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    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    Short phrase for what is rustling the jimmies today? My mothers house. Longer form? hot water pipe under the house busts, because the house had an AC reftrofitted to it in the 60's the return ductwork under the floor goes over there the pipes also go underground (pier and beam). So had to...
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    AI: The Rise of the Machines... Or Just a Lot of Overhyped Chatbots?

    This is where I do like how Grok handles it. Grok annotates it's answers with links to sources.
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    AI: The Rise of the Machines... Or Just a Lot of Overhyped Chatbots?

    For most of the basic tier uses I have for an LLM Gemini seems to work great. For me Grok is "advanced search built into x.com" I will admit I use almost no "Traditional search" where I have to then go click on links to figure out if they're a moderate match and rely more on the AI summaries...
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    AI: The Rise of the Machines... Or Just a Lot of Overhyped Chatbots?

    I'm getting ready to get unpopular at my work (which is fully at the "We're attaching performance review metrics to how much you use AI" point) because I'm about to showcase this and a litany of the horrible things our non technical folks are doing with it. Such as putting together technical...
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    AI: The Rise of the Machines... Or Just a Lot of Overhyped Chatbots?

    I know, and I've been tinkering with those so far. I'd just like more fluid response ,which this seems to deliver. Another topic for the day. Seems the more context we give LLMs the worse they hallucinate. https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.08274 TLDR; - Under absolute optimal scenarios LLMs still...
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    AI: The Rise of the Machines... Or Just a Lot of Overhyped Chatbots?

    I've read stuff about this concept for a while and from a few sources. Essentially many consider getting good LLMs to run on the hardware that's already cheap and ubiquitous has been a major goal for a while, which makes sense. For me personally, if this works as advertised and is accessibly...
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    AI: The Rise of the Machines... Or Just a Lot of Overhyped Chatbots?

    Interesting angle, I'm looking for where one can find this to tinker with it...
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    Dental Problems

    IIRC they took a tiny piece of bone from up top when they were putting in the anchor for the top implant, (i.e. from my sinus area) and then planted it in the bottom. Believe it or not, after the half a year delay in the middle of proceedings due to my kidneys I am still waiting for the last...
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    Thinking about buying a vacuum sealer – beginner advice needed

    OK, here is the one I got from Sams here in the US : https://www.samsclub.com/ip/FoodSaver-14-Piece-Starter-Kit-with-Vacuum-Seal-Roll-and-Bags/13577351872?classType=REGULAR Around $100 USD , but it's been a work horse for YEARS now so I consider it a solid investment. I can now shop around...
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    I'm in a situation right now that sounds like a ton of the conversation here. I'm in a job I know I could coast at probably for a good while, at least a few years, and be close enough to call it a career and do part time and consulting until official "retirement." But it's basically draining...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    It's like how we tell people "If you like Game of Thrones.. when it gets to the scene showing her sailing across the sea with her dragons, just STOP WATCHING. That's all there is in the show." Or "There was only one season of Westworld."
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    We can't have a functional, useful, heroic pivotal character be stable, competent, MALE, and Straight on top of that? Damn.. Have you not read the lore guide for modern WoW?
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    This is gonna be a slightly long post, so buckle up, or scroll on traveler, your call. Having now done Arator's story line in the expansion here's my review. It's pretty standard "the cause I have always fought for might just not be as pure as I thought" crisis story line, with some severe...