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aldarisbm··on The Gemini app is now on Mac
it's not the best but I have a whole other account just for gemini. It's valuable to keep that context.
aldarisbm··on Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead
I just set this up like a week ago:

https://github.com/aldarisbm/local-k3s-cluster/tree/main/dow...

if you want to have an idea. I used a docker compose approach.

Should be self healing

aldarisbm··on Claude Code wiped our production database with a Terraform command
This guy is... an interesting person.

He had a state file somewhere that was aligned to his current infrastructure... why isn't this on a backend, who really knows...

He then ran it without a state file and the ran a terraform apply... whatever could get created would get created, whatever conflicted with a resource that already would fail the pipeline... moreso... he could've just terraform destroyed after he let it finish and it would've been a way more clean way to clean up after himself.

Except... he canceled the terraform apply... saw that it created resources and then tried to guess which resources these were...

I'm sorry he could've done all of this by himself without any agentic AI. Its PICNIC 100%

aldarisbm··on McDonald's removes AI-generated ad after backlash
When GenAI start coming through with chatgpt, I was hoping it would take away the every day menial tasks.

I now see that is mainly targeting Creative Work, and it's really really sad.

I think we as humans find joy in creative work and it is frustrating that we as a collective decided that is the thing we will take away from humans.

aldarisbm··on Apple Voice Dictation Writes 'Trump' When You Say 'Racist'
What would be a moderate way to interpret this?

Is it the vector space of two words being approximate to one another?

aldarisbm··on DOGE puts $1 spending limit on government employee credit cards
while you imagine this, let's waste order of magnitudes more in red tape, that is if your imagination and DOGE's imagination are in the same place.
aldarisbm··on New Mac Mini with M4
Yeah they have literature about this, they do as much as they can on device
aldarisbm··on Apple May Stop Producing Vision Pro by the End of 2024
100%, if it run macos it would've been a no brainer.

I believe I am decent earner, but 3500$ is not justifiable from the benefit I get from it. _and I wanted to buy it really bad_

aldarisbm··on Google on the verge of acquiring cloud security company Wiz for $23B
Because they shouldnt cash out for the work they've put in?

I do dislike that big tech gobbles all small companies, but I dont think people should stop to sell their companies.

It makes sense to cash out and be set for life if that's what you want.

aldarisbm··on BestBuy set for 10th straight quarter of sales drop on weak electronics spending
> Analysts have also said that the rise of artificial intelligence may have delayed purchases as some higher-income shoppers await upgraded laptops with AI features, such as Microsoft's co-pilot button, and televisions to hit the shelves.

Wait what?, does anyone here know someone who's truly waiting out for any of these features?

aldarisbm··on CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Incorrect Info
Wait but when did he say that?
aldarisbm··on Nvidia announces financial results for first quarter fiscal 2025
do you have an exit strategy?
aldarisbm··on Tesla took down all its open U.S. job postings
then all of this kinda makes no sense, wasnt Elon doing this RIF because he wanted to inflate numbers to pull his cut?

Wouldnt removing all the job ads for tesla achieve the opposite effect?

aldarisbm··on Losing My Hands
There's a few things that caught my attention. I am too in tech, but from what I understand and my circle, everyone... kinda worked less during the pandemic (especially at the start). How was this person pressured to work so much? He was doing machine learning for a company that offers clothes. How can you derive actual societal value from that? Not saying that the work was not interesting or challenging, just a bit weird take.

He also says he has 3 hobbies, and when the pandemic hit... it burst his bubble? I mean how many hobbies are you supposed to have? I'm not going to have 10 different hobbies to have "resiliency" in my hobbies shall a pandemic arrive.

Also, glaring omission on not sharing the reason how it happened? Everyone here works on a keyboard 8+ hours a day... maybe share what some of us could avoid?

aldarisbm··on Vanguard just went live and LoL players are claiming it's bricking their PCs
I own a steamdeck, and have been playing BlackOps III (with no anticheat)

It's a total mess. Even with a handful of players actively playing, I almost always find a cheater. I get that anticheats are not "convenient" but to say that we should get rid of them, it's a bit naive.

aldarisbm··on Logitech mouse and keyboard users are getting a free AI upgrade
Uh, who ok'd this?
aldarisbm··on Medium bans AI-generated content from its paid Partner Program
Honest question... Why?

I understand that medium is not absolutely necessary and ideally we would have an open source tool that is easy to deploy. In the meanwhile, I use medium quite a bit.

aldarisbm··on 'We're the last bastion of rental': video stores resisting rise of streaming
I have fiber internet at my apartment with a mesh network, and I've found myself missing physical media a bit more lately. Inevitably at some point while watching any 4K media. The buffering will fail or speeds just simply drop? and I start getting visibly lower resolution, this really kills the immersion for me.

Maybe I just don't have the right combination of devices, and/or I absolutely need a wired connection. Regardless, I could not stop thinking how having physical media would avoid these drops.

aldarisbm··on Tesla to lay off more than 10% of its staff
same, before he really spinned off into his antics, I was really considering buying a tesla. I ended up leasing a lexus instead. Next car will be full EV, but will never get a Tesla, and it is 100% because of this man's actions.
aldarisbm··on Copilot generates Jewish stereotypes, anti-Semitic tropes
You're assuming that microsoft believes some of these to be offensive. Also I think solved problem is a bit of an overstatement.
aldarisbm··on Klarna says its AI assistant does the work of 700 people
I think this is a naive way to looking at things.

I like Sam Altman's quote on this. "I think the world is gonna find out that if you can have 10 times as much code at the same price, you can just use even more. So write even more code."

I agree that it will have an impact, but I'm wary to predict something specific, whether negative or positive.

aldarisbm··on Reddit signs $60M content licensing deal with AI company
good luck on actually "deleting" your data
aldarisbm··on Owners report rust forming on Tesla Cybertruck
I'm as ready as the next person to bash Tesla, but "Owners" is really "Owner".

There's only one person that posted pics in the whole thread that has lasted several days.

aldarisbm··on AI Is Starting to Threaten White-Collar Jobs
this seems very short sighted. mid/senior level engineers will not have the knowledge that they need to make the educated decision between 3-4 alternatives that chatgpt might spit out. There's also no liability for any decisions made if you can just blame chatgpt.

Also good managers inspire. Inspire growth, productivity, learning. Good luck with chatgpt

aldarisbm··on AI Is Starting to Threaten White-Collar Jobs
They definitely do, but can you imagine typing out/telling your "llmanager" that you need a raise, and know it's totally a stochastic parrot under the hood.
aldarisbm··on AI Is Starting to Threaten White-Collar Jobs
Imagine your manager being an LLM.
aldarisbm··on An open source DuckDB text to SQL LLM
looks great, most text-to-sql attempts i’ve tried fall short, hoping this is different
aldarisbm··on Microsoft lays off 1,900 workers, nearly 9% of gaming division
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39129949
aldarisbm··on US spent more on health care in 2022 than 6 countries combined with universal
do you understand why they get paid that much in the US...?
aldarisbm··on LinkedIn shelved plan to migrate to Microsoft Azure cloud
having used azure after long stints with AWS and GCP. I found Resource Groups a much more logical bucket, moreso than anything on AWS/GCP
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