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tilton, 1 month ago to random

Someone gave me this Sun Ultra 2 last year, and I haven’t even opened it up to check it out yet. I think today I will explore to see whether it’s even functional or not.

tilton, 1 month ago to random

And ANOTHER article about AI trouble. I am more and more convinced that LLMs are a complete dead end. They stand a much higher chance of total collapse over the next ten years than they do of achieving greatness. https://www.wheresyoured.at/bubble-trouble/

tilton, 2 months ago to random

The first piece of networking code I ever wrote was in 1994, and I wrote it to avoid working on some college project that was going poorly. To reflect my mood at the time, I named it "fuckmed", as in "Fuck Me Daemon". It listened for connections on a TCP port. When it received one, it simply wrote out the string "you are really fucked" and then closed the connection.

I guess I've always been this way.

tilton, 2 months ago to random

Having now worked at two of the top three cloud and web security providers I can tell you with certainty that when you see an expensive corporate cloud service offering like “Conglomco EdgeProtect” or “Mightycorp ZeroTrust Gateway”, that is a thing defined entirely by marketing. Nobody designed how it’s actually supposed to work because they’re just slapping existing components together like Taco Bell’s menu. Behind the scenes it’s five to eight teams mostly acquired from smaller companies running around like chickens with their heads cut off trying to figure out how to make management happy without burning out.

tilton, 2 months ago to random

I always forget how much allergies take out of me. I never had them growing up, but something about the pollen up here near Seattle triggers them SO BAD every spring. I’m just a wreck. Luckily they don’t last long and they clear up well before summer starts, but it sucks in the meantime. I’m so tired 😩

tilton, 2 months ago to random

LB: This is the first I've ever heard that the Dunning-Kruger effect was shown to be a statistical error. The analysis in the attached post from 2022 is a fascinating look at statistics and autocorrelation.

tilton, 2 months ago to random

I have never had anything that I would describe as a religious or spiritual experience, certainly nothing so moving that it changed me in some noticeable way. I often worry about that, like they seem to be fairly common for people? Nothing has even come close to that in my life.

tilton, 2 months ago to random

Tech interviews be like "OK, write a program on this whiteboard that can detect whether any other arbitrary program will halt or not"

tilton, 2 months ago to random

Not a day goes by that I'm not grateful I didn't get on the Internet until I was 19, and that social media as we know it didn't really exist until I was in my 30s

tilton, 2 months ago to random

Vintage computers were ahead of their time

tilton, 2 months ago to random

My pizza box is trying to guilt trip me into recycling it, but we’re not allowed to recycle pizza boxes here. I must regretfully slide it into the trash.

Sominemo, 2 months ago to random

Darn, don't I love myself so much by refusing to run a modified Mastodon instance and sticking to vanilla.

Low post limit, no formatting, and pain when trying to word something more comprehensive than a shitpost.

tilton, 3 months ago to random

So... I've been toying with this dumb idea in my head. I kind of want to establish a fictitious company with a strong web presence -- great website, staffed email addresses, the whole thing -- whose SOLE and ONLY purpose is to be a front for my friends who have been laid off. Let's call it "Foonley Industries" (not its real name). You were laid off last year and haven't worked in six months? No you weren't. You've been working for Foonley Industries on a contract since then and you're still currently working for us. I will verify your employment history to anyone who asks. Dumb idea? Great idea?

tilton, 3 months ago to random

Have a gender? Leave a gender!

Need a gender? Take a gender!

tilton, 3 months ago to random

Kurt Vonnegut always knew what was up.

tilton, 3 months ago to random

I'm thinking back to my first ever real job interview, January of 1996, at Taos Mountain Software. I was in Connecticut, they were in California, so it was all over the phone and email. They asked me if I knew HTML, so I sent them a sample web page and Perl script and they were like "OK you're hired, you start next Monday". Simpler times.

tilton, 3 months ago to random

I should quit tech and open a used book store.

tilton, 3 months ago to random

OK, here me out: A game called "Cyberfunk 1977" where you play Bootsy Collins, and you have to use the power of the P-Funk Mothership to hack into a megacorp's IBM mainframe

tilton, 3 months ago to random

Nobody knows their computer history anymore and everybody thinks they’re inventing new things when they’re often reimplementing old ideas. This Wave terminal getting all the hype boasts about displaying graphics in the terminal like nobody had ever thought of it before, but I think a lot of people would be pretty surprised to hear that. Just because it’s not a commonly used feature does not mean it doesn’t exist.

tilton, 3 months ago to random

(quote) "MIPS R2000 and MIPS R3000 load instructions aren't guaranteed finish before any instruction that uses the freshly-loaded register." (unquote)

EXCUSE ME, WHAT?

tilton, 3 months ago to random

Very disappointed in Mozilla. Not surprised, just disappointed. The browser monopoly must die, but Mozilla isn't helping at all.

EDIT: In response to: https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/13/mozilla-downsizes-as-it-refocuses-on-firefox-and-ai-read-the-memo/

cargo, 3 months ago to random

Thoughtful Deceleration, your time has come

tilton, 3 months ago to random

Kind of pissed off that Google stole the name of an existing tech project (Gemini) for their shitty new LLM, so searching for info on the real Gemini is going to be impossible from here on out.