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grogenaut

5,774 karma · joined February 11, 2012

Sr. Principal Software engineer in Seattle. Works for largest game streaming platform.

Email is Mr dot gaffo @ Google's email system.

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grogenaut··on Creating an all-weather driver
if a cop has to have a specific piece of equipment to get the cars to move then it's always going to be a problem. The cops can move every other vehicile with a standard issue piece of equipment, aka their hands, and well yelling at people. If they have to get some magic QR gloves or placards to get waymos to move then that's going to be an issue.
grogenaut··on Asbestosis
Took me about 10 seconds to think about including "will they suffocate?"... but I have done auto-extrication
grogenaut··on Asbestosis
just open the window and cut it with your keys?
grogenaut··on Project Amplify: Powered footwear for running and walking
Is a ski lift athletic, it's powered. Does it make skiers inherently UN-athletic?

I've got a 12 mile bike commute with a big ass hill at the end. If I do 0 miles a day/week/ever without an electric bike to get me up that hill, or I do 8 miles 2x a week with the electric, am I not more athletic? Are firemen who use a hose that is powered by a pump less athletic than those who carry water in buckets?

If I'm normally sitting stationary and I do anything movement at all am I not, in fact, pushing the limits of my body?

My mom was 80, and had a stroke. She couldn't lift her toes on the right side, making it hard to walk without tripping. These shoes are for "everyday athletes". Does this make her completely unathletic, or do they, in fact, allow her to become more athletic than she could be otherwise?

grogenaut··on A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool
no not sure. yeah I used the an average instrument specific rate. The point is a) everything emits, b) we have no idea on severity from the info, could be a little, could be a lot. Could also be short term (haircut) or longer term (ingested) exposures.
grogenaut··on I'm drowning in AI features I never asked for and I hate it
yeah there are big limitations on the browser version compared to desktop excel, but mostly in power user areas.
grogenaut··on I'm drowning in AI features I never asked for and I hate it
yes, it's not excel for windows. it's different. if she's hitting those differences she might as well a) run excel in a vm or b) learn another tool like sheets that's more acessible/sharable, or python.

it also doesn't work with some of her old workbooks or with her mom's copy of excel

grogenaut··on I'm drowning in AI features I never asked for and I hate it
I couldn't get my spouse to try till her computer died, I installed it and said try for a day, I had to use linux to fix the computer (not a lie). See how it goes. She's a gimp wizard now (odd sentence). And very flexible on oses. The only killer app for her is excel on windows. "mac excel is crap". yes honey, yes it is.
grogenaut··on A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool
numbers matter. A human naturally gives off 0.2mSv/year. so basically you are emitting radiation right now, just very slowly. They had 300 counts per minute which would e around 6200 mSv year. But how much is that? the limit in a year for some body parts goes up to 500mSv year for workers. But that's if their body are getting that much radiation for the whole year.

TL;DR you're always getting some ionizing radiation, how much matters.

grogenaut··on Unlocking free WiFi on British Airways
You could just relax and unplug
grogenaut··on How much Anthropic and Cursor spend on Amazon Web Services
If you were 100 then you'd be right on pace. Or slightly ahead. Apparently a generation is 25-30 years. I think they should update that
grogenaut··on Retiring Windows 10 and Microsoft's move towards a surveillance state
worked great for me using virtualizaation
grogenaut··on Video game union workers rally against $55B private acquisition of EA
The people who hired them may be long gone by now.
grogenaut··on Retiring Windows 10 and Microsoft's move towards a surveillance state
Just run it in a windows vm for just that use, there's great ways to make this almost seamless in linux. works better than win/etc.
grogenaut··on Jeep pushed software update that bricked all 2024 Wrangler 4xe models
Sure, build one
grogenaut··on Jeep software update bricks vehicles, leaves owners stranded
Among my dads friends (lawyers) in the 80s none of them would buy a jeep because they consistently died between 60k and 80k miles. one of them had one but he expected to only put 30k on it on his property. We had to pull it with a tractor on multiple hunts because the 4wd system wouldn't work.
grogenaut··on The Faroes
It's full of images. Works on my phone
grogenaut··on Rescuer at Fatal Tesla Cybertruck Crash Says Car Doors Wouldn't Open
Note, linked article has no details. This sublinked article has some https://www.newsweek.com/3-dead-after-tesla-cybertruck-crash...

