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They're asking for 1.5B right now

Time for a change.

125k people, $9,000 for the city council position in my area.

This is like the "why do i have to pay property taxes after i pay my house off?" for Apple™

running VMs on apple chips has been rather difficult for me. other than that, yeah.

I've been trying to build a golf side hobby business making putters on antique machinery in my garage. Have grown to get some pretty steady traction on instagram, have realized I am not a businessman in all of this, so a lot of learning.

instagram.com/cushmancustomgolf

https://xkcd.com/37/

Probably. I guess I meant a shit ton, but written in a series of confusing "choose your own adventure" style bursts of 40 new browser tabs to figure anything out.

This has to be satire at this point.

Yeah this is not the case at all lol. I actually find Azure to be far more intuitive after suffering through AWS and a little GCP. It certainly seems more stable in US regions than AWS.

One thing I will say is the Azure documentation is some of the most cumbersome to navigate I've ever experienced, there is a dearth of information in there, you just have to know how to find it.

I'd counsel you to work with LLMs daily and agree that we're no where close to LLMs that work properly consistently outside of toy use cases, where examples can be scraped from the internet. If we can agree on that we can agree that General Intelligence is not the same thing as a, sometimes, seemingly random guess at the next word...

I have found this while trying to teach my kids how to write anything software related from scratch. They've done some code.org, but it becomes boring quickly. We tried to make tic-tac-toe in js/html/css since they can do they whole thing in the browser. It held their attention slightly longer, but still became boring. It's not something they want to do.

I totally agree with you on learning for a purpose, picking up knowledge is super easy imo when you're in pursuit of a goal bigger than picking up knowledge. You don't even realize all of the things you learn in order to achieve your goal. But you have to want a goal.

I also totally agree sometimes it's fun to just do dumb problems, I found these CAD modeling youtube videos where guys will race each other modeling some part off of a print, spent a week just screwing around with those because it's fun to flex sometimes.

I definitely get this often vibe that: somewhat comparable things that take a lot more time often end up a lot better than things that take less time. It's like that commitment you make when you're doing something like this, the amount of effort, care and focus that must be exhibited to finish something like this document.

We should definitely reflect on that a lot.

Heroku made an application I worked on possible. I don't think we had the team to maintain the application stack without something like it. It enabled the company to exist long enough to get the magical stock exit. I'm forever grateful for it existing.

Play with your keyboard, alt, ctrl, cmd + tab or ~ or combos of those will do wild things for ya

Very optimistic thinking in your first 2 sentences there...

If it all happens out in the open and by the "letter of the law", and everyone involved in steering it that way appears to be complicit in some manner, is it a conspiracy or even hyperbolic any longer? Previous reality seems to have been thrown completely out the window imo.

Or print a custom spacer to fill any gaps you have on the edges that also has holes or slots to hold even more random crap.

I've been at this 16 years. I've seen one planned project in that 16 years that stuck anywhere near the initial plan. They always grow with the whims of someone.

Not all engineering is creating models though, sometimes there are simpler problems to solve.

"You are innocent until proven guilty". Now lets all build out our truth tables to check if what he said is accurate.

I will go against the grain here and suggest that this UI has become gracefully more and more terrible after being pretty good like 5-10 years ago. The more they have tried to do the worse the core functionality has become.

I think everything McMaster dates to it being a physical book first. They still operate on that same business model, but we have the internet now. The supplied product might change, but it still meets whatever specification is in the catalog that is released yearly. If they could guarantee a TI-83 Plus was what you were going to get they would have put it in the catalog, but they couldn't so they don't. And they STILL operate out of that physical book for some customers, so the website has to match it too. That's my take.

Because many of the people that need it the most keep voting against their own interests. Because education is terrible in all the the states that vote red.

And if we apply the 80/20 rule, feels like we're at about 50-75% right now. So we're almost getting close to done with the easy parts. Then come the hard parts.

Yes and you're supporting a company that is keeping things open.

I had it generate a baseball lineup the other day, it printed out a list of the 13 kids names, then said (12 players). Just straight up miscounted what it was doing, throwing a wrench to everything else it was doing beyond that point.

For me it's been toy games built on web languages, which happens to be something I toyed with via my actual raw skills for the past 15 years. LLMs have opened many new doors and options for what I can build because I now technically "know everything" in the world via LLMs. Stuff that I would get stuck wasting hours on is now solved in minutes. But then it ALWAYS reaches a point where the complexity the LLM has generated is too much and the model can no longer iterate on what it's built.

This is so true and cathartic, and it has me wondering if sites are collecting the angry data I type in to inputs but don't submit. I'd LOVEEE to know what the stats are on posts that almost got posted.

I mean the constitution was effectively ruled to be unconstitutional with the presidential immunity case, so what does anything even matter anymore?