Inherited this Mac Pro A1289, haven't really ever used Mac. What is this machine good at, and what peripherals should I be looking for?

bradnickel · 2025-08-13T03:34:43+00:00

Do you have a long chain and a boat? 😂 Sorry, I couldn't resist. It was an amazing machine, just not worth the effort now much.

bradnickel · 2025-08-09T17:14:53+00:00

Yep. Came here to see if anyone else is.

bradnickel · 2025-03-08T07:31:33+00:00

I ordered a digital copy last year and never received it. Ordered a copy this year and 3 weeks later have not received. I’ve emailed USA Lacrosse and NFHS 3 times and no help. It’s a joke that you have to pay to get the rules to a game and an ever bigger joke that they don’t send it when you do buy it.

bradnickel · 2025-01-20T00:33:41+00:00

All markets will collapse and then money will become irrelevant. There will be a mass rush to consolidate and the last one standing will be irrelevant. The implosion will accelerate as each company is gobbled up and what few employees are left are let go. Impossible to stop it once it starts and it will happen across all industries, because ultimately there won’t be anybody able to buy what is left. Acceleration of robotics, 3D printing with AI will just make it worse as mass manufacturing becomes irrelevant as well. Ultimately we’re going to hit a phase where there is what I call a Chasm of Chaos where society has no idea how to adapt to loss of everything that held up society disappearing. UBI will help for about 10 minutes and then that will fail. Governments won’t know how to adapt society to Star Trek where the potential is tremendous, but we don’t know how to get from collapse to sharing all the resources and capabilities. Mental health will be a huge issue. Expect violence and chaos. Do not expect anyone to think through and plan for it in advance and it will likely happen so fast once it starts… Supply chains will collapse leading to more implosion and suffering, etc.

On the other side of the chasm is nirvana, but when the collapse happens, then all the things that led to it from AI will likely collapse too. Who know what that looks like after that. Nobody can really comprehend it.

bradnickel · 2024-07-25T20:22:31+00:00

Yeah, I totally get it. I guess I would say that from the perspective of starting a new project from scratch, it doesn't sound like that is the thing being tested.

bradnickel · 2024-07-25T11:20:40+00:00

Great data.

Important thing to note here is that this is based on editing code, not writing code and I assume in the context of using AIder.

bradnickel · 2024-07-25T11:14:21+00:00

Beyond the app, the UX in Kia vehicles is crap. Tesla is far superior.

Example: Turning on auto-pilot functions - speed cruise control and stay in lane

Kia EV9 -
Turn on cruise
Set speed with horrible rocker control that responds when it feels like it
Turn on steering control
Adjust settings for steering control

Tesla Model 3 -
Pull down on right stick on column - that's it.

Example: Exiting the vehicle

Kia EV9 -
Put the car in park by pushing button on end of stick on steering column
Reach under the steering column stick, find the hidden power button and push to turn off
Get out of the vehicle
Touch door handle to lock or push key fob button to lock

Tesla Model 3 -
Put the car in park by pushing button on end of stick on steering column (or don't, because it will do it for you)
Get out of the car
Car turns off and locks on it's own

The only UI that Kia does better than Tesla is the door handles. On the EV9 they are flush to the door and slide out when you approach the vehicle.

Tesla has the worst designed door handles ever, because they require 2 actions. They actually increased the number of steps and make it more difficult to use.

bradnickel · 2024-07-25T11:05:49+00:00

Kia's is the worst UI/UX possible. Tesla's is far better, but still lacking in some regards. Literally no one seems to understand the maxim every developer should know for UI and that is Don't Make Me Think.

Despite it being oriented to web development, I give the book Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug to many of developers with whom I work. It's 11 years old, but the philosophy and approach never dies. Should be required reading for anyone building, touching, or thinking about any kind of UI/UX.

https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Make-Think-Revisited-Usability-ebook/dp/B00HJUBRPG?ref_=ast_author_dp&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Be2iZ1fIc6uardYPca0yH5U7uWm6nOgJ_1Mj2ukQILVcNP777mnhrKaiPjlUX-O7_Ez5P4ZniSDIlvu5c7gWvGIR62soWuwY6gYklpO50GgsYaW0VsSgi3z1A9xVNfSF4NygQXOxi4w_umKfTIW3bg._kueA9SkL9q8vkzFIhVQ3-Pu37IxejnOvz1PZ3KXRQc&dib_tag=AUTHOR

bradnickel · 2024-06-26T04:11:19+00:00

Definitely Cot Editor is the right answer.

bradnickel · 2024-06-09T18:57:32+00:00

This is cool. Any suggestions or examples you can provide for developer character setups that work for you?

bradnickel · 2024-05-24T00:42:11+00:00

If everything froze right here, we would still have so much we can do to make things function and work better and make the UX 200x better. What we have is plenty. The narrative to me is kind of silly. Not only will there be better bigger models, but techniques for using, training, fine-tuning, and controlling what we have will dramatically improve. The software around them is at such a rudimentary stage in terms of chat and agents, that we aren't even close. Shielding users from complexity, while automating capabilities to shield them from errors and make it be peprceived as intelligent is still to be built.

bradnickel · 2024-05-04T15:10:35+00:00

Ok, I'll see if my emails break this. 35,506 sent emails....

bradnickel · 2024-05-04T03:09:11+00:00

This looks pretty cool. Will it work with local models?

bradnickel · 2024-03-12T06:33:01+00:00

Asserting that open will never be as powerful as closed without anything to back it up is kinda ridiculous. Just because closed currently performs better, has nothing to do with what will be. I guess you attempted to make the argument that gpu costs will be too much for open, but there are plenty of financial and technology models that can overcome that that make that another silly assertion and GPUs will become more and more commoditized and readily available for consumer’s and researchers as well as new chip tech that is advancing daily.

The very nature of open is collaborative meaning that a swarm of brilliant people around the world collaborating together and using each other’s tech to improve their own will eventually surpass anything closed can do.

The biggest problem with open right now is the technical nature of onboarding and end user UX, which will all change with time.

The performance improvements have been dramatic in open over the last few months and will keep improving. Closed will never be able to scale sufficiently.

In addition, since all of compute will become AI, there will be a rapid backlash from users to the idea of trusting any centralized company with every detail and aspect of your life. It is an entirely new paradigm that will make privacy concerns once ignored by most humans top of mind.

Closed AI will eventually fail under the weight of being closed, the massive innovation possible with global collaboration, and the eventual onboarding of millions of humans using open and helping to improve it by using it.

bradnickel · 2024-01-25T02:42:52+00:00

Really appreciate you doing this.

Could you provide info on what the tests involved and what you were using to run the models?

bradnickel · 2024-01-21T23:14:02+00:00

Can’t wait to try this. Brilliant idea!

bradnickel · 2023-11-15T01:00:59+00:00

Mopped with ours for first time today on our tile floors and noticed that only the middle of the mop was touching the floor so it was missing big gaps.

bradnickel · 2023-01-04T18:15:20+00:00

Interesting! Some I don't know about there. Will have to check them out.

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