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ngc248··on Amazon Is Gutting Its AI Division After Sustained Failure
All companies are trimming fat by reducing headcount and the cover for that is "AI"
ngc248··on Amazon Is Gutting Its AI Division After Sustained Failure
Regular ppl i.e non-techies love the copilot integration into all office products. Since techies know better, they think microsoft messed up with the AI integration everywhere.
ngc248··on OpenAI fires three safety researchers for "mishandling research information"
If you have worked in a sufficiently big org this would have been normal to you. Executive assistants send mail which purports to come from the executive himself. That is the kinda thing which happened here.
ngc248··on OpenAI fires three safety researchers for "mishandling research information"
Time Travel sadly is fictional
ngc248··on OpenAI fires three safety researchers for "mishandling research information"
Plot of the movie upgrade (2018)
ngc248··on NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart
The point is this Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle tech is form 1989, how the tech would have evolved 40 years later who knows.
ngc248··on NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart
check these out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC97wdQOmfI and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnofCyaWhI0 . But Syria et al would have have been the right kind of environment to test results of black projects, no?
ngc248··on Pirating the Pirates
Memento was his peak and he hit new highs with inception ... its been all downhill after that ...
ngc248··on AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran
you know this is why china and russia were stealing data, so that they can provide you backups if you lost yours /s
ngc248··on AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran
they should provide and option for multi-AZ with drone defenders now
ngc248··on AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran
1. There is no single "the right way", different app have different "right ways" 2. As for the flat fee, it only works initially when things are simple, as time goes on and your business and usecases you support grows, a flat fee won't work anymore.
ngc248··on The GDR and Vietnam: From Fake Coffee to Coffee Empire
I collect stamps and DDR is what I know of. The warsaw pact countries used to produce amazing stamps.
ngc248··on US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search
probably South Africa?
ngc248··on Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly
Windows defender has the uncanny ability of spiking up its resource usage at just the wrong time. Add in MS teams into the mix and the system just starts screaming.
ngc248··on Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly
True ... my company recently started deploying endpoint protection like crowdstrike, beyondtrust, zscalet onto our macs and these have slowed my machine considerably. They somehow spike the CPU just when I am doing something important.
ngc248··on Challenging the Narrative of European Decline
> We used to have a global economic system overseen by a mostly benign and in any case law-abiding hegemon

This is probably due to the op being the denizen of a country which has not been affected by the aforesaid hegemon

ngc248··on US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks
Bro, you have "grass is greener on the other side" syndrome. China is a totalitarian state not comparable to the US. Take this from a non-US citizen. There maybe some backsliding or ppl may think things are worsening in the US, but US citizens always have the power to make things right, coz they are free and they can bear arms.
ngc248··on Midjourney Medical
One meal ... many snacks?
ngc248··on PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you
If you know your access patterns really well and they are non-relational, then you can design the best possible tables for dyanmoDB. In such a case DynamoDB works and scales amazingly. Ofc, you cannot do multi table relationships etc shoehorning a relational scheme onto DynamoDB does not work.
ngc248··on Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses
"AI" is just a cover for laying ppl off and saving cost. But the pendulum will swing the the other way and the companies will realise that knowledgeable ppl are still required to generate and utilize the generated code. No serious company can run with vibe-coded apps generated by laymen.
ngc248··on The bottleneck was never the code
Exactly goalposts need to keep moving
ngc248··on Do you even need a database?
NOSQL works out really well when you know the access patterns you are working with, if not it will be like pegging a round hole with a square peg
ngc248··on We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git
"Pull requests" are part of git though since it was originally a DCVS it meant you would pull from an individuals git repo ... services like github etc centralized the concept
ngc248··on EFF is leaving X
What does it take to characterize legit users also as bots
ngc248··on What 81,000 people want from AI
They probably surveyed their own Agents
ngc248··on Afroman found not liable in defamation case
Mega-streisand effect ... they stacked together so many of em
ngc248··on How will OpenAI compete?
Nah, IBM watson jeopardy version was a one-off. It was an app specifically tuned for that usecase. IBM Watson is not a single product or app. It is more of a marketing term
ngc248··on I pitched a roller coaster to Disneyland at age 10 in 1978
Kids come and go, whereas the teachers stay there. I feel a lot of school teachers are jealous of the kids and hence all the bullying by them.
ngc248··on I pitched a roller coaster to Disneyland at age 10 in 1978
Exactly ... Used to play buggy games and used to absolutely love them, nowadays it seems like everything has to be beyond perfect.
ngc248··on I'm helping my dog vibe code games
Management would get us all dogs and they would get cats for themselves ... like blofeld from James bond ...
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