Chase sucks so bad, I would spend a lifetime encouraging anyone to bank elsewhere. I know Mitch is nice enough to say Chase wasn't the problem, but their "controls" are so archaic it makes doing business with them a chore and not a pleasure.
Readit Newsheyflyguy commented on My startup banking story (2023) mitchellh.com/writing/my-... · Posted by u/dvrp
When I was a kid we had a VHS recording of Sneakers, with the beginning of an episode of Letterman at the end. I remember my mom liking it. Fond memories. I need to watch it again.
A couple of scenes:
Carl: We've got customers.
Martin: Shoes?
Carl: Expensive.
Martin: *fixes tie* Look busy, guys.
*after apparently inconveniencing Liz, the group is walking out*
Cosmo: We'll call you a cab.
Liz: "Thank you. This is my last computer date."
*Cosmo stops walking, falling behind*
Cosmo: "Wait."
*the group stops and turns*
Cosmo: "A computer matched her with him? I don't think so."
*Liz's face falls as Cosmo's henchman start slowly walking up behind her.*
*dramatic music as we cut and zoom in to Cosmo's face*
Cosmo: "Marty."
*Cosmo turns and runs toward his office*I still remember that goofy looking run, haha
heyflyguy commented on U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat theatlantic.com/politics/... · Posted by u/_tk_
Using Signal in this case is wrong and foolish full stop, and the extremely likely reason they did so is so they could escape standard government record keeping compliance (NARA).
To start with, classified information is ONLY supposed to viewed in a SCIF. Secondly, it should never be loaded onto private devices. The private phones of national security leadership would be prime targets for every hostile intelligence agency in the world. It matters little if the information was encrypted in transit if the host device is compromised.
One would have to be a fool to not trust all of the classified tools and safeguards the US government uses only to then use a commercial app on commercial phones to communicate classified data in public while stateside and abroad. Just the fact that someone could accidentally add an unauthorized person to the chat is but one reason it was crazy for them to do this.
There are a ton of assumptions in here that have yet to be proven true.
heyflyguy commented on Plane crashes, overturns during landing at Toronto airport cbc.ca/news/canada/toront... · Posted by u/jaredwiener
Totally different speculation than wind shear and that is the whiteout condition of the runway / area. I am also curious about the radalt.
Stuff like this troubles me. I am in defense tech working with LLMs and I am here to tell you the guards and fences are down at the chow truck while commoners are using LLMs.
heyflyguy commented on WH Executive Order Affecting Chips and AI Models whitehouse.gov/briefing-r... · Posted by u/atlasunshrugged
Are we trying to slow global competition with bad actors by restricting their ability to run compute on these.
And then we don't want GPT4o closed models going over the fence, but we are ok with Llama3.3?
I am I reading this correctly?
heyflyguy commented on Intel Solidifies $3.5B Deal to Make Chips for Military bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
Intel left the military business in 1997 because making chips for the military is kind of awful. The volume is small and if a military plane gets canceled, the volume can suddenly become zero. (See the F-22 and Comanche.) Moreover, the military wants parts for decades, so you're stuck building obsolete parts on an obsolete process.
link: https://www.militaryaerospace.com/computers/article/16710194...
I can't read the article, and so it probably mentions this but I think this is a big case of "the past was prologue".
DOD is making a big bet that anything chip and silicon is going to be really hard to acquire past 2027.
This may be a great big gravy train for Intel.
Ladder logic? Ugh, come on!
I love my Remarkable, it forces me to stay in creativity mode without jumping to the internet since it doesn't have a browser. That being said, the inability to simply put your own templates in the machine and have them persist through and update is so close to being a showstopper for me that I am not sure I would consider buying a new one.
The RM2 template manager is great, but you have to update your templates after every firmware update and I hate that with a passion!
heyflyguy commented on Manta Ray UUV prototype completes in-water testing darpa.mil/news-events/202... · Posted by u/Luc
There was a giant NOTAM in the pacific a few weeks ago. The title of the TFR was "MUTANT MEGALODON". A1396
I am curious if these two things were related.