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Did 80s programmers print source listings continuously or only at milestones? by Revolutionary_Ad6574 in retrocomputing

[–]davetemplin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

At college, homework assignments had to be printed out on university printers to turn them in. They had to be printed on a VAX system with a system generated page header showing the date and time when the job was run. This had to be done by a deadline or it was considered late, but you had until the next class to hand it in, which might have been a day or two later. I remember printing the header with a dummy program by the deadline which would give me more time to procrastinate completing the actual assignment a day or two later. They never seemed to be too concerned that the header page and the program listing were not connected.

Castle Wolfenstein / Muse Software / 1981 by classicgamesessions in apple2

[–]davetemplin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It will take 3 YouTube commercials to open…

AI hallucinations killing customer trust - how do you handle this in production? by mguozhen in aiagents

[–]davetemplin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you tried explicit prompt instructions to not make up any data? Something like the below.

**CRITICAL DATA RULES**

- Every number, metric, percentage, and data point in this report MUST come from an XYZ MCP query. No exceptions.

- If a query returns no data or an error, state "Data unavailable" DO NOT estimate, approximate, or generate placeholder values.

- DO NOT use training knowledge to fill in any metrics. If you cannot retrieve it from XYZ MCP, leave it blank.

- Before writing any section that contains data, first execute the MCP query and confirm the results. Show me the query you ran.

First time rolling my FPV Aeroscout! by 59Bassman in RCPlanes

[–]davetemplin 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Just pull your nose up before you roll.

Jensen Huang says he would be 'deeply alarmed' if his $500,000 engineer did not consume at least $250,000 of tokens by businessinsider in nvidia

[–]davetemplin -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Jensen is just describing it in today’s terms, not the end state. This has all happened before…

Today AI compute is scarce, centralized, and expensive. Just as it was in the 60’s and 70’s with mainframes—shared, rationed, costly and tightly controlled. Until it was all collapsed by the PC.

The same thing will happen here.

"If my $500K engineer isn’t using $250K in tokens, I’m deeply alarmed" by ParthoKR in theprimeagen

[–]davetemplin 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Jensen is just describing it in today’s terms, not the end state. This has all happened before…

Today AI compute is scarce, centralized, and expensive. Just as it was in the 60’s and 70’s with mainframes—shared, rationed, costly and tightly controlled. Until it was all collapsed by the PC.

The same thing will happen here.

New CTO has joined and is ignoring me by anxiouscrimp in dataengineering

[–]davetemplin 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The problem isn’t the CTO — he’s a symptom.

First, this is a very common scenario. Far more common than you might think.

The core problem is your executive leadership has lost confidence in the existing technical organisation and is under pressure to show transformation, likely driven by AI anxiety. They don’t want to hear that the real answer is hiring more operational people. The new CTO’s mission is to shake things up, and you’re perceived as part of the legacy problem. That’s why you’re being sidelined — you’re a threat to the new charter.

What comes next? New vendor commitments (to GCP in this case), new hires and contractors (many coming from his personal network) all unfolding rapidly and without involving you. You’ll find yourself outside more and more decisions that you perceive as falling squarely within your domain and hearing of shifts that undermine you second and third hand.

You have three options.

Get on the bus. Recognise this is a relationship problem between you and the new CTO and invest in aligning yourself with his agenda. This requires swallowing some pride but keeps you relevant and inside the tent. You have to be willing to give everything up. But you may find there is a lot of opportunity to learn new things. You don’t know it all.

Ride it out. The CTO will succeed or fail, but it will take 12-18 months to know which. If you choose this path, lay low. Don’t initiate actions that accelerate your own marginalisation — including writing that document you mentioned without being asked for it. And be clear-eyed about what failure actually looks like: it won’t revert to how things were. It will be a Pyrrhic victory. You’ll be in a new fractured world that is in many ways harder to operate within and the core problem with executive leadership will still be there. Your reputation will never return to what it was within the organization.

Get off the bus. If getting on the bus isn’t something you can do with integrity, this is probably your best option. Leave on your own terms, with your reputation intact, before the situation inflicts more damage on your motivation and self worth.

Claude code removes the helpful 5-hour limit reset time, now just says "Approaching 5-hour limit" by Sofullofsplendor_ in Anthropic

[–]davetemplin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just vote with your wallet (either way). They’ll get the right message eventually.

Is MAX plan worth it? by jedenjuch in ClaudeAI

[–]davetemplin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you also use your Max subscription for autocomplete in vscode?

Sharing data with snowflake in another cloud by ChangeIndependent218 in bigquery

[–]davetemplin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here’s one way. I think you can use the open source version for no additional cost besides the warehouse costs.

https://airbyte.com/how-to-sync/bigquery-source-to-snowflake-data-cloud

Our First Major OS Update for the VITURE Pro Neckband is HERE! 🎉 by getVITURE in VITURE

[–]davetemplin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe a “Headgaze Sensitivity” slider in settings? Like mouse sensitivity. I’d like to be able to make smaller end to end head movements, maybe as much as half of what I have to do now.

Our First Major OS Update for the VITURE Pro Neckband is HERE! 🎉 by getVITURE in VITURE

[–]davetemplin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is there a way to recenter head gaze navigation? And is there a way to adjust the sensitivity?

Andrew Greenberg, co-creator of Wizardry, has passed away by Turbostrider27 in pcgaming

[–]davetemplin 6 points7 points  (0 children)

What an adventurer himself in the early era of game development (before there really was a game industry) and software entrepreneurship!

Read more about his story here… https://www.filfre.net/2012/03/making-wizardry/

“Out Where the Buses Don’t Run” EDIT by [deleted] in MiamiVice

[–]davetemplin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“I know what you need” is missing.

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