@SMetzeler Damn it... so is switzerland getting destroyed too? =(
I thought it was the most libertarian country in europe, when it comes to taxes and government size.
@rogeradolfsson Om det inte redan sker, borde regelbundna drogtester av poliser vara obligatoriskt. På så sätt kan man eliminera många tvivelaktiga element inom rörelsen. Samma sak gällande politiker.
@janiehowarthmqj Excellent! Let us hope that the EU will join the war soon, in full force, to finally crush Putin.
After that, the country will be divided up. Derka-derka-stan will go to china, while europe will take the urals and westwards.
Then, re-educatoin of the russian people will commence, and all will be well. =) ✝️ 🇺🇦 🇮🇱
This morning, the background wallpaper on my desktop was changed on my Apple MacBook Pro. All by itself.
After I download a video to an external HD, I notice it is still working. It's exchanging information. With whom?
I can't stand Apple and Windows. #Linux
@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?
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.
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.
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.