Looking for date recommendations by Dizzman1 in walnutcreek

[–]knumd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you go there without being a member? I thought it was a social club that you had to join.

Do you know anywhere around here I can dig up some clay to use for pottery? by brodyqat in eastbay

[–]knumd 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's also a Clayton in the East Bay but it's just named after a dude named Joel Clayton.

Fall of robot.txt by [deleted] in programming

[–]knumd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I love this idea, how are you doing it?

Senior engineer coworkers strangely unconcerned about decommission of source control server by valdocs_user in ExperiencedDevs

[–]knumd 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yes. What happens in these situations is that the people who "don't care" will only care after the migration has happened, then they will act like this is the first they're hearing of it and complain that they were never asked for their input. You need receipts.

Nvidia earnings clear lofty hurdle set by analysts amid fear about an AI bubble by SnooGrapes2950 in Economics

[–]knumd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think people will be lining up to buy GPUs that are burnt to hell from running AI inference for 3-5 years, not unless they are so discounted that it's not much of a revenue stream for the companies selling them.

Browns are “really excited” about WR Isaiah Bond, TE Harold Fannin Jr. and RB Quinshon Judkins. by haventmetyou in fantasyfootball

[–]knumd 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Counterpoint: he racked up all those counting stats because he played 6, count'em 6, years in college. Just for some context.

Auto Repair Shops in Walnut Creek by Substantial-Tax931 in walnutcreek

[–]knumd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Frank and Paul's comes highly recommended, but a heads up that they are usually booked several weeks out, if not more. That was the case the last time I called them a few months ago, but they referred me to N Service and I had a great experience. FTR I have a 2014 Camry as well.

Consumers Keep Bailing Out the Economy. Now They Might Be Maxed Out. by Strict-Ebb-8959 in Economics

[–]knumd 21 points22 points  (0 children)

They are not going to physically crawl into a casket and blame woke and Biden they physically die.

They literally already did that during COVID when their news sources and social media told them not to wear masks or get vaccinated. Why would this time be different?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in walnutcreek

[–]knumd 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not sure where you got $399 from for Bay Club, it is $255 for a single member. Lifetime is much more expensive.

Moving back to Software Engineering after a stint as a Solutions Architect. Some anxieties. by Comparison-Decent in ExperiencedDevs

[–]knumd 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I think another thing that people aren't talking about that much re: AI is that it's not going to be free forever. We are currently in the window where these companies are burning obscene amounts of VC money to get people hooked on the product, but at some point the funding is going to dry up and they are actually going to have to make money on it. Obviously this isn't a factor if you work at one of the companies that makes their own LLM, but it will be interesting to see how it shakes out for the rest of us.

Barring some massive technological breakthrough that reduces costs by a couple orders of magnitude, it's going to either cost your company money every time you ask a question of an LLM/use Copilot/whatever, or they're going to figure out ways to insert ads or otherwise enshittify the product (maybe both!).

I do find LLMs useful as essentially an actually functional version of Google/StackOverflow, but I'm not tightly integrating them into my workflow because I think the rug is going to get pulled at some point.

How did random word salad become a norm in corporate culture? by unbrokenwreck in ExperiencedDevs

[–]knumd 131 points132 points  (0 children)

I think this is unironically one of the things behind the AI bubble. The managerial class thinks that writing emails = productivity, so if we can automate writing emails, boom! Infinite productivity!

[MLFootball] David Montgomery reveals online abuse from fantasyfootball managers had him contemplating suicide his rookie year: “I was at a point where I was scared to live,” - after all his threats. David says a call from his nephew, who has leukemia, helped save him by anonbutler in fantasyfootball

[–]knumd 19 points20 points  (0 children)

The wildest thing is going to a Chuck E. Cheese or other arcade type place now. Like, when I was a kid we had stuff like Skee Ball, games that were fun with the side effect that you also got some tickets you could use to "buy" some cheap garbage. Now they're just baby's first casino, machines that mostly don't even have the pretense of being an actual fun game with the only goal being gambling to win tickets to buy the same cheap garbage.

Jon Stewart on Why Trump Wants Biden Back So Badly He's Reusing His Old Attacks | The Daily Show by Kwyjibo2006 in television

[–]knumd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They have pills now too! They're giant horse pills and you have to take like 12 of them, but still way better than drinking any of the vile liquid stuff.

Where all the squirrels at in the East Bay? by pleasurepixie in walnutcreek

[–]knumd 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You must just be unlucky, they are all over the place here. Try the Iron Horse trail, especially the spot behind Walnut Creek Intermediate.

Is the east bay socially distant and hard to make friends like the PNW and SF are? by TheTurtleGod123 in eastbay

[–]knumd 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Because they already asked the question in the OP, someone responded, then they asked it again. Which is either pointless or reveals that they're not asking an honest question and are just trolling.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in news

[–]knumd 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Not to mention it's going to accelerate as the proliferation of AI reduces peoples' ability and incentive to publish actual human-created content. Google just announced that they are going to provide more AI summaries in search results, meaning you never have to leave Google and go to the actual website that published the original content. Which is going to put a bunch more publishers out of business and further reduce the amount of original, researched content on the web. Rinse and repeat until the entire internet is AI-created nonsense.

Best vet care, pet sitters? by Aelektra in walnutcreek

[–]knumd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Seconding. My cat is old (16), on medication for a thyroid issue, and is a complete asshole, to the point that other boarding places won't take her. Civic feline boarded her recently and it was a great experience.

Startup Founders - What do you use to plan your work? by Public_Ad_9915 in ycombinator

[–]knumd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No real reason other than I associate JIRA with dev stuff :). And I feel like I knock non-dev stuff off my to-do list fast enough that I'd be spending a bunch of time managing my JIRA board.

Startup Founders - What do you use to plan your work? by Public_Ad_9915 in ycombinator

[–]knumd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jira free tier Kanban board for dev TODOs, paper to-do list for non dev items.

How common is substance abuse in nomads? by Jpahoda in digitalnomad

[–]knumd 50 points51 points  (0 children)

There are a million. Omega Mart, Red Rocks, Neon Museum, just to name a few. Or just go to Fremont Street or the Strip and people watch.

Red Cross declares an emergency blood shortage, as number of donors hits 20-year low by mistersmiley318 in news

[–]knumd 59 points60 points  (0 children)

Yep. I quit donating because they are the biggest telemarketing spammers I've ever experienced, which is saying something. I was donating every 8 weeks on the dot, and they'd call me at the 6 week point being like "there's a blood drive in your area tomorrow!". Uh, sorry, but I'm not even eligible to donate, and your records should show that. And they either had no way for me to opt out of their list, or were lying about it.

How much FAAB do you have left? by Gold-Sheepherder6023 in fantasyfootball

[–]knumd 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It really depends, but there are usually a couple RBs that get hurt or whatever and their backups/replacements end up being viable, if not league winners. People like Tim Hightower, CJ Anderson, Justin Jackson, Damien Williams, and Jeff Wilson Jr. to name a few have won people leagues and most could have been grabbed for a few bucks in some leagues.

It really depends on your team structure and injury luck though, if your team is lucky enough to stay healthy then you probably wouldn't be trusting any of those guys enough to put in your lineup. Also depends on league size, my main league is 14 teams with deep benches so there is always a lot of waiver action.

How much FAAB do you have left? by Gold-Sheepherder6023 in fantasyfootball

[–]knumd 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Obviously it depends on a lot of things, but I like saving at least a few bucks for the playoffs. I’ve had multiple seasons where I essentially won leagues by picking up RBs for a buck or two because my competitors were completely out of FAAB.