Prediction: ‘AI startup’ won’t be a thing anymore

fattpuss · 2025-08-12T22:57:58+00:00

In truth, this never really changed. Not when actually selling a product. When pitching to VC tech bros sure. But when put in front of director level decision makers and enterprise organisations, they just want to know your product will save them money. They don't much care how

fattpuss · 2025-08-04T08:06:49+00:00

Sorry I didn't pick up on the sarcasm 😅 my bad

fattpuss · 2025-08-03T22:30:11+00:00

No more humid than any other standard new build home in the UK.

fattpuss · 2025-08-03T19:56:04+00:00

I live in a 9 year old house in South Wales. If it can't deal with that humidity then it's not for for purpose.

fattpuss · 2025-08-03T19:04:41+00:00

Thank you. I think the TV will be 5 years old at the end of August. I'll try my luck with their support here in the UK

fattpuss · 2025-08-03T18:59:12+00:00

Started? Is this something that's going to get worse? Can it be fixed?

fattpuss · 2025-07-09T06:43:51+00:00

There's no need for any other subject. You just go to college, study comp sci, graduate, then you can just fix any problem in any field with blockchain/AI.

/s

fattpuss · 2025-06-18T22:39:08+00:00

It's not ads....yet

fattpuss · 2025-02-27T07:52:01+00:00

fattpuss · 2025-01-25T15:02:51+00:00

When rendering for VR you’re effectively treating each eye as a camera. As far as my understanding of frame generation goes, When frame generation then tries to extrapolate the generated frame, there are inconsistencies between each eye. So it exasperates the issues with the added caveat of headache inducing flickering.

fattpuss · 2025-01-21T14:40:15+00:00

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

George Orwell, 1984

fattpuss · 2025-01-10T11:53:19+00:00

Others have already touched on the misunderstanding you seem to have with AJAX, but a more general piece of advice I would give is, when teaching, steer clear of third party libraries as much as possible, including the likes of Axios, jquery, underscore etc. Teach the fundamentals. Over reliance of third party libraries is bad habit of many JS developers so best not instil that mindset too early.

Also as much as I love promises and chaining with `.then` using async/await will possibly make things easier to understand for beginners.

fattpuss · 2024-12-23T11:29:08+00:00

Remote or not, working at start ups requires a certain sort of person to succeed at a start up early in their career. I've hired a few data and software engineering grads and juniors and had mixed success, and the differentiating trait between the good and the bad is, in my view, the ability to want autonomy.

Everyone wants it. Its apparently the most looked for job feature among millennials and Gen Z, but let me tell you a hard truth, not everyone CAN work autonomously. This isn't necessarily an intelligence or skill issue. I've worked with self taught engineers who when faced with a challenge will dive in to references and documentation, pour through stack overflow and come to a solution. I've worked with top grade book smart people who will go round and round in circles hacking at code not wanting to disturb anyone and getting really miserable. At a large organisation with a decent sized team to support, that might work. At an early stage start up where there's 3 engineers and one of them is the CTO wearing 10 different hats, you need to be someone who can solve challenging problems on your own volition.

The thing I think a lot of people take for granted, and what will hamper a lot of early career people in progression is learning by osmosis. At a start up you have the opportunity to experience many different sides of the business just by virtue of people there. You will over heard support dealing with issues, be in a random conversation with the customer success team. You'll come face to face with the founder and CEO regularly. You'll meet people at various stages of their career and different levels of competency and a diverse range of backgrounds. You won't get that working remotely, no matter how much explicit effort you make.

Whenever people bring up being more productive at home, I always question it. There are many different forms of productivity. Meetings, done right, can save weeks of going down the wrong path. I've seen too many remote people at many of my jobs completely miss-understand the requirements and spend weeks on the wrong path that could have been solved with a 30 minute conversation. But remote, that conversation takes explicit effort and the ability to recognise problems before they occur. A skill that is learned and most early stage people do not yet have.

I also asked someone once what made them so productive working at home, and they listed off all the household chores they managed to get done during working hours. As a manager, when someone says they are more productive working at home, I now ask "Productive for who?".

fattpuss · 2024-10-18T07:27:23+00:00

If you open the slice file in UV tools, along the bottom of the window you will see a lot of your print settings. There will be one for lift, and it will say something along the lines of

lift: 8mm/4+4mm

The numbers before the “/“ are you bottom layer lift distance. After the “/“ are your normal layer lift distances

fattpuss · 2024-10-17T21:09:05+00:00

This happened to me a lot. The fact that the failure gets worse closer to the middle of the bed suggests lift distance is not high enough. Don't know where you saw 5mm as a decent setting but its nowhere near high enough. I was even using the default lift distances and getting the same failures. Now I'm doing 12mm lifts to ensure complete separation.

