Bc everything I’ve ever read says the opposite: that people spend more time trying to figure out what went wrong when you trusted “AI” (implication: AGI… except we all are aware that these do not exist yet in anything besides the wet dreams of managers) misbehaved, like deleting the entire prod database or escaping from its container and wreaking havock, though performing “well” since for some reason it was trusted to measure its own performance, hence it simply deleted all unit tests and now it gets a perfect score, no flaws, yay!

Eh, I think the examples you have their are the penultimate examples of bad decisions by bad decision makers.

LLMs are quite good at verifying requirements of a spec, reviewing budgets to make sure items aren’t missed, etc.

That said - I agree the writeup is nonsense. LLMs dont understand goals, which is why the person is important. It also makes some common mistakes about middle management, more the caricature of shitty middle management than what good middle management actually is.

No, I don’t see LLMs replacing anyone in any effective capacity any time soon. If used as an appropriate tool, they can be beneficial. What we have today is NAI (narrow, small scope and good at single purpose tasking) not GAI (general AI, sometimes noted as AGI - human level reasoning). And thats what would be needed to replace a person, but its so far beyond current capabilities its laughable when they pretend its right around the corner.

For reference, jackasses like Musk and Altman claim it’ll happen within the next year or so. Other dipshit corporate types claim its just 5-10 years away.

The reality is an LLM will never understand physical or social cause and effect. They still struggle with long context reasoning. This is why you’ll see the dipshits and jackasses try to redefine from general intelligence to something like replacing a desk job without fucking up, because its just marketing crap, shifting goalposts to play pretend that their claims of being geniuses are true.

They aren’t, LLMs aren’t what will get us to general AI, and if they didnt try and push their hype machine so much we’d probably have better and more focused LLM-based tools.

Anyway, a super long way of saying I agree its crap, but disagree on why.

Just about anything is OK for a server, I use whatever hardware I get from work thats being decommissioned.

The biggest limit I see is the ram. Depending on what you spin up and how, it’ll be the tightest budget per service.

Then tag with [CBH] as required.

No, but maybe its an experience thing - have to be burned enough times by not having something to want to have something?

I think a lot of projects start off just someone goofing around with an idea so no hard requirements to start. I do that when I’m learning something new but they aren’t ambitious or worth sharing.

I always start with defining requirements, and then I follow with a bunch of pseudo code. Its how I do things at work too. I like getting the ideas and structure out before I write any actual code or I get stupidly distracted.

Well I know what I’m looking for tonight

Start small

This is my strategy whenever I learn a new language. Start easy, escalate in complexity.

• print to the command line
• take input from the command line
• dumb blackjack game
• dumb blackjack game and store session results
• Make a fugly UI but keep the operations text
• Make a fugly UI and add basic graphics

Etc.

The basic game itself doesnt matter - make it hangman if you want. The idea is to get used to a language.

Keep doing that sort of thing, experimenting and learning, find ways to break things, find weird ways to solve problems, figure out ways to write even less lines of code. Find elements that you can make a function instead. Sanitize inputs excessively. Whatever.

Play around, and keep playing around. You’ll learn in no time.

For the record, this is how I learn, by doing. I have a really hard time sticking to tutorials, and I find examples far more helpful than a manual entry explanation of what something does. YMMV.

Thats right! I forgot about that part.

Cops are nightmarish levels of stupidity.

If I remember right, one cop brought his rifle in which got sucked into the MRI machine.

Even the warrant was based on a cop lying iirc. The basis boiled down to something like “energy use and tinted windows”, which, you know… Medical imaging and patient privacy.

Idiots and asswipes.

Especially an aerospace company it would seem.

How far back do you think worker protections go, specifically in the context of punishment?

Strapping (beating someone with a leather strap… Sounds familiar here) was common in factories in the 1800s.

You didnt have to be a slave to get beat/whipped/more.

Unfortunately, I do, for one client for work as a requirement.

Its for their own tool though, so its their problem.

Oh definitely, I just didnt expect the Intel’s to increase so much or so quickly.

I was planning to pick one up to replace my GPU in my main workstation, and a second to be a transcoding workhorse with av1 support. Unfortunately waiting a bit longer likely won’t help considering the tariff nonsense, so I’ll probably end up buying last gen for less and waiting a few more years to go current.

I was juuuust thinking about getting a new GPU, so this was timely…

I thought the B580 was supposed to be around $250, but it seems they are retailing in the mid $300s or so. Maybe I’ll grab an older A series for now for my transcode box and wait a bit longer on my desktop upgrade.

Just to check and be sure its not hardware, have you done a clean boot and run a stress test?

Oh its definitely the bed they made.

I’ll take whatever positives I can get though

Considering the sweeping loss of maga in Texas, I’m thinking some Texans are starting to care, which is good to see.

…

Hah!

Its more often that I get my hands on something in need of minor repair, perhaps a part. Newer devices arent always easy either - I’ve had trouble finding parts for a robo vac thats 5 yrs old, for example.

Well, guess my memory goofed that one up. I had remembered it being a thing (and I thought I remembered something in shoprite).

But hey, thats why you can’t always trust what you remember!