okay but chatgpt produces spotty results, because it hasn't been tailored to write code, it just happens to be half good at working with code.

i have personally seen and proven it has an understanding of what the code is doing beyond what a chat bot really should

for example if you describe its programming fuck up, it often understands what it fucks up and fixes it.

if you ask it to explain how it fixed it, it often can explain it very well.

i think a purpose built chatgpt-like programming engine could be terrifyingly successful, especially if it had the ability to execute the code and examine the results and run test cases on it, then fix it, in fact i think if chatgpt had proper learning and a few skilled people spent a year training it, it could be better at turning a request into usable working code than i am.

where i live, these things went from 0.1% to 8-10% of the cars you see on the road in a year or something.

and, believe it or not, i live in a middle of nowhere broke ass mill town on the west coast of canada that's an hour minimum drive from any major business hub, not in a major urban center like vancouver where car owners have massive incomes and what is 'fashionable' matters to a car buyer.

i'm not personally a fan of the tesla as a car, and would never buy one, but widespread adoption of this tech is great -- a big eye opener for what other companies should be doing differently....TREND!

if you don't realize that 'fashionable' and 'trendy' is what turns a product into a cultural norm, you must be too young or stupid to remember the ipod/iphone. i truly believe tesla has accomplished that and that is some serious unicorn shit right there.

another good example of what tesla has done is **the harley davidson phenomena**. anyone who has studied marketing should marvel at the fact that the overpriced, slow, unreliable, two wheeled shiny garbage mobiles have driven culture and become a 'must have' for an entire subset of american society just based on image, in fact they have put a small fortune into examining why harleys became 'cool', because it makes NO LOGICAL SENSE.

here are way better vehicles than a tesla with in the price/performance/reliability matrix but they have made it COOL so they WIN it does not matter if they are BETTER because people NEED them to be COOL

i am a bit of a redneck when it comes to cars and never tend to drive anything newer than 20 years old or over a few grand, so i'm waiting for the price of components to settle and DIY something electric for fun and learning.

As someone who both manages others and is a worker, I am totally conflicted about time micromanagement.

If I pay you $x.xx to work for an hour, you will work at a pace that we both find reasonable for that hour. I am purchasing an hour of labour. It's like a contract. Labour is a commodity. I measure inputs and outputs and thresholds as a manager and you WILL be within that range or you will not work here. I buy something called a toaster for $x.xx, and I take it home, I put bread in it, I expect it makes the damn toast. It's on the box. I hired you to do a job you said you could do, why would it be any different? Why the hell am I paying you to shop for shit on amazon? Why are you talking to your spouse in the lunch room?

But at the same time as a worker and a human I realize that when you have a society that basically expects that you dedicate well over 2/3rds of your waking life to something (including time you spend stressing and worrying after work about me yelling at you about the things you did wrong.....) that's a big deal, you are basically living most of your life for this business. Employees should be like family and assigned appropriate responsibilities that they take care of. If they aren't taking care of those responsibilities, you should ask them what's wrong, explain the family dynamic, and ask if you can help fix the issue.

This is part of what's wrong with capitalism and society, we are obligated as reasonable people to give a fuck in two totally contradictory directions.

>> (I'd argue Linux is a genuine UNIX too. Its posix compliant , a first class citizen of the workstation and mainframe worlds, and has most of the assumptions necessary for most of the old UNIX software to be compiled with little to no modification.

i realize it's unix-like, but it's not unix. if you don't believe me ask stallman, man. linuxs torvalds didn't write a unix-like os, he just wrote a kernel suitable for one. he wrote the fact that it is not unix write into the name of the damn userland beccause he is very confident that GNU's not linux. just do yourself a favor, if you tell it to him in person, don't breathe through your nose if you speak with him. made that mistake before. that man is basically an autistic walrus person

imagine if the random chunk of historically significant preserved bark shield you found wasn't in fact a shield, but just a piece of god damn tree bark. if it was me, i'd pass that peer review around for a few years too.. it's a pretty bold claim.

whenever i dig i find oddly shaped pieces of rocks and wood everywhere, but i would never suspect such an object was significant. you'd figure possessing the kind of trained eye it takes to spot stuff like that, you'd constantly be questioning yourself.

i personally can't see a 'shield' in any of those pictures. i bet that guy spent a lot of sleepless nights doubting himself, thinking 'probably just a hunk of random tree bark.. should have known... '

i bet dozens more of these have been dug up and just thrown into the rubble pile. one man's trash...another man's treasure, right?

where i live, people just throw things that are obviously native arrowheads and small carved objects into the garbage when they dig them up.

if anyone ever found out you found something like that in your yard or work site, let alone a chunk of bark, your property is generally turned into a restricted heritage archeology site or some such thing, and all construction stops forever.

not only do you lose your shirt on that property, you're forever liable for property taxes on a hunk of dirt that you aren't allowed to build on, and nobody will ever fund the archeological dig (since people are really bored of finding native arrowheads), so its basically worthless and just sits there.

It's interesting to see the big guys getting hit with these scams..

In our medium sized single-store retail business, we've seen a huge surge in the last few years in false invoicing from companies we've never dealt with.

For example, you'll get a $424.93 invoice from Artin Technology Consulting Inc. or a $129.00 invoice from Joe's Plumbing, with an address close to where you are, but a head office/billing address out of the country or something. It may even be a real company but with an altered address to send payment to. The services appear to be normal things that you buy. I've often wondered if they dumpster dive to farm data.

