Am not sure I get the analogy. Most people don’t like politicians and I’m pretty sure politicians are only pretending to like their constituents.

And here I am, I bought DDR5 in November and now I’ve got a billion dollars of assets. All from hard work.

Come work on IT projects in government. There’s a contractor stand-down period for like 3 weeks over Christmas so even if you work there’s almost no one around (yes the government said they would cut down on use of contractors, they said a lot of things).

You might not get the public holidays at the same as others but you’re still entitled to them taken in lieu!

Haha here the legal minimum is 4 weeks plus 12 more paid public holidays on top.

In New Zealand if you have an office job there’s a decent chance you’re not even allowed to work for at least a week, often two, sometimes three over the Christmas/New Year period.

The days between Christmas and 2 January are not even considered working days when calculating working days in contracts.

Not necessarily more expensive items. Just that the highest bidder can have the LLM selector prioritise their products when helping customers. A subtle and hidden form of advertising.

You linked with a time stamp at the end lol, the video started played from the end.

Can I argue (perhaps as devil’s advocate) that a popularity contest isn’t the problem?

The Prime Minister’s job isn’t (or perhaps shouldn’t be) to make hard decisions (unlike perhaps the US president), it’s to lead their party and the country. Their job is to show up to meetings with the heads of other countries and make us sound good and look good on the world stage. Exactly the kind of person they are saying makes a bad leader. The prime minister has a cabinet and access to experts for making decisions as a government.

Plato’s idea of having a group of scholars lead the country is dumb. Sooner or later that will become a form of dictatorship, and in all likelihood that group will get dumber over time.

Perhaps the problem is there’s no requirement to have expert advice on decisions, or perhaps the lack of transparency in that advice (though there are obviously reasons some things may need to be kept secret). Perhaps we need to require qualifications and experience for certain advisors to the government, some sort of requirements for evidence supporting the advice, and some level of scrutiny over the advice and whether the government followed it. A government that never follows advice must surely (🥺) lose popularity, and a government that follows expert advice over half the time must surely perform better than existing governments…

Yip. Mods are different to admins, who run the instance. Admins can ban you from an instance which means you can’t participate in any communities on their instance.

If your own instance admins ban you, that’s the kind of ban that will stop you being able to log in to your account.

Communities, generally, are user created and run by the user that created it and any others they appoint as mods. Banned from community just means the mods don’t want you to participate in their community.

You can still participate in any other communities.

That was a great read, thanks for sharing!

The blog article you link I think implies you do not have your own VM. LLMs are stateless, the previous conversation is fed in as part of the prompt.

You send your message, which is E2E encrypted. The LLM runs in an environment where it can decrypt your message and run in through the LLM, then send a response to you. Then it gets the next user’s message and replies to them.

The key part is that the LLM is running inside an encrypted environment not accessible to the host system, so no one can watch as it decrypts your message.

That’s what I get from reading your links.

That’s pretty cool, hopefully we get some good comparison sites pop up.

One thing we saw with broadband packages is we had comparison sites, then all the companies made each plan slightly different so you could never directly compare. It sounds like it’s pretty similar in the power space if there are 15,000 different plans.

I like to do this too. I really want to fix it today but often I find if I come back tomorrow I’ll have more success. And I wouldn’t miss dinner with the family to do it.

Unless it was a server that others rely on (of which I have two currently), where I would do my best to get it back up and running, if there is no real impact to not doing it now then it can wait.

The agent is not going to go out of their way to find issues, so they probably didn’t know. The owners are supposed to declare it, though, the agent would have asked about any known things.

If the owners didn’t do rhe change they might not have even known it wasn’t consented. We tend to overestimate people’s knowledge in such things but for most people they only learn about issues when they come up against it for some reason (insurance, selling, etc).

MariaDB is a drop in replacement for MySQL. If it needs a MySQL database, you can safely use MariaDB instead.

If you are building a new application, use Postgres. If you are running an existing application and it needs MySQL, use MariaDB.

Someone I know had a house sale fall through because they couldn’t get insurance due to what was effectively an unconsented granny flat.

I’m both intrigued whether insurance will continue to be a problem and curious if buildings built prior to this change will retroactively be exempt.

If big tech are the issue, then try this robots.txt (yes on github…): https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt

My issue is with the scrapers pretending to be something they aren’t. Tens of thousands of requests, spread over IPs, mostly from China and Singapore but increasingly from South America.

It’s paywalled for me so here’s an archived version: https://archive.ph/2KTPa

Well if you do, contribute it to home assistant and I’ll install it 😆, it’s actually a little surprising conversions aren’t supported natively but I guess there is a lot to cover and they will get there eventually.