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  1. 16 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

    My problem is I have an idea and I think "This is stupid. No one would fall for this". But they would...because they're stupid.

    Once again, I’m the outlier. I’m working through a complex parcel shipping server and fulfillment system messaging issue, and the infrastructure team recommended a load balancer to throttle the traffic to the currently overwhelmed parcel system complete with SYN, ACK, PSH, FIN messages. I described what the infra team recommended for a Monday action plan meeting and asked claude to make some images. 10 minutes of prompts resulted in pretty good images to facilitate the proposed multi-phase solution discussion with non-technical leadership. Sorry snagit.

    Haters gonna hate.

     


  2. The last verse of this always hits me hard. I remember the lead up in 2003 to the iraq war and being very skeptical of W, cheney and colin powell.

    I’ve seen the white buffalo three times live. There is absolute silence in the crowd during this song.

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  3. 18 hours ago, Scheiss Meister said:

    I have no idea where they got the oakum from.  It had to be in storage at the shop, because the repair was done late at night, and no stores were open.  It was a strange night.


    Shocking video leak of the oakum heist

     

    Spoiler

     

     

     

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  4. 20 hours ago, GenXer said:

    I feel like an outlier. Claude.ai helps me write oracle stored procedures, job schedules, triggers in seconds. I do have to make corrections because it doesn’t know our db schema that well. But it will generate the syntax for artifacts I’ve never created before. It’s made me >10x more productive. I come up with the “what do I need”, explain it to claude, and claude does 90% of the work.

    It’s also helpful to interpret 1000 lines of audit logs and summarize it.

    Shit. I’m on a system integration issue call right now with a parcel vendor and enterprise system vendor where we have too many end point connections to the parcel vendor system and it’s causing errors in the enterprise system’s manifesting. Claude looked at a screenshot of the connections and diagnosed the issue.


    The call lasted 10 hours yesterday. It will continue again today. There were 10 people on the call at any one time up to and including the CTO.

    After all was said and done, the vendor made a recommendation. After the call concluded, I entered the same findings from our research in claude, and claude made the exact same recommendation as the vendor.

    I am a claude fan.

  5. 4 minutes ago, Vegas64 said:

    I'm a noted bear on *this* particular flavor of AI and this AI bubble (while noting that AI is a transformational technology which will change everything we have known about labor, work, social, etc. in the future).

    That said I was listening to one of the world's prominent quants talking about pod shops and hedge funds and we all know they are super advanced on all things technology to make a buck, and he made the point in a way that I've been thinking about it: today AI is not ready to take over. It's only synthesizing words and videos and text and images that man has already created for it to process (upon processing). But one day, in a few years even, maybe? WIth the advent of the sensory stuff (Meta glasses) and other stuff that will come (touch, taste, tactiles, etc.). The complexity of human sensing and consuming will get closer to what a machine can also consume and sense.

    It will be an AI version of the meme "The Yellowstone Park Ranger has noted there is a large overlap between the smartest bear and the dumbest human, upon trying to create a bear-proof trash can".

    The overlap between the dumbest person and the smartest machine COULD be a critical mass. And then maybe there is a tipping point.

    And then what to do about the useless eaters?

    Saw this and it makes one think:

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    Will ai be able to read that cause I can’t?

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  6. I feel like an outlier. Claude.ai helps me write oracle stored procedures, job schedules, triggers in seconds. I do have to make corrections because it doesn’t know our db schema that well. But it will generate the syntax for artifacts I’ve never created before. It’s made me >10x more productive. I come up with the “what do I need”, explain it to claude, and claude does 90% of the work.

    It’s also helpful to interpret 1000 lines of audit logs and summarize it.

    Shit. I’m on a system integration issue call right now with a parcel vendor and enterprise system vendor where we have too many end point connections to the parcel vendor system and it’s causing errors in the enterprise system’s manifesting. Claude looked at a screenshot of the connections and diagnosed the issue.

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  7. 26 minutes ago, Goredho said:

    Why I’m surprised there isn’t an AI yes/no bit in digital artifacts.  I would think the AI companies would want to have everything flagged for training purposes.

    Google’s ai overview says that some platforms put “ai created” tags in the metadata. It doesn’t sound like they all do.

  8. 1 hour ago, HenryJames said:

     


    I use claude a lot to write oracle stored procedures. It’s very helpful crank out queries and updates that have joins between multiple db tables. But it’ll just make up column names with confidence even though I’ve taught it the joins before. It says “you’re right” a lot to me after I’ve pointed out the error. It doesn’t learn and retain the learnings as well as it should.

  9. 1 hour ago, Celery Man said:

    It’s so funny hearing a song that’s great and every time, picking up the guitar and finding that it’s the same thing as every other song. He does some quicker changes in there than I was getting and I’m pretty sure the chord I was missing is Am (relative to the capo) but yeah man it’s just g c f d and all those little hammer ons and pull offs 

     

     

    Took me a second to find MJ. This is like Gen Z Breeders.

     

    This is the first time I’ve heard Snocaps. Sans the male vocals, I’m picking up on a  lemonheads / matthew sweet sound. And their tune Avalanche channels the la’s “there she goes”. I dig ‘em.

  10. 55 minutes ago, C-Man said:

    My wife and I really wanted to see Kevin Morby open so we were there around 7:45. Morby went on at 8. I think he's doing the Houston show too. He only played for half an hour and was off the stage at 8:30.

    I was let down by Morby. I wanted to hear Dorothy. I grade each band I see. He ranks as a “no” for future shows.

  11. 9 hours ago, C-Man said:

    Lord Huron show was pretty spectacular.

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    I enjoyed the show but as I watched it I was thinking “how do I describe this to my wife?” She always asks me about the concerts.

    Two adjectives came to mind: theatrical and pretentious.

    A few songs later, the lead singer calls himself a pretentious asshole. Points for self awareness.

    They put a lot of work into the concept and execution of their show. It is a show.

  12. 2 hours ago, C-Man said:

    Didn't we determine you were a few rows behind my wife and I at the Wilco show (I think it was Wilco) at Toyota some months ago?

    Nope. I wasn’t at that show.

  13. On 1/11/2024 at 8:28 AM, baboso said:

    I can highly recommend Dr.  Bruce Sherrill at Dental Associates of North Dallas.  Best dentist I have ever had.

    Per the googles, Dr Sherrill has retired.

    Got any other recommendations?

    I took a fall when I was 2-3 years old that did damage to my front teeth. 

    I have veneers on my front teeth and a cap on one adjacent tooth from decades ago. One of my veneers chipped off recently. I want to go full in and do a whitening of all my teeth but the cap and veneers present a matching problem. It’s time for a full redo.

    I went to one place, and they quoted $10k. They did 3D imaging, and said I needed a root canal on the tooth beneath my cap. That’s quite possible. That’s do-able but I feel like a second opinion is in order.

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