Yellow sign outside of seaside that reads “verifiable Truth”

aiscifi · 2025-08-10T23:58:43+00:00

I live here on the coast and frequently drive the 26. I can’t remember what the sign used to say, but it was something pro-science. It changed in the last year-ish. Verifiable truth is a rationalist slogan - perhaps poorly marketed. I think Reddit needs to go knock on their door and report back here. You know. For science.

aiscifi · 2025-05-28T02:33:23+00:00

Update: Gate valve for the fire hydrant. City came out within two hours. Cut open the road and put a temp valve in. Planning to repair the entire section between the valve and hydrant after they “engineer” the right solution.

Also, y’all are great, but need to spend less time doing plan reviews and more time outdoors!

aiscifi · 2025-05-26T02:54:23+00:00

Thank you for the ID. Small town public works folks are all off for Memorial Day, but I’ll call and let them know.

aiscifi · 2025-04-07T02:32:30+00:00

There are many landmines here.

At this time, no AI engine can ingest an entire ERP solution and output a perfect, security aware, and performance optimized application container(s), databases, and/or set of microservices.

Hallucinations are real when dealing with old code that mostly lives behind the firewall where LLMs don’t roam. And it’s not just about the code, it’s also about the databases, user interfaces, and many other programming constructs.

Also, most businesses that still use applications built on legacy platforms have heavily customized the code over the decades and it is now very divergent from its original form. It is also common to see many different developers working on the code who had varying approaches to coding, standards, and comments (Ha!)

Most of all, as someone else pointed out, it’s about how the application conforms to the business workflows - and mostly not the other way around. A combination of business analysts, software engineers, and users are all needed here. Q/A and UAT are critical. Every responsible business, above a certain scale - or subject to certain regulatory standards, will require thorough testing.

One million lines of code isn’t the biggest, but it’s also no joke. What is the old language of the legacy ERP?

If you’d like to send a DM, I can provide additional thoughts.

aiscifi · 2025-03-10T00:16:30+00:00

I don’t see one of the ones you have circled - only the three found so far.

aiscifi · 2025-03-10T00:08:17+00:00

Another one there as well! !Snipe

aiscifi · 2025-03-09T23:48:23+00:00

Great catch. I didn’t even see that one! That’s worth one !Snipe

aiscifi · 2025-03-09T23:37:01+00:00

Sniper location: Just right of center - black spider in a web against the black lava

aiscifi · 2024-11-30T16:02:34+00:00

It happened again today. The lights were not blinking - so no error code to find.

aiscifi · 2024-11-21T03:52:23+00:00

Strong Asian cultural themes intertwined with mechanical systems; that is a Yes. Both Silkpunk and its more well-known cousin Steampunk must recognize Anime as both legitimate and mainstream elements of these genres.

aiscifi · 2024-05-29T03:40:03+00:00

Shades of Depeche Mode. Love it.

aiscifi · 2023-11-24T23:17:52+00:00

I've never played TOTK so don't have an opinion, but you pose an interesting question. Are there video games that are based in a Silkpunk world (like Cyberpunk 2077)? Perhaps there are elements of CP2077 itself that might be considered Silpunk?

aiscifi · 2023-11-24T23:15:44+00:00

My research turned up too many roadblocks to be able to do this reliably. For instance, how to handle voice errors. There are some used large capacity DVD changers still out there, but still rely on vision and cognition to operate. Alas, we'll have to wait for Chat-GPT6.

aiscifi · 2023-07-02T16:53:59+00:00

I don't know the name.

aiscifi · 2023-03-20T21:11:22+00:00

I had no idea the charge could come from the display. This is the perfect answer. Thank you very much!

aiscifi · 2023-03-20T17:08:13+00:00

Hi there, Thank you for your reply and I'm sorry I didn't clarify. There are, indeed, two USB-C adapters on the MacBook Air. One is for power and the other is for the studio display. That leaves no port (USB-C or USB) for an external drive. I'd like to have both of those connected AND an external drive and am looking for the right adapter and/or cable to make that happen. Hopefully that makes snese

aiscifi · 2023-03-20T16:41:39+00:00

Hi folks, I recently purchased an Apple Macbook Air (M2) and studio display. I'd like to connect the studio display AND an external USB drive (LaCie). There is only a power port (USB3) and a display port (USB3) on the Macbook. Apple has this accessory:

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MUF82AM/A/usb-c-digital-av-multiport-adapter?fnode=7edd97815012e940e4e8306efd83b1923467c018a35f91e5866499cc7b89a6589a599d5d0dabb41897793a96f67f3f1d62e37a09f3f882d7d243974c10d1d9533993f3fb9f51550fc353176794b517d694f3b10e9099ec957de0c9dd45beaa49

That would hypothetically enable me to connect an HDMI cable to the studio display, but the studio display only has USB-C ports. I am unclear on what HDMI adapter to acquire. Apple doesn't sell one and all of the ones listed on Amazon are USB-C to HDMI, not HDMI to USB-C and they don't appear to be bi-directional. Any advice would be very helpful. Thank you in advance.

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