AtheistOfFail

Joined 10 years ago

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379
Submissions
206
Member since
Jul 14
Just a sarcastic, pessimistic guy.
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Recent submissions

Comment · 2 months ago
Weird issue: The iPhone dropdown doesn't include the iPhone XR. It's not like I expect it to work, I'm just curious what the app does.
Comment · 4 months ago
Do you know if you can buy as a gift for someone else?
Comment · 7 months ago
This Summer: Bad Wank, from the people who brought you Bad Blood.
Comment · 8 months ago
Nvidia gives money to OpenAI so they can buy GPUs that don't exist yet with memory that doesn't exist yet so they can plug them into their datacenters that don't exist yet powered by infrastructure that doesn't exist yet so they can all make profit that is mathematically impossible at this point - Stolen from someone else.
Comment · 8 months ago
> Its a circular economy

Garbage in, garbage out, same as before.

Comment · 8 months ago
An LLM may take the interesting parts of my job but the parts that suck (dealing with people) will never be taken over by an LLM.
Comment · 9 months ago
2005 Toyota Corolla.
Comment · 9 months ago
The day I learned of ghost Facebook profiles, I realized fighting back was impossible.
Comment · 9 months ago
Support for Youtube playlists please... having to lookup the watch ID on Google after a song is removed to guess what the track was is a highly sucky part of using Youtube for music.
Comment · 10 months ago
> I "just want to talk" to this CTO who named US East region 2 as "eu2".

How? Logically I don't get it.

Comment · 1 year ago
I disagree. For large search pages where you're building payloads from multiple records that don't change often, it could be beneficial to use a cache. Your cache ends up helping the most common results to be fetched less often and return data faster.
Comment · 1 year ago
Samsung. Remember we made an exploding phone?
Comment · 1 year ago
> The worst thing is they worked out you can blend costs in using AWS marketplace without having to raise due diligence on a new vendor or PO. So up it goes even more.

Not a bug, a feature.

Comment · 1 year ago
It was such a masterpiece right up there with The Last Of Us.
Comment · 1 year ago
The model is "outspend others until they're bankrupt".

Known as the Uber model or Amazon vs Diapers.com

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