Captain Janeway

I think it makes sense. I like ChatGPT and I appreciate having easy access to it. What I really wish is the option to use local models instead. I realize most people don’t have machines that can tokenize quickly enough but for those that do…

I hope so. I don’t want to manage two different address spaces in my head. I prefer if one standard is just the standard.

How do they prove your age? Non-technical savvy people probably just give their kids a phone and don’t do much to lock it down.

Nah it’s literally a waste of physical resources. Crypto currency is a waste of fossil fuels. AI has its functions at least.

Yeah the majority do it and I think it’s bad.

Thermostats are easy to change out. So this isn’t a huge deal. But I don’t love the idea that tech isn’t built to be self-hosted or maintained in any meaningful way. If you’re not shipping an open source version of your software when you close up, you’re an asshole.

Yeah, self hosting isn’t for most lay people if it’s just a GitHub repo. But GitHub repos quickly become adopted by nerds like me who build tooling around it that eventually let lay people self host software with the click of a button.

This is only for deleting your entire account. Not deleting an individual image from your post history. At least there’s a solution for now.

I use Starlink because I only have one other satellite competitor in my area, which I used to rely on. Previously, I had a 500GB limit and only 15-25mbps on any given day. Now, I have unlimited data and get 35mbps-70mpbs on any given day. Often above 50mbps.

It’s cheaper, it’s faster, and it’s easier to manage/setup/move/etc.

I think Elon is an idiot. I don’t even like that I have to use satellite internet. America used to have programs to build infrastructure like fiber optics across the nation for everyone. Our ability to service each other has diminished so greatly that it’s easier for me to connect to a satellite than it is to crowd source laying cables in my area.

It’s way faster, cheaper, and reliable to just dig trenches and lay cable. But Starlink provides me with something I can use for remote work, entertainment, and communication. It’s a decent product. I just think it’s like solving a drought by melting the ice caps.

Cause if you don’t forget your own stainless steel, you can’t be trained on proper defibrillator techniques?

I was comparing it to civil or mechanical engineering. I agree that programming/software is growing and “infiltrating” our lives. That’s why I think it will become a licensed/certified term in the future. Software engineer will require a cert and some products will require certified engineers. Whereas web apps developers (most likely) will not use that title most of the time and we will just bifurcate those who work on “critical software” and those that do not.

Well that’s my point. The term “engineer” is protected in a lot of other industries but not software.

Software engineering is just what any “engineering” field would be if they didn’t have standards. We have some geniuses and we have some idiots.

Mechanical engineers, civil engineers, electrical engineers, etc. are often forced to adhere to some sort of standard. It means something to say “I’m a civil engineer” (in most developed nations). You are genuinely liable in some instances for your work. You have to adhere to codes and policies and formats.

Software engineering is the wild west right now. No rules. No standards. And in most industries we may never need a standard because software rarely kills.

However, software is becoming increasingly important in our daily lives. There will likely come a day wherein similar standards take precedence and the name “software engineer” is only allowed to those who adhere to those standards and have the proper certs/licenses. I believe Canada already does this.

Software engineers would be responsible for critical software, e.g: ensuring phones connecting to an emergency operator don’t fail, building pacemakers, securing medical records, etc. I know some of these tasks already have “experts” behind them. But I don’t think software has any licensing/governing.

Directly opposed to “engineering” would be the grunt work which I do.

Why? Cause I’m a loser

This is absurd. I don’t understand how people can be so cruel. Though the “General + Dragon” succeeded in getting Mr. Lu out, it does feel like perhaps the ransom was just paid with a bit of negotiation. This is a very frustrating situation.

It’s pretty simple. Medical devices should have certain expectations for time and support. This happens in other industries all the time. Product support has to be guaranteed. And if you can’t guarantee product support, make your software open source. That’s not a law, just a “I’m not an asshole” placeholder. Open source schematics and software won’t fix everything, but it shows good faith effort to help people fucking not go blind.

Yeah obstructions can be generalized to a road being blocked. Object recognition includes recognizing the shape of an object via curves, shadows, depth, etc. You don’t need to know it’s a boulder to know a large object is in the road.

Just divide that number by two until it’s small enough to make the request under the free version.

You gotta time it with a heavy item. Some machines have tolerances for weight (or so it seems). So I always pick my heaviest item and put it down at the same time I put the bag down. Basically bagging it and placing it down at the same time. That “tricks” the machine into not realizing the extra weight is from a bag since the bag should be within the weight tolerance of the heavy item.

I’ve never had it fail.