badmonkey0001

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Comment · 1 month ago

> It's one of the things that has been rather fascinating about Claude & Co.— he'll come back with things like, "Since you are already familiar with the ESP32…" or, "You already have a heat press from your work with dye sublimation, that will work nicely to set the inks when you screen print t-shirts…"

Amazon's Alexa does this kind of thing a lot based on purchase history. It reeks of upsell there to me. Instead of answering a question directly, it'll add something like "You've purchased ___ so this product should be a good fit for you" like it's trying to "close" the sale.

Phrases like you want are equal parts trying to sell a proposed solution and inventory/capability information in my opinion. Maybe my time in sales long ago made me sensitive to persuasive intent, but it always makes me suspicious.

The YouTuber polymatt recently did something like what you want using local models and a small robot for UI. I find that more compelling than putting more of my data in a public cloud in any form. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxjuEHTKXMw

Comment · 1 month ago

That was really comprehensive. Good read.

Comment · 3 months ago

I sat next to John in our office for a year or so back in the heyday of podcasting. He was quite the character. RIP.

Comment · 5 months ago

I was thinking of bananas and banana flavoring too. It may have been a better example than strawberries, but most people don't know how much variety bananas have because they've been so commoditized. It's too good of an example because the effect is complete.

https://10best.usatoday.com/food-drink/bananas-arent-good-as...

Comment · 5 months ago

Tiny peninsula; Six datacenters

The geology of the area seems to make for good cooling and DR sturdiness. One DC is even 500 meters under rock.

https://www.datacentermap.com/gibraltar/gibraltar/

https://www.datacentermap.com/gibraltar/gibraltar/continent8...

Comment · 5 months ago

Weird/forced scrolling on FF desktop as well.

Comment · 8 months ago

Pagemaker was a workhorse back in the 90s.

Comment · 9 months ago

15 years ago... They had just released a remake in 2008 for the Xbox, so the IP was certainly fresh in their minds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlezone_(2008_video_game)

Did they eventually drop the threat or did something else happen?

Comment · 10 months ago

There are dedicated turnkey vendors these days, so there's no need to get elaborate. All you need is a U of rack or two and enough cash.

Example: https://www.accubeat.com/ntp-ptp-time-servers

Comment · 11 months ago

It feels to me like everyone is holding their breath to see how the wholesale "AI can replace people" notion pans out. Whether it proves true or not, betting on the wrong result will hit hard so few want to go all in (outside of the companies that produce the tech itself). If there's anything "AI" has been able to ship at scale, it's uncertainty.

Comment · 1 year ago

Could be just plain alphabetical. There's a selector for which color name list to use/examine on the bottom of the visualization. There's also a selector for which color space model to use.

Comment · 11 years ago

Comment · 14 years ago

Now the problem becomes mobile browsers... (hover vs. tap, tiny resolutions, differences in form controls, sometimes crippled features that work fine in a "pc" based browser, fluid layout choices, float issues)

There will always be madness.

[edit] Took me a few to find this link again. Do compatibility charts like this look familiar? http://www.quirksmode.org/m/css.html

Comment · 15 years ago

What have you needed out of ANSI SQL that is a gap in its Turing Completeness? Totally serious. A great many things can be dismissed as not being Turing Complete, so please provide us with some examples of why this is bad in ANSI SQL.