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AI Go bots not so superhuman after all (pivot-to-ai.com)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

He also did sawzall, but thankfully that didn't get widely adopted

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

circa '06 my then-boss wanted me to "implement sawzall for mailserver logs"

(I was extremely green at the time and I've since wondered whether that was one of my first gartner quadrant moments)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I should also note that this place was xen on gentoo on refurb p3s. it involved adventures with gluster and nfsv3 and almost-all-the-docs-were-still-russian nginx imap/pop proxies and... fun times

(I did learn a fair deal there. foremost among what I learned was how willing someone would be to pay me dogshit money if they could get away with it)