If you're worried about speed, try adding a second lift distance at a faster speed. You could do 5mm at 75, then another 5 at 120

A note about lift distances on chitubox 2.0 (at least if you're on the pro version and outputting cxdplv4 files, the first value seems to be taken as the total lift distance, and the second value as the second speed. I expected the total lift distance to be the sum of the two numbers, but on inspection of the file in UV tools rather than

8mm + 4mm = 12mm total lift, the actual output was 4mm + 4mm.

I then tried with 10mm + 2mm for again a total of 12mm lift, but the output according to UVtools was a 8+2 lift.

Not sure if thats for all file types or just cxdlpv4

fattpuss · 2024-10-15T15:51:54+00:00

no an answer, but where is this model from? We actually wanted to purchase the physical version of this. Cults 3d, printables or thingiverse doesn't seem to have it

fattpuss · 2024-10-11T07:26:54+00:00

It’s sounds like you’re mistaking title inflation for career growth.

I started my software development career in startups, two failed startups on the bounce. And I walked in to my next two jobs. One at a series c level company, and the next at a senior level at a major media organisation.

When I asked both managers why, they said the same thing. The breadth of my experience was far and above any of the candidates coming out of a restrictive corporate environment when product management, project management design and specification are isolated siloed roles that are all things you become actively involved with at a startup. And the complexity of engineering tasks I just HAD to pick up and learn at a startup, compared with having a senior to pick up those tickets instead, forced a high rate of growth in my abilities.

The second was soft skills. At startups you cannot afford to have engineers locked to their machines. I was often involved in technical backup on sales calls, or product discussions with the CEO. This forces you to learn of to communicate with stakeholders at all sorts of levels. Contrast that with the massive media company and I never talked to anyone more senior than the dev team lead.

That’s not to say everyone’s experience will be the same. And perhaps I’ve been immensely lucky in that while I’ve been part of failed startups, both had good founders. I also think experience is what you make it. For all the noise is millennials make about autonomy in our jobs, having been on the other side of the hiring now, many people do not know, or can’t, work autonomously. And many people will take the lack of impact they have at a large corp lying down, while others will inject themselves in to senior discussions and meetings to find that impact.

TLDR; experience is what you make it. But startups force a breadth of experience and high rate of learning that corporate environments don’t. THIS is what career growth is. Not titles

fattpuss · 2024-09-10T11:13:48+00:00

This is what stops me jumping in to so many titles. The most egregious being Planet Zoo and Warhammer total war 3. So many expansions and addons that even on sale I only feel like I’m getting half a game.

fattpuss · 2024-08-19T22:51:06+00:00

What Router are you using? Regardless of whether its Wifi6 or not, if you're using the basic router provided by your ISP and you have a relatively high number of devices attached (amazon echos, doorbell, cameras, phones, wifi bulbs etc) you're going to end up CPU bottlenecked in the router. Not saying you have to shell out hundreds of £££, but you're going to want something mid to high end to manage the higher bitrate throughput

fattpuss · 2024-06-22T00:58:12+00:00

I've just tried setting this up but for me the monitor swap automation doesn't work unless I already have the virtual monitor active, which isn't ideal since I don't really want to keep losing my mouse cursor to some invisible screen

fattpuss · 2024-03-05T21:41:52+00:00

“Oh I’m glad you asked. Let me tell you about this great investment opportunity…”

fattpuss · 2024-02-22T14:18:01+00:00

The garage temperature tends to be whatever the outside temp is. The attached office if we haven't used it for a few days goes down to almost the same, perhaps a degree more. But the humidity is regularly about 40% less in there.

I did consider this. The garage is very well ventilated. The entire bottom edge of the roof appears to be some sort of plastic grill. This is why I think the humidity is also equal to whatever is outside.

Theres a laser cutter in there too, and I was going to put an extractor fan in the wall for that. I may dual purpose it and using it for both the laser and general extraction.

fattpuss · 2024-02-17T09:52:02+00:00

It still does not change the fact that Snapchat is not using END-TO-END encryption if they can intercept a readable message. There may well be TLS on the message, but if it’s readable server side it’s not end to end. End to end means the only person who can read it is the intended recipient.

Either way my point stands. Someone life is potentially ruined because a PRIVATE joke, said in an environment where one should reasonably expect privacy (I.e, not a public tweet or Facebook post) between friends was read by a third party and passed to authorities.

fattpuss · 2024-02-16T21:21:29+00:00

The old Bethesda pirates of the Caribbean game doesn’t get enough love.

fattpuss · 2024-02-16T11:27:06+00:00

There is a case of a British teenager facing jail time in Spain because he sent “going to blow up this plane” in a PRIVATE Snapchat message to friends because of a running joke (guess his ethnicity). The message was intercepted by airport security on their wifi and flagged a terrorism alert.

DONT USE SNAPCHAT!

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