I have two LARGE Xeon systems of this era that I used to use when I was heavily involved with Kubernetes and needed to build out a home lab. One is 2x Xeon w/ 256 GB of ram, and one is 1x Xeon w/ 512GB of ram. Both are slow as dogs, and both of them take up at least 150+ watts with only one power supply. My 12th gen Intel Nuc is so, so much faster and efficient. I'm recycling the Xeon systems.
Do you care to disclose your relation to the leadership of Bricks and Minifigs? Did you go to the same university as those involved from the company? Are you affiliated with any of the same organizations?
The problem with the legal system in cases like this is if you have the police in your pocket, you can manipulate the perception of the truth and feel confident in bullying your adversary.
Bricks and Minifigs is a very popular birthday party destination for my kids peers. I will make sure to share this story with anyone considering to go there and allow them to form their own conclusions.
In NY, motor vehicle operators have the responsibility to not run over pedestrians. It doesn’t matter if they’re standing behind you or obstructing you. No one has the right to strike someone with their vehicle. The video is clear that the president was negligent in operation of the vehicle.
I’m not sure why this is hard for you to understand, but I hope you don’t operate motor vehicles if you can’t grasp this.
I would never perform work for free. What if my work has a hidden oopsie that ends up causing problems later? What if the code review is lax, and a bug ends up hurting someone? Unlikely scenarios, but things I’d be concerned about.
In instances where context is important, I have been including a summary with call to action at the start of the message, then include details below to hopefully eliminate back and forth. It helps me be more clear with my point, and most people once they have an action only use the context for reference later.
I love asking someone who sent me a Slack wall of AI text to join a huddle, then ask them deep questions about said wall of text while they struggle because they have no idea what they’re talking about. It seems to encourage folks to be a little more careful about their wall of texts in the future.
That’s very interesting. You’d think he would get bailed out, right? Being a big dumb idiot shouldn’t really get you thrown in jail for an extended period of time. Maybe we can bring back the stocks!
I have done exactly the same type and amount of stuff with my flipper zero, probably in the target demo. still, no complaints! I think the one is a cool toy that I will one day (if I’m lucky) use as the perfect solution for a problem. If I can do that just once, it’ll be worth the price for me.
In dense urban environments, VHF (~144 MHz) actually performs better than UHF (~446 MHz) for a few reasons... Lower frequencies diffract better around obstacles. VHF diffracts more readily around and over buildings than UHF. VHF penetrates building materials better than UHF — lower frequency = longer wavelength = better penetration through walls. UHF suffers from higher path loss over distance compared to VHF.
I don’t think it matters if you’re “good enough” or not. Much of AI development is iterative. If you context switch between A from project 1 to B from project 2 back to check A, then maybe C while B finishes up, you will lose the flow state that AI assistance can enable with speed for those who are not fluent coders.
Sure, I can wait hours for my local model to finish, or I can spend basically as much and get the answer right away
There’s a lot of exciting stuff with local LLMs despite the speed, but for me I don’t have the discipline and working memory to jump from project to project.
It’s more than just data locality. OpenRouter is faster, no? I have an M4 pro, and anything but the smallest dumbest models are unusably slow for interactive use. I personally haven’t yet found a good use case for offline/non-interactive LLM work locally.
It’s university. It’s the time to be irresponsible and immature. When I worked managing serious high performance computing systems at a university and my job relied on the network. When the network failed, we would just go to the bar and have a couple drinks. It’s really not that big a deal.
Why would they deserve “more consequences”? Academia isn’t the real world. It’s a place where people can learn how to interact with the world as an adult. People should be encouraged to experiment (within reason) and if there is no actual bad intent, consequences should focus on learning rather than punishment.
I got my first job in technology when I moved into my dorm freshman year. I had been looking forward to having Ethernet for a while, and once I plugged it in, no network. I realized that they still needed to assign IP addresses, and no network admin was around, so I watched the network, found free IPs, and spun up a DHCP server that gave out these free IPs. A few hours later my port shut off, and the network manager came to my room, asked what I did. I explained, and he offered me a job on the spot. I worked in networking for the university until I hooked up with the Unix guys, and my tech career shot up like a rocket from there. This was late 90s early 00s, so no fear of prosecution then. Hell, we ran a nearly-officially-sanctioned file sharing service when the internet handoff got too busy and we needed people downloading music and movies to lay off. The server ran in a rack in the datacenter for a few years until the MPAA paid a visit.
What are the biggest problems you've seen? Is it mostly related to limits for the subscription plans?
Within my circles (mostly big enterprises), I see more and more of my friends using Claude, and spending money on it, so they must be getting some sort of value out of it. For my uses, I've also been successful with Claude Code, though someone else is paying for my tokens.
Homeowners insurance rarely actually covers everything lost in a fire, and takes years to pay out in many cases. I really hope your disaster recovery plan is "insurance'll fix it".
I don't run prints when I'm not home. I have a fire suppression system in my H2S, and I had one with my A1. You only need it to fuck up once, and your house is toast.
I have multiple Bambu printers, and I've had no problems at all with AMS or AMS2 pro. It just works for me, even with all kinds of weird filaments. Not saying you're wrong, but my experience has been flawless.