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Tom Sightler

@SightUnseen_

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I work in tech but posts here are mostly just random observations or thoughts that run through my brain. All opinions expressed are my own.

South Carolina
Joined September 2009
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Tom Sightler
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@MichaelCade1 I've tried to listen to a few, but they just sound too artificial, like one brain writing a script and then reading it with two voices. It's the aural version of the uncanny valley for me.
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Tom Sightler
9 days
@MichaelCade1 Yeah, it's all over the place and totally drives me crazy. Especially when it's just obviously incorrect/made up, but people present it like it is some kind of fact just because ChatGPT said it.
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Tom Sightler
11 days
@MichaelCade1 I used a virtualize TrueNAS with PCIe passthrough SCSI controller as my primary datastores for years. As I've simplified my lab, I don't need it for this use case anomore, but still use it for some shared storage for SQL clusters and for other shares. It's great!
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Tom Sightler
15 days
If your wife orders Cayenne pepper by the pound, she might be a Cajun!
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Tom Sightler
17 days
I swear analytics has ruined good football sense.
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Tom Sightler
1 month
The NFL has to figure out how to have more games broadcast in 4K, they just look so much better. Even this Fox playoff broadcast, which I think is actually just 1080p HDR upscaled to 4K, is still a huge step above the normal weekly games.
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Tom Sightler
2 months
@WorkingHardInIT Those prices are amazing vs what I pay for 1Gbps, kind of hurts a bit to think about it. We have a new competitor entering the local market that claims they have "industry disrupting" prices, they'd still be ~4-5x this amount!
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Tom Sightler
3 months
@MichaelCade1 My wife and I definitely think our next daily driver will be an EV (it is currently a hybrid). Will be harder to consider it for the 2nd car, which we use primarily for longer road trips.
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Tom Sightler
4 months
@jorgedlcruz @fabiankessler2 Two good people in this picture. Hope #Veeam100Summit is going well!
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Tom Sightler
4 months
@MichaelCade1 I definitely see it. I can of thought it was the algorithm basically saying "I don't have any new material you would find interesting, but maybe you're bored and would be willing to watch a rerun."
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Tom Sightler
5 months
I've spent a good chunk of my life preferring to work on technology vs talking to people, now AI comes along, and keeps asking me to chat. That's OK, I'm good! 🤣
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Tom Sightler
5 months
@anthonyspiteri I've never heard of this book, but reading the synopsis, it might be my bible.
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Tom Sightler
6 months
@anthonyspiteri I first installed it in 92 and never really looked back. Having a Unix-like OS on my own systems that was free. and that I could contribute to, seemed like a dream and living through those heady days was some of the most fun I've had with tech.
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Tom Sightler
6 months
American Airlines constantly list flights with connections through CLT of <50 minutes, sometimes as low as 35 minutes, which is completely crazy. Does the execs team just enjoy watching the camera feed and laughing at passengers running to make flights?
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Tom Sightler
6 months
@MichaelCade1 Completely based on the program. I'm unimpressed with my local university's program, but there are great schools out there that would be well worth it. Not that different vs the late 80's as my school's program at the time was stuck in the past.
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Tom Sightler
6 months
I'm convinced that Amazon just outright lies about their delivery dates and that it's a conscious decision to discourage ordering from other vendors with slightly longer delivery times. When they fail to make the promised delivery, there are no consequences, so why not?
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Tom Sightler
6 months
@twavas Sure, I can Google and tweak, and get everything perfect for my setup, but the setup I'm working on isn't for me. Oh well, I guess I can be happy that at least it's possible. This 7+ year old laptop is completely usable after the tweaks and runs great!
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