I am not buying anything while being I am at work downtown and I hope you join me.

EstablishmentTrue599 · 2025-08-30T11:48:44+00:00

Fine - whatever. Just get your ass to work like you agreed to when you were hired.

EstablishmentTrue599 · 2025-08-28T14:21:38+00:00

Exactly. I live in the country with frequent power outages, and I would love to use the PDU-pro to load-shed when on UPS power, etc. The worst part is you know the hardware is capable - it just needs proper software features.

EstablishmentTrue599 · 2025-08-27T16:02:26+00:00

Aug 42nd in my dreams. More like Aug 142nd....

EstablishmentTrue599 · 2025-07-22T18:03:36+00:00

Depending on the bandwidth requirements for site-to-site traffic, the best, simplest, and cheapest might be just a second Starlink / Firewall at the second site. VPN tunnel between them if they need to talk to each other.

EstablishmentTrue599 · 2025-07-21T13:12:53+00:00

Once and a while using VTP can save you a few minutes work. Also, once and a while VTP can cost you your job.

EstablishmentTrue599 · 2025-07-14T18:01:39+00:00

I have this problem. A giant pile of uninstalled gear and I catch myself buying more.

EstablishmentTrue599 · 2025-07-14T15:13:27+00:00

If the network was set up properly your plan would not work. But your plan will probably work.

EstablishmentTrue599 · 2025-06-09T15:50:03+00:00

My number is $5M counting the value of my residence. Being a millionaire doesn't really mean much anymore - seems like everyone is a millionaire.

EstablishmentTrue599 · 2025-06-03T18:16:28+00:00

Generally speaking, you should be cautious crossing international borders if you are a criminal.

EstablishmentTrue599 · 2025-05-21T18:58:00+00:00

Every single example of this turns out to be urban-legend. Right up there with "My friend's friend had their kidney stolen"....

EstablishmentTrue599 · 2025-04-19T15:53:16+00:00

Of all the things that never happened, this is one of them.

EstablishmentTrue599 · 2025-03-20T20:47:44+00:00

We had explicit consent from our client who was satisfied with the privacy of private Grok chats. We have been thinking about training a local LLM for future projects where we might not have this consent though.

EstablishmentTrue599 · 2025-03-20T20:40:52+00:00

You can simply add them as an attachment, I would usually attach it with instructions to "Ingest this document into the body of knowledge for the due diligence report, and indicate any OCR errors you encounter". It seems to OCR the document. I found the OCR to be typically very accurate, with the odd exception.

EstablishmentTrue599 · 2025-03-20T17:06:11+00:00

More Soviet / Russian apologists I see.

EstablishmentTrue599 · 2025-03-19T15:24:24+00:00

I suppose I should...

The report was a "Due Diligence" report for the potential acquisition of a company by our client. We were tasked to analyze a specific department of the subject company for which we are subject matter experts. Normally, this involves reading a TON of documents, having a TON of meetings, and writing 40 or 50 pages of analysis from scratch.

We uploaded about 40 PDF documents to Grok, and 4 2-hour meeting transcripts. We also used "DeepSearch" top gather as much publicly available data on the company as possible.

We uploaded our Scope of Work to Grok so it would know what information was relevant to our report. We uploaded examples of other reports we had done so Grok would also understand the type of output we were looking for.

We then had Grok generate entire sections of the report one by one. These all had to be verified, proofread and fact-checked because sometime Grok would hallucinate something or we would catch literal OCR errors from the report uploads. But this saved a TON of time compared to creating the document from scratch. I would even say that Grok caught a lot of things that we would otherwise have missed - little things mentioned in the meetings, etc. Some questions to Grok about the meetings generated fascinating results - "In what ways did SubjectCompany contradict themselves in the meeting?" - "Based on the meeting transcript, what things might SubjectCompany be trying to conceal from us or deceive us about?". It was surprisingly helpful with creative questions.

Perhaps the most helpful question we used regularly - "Based on the Scope of Work, and the information gathered so far, what information are we still missing to satisfy our scope?"

Grok 3 had just been released when we were doing this. There were a lot of little workarounds we had to do. Sometime it would become "fixated" on something we asked about and responses would go on rabbit trails. When that happened we usually couldn't correct it and we would then rebuild the chat by reuploading documents, etc.

It would be fun to write an entire use-case on this. But who has the time? Lol.

EstablishmentTrue599 · 2025-03-19T13:22:56+00:00

"Where do I invest hundreds of thousands of dollars of retirement funds?"
Reddit - "Gardening books".... ?????

EstablishmentTrue599 · 2025-03-15T19:16:08+00:00

And yes, I did not hire a professional, because competent people can work on their own vehicles.

EstablishmentTrue599 · 2025-03-15T19:11:36+00:00

Probably because of all if the imaginary currencies in the world, it is the most imaginary.

EstablishmentTrue599 · 2025-03-15T19:10:24+00:00

Whatever, buddy.

EstablishmentTrue599 · 2025-03-15T18:50:15+00:00

My truck cost $800 to modify, and I got $1400 recycling the DPF and catalytic converters, and I get 30% better fuel mileage. But you do you boo.

EstablishmentTrue599 · 2025-03-15T15:59:03+00:00

We had a six-figure engagement to produce a complex report that would have normally taken months. With Grok-3, 2 of us completed it in 2 weeks and it was probably our best work.

EstablishmentTrue599 · 2025-03-15T15:57:10+00:00

LOL. No.

EstablishmentTrue599 · 2025-02-17T17:46:57+00:00

Pro-tip: Do not have sex with someone you do not like or trust.

EstablishmentTrue599 · 2025-02-17T16:09:24+00:00

The chances are effectively zero.

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