The US parking an aircraft carrier nearby so the crew can enjoy a sunny vacation.

Or meddling with elections.

Or both.

On hardware: it's because Windows has a stable kernel ABI and makes it very simple for hardware vendors to write proprietary drivers. Linux kind of forces everybody to upstream their device drivers, which is good and bad at the same time - DKMS is something relatively new.

But yeah, the NT kernel is very nice, the problem with Windows is the userland.

OpenRouter makes it easy to use them, just add credits to your account.

I thought this was common knowledge to anyone looking to use an inference API, but it seems it isn't. Well, even AWS is in this business with Bedrock.

Employee does not trust the company having access to everything else in their personal iCloud account - photos, mails, messages, calendar, reminders, etc.

Employee registers a new Apple ID with company email, as it would be only used for downloading one single app.

Any computer that you can upgrade its parts? SSD, RAM, Wifi cards, etc.

The only parts that wear out on a modern laptop are the SSD and the battery. If I replace those, I can use it basically indefinitely, paying the penalty on performance and energy consumption depending on how old the CPU is.

Why would I throw out (or recycle) a perfectly good computer if I could simply fix or upgrade it? If you're not reusing it, then you could pass it down to somebody who would use it.

20+ year old computers are e-waste at this point thanks to software bloating and lack of hardware acceleration for at least h.264.

15 year old computers are very usable, but unfortunately most use SATA for storage which is definitely not optimal for SSDs.

10 year old computers are from when PC tech plateaued, for most use cases the difference in performance is imperceptible, and maybe you lose power efficiency.

Should have spent the money on a MacBook Pro with a real GPU, I would have used that computer way longer than I had.

Tell children they can't do X, some will find ways around it, tell their friends the workaround and maybe even get a profession out of it. Who knows, maybe one kid will find a text editor and a compiler laying around somewhere...

Fuck, I even tried to learn Russian by myself just to understand those old hacking forums. At least I got proficient in Cyrillic. I don't have children, but definitely I'd direct them to learn reading Chinese.

Companies install so many invasive shit in the name of security theater and employee control that there is lots of waste going on.

If you direct it to do a specific task to find memory and cpu optimization points, based on perf metrics, then it’s a completely different world.

If flying then you can bring up to 1000 USD of stuff tax-free every 30 days. On top of a personal phone and watch. Plus 1000 USD of stuff you can purchase at the duty-free shop once you land.

But as the solo meat-eater human in my apartment, I ended up buying a gas-canister camping grill to barbecue steaks on my terrace on weekends and then I reheat the rare steaks through the week in the microwave. They get the Maillard reaction and flavor, they get to the correct doneness point when blasted with RF later on.

Cats get happy with the barbecuing, I also grill mushrooms and tofu for my wife and it’s very easy to clean afterwards.

Learned a lot on how it works, to the point I’m confident that I can go the DIY route and spend my money in AliExpress buying components instead.

Why not ask a pro solar panel installer instead? I live in an apartment, of course they would say it’s not possible to place a solar panel on my terrace. I don’t believe in things not being possible.

But I had two semesters of electronics/robotics in my CS undergrad and I know to not to trust the LLM blindly and verify.

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A few of the best technical presentations that I've watched were at a pre-SKO event. Nitro, Graviton and Firecracker.

Great engineering pieces, the three of them.

That's why I'm of the opinion that for senior developers/architects, these coding agents are awesome tools.

For a junior developer? Unless they are of the curious type and develop the systems-level understanding on their own... I'd say there's a big chance the machine is going to replace their job.

Now they can be promoted from junior coders into mid-level coders :)