The last time I maintained my own windows dev and reverse engineering box was Win 98 with the Borland C++ compiler and SoftICE resident debugger. Also did some casual gaming and had a nice 5.1 surround audio setup.
Rebuilds were an absolute trial. I had a specific order of drivers, packages and so on that had to be followed to avoid an unusable system.
I also used to do on call PC engineer work for a medium sized employment agent corporation. Network drivers and printer driver installers world conflict and fuck up systems. Training machines needed hardware dongles which cost 1000s and we're horribly unreliable. In short it was a massive pain in the dick.
Against this backdrop I started mucking about with a SuSE 5 cd I got off a magazine cover. It was also a pain in many ways (xf86config anyone?), but it was a breath of fresh air compared to Windows because with a little persistence it could always be figured out. Nothing hidden. Nothing proprietary.
I am truly astonished at how windows has continued to be as bad as ever, and equally amazed at how good the Linux desktop experience has become.
Over the years, corporate work helped me understand how quality slips and repairing the culture to improve that is borderline impossible. I see little hope for windows ever getting better. Microsoft have enough money to last for many years, but they long ago traded what technical soul they had for MBA wank.
Linux treads a tightrope - there's a lot of corporate pressure - both helpful and a hindrance. Keep supporting the fringe - diversity is our best guard against the darkness!
I'm a pretty staunch skeptic about AIs utility - I think the executive class bought into the hype and were seduced by the prospect of big waves of delicious redundancies with the attendant stock boosts, without ever actually bothering to find out if it works.
That said the article refers to that MIT study that is quite dated, and (like many) somewhat mis-characterize its findings.
For anyone who's tried to solve linguistic processing tasks with traditional methods (or even tried to write a text adventure!), it's clear there's huge potential of LLMs for /something/, but the idea that there's a way to pay for the operating costs and absurd levels of investment that has already happened is laughable.
I use btop on my personal systems and like it a lot.. Have not tried it on large scale heavily loaded production machines -would want to evaluate resource usage first.
The last time I maintained my own windows dev and reverse engineering box was Win 98 with the Borland C++ compiler and SoftICE resident debugger. Also did some casual gaming and had a nice 5.1 surround audio setup.
Rebuilds were an absolute trial. I had a specific order of drivers, packages and so on that had to be followed to avoid an unusable system.
I also used to do on call PC engineer work for a medium sized employment agent corporation. Network drivers and printer driver installers world conflict and fuck up systems. Training machines needed hardware dongles which cost 1000s and we're horribly unreliable. In short it was a massive pain in the dick.
Against this backdrop I started mucking about with a SuSE 5 cd I got off a magazine cover. It was also a pain in many ways (xf86config anyone?), but it was a breath of fresh air compared to Windows because with a little persistence it could always be figured out. Nothing hidden. Nothing proprietary.
I am truly astonished at how windows has continued to be as bad as ever, and equally amazed at how good the Linux desktop experience has become.
Over the years, corporate work helped me understand how quality slips and repairing the culture to improve that is borderline impossible. I see little hope for windows ever getting better. Microsoft have enough money to last for many years, but they long ago traded what technical soul they had for MBA wank.
Linux treads a tightrope - there's a lot of corporate pressure - both helpful and a hindrance. Keep supporting the fringe - diversity is our best guard against the darkness!
Those must be them defensive bombs that only fall on people who are attacking you.
Hans? Are we the baddies?
As a 51 year old you'd think I'd be worried about a stock crash wiping out my pension, but the joke's on then - I could never afford a pension.
Please excuse the ignorance of a non-American, but what the fuck is a national prayer breakfast?
It would not surprise me if this inspired systematic vandalism of these devices. Not that I would ever advocate for such a thing.
Hoodwinked by the monorail guy.
I'm a pretty staunch skeptic about AIs utility - I think the executive class bought into the hype and were seduced by the prospect of big waves of delicious redundancies with the attendant stock boosts, without ever actually bothering to find out if it works.
That said the article refers to that MIT study that is quite dated, and (like many) somewhat mis-characterize its findings.
For anyone who's tried to solve linguistic processing tasks with traditional methods (or even tried to write a text adventure!), it's clear there's huge potential of LLMs for /something/, but the idea that there's a way to pay for the operating costs and absurd levels of investment that has already happened is laughable.
Why is that picture of an almost new slipper? No duct tape ?!
My age
I was wondering the same
$3000 a month per room, excluding bills.
I for certain of 5 pubs that exist but are not on that map.
I use btop on my personal systems and like it a lot.. Have not tried it on large scale heavily loaded production machines -would want to evaluate resource usage first.
The screenshot is http I think. I came to the comments to suggest btop, but was beaten to it. ❤️
Stock market manipulation. Look at who moved in to make big trades after the market plunged. Follow the money.
roll for save vs. asteroid on a D30...
Balls.