Someone didn't see the "/s" ! :)

The stat is based on the past. But the new models they are real good. You'll see in 6-18 month all jobs are gonna be done by AI.
Chat GPT 5.x was terrible but now we've got Chat GPT 5.x+1 and now it's reall good!

Do you even prompt bro? /s

DYI anything is usually an order of magnitude cheaper than a professional production.

Most movies these days seem to spend as much money promoting the movie than they spent producing the movie. Here promotion was free to him. So that's a factor 2 right there.

DIY amateur does not mean it's bad. In video games, we've seen that story unfold a hundred times in the last 20 years.

$2 per conversation is INSANE.
I hope these are the most insightful, life changing conversation.

Cause I used the chat bot of a subscription service yesterday and it's so bad I decided to call and wait 2 hours on the phone instead.

> I too would love to get paid to do my hobby.

Feel free to petition your government to create similar programs.

I don't know where you live. But in the US, it is a constitutional right!

yes. Heroku has become very expensive. I migrated a few of our services to a native EC2 box for 75% cost reduction within the last year.

I still only have a handful there for a services there where it is a bit harder to migrate because we did our setup stupidly. (We put the heroku domain name in client installations that are harder to upgrade.) But we'll bite the bullet and migrate out this year I would assume.

I teach at $stateuniversity. We have been expecting this for years. For us the number of 18 years old has peaked in 2023 I think. And the enrollment prediction of freshman in the state are within 2% of the prediction we made in 2019 purely based on population.

Ironically, we are getting more students. What is happening is that when the total number of student regionally decreases, we did not lose student. But hyper local small universities lost students to us. We admitted the same fraction of students give or take, but a higher fraction of student came to us rather than a tiny school so our yield went up. Also some local universities had to shut programs down and the students who would have gone there are going to us instead.

The dynamics is interesting.

Now I am not saying that other factors aren't part of the equation. But if you ANOVA it, I bet it's 95% an effect of number of 18 year olds.

And if you look at the actual code, it is really a case of I vibe codes the right calls to matplot lib.

And frankly, I haven't written a piece of matplotlib in 3 years either.

You must have been lucky.

I remember fighting quite a bit with ndiswrapper to make wifi cards work right around 2005

A lot of these optimus system that were hybrid intel/nvidia gpu that switch back and forth had tons of driver support issues around 2010.

Though for the last 15 years, support has been really good for me.

BBB is fairly popular in Europe.

It is also seemingly integrated in Canvas (a Learning Management System used in many schools and university in the US)

Well, it probably hasn't hurt valve yet. But it probably will impact it eventually.

It is not hard to see that there is a good chance the computing landscape will have more ARM based system in the future. Mac laptops are ARM based, and MS produced surface with ARM for a long time now. The nintendo switch and switch 2 are ARM systems.

It seems reasonable for Valve/SteamOS to see a shift to ARMin gaming as a long term threat/opportunity.

Obviously you need software, like a mouse driver.
But, shouldn't all these features essentially be buttons. Shouldn't the OS be providing standardized interface to this?

I left windows for linux such a long time ago that news like this confuse me...

My wife shares a subscription with her mother. There are tons of things we get at costco that are not perishable quickly and that are hard to get at that price anywhere else.

Cheese is really cheap but it is bulk. We split it off when it gets in.
Coffee is also quite cheap for the quality you get.
Paper products are also priced cheap. Once again it is bulk; but if you have space to store, it is pretty neat.

Not all, but some of the meat are cheap as well. We usually buy one meat bulk. Prep half and eat it over a couple days and freeze the other half.
Both my wife and I cook a lot. So an i take of bulk food isn't that bad.

yeah, no. The best conference were always international in tech. Maybe more often in north america, but they always have been rotating international locations.

I attended 3 conference this year. And the foreign attendance was half of what it usually was. Steering committees of conferences I have talked to are looking into non US venues for all but one (which is by designa US based conference.)

same here I still use old cards. They work fine for the little bit of rendering, gou computing, and ai inference I do.