SteveNuts

Joined 11 years ago

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Comment · 4 days ago
Last time I flew into O'hare it was incredible how it seemed like half the Ubers were Rav4s or Highlanders.
Comment · 6 days ago
Freewebs!
Comment · 12 days ago
Maybe AI will be able to give us a better FTP server in these industries
Comment · 13 days ago
Very surprised they don’t charge you per GB of DNS traffic and per million DNS requests
Comment · 20 days ago
There are a lot of companies that will buy your servers and lease them back to you.
Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 1 month ago
That would create a perverse incentive to inflate the severity levels even more than they already are
Comment · 2 months ago
It’s very good at that, but aeronautical engineering and maintenance is the last place you’d want that.
Comment · 2 months ago
Yeah it’s great to point an AI at a very detailed and specific engineering manual and have it distilled down into bullet points. There’s certainly no room for information loss in that plan! /s
Comment · 2 months ago
"Humans are going to be significantly better at writing things intended for other humans to consume" is completely at odds with "And organizations care enough about the gap, and are willing to pay for the difference".
Comment · 2 months ago
What did you move to and what type of workload, if I may ask?
Comment · 2 months ago
We were just notified of a potential impact for basically every GCP region for compute engine, wondering if we'll see more widespread issues on other services soon.
Comment · 3 months ago
I firmly believe if software engineering unionization ever starts to take hold, it'll begin with game developers.

There's a lot of money in gaming but the workers are treated like shit, as you pointed out.

Comment · 4 months ago
Remember when Microsoft held a mock funeral for the iPhone? They’re all bark no bite.
Comment · 4 months ago
> instead of unobservably better performance.

It's imperceptible because the hardware has gotten so much faster. This would be like a top fuel dragster the size of a freight train.

The engine is incredibly powerful but the overall performance is hindered by the size of the overall vehicle not being optimized around it.

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