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zippyman55

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zippyman55··on Every Fucking Website (2020)
The Irish Republican Army, even at the height of their conflict, would never have stooped to such a website.
zippyman55··on Air Purifiers as White Noise Machines
I want to have air circulate and use a $30 box fan with a non-hepa filter and to minimize power I have it on a timer so it’s on just a few hrs a day. I also have some expensive hepa filters devices but they do not automatically turn on after a power outage. So I picked up some UPS power devices and to my disappointment, the devices drain the UPS system during significant power outages and subsequently fail to restart.
zippyman55··on RIP Claude
It sounds like you can do 99 percent of the work and then the scenario is set up where they can take 99 percent of the credit.
zippyman55··on Ask HN: How much money do you spend monthly on subscriptions for AI models?
$0
zippyman55··on Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's
Interesting comment. I d noticed the family sizes that I used to see in the cereal isle are not as common. I wonder if they are preparing for a re-introduction.
zippyman55··on Is A.I. A Massive Lie?
My thoughts are there are x percent of people who are competent who use AI and find it very productive at producing prodigious output. Then there are (100-x) percent of people who are vastly incompetent and use AI and find it very to be very convincing at producing what they think is prodigious output, but they lack the skills to actually determine that there are significant tail costs to be associated with their product. At some point, the first group will need to clean up the mess produced by the second group.
zippyman55··on How we used to get jobs: A newspaper classifieds story
My job interview at this event went like: my name is first last name. I am a professional and I want to work for you. And they responded: we can tell you are a professional and we want you to work for us. It’s way harder now-a-days!
zippyman55··on Things Experts Wish You'd Do in Midlife to Increase Longevity
Getting past the nytimes paywall is probably on the list, but I was not able to read the article.
zippyman55··on Elon Musk's Terafab is expected to become the largest building in the world
Property values will change. You have lower wage assembly and robots and higher paid engineers.
zippyman55··on Why Wall Street is ignoring big tech's debt [video]
I use AI daily and pay zero dollars. I get my work done and I stay sharp. A huge mass will always choose the cheapest option.
zippyman55··on Almost no skill required to cook a steak
We would cook a roast yearly and I’d insert my thermometer and collect data points and then use R to produce. Regression curve and extrapolate a time dinner would be ready. It was fun as heck and the meal always came out right.
zippyman55··on George Orwell's 1984 (Hinge Dating App)
I need to subscribe?
zippyman55··on Flock's CEO Faced Me After Its Cameras Led to My Wrongful Stop
It’s time for a refilm of the Paul Newman movie Cool Hand Luke but in this version he is cutting off the poles that support the fluke cameras.
zippyman55··on 'Crush this lady': how eBay harassment campaign led to $56M payout
I guess they were printing their grades and then fat fingering them to inflate their grades. I get your point, but it drives home how people can cheat if there’s a way. Probably the employer could fork over the fees to verify the grades would rectify most of this.
zippyman55··on Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management
I never learned to take notes. Good grades but think my notes were always rubbish!
zippyman55··on 'Crush this lady': how eBay harassment campaign led to $56M payout
At my federal job, there was a student intern position that was available. The only requirement was a 3.0 gpa or better. Unofficial transcripts were submitted each semester. One day they asked for official ones and eight people immediately quit.
zippyman55··on In Silicon Valley, Some Say an A.I. Bubble Would Be Just Fine
When this thing goes down, and just before the models are retrained, it will be interesting to tap their forecasts.
zippyman55··on Trouble at lunchtime as Hong Kong private club spat escalates
I need a back door into the Carlyle group.
zippyman55··on Omg.lol membership price increases August 1 from $20/year to $50/year
Omg! That is expensive!
zippyman55··on Flume Water Monitor 915 MHz Security Is Pretty Good
Flume seems like a great company and product. They have always been really responsive when I contacted them. My meter gets submerged in water from time to time, so I was sure to seal it with silicon grease and tape.
zippyman55··on Did they ghost you?
I had an interview and no response. The interviewer got into a horrible car accident. Bad stuff happens.
zippyman55··on The Strongest El Niño Ever
It’s the down hill house racing contest this winter that you want to pay attention to. Be sure to take precautions.
zippyman55··on What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality
To me, this is inline w the book BULLSHIT JOBS, and that class of job that was really like a few hours a week but 40 hrs pay. That type of job should be automated and the person removed. The exception is going to the person who complained to management that it’s a 2 hr a week job…. Give me more work.
zippyman55··on It's a shame what's happened to radio
1982 KMEL 107.1 out of San Francisco.
zippyman55··on Fake food delivery site for the dopamine
I like to tip my delivery person so they do not spit in my food.
zippyman55··on Fake food delivery site for the dopamine
This is great. I need one for building permits.
zippyman55··on The Hunt for the Counterfeiter Trying to Make the Perfect Bill
My bank passed me two fake $100 bills and I ended up eating it. They looked real unless you had a stack of bills to compare them to and then it became obvious.
zippyman55··on Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history
Respect!
zippyman55··on Texas factory cost $469M using old equipment, makes zero artillery shells
The low level employees were probably raising concerns. This stuff makes me sick.
zippyman55··on Never Built: Lockheed CL-1201
The titanium story was classic. I think the cover story was bicycle frames.
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