Bishma

Bishma , 1 month ago

But how do I stop all the ads in Linux for penguins and wildebeest?

Bishma , 1 month ago

Different companies have different plans. Arizona has had auto-driving trucks on freeways off and on for a couple years now as part of test programs. Always with a driver in the cab though.

A few years ago I would have though robo-convoys would be where things landed because three or four companies where working toward that. That’s where the front truck has an operator and all the other trucks follow that leader driverlessly.

Now I feel like I have no idea where any of it is going. Step 1 in driverless should have always been to adopt an industry-wide mesh-network for all vehicles with level 3 (or higher) autonomy. If I’m on the road with (or inside of) an autonomous vehicle, I want it to be able get help from every other nearby car if its sensors suddenly die or start feeding it bad data. Especially after they’ve been on the road, poorly maintained by their owners, for a decade or more. If there are autonomous cars where will eventually be autonomous jalopies that drive like a drunk toddler because they sees lidar echos.

Bishma , 1 month ago

Trains are only a good idea in tubes now. There was a memo about it a few years ago.

Bishma , 1 month ago

Plutonium is an synthetic element, so Alchemy Achievement Earned

Bishma , 1 month ago

Such a good idea it gives me an idea for an award with a prize attached

Bishma , 1 month ago

I have all my histories turned off and once a year or so I go in and make sure they haven’t added anything new for me to turn off.

Now the question is, are they really not collecting my data or have I just made it so I can’t see what they have on me?

Bishma , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

That’s how I think about it too.

Bishma , 1 month ago

In your google account settings there should be a page called “Data And Privacy” that has loads of things to turn off or at least limit the amount of time before they say they delete it.

They keep changing where it is and how the pages are laid out in order to keep us on our toes. I think there may be a privacy center somewhere too. There used to be.

Bishma , 1 month ago

I had a roommate who joked about making a movie where Arnold Schwarzenegger (this conversation happened in the early 00’s) was in an engineering degree program, and lugging around each day’s textbooks was how he got so ripped.

Bishma , 1 month ago

Outwardly this looks like steering the boat toward the waterfall. I’m guessing this is predicating another move by Musk to “prove” to the stock market that Tesla is an AI company that happens to make cars, rather than a car company that has potential AI products. And (if so) it probably ties into that remark he made about using idle Teslas as compute resources.

Bishma , 1 month ago

He’ll happily use the last watt in each car’s battery. Owners will get to their cars, find out the supercharger crashed after 30 seconds and no one noticed, then see that their batteries are dead because an atlas robot is struggling to learn the floss dance.

Bishma , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

For a blissful moment I thought the headline was saying “Google Lays Off Sundar Pichai”

Before I got the hyphen I was starting to get down on the floor.

Bishma , 1 month ago

I keep hoping that its crapness will at least teach me to proofread before I hit the Post button. It hasn’t… but I can hope.

Bishma , 1 month ago

Yeah, no one can make it say “I don’t know” because it is not really AI. Business bros decided to call it that and everyone smiled and nodded. LLMs are 1 small component (maybe) of AI. Maybe 1/80th of a true AI or AGI.

Honestly the most impressive part of LLMs is the tokenizer that breaks down the request, not the predictive text button masher that comes up with the response.

Bishma OP , 1 month ago

Thank you. It was a quilting project of my wife’s. She’s good with all the hobbies that require dexterity in a way that I am not

Bishma OP , 1 month ago

He’s a goofball for sure. With the teeniest little mew. He’s a 13lb mass of muscle with the meow of a kitten.

Bishma , 1 month ago

When you stop looking for bugs you can honestly say you haven’t found any. That’s how how the pandemic ended.

Bishma , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

In 12 months when he gets called on it by debtors (since Shitter has no shareholders) he’ll try to buy Pluto TV and claim that was the plan the whole time.

Bishma , 2 months ago

I’ll get angry again if the ads show up in business licensed copies of Windows since I have to use Windows at work. And at least work won’t make me upgrade from 10 until 2025

Bishma , 2 months ago

Since I was a kid I’ve wanted to be an inventor but I don’t think of marketable things and hate the idea of locking my ideas up behind legal restrictions (I prefer to license my personal software and 3D print designs under the MIT “just make sure my name stays attached” license).

So yeah, I’d just design stuff and put it into the world…

Bishma , 2 months ago

If you need to send SMS commercially they’re still generally priced at $0.03 each. I just had to deal with that because some users will apparently only turn on MFA if they can get the codes by txt.

