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My issues is with false arrests due to people blindly following AI. People pulled out of their cars are gunpoint due to the AI misreading a single letter on the plate, the lady who…

The issue is a lot of times it takes a senior level programmer to reason with a LLM to get the results needed. What happens when there are no Juniors to replace the Seniors. I gues…

When I saw Loki as the name, I instantly thought of Grafana Loki for logging. I click on the GitHub and get Libr-AI and OpenFactVerification. I am not commenting on the actual soft…

I remember play a game years and years ago (cannot recall the game), you come out of a mountain cave halfway up turn left and then enter another cave. However i stopped and you got…

You would think a company would like to negotiate and be seen by a community as a positive company. I would not buy a product from them on principal after their statement. myQ coul…

I think one of the biggest fears from ARM would be the popularity of the Raspberry Pi and their community. There are better boards than the Raspberry Pi (strictly speaking specific…

I have no idea why this is fun, but on AI chat-bots, i always test 2 + 2(2-2) Should be answer of 2, however on different bots (not just GPT) i have gotten 0, 2, 4 and 6 (all i can…

Working in Tech, I love a lot about electric cars. I just have a few issues I cannot seem to overcome (this is a personal ME thing about EV's and some new gas vehicles, your mileag…

My kids laugh at me because I still buy CDs and rip them and some bandcamp. I rip to flac, not for some audiophile reason, but because I can rip a single file for the album with me…

I have been using FreeBSD since 1999, it was version 3.somthing, cannot remember. Since then my main server/development box has always been FreeBSD (I have a Linux one as well for …

It is also not just about the financial donations. These companies also do contribute back some source code. I know they do not contribute all of it back, however for closed source…

I think where the difference comes in with vinyl is the mastering process. CD's/Digital and Vinyl usually go through two entirely different mastering processes. This will make list…

I hate the network switch debate. Most center around noise shaping the sound. It is a one or zero, it will checksum and TCP either gives the correct packet or drops it. Also I do n…

When I am writing code for something it is fun to see what it comes up with as opposed to what I did. I also find it fun for bouncing ideas off of while brainstorming (it does not …

You are probably correct. Again people will bet on current system not being in use 15 years from now and it is not a problem until it is a problem. On a better note Y2K brought us …

Hindsight is always 20/20, we all know now that it would of been a bad idea. I do think this, along with Project Orion, are great thinking by people to utilize terribly destructive…

At my first UNIX IT job, my team lead told me: Listen when you break something tell us. Explain what you did and we can get it fixed. You will make mistakes, we all still make mist…

From the beginning of Byte magazine until about 1984 are really fun to read. The ads were probably annoying at the time of release, but not they are fun and interesting to read. I …

Serious question, since this is out of my swim lane. The Author keeps talking about the effects of Galactic Cosmic Rays, do we have any usable materials we can build habitats out o…

Every project i have been on where we built for availability and resilience has inevitably had at least one single point of failure. Usually it is something deemed non critical, bu…

Funny story, about 6 years ago we got a HP DL980 server with 1TB of memory to move from an Itanium HP-UX server. The test database was Oracle and about 600GB in size. We loaded the…

You can lock down YOUR infrastructure, but then are 100% dependent on the cloud environment to maintain and patch theirs. Since you have no insight to what the underlying infrastru…

This was an accident, they meant to buy 2 blades for more SAN ports and they ordered the wrong parts. They did this with a few database servers as well, they were supposed to order…

After 15 years of being a DoD contractor, it is frustrating to see yet another sole source entity getting the contract. Prices will inflate and there is no competition. HP and Orac…

I agree Nomad is probably a better solution, however my friend is an Oracle DBA who now manages the servers and docker since their System Administrator left and he was thrown into …