GeekFortyTwo

As someone with no skills in the space, no money, and lives near Ottawa: I'd love to help start a fab in Ontario.

Yeah, gamified air quality on my wife accidentally on installing this. She really wanted to see green on the LEDs. Also drove home the fact that using a gas stove hits the air quality in the house for an hour or two, that's now on the replacement list.

The fact that I can keep using this even if the vendor goes out of business was a major selling point, but also home assistant integration.

I highly recommend these(I have an indoor and outdoor units)

Ok, now write your code in a metalanguage(i believe fut might work), and now we can write once and run on two different engines.

Local LLMs and other AI models. Even on my 4090 I run into a lot of limitations, to the point that I've been debating whether I buy a second one or wait on the 5090 to release and move my 4090 to secondary. I've even considered going with moire then 2 cards just to get some larger models running(still cheaper then the high memory server/workstation cards).

Years ago, I worked for a small outsourced IT company. Basically running networks and systems for small mom and pop size businesses. The owner was the only successful salesman, and nearly our entire client base consisted of his MBA program classmates.

They all say his super pushy sales job and thought it was perfect. Almost everyone else would agree in person and cancel a day or two later over the phone. He was too pushy and no one wanted to deal with him long term.

Went to work for his competition, still only the owner was good at sales, but at least could sell to anyone who needed services.

So my theory right now is that the people who need to push back against him have little leverage externally to use.

At spaceX, if an idea is stupid the engineers can say that the Government won't allow that, or something similar(ie laws of physics). It creates an external "No", so it's not the engineers fault and they get to continue working on what will work.

Similarly at Tesla, it's sometimes simple to say that it's against the law to make that change, but there are less regulations so more stupid stuff gets put in(for me it's the ues of the screen for so much, if it were legal he would have the turn signal controls on that screen).

At twitter/X there are basically no regulations, you cannot say that something stupid is not allowed, because there are no rules. He does not allow people to say "No" in his circle.

He found success in Tesla and SpaceX because people are empowered at some level to say No. At twitter/X, they are not.

I do similar and never see that occur.

What I do get are a lot of misdirected messages for people at a school district(one letter, that sounds the same, off from mine) and a defunct tech school in India.

The amount of personal information that companies will send to an unverified email address is terrifying. Devs, please make sure you send a confirmation email before believing an address is good. If I was malicious I could really mess with a lot of travel plans for people, among many other things.

Got a Q4 eTron. Reasons not to get a tesla included: Musk's behaviour lately, quality of the Tesla product, in cabin controls, availability.

We've all seen the erratic behavior, so no need to go too far on what, but my wife really soured on him around the time of the kids trapped in a cave situation. That was the start for me too, but it's just gotten worse, and I don't want to be associated with that.

Had a friend get in my Audi for a test drive and was wowed by the build quality compared to his parent's Tesla, just night and day difference. Admittedly the software needs work, I notice issues the most on the user management side of things.

There are real buttons in my car, yes there is a touchscreen for plenty of options, but turning on my seat warmer is one button.

All electric cars were hard to get when we bought, we just happened to have a line on the Audi Q4 eTron that would get it in reasonable time. Had to be 4 wheel drive and able to tow a small trailer, and while the Tesla options offered that, so did the Audi and others. (Seems that 2022 model year was when all non-Tesla electric crossover sized vehicles started to offer towing.)

Recently changed jobs in tech, high demand skillset.

I sent out exactly one copy of my resume to a company that I thought might be interesting to work for. Otherwise I just responded to LinkedIn recruiter requests.

In the time it took that one company to get back to me at all, I had landed a job and was on week 2 of 3 weeks notice.

Move fast matters.

I wonder what is different between your online fingerprint and mine, in generalities.

I have not seen a captcha in months if not longer, I don't remember doing one anytime recently.

I have browser and network level ad and malware blockers in place and sometimes come upon sites I cannot access at all, but never unusable ones due to no captcha.

But, I also have a Google account linked to chrome that stays logged in, and I wonder if that allows me to avoid them.

Yup, the only reason I live in the rural house that I do is because it got fiber for some reason. Starlink speeds would have been enough(I would be fine with 25meg) too. We actually had as a condition of sale a requirement that sufficient internet was confirmed(I was expecting a challenge on that, turned out nicely). With Starlink I would not have hesitated.

I'm not far from a big city, and closer still to a small town. Property prices in that town have gone insane during the pandemic. People want their own space. With remote work and good internet, any town can see a boom. If this pandemic had happened once Starlink was fully operational, it would have really changed some of those numbers, I think.

I had recently noticed this was starting to drive me nuts as I block a lot of other in my day to day life and facebook has been getting through.

Went looking for a paid option on Facebook to remove ads, like youtube premium which I enjoy, but they are very much against doing this. I guess when your entire organization becomes about selling ads, the team that wants to just make money directly gets shouted down.

Right now they have switched, like many of our local distilleries, to making cleaning alcohol for high risk facilities to use as needed.

Their regular product is good stuff, I have a bottle on the shelf right now.

My rule for home automation at my house: a stranger walking in the front door should be able to intuitively use my house without instruction.

Extra features are fine, but if they cannot turn on the light without 6 steps, then it's wrong.

eg: my kitchen lights are all on Z-Wave dimmers. Each is still a normal wall switch to the average person and can be fully controlled from there. I probably use the switches 20% of the time and voice control about 75%(other automations account for maybe 5%). Anyone who enters my kitchen will be able to have light, I just get the conveniences.

Another example: my living room has no ceiling lights, just floor lamps. These are not setup with automation because I have not found a way to control them that makes sense to non-trained users. Therefore we keep the traditional lights.