ITT: Tech horror story thread?
>be 17
>Go with my dad to pick up a used, but fairly quality computer from a big shitty suburb.
>Arrive, The lawn is overgrown and the house looks like it hasn't been maintained since Jesus left Chicago.
>White dude Guy comes out, has about 3 teeth in his head. Looks like Jesse Pinkman's skinny mexian friend, but he's civil enough
>leads us inside, place fuckin' stinks of sweat and chemicals
>boxes littered everywhere, trash everywhere
>computer is in a room that's completely empty besides a dresser and sleeping bag
>Guy talks about the computer, says he can have the games he bought with them
>cool.jpeg
>Sniper Ghost Warrior and Just Cause 2.
>Both Steam Copies. Code already used.
>rm -a ../cool.jpeg
>while the guy keeps talking about the PC, some old woman starts shouting " LET THE FUCKIN' DOGS OUT CUNT" from the back of the house.
>This bitch just starts screaming.
>dude ignores it.
>we give him the dosh and we pack the pc up as fast as we can.
>Whole rig is sticky as fuck.
>Woman continues to scream as we pull out of the driveway.
>>57139548
Sounds more like the problem was with craigslist or humanity instead of tech
hmmmm....
>get home
>Scrub the fuck out of every peripheral
>take the case apart
>bottom filled with ciggy ash
>boot it up, dumb cunt hadn't cleared his hard drive.
>go onto his history for shits and gigs
>scrolled down. HARD femdom and crossdresser porn.
>not trans porn. crossdresser porn.
>Was initially freaked out, but It's his fetish, whatever.
>After a while found... "Photos"
>Pics of him dressed in women's clothes spreading his asshole.
>Friday evening
>Get a call from work to say they lost internet access
>Troubleshoot remotely, power cycling the firewall fixed the problem
>11pm
>Get another call "Anon it happened again, we restarted 20 minutes ago and it's crashed already"
>Go to work
>Stay there until 4am swapping out the shitty netgear firewall with a back up unit
>Different firmware versions so couldn't export and import any tables
>Monday
>Back up firewall has started locking up in the exact same way
>Company finally bins the lot and replaces them with load balanced fortinets
>Starts buying tp-link switches though
>quit job
God Damn!!!! Why do SVMs take so long to calculate? How can I speed things up?
Please help me /g/, my machine learning project is due tomorrow night. I'm am willing to try anything at this point.
Did you forget to push your turbo button?
>>57139460
check the turbo OP i bet it's unpushed
>>57139460
I hear that there turbo button is good for these things
Researchers at Microsoft have published details of new speech recognition technology that they say transcribes conversational speech as well as a human does. "We've reached human parity," says Microsoft's chief speech scientist Xuedong Huang in a statement. "This is an historic achievement."
The system's word error rate is reported to be 5.9 percent, which Microsoft says is "about equal" to professional transcriptionists asked to work on speech taken from the same Switchboard corpus of conversations. It uses neural language models that group similar words together, allowing for efficient generalization.
bullshit
>>57139411
>an historic
>>57139411
>error rate of 5.9%
>human parity
Fucking what
I've got an AMD R9 290 and AMD FX6350. Obviously this doesn't make the cut when it comes to game performance. I'm looking to upgrade, but can currently only afford one or the other. Would I be better off with a GeForce 1080 or an Intel CPU?
>>57139378
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
>>57139397
Good post, anon.
>>57139378
Get an i5-6600k and you'll be good
>mfw my phone has more cpu cores than my main rig
>Tfw i only turns on my desktop if i want to play vidya
>For browsing anything, my phone performance is fast enough and acceptable
>Movie and animu? Except 4k vid, nothing my phone cannot play. Plug my 10000mAh and lay down in bed while watching.
Still loves my pc, but why i rarely turns her on again /g/
>browsing the web on your phone
>watching videos on your phone
>I only turn on my pc if I want to use it
>desktops are finished
The keyboard and workspace are what matter about a desktop, and that should all be resolved eventually when the idea of "convergence" comes back. Ubuntu tried making a phone that, when docked, turns into a full-blown native desktop OS. It's rumored that Microsoft is making a Surface Phone to test the market for that again.
How can I improve performance in VirtualBox? I set it to use 2 cores, 4096 MB of RAM and yet everything I run performs like shit. What do?
>VirtualBox
Install Gentoo
>>57139283
If the guest OS supports Guest Additions, install them.
Why do we pay so much for Chinese American junk?
https://www.jbhifi.com.au/phones/Outright-Mobile-Handsets/?p=1&s=displayPrice&sd=2&fm=false
>Fucking $1500 for a phone that costs $600 in us
Seriously how the fuck do these things even sell here? You literally get the phone for half price by importing it
That chinese shitphone doesn't have a real warranty or even a return policy.
Also, you have to do your research and make sure it supports the same bands as your carrier.
99% of people don't even know how to install apps.
Because God hates Australia. Didn't you already know that from all of the venomous and violent creatures?
>>57139267
but we where paying semi reasonable prices 2-3 years ago
Why do we always get assfucked?
>>57139280
Heh bantz/10
Why is gentoo so hard to install
R8 me 6,1 85kg
6 feet and 3 inches here, very happy about it
>>57139236
Semi-moist noodle.
What if we encrypt DNA to prevent diseases
>>57139152
b-but that's terrorism anon.
It is already corrupted
>>57139152
So you have to decode your tears, piss and shit, and encode all of your food?
Great fucking idea, OP. What next? Join ISIS to spread FOSS software?
Have a friend about to throw away a working 19 inch sun microsystems CRT.
Was thinking of getting it off him for vidia. Are CRTs still worth it, even if free, because of the bulk and eye cancer?
It does 1600x1200@75hz.
>>57139139
if its free, go for it.
If you cant tell the difference and the size is too much, just recycle it.
How old? make sure it doesn't have only 13w3 connections
>>57139139
NIgga its trash
Do any of you tranny faggots still use Twitter? If so, why haven't you killed yourself yet?
Also, why aren't you a "Lead Developer... Evangelist" at SalesForce?
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Why the fuck is it so hard to have any fun in this shitty, shitty, industry? Are any companies brave enough to tell these trannies to kill themselves?
>it's yet another rectumravaged, unemployed turboautist lashing out at the world
>>57139138
what the fuck are you on about?
>being this triggered
steve jobs had AIDS
>>57139103
He's a fag
>>57139103
Yeah, everybody knows that. He got it when he bought a third world loli as a sex slave.
>>57139103
Apple hasnt done anything good since the Original Iphone 9 years ago anyway.
Every one of their new products seems to be worst than the last
how do I delete the internet
>>57139073
You have to hack the planet first then you can delete the internet.
sudo rm -rf /*
>>57139073
Isn't it obvious?
fuck you, seriously. fucking shit won't even charge when it's being used. I hate you.
>tfw to intelligent too fall for /g/ memes
piece of shit
>fucking shit won't even charge when it's being used.
wat
>write an """""""AI""""""""
>it shills your competitor's product
never hire street-shitters
>>57138922
is "Assistant" some walmart knockoff of Siri?
>>57140040
He's referring to Google Assistant, the rebranded voice search that's only offered on the Pixel.
>>57140040
No, it's actually useful and isn't a huge steaming pile of shit seeing as Google actually has a competent AI/ML group unlike Apple.