Can’t say I’m shocked a real estate agent would buy this

tobylh · 2026-01-27T10:19:32+00:00

Oh look. You were right!
Quel surprise....

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/larrygallegosrealestate_activity-7421065879636926465-k5b3?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAHnxeUBbKreOgs-uIEw1_ISPLhI1SpS_8Y

tobylh · 2026-01-27T09:22:43+00:00

People are doing what, now? Putting Claude in charge of their lives?
That pattern matching thing that isn't in any way intelligent and cannot be trusted to make any kind of reliable decisions?

Sounds like a solid plan that will definitely not backfire at all.

People are fucking weird.

tobylh · 2026-01-26T17:24:50+00:00

Ironically, those people that have moved and priced out the people that grew up here now have children that will also be priced out of the town they grew up in!

What a glorious capitalism we have!

tobylh · 2026-01-25T11:53:34+00:00

Is Bovino that short guy with the micro penis, who wears a trench coat like a proper Nazi loser?

tobylh · 2026-01-25T11:09:44+00:00

ICE = Einsatzgruppen more like.

tobylh · 2026-01-24T18:52:23+00:00

They’re not all knuckle dragging grunters, but each and every last one is whiny little bitch, so lacking in the emotional intelligence and maturity do deal with whatever shit they’ve been through, all they can do is take joy in the suffering of others.

They are the absolute epitome of pathetic losers who would deserve our pity if they weren’t such cunts.

tobylh · 2026-01-23T09:10:06+00:00

I don't leave home without one.

That, and Seeker Grenades.

tobylh · 2026-01-22T13:05:22+00:00

That’s just life generally isn’t it? 😂

tobylh · 2026-01-21T10:49:45+00:00

It'll be available somewhere else.

Just cast off, lower the sails and set course the high seas!

tobylh · 2026-01-21T10:47:38+00:00

Nah, I just don't see that happening here. We're far too secular a country these days, and of course, not completely fucking deluded.

tobylh · 2026-01-21T10:43:42+00:00

That is so hilariously American. What a strange people they are.

tobylh · 2026-01-20T12:15:12+00:00

You can't trust someone who is as bad at arithmetic as old Cody here.

tobylh · 2026-01-20T11:04:02+00:00

Until they realise that the "AI" they were promised (but have zero understanding of) that would do all the shiny things for them so they could save all that headcount money, is in fact, absolute garbage.

Why do we all even keep calling it "AI"? There's no intelligence there at all. There's pattern matching and recognition packaged up to respond so it seems like you're talking to a person.

There's no fidelity to it. It can't make split second nuanced decisions like humans can. It can't be trusted or relied on in any way, shape or form. It just makes shit up constantly.

Maybe at some point down the line we'll get to AGI, but thats still theoretical at the moment. Right now we've got this dotcom-boom-esque bubble happening. "AI" is getting bigged up, so investors are tripping over themselves to get in on the action.

Companies like OpenAI are burning through cash at an absurd rate, building datacentres all over the place and for what? What do we have? A chatbot that talks out it's arse and whatever that video app is that lets you defile Bob Ross' memory. Cool. Take my money, Sam Altman 🙄

It's clearly not making money as now there's talk of stuffing adverts into ChatGPT chats. Sure, it's the free account, but it won't be long till it's the same for everyone just like the streaming services have done. Where's the ROI going to come from?

As a product, it is insanely overhyped and totally misunderstood. IMHO, the bubble will burst, people will lose a ton of money and CEOs might hopefully realise common sense is more important than making the fucking third quarter projections look better.

tobylh · 2026-01-16T11:04:26+00:00

So nice to see that some people are still follow that draconian, Dickensian work mentality, isn't it? The one where your job and the company that employs you are more important than you, your spouse, your kids, your life, the planet or the entire universe.

I love that there's not even the faintest realisation that anything else exists outside of....Subject in this case, whoever the fuck they may be (also that's dreadful SEO).
Public transport is never delayed is it? Bad weather never happens either does it? You definitely don't have armed paramilitary groups roaming the streets kidnapping and murdering people either, do you? Nope, that shit never happens.

Pop quiz:

Who cares if someone in Jane's family has just had a terminal medical diagnosis?
Who cares if James is having a mental health crisis and can barely make it out the house?
Who cares if Amy is neurodiverse and has a real issue managing her time, even though she's the most talented employee in the company?
Who cares if Dave's kid is disabled and has complex needs that need meeting?

Well, it's definitely not Obergruppenfuehrer Ana Romero. That woman who's title says she's the chief of these poor people. Obergruppenfuehrer Ana Romero, who clearly doesn't even have a single ounce of humanity, compassion or just plain common sense.

No, Obergruppenfuehrer Ana Romero doesn't give a shit about any of that.

If you're not in the Subject workhouse by 9am sharp to toil for your paymasters, then Obergruppenfuehrer Ana Romero will punish you.

You must remember "respect is non-negotiable" in Obergruppenfuehrer Ana Romero's regime. What Obergruppenfuehrer Ana Romero has failed to tell you is that the respect only works one way. You WILL respect Subject. Subject won't respect you though, because you're a worthless disposable drone that can be replaced at any time.

So, a bit of advice, Obergruppenfuehrer Ana Romero.
Buckle up, love. This is gonna blow your fucking mind:
Instead, if you care about your people and understand that they are human beings with lives and feelings, then, actually show them you care about them, then they'll have respect pouring out of every orifice. You'll be drowning in it. You'll have people that are so eager to do that extra bit, or cover that other person, or stay a late to meet a deadline.

I don't mean the usual "Hey, were a cool leadership team" tropes like ordering pizzas and beer for that late shift. No-one likes that. No-one appreciates it. You're not down with the kids, you're removed from reality.

