Wololooo

I mean, jokes are made to uplift, intent in joking is important and punching up is preferable to punching down, this being said this didn't apply to chuck Norris that would have already got to the punchline without throwing a single fist.

Boy, do I have news for you!

But joking apart, almost everything is connected and calling home these days...

I may have a bad news for you...

Or even daily hindrance if you happen to live next to the datacenter...

I think everyone could use some of that boring times run of the mill situation.

The last 20 years have been... eventful to say the least...

TV also had a social aspect that internet does not have by construction: You had the same program on only a few TV channels and this was funneling people to talk about similar things or have discussions about the previous day show.

These things rarely happen organically anymore unless "forced" in one way or the other...

Which funnily is the dumbest thing ever. Because in order to use the currency you need to exchange it which means that you need input and outputs, you slightly obfuscate that but in the crypto chain everything is saved, so everything is traceable forever. Slip up once when extracting or get your wallet involved in unsavoury interactions and you're done. It's not a matter of if but a matter of when...

This is the most "I've got mine" statement that I have seen these past months.

It's not because it was "OK" so far that it is going to be OK moving forward, it's just kicking the can down the road and hope for a miracle, and they have done this since people have wondered about greenhouse gases (and this happened very early on).

Note that most of the issues we will be facing was not because of all the conveniences, but just because doing things in a way that was sustainable and/or more regulated would have hit the bottom line of big oil...

At the end of the day, it will not matter whose pockets were lined when there is no more food to feed people...

Impossible projects with impossible deadlines seems to be the norm and even when people pull them off miraculously the lesson learned is not "ok worked this time for some reason but we should not do this again", then the next people get in and go "it was done in the past why can't we do this?"

The problem is even if you make a note to fix it later, one you never get back to it and two this drives decisions for things around it, until it breaks...

And I mean... They're not wrong.

I use a Mac for work, but also use windows and Linux machines.

The best experience hands down when it comes to specific things would be Linux, for very niche things because it's way less clunky than it used to and people have figured things out in the meantime.

My mac is the only system that I can mount (without too much pain because people have figured it out) any filesystem, I can virtually open every document from Mac to Windows to Linux. I have something close to package control with homebrew. The M chips are ridiculously good at both being decently performant while low energy consumption.

Sure it has its host of issues and I would be the first one in line to dunk on Apple for many many... many many, reasons, but there are things to like with their laptops...

In comparison, recently, Windows has been more and more aggressive towards their users and their data, attempting to lock people in for some spreadsheet editor... Gone are the days of Lotus1-2-3...

Again, if they had anything worth in the pipeline, Sora wouldn't have been a thing...

Did the need raise through the use of silicon X ray detectors that improved the handling of images and reduced the time needed to get done imaging meaning that it made it faster, cheaper and less cumbersome, increasing the number of requests for X ray imaging?

And if I'd have to wager anyone that dare speaking out would be labelled antifa, therefore a terrorist, therefore free for all from a law enforcement perspective...

Things are going downhill at an impressive pace... Not going to lie watching the Trainwreck in slow motion is entertaining in a sort of morbid way. Though I wished that it wouldn't go that way...

> When it comes to very complicated things, physics tends to fall down and we need to try non-physics modeling, and/or come up with non-physics abstraction.

"When things are complicated, if I just dream that it is not complicated and solve another problem than the one I have, I find a great solution!"

Joking apart, models that can help target potentially very interesting sub phase space much smaller than the original one, are incredibly useful, but fundamental understanding of the underlying principles, allowing to make very educated guesses on what can and cannot be ignored, usually wins against throwing everything at the wall...

And as you are pointing out, when the complex reality comes knocking in it usually is much much messier...

> I would prefer something that doesn't phone home and can work offline. Opensource firmware/software and repairability are important.

Bambulabs is out.

While I agree with you, not every channel is big and some of the smaller ones might rely partially on this in order to get materials/sponsorship in order to be able to have the parts to do some projects they make videos on because it is more a passion project and they might barely break even or even make losses on doing it.

The context that I am thinking about is, for example, a small hobbyist that might rely on the added value for making some odd things, requiring exotic hardware, quantities of materials that could be prohibitively expensive or the lend of access to said hardware might be blocked behind viewership metrics, and there this might make some difference, and I personally enjoy those little odd channels and this is why I, as a viewer, might care about it. But again, I totally see where you are coming from.

Zero days off, zero breaks, 7 days a week.

The worst part is that you're going to have someone unironically come with this.

The point is everything require maintenance, the degree at which it does require it depends on how dependent you are on it and how resilient the system itself is.

You are but going to fundamentally be in distress if solitaire and minesweeper is not running, if your monitoring SW for some important infrastructure starts to exhibit some issues, you might want to take a look or two...

Sure, but what tells you that I want to log into those work machines with my personal account?

I'm sad to see this for several reasons because I do not expect or want everyone up use a LLM to converse with me via mail, the whole point is to exchange information, with everyone using a LLM as output and input, now the whole thing becomes a game of telephone.

You do not need to build a spreadsheet visualiser tool there are plenty of options that exist and are free and open source.

I'm not against advances, I'm just really failing to see what problem was in need of solving here.

The only use I can get behind is the translation, which admittedly works relatively well with LLMs in general due to the nature of the work.

Well, actually I could see a use for this in specific context and use cases, for instance if you happen to have different dev environments you're able to just move from machine to machine while keeping all the bookmarks in the repository.

If you organise them you can even reference them from the codebase, or the documentation to avoid clutter. The format is simple and dumb enough so that a simple bookmark.txt can be converted into a dictionary, array that can be used in the program if some URLs are supposed to be used there.

It's not revolutionary by any means, but I have to confess that it didn't occur to me that's a great per repo documentation reference tool or per folder.

Almost never, in some cases you can but you need to be really in a nice and usually have access to the tooling for XYZ reasons. Then you would need to factor your labor cost, which is usually more than what would be billed normally in some cases...

Sounds like the typical know it all, drives the thing into the ground while not re questioning either the why or the how, then attempts to scapegoat the team and try to save their own skin.

Would you happen to have the links to all the docs? I feel like there might be done value at re-disseminating it, even if I am guessing most things are common sense, sometimes seeing things written down help to stop, reflect, and do better.

This feels to me like a very naive statement, you don't just learn something magically because it permeates, it's because of experience and number of failures or actually really playing with a system.

If you are always on crutches and need the AI companion all the steps of the way, you basically offload the most important part of the work which is the whole cognitive work.

That "senior skill" is the debugging of complex systems that often interconnects in unusual ways, why? Because this might be a one off this might not be well documented, or even the code might not really point at the issue because it might be a subtle interplay of hardware and software.

Even if you are smart, it doesn't solve the problem that people still have to learn, and institutional knowledge is more important at times, because this might not be documented or easy to figure out, even with the greatest AI companion...

Yes, but the default would be no tipping, I meant this was and is seen as completely optional and non required.

This is normally on top of any bonuses for performance that the employees would get and their living wage which is guaranteed.

Sorry for the delay, but yes, people have a tendency of rounding up if this is a possibility and it gets either charged to the person or put into a pot redistributed to everyone, depending on the local policy where everyone agrees beforehand.

This is normally on top of any bonuses for performance that the employees would get and their living wage which is guaranteed.

I have yet to see a single ad on either the menus on Ubuntu or in OSX. Care to elaborate on what you mean by that?