We've caught our accountants almost paying the bills due to how similar they look to normal business expenses and overhead for everything from tech services to building maintenance..

They often have purchase order numbers and authorization information from a general manager or something (probably they harvested those from our website's 'contact' section, or simply called in and asked who the general manager is..).

Really all you have to do is keep a proper database of vendors and services, only send payment to addresses on file, and only add a vendor to a database when you're damn sure they're real, and you're good to go.

Weird unknown bill? Screw it, just wait 30 days until any sane company would be hunting you down trying to charge you interest. If it's a scam they probably wont bother you again.

I would buy high end cassettes.

I have a collector plated car with a fairly high end (for its time) cassette deck. Where I live, you get cheap insurance with collector plates, but the laws here don't allow you to change the deck out for a cd player or whatever.

The tape adapters don't quite cut it, so I keep a collection of tapes on board, just for driving music. Classic rock, jazz, soul sound just fine on an old cassette. Got a perfectly fine tape deck at a garage sale for 10 bucks for recording.

Thing is, the difference between a 'good' 'metal' tape, and a 'bad' tape (usually labelled 'vocal use' or 'everyday recording'), is HUGE... For comparison, think of a cheap stereo with the eq set up badly vs an old clock radio with a towel thrown over it.

Trying to buy new good-quality tapes right now doesn't seem easy, I've tried... so I'd probably end up buying a few of these cassettes.

So, there is my use case.

Thing is, there isn't really any other!

Anyone without a special use case that would use a cassette tape for ordinary music listening where they don't have to!?

Cassettes are only used on purpose by the kind of intolerable hipster douche nozzle that should be put on a boat and relocated to some kind of island where there is no escape. Seriously, die.

Tape is fine, get a reel-to-reel rig if you really like tape, it's a fine medium. Sell your house and get a studer or something.

my condolences, but news for nerds? do nerds actually like that spandex crime fighting fantasy garbage? i thought comic book fans were more in the loser or at least the dork spectrum

From the press release, the affected phones have the following services installed:

    com.adups.fota.sysoper
    com.adups.fota

I'd probably check your phone to ensure those don't exist. ... And it sends data to the following domains, if ya wanted to firewall or sniff it or whatever:

    bigdata.adups.com (primary)
    bigdata.adsunflower.com
    bigdata.adfuture.cn
    bigdata.advmob.cn

i've never really used apple products, but my wife does the macbook iphone thing. we've had two experiences with it randomly deleting her shit.

first time (this was about a year ago, not sure what itunes version):

she got a new iphone, all was well. we wiped the old iphone. one day she dug up her old iphone, and decided to start using it to play music in her car. plugged it into the macbook.

itunes asked if she'd like to sync with the new device. she said yes. it deleted all of the music on her computer, including physical files.

plugged her new phone in, it acted as if it had never seen it before, and asked if she'd like to sync. it then deleted all of the music on her new phone as well.

second time:

she'd been using iphoto to organize all of her pictures (many thousands of them)

fired up iphoto one morning, and all of her shit was gone, it was like she'd never used iphoto in the first place.

no sign of the monolithic 'iphoto store' file, or anything. no original pictures. gone.

there are two things my wife loves, pictures and music, and it systematically fucked her entire collection without warning. unfortunately many of these items had not been backed up. these are just my observations, i don't know why it would do these things, and i don't care. i no longer trust that peice of shit operating system or any of its devices, and i use incremental backups of her entire laptop using rsync now (not time machine, i don't trust it either)

the power-to-weight ratio gap is very small these days in the 1hp+ market. engines like the honda GX25 have something like 7lbs making 1hp, perfect for a handheld blower. honda even bolts a perfectly good leaf blower to it, but they only sell it in the european market for some reason, i have no idea why they don't bring it into north america: http://www.honda.co.uk/lawn-an...

it's perfectly ok for a really mature peice of software to stay in a distrubution, even in a relatively unmaintained state.

you don't have to 'change' something just because new features aren't being added anymore, until the lack of a new feature prevents it from being installed on more than a few edge cases, or a substantial bug is found that makes its use unsafe.

i doubt either of these will be the case with lilo for many years.

.. of slackware people.

as a slackware user myself, i have no real problem with grub and i use it on a few machines where it's advantageous, but most of my systems still boot with lilo, and i don't see any need to change them around in the near future.

even though it's like saying 'attackers with the root password for a unix system have been observed manipulating logs and deleting core system files' deserves security disclosure...

it does also bring up the old double edged sword of requiring signed firmware for devices like this. although a disgruntled admin can certainly cause serious damage, simply being able to hide malicious code at the hardware level via a remote admin interface is bad news.

their profiled "terrorists" are usually from societies that are accustomed to communicating covertly without any electronic means.

i'm not an expert in terrorism or communication, but i was a punk kid once that did bad things. even i was smart enough to know that if you were planning something big and illegal, you didn't go calling people about it, or writing it down.

do they really think that someone is going to send an email or text message saying "hit the big red button 12:30 next tuesday"? or that someone will save a map to a warehouse of deadly weapons in "the cloud" and name it "weaponsmap.jpg"?

of course they don't.

so how is this gaping hole in the intensions of the survaillance plan not being used as leverage to stop this nonsense before america goes from paranoid to total police state at the press of a button one night? are people so weak that all it would take is someone sending an encrypted message about a "serious terrorist act that would kill a lot of people" that's "intercepted" and the plot "stopped" to widen the scope of this stuff?

as someone watching this from outside the USA, it's very confusing to me