Unexpectedly got nightmares for years after watching the movie Twister.

Here’s a picture of me when I was older.

And the flip side of that; paying a craftsman to do the job is 1000% better for everyone involved!

Better for the craftsman. I’m helping someone else stay employed.

Better for my house/car. Let’s be honest, I learn by trial and error.

Better for me. Outside of more basic maintenance, I don’t want to buy all those specialty tools… like that thing you use to pull a shower handle cartridge out.

It’s better for the economy. Putting money in the craftsman’s pocket contributes to the general churn of the economy, and he is more inclined to buy local where I am more likely to end up at a franchise. It’s a little thing I call Trickle Up Economics™.

Ha, my boss gives me this one. “But I’m different,” he says when I tell him about side project stuff like working on my house. I try to tell him… everyone my age I know is like that. They fix their own car/house/electronics and also do some kind of side work. You know how much a contractor costs? Between friends and family, I could be a contractor tomorrow, but not because I want to be. It’s out of necessity. I would love to pay someone else to install floors or do plumbing.

But yeah… all the evidence in front of his face doesn’t hold a candle to whatever Fox News tells him.

Didn’t expect so much hate for this game… In terms of simulations, in 2002, the original game was light years ahead of its time. They did a lot of things right that it took the more popular mil sims years to get correct. I’d go as far as to argue it is one of the most realistic squad-based tactical shooters of all time.

Some real wisdom in this one.

A related problem I see on YouTube is talking heads pruning their comments to create mini echo chambers. This is a real problem.

Lol leave. That is so many levels of braindead.

This one in particular though

Get it in the schools. It’s a bad habit from many people’s childhood that they need to break. Make that original habit not suck.

You want to see a picture of me when I was younger?

Thought “libs” was an American specific term. My apologies.

I guess you’re part of the American right? You see… the right in the US has been fed a steady stream of Russian propaganda through their talking heads for a while now. So the right has become indistinguishable from Russian bots. Sorry for the confusion!

I’m not sure what metric you’re using to determine this. The bottom line is, if you’re trying to get the CPU to really fly, using memory efficiently is just as important (if not more) than the actual instructions you send to it. The reason for this is the high latency required to go out to external memory. This is performance 101.

Just wanted to point out that the number 1 performance blocker in the CPU is memory. In the general case, if you’re wasting memory, you’re wasting CPU. These two things really cannot be talked about in isolation.

Guy from '95: “I bet it’s lightning fast though…”

No dude. It peaks pretty soon. In my time, Microsoft is touting a chat program that starts in under 10 seconds. And they’re genuinely proud of it.

Then, they look confused when I tell them I don’t want the thing connected to the Internet.

Software guy here. I’d like a paper ballot. If it’s possible, it wouldn’t be done correctly anyway.

100% this. The base algorithms used in LLMs have been around for at least 15 years. What we have now is only slightly different than it was then. The latest advancement was training a model on stupid amounts of scraped data off the Internet. And it took all that data to make something that gave you half decent results. There isn’t much juice left to squeeze here, but so many people are assuming exponential growth and “just wait until the AI trains other AI.”

It’s really like 10% new tech and 90% hype/marketing. The worst is that it’s got so many people fooled you hear many of these dumb takes from respectable journalists interviewing “tech” journalists. It’s just perpetuating the hype. Now your boss/manager is buying in =]

What’s wrong with c unions? I’ve never heard that complaint.