Or sooner, once the medicine kicks in.

Oh, I am going to try to replicate this study. I’ll hit you back in about 50 years if it worked.

The root cause is usually a weak lower esophageal sphincter. Water creates additional pressure in the stomach which causes acid reflux. For me anyway, this is only an issue if I haven’t eaten, drink water and then lay down. (It’s the laying down bit that is probably key.)

Eating non-junk, low acid foods actually helps relieve some heartburn for me in some cases.

If your stomach really is empty and you have chronic heartburn, this may not be the best solution. (It’s a gamble for me, anyway.)

In normal circumstances, water does temporary suppress hunger for a bit, for me.

Well, yeah. If I was a betting man, and I sometimes am, I would speculate that Democrats are going to hold the presidency next and it’ll be just in time for the stock market to crash.

All it will take is one investigation, one major implosion (hopefully NVIDIA, OpenAI, or both) or something else for the underpinning to come loose.

Since Republicans are unlikely to launch any kind of criminal probe (or other kind of interfering action), they can most likely keep the bubble propped up for quite a while.

TBH, what I am more scared of is if the bubble doesn’t pop soon. With OpenAI dumping money into consulting services and investors openly declaring that the end goal is to achieve vendor lock-in, it sets a ton of companies up for failure if they were dumb enough to make all of their core services dependent on OpenAI.

Either companies keep paying OpenAI to keep their core offerings alive or they can’t, and go bankrupt if they can’t convert their infrastructure and services.

The sooner that all of these shit OpenAI sub-service vendors die, the better. Venture capital will start drying up and OpenAI will lose their “path to profitability”. (It’s almost sounding like how meme coins support BTC… I digress.)

Hell, I haven’t even touched on inflated company valuations and how AI LLM market growth is being fabricated, in part, by shoving AI integrations into every product imaginable.

I’ll shut up now, but my point is that I am just applying the same shit I saw back in 2008 where the magic product was sub-prime mortgages coupled with hyper-risky market bets. Obviously, there are differences, but the core failure modes are the same.

The popularity of Roblox among parents is going to skyrocket along with the players average age.

You don’t go for your weekly dopamine sprays? It’s totally the new thing.

So one arm of Google is making the slop and the other is trying to avoid it? Neat.

I have a Zoom L12 for mixing/recording my synthesizers, PC system sound and additional PC audio interface. I got it used for $500.

You can get super cheap mixers as well, but the quality will probably be hit-or-miss. (Proper grounding and interference being the biggest issues.) I got lucky with a $40 4 channel mixer that I use when running too many synths and just need to route sound somehow.

They claim big advances on a lot of things.

It looks like the site is just AI generated crap based off of blog posts it scraped. “Cyber Security News” is about as generic as it gets.

I don’t think it matters much if ee is shutting down.

True random is almost impossible for computers to generate. The biggest issue is that the algorithms are known and they are generally seeded with numbers that aren’t quite random.

Computers can generate numbers that are close to random, but will still have enough data to reverse engineer.

True random, or the closest we have, is atmospheric noise or tracking points from radioactive decay.

Even when you completely ignore that bullshit monologue from Altman, something is fishy with this.

While just speculation, I think they are positioning for a sale as that is going to be the only way to get any value from their shares. (Aside from dividends, if that is a even a thing with pre-IPO equity? They can’t really IPO being a non-profit and it makes sense to sell the company off.)

Anyone else case to spitball any theories? They can’t be an investor sinkhole forever so there has to be a way for profit to be extracted eventually.

I taught myself QuickBasic as it was the only thing I knew that was related to copying C64 BASIC out of magazines. (QBasic was packaged with DOS 3.11 I think and I was able to get a full copy of QuickBasic somehow. That was about +30 years ago? Dunno. I was about 12 at the time.) I didn’t know what other languages were out there besides TurboPascal. I did learn simple Pascal, but that was a short chapter.

I actually met someone else in the area that was learning to code, and of course, we wanted to write a game. The only way to code for a mouse at the time was to write an INT33 handler, so it kicked off our interest in asm. (I still use asm for MCU stuff on occasion, but it’s limited.) I quickly diverged into writing some really nifty… eh… “boot sector code” so that kicked off my career in security.

And yeah, it’s the same phenomenon for me: I just think in terms of bits and bytes getting shifted around and I still refuse to believe in “magic”. (Slight jab at Rust coders there, but in good fun.)

Fast forward to today, I train “kids” fresh out of college as part of my job now. The first thing I do is start giving them weird tasks that require they actually understand how something like an fopen() actually works.

(Funny story. I refused to “show my work” in math class for simple f(x) problems as I viewed it as unoptimized code. Lulz. I was such an autistic dork.)

That, 200%!

When I started in computers, years ago, I transitioned from QuickBasic directly into assembly. Ever since then, I can kinda “read the Matrix” (Blond, Brunette, Redhead…) and forget about how confusing a raw binary or how a mess of a dmp looks to someone else. (To me, I really just see patterns and nothing massively complicated.)

“It’s just data.” - You would be surprised how fuzzy that statement is for some people. It’s almost exactly like telling someone who doesn’t speak any English that “the sky is blue”. It’s totally cool though! Learning about the internals of any computer is really just a very long chain of “aha moments” as many concepts aren’t intuitive.

I dump memory more often than you would think. It’s usually not obfuscated or encrypted in any meaningful way even though it is fairly trivial to do so.

It’s good practice to scour through any bloatware installed on windows laptops. Since bloatware is generally written by the lowest bidder, you can find all kinds of keys and phone-home urls (sometimes with all the parameters) and other weird things. Just fire up a decent hex editor and search for strings in the dump file. You don’t need to know jack about reverse engineering either.

It would force everyone who still wanted to use Facebook to upload more fresh data and get hooked again in the process. It’s not a relevance play. It’s a “we want all your new data” play.

I’ll use snake_case and camelCase in the same project. Fuck the system and stick it to the man. You don’t need AI for shitty code structure!

(Don’t worry. I am not a professional dev, but I know how to piss them off really quick…)