I need to pack up my mother in law’s apartment, can any of y’all send me a good box? I need a couple.

Look. I have no problems if you want to use AI to make shit code for your own bullshit. Have at it.

Don’t submit that shit to open Source projects.

You want to use it? Use it for your own shit. The rest of us didn’t ask for this. I’m really hoping the AI bubble bursts in a big way very soon. Microsoft is going to need a bail out, openai is fucking doomed, and z/Twitter/grok could go either way honestly.

Who in their right fucking mind looks at the costs of running an AI datacenter, and the fact that it’s more economically feasible to buy a fucking nuclear power plant to run it all, and then say, yea, this is reasonable.

The C-whatever-O’s are all taking crazy pills.

I’m not saying I have a better solution or a better setup at home. I’m doing something extremely similar. I would 100% say that my solution sucks… But it works.

There’s plenty of ways to do it.

I wanted to get an x16 to dual oculink 8x connector card with a matching dock, so I wouldn’t have to give up any bandwidth while getting high end graphics going, but I can’t find anything that fits that bill. So I have a riser cable bodged together with the case of my system perpetually open.

It works. I don’t love it, but I don’t have the time/money to find/buy what I feel would be more ideal. So this is what I’ve done.

I don’t want to give up half the PCIe lanes and I can’t find a way to do that with anything that’s not a riser cable.

So here I am.

Thanks, I always wondered how other people solved this exact problem.

Now I know.

Poorly.

Carry on.

Gas stoves have a place, and I’m not about to take away anyone’s choice on the matter. With all that being said, to the title of this article, I say “duh”… Honestly, who thought that cooking using an open flame inside your home was somehow safer than the alternative?

I use electric, I’ve pretty much always used electric. I will continue to use some form of electric stove. I want to have complete control over the heat going into my cookware, and while it may not be as flashy or as quick to use electric, I can’t see any situation where electric would not be safer.

Why all the construction? Is he building 11 ballrooms?

I don’t hate all the new shows. They have merit, but they basically cheated. They can omit, change, discard, ignore, or otherwise leave out any and all lore because of the universe reset that happened with the new trek. It gave them a clean slate so that they would have the creative freedom to do whatever they wanted.

Weighing it against other sci-fi shows in a similar vein, the new series of shows/movies holds up for the most part, against Star wars, and shows like the Orville. But as star trek, I think they did a disservice to the fans by rebooting it in the way that they did. All the existing universe and lore built by TOS, TNG, DS9, Voyager, and all the movies up to that point, is all basically voided. Where you would know that, if they introduce worf, for example, even as a young warrior, you would know what he will become if the canon wasn’t voided. Now? They can use the characters and come up with any reason for them to make a different choice, dramatically changing the outcomes.

But, if you judge it as a separate thing, loosely based on trek, it’s not bad.

I’ve never seen something useful come out of an LLM when it comes to tech support.

Early TNG was a bit rough. They had the right people, but some of the plot lines were strange an in some cases quite prejudiced.

Around season 3 they got their stride going.

Not every episode of season 1 is good. They were trying stuff and seeing what resonated with a new generation of trek fans.

I’m not saying anyone should skip it, but there are episodes that make me question why they even thought it was a good idea to do that.

Machine learning for OCR makes a ton of sense. Human writing is highly dynamic, especially handwriting. It makes sense that OCR would benefit from a trained model for recognising words.

As someone who works in a knowledge industry, anyone relying on AI for their workload will end up with more errors than solutions. IT requires a high degree of accuracy in the information you handle that gets you to a solution. Out of everything you can say about AI, you can’t say that it’s highly accurate.

Any time I’ve given a technical question to copilot or chat GPT, I usually get nonsense back. It will not help me solve any of the issues I need to solve as a part of my job.

I understand how the current version of “AI” works, and from that knowledge, I know that for any meaningful task I face with even a small amount of complexity, these so-called “AI” bots can’t possibly have any relevant answers. Most of the time I can’t find relevant answers on the Internet by trying. Sometimes I only get adjacent information that helps lead me to the unique solution I need to implement.

“AI” in IT support actually makes things go slower and cause more issues and frustration than actual tangible help with anything that needs to be done. You end up going down rabbit holes of misinformation, wasting hours of time trying to make an ineffective “solution” work, just because some “AI” chatbot sent you on a wild goose chase.

Uhh. Just chiming in here as someone that does business to business IT support… Most of the NPC office workers are almost demanding access to “AI” stuff.

I’m not saying this will turn out well, in fact, I think it will probably end poorly, but I’m not on charge around here. There’s a nontrivial outcry for “AI” tools in business.

There’s profit happening with it right now. Maybe not enough to offset costs yet, but there’s a market for these things in the mindless office drone space.

To be absolutely clear, I think it’s an idiotic thing to have/use, especially for any work in IT, but here we are. I have middle managers quoting chat GPT as if it’s proof that what they want, can be done. I’ve been forwarded complete instructions to use fictional control panels and fictional controls to do a thing, when it’s not possible for that thing to be done.

“AI” is a corporate yes-man in the worst ways possible. Not only are they agreeing that something can be done, even if it’s not possible, but it’s providing real enough looking directions that it seems like what it’s proposing can be done, is actually possible and reasonable. I once asked copilot how to drive to the moon and it told me I’d run out of gas. While I would definitely run out of gas trying to get to the moon by car, when I’m done trying and I’ve run out of gas, I wouldn’t be any closer to the moon than I usually am.

The thing is an idiot on wheels at the best of times, and a blatant liar the rest of the time. I don’t know how people can justify using it in business when a mistake can lead to legal action, and possibly a very large settlement. It’s short sighted and it’s not worth the time nor effort involved in the whole endeavor.

If I recall correctly, it was sons of anarchy?

It’s been a while. Many years.

I actually had someone tell me to watch a show, saying that you “just” need to get through the first 3 or 4 seasons of the show, then it will get good.

I still haven’t watched it.

Not yet

Adulting is hard. I don’t even have kids, and even my childless friends have scheduling issues.

It’s universal, we’re all busy, especially at this time of the year (until we get mandatory days off at least). So much family stuff to do, even if you don’t have kids, seeing parents, siblings, cousins, whatever… It’s a whole thing.

I don’t think our games overlap very much, so I wouldn’t make a good gaming buddy for you. I hope you get to have fun with friends in good games soon.

I’m pretty deep into satisfactory most of the time. Over 1800 hours… That isn’t a typo.

I figure that it’s close enough that it might just fill in the gaps between satisfactory content updates. :p

My friends rarely play what I play. It sucks.

I’m thinking about grabbing…

Star birds

Last caretaker

And rv there yet

I’m also eyeballing planet Crafter, and a couple others on my wish list that dropped below $10.

I’ve also wanted to pick up ultra kill for a while but I never see it on sale for under $20 (Canadian schmeckles)…

Some that I’m still waiting to see come down in price to something more reasonable…

Horizon: forbidden West

Split fiction

Borderlands 4.

Even on discount, these are well over $40.

This is the way.