Comment Re:shameful clickbait (Score 0) 140
ok so then why haven't we seen stories about other stuff that REALLY REALLY matters here, like the withdrawal of funding for Jodrell Bank Observatory, or the death of Gunther von Hagens ??
Comment shameful clickbait (Score 3, Insightful) 140
story has absolutely nothing to do with 'news for nerds', but editors know it's going to generate lots of vitriol and clicks.
shameful shit.
Comment fuck you google (Score 1) 70
not content with stealing my data, now you're going to lure me with your amazing navigation and give me Alzheimers???
Comment Re:RC7 left me without a functional screen (Score 2) 65
I, too, often say to myself "bit rusty on the old command line, maybe I should hand roll an unreleased kernel".
Comment Re:Lost me at "Flatpak" (Score 1) 80
Yeah same. My first linux was Mandrake and all I can remember is chasing down random rpm's to get something working.
I haven't experienced any dependency hell since switching to pacman, although yeah APT is a pretty close second.
Comment Re:Illiberals attacking liberty (Score 2) 59
ok, now imagine your kid was taking part in a clinical trial and ended up dying in pain and some guys made a ton of money out of it.
still fine ?
Comment Re:As we are in yet another 5+ hour GitHub outage. (Score 1) 42
Comment Re:Proton (Score 1) 84
The compatibility layers you mention are functional workarounds to run an application on an OS for which it has no native release.
This article is about a carefully considered standard that lets anyone anywhere open a document on any device running any application. The story here is that the monopoly incumbent chose to shit all over that standard just cos, so I feel like you missed the point a little bit.
Comment Re: Local AI is the way to go (Score 1) 87
I'm not sure what the value proposition is of fortelezaai, seems like they just strung a bunch of containers together, probably made a nice admin UI, but starting at $3k/mo ?! You must be kidding.
data sovereignty is a big issue where I work and I just set up something similar with vllm, but honestly the hardest part was compute for inference which these guys totally gloss over.
Comment Re:How old is the author ? (Score 1) 105
I don't think there was ever 'mutual trust'. In the 50s/60s it was just the done thing to stay in one place and work your way up. If you put the internet in front of any of those guys and they discovered you could get more money for the same work in Alabama, or be a digital nomad in Bali, I'm certain they would have done so. The 'mutual trust' in your mind that has been broken smells more like "I'm sad because we invested in staff and they decided they don't want to work for our company for the rest of their life in small town America". In other words - quite a long way behind the times.
Comment Re:How old is the author ? (Score 1) 105
...a few months after that she gleefully announced she was leaving the company for a better opportunity out in the oil industry. She was surprised that we were anything but happy about it...
that's a really tough one. There's a pithy phrase which I like:
What if we train them and they leave? What if we don't and they stay?
but as always other people have life events, relationships, ambitions, etc etc which mean you don't get the quid pro quo. Particularly hard for small-medium businesses.
Comment Re: So what happened (Score 4, Insightful) 81
If I have a car and I park it on a hill, and I don't set the handbrake and turn the wheels towards the curb, and then it rolls down the hill causing mayhem and destruction, I am held responsible.
Yes and following your analogy, you'd also have billions of dollars in VC money and a Time magazine cover for having a car that is Very Good at rolling downhill.
Comment Re:Great news (Score 1) 92
aw you even made a little link, that's so cute.
here's a few other ones you should check out:
- Nuance - a subtle difference or distinction in expression or meaning
- Semantics - the study of meaning, changes in meaning, and the principles that govern the relationship between sentences or words and their meanings
- Colloquial - characteristic of conversational idiom where words have connotation that go beyond what some turd on the internet links to and thinks they're an edgelord
- Edgelord - a redundant and pointless idiot on slashdot whose only contribution to a discussion is nitpicking meanings of words from online dictionaries to make themselves feel better presumably since their life is empty and pointless
Comment so long (Score 1) 38
I'm finding with claude now I have to run at least 4 or 5 parallel sessions, so that the gigantic overhead on getting any fucking small thing done is masked.
it defaulted to opus 5 today, and after going round in circles, asking unnecessary questions, asking me if I really want to deploy after I'd 'shouted' at it 5 times in a row to just get it done, it took nearly 2 hours to deploy a custom page for sleeping fargate tenants. It's absolutely excruciating, and when I complain it says I need to adjust thinking or effort or one of the other 25 nebulous and impossible to understand configurations. What a joke.