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A krusty old geek that learned how to program assembler on a Zilog-80 microprocessor before learning to drive.
- > A journey of 35 kilometers, or, in DB units, somewhere between forty-five minutes and the heat death of the universe.
A bit like "no frills" airlines in the west.
- A way to select all (or by Q/A paragraph) for export (e.g. to pdf or how about a .ipynb) would probably be the most useful. Perhaps as just a plain "export" option in addition to an analysis/insights summary.
p.s. kudos on the promo code that enable folks to kick the tires with as little friction as possible.
- The tool gave me advice and code to do what I asked... but when I used the "export analysis" it did NOT include the code. It was simply an overview.
It would be more useful for the export to have an option (or by default) to include everything from the session.
- I'm curious why a GRUB based replacement for ventoy isn't popular? SSDs are ubiquitous/inexpensive.
SSD+USB+GRUB with either a single GRUB partition and multiple ISO files stored in subdirectories, OR one parition per ISO/OS.
Adding new ISOs would require some manual editing of the grub config but wouldn't this be a decent substitute??
Like many people I'm hesitant to use an OS installation tool that has not been thoroughly reviewed to ensure there is no malware in binary blobs.
- Guessing the stats will show lower than $1M typical claims for rideshare accidents.
But... I wouldn't want to be an outlier i.e. serious injuries. That would require suing the driver that has few/no assets.
Uber/Lyft sure as hell ain't going to let you sue them for a dime.
- When confronted with the story today in the Oval Office Trump said: "I don't know anything about it".
Delivered with the same bland expression he uses when he's clearly lying.
- Perhaps they're feeling the effect of losing PRO clients (like me) lately.
Their PRO models were not (IMHO) worth 10X that of PLUS!
Not even close.
Especially when new competitors (eg. z.ai) are offering very compelling competition.
- Canceling my OpenAI "PRO" subscription.
This model solved a complex networking issue that O3 PRO couldn't.
And it did it more quickly. Every O3 prompt took ~3-5mins to answer!!
For F R E E !!
- OpenAI's "PRO" subscription is really a waste of money IMHO for this and other reasons.
Decided to give PRO a try when I kept getting terrible results from the $20 option.
So far it's perhaps 20% improved in complex code generation.
It still has the extremely annoying ~350 line limit in its output.
It still IGNORES EXPLICIT CONTINUOUS INSTRUCTIONS eg: do not remove existing comments.
The opaque overriding rules that - despite it begging forgiveness when it ignores instructions - are extremely frustrating!!
- > solo dev/no name company is going to suddenly drop a product
A developer/company with an opaque background that you're to trust to give access to backend systems using passwordless embedded SSH (no keys needed!).
That's a big NOPE.
(Also, even the answers OP has provided really give an AI bot vibe)
- For me it highlights the issue of how easily nefarious/misleading information will be able to be injected into responses to suit the AI service provider's position (as desired/purchased/dictated by some 3rd party) in the future.
It may respond 99.99% of the time without any influence, but you will have no idea when it isn't.
- First thing I looked for and read: the FAQ.
No mention of privacy (or on prem) - so assumed it's 100% cloud.
Non-starter for me. Accuracy is important, but privacy is more so.
Hopefully a service with these capabilities will be available where the first step has the user complete a brief training session, sends that to the cloud to tailor the recognition parameters for their voice and mannerisms... then loads that locally.
- I would hazard to guess that Google classroom (starting at Kindergarten and continuing through post secondary) software is mostly installed via next-next-finish (i.e. whatever the defaults set by Google are). I'd also assume that these defaults are set to very minimal privacy protection for students.
Having this digital record entrusted to any company that is not under strong privacy controls should be frightening to parents.
School administrators figure the low-cost low-barrier-to-entry is well worth the long term privacy risk to children.
* Fortunately my children were out of school when this became common place - so kindly correct me if I'm mistaken.
- > the enshittification
I've assumed that when AI becomes much more mainstream we'll see multiple levels of services.
The cheapest (free or cash strapped services) will implement several (hidden/opaque) ways to reduce the cost of answering a query by limiting the depth and breadth of its analysis.
Not knowing any better you likely won't realize that a much more complete, thoroughly considered answer was even available.
- > It's a huge industry.
It's a hugely under innovative, insular and overpriced industry that has been begging for disruption for decades.
Now that there's critical mass in an aging population, companies like Apple that have the clout and cash to ignore the threats of patent infringement can finally apply some real technical innovation to the problem.
- Phind was my go-to for getting more relevant and up-to-date information that could be found on the internet... but that stopped about 3+ months ago.
Many times the answers seemed to be getting more and more incomplete or incorrect as time went on (to a variety of questions over a period of months). Even worse it would say it couldn't find the answer, yet the answer was among the sites noted as reference!
I've ended up mostly resorting to Bing and gpt 4o. Frankly, I'm hesitant to waste time trying this new version.
- Interesting look back at the beginning of automated credit card authorizations - back when paging through a weekly printed fraud list was the routine practice.
- This.
I'm a former/old-school professional programmer (now a retired CIO) and I still love automating my life with an assortment of tech (e.g. python, bash, c#, c++, jscript, etc). My knowledge of these tools isn't indepth... so being able to use AI to assist with generating the base code is a godsend.
My experience using chatgpt has been quite positive overall... sometimes it comes up with elegant solutions, sometimes its dog shit - but generally it's a useful starting point.
- > still do housekeeping every day
They don't change sheets or towels ("for the environment")... just inspect the room, then leave.
- A Roger's exec used to brag that they were able to release major changes faster than anyone because of their strategy which was "push it out... the customer's will find the remaining bugs". This was more than a decade ago, but it seems like it is still their culture.
- > build more homes mainly
Having effective and readily available mental health programs is a more critical step IMHO.
- > states likely won't hesitate to do just that
Especially those that have for-profit prison system - which in some cases have state legislators as investors/stakeholders.
- Are there more transparent (blob-less) equivalents to use??
- Tip: use magnetic ports/cables on your USB devices. Moved to these after that happened to me years ago and love them - quick and easy to connect/disconnect, and less worry about tripping over the charge cord flinging the device across the room.
The only disadvantage is I haven't found any that support high amp/watt charging.
- > never really felt like Google as a whole really cared about it
I mean, their track record for products they initially cared about isn't great... so ya, it doesn't bode well for this one.
- Is there a way to easily/reliably disable ifunc globally on a system (e.g. ubuntu/debian) without breaking a bunch of things?
FYI this looks for pkgs with liblzma:
> dpkg -l |grep liblzma
Versions >= 5.6 are compromised
- Looking ahead, I suspect as AI becomes even more ubiquitous/mainstream, AI service providers will offer various levels of analysis at different price points. E.g. the cheapest service will provide reliably accurate answers, but only to simple queries that consume little compute power.
Also envisioned is the all too common race-to-the-bottom scenario where services will simply tune their service to respond with the least compute power needed while harvesting and capitalizing on it users data.
- The solution I've got (in alpha) is a basic webcam that detects when you're looking at it.
The cam is positioned higher than most things in the room to reduce triggering it unnecessarily.
When it triggers (currently using just simple cvv facial landmark detection) it emits a beep and then listens for a verbal command.
Where the internet gave advertisers data on your surfing habits, smart devices + AI will give them every intimate detail of your life: calendar events, email, shopping, friends/family, health data, car travel... all combined into one holistic package up for sale.
Not really via Alexa though, it sucks.