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I feel like I keep seeing one million checkboxes guy's experiments, and I wonder.... Where is the monetization? Is this just a FANGAM engineer with a lot of free time? Am I just beaten down by the SWE landscape of 2025?

That was mean. I'm sorry... But the point stands.

Not really a "word nerd" situation. It's a really obvious typo. Might as well have said, "tee hee, I'm, like, autistic for words".

As a 35 year old waiter with no formal education, who has also spent the majority of his free time the last 25 years either coding or self-studying to further my coding, I am super interested in your life story. While struggling to scrape by has been "awesome", I'm hoping to one day succeed at making tech my livelihood. Do you have a blog or something? lol

But to go back to the topic: are companies that have such a high level of OpSec actually outfitting devs with garbage, enterprise lease, mid-to-low tier laptops? I only have knowledge from a few friends' experiences, but even guys doing relatively non-hardware intensive workloads are given a Dell XPS or MacBook Pro. I would imagine a fintech would know better AND have the funds to allocate for either of those options

Maybe an in-house SWE at a major bank would end up with that level of OpSec on a mediocre fleet laptop, although I'd hope they'd have managers willing to go to bat for them and an IT department that can accommodate provisioning multiple SKUs depending on an employee's actual computational needs.... perhaps I too have a skewed/naive sense of how the corporate computing world works haha

It's never a waste to play terminal games/nethack during class or work!

Bonus points if you pass the class or get paid/don't get fired!

I seem to remember multiple posts on large tech websites having the exact same opinion/conclusion/insinuation as the one you originally had, so not necessarily comprehension problem on your part. My opinion: Nvidia's CEO has a problem communicating in good faith. He absolutely knew what he was doing during that little stage show, and it was absolutely designed to mislead people toward the most "AI HYPE, PLEASE BUY GPUs, MY ROBOT NEEDS GPUS TO LIVE" conclusion

Did it actually say it will DOUBLE the CO2 concentration? Definitely past the point of no return. I guess us millennials WILL actually see the worst climate change outcomes WELL within our lifetimes...

Is this something you've actually done? You might want to work on your pitch, it comes across as a little crazy haha

He did soften the blow by saying North American, rather than the more correctly appropos, American

True, though

I'm also completely confused why this was at the top of my hacki, seems completely innocuous

This is some how the most concise description of parity ever

Inquisitive minds need to know!

But seriously, I had the same thought, considering the general lack of guardrails surrounding high-profile Chinese genAI models... Eventually, someone will know the answer... It's inevitable...

Wow, this really adds an amazing perspective to the entire (frequently touted) concept of Visual Language Models somehow "saving" blind people from their old life; In the past, a blind person desperately needed caretakers, otherwise the blind person will bumble around their home, end up mistaking the sink for the toilet, accidentally turn on their stove thinking it's the thermostat, until they died after mistaking bleach for milk and cat litter for cereal....

BUT NOW... THE FUTURE IS HERE.... an all-knowing god-like cell phone can tell these poor miserable individuals what the objects in their own homes are! No more tragic Mr. Magoo-ian accidents!

But thank you for posting this; It certainly enlightened me! I'll admit, all these AI solutions

Haha, that was awesome

Whoa if still true, that's insanity. All of the ways this company is ran make DOGE a scary proposal... Considering we are essentially both the Tesla customer and the car, if DOGE is Tesla...

He doesn't have sentry mode on. What would be the point with no camera? Plus, multiple times he says sentry isn't on, he even breaks down how much power sentry mode uses... Which I guess math and Tesla says would be MORE than 8 percent per 24hrs

Isn't it usually assumed that birds have such an efficient brain, akin to a real-time kernel, so that they can process incredibly high resolution occular input, while managing flight, and possibly possessing unknown senses (magnetic global positioning, wind speed, etc)?

I was just reading about these whacky German's yesterday, after investigating a particularly undescriptive (and still available 20 years after it's last update) PKG in pacman. It was the tool/framework/concept that these guys used in the mid to late 90s to fuzz those 2k+ bugs out of Netscape Navigator like they mention in the article. Rather ingenious that it's fuzzing technique allowed them to not only isolate bugs without really knowing what behavior triggered it, but it would automatically narrow it down to the specific line of code at fault. I'm not really doing it justice, even less so because I can't remember the name of that tool/framework/technique.... Definitely made me rethink my understanding of how under lying systems architecture and code actually interact, and what a "bug" truly is. So anyway, tl;dr, a coincidence happened to me.

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Confused by "spicy pillow problem", but I assume you're referring the classic Li-ion BULGE. Im not sure there is any way to protect it in a 24/7 uptime situation outside of a fully removable battery.... Which now has me wondering if the new pixels can run fully disconnected from their battery, like early LG android models.

Slam! Now this guy really knows how to hate on a zero based index!

Bone Thugs in Harmony "Tha Crossroads" has been my test track for many years. I think the many variences in the various male singing parts is excellent for calibration, as I rarely ever listen to bands with female singers. Plus, the backing track is quite variable as well.

Researchers have developed a web plug-in to help make better/informed online decisions

That was an excellent summation lol

That is a pretty interesting thought experiment, to be sure. Then again, I suppose that's why redteaming is so important, even if it seems a little ridiculous at this stage in AI development

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Cook it like stovetop stuffing, I'd imagine....

Isn't it a stovePIPE hat?

Calling a person "VR native" is perhaps the worst thing ever said. I think "addicted to VR Chat" would be a more apt phrasing.

Haha, yeah, I'm pretty sure there would be a hell of a lot less working professionals using the Adobe suite today if we had all used Adobe's generous 14-day trial to get to grips with Photoshop or Flash or Dreamweaver when we were 12 or 13 years old. Or enrolled in University, I guess?

I would expect Adobe would be nothing but a forgotten brand name list to the annals of time at this point, considering their Suite has been the most pirated application every year since the early days of Windows 95... And yet....