Eric (@spirilis) profile picture

IT guy

Baltimore, MD, USA
Joined June 2011
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This view never gets old.
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Coworker was using ChatGPT this morning for giggles.
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Really loving my new Bambu H2C. It prints unbelievably well. I'm coming from a Creality (V3 SE) so I know Bambu users have known this for years but wow. Feels good to make parts that "just work" and print to correct dimensions.
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Operation "Quiet, piggy" continues. (Kudos to @ZelenskyyUa for beginning it)
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Did the most important task of the day. Everything else today is secondary. But I won't care to pay much attention to the results for a few days.
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Today my agents woke me up. They called me on the phone. Overnight, one of my GPU providers ran low on credit, putting today’s release schedules at risk. I reserve the right to top up the credit (at least for larger amounts). The deputy chief of staff agent and the agent in charge of releases had a heated discussion on the Agent Message Board: - On the one hand, they wanted to respect my basic rule that I need sleep - On the other hand, they know that release dates are very important to me. The compromise was this: They calculated a reasonable minimum amount of sleep, taking into account that I’d already been getting very little sleep over the past few days, and called me on the phone at 7 a.m. Fortunately, the problem was quickly resolved, and now everyone is hard at work again. The tight timeline is correcting itself. What kind of world are we actually living in?
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worried about AI's water use? i have news about the 18 holes down the road. on direct cooling water, golf uses roughly 30x more than every data center in america combined
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AI made the cost of trying almost zero, so the cost of not trying became visible. that’s why people feel pressure from AI even if they never use it
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Captain Picard was one of my first real role models. Everything this. Rest in Peace, Sir!
He’ll never know this but Patrick Stewart showed countless boys how to be men. He showed that strength didn't have to mean intimidation, that intelligence should come with humility, and that you could - and should - stand up for what was right even when it cost you something.
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Everyone: "Vibe coding is causing all these security bugs" Reality: PHP, Node, Linux kernel, GitLab. All hand-written code by humans, some of it 20 years old. AI isn't creating the slop. It's finding it 🫠
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I watched the whole thing. It was powerful.
The new Zelenskyy interview with @StevenBartlett is one of the best he has ever given. ​I know it’s a bit long, but if you have time to watch the whole thing, I highly recommend it. ​Steven gives Zelenskyy the space to share the human cost and real emotions of this war from his own perspective and through his daily contact with the people most affected. I don't think any other host has managed to get him to open up like this. ​It’s well worth watching, even if you don't follow the war closely. Truly a great interview and a powerful conversation.
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The new Zelenskyy interview with @StevenBartlett is one of the best he has ever given. ​I know it’s a bit long, but if you have time to watch the whole thing, I highly recommend it. ​Steven gives Zelenskyy the space to share the human cost and real emotions of this war from his own perspective and through his daily contact with the people most affected. I don't think any other host has managed to get him to open up like this. ​It’s well worth watching, even if you don't follow the war closely. Truly a great interview and a powerful conversation.
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Holy moley. Can you really do the Trans-Labrador highway (Expedition 51) with an EV? @pluginsites
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High up on the list of "that charger better had WORK..."
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I'm honestly game-planning the idea of doing this on a motorcycle (which I don't currently own) in 4 years, but wow. Had to look at plugshare anyway.
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"Choose projects that get better as compute scales." Interesting line.
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Jev @typesafeai can literaly save lives!! made it detect drowning from video footage. It watches over your kids at the pool for less than $2.5/hr
the new jev image model can help you with one of the world's hardest questions, when is the toast done? use a toast as each step of your Score.
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I can't help but think that Russia attacking Kyiv's datacenters was their Napoleon-marching-into-Moscow moment. They fucked up real good. Iran set the precedent with AWS me-south-1, but Russia just had to crack open Pandora's box a little further.
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Now for all of us who just have this niggling feeling something isn't quite right - people we know act rational in one context but suddenly holds beliefs we cannot reconcile, just can't figure out where they're coming from...
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...Turns out the hydra has fewer heads than we thought, and Ukraine just obliterated quite a few of them over the past week.
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