I tried the tinned stuff once and it was gaggingly bad. Not the nordic kind that will literally cause you and everyone in the room to vomit - but it really… was not good. And I’m adventurous when it comes to food. Plus the fish was cut across, not in fillets, so it had the spinal bones which were difficult to eat around.
Obviously that tin sucked. I’m just wondering if there is another kind I should look for specifically. That is until I get to visit Denmark.
I take it this is not available in a tin and must be purchased at some street cart vendor?
Did you even read my earlier comment?
I explicitly meant “as”. It’s great as autocomplete. Not as an agent to complete programming tasks.
Well, this kind of AI won’t ever be useful as a programmer. It doesn’t think. It doesn’t reason. It cannot make decisions besides using a ton of computational power and enormous deep neural networks to shit out a series of words that seem like they should follow your prompt. An LLM is just a really, really good next-word guesser.
So when you ask it to solve the Tower of Hanoi problem, great it can do that. Because it saw someone else’s answer. But if you ask it to solve it for a tower than is 20 disks high it will fail because no one ever talks about going that far and it flounders. It’s not actually reasoning to solve the problem - it’s regurgitating answers it has ingested from stolen internet conversations. It’s not even attempting to solve the general case because it’s not trying to solve the problem, it’s responding to your prompt.
That said - an LLM is also great as an interface to allow natural language and code as prompts for other tools. This is where the actually productive advancements will be made. Those tools are garbage today but they’ll certainly improve.
Is that an Animal Farm quote?
Hundreds? I think you mean tens of thousands. Microsoft products are expensive and their costs are embedded in everything.
Need a replacement workstation? Add an extra hundred for the unavoidable cost of Windows.
Office and Teams are an ongoing subscription fee that costs about $100 per employee.
Sharepoint licenses run over a thousand a year before you add in custom modules.
Microsoft’s Azure cloud host is now running most things like your company’s exchange server - so you pay for the Exchange service subscription AND the hosting costs.
The list goes on.
Oh I didn’t know Broadcom bought it. Screw them. Ansible does look like a direct replacement. I’ll have to check it out. As it is, I kind of hate Salt. They invent new terms for everything so its hard to make sense of how anything really works. “Yeah I want to monitor this one file on a system and do something if it changes” “ok well you need to program a salt pillar to do that.” “A what?”
Tell the IT guys about Salt Stack for administration of the computers. It’s not user friendly to set up but you could use it administrate ten thousand computers from a declarative script.
edit: Listen to the comment talking about Ansible. Avoid Broadcom products.
Bummed about the lack of vomiting statue of liberty. I feel like I’d get some solid use of that in these times.
Coffee with an absurd amount of sugar
Someone should make sure to take that snail’s keys before he leaves the bar.
Some FOSS projects are supported by having a for-profit company offer turnkey packaging and support for those projects. Look at TrueNAS. They sell nice NAS hardware preconfigured with their software and the profits support the development.
Those things aren’t as rugged as they imply. Go for a brief jaunt and skip a little while swinging it by the handle. It’ll turn into a laptop shaped projectile and leave a dent in both the ground and your wallet.
You missed the pokedex entries too!
Well, regular erasers can be made from plant based rubber. So no.
Yeah - just like those Magic Erasers. Block of 100% microplastics.
No. I’m both curious and repulsed.