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I wonder how stable those libraries mentioned are, and how much RAM is needed, because I cannot run LLMs at all on my Pis.

For the fourth or fifth time now, I've made it through an interview gauntlet (this time for a well-known, largely remote company) and got the dreaded "the team was looking for some…

I'm pushing 50 (although I don't look or act like it) and I am trying to get out of the consulting/sales rat race and back into actual engineering after a long stint working with e…

You aren't at a subsidiary, obviously. As the tide shifts to pushing Azure, the sales people are going ballistic and circle customers like sharks, with insane targets. I joined a s…

macOS runs a BSD-like userland atop a Mach kernel. It's not Linux, but it is a damn sight more field-tested and reliable than the Windows kernel... I'm actually surprised at the qu…

Some of the Mac people I follow seem to be begging Apple to build a PC-like box: - https://chuqui.com/2016/10/how-apple-could-have-avoided-much... - http://taoofmac.com/space/blog/…

Marco does iOS development, and there are a number of features that simply won't run on a Hackintosh. Anything involving crypto is dicey, and stuff that relies on (for instance) ha…

Believe me, it's not. Even when the userland gets updated to 16.04, it's still heavily dependent on the Windows kernel, and the networking stack (for example) will not be the same.…

I've been bombarded with recruiter contacts for a number of positions lately, and I'd like to poll the hivemind about whether or not these are standard fare in Europe: - Not tellin…

Went ahead and downloaded Xamarin Studio for the Mac. Still has an "Enterprise Trial" button, and apparently I still have to login to activate it. It annoys me to no end that I hav…