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Re: Great Moments in Computer Programming

by AArdvark » Tue Feb 11, 2025 5:18 pm

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.

Re: Great Moments in Computer Programming

by Jizaboz » Mon Feb 10, 2025 9:14 pm

I’d put North Korean Linux on that shit lol

Re: Great Moments in Computer Programming

by Da King » Mon Feb 10, 2025 8:50 pm

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

Re: Great Moments in Computer Programming

by AArdvark » Sat Feb 08, 2025 6:15 pm

https://www.gmktec.com/

(makes asian noises like Bruce Lee)


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Well...back to being a pirate

Re: Great Moments in Computer Programming

by Da King » Sat Feb 08, 2025 11:35 am

AArdvark wrote: Fri Feb 07, 2025 4:19 pm 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?!?

Re: Great Moments in Computer Programming

by AArdvark » Fri Feb 07, 2025 4:19 pm

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.

Re: Great Moments in Computer Programming

by Casual Observer » Sun Feb 02, 2025 4:28 pm

Jizaboz wrote: Sun Feb 02, 2025 12:54 am 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).

Re: Great Moments in Computer Programming

by Jizaboz » Sun Feb 02, 2025 12:54 am

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.

Re: Great Moments in Computer Programming

by Casual Observer » Sat Feb 01, 2025 4:08 pm

Da King wrote: Thu Jan 30, 2025 9:51 pm Did you guys seriously install that shit app??
Just asked the web interface a few questions, garbage.

Re: Great Moments in Computer Programming

by Ice Cream Jonsey » Fri Jan 31, 2025 6:12 am

No, I will never use it.

Re: Great Moments in Computer Programming

by Da King » Thu Jan 30, 2025 9:51 pm

Did you guys seriously install that shit app??

Re: Great Moments in Computer Programming

by Casual Observer » Wed Jan 29, 2025 10:40 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: Wed Jan 29, 2025 8:32 pm 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.

Re: Great Moments in Computer Programming

by Ice Cream Jonsey » Wed Jan 29, 2025 8:32 pm

It can't access June of 1989 either

Re: Great Moments in Computer Programming

by Casual Observer » Wed Jan 29, 2025 3:19 pm

Da King wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2025 9:14 pm 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.

Re: Great Moments in Computer Programming

by Da King » Tue Jan 28, 2025 9:14 pm

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.

Re: Great Moments in Computer Programming

by AArdvark » Sun Jan 26, 2025 3:54 pm

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

Re: Great Moments in Computer Programming

by Ice Cream Jonsey » Sun Jan 26, 2025 3:07 pm

None of their stuff works together.

It's incredible to me that the CEO saw it, ostensibly asked for it to be fixed, was 100% ignored, the processes continued aggressively.... and none of matters, they make billions each quarter.

The balls of those people to say to Gates, essentially, fuck off.

Re: Great Moments in Computer Programming

by AArdvark » Sun Jan 26, 2025 2:57 pm

I hope that is real, because daymn!

Re: Great Moments in Computer Programming

by Ice Cream Jonsey » Sun Jan 26, 2025 2:01 pm

https://www.techemails.com/p/bill-gates ... ovie-maker

This was 21 years ago, Gates himself describes Microsoft's problems exactly.

Favorite quote: "So they told me that using the download page to download something was not something they anticipated."

Re: Great Moments in Computer Programming

by Roody_Yogurt » Thu Jan 23, 2025 11:15 pm

I use Notepad++ for some coding and like it a lot, but if you prefer something with more of the Notepad feel, Notepads seems pretty good.

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