It's completely unclear to me from this article if they failed to open because of computer control or mechanical damage. The car was on fire, I think, that's not exactly a trivial crash (though the 2nd article a fire chief says it didn't look like heavy damage to cause a fire) And they only got 1 of 4 out before the rest died? It doesn't take much to make a door hard to open or a lock fail to operate. They were also intoxicated.

What scares me, as a new volunteer fire/ems, with these is how prone to fire they are and how hard it is to stop the fire once thermal runaway has started. Especially when you are trying to pull someone out.

But as I said I have no idea from this article what happened, incredibly badly written. I'm not a fan of tesla but it almost feels like a 0 data hit piece. It's very hard to understand anything from this article.

grogenaut··on Economics of sportsbooks and why they ban the best bettors
What's the future on that outcome?
grogenaut··on Terence Tao: The role of small organizations in society has shrunk significantly
I spent 4 years during and after covid looking for volunteer opportunities. People just weren't using anything. I'll agree with you that many of these groups may be dysfunctional. They seemed to want money (the ones I talked to) not actual people.

Freemasons: what do they even do? I just know a few secretive fat white guys who belong. They're serious about it. They don't talk about it. Why would I join? I have no idea what they do. Not obviously recruiting in my area.

Boy/Girl scouts: I wasn't able to have a kid and so couldn't volunteer here or sports. It's kinda creepy to do so without a kid. Not obviously recruiting in my area.

YMCA/YWCA: this seems like a straight up company these days. Do they even take volunteers? I don't see any recruiting for it.

Kids who code / other code bootcamps: sent multiple emails. All I got back was marketing asking for donations if I even got that. They did like 2 events a year.

I do volunteer EMS/Fire/Ski Patrol... That requires actual training. Groups were obviously recruiting once I had the skills. They need people to help run large events / medical.

grogenaut··on I built my own phone because innovation is sad rn [video]
I had stopped in the bar next to my gym after workout to grab a pint and watch a bit of the game while waiting for a Lyft home. My adult daughter called. I full on panic sprinted out of the bar cause I heard my name and call broke up. Several texts later realize she's ok and just asking about dinner. She never calls so it's obviously an emergency. Is she being attacked, car breakdown what?!?

Also phone didn't work in basic phone mode. These things are getting more useless without earbuds

grogenaut··on Waymo has received our pilot permit allowing for commercial operations at SFO
counter point, I love the taxi setup, I wander out, no pre-planning, walk across the street with my headpones on and get in a car, my company pays for it. I suually pay more on uber or lyft, and it's faster and I don't do anything but walk from the plane to the car
grogenaut··on The Culture novels as a dystopia
Player. It's slow for a short bit with culture in references until he gets airlifted. Then gets interesting dumping you into convos with intelligences and then the games and court drama. I actually don't recall plebias. googling it reminds me it nay be the one with an unmanned snowpiercer. i remember that not as good.

i like the culture books but they suffer sometimes from jumping unreoated viewpoints, mental instability, and sprawl sometimes.

player is tighter and doesnt jump. probbably a better entry.

sorry auto corect and swype tuened off mid post so speley misteaks

grogenaut··on US High school students' scores fall in reading and math
Show the BOM and labor costs and I'll believe you
grogenaut··on iPhone Air
This is why I mostly stick with the Moto G models which have easily multi-day battery and cost sub $250.
grogenaut··on ReMarkable Paper Pro Move
They told her how to ssh but nothing else. Painful for her on a product she loves that is actually fine
grogenaut··on ReMarkable Paper Pro Move
My wife's RM can't sync right now due to some time bug. RM's answer was to buy a new one and start paying the cloud subscription.
grogenaut··on Charting Form Ds to roughly see the state of venture capital “fund” raising
I had some VCs try and pitch me on joining a few companies as an advisor. When I didn't bite they pivoted to me just making a company. "What idea" I asked. "I'm sure you have some good ones, let us know." They said. "Money is cheap right now, ideas aren't".

I doubt they'd return my call today.

grogenaut··on Claude says “You're absolutely right!” about everything
Also be abrupt is in the user context and will get aged out. The other stuff is in training or in software prompt and wont
grogenaut··on Training language models to be warm and empathetic makes them less reliable
I'm so over "You're Right!" as the default response... Chat, I asked a question. You didn't even check. Yes I know I'm anthropomorphizing.
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