MIT Engineers

[innocentbystander]

She's gross. Y'all are weird.

Tonya was straight from “the trailer.” She knows how to DO THINGS to a man.

[Jungle Rat]

She's a skank like your wife.

[eCat]

another AI example

we're doing a study on how many of our people are working from home and no longer coming into the office.

so we get a spreadsheet that has their home address and whatever status they have defined themselves as.

My boss wanted it to be on an interactive map so the way to do that is to convert addresses to longitude/lattitude. There is already readily available online conversion software to do this for free.

But then we wanted to get it on the map and have markers showing where each person lives. This is called Geocoding, my daughter actually graduated with a degree in this called GIS. Anyways, this is also readily available but all the places we found that were decent charged a fee for it. So I asked one of my guys to look into it. Gemini AI wrote a python script for him in and then built the HTML page to show it. So in about 15 minutes time he was able to complete what would have taken us, at best , 2 days, probably more like 4 days of coding effort or a week of manual effort. And the manual effort wouldn't be reusable or updateable.

[eCat]

actually I just looked at the code that was written in python and it uses existing methods easily available.

so I'd adjust accordingly. probably 1 days worth of effort writing in Python.

but still, its the difference in having it ready for a meeting that day with almost no impact to manhours and having to go thru an effort to make it happen.

[eCat]

right up your alley Hedge, $3000

[hedge]

No longer available. What was it? My brother sees a personal trainer from time to time, I went with him the other day, guy had a sweet little BMW 310cc bike, that's a perfect size for around the city. Said he got it off of Facebook marketplace from a gal who hadn't ridden it much for $2200. I woulda bought it on the spot for that...

[DooKSucks]

Hedge, I know you like driving large sedans traditionally. However, now that there are no longer any American-made full-size sedans, what are you driving? I may be in the market for a car soon and wanted to know what you are driving since you like big cars too.

[eCat]

2007 lincoln towncar with 150K for $3K. Looked to be in great shape. Not surprised it didn't last long

[hedge]

I drive a 2010 4-door Buick Lucerne. Paid $5500 for it a few years ago, haven't had any issues with it. Might be considered a midsize, but it's plenty roomy. Does Lincoln still make their towncar? They might have replaced them with the MKZ sedans, those look pretty nice. I'd definitely look at some 2016-2020 models when this one blows up, I'm definitely looking forward to getting a nice dashboard screen thingy...

[hedge]

2007 lincoln towncar with 150K for $3K. Looked to be in great shape. Not surprised it didn't last long

You're speaking my language now. That thing rides like a dream...

[DooKSucks]

The one thing that would give me pause about that Town Car would be the suspension. I'm sure there is some sort of air ride component that will go out.

The 2000's-2011 Crown Vics have a cult following because of their dependability, and if they have the law enforcement package, the beefed up suspension and brakes are supposed to be great.

The 2000's Buick Lucernes with the 3.8/3800 V-6 seem to have a dedicated following as well for similar reasons.

[hedge]

People who don't need all the bells and whistles and are not freaking out about "high mileage" (I laugh at 100K miles) and just want a roomy, reliable car will always be able to get what they want for less than $10K, usually closer to $5K, or, in the case of eCat's 2007 towncar, $3K. I would be hard-pressed to imagine a scenario where I paid much more than $10K for a car. It boggles my mind that people buy $70, 80 and 90K SUV's just so their wife can drive it to the grocery store. I realize it's a status symbol but even if that's what you're into there are better status symbols out than that to sink your money in..

[hedge]

"The one thing that would give me pause about that Town Car would be the suspension."

In fairness that's going to be an issue on any car you're driving, including a monster truck. Damn tires be scraping the wheel wells by the time you're buckled up...

[hedge]

"The 2000's Buick Lucernes with the 3.8/3800 V-6 seem to have a dedicated following as well for similar reasons."

Didn't realize about the dedicated following but I can see why. The Impala/Caprice Classics were standard fare from the 70's thru the 90's. I had a Crown Vic in the aughts but gave it to one of my truck drivers when a hand-me-down Lucerne became available (even then it took me 6 months to give up the Crown Vic and it did have 300K miles on it)..

[hedge]

I need to find out what the "dedicated following" 2010-2020 models are, b/c that's what I'm gonna be getting next..

[eCat]

get this



I couldn't add Carplay to my car easily so I bought this and have it sitting on my dash , with the suction cup thingy on my windshield. Use the Aux for my car.

It get in, my phone connects automatically thru bluetooth and it brings up maps by default. I have an iphone so I tell it, "Siri, give me directions to " - last night it was Hofbrauhaus in Newport, KY - and it brings it up immediately.

pretty cool for $70

it also lets me listen to podcasts I have on my phone when I take trips. Its totally worth the money

[aTm]

I tried out Grok 3, and over a weekend built like a partial website/web app . Like a database with 30 tables and maybe 200 different total fields (so far), maybe like 5000+ lines of PHP, SQL, JS, and HTML in like 40 or 50 different files. I have some knowledge of working with that stuff, largely just from the fucking around I've had to do in the code and templates for this place, but I am amazed how far I (we?) got in like 6 or 7 hours of work. Its very much like telling an IT assistant what you envision that you want and its like "OK here boss, here is all the code you need to replace" but it only takes like 45 seconds. Then you try it, and yeah sometimes you get an error, but you just tell it what happened and it goes, "Oh yeah, I see where I fucked that up, I forgot about this related thing where we did something weird, try this instead." and then you do that and it fucking works. It's actually kind of crazy, the app as it is does about 5 or 6 things perfectly that I have never tried to do before. The AI is also super helpful, after giving me the code, of walking me through like exactly what things I should test to make sure is working, and gives me code to store version changes in Git, and all kinds of shit that as just an amateur I never worried about before.

[Dave23]

Some of us feds assume Elon is using Grok to filter thru the “5 bullets” emails he requested from all federal employees over the weekend.

Some of us also assume that he’s just seeing who checks email and who doesn’t.

Some of us also think he’s just playing “Simon Says”, or some other squid game with us.

[aTm]

He should get Paul Bettany to voice Grok.

[aTm]

I'm sure you know more from the rumor mill, but I doubt they are doing much more than "no response=no employee=fix the glitch"

Do you have to copy your boss? As far as what people actually are writing and doing, its probably up to each level to review what their immediate reports are doing.