sumtechguy

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by sumtechguy 5mo ago
Interesting. I personally aggressively prune open pages. If I have too much open I get off task and wander into whatever random thing pops up. Anything that needs long term storage I bookmark it in a folder. Using the session manager tha
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by sumtechguy 6mo ago
Honest question do you really use all of those tabs? As a small handful of tabs user I use the bookmark feature to hold things I want to keep for later. ctrl-d and it is in the list. Even then 99% of the time I open it again and go &#x27
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by sumtechguy 6mo ago
totally. MS ended up where it was at because there was basically NO upgrade path between the few different GUI frameworks they had. They broke the whole thing in 2002 when they decided .NET was the way. You had to basically retool your who
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by sumtechguy 6mo ago
spam murdered it. It got ridiculous pretty quickly. The overhead to spam was so low as the protocol was designed to be low friction for posting. The system then took care of carrying the payload everywhere in a reasonable time. People fo
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by sumtechguy 6mo ago
Each version up thru Win8 had a style guide. If you wanted the windows sticker on your box you made it consistent. Why would you want that sticker? If you did not have it it was much harder to get floor space at many of the big box store
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by sumtechguy 6mo ago
MS has done this for years. The have had several overall brands. Visual, live, .net, direct, Active, X, etc etc etc. They will even sometimes have a couple in flight at the same time. Right now now it seems to be copilot and m365. I pr
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by sumtechguy 6mo ago
It will be exactly that. But that is a 'them' problem. I can look at it a go 'that looks like a bad idea' but they are the ones who have to live with it. At some point someone will probably take their LLM code and repo
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by sumtechguy 6mo ago
If I had to guess, I would say no. Also if I had to guess she would say Rimworld is 'too scifi' and Dwarf Fortress would be wildly too much management for what she wants. I showed her Oxygen Not Included. It was too sci fi even
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by sumtechguy 6mo ago
My wife plays 'dont starve' like mad (well into 4k hours). She has never step foot in the underworld. Building huge structures on the main area. So I figured I would show her terraria and minecraft. No interest at all. She vo
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by sumtechguy 6mo ago
This reminds me of the early days of cell phones. Limits everywhere and you paid for it by the kilobyte. Think at one point I was paying 45c per text message. I hope this gets better and we do not need gigawatt datacenters to do this stu
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by sumtechguy 6mo ago
hmm not a terrible idea (I think). You have a semi expensive process. But you want to keep particular known context out. So a quick and dirty search just in front of the expensive process. So instead of 'figure sentiment (20seconds)
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by sumtechguy 6mo ago
I do not think it is the money that made them terrible. I know all sorts of terrible people that would do the exact same things. The only difference really is they do not have the money to execute on those ideas. Money does not make you a
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by sumtechguy 6mo ago
Having done a multi targeted project in the 2005 range. I can tell you. The APIs that both systems provide are quite expansive and do quite a bit. However there is a mismatch on details and gaps. In this case the NT mutex system is &#x2
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by sumtechguy 6mo ago
at last that wrt54g router that I have been saving will be worth something!
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by sumtechguy 6mo ago
Computer guidance? Better materials? Better telemetry?
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by sumtechguy 6mo ago
Thats the rub. Once you dig into the details what does it mean to have 5 9s? Some systems have a huge surface area of calls and views. If the main web page is down but the entire backend API still is responding fine is that a 'down&#
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by sumtechguy 6mo ago
That is spot on. They forgot the first thing. Why would a customer use it and does it help them buy more stuff so I make more money? Just putting an AI in there for the heck of it is doomed to failure. I can think of a few different ways A
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by sumtechguy 6mo ago
exactly. I can think of at least 5 different projects I have been on where a better allocator would made a world of difference. I can also think of another 5 where it probably would have been a waste of time to even fiddle with. but as us
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by sumtechguy 6mo ago
I think that it was a game player and a DVD player had more to do with the success of the thing. Oh and it plays psx games too. I owned both. The graphics/games were of similar quality. Having a larger game storage gave the ps2 a de
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by sumtechguy 7mo ago
> So, when this gets to a court (which it will, it's not a question of "if"), the court will consider how necessary the source work was to what you did. If you used it for a direct translation (eg from C++ to Go) then you&
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by sumtechguy 7mo ago
Pretty sure hotmail/outlook also has the same sort of popup for spam reports. I think accidental would be kind of hard with that popup.
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by sumtechguy 7mo ago
That is totally fair. I never really looked at it that way before. I just see it as another blob of skills to add to my growing list of useless knowledge. :)
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by sumtechguy 7mo ago
Most likely basically because the cut off for atdt being any use to most users was mid 1990s. I still like the fact that it is still being used millions of times per day by cell phones. DNS and SSH were/are things 'techie' p
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by sumtechguy 7mo ago
Think it had more to do with the consolidation of the ISP space. I used to have my choice of dozens of ISP's. Now if I am lucky I might have 2 or 3 from very large companies that did the math on keeping that going. It mostly happened
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by sumtechguy 7mo ago
Steam and VSCode pop into my mind.
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by sumtechguy 7mo ago
That has more to do with where you work than AI. Some places have military grade paperwork where mistakes are measured in millions of dollars per min. Others places are 'just push it in fix it later'. AI is not going to change th
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by sumtechguy 7mo ago
Had chatgpt reference 3 prior chats a few days ago. So if you are looking for a total reset of context you probably would need to do a small bit of work.
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by sumtechguy 7mo ago
There is a new trick a lot of them are using on YT. Basically it will be a person doing a 'vlog'. But it is mostly just kind of feel good stuff. But in the middle they will mention some product that made whatever they are blath
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by sumtechguy 7mo ago
On top of that, that thing takes a bunch of fiddling in their own GUI to disable. I want a search bar for my home page. Nothing else. Then every once and awhile it will 'forget' its settings and put it all back. Edge/Chro
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by sumtechguy 8mo ago
This happens all the time. Basically build vs buy. The problem is on the 'buy' portion of looking at things the company failed. So they took who they had on hand and built something. It took a fresh perspective to say 'hey

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