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bongodongobob··on AI will make formal verification go mainstream
The reason it doesn't work is businesses change faster than you can model every detail AND keep it all up to date. Unless you have something tying your model directly to every business decision and transaction that happens, your model will never be accurate. And if we're talking about formal verification, that makes it useless.
bongodongobob··on GPT Image 1.5
You're just not describing what you want properly. Looks fine to me. Clearly you have something else in mind, so I think you're just not describing well. My tip would be to use actuall illustration language. Do you want a wide angle shot? What should depth of field be? Oil painting print? Ink illustration? What kind of printing style? Do you want a photo of the book or a pre-print proof? What kind of color scheme?

A professional artist wouldn't know what you want.

You didn't even specify an art style. 1970s sci-fi novel cover isn't a style. You'll find vastly different art styles from the 70s. If you're disappointed, it's because you're doing a shitty job describing what's in your head. If your prompt isn't at least a paragraph, you're going to just get random generic results.

bongodongobob··on Americans overestimate how many social media users post harmful content
Isn't this just saying they are bad at estimating? It's not like any of these people did any rigorous studies to come to their conclusion.
bongodongobob··on Vibe coding creates fatigue?
It sounds like you've never worked a job where you aren't just supporting 1 product that you built yourslef. Fix the bug and move on. I do not have the time or resources to understand it fully. It's a 20 year old app full of business logic and MS changed something in their API. I do not need to understand the full stack. I need to understand the bug and how to fix it. My boss wants it fixed yesterday. So I fix it and move onto the next task. Some of us have to wear many hats.
bongodongobob··on The highest quality codebase
I'm not disagreeing with any of this. Feels kind of hostile.
bongodongobob··on The highest quality codebase
He means that it is heavily biased to write code, not remove, condense, refactor, etc. It wants to generate more stuff, not less.
bongodongobob··on Things I want to say to my boss
It is. Our "security manager" has a dashboard that just literally counts the number of "security policies" we've put in place. Anything that isn't a box to tick is completely ignored as irrelevant. So we are essentially counting how many group policies we can implement and just disregarding the effectiveness of them for mitigating relevant threats and ignoring the added complexity and cost it incurs by making everyone's life more difficult. Systems password management/MFA? Who cares, can't make a graph out of it. It's the dumbest shit I've ever had to deal with.
bongodongobob··on Qwen3-Omni-Flash-2025-12-01:a next-generation native multimodal large model
Lol I asked it how many rooms I have in my house and it got that wrong. Llms are useless amirite
bongodongobob··on Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban
It is a targeted advertising machine, that is one of its functions. I also don't think there is anything wrong with that. I don't think the government has any businesses banning speech either. I also don't believe they want to "save the children".
bongodongobob··on Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices
Bullshit. Just from a document editing perspective, going back to a network share where only one person can edit a doc is not going to fly. I used to have to deal with this as IT/desktop support and it fucking sucked. Docs in the cloud give you better collab capabilities and remove the need to have fancy networking, VPNs, international security exclusion groups etc, domain controller bullshit, connecting all of the companies offices together. Connect to the Internet, and all your stuff is there no matter where you are. It sounds like you've never had to support the infra for office workers before. This is way better than it used to be. For a small company, sure, do whatever. But the bigger it gets, the harder all that shit becomes and requires a lot of work to keep it running.
bongodongobob··on IBM to acquire Confluent
I had a similar thing happen to me with a huge company as a contractor. I couldn't work for 3 weeks due to a combination of login issues and permissions settings. Couldn't file a ticket and no one was really sure who to call/ask. Finally a director caught wind of it and knew who to talk to.
bongodongobob··on The "confident idiot" problem: Why AI needs hard rules, not vibe checks
You need to let it actually benchmark. They are only as good as the tools you give them.
bongodongobob··on Kids who ran away to 1960s San Francisco
1969, he was prob about 30.
bongodongobob··on Kids who ran away to 1960s San Francisco
Yep, pretty much. Found it - https://youtu.be/_I-ThafU1e4?si=dwZfCpNkDtnz2onb

