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Re:Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with? on Friday August 14, 2026 @09:51AM (#49298694)
Yes! The only way I have saved myself from embarrassment and hassle is by having grok build and Antigravity sanity check everything. So now my workflow is still faster than hand coding but 3x longer than it was a month ago.
man, that's great - but can you imagine some bureaucrat lifer having to adapt to this?
Re:NASA's WB-57 crash lands at Houston on Saturday January 31, 2026 @09:27AM (#46836979)
What a bummer. We helped map the Kerrville floods for support of the state. Same day we mapped it, so did this WB-57 - only 35K feet above us. Such a historic and unique aircraft - I feel bad for the pilots onboard knowing it will likely total that aircraft even if it was a mechanical failure.
With image resolution this high, ground accuracy becomes an important factor as many people that prefer higher resolutions also want geospatially accurate images. Did you have any findings or results on this?
It's great we can bring them down. What a terrifying experience to have a medical issue on the space station. Kidney stone? Ruptured appendix? intestinal blockage? How could you keep calm so far away!
Re:My startup banking story (2023) on Thursday August 28, 2025 @04:20PM (#45056612)
Chase sucks so bad, I would spend a lifetime encouraging anyone to bank elsewhere. I know Mitch is nice enough to say Chase wasn't the problem, but their "controls" are so archaic it makes doing business with them a chore and not a pleasure.
Re:Sneakers (1992) – 4K Restoration on Tuesday May 06, 2025 @08:18AM (#43904234)
I still remember that goofy looking run, haha
There are a ton of assumptions in here that have yet to be proven true.
Totally different speculation than wind shear and that is the whiteout condition of the runway / area. I am also curious about the radalt.
Re:Introducing ChatGPT Gov on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @10:19AM (#42853309)
Stuff like this troubles me. I am in defense tech working with LLMs and I am here to tell you the guards and fences are down at the chow truck while commoners are using LLMs.
Re:WH Executive Order Affecting Chips and AI Models on Monday January 13, 2025 @09:56AM (#42684044)
Are we trying to slow global competition with bad actors by restricting their ability to run compute on these.

And then we don't want GPT4o closed models going over the fence, but we are ok with Llama3.3?

I am I reading this correctly?

Re:Intel Solidifies $3.5B Deal to Make Chips for Military on Saturday September 14, 2024 @08:58AM (#41539532)
I can't read the article, and so it probably mentions this but I think this is a big case of "the past was prologue".

DOD is making a big bet that anything chip and silicon is going to be really hard to acquire past 2027.

This may be a great big gravy train for Intel.

Re:Arduino PLC IDE on Thursday September 05, 2024 @05:45PM (#41460649)
Ladder logic? Ugh, come on!
Re:ReMarkable launch Paper Pro, a colour e-ink tablet on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @08:41AM (#41444950)
I love my Remarkable, it forces me to stay in creativity mode without jumping to the internet since it doesn't have a browser. That being said, the inability to simply put your own templates in the machine and have them persist through and update is so close to being a showstopper for me that I am not sure I would consider buying a new one. The RM2 template manager is great, but you have to update your templates after every firmware update and I hate that with a passion!
There was a giant NOTAM in the pacific a few weeks ago. The title of the TFR was "MUTANT MEGALODON". A1396

I am curious if these two things were related.

Anything designed by Burt Rutan is worth stopping to take a look at
Re:Ford 021C Concept Car (1999) on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @08:58AM (#37404456)
I wonder how much this was influenced by Apple and iMacs of the age
Re:Improving Tailscale via Apple’s open source on Thursday April 13, 2023 @03:47PM (#35561147)
You are quite a person and I thank you
Re:Improving Tailscale via Apple’s open source on Thursday April 13, 2023 @03:10PM (#35560571)
I love tailscale, but an unusual thing happened when I upgraded my home pc to Windows 11. Now my tailscale still connects to all of my other computers and servers, but I can't browse any network shares. I guess authentication changed in Windows 11 and is not backward-compatible. Tailscale worked marvelously for me for ages, but Windows 11 for sure threw a wrench in the gears!
That's interesting. I have a site I visit about once every three months that requires a mag key and three different keyfobs. I had been looking at this as a fun way to declutter my access into this facility.
AI service or feature that find common ground and rephrase concerns to help people find agreement.

In this contentious world we live in, I feel like all we really need is a little more love for our common earthbound inhabitants.

This could work for neighborly disagreements or even bigger stuff.

I wish there was more clarity on if these are balloons or not.
Re:When Americans Lost Faith in the News on Thursday February 02, 2023 @12:46PM (#34630289)
So many great points in here! Ben Franklin ref is gold.
Re:When Americans Lost Faith in the News on Thursday February 02, 2023 @12:38PM (#34630146)
Has there ever really been independent fact-based journalism? I think not. We're all human with inherent bias, and while it seems like journalists tried harder in older times - they still had bias. We can yell and scream at eachother about who started what, and who was worse; but for what?

It seems that as years go by that editorial boards (leaning in both directions) are having much more impact on what you and I read. Those editorial boards are influenced by owners and investors. Those people have bias as well.

There still does not seem to be a journalism source that is bias-free. I read yesterday that "Chat GPT is a panacea for bias in reporting". I nearly gagged!

In 2001 when the twin towers fell, I was encouraged by how suddenly everyone put down their party ties and went to talk about how we would rebuild and retaliate. In present day, the war in Ukraine has done nothing but further split our nation. So what changed? We didn't act like this during Bosnia.

Is it the effect of journalism bias, or is it our nature as humans still working through the shock of Covid that we can't let things go. Are we now looking to argue just one more time to make sure "the other side" knows we think they're wrong?

We are sick as the human race, and nobody is admitting that. We've gone from intent to divide instead of intent to unite.

Re:Mjolnir on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @10:11AM (#34519154)
I want to see an overall build price!
Re:Nationwide FAA weather reporting outage on Thursday January 19, 2023 @01:06PM (#34443460)
This is really crazy to read about, and I am thankful you posted this.
Re:Homelab Analog Telephone Exchange on Saturday January 14, 2023 @07:23PM (#34385488)
Reading this reminded me of my earliest "IT Guy" days in the mid-late nineties when nearly every office had a PBX no matter the size. I just remember replacing burned out line cards, and the system held like 20 cards of 5 lines a piece. They'd burn out for no reason and you had to replace them randomly on a Friday after you were half way home and thinking about the cocktail that needed mixing.
I don't agree or disagree with what you're saying, but isn't this the point of a "jury of your peers"? To exact a punishment befitting the crime?
Re:FreeBSD on the Raspberry Pi on Monday December 05, 2022 @11:54AM (#33868115)
Everytime I read one of these I wonder..."where'd you get a raspi?"

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