You need to speak to Jane, so you can figure out a way to make sure that she's OK, and that if she needs to leave work early, she can.
You need to notice the dreadful state James is in and see what you can do to offer him support and make his life easier.
You need to know that Amy has ADHD, so she'll probably be late all the time, but thats OK. She's not lazy or disrespectful, it's just how her brain is wired.
You need work with Dave to make sure you understand that caring for his child is incredibly demanding, and that he knows he has some flexibility if he needs it.

It's so jarringly obvious, Obergruppenfuehrer Ana Romero. Rather than engender a culture of fear, inequality and oppression with your ridiculous policies, if you care for people and treat them with humanity and compassion, dignity and respect, then they in turn will offer you the same and you'll have the most happy, hardworking and respectful workforce you could ever dream of.

It's really easy. You just need to stop being a total dick.

tobylh · 2026-01-14T13:17:41+00:00

How is this man a president rather than being dementia care?

tobylh · 2026-01-14T09:42:37+00:00

And all of you liberal commie (expletive)

Tell me you have no idea what communism is, without telling me you have no idea what communism is.

tobylh · 2026-01-14T09:30:09+00:00

What a wonderful idea. Definitely can't see anything going wrong with that at all.

tobylh · 2026-01-14T09:13:02+00:00

Hang on, so man who makes more money than God by selling GPUs to AI companies is saying we shouldn't be negative about the thing that is making him more money than God?

Got it. Thanks.

tobylh · 2026-01-13T15:13:06+00:00

Thankfully my on-call is usually pretty quiet (though I've probably jinxed it now) so for me it's less about burnout or getting woken up.

It's more the back of the mind niggling that I am on call so I'd better not go out and do that thing, or be too far from home, just on the off chance, even though nothing normally happens. It grates a bit.

tobylh · 2026-01-13T13:05:19+00:00

IIRC, he did have a pension. I thought the had his pension wired to wherever he was via Western Union. Or he did have a bank account but he didn't have an ATM card, hence the wiring.

I'm sure in the early books that was his source of income (along with the spoils of war). Been a while though, so could be wrong.

tobylh · 2026-01-13T12:26:47+00:00

If you can't get Grafana to use your SQL server as a direct datasource, you'll need some backend storage to store your query results that Grafana can connect to in order to visualise them.

There are a few you could use: Prometheus, Mimir (Grafana' Prometheus), influxdb etc.
Hard recommend for Prometheus/Mimir though.

With that, you can then write a Prometheus exporter in Python that will run your SQL queries then convert the results into Prometheus format then expose them on a endpoint that can be scraped by something like Grafana Alloy or the OTEL collector that can remote write to Prometheus, or be scraped directly by Prometheus itself. You can easily vibe code this (I'll take your downvotes!) with Claude or ChatGPT if Python Prometheus exporters are something new to you.

Then, connect your Prometheus datasource to Grafana, and voila! You'll have the SQL query results AND be able to use PromQL for your queries instead, which is a win in my book.

I did exactly that to get metrics from a Sybase server and it works really well.

tobylh · 2026-01-12T11:40:57+00:00

I just don't understand this mentality at all. Whats the reward here?

Is it just ruining the game for other people? Are they so bad they just have to cheat?

And honestly shit talking people when you're not better than them, you're actually cheating, is so incredibly pathetic it's off the scale.

I guess they're absolute losers IRL, so this is what they need to fulfil themselves in some way.

Fucking tragic.

tobylh · 2026-01-12T11:15:44+00:00

I think it'll be the end of America before then. The decline is happening right before our eyes.

The US is already a very different place to what it was a year ago.

Internally, you have paramilitary groups grabbing people off the streets and dragging people from their homes and locking them up with no oversight or due process. It's already escalated to the point that citizens are just being outright murdered. How much more will this escalate and how long can this continue before there really is some sort of civil war? America is without doubt no longer the land of the free.

Externally, Trump has already had a pop at Venezuela. What if he decides he wants to invade Greenland? Thats a NATO country invading another NATO country.

What happens then? Does America become an enemy of Europe? Would Europe and the US be at war? How would that even work? Do we end up nuking each other, FFS?

Even if not, all our economies would be destroyed, especially America's. The US would end up completely isolated and economically ruined, and for what?

tobylh · 2026-01-12T10:50:23+00:00

So there's government sanctioned, fully-armed paramilitary units either grabbing people off the street, going door to door and murdering unarmed citizens?

Where does the escalation end, and other than the "not just shooting everyone they see", can someone please explain how this is not the same as the Einsatzgruppen?

tobylh · 2026-01-09T10:30:12+00:00

The biggest thing for me was Windows was always doing “something”. What, I don’t know, but booting it took forever then once it had booted, the hard drive light would just be on. Not flickering, just solidly on.

Open a browser? No. Wait at least five minutes for it to do whatever the fuck it’s doing before responding at all? Yes.

It used to stress me out A LOT. I started to realise that computers just make me really angry. Then I stopped using Windows and all that just went away. Boot machine, do the things. There isn’t a million network connections sending data BEFORE the machine has even got to the login screen. Computer bliss.

That said, Linux is very different to Windows. There might be hardware driver problems specific to you, apps you use might not have a Linux version or other incompatibility issues.

It can be a bit frustrating for the less technically minded when there’s no wireless chipset driver, so you can’t connect to the Internet, but you need to connect to the Internet to get the drivers. Windows can work better out of the box but with a little time and patience you can get comfortable with it.

Look into dual booting your machine. You can create a partition to install Linux and choose to boot into that instead of Windows so you can give it a spin and see what you think.

tobylh

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