Wooster shire

A foot and a half of Subway sandwiches and two bottles of pop is $29 in my country

People running LLMs aren’t the target. People who use things like ChatGPT and CoPilot on low power PCs who may benefit from edge inference acceleration are. Every major LLM dreams of offloading compute on the end users. It saves them tons of money.

Intel sees the AI market as the way forward. NVIDIA’s AI business eclipses its graphics business by an order of magnitude now, and Intel wants in. They know that they rule the integrated graphics market, and can leverage that position to drive growth with things like edge processing for CoPilot.

2000: Big/Fat Pipe

2010: Web 2.0

It’s cultural!

Working on my first CIO level IT capability assessment and strategic improvement roadmap project. Woo IT organizational governance!

Why wouldn’t you use AI as a shortcut if you can? Can you actually replace senior devs with AI? I’m sure that depends on the company and what they consider a “senior dev”. Maybe there’s some not-so-senior senior devs that should be worried.

It isn’t. Nonprofits don’t have a ton of money, and implementing strong security controls takes money and time away from other activities. Small businesses have a lot of trouble for the same reason.

Good. There’s a lot of non-programmers who are now bad ones and are using AI to make their ideas real. It’s made programming way more accessible to people who would never learn before.

Sure, but how many foods are we talking here? This sounds like probably <20 rows on a sheet, with columns for ingredients.

Tracking a single cat doesn’t seem like DB work

Why wouldn’t a simple spreadsheet and some pivot tables work?

Propane, but I’m pretty sure natural gas uses regular NPT.

Putting more than 256MB of ram in a Windows XP machine. People think that the jump from HDD to SSD was big, but imagine Windows actively using the HDD as virtual memory. It would grind your PC to a halt. Going to 512MB made your computer feel like a Ferrari.

We’ve always been at war with Eurasia

S3 xplorer

Czech Republic A4, Czech Republic A5, Czech Republic A6…

Local files, s3 sync on a 5 minute scheduled task to a glacier flexible retrieval bucket with versioning. Then I have an s3 sync app on my phone to make it all work like dropbox.

Gary Bettman puts ketamine in the water bottles.