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@troed Got it! Thank you very much for sharing, makes a lot of sense.
@joho The EU in general, and Sweden in particular, is heavily socialist. The entire idea is to suck people in the private sector dry, so that politician can earn millions on fake jobs, travel with private jet, get freedom from prosecution and other goodies.
Private persons are slaves in the EU, and the politicians the new nobility.
@icare4america I also thought about moving the rural US, but family commitments makes that not possible at the moment.
@icare4america Interesting. I often thought about relocating to Argentina myself. Great weather, small state, low taxes. However, the socialists are lurking in the shadows, and knowing the fickleness of south american politics, argentina could turn to socialism over night, and the Kirchners would be back in power.
So that uncertainty is too much for me.
My strategy is to hide in the least likely location, a socialist country, without registering myself in the country.
@troed What system maintenance tasks do you use them successfully for?
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You're doing AI wrong.
Visiting r/LocalLLaMa shows people cutting down model fidelity to get faster and faster inference (tokens per second of output).
You don't need the LLM to output data faster than you can read - because following the model's "thought"-process is how you stop an LLM from making time consuming mistakes (thus negating that high output speed) as well as keeping yourself both in-the-know of what's happening to your system & code, as well as you learning (!) things from the LLM.
A few weeks ago I started using a local LLM to not only aid in software development, but also system maintenance. While giving the LLM a task I also sit and "hand-hold" it like I would a junior. I go in and interrupt if I see that the thought process is going in the wrong direction, and I also learn from the investigations the LLM makes in areas I'm not familiar with myself.
The utility in "one-shotting" (as it's known) work with LLMs seems counter productive. If it generates something that works, you don't know how. If it generates something that doesn't work you've wasted time and resources.
The LLM is your very eager, and very junior, aid. Outsource repetitive and basic tasks, and work together with it on the things that are important.
I have no boss telling me I must use AI. I decide what I do and how I do it (for these projects, I have other ones at customers where I don't) - and I wouldn't use tools that don't have a net-positive contribution to my productivity.
Local LLMs do, at least for all tasks that have a very binary works/doesn't work completion control point.
Just don't treat them as knowledge databases. That they aren't. They're workers, like you, that need to produce and read guidelines, documentations and follow well-written plans.
@ChrisMayLA6 Very much true. It is a powerful weapon. One of my favourite examples is the calculation of how much the social security taxes of a worker would be worth, if, instead of going into the governments coffers, it was invested over a lifetime at 7% in the stock market. It would be a significant chunk at the end of a working life.
@ChrisMayLA6 Oh... and I'd add compound interest to your price of risk.
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I was asked today what I thought was the one bit of economic knowledge anyone should know..... and I said this:
'interest is the price of risk'!
so if a higher interest rate is being changed there is more risk of non-repayment.
If you know this, you can recognise why some people are charged more for loans & why some 'investments' are offered with higher interest rates.
This simple piece of knowledge helps make sense of loans & investments.... and is a useful scam warning
@ChrisMayLA6 Add to that investing! Companies with high dividend payouts also signal higher risk, than companies with lower payouts that have remained stable over time.
When I was young, I was burned by this, so these days I try to limit myself at maximum 4%-5%, given a reasonable payout ratio, and no storm clouds on the horizon.
I'd say that 2%-3% is probably a sounder figure.
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Girls and women have been abused by systemically luring them away from their natural destiny to become mothers. Luckily, some rediscover their vocation through exposure to the miracle of life women are able to give.
Today I tried navidrome to setup your own self-hosted music streaming solution and it was absolutely awesome!
Extremely easy to install, looks great, and worked without a hitch from both android and iphone.
So if you want a nice, self-hosted music streaming solution, I highly recommend it!
Europe is increasing surveillance, Canada, and what do I spy (pun intended!)... Japan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8ScKq952wM
They do have a slightly unique twist... it is not "the chiiiiiildren" but foreign information warfare.
Japan's new intelligence bureau to tackle information warfare.
@Dan_Ramos Old news. IT has been tribal for a long time. A manager leaves, and in the coming months, he hires over his old team to his new company. He moves on, and a few months later, the moving train starts.
In my little corner of the IT market, there has always been little tribes surrounding senior manager and they roam from company to company,
@Dan_Ramos The idea here is that multiple companies offer search based on google, that will become better than google, as google deteriorates.
I would suspect that google would heavily renegotiate their prices, terms and conditions, if it turns out that some of them, basing their search indexes on multiple other (google, microsoft etc.) end up attracting more search users than google themselves.
@rmxnews Deport them. Next!
@lifewithtrees I use the term mentally ill or homo. I find that it better describes these types of people.
@mayintoronto Don't remember, ages ago.
I stay because it is somewhat uncensored, and it is also not boring. Mainstream media and platforms are so censored and boring, they make me (and Jesus!) cry.
@freepatriot You must not sit and wait. As libertarians and individualists, we are all responsible for our own lives, and we must work every day to improve them. As a result, the lives of everyone is improved, since we realized that by acting on free markets, everones life is made better.
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Okay, Last one for the night. I found this lovely book at Five Below yesterday. Should be one in every home. Book, inside cover and table of contents. Everything you should need.
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