My uncle had the same description. Disappointed that it was just stoned people and not a lot of real substance.

bongodongobob··on Kids who ran away to 1960s San Francisco
I have a great uncle that moved to Haight Ashbury to chase the whole spiritual open your mind idea. He said it was nothing like the media or nostalgia portrayed it. Lots of homeless drugged out kids who were completely lost. No jobs, panhandling for food and money, no direction, just spaced out druggies. Said it was fairly sad and he left within a year. He is an old hippy type as well, it was not what I was expecting to hear. I remember seeing an interview of George Harrison saying something similar.
bongodongobob··on YouTube caught making AI-edits to videos and adding misleading AI summaries
Wouldn't this just be unnecessary compute using AI? Compression or just normal filtering seems far more likely. It just seems like increasing the power bill for no reason.
bongodongobob··on Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025
Yeah, because it's not complex. It's 1 server. Get back to us when your 100k servers homelab data center that does a million different things has 10 years of uptime.
bongodongobob··on Show HN: Network Monitor – a GUI to spot anomalous connections on your Linux
What do you mean "reliably" is doing a lot of heavy lifting? Idk what that means.
bongodongobob··on Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files
I'm currently on the other side of this trying to convince management that the maintenance that should have been done 3 years ago needs to get done. They need "justification".
bongodongobob··on Netherlands – Capital Growth Tax and Capital Gains Tax for Box 3
Only 29% of people in the Netherlands rent and that number is decreasing.
bongodongobob··on Instagram chief orders staff back to the office five days a week in 2026
It didn't fall. Productivity went up after the initial scramble.
bongodongobob··on Copper thieves are wreaking havoc across America
Look at the comments. In the US, we aren't interested in fixing systemic issues. We know what causes crime but it's believed that punishment and retribution is the answer even though it's not at all true.
bongodongobob··on Copper thieves are wreaking havoc across America
This is the kind of attitude that gets us here. "Bad people don't deserve help or services. This is reserved for the morally pure." Or even more simply "Criminals don't deserve help. Lock em up and forget about em." We are still destroying lives over fucking weed. It's all connected.
bongodongobob··on Iceland declares ocean-current instability a national security risk
If you're broke just get a better job bro.
bongodongobob··on Show HN: Network Monitor – a GUI to spot anomalous connections on your Linux
That's impossible to do reliably without using agents, SNMP, or some other kind of communication protocol that you'll have to set up on each device. If you're ok with that, use SNMP. If you want topology, you'll have to have an agent that logs into all your networking gear and parses the configs.
bongodongobob··on Be Like Clippy
It's like picking Reaganism as a mascot for a democratic socialism movement. Doesn't make any sense and is a major factor why we moved in the direction we did. It's shooting yourself in the foot right out of the gate. Bad decision and isn't going to do their movement any favors. I'm not going to take them seriously if that's the kind of decisions they make.
bongodongobob··on Roblox is a problem but it's a symptom of something worse
It's definitely this. I live in one of the safest cities in the country, in the Midwest. The other day on some local Facebook group, I saw a mom trying to find someone to pick up her kids from middle school and elementary school every day. It was a 10 and 5 minute walk respectively that EVERYONE in that neighborhood took 30 years ago. No busy streets, nothing. Sidewalks and everything. Absolutely insane.
bongodongobob··on Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world
Every dog does this.
bongodongobob··on Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world
All dogs know how to swim. Afaik all *animals" know how to swim. No idea what labs have to do with any of this.
bongodongobob··on Self-hosting a NAT Gateway
That's kind of my point. In 20 years of managing networks and infra, none of those things have ever been painful or cost me more than a few minutes a year. That's just not enough to convince me I have any reason to switch over.
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