Yeah, I think so. When you have low signal to noise, especially if the dataset is huge, AI tools seem pretty great.

Not a tech company, but a petroleum exploration company, which involves a lot of tech. The petroleum industry in general is extremely conservative in terms of tech, in that older and proven technologies tend to stick around. For example, I often write data to magnetic tape.

However, the industry doesn’t shy away from newer technologies where it does make sense. There is some AI at play, but it is limited in scope, and only deployed where it makes sense. Most of it is done on the processing side, so I don’t know much about it, but I get the impression it’s used in a similar manner to those headlines you see from time about AI predicting rectal cancer 99% correctly. Interpreting seismic survey data involves some geophysical wizardry that I’ve never quite understood - I just make sure the production servers offshore work.

That tracks with my cassette player estimation: 2002. Presumably they didn’t trash it while new, but it doesn’t exactly scream quality, so it wouldn’t surprise me if it died shortly after the warranty expired.

So if I were to guess: shortly after that bud light can was introduced, so 2005ish.

Questionable parenting with questionable taste in “beer”

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Yeah, I was looking at that cassette player and thought 2002 or thereabouts

What’s your favorite dinosaur? 🦕

I cringe at the thought of having to liquidate a large sum of crypto every month just so I can pay my phone bill, fill up my car, and buy a wedge of blue cheese.

Managed to topple a big oil drum of waste oil in my dad’s garage. I was 5 or so, and I was wearing a brand new winter outfit. It was light blue.

My dad was doing something, and was talking to someone who had stopped by. And this being on a moderately large farm, I always found something to do. 99.9% of the time, this was not a problem, as there wasn’t much that could physically maim me other than stuff my parents obviously watched out for.

However, I’ve never managed to reach any higher levels of cimedic timing in my life, and I doubt anyone else could either. The visitor asked my dad where I was at, knowing I was usually in the immediatevicinity. Upon hearing “around here somewhere”, they were concerned that I was kind of unsupervised. “There’s not a whole lot of bad stuff he can do” my dad said, just around the time when they heard the sound of something large falling over, combined with my excited cheer. I was a crafty little shit, and I somehow understood the concept of leverage.

That was 38ish years ago. I still remember the smell. My brand new winter clothes weren’t blue after that.

In rare circumstances yes. Usually no.

If the argument is based solely on arguing for one’s position in the name of exploring a topic, then it can be interesting provided that the other party is arguing in good faith about something neither of us are very invested in.

This would be more akin to recreational debate where ones position doesn’t really matter, and where one doesn’t lose anything by being in the wrong.

However, most real life arguments involve emotions and a position of personal pride. Once an argument on a topic can be interpreted as an attack/defense on ones own opinions it gets infinitely worse.

Same. Got some leftover Fortinet from work that I’m using. Could be better, but my Fortigate 101E works miles better than my ISP default router. All I had to do was assign upstream wan to VLAN 10 and spoof the MAC address.

I wouldn’t say the 2nd season is bad per say… just that the plot kinda drifted, so there’s nothing wrong with watching it.

Norway: “Beforeigners” started great, but I think they didn’t really have much of a plan beyond the 1st season.

Interesting setting/premise. It’s fun to see an area I used to walk several times per day having become a hangout spot for Neolithic people.

I don’t know. It wasn’t a true collective, but it was shorter to write than: I knew someone with a house and a room to let, and there were three others who also rented a room.

I don’t have experience with hosting lemmy specifically, but from what I hear it doesn’t require much other than being a bit RAM-hungry. Add some swap space, use the instance primarily for yourself, and you should be good.

Hosting does not attract CSAM on its own. Anonymous uploads do. Only host services that you find useful yourself, and maybe sharing it with friends, and that’s a reasonably safe start.

Two approaches that basically amount to the same thing:

1. Join some sort of organized activity.
2. Force yourself to be social.

About the latter: In early 2007 I realized that my life was pretty lacking at the age of 24, mostly stemming from the fact that I enjoyed solitude a bit too much. Sure, people would come around from time to time (I lived Ina collective), but beyond that not much was happening.

So I decided that I would be more outgoing, in the literal sense. Every day I would do something, anything, in an effort to be the “instigator” for anything social. This could be pretty much anything from visiting someone I knew across town, to just phoning someone up to hang out.

The collective nature of my housing situation usually meant that I happened to be there when a party happened. However, after a month of just trying to be more outgoing I was actively invited places. This was all new to me. Suddenly people were phoning me to see if I wanted to do something.

I kept at it for a month. It was fucking exhausting. But it proved to me that it doesn’t really take much effort - all you have to do is to reach out.

In retrospect I think doing it every day is kind of extreme, at least for my personality type. But my anecdotal evidence stands clear: make an effort, take the initiative, and things will happen organically.

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Where did xmms go, by the way?

Does sshd count?

Beyond the “default” stuff, I always seem to end up with a setup that involves linux + apache + mod_perl + postgresql for various purposes. And by the way, that’s the only proper LAMP stack in my book, and I will die on this hill.

Sounds like the name of a colab album between Weird Al and HIM