Great Moments in Computer Programming

[AArdvark]

I can attest, having had a Zune for a few years. The software was totally incompatible with the Music Player stuff

[Da King]

The Chinese developed an AI model by reading people's emails, telling everyone that they did it for a fraction of the cost in a fraction of the time as the big AI companies... the US stock market freaked out... and my 401k dropped the equivalent of multiples months of salary.

Fucking Chinese.

[Casual Observer]

The Chinese developed an AI model by reading people's emails, telling everyone that they did it for a fraction of the cost in a fraction of the time as the big AI companies... the US stock market freaked out... and my 401k dropped the equivalent of multiples months of salary.

Fucking Chinese.

It's only trained up to Oct 2023 and it can't access the internet (I just asked it). Garbage.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

It can't access June of 1989 either

[Casual Observer]

It can't access June of 1989 either

Ask it what it knows about Taiwan. The propaganda response isn't the good part. Click to another tab for a little while, click back it's empty. I've read people mentioning this regarding other sensitive topics.

[Da King]

Did you guys seriously install that shit app??

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

No, I will never use it.

[Casual Observer]

Did you guys seriously install that shit app??

Just asked the web interface a few questions, garbage.

[Jizaboz]

And the Monday the news came out about Deep Seek, Nvidia stock (which I own) took a huge dive because people went into “full regard” mode.

If your main selling point of your AI API is talking then it’s just stupid. Seriously, it’s just advanced Dr SBAITSO for DOS 5. I don’t even use ChatGPT for this reason. Animated graphics are kinda cool, adding raytracing and other effects to old games is really cool, and there could be other cooler applications perhaps outer space related. One dude I work with said his ai smart code editor told him what I was about to try was going to not work and my simple editor did not. Ok cool but that saves 5 minutes for a build and me to glance at the output log to correct.

Recently I thought about leveraging AI for stock price predictions. That lasted maybe an hour. Why? Because you take the same datasets and from what I’ve seen an AI bot either gives the same or vaguer answers as your own research or diving thru a couple of other common stock watch tools.

[Casual Observer]

And the Monday the news came out about Deep Seek, Nvidia stock (which I own) took a huge dive because people went into “full regard” mode.

If your main selling point of your AI API is talking then it’s just stupid. Seriously, it’s just advanced Dr SBAITSO for DOS 5. I don’t even use ChatGPT for this reason. Animated graphics are kinda cool, adding raytracing and other effects to old games is really cool, and there could be other cooler applications perhaps outer space related. One dude I work with said his ai smart code editor told him what I was about to try was going to not work and my simple editor did not. Ok cool but that saves 5 minutes for a build and me to glance at the output log to correct.

Recently I thought about leveraging AI for stock price predictions. That lasted maybe an hour. Why? Because you take the same datasets and from what I’ve seen an AI bot either gives the same or vaguer answers as your own research or diving thru a couple of other common stock watch tools.

You got it Jizaboz, AI is not an advantage over anyone else who can use it, everyone can use it. The advantage is the unique things you can ask of it.

I mostly use GPT4 to summarize things I don't want to read or now it can search the Internet it works for things I want to look up but don't want to skim a bunch of Google results. I used it to make variations of an email for a campaign im starting.

Yes, AI is going to radically alter what I do (sales) and I'm not sure if it will be good for me in the end but I figure if I stay on top of the tech I can hopefully stay ahead of the wave till I can retire at 80 (hopefully).

[AArdvark]

M-F Windows 11 just blue screened on me for no reason. Machine is a month old.

Dicked around with all the "recovery options" for an hour, no joy.
Installing 10 from a flash drive.
Luckily I have 10 on a flash drive because 11 sure as hell didn't come on physical media

Updates (or downdates) to follow

Edit: the hardware manufacturer for my all-in-one pc has their driver downloads on Google Drive. A free Google Drive account with limits on downloads. That's pretty sketchy. I blame myself for buying an Amazon deal.

[Da King]

Edit: the hardware manufacturer for my all-in-one pc has their driver downloads on Google Drive. A free Google Drive account with limits on downloads. That's pretty sketchy. I blame myself for buying an Amazon deal.

What the hell brand did you buy?!?

[AArdvark]

https://www.gmktec.com/

(makes asian noises like Bruce Lee)




Well...back to being a pirate

[Da King]

Those ARE some pretty slick mini pcs they've got there.

[Jizaboz]

I’d put North Korean Linux on that shit lol

[AArdvark]

Now this is interesting. I got it Dec. 28th. It failed utterly on Feb. 8th. I removed 11 and was able to install 10 the next day. It worked fine last Sunday then it failed utterly again yesterday. I went to return it only to see the return window for this item closed Jan31st. Fuckers.
Well, let me just take it apart and have a look around, re-seat the SSD and the ram. Now it's working again. So I dunno.

I still can't install the Ethernet drivers. I gotta futz around some more.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Gotta talk about how god awful with fake security Verizon is.

Yes.

- It forced a password change for the first thing. You know. How apps do.
- Because I won't give the app access to EVERYTHING I DO ON MY PHONE (seriously, it said that) it petulantly won't save my password and puts a screen up telling me this. It forces me to press "no" on this screen each time I try to use the app.
- Knowing the password isn't enough to get into the app. The password it made me change must be entered each time. It then demands a SMS code too.
- When I went to install the app, it sent me three different SMS codes. THREE. To LOGIN. In my HOME. Where I EAT.

Same incompetent bullshit. I wanted to change my plan because they have raised it 10 bucks over the last year with bullshit fees. Tried to get into the website, forces me to do a 2FA thing on my phone. This may be my favorite act of web app stupidity. One day my phone will be lost or stolen and I won't be able to logon to Verizon's site to get help. They are so fucking stupid.

Forced another password change when I tried to logon.

Had another three SMS messages sent to try to logon.

After demanding I change my password, they DISABLED THE CONTINUE BUTTON on their stupid reset password page.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

I tried Half-Life 2 "RTX" after seeing it be posted about on Caltrops. It won't load, which - whatever. It freezes my computer.

43GB download. Tried it twice, had to do a cold boot each time. Uninstalled that. I used to think Valve was on top of it, but that is shit.

[Jizaboz]

I tried Half-Life 2 "RTX" after seeing it be posted about on Caltrops. It won't load, which - whatever. It freezes my computer.

43GB download. Tried it twice, had to do a cold boot each time. Uninstalled that. I used to think Valve was on top of it, but that is shit.

Damn! It fired right up for me a few days ago and just played it some more tonight. It's pretty neat to experience but nothing mind-blowing like DOOM II raytraced was for me.

It's not really CPU-intensive (Since I use an elaborate fan system instead of liquid cooling I can easily tell) compared to say the newest Call of Duty - Warzone.

My specs have changed slightly since the last time I talked about building this computer;

- Gigabyte Z-790 motherboard
- Gigabyte RTX 4060 video card
- 14th generation Intel I7
- 64 GB of wtf ever the fastest consumer RAM is these days
- 2 terabyte M2 hard drive (I have more drives connected, but this is the one I use for the newest games and Windows 11)

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

I check my Discover balance every day, I check all my financial balances every day.

Discover demanded 2FA for the first time last week. It has since demanded a text EVERY TIME I LOGIN. There is a button that says "Remember this computer." It doesn't work.

Another reason why 2FA is stupid and pointless. It isn't keeping anything secure. All this is making me do is not use my Discover card. If they are going to make me get a code every time I login, I'll use a card that doesn't make me do that.