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Captainant

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  1. Yup, they borked a bunch of shit with a bad DNS update
  2. huh Azure had an outage today caused by a bad DNS update that hit most of their M365 services and a few businesses pretty good. I wonder if Oracle or GCP will do one too just to be trendy
  3. There's one off Westheimer, pretty dang good chicken
  4. his last comment - "but the power!" is extremely apropos. There's been some solid work and writing around energy usage per million tokens consumed, and agents can routinely burn thousands to tens of thousands per simple "hello/good morning" responses. Even the most efficient setups consume a couple of kWhrs to process a million tokens. There's a hideous amount of power being consumed to do really no actual work aside from running up NVDA's market cap note: "token" is a model-specific metric that refers to the size of each block of input given to a LLM, typically 4-6 characters including punctuation and spaces per token.
  5. If it wasn't the remains, it would be something else. This is HOW BULLIES AND FASCISTS OPERATE. Always find a new grievance to nurse that gives you surface-level justification for ratcheting things up another notch
  6. goddamn he doesn't even live in the US? Why tf was he getting sourced to so much doing the 2020 summer of love and election cycle then?
  7. See: Anthropic's work on model poisoning. https://www.anthropic.com/research/small-samples-poison
  8. That's because John Deere's bigger business is collecting farmers soil data and building data products to sell to futures market makers and other interested parties. It's literally because JD is collecting a data stream from farmers and collecting 100% of the revenue from selling their data. THAT is why they're so anti right-to-repair. It puts revenue directly at risk.
  9. It's wild because the valuation based on future sales that are not guaranteed. They'll sell a boatload of chips if a BUNCH things break their way. But market exhuberance gonna exhuber There's SO MUCH mark-to-market accounting going on here, so it's really more a question of if you think you can stay liquid longer than the market can remain irrational. Typically, that's a tough bet to time right
  10. lmao Ian Miles Cheong, noted milkshake survivor
  11. Doctorow talks quite a bit about this book in that Adam Conover interview I posted a few days ago - one of the biggest mechanisms that got us here is the DMCA. Under its provisions, it's a federal felony to break a "digital lock". So you're legally prohibited from cracking encryption to root your own device, or doing anything at all to interfere with their almighty Intellectual Property rights. Because there's an inherent "lock in" effect to EVERYTHING these days, it sets the stage for enshittification to happen. Because there's much higher opportunity costs for a consumer to change a behavior, it creates an economic environment where customer exploitation and extraction becomes a more viable and ideal business strategy
  12. If I were doing it again now, I'd be more interested in trade school than a 4 year university. It worked out well for me, but I had a way different "board state" than your son does. I was an ok-not-great student and I wasn't worried about finding a job - just if it would be a good (read: cool) job. That's definitely not the case anymore, like for fucking ANY degree holder. A trade school is a much more sure deal, and will give much more tangibly useful knowledge compared to the breadth of knowledge a bachelor's degree encompasses.
  13. Damn that's some incredible marksmanship - a world champion shotgun shooter had trouble knocking them down with his specialized M4
  14. AMZN posted their planned Washington layoffs to their WARN database https://esd.wa.gov/employer-requirements/layoffs-and-employee-notifications/worker-adjustment-and-retraining-notification-warn-layoff-and-closure-database looks like lots of hardware, game design, supply chain, and HR folks. I'm making an inference that most of the software engineer roles are within those hardware/games teams, but that feels accurate
  15. I've personally seen more projects fail than succeed where the implementation partner touted their accelerated timeframe thanks to their coding assistants. I use coding assistants myself and it's incredibly helpful, but """vibe coding""" replaces about 10% of what software engineering is. In my experience "coding" is working with stakeholders to ensure that what's being made is actually meeting the business need - NOT just crapping out code and throwing it over the wall.
  16. 2025 you wild'n https://www.actionnews5.com/2025/10/28/truck-hauling-aggressive-monkeys-carrying-herpes-covid-overturns-mississippi/ Authorities said the driver of the truck carrying the monkeys told law enforcement that the monkeys “were dangerous” and “posed a threat to humans.” Authorities say they took the appropriate actions after being given that information. The Jasper County Sheriff’s Office said all of the escaped monkeys, except for one, “have been destroyed.” The sheriff’s department is still looking for one of the monkeys that is still on the loose.
  17. Ya know, the most annoying part of GRUhorn constantly coming back like a bad case of herpes is that it's harder to shame him for being so fucking wrong all the goddamn time https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c891ex72nj7t BBC: Israel launches strikes on Gaza after Netanyahu orders 'powerful' attacks
  18. I think it's inclusive of the Reuters reporting, since that was prior to AMZN giving a statement
  19. if you ask the business board, you get a nice #bothsides response
  20. Mark to market valuations on revenue returned from the extreme capex expenditures. They haven't realized even ⅒ of their target revenues, and don't have anything close to a sustainable business model to buy time to fix that
  21. It's hit and miss, some free apps/games my wife (on iOS) plays look night and day when it's off/on, and others have no effect. Web browsing is better with no exceptions On android it seems to be broadly effective
  22. Problem is - even the most milquetoast criticisms of the very real problems in our current system are met with "whell thas cuz yer SOCIALIST!!!". That kind of thinking is playing a game you can't win, because it wasn't designed for you to win. Dems should stop playing appeasement fuck fuck games with the fascists. They aren't earnest criticisms - just a cudgel to rhetorically beat people who aren't in your tribe
  23. I run Adguard on my phone and have enough family licenses (like 9 lifetime licenses for $120) to cover my wife and sister's family too. It works for basically every web based ad, and most apps too.
  24. the 5th bullet point: "frustrations with the status quo are not the same as a desire for socialism" goddamn that needs to be repeated ad nauseum to maga
  25. It seems to be mostly HR and "devices and services" (read: Alexa and Fire devices) employees - not much word of it hitting AWS that I've read/heard
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