Chuck Hollis @KeyboardChuck

Retired tech exec, playing music in an idyllic beach town. Vero Beach, FL Joined December 2025

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Chuck Hollis @KeyboardChuck

4 days ago

@Hannah_4237 @TimelessTrvlr Yes, my wife and I do rentals. We also go off and explore the odd corners of FL that most people don't get to.

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Chuck Hollis @KeyboardChuck

6 days ago

@OfMikeAndMen Aluminum and muriatic acid. Iron oxide and magnesium. Real gunpowder with saltpetre. It was big fun.

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Chuck Hollis @KeyboardChuck

6 days ago

@OfMikeAndMen I heard about these, but never had one. Too bad.

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@OfMikeAndMen Yes, I received several from my EE father. We did Heathkit stuff as well. While you're at it, can we talk about the dangerous chemistry kits of the era? You could make some wild stuff :)

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Chuck Hollis @KeyboardChuck

6 days ago

I've gotta think that Elon had this specific use case in mind when designing the Cybertruck. Faster than a 911. Bulletproof. Goes anywhere. Super cost-effective to run and maintain. 360 degree cameras, automated patrol routes, etc. So many benefits to a public safety department when your think about it. Oh yeah, and they look super badass as well. I'm betting we're going to see a whole lot more of these as police vehicles before too long.

rrace🇰🇷 @junssi1982

7 days ago

사이버트럭 경찰차 공개. 가히 무적….

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Chuck Hollis @KeyboardChuck

a week ago

@MarcellinaOT @ChiefEngineerCE

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Chuck Hollis @KeyboardChuck

a week ago

Don't laugh, there's a boatload of new money going into both chip R&D and fabs and it ain't slowing down. The market for local models will be basically "anyone who owns a device", so several billion potential new consumers who will sign up for a perpetual upgrade cycle. Not sure about $29.95, but a $2995 price point for a power rig would be popular.

zerohedge @zerohedge

a week ago

Can we fast forward 2 years when everyone will have a local model running on a 10TB DDR8 rig (which will cost $29.95)

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Chuck Hollis @KeyboardChuck

a week ago

@ZitoSalena I've seen the same. Similar artists like Billy Strings and Sierra Hull are selling out their venues. As a musician, I watch genres come and go. This one never really left, it just got passed on generation to generation, growing a bit stronger each time.

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Chuck Hollis @KeyboardChuck

a week ago

It's mostly a branding failure on the part of OpenAI. Who calls their premier product "ChatGPT"? Imagine if they had called it "AskIt" instead. 2026: I'll AskIt for the best answer. There's a long list of winners and losers in the first-to-category branding wars incl. Xerox, Kleenex FedEx, etc. Rule #1: never let engineers pick names.

andrew chen @andrewchen

a week ago

2002: I'll google it 2015: I'll uber over 2026: I'll GPT it (???). I'll claude it (???) Why haven't we picked the dominant verb for AI yet?

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Chuck Hollis @KeyboardChuck

a week ago

I guess I'm too rational, as I don't understand the opposition, other than a fear of what the future brings. I worked for IT vendors, so I've been in literally hundreds of data centers. They are big buildings full of servers, network and storage. Lots of fans and blinking lights. By way of comparison, Grok says we have ~14,500 large distribution centers in the US. They are big buildings full of trucks with products coming and going. They generate noise and traffic, but we put up with them. Both are being built in response to clear economic demand that won't abate any time soon. Despite the organized opposition, data centers create decent long-term jobs for operations staff. They contribute to the tax base. They usually have to make arrangements for their own power and cooling. Every country on the planet wishes they had more data centers. Except some in the US it seems.

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Chuck Hollis @KeyboardChuck

a week ago

AI-native, cloud-native, web-native, mobile-native, etc. Every new tech provokes a similar split: are we just adding tech to an old process, or are we designing an entirely new process around what's now possible? A mobile-native app runs great there, and doesn't care about other platforms. Cloud-native apps are designed to run on a rented server image in Docker container. And so on. The key skill here is to leave your intellectual baggage behind. It's harder than it might seem.

Todd Saunders @toddsaunders

a week ago

I have a few friends applying for new jobs and they all ask me the same question. What exactly does "AI-native" mean. And as much as I have an answer for them, I really don't. How would you explain it to them?

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Chuck Hollis @KeyboardChuck

a week ago

@whysolim Good for her!

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Chuck Hollis @KeyboardChuck

a week ago

No, the job market is just fine for people who can show they can do things in the real world. You know, build things, get stuff done, solve new problems, lead a team, etc. This person hasn't done anything in the real world yet.

Aman @Amank1412

a week ago

You know the job market is cooked when someone with this resume "struggles" to find jobs

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Chuck Hollis @KeyboardChuck

a week ago

I think it's a bigger list! I've visited many dozens of seriously "underrated cities" across the US. My wife and I take long RV trips, and I've lost count of how many times I've thought "gee, I wouldn't mind living here". Best way to see the US is at ground level.

Trenton Hughes @trentjhughes

a week ago

Most underrated cities I've been to: Greenville, South Carolina Rapid City, South Dakota Bentonville, Arkansas Chattanooga, Tennessee Columbia, Missouri Nobody is talking about them All of them surprised me...

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Chuck Hollis @KeyboardChuck

a week ago

@whysolim Not true at all, all this shows are all low-paying "research assistant" roles.

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Chuck Hollis @KeyboardChuck

a week ago

I just gotta give a shout-out to NVIDIA's overall strategy. Just when serious competition started to show up for data center AI chips, they pivot to supporting desktop models. There's gonna be a boatload of $4K NVIDIA DGX Spark desktop units sold to run these. No real upper limit on how many.

Hugging Models @HuggingModels

a week ago

Big news for AI builders: NVIDIA dropped a quantized version of Qwen3.6 that fits in 35B parameters but runs like a 3B model. This FP4 MoE beast is a game changer for efficient inference.