
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by siffland 3y ago
You would think a company would like to negotiate and be seen by a community as a positive company. I would not buy a product from them on principal after their statement. myQ could have engaged the home assistant maintainer and worked ou
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by siffland 3y ago
I think one of the biggest fears from ARM would be the popularity of the Raspberry Pi and their community. There are better boards than the Raspberry Pi (strictly speaking specifications here). I took that path of playing with a lot of alt
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by siffland 3y ago
I have no idea why this is fun, but on AI chat-bots, i always test 2 + 2(2-2) Should be answer of 2, however on different bots (not just GPT) i have gotten 0, 2, 4 and 6 (all i can understand except the 6). So yeah.......math messes with so
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by siffland 3y ago
Working in Tech, I love a lot about electric cars. I just have a few issues I cannot seem to overcome (this is a personal ME thing about EV's and some new gas vehicles, your mileage may vary....pun intended). All new cars spy on you (
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by siffland 3y ago
My kids laugh at me because I still buy CDs and rip them and some bandcamp. I rip to flac, not for some audiophile reason, but because I can rip a single file for the album with metadata included and space is cheap. I never have to worry ab
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by siffland 3y ago
I have been using FreeBSD since 1999, it was version 3.somthing, cannot remember. Since then my main server/development box has always been FreeBSD (I have a Linux one as well for some software that just will not run). Somewhere along
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by siffland 3y ago
It is also not just about the financial donations. These companies also do contribute back some source code. I know they do not contribute all of it back, however for closed source products to give back is a nice touch.
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by siffland 4y ago
I think where the difference comes in with vinyl is the mastering process. CD's/Digital and Vinyl usually go through two entirely different mastering processes. This will make listening to the two sound different even though the
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by siffland 4y ago
I hate the network switch debate. Most center around noise shaping the sound. It is a one or zero, it will checksum and TCP either gives the correct packet or drops it. Also I do not know many audio streamers that do not buffer since TCP w
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by siffland 4y ago
When I am writing code for something it is fun to see what it comes up with as opposed to what I did. I also find it fun for bouncing ideas off of while brainstorming (it does not judge me for stupid ideas). Most importantly I taught it th
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by siffland 5y ago
You are probably correct. Again people will bet on current system not being in use 15 years from now and it is not a problem until it is a problem. On a better note Y2K brought us the movie "Office Space", so perhaps Y2K38 will gi
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by siffland 5y ago
Hindsight is always 20/20, we all know now that it would of been a bad idea. I do think this, along with Project Orion, are great thinking by people to utilize terribly destructive weapons for outside the box peaceful solutions. Again
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by siffland 6y ago
At my first UNIX IT job, my team lead told me: Listen when you break something tell us. Explain what you did and we can get it fixed. You will make mistakes, we all still make mistakes. That is what i always do and expect my coworkers to
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by siffland 6y ago
From the beginning of Byte magazine until about 1984 are really fun to read. The ads were probably annoying at the time of release, but not they are fun and interesting to read. I like the 1983 issue with imaging where they are talking abou
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by siffland 7y ago
Serious question, since this is out of my swim lane. The Author keeps talking about the effects of Galactic Cosmic Rays, do we have any usable materials we can build habitats out of that can block them? I mean usable in the sense we can p
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by siffland 7y ago
Every project i have been on where we built for availability and resilience has inevitably had at least one single point of failure. Usually it is something deemed non critical, but somehow can still bring the infrastructure down (A single
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by siffland 7y ago
Funny story, about 6 years ago we got a HP DL980 server with 1TB of memory to move from an Itanium HP-UX server. The test database was Oracle and about 600GB in size. We loaded the data and they had some query test they would run and the
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by siffland 7y ago
You can lock down YOUR infrastructure, but then are 100% dependent on the cloud environment to maintain and patch theirs. Since you have no insight to what the underlying infrastructure consists of you really have no way of knowing if they
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by siffland 7y ago
This was an accident, they meant to buy 2 blades for more SAN ports and they ordered the wrong parts. They did this with a few database servers as well, they were supposed to order 8 core processors, but they ordered 10 core instead (it was
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by siffland 7y ago
After 15 years of being a DoD contractor, it is frustrating to see yet another sole source entity getting the contract. Prices will inflate and there is no competition. HP and Oracle have been reaping the benefits of this for at least two
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by siffland 7y ago
I agree Nomad is probably a better solution, however my friend is an Oracle DBA who now manages the servers and docker since their System Administrator left and he was thrown into it. I was addressing the: "The takeaway is: don't
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by siffland 7y ago
A good friend and old coworker has been hitting me up for how to do stuff with docker since his job now uses containers. He has about 15 containers (on 2 hosts) that do not change to much and was asking about setting up k8s (it was a buzzw
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by siffland 7y ago
My wife drives for Lyft, she does not have to, she is an extrovert and loves to talk to other people. She puts up with her share of crap, people puking in her van (a lot) lots of drunks, guys hitting on her (usually drunk), you name it it
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by siffland 7y ago
I would not get it for this exact reason. However to counterpoint your argument this will work for some people like my high school kids. They stream spotify because they don't want to buy songs and after that current song is no longer
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by siffland 7y ago
Firefox should join in and we should go straight to Wifi 48
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by siffland 7y ago
I went to sign up for Nextdoor and it wanted full access to all my contacts in my phone. I looked on their site and that is so they can invite friends from my contacts. I didn't sign up, maybe i will later, leaves a bad taste in my m

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