TheGrassyKnoll

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Comment · 29 days ago

https://www.cringely.com/bout-bob/

  On How You Can Reach Him to Tell Him He’s a Dipstick
  Robert X. Cringely
  (707) 525-9519
  (707) 525-9517 (fax)
  [email protected]

  Bob, bob, bob...you freeeeking dipstick.
  You're not supposed to die that young. That wasn't part of the deal.

Comment · 2 months ago

Freeeking terrific. I'm gonna 'waste' a lot of time playing with this...

Comment · 2 months ago

I got a slice of pizza a couple of weeks ago and they wanted to see my card. I can't remember ever having to show my card for the food. (in southern California)

Comment · 4 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Shazeer

Comment · 4 months ago

Fox owning Roku is alienating to me.

Comment · 4 months ago

Yes. If this goes through, my Roku is going to the Goodwill.

Comment · 5 months ago

Wtf, no porn category ?

Comment · 5 months ago

DoubleClick (2008, according to Wikipedia)

Comment · 5 months ago

I wish I had figured that out a year ago. MU up ~10x, SNDK up ~37x. My crystal ball is woefully under performing.

Comment · 5 months ago

The shovel sellers are ringing the cash register.

Comment · 6 months ago

Our illustrious president doesn't want any bison.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/us/politics/trump-buffalo...

Comment · 7 months ago

Some say the LA aqueduct saved Owens Valley from development. (I’m sure the old timers out there would have a different opinion)

Comment · 9 months ago

If an AI model thinks it's alive, isn't it just another hallucination ?

Comment · 9 months ago

> "...a vastly understated feature of AI: It makes people confident."

  Good point. AI is already making regular Joes into software engineers.

Management is so confident in this, they are axing developers/not hiring new ones.

Comment · 9 months ago

Reminds me of the Starboard/Larboard nautical terminology. That must have created many disasters over the years. It took the British navy hundreds of years to rectify that one.