Posts by Groo The Wanderer - A Canuck 1324 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Dec 2024
There is surprisingly little worthwhile content on this page. Most of it is more bloody American idiots screaming back and forth about Trump, the Republicans, and the Democrats.
Piss off! Pollute your OWN media BACK HOME. You guys say you don't like immigrants, and you look like bloody foreigners talking about AMERICAN politics on a UK site...
I have to agree - my best jobs and my best experiences were with small companies where I knew, liked, and got along with the owners and managers of same. To be honest, interpersonal flareups were rare at all of the places I worked over the years, though I often heard tales of staff and contractors of the past who caused "issues".
Still, on the surface, it is an idea that always makes sense at the time, usually after a period where things were "distributed among the departments so they can more efficiently control their own purchasing." And after 5-10 years of consolidated purchasing, it will swing back the other way. It's been doing that here in Saskatchewan for going on 50 years...
I never bought into the "voice assistant" hype the first place. I'd disable the fool thing completely on my phone if I could, or uninstall it. Doing any kind of decent audio processing can certainly be done locally by cell phone hardware, but only by consuming virtually all the CPU and GPU and inference accelerators in the device and maxing out battery usage while doing so.
LLMs are just a poor power/compute efficiency solution for 98% of the things it is being used for - way too many watts burned for far too little useful output. I'd guess LLM "efficiency" compared to hand-written solutions to complex problems to be down in around the 10-25% level at best (gut feel), with 75% or more being overhead for the ineffeciency of the approach.
The reality in the '90s and early '00s was that the network admin would schedule the updates and you were to always leave your machine up and running the night an update push was scheduled; you'd get an email about it a day or few earlier.
At least in some of the better organized companies I had the pleasure of working for at the time.
I'm sure the Debian 12 core under LMDE 6 has had some issues fixed with the updates over time, but they come steadily and as soon as they're ready, not "once a month and just pray that you don't get hit by a zero day in the meantime."
No regrets about abandoning the Microsoft treadmill at all...
Plus I don't have to put up with the infestation of fake "AI" in everything.
Do it - get rid of the dependency on the Nazis in the Oval Office. They've already let hundreds of Ukrainians be murdered since they started withholding intelligence data about Russia.
Hit Musk's wallet any and every way you can. Enough of that South African Nazi buying elections for right wing parties and racists.
As to them both - impeachment and prosecution for violating the oath to defend the Constitution and interference with the vote are already long overdue. They're just lucky they aren't military, or it would be firing squad time when the courts are done with them.
It has been over a decade since I've been annoyed by popups or audible ads. I've bandwidth to spare nowadays compared to the old modem or DSL days, so I just don't bother with blocking.
I actually find it quite amusing that people still go to such extreme measures and get so upset because there are ads; tech pages have few ads. Stop surfing PornHub and maybe you won't have those problems...
