The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread
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@Gustaf said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
I had ChatGPT make me a rental analysis calculator. Before I could even tell it what I wanted it to do it wrote all the code in Python. It’s 98% perfect.
My experience with it reminds me of that nursery rhyme, “When she was good, she was very, very good, But when she was bad, she was horrid.”
It can be amazing with what it can do it when when it works though.
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Gators1 Nah, not yet.
I built an app in Dart/Flutter while I was away and Gemini Flash generated about 95% of the code for it. I’d never written any Dart before and, although I’d been guiding the AI on architecture and pulling it up on stuff that was obviously wrong or even dangerous, I was literally 200 commits in before I thought I better learn something about the Dart language. I remember being a few minutes into the first Dart beginner video thinking, “oh, so that’s how you declare a variable in Dart”. Which was pretty funny.
Admittedly I’m a tight ass so I don’t know what the $200 or $800 a month coding models are like but although an amazing tool, AI generated code has a lot of minefields. I’m of the opinion now that I’d hate to have to code this stuff all manually because AI is such a productivity boost but I’d also never trust it to not give you an unmaintainable mess if you just one-shotted it or let the AI do it all without monitoring it and guiding it.
Fortunately we American kids were schooled on the risks of ai jerks.
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@Kilemall Got a bonus new (to me) word out of that article, “teledactyl”.
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Kilemall Got a bonus new (to me) word out of that article, “teledactyl”.
You might enjoy this one too, if you don’t already know it:
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The financial services firms allegedly each paid $25 million and $36.2 million in Bitcoin in 2023—the highest payments listed in the complaint.
London teenager orchestrated 'help desk' extortion scheme against 47 U.S. companies that netted $115 million says DOJ | Fortune
A 19-year old is facing a maximum 95 years in prison for allegedly calling company help desks and convincing employees to reset passwords in a massive scheme.
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Palantir is both 1984 and 1934 wrapped up in one. A growing surveillance empire with some bizarre quasi-religious flavor, with its leaders espousing some weird techno-messianic transhumanism belief system that feels more like a cult of power, or Satanism, than an actual company. And Trump has handed them the full backing of the US government.
We are doomed.
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What I find wryly amusing is that Thiel, by his own words, has read the LotR 40 times or something yet names his surveillance company after the object that Sauron used to both spy on and corrupt others.
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
What I find wryly amusing is that Thiel, by his own words, has read the LotR 40 times or something yet names his surveillance company after the object that Sauron used to both spy on and corrupt others.
He’s probably one of those types that thinks Sauron is actually the good guy who wants to bring order to a chaotic world.
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
What I find wryly amusing is that Thiel, by his own words, has read the LotR 40 times or something yet names his surveillance company after the object that Sauron used to both spy on and corrupt others.
Sauron did not make them though.
Fëanor did.
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Maybe we should be grateful we’ve moved past the rank hypocrisy in giving things benign, market friendly names when they actually do or intend the opposite. I look forward to the reading of the “We’re Going to Fuck You Over Act (2025)”.
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Progress toward beating serious illness . . .
"laissez les bons temps rouler!"
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@Jam said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Progress toward beating serious illness . . .
Ramsdell could not be reached by Reuters – nor by Brunkow or Bluestone, with Bluestone saying he may be on a hiking trip in an area without cell phone reception… Among companies in the early race, Ramsdell’s Sonoma Biotherapeutics is partly funded, opens new tab and supported by U.S. drugmaker Regeneron (REGN.O), opens new tab to work on therapies against diseases including inflammatory bowel disease.
Also targeting that condition, Quell Therapeutics, opens new tab has partnered with AstraZeneca (AZN.L), opens new tab. Other biotech firms exploring the approach include Bayer’s (BAYGn.DE), opens new tabBlueRock
Sounds like a lot of money at stake here. I sure hope Ramsdell makes it home okay from his incommunicado hiking trip…
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@Jam said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Progress toward beating serious illness . . .
That is Trump 's Nobel prize!!!
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@Gustaf said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Jam said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Progress toward beating serious illness . . .
That is Trump 's Nobel prize!!!
Keep in mind that one recipient is incommunicado, out hiking in an apparently very remote area. Anything could happen to him out there…
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@Gustaf said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Jam said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Progress toward beating serious illness . . .
That is Trump 's Nobel prize!!!
He’s the greatest scientist that has ever lived!
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Dunno how this works but, nice:
Reddit: [UK] Likely scam warning shown while on call with someone claiming to be from bank
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Why so slow? Anyone else having problems loading pages? My connection is good at 650 up and down but most websites are super slow.
I was going to blame Lithu.
GTFO
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I’ve noticed nothing but that I could not DL from youtube when I was in town for a few hours in the morning. Out on the farm, connection is just as shitty as ever.
It’s probably MicroSoft’s fault wit the Win11 BS,
Or the Russians.
