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Software engineer. Mountain biker. Dog enthusiast. Dial up modem collector.
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"Do something you love and you'll never work a day in your life," they said.

So I started out programming and ended up mostly writing Jira stories. 🙄

How many espresso making errors can you spot in this Netflix Action-Packed Coffee ad with Ahnold and Wonder Woman?

Posted in r/espresso by u/aktionmancer • 0 points and 4 comments

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“Tech experts are starting to doubt that ChatGPT and A.I. ‘hallucinations’ will ever go away: ‘This isn’t fixable’”

More accurately, AI researchers have always said that this isn’t fixable but y’all were too obsessed with listening to con artists to pay attention but now the con is wearing thin. https://fortune.com/2023/08/01/can-ai-chatgpt-hallucinations-be-fixed-experts-doubt-altman-openai/

Tech experts are starting to doubt that ChatGPT and A.I. ‘hallucinations’ will ever go away: ‘This isn’t fixable’

Experts are starting to doubt it, and even OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is a bit stumped.

Fortune

We are heartbroken by the loss of the Vim boss.

Rest in peace, Bram

https://groups.google.com/g/vim_announce/c/tWahca9zkt4

#vim

Message from the family of Bram Moolenaar

All things are knowable with enough persistence.

From my archives... this is what the command center of a mid-1990s dialup ISP looked like.

Later iterations would be more advanced, but this is how it started. A natural progression and leap of faith from the multi-line BBS it replaced.

#retrocomputing

“There’s no time to call lots of consultants to chew on the end of their pencils. We don’t need more studies. What we need is someone to take the study that was finished three or four or five years ago and say, ‘Now we have the money: Let’s do it.’” #Trains #Tågskryt 🎁⛓️ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-14/inside-amtrak-s-75-billion-plan-to-revive-us-train-travel?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTY4OTQyOTA4MSwiZXhwIjoxNjkwMDMzODgxLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJSWFNPVEFEV0xVNjgwMSIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiI2MzE5RUU4MzM2MjA0QzM1OTdFMzAxM0Q4RkQ1NEFCQiJ9.3-dmdlsH5umBLQMr3hfsUuCNqpa8dpm_i6rZS0PypJ8
Inside Amtrak's $75 Billion Plan to Revive US Train Travel

The $75 billion plan to dramatically expand passenger rail service could transform US train travel — if states agree to get on board.

Bloomberg
wow! really excited to see meta embrace the fediverse! looking forward to seeing how they extend it next, and then presumably some third good thing