Bishma , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

In the wild west days of the internet we used to connect consumer CDMA phones straight to our servers. You’d walk around your COLO and peek in racks of crazy expensive, rack mounted hardware with the world’s cheapest flip phone sitting on top.

The telcos caught wind and started terminating accounts. It was a great way to have a server tell you it fell off the network.

Bishma , 2 months ago

Ok, hear me out. It’s a scotched egg, but the egg is soft boiled.

Bishma , 2 months ago

This is a great day! I think we can ALL agree that it’s been deeply frustrating to be priced out of the flame throwing robot dog market for so long.

Bishma , 2 months ago

Just to play devil’s advocate: throughout the history of capitalism someone surely must have made a more expensive brick (adjusted for inflation).

That’s the best defense I can give.

Bishma , 2 months ago

Neither is falling when connected to the generator. That’s nature’s cruel joke; the cat-bread dynamo is limitless energy but it can never be harnessed.

Bishma , 2 months ago

Tardigrade football fields are only 1cm long.

Bishma , 2 months ago

I like to do that with a lot of the o’meters, just for fun.

Acceler-o-meter and seis-o-meter are my favorite. Weirdly least fun: kil-o-meter.

Bishma , 2 months ago

This specific line was first proposed in the Clinton or maybe even Bush Sr administration. It changed concept so many times I really never though a single rail would ever get put down.

At one point there was even talk of connecting it to the monorail that runs down 30% of the strip. I think that’s when I lost hope.

Bishma , 2 months ago

I like how they announced the San Diego to Seattle line again, for the 4th (I think) time in 20ish years, only this time it’s missing half of Oregon. So if you want to go the whole way it’ll be high speed rail from San Diego to Medford, Oregon, then ¯*(ツ)*/¯, then Portland (or possibly Eugene) to Seattle on high speed rail again.

Bishma , 2 months ago

Gap. The Cascades kill the budget, so they want to skip most of them.

Bishma , 2 months ago

I think that’s the goal. My head canon is that somewhere in the committee an engineer familiar with the PNW finally said “You know if you try to go over the southern passes the line will be down for 2 months out of the year because of storms.” Then they showed their tunnel math and plans suddenly changed.

Bishma , 2 months ago

In the US, off the top of my head:

• Pedestrians in Paradise, Nevada (the Vegas Strip) are allowed open containers in plastic or aluminum containers.
• The French Quarter in New Orleans has similar open container laws.

Bishma , 2 months ago

When I worked in a grocery store years ago there was a “no naked alcohol rule.” In retrospect I don’t know if it was a thing the store did or if was a Liquor Control Commission reg. But it meant that part of training new clerks was explaining: these bags will hold 12 or 20oz cans, these hold a single 40oz, these will hold a full 6 pack, these are best for MD20/20 and Thunderbird…

Bishma , 2 months ago

That patch panel is a thing of beauty from the front, I’ll bet it looks even better walking away from the back

Bishma , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

If I had 25 surprise desktops I imagine I’d discover a long dormant need for a Beowulf cluster.

Bishma , 2 months ago

Depends on how ripe they are. Before they go spotty the stem end is usually thicker than the blossom end, so I open from the bottom. Once it’s ripe then the stem is usually much easier.

Bishma , 2 months ago

The fire was external only, they expect to open again tomorrow.

Bishma , 2 months ago

I heard that Frank Oz operates all crocodilians.

Bishma , 2 months ago

A lunar day is 27.3 days and a solar cycle is 29 and change. So we’d be just off the lunar cycles. Like when you’re sitting waiting for a turn lane signal to change and the person in front of you has a blinker that’s just a tiny bit slower than yours.

Bishma , 2 months ago

Exhibit A: I’ve never cared for Smashing Pumpkins but I know every note and word in this song as if I wrote it.

Bishma , 2 months ago

BD’s ability to make highly capable robots is high. Their ability to make creepy robots is unmatched.

Bishma , 2 months ago

It looks hard, in practice it is not. I haven’t knowingly purchased a Nestle product in over decade. Mistakes happen now and again, but when they do I add that brand to my mental list and move on.

Where it gets confusing is international brand ownership differences. For example, Cheerios is still made and distributed by General Mills in North America, but by Nestle in most of the rest of the world.

Bishma , 2 months ago

Obligatory !fucknestle

Bishma , 2 months ago

The Night Time Is The Right Time to be with the one you love… or to join a cult

Bishma , 2 months ago

I’d feel compelled to post tree wizard in various forms. Everyone would get sick of me.

Bishma , 2 months ago

birds that go mmmbop ba duba dop ba doowop oh-ooh yeah.