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Use a static up when at home. I would agree it’s a bit pointless though.

Funnily enough that isn’t too far from where Cisco themselves started.

When they started making smallish dedicated routers I remember opening one to see a dodgy backplane and a number of big boards plugged in held up only by minimal slides. The minute it got hot (which it did because no air management) those boards sagged in the middle and it just looked slapdash. The 3Com equivalents were always better built but Cisco had such mindshare it didn’t matter the products were a bit crap

The moat doesn’t exist, at least for models used for coding. I switch to what is cheapest for the task at hand and while Claude was my go to at the start of the year now it’s just in the rotation. There is no friction in switching.

This isn’t perspective it’s trolling.

That is a silly comparison.

The trend of ignoring convention and pushing the boundaries of what is legal certainly seems to stem from Gingrich but from an outsider view it seems to have its origins with the Nixon administration

Not sure this is really anemoia, but I greatly enjoy listening to the big CD box sets of music from labels like Atlantic that stretch back to the 1940s. Everybody sounds like they are having a lot of fun and the liner notes talking of the Chitlin’ circuit sound exotic.

A lot of that music didn’t really become part of Australian culture (unlike Motown) so the first two decades sound fresh to my ears.

It’s like time travelling, to be transported to a place and time when that music was created. It kinda does make me feel I missed out on something wonderful despite knowing America’s chequered history of race relations.

Cheapest and easiest way to kill people is starvation and disease. Bullets are quick but relatively expensive compared to that

This is where the Trump administrations mindless stupidity works in our favour. While Trump continues to prevaricate on aid and throws lifelines of paltry diesel deals, Putin will stay his hand on nuclear weapon use.

I admire your attitude and encourage other US citizens to follow your example.

I despair that the gangster mentality that the current administration has will simply continue unless they are removed from office.

That is a very odd definition of “spiritual”

The argument presented was a giant gish gallop of regurgitated nonsense from the manosphere with no basis in fact. Be better.

Just so you know, that feeling of your brain requiring spirituality to fill it is by no means universal.

This isn’t historically true. Women used to work outside the home, it’s a relatively recent phenomenon that the nuclear family with a stay at home mother was the norm. So the basis of your argument is false

I am a senior engineer. I adapted faster than most of the people I work with. It doesn’t matter that the tool can improve your productivity if you don’t know where to start which a lot of juniors don’t. They still need leaders to guide them and apportion the work.

AI still isn’t a magic bullet either. I spend some of my days undoing the unholy mess that generated code is.

I’m sure we had kid pix studio for windows, may have come bundled with something like a graphics card. Definitely unusual, although I don’t remember my kids engaging with it as there were a lot of other kid oriented programs when the whole multimedia PC was in vogue. Hard to compete with Reader Rabbit. Great story though.

I’ve thought this in the past but then there are fish that go through either a mass spawning that involves no physical contact or salmon that force themselves through agonies to return to a spawning place.

Also there is rape.

So pleasure is definitely not required for procreation.

The roaches would run out from under a moved window and you could squash them. I found it hilarious

Is it as fun as xroach?

Push back I suppose is what I would have done but the sheer volume of it makes that hard

It’s worth tracking down a UK miniseries called “Danger UXB” that was made in the early eighties. Not sure how accurate the actual on screen dry ice and cut the red wire stuff was but as a character study of the men involved and the danger they were constantly in it was compelling viewing. Heartbreaking too. One of my favourite TV shows

At the start of the year when AI started being useful I really did experience a productivity gain. Having just started a new job, Claude was instrumental into quickly getting me going on an unfamiliar code base.

Now? I’m swamped with the dumbest jira tickets in history created by lazy AF project managers and business analysts who are using AI to create a pile of unmanageable slop while looking like superstars as they blithely point to their neatly arranged tickets.

I guess I could try to cope by pointing the AI back at it but for the first time I’m forced to color outside the lines just so I can deliver. None of it lines up with their garbage and so we’re now playing a stupid game of “let’s not and say we did” while I tick of useless tickets that shouldn’t even be in the project.

It is exhausting. Not due to the potentially increased velocity but due to the towering pile of slop getting shovelled over that needs fake responses. I don’t know what to do about that.

I used to like to buy TDK tapes second hand and listen to the mixes. Almost every one had something obscure on it I loved but they have dried up over the last 12 months.

If they can vibe code that then so can anybody, it makes it a valueless exercise.

I know of a DOS machine at a wool testing place that uses an ISA card based imager for measuring the micron and other things. They also have a supporting DOS machine with a dBase looking database on it. When I spoke to the owner he didn’t really understand the risks involved in running ancient hardware and in fact had a storage room with period PCs in it if the machines failed. He didn’t have much of a backup plan for the imaging hardware though.

My opinion is that if these guys are still running this gear, they already have a strategy in place (no matter how flawed) and would likely retire before throwing money at something they consider a non problem.

Good luck with the idea. It likely is a tiny niche market with customisation for every customer and given they are normally hardware constrained AI may not be much of a help.

All of them have no money as well.

Personal insults only weaken your argument.

Palantir could decline to build this and so could everybody.

If somebody proposed to you that you could have a lucrative contract in exchange for an intrusive system that provides a bedrock for authoritarianism, you are arguing it’s perfectly ok because if not you, somebody else will and that makes it OK.

It doesn’t.

Again, absolving the company that built it and runs it. They weren’t coerced into doing so and must share the blame for the evil that was created.

I absolutely knew you’d bring up guns and gun making but it’s not a valid comparison. If the gun companies were also involved in the actual shooting of people part that would work.

Palantir were in no way obliged or coerced into making an evil thing, they just decided being evil for money was ok.

Are you implying that the demand for these evil services absolves the suppliers from any moral responsibility? Simply because “if we don’t do this somebody else will”.

It’s an evil service and no matter who requests it or supplies it, doing so is an evil act.

I feel like the business apps are an easier rewrite these days rather than imperfectly recreating the runtime environment.

Now your customer has two problems instead of just one.