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I work for a publicly traded company.

We couldn't switch away from Microsoft if we wanted to because integrating everything with Azure and O365 is the cheapest solution in the short term, ergo has the best quarterly ROI.

I don't think the shareholders give a rat's ass about data sovereignty if it means a lower profit forecast. It'd take legislative action for us to move away from an all-Azure stack.

And yes, that sucks big time. If Microsoft stops playing nice with the EU we're going to have to pivot most of our tech stack on a moment's notice.

It's not terribly exciting but I find myself using this a lot:

#!/bin/sh

echo "$*" | sed -e "s/x/*/g" | bc -l

Just a little shorthand for bc that allows me to write "x" instead of "*" to avoid shell expansion nonsense. I put it in ~/.local/bin/= so I can e.g. just write = 17+4x5. Combined with a Quake-style terminal this is much faster than launching a calculator app. It's a script instead of an alias so it works regardless of the shell I'm currently using.

The call to bc -l could be replaced with one to qalc -t if you know qalc to be present on the system .

I'm not sure. The body blocks the nacelles' line of sight so all you could do would be to give each wing its own warp bubble.

Also, of course, the Galaxy class wasn't in service by stardate 2259.55 – that's when Into Darkness is set so the best they could be escorted by is an upgunned Constitution class.

It's important to learn your definitions.

Aro ace: Aromantic, asexual.

Aero ace: Shot down five other planes in war while flying a plane.

Arrow ace: Acquired every skill known to man by spending five years on an abandoned island, most of which wasn't actually spent on the island.

Because JavaScript and its complete absence of a standard library is a horrible abomination that should've been put out of our misery years ago.

My brother decided that Bitcoin was likely to steadily increase in value (in the long term) and spent about a thousand bucks to buy three of 'em. Then he got hit with some surprise money trouble and had to liquidate, losing about a third of his investment.

He was not amused when BTC became an investment hype.

Full stack developer:

The lightbulb is broken. Deploys a lightweight fix that involves 17 metric tons of chandeliers, stadium floodlights, sconces, and the necessary infrastructure to operate the street lights for a city of 500.000. His solution delivers a solid 100 lm of light using only 175 MW of power.

There's a reason why oldschool X-Com players kept coming back to the games despite technical issues like the Groundhog Day bug. (Thank all applicable deities for OpenXcom solving those issues, though.)

Luckily, people research these things.

Apparently the Voyager crew used the Thermos Nissan Vacuum Insulated Espresso Mugs, models JMJ-180 (a smaller one used by various crew members) and JMJ-185 (a larger one favored by Janeway). Apparently these did come with a lid.

They're probably not pivoting but in FY2023 Azure made up 38% of their revenue, followed by Office 365 at 23%. That's a lot of cloud service revenue.

Is it sustainable? Honestly, it might. They sell a lot of stuff under the Azure umbrella and corporations lap that shit up. (Seriously; my employer is about ready to hire consultants to come up with additional eggs they can put in that particular basket.)

Here's my source; I couldn't be arsed to look it up in MSFT's statements directly.

There are models designed to read documents and provide summaries; that part is actually realistic. And transforming text (such as by providing a summary) if actually something LLMs are better at than the conversational question answering that's getting all the hype these days.

Of course stuffing an entire book in there is going to require a massive context length and would be damn expensive, especially if multiplied by 17. And I doubt it'd be done in a minute.

And there's still the hallucination issue, especially with everything then getting filtered through another LLM.

So that guy is full of shit but at least he managed to mention one reasonable capability of neural nets. Surely that must be because of the 30+ IQ points ChatGPT has added to his brain...

That's still not cheap when you account for inflation. Of course there's a world of difference between "not cheap" and what they charge these days.