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by cryo32 5mo ago
The "revolving door" spoken of here isn't quite as simple as it looks. Granted there are problems at "senior government level" but that is rare . I worked for UK government for a few years. Then I went to the priva
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by cryo32 5mo ago
Or invest in public transport instead
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by cryo32 5mo ago
Until your machine goes into a coma when you close the lid. On mainstream Ubuntu. This shit still happens today.
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by cryo32 5mo ago
30 years of Linux here. Windows issues are easier to fix as they are usually consistently broken and well documented due to the huge user ase.
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by cryo32 5mo ago
Not tried it. I have a fairly heavily locked down Windows 10 LTSC build.
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by cryo32 5mo ago
Gnome, KDE, XFCE, Cinnamon, Cosmic, i3, Enlightenment. Been trying for 30 years.
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by cryo32 5mo ago
Yeah same but I'm out of options. I don't like Linux on the desktop but I like Windows' privacy stance and use-hostile behaviour less. My Mac isn't much better. What I really hate is being forced into this corner. Inst
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by cryo32 5mo ago
No. Management are wiping out entry-level jobs and blaming it on AI. There is a massive market contraction and the people who add least value to a business and have training or learning overheads are on the chopping block to cut costs.
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by cryo32 5mo ago
The people buying them genuinely don’t know what good is.
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by cryo32 5mo ago
From our perspective I'm not sure the cloud abstraction is better or we even want it to be done like that locally. Look at S3 as an API for example. It's absolutely dire. I'd rather use NFS (!). And stuff like Lambda and Clou
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by cryo32 5mo ago
Seeing and hearing the same. When our giant private equity owners are even pushing us down the on-prem route. I’m hearing it from “normal” people too which is actually quite weird. To the point of going back to paper for some stuff.
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by cryo32 5mo ago
Chipping in here. There's a lot of speculation on this subject matter, all of which entirely wrong. Technical concerns aside, the main risk is financial. Success is based on the premise that we need this enough that the costs are justi
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by cryo32 5mo ago
Perhaps surprisingly, we already do this in the UK. Public-facing side of the security services are all over it.
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by cryo32 5mo ago
Brilliant. Yeah there were a few of us back in the day! Had an A440 then a RiscPC 700 here. Hard disk made all the difference even if it was only a 40MB one! There's a nice emulator here, a WebAssembly RiscPC one. Works quite well: ht
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by cryo32 5mo ago
I have been. I've got enough material from this place to outdo Scott Adams.
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by cryo32 5mo ago
Yep even the later ones. I used to sit in front of a Solaris CDE desktop locked in a basement. Made me want to slit my wrists. The colour scheme, how it worked, the peformance. All horrible. I used RISC OS at home. Was wonderful to come bac
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by cryo32 5mo ago
Seen this a few months back. One of our "analysts" threw together a bunch of nonsensical shit and tried to pitch it as a product change to our management team. It was a powerpoint full of charts that made no sense populated by dat
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by cryo32 5mo ago
Think that was just to make the parser understand it was an assignment without having to do any lookahead. There was also possibly ambiguous stuff with equality and assingment as they both used =.
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by cryo32 5mo ago
I think no AI needs to be the norm. Even if we have enough RAM to run it locally, the dependency stack we have on hardware, training and geopolitics is too much of a risk to take on. If something breaks, like supply chain, or the model is f
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by cryo32 5mo ago
It'd still suck compared to a completely boring process you can just run on your desktop by ./'ing the executable and looking at the console output. Then chuck it in kubernetes as a ReplicaSet.
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by cryo32 5mo ago
You do but you can actually negotiate discounts with AWS when you get to Direct Connect level. It's only cheaper than the other options. It's never acceptable. This is why we're slowly and quietly moving back to a couple of c
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by cryo32 5mo ago
Been through all that. I just use a shitty Cherry Stream TKL in the end. Costs virtually nothing, doesn't screw up the hands like the mechanical ones all do and doesn't make my partner want to kill me.
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by cryo32 5mo ago
Wrote a Forth VM in C in about 1996 based on TCJ articles by Brag Rodriguez. Managed to get it to compile with modern GCC this morning and fix all the horrible issues with valgrind. Trying to adapt it to a context where it'll be usable
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by cryo32 5mo ago
Nope. We have an incredibly complicated product, a bunch of actual experts and paid up high level enterprise support. It is about 8x more expensive to run it on AWS than it was on actual hardware. And that's using their reference archi
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by cryo32 5mo ago
If you have a lot of data it's cheaper to lease a Direct Connect line into an AWS zone and suck it out through that.
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by cryo32 5mo ago
Yeah same. HP42s. I keep buying them in case they break. Think I have about 5 now. None of them have broken.
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by cryo32 5mo ago
Have played that end to end. It's a dystopian hell hole.
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by cryo32 5mo ago
Mathematican here. Writing software because it pays better.
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by cryo32 5mo ago
I must admit I'm rather enjoying this particular form of shit show, mostly because it was a predication I made in 2023 in the early days of LLMs. It wasn't really a problem related to LLMs but a glaring hole in the thinking of cur
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by cryo32 5mo ago
Yeah I can and I do run Firefox on the M4 Pro. It's almost indistinguishable on most tasks when there's an ad blocker running surprisingly.

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