I have my local LLM currently setup and it runs just as well as Sonnet 4.6 from a quality standpoint, and for performance it is slightly slower but it’s still faster than I can respond.
This is with a Strix Halo APU with 128GB unified memory using the latest Qwen3.6 models with llama.cpp.
Ukraine is doing a ceasefire May 5 & 6 and Russia is doing a ceasefire May 8 & 9.
May 7th would be a good day to call in sick.
That how I feel… but I only ever talk about it to a very small number of people. No one needs to know my shit.
Those are operating costs, I’m referring to control of the board of directors.
Market cap is around $141 billion.
Number of employees is around 60,000.
60% of employees: 36,000.
60% of market cap: $84 billion.
$84B / 36,000 = $2.33 million.
I did some ‘back of the napkin’ math a few days ago to see what it would take for the employees in my company to purchase enough shares for a controlling stake in the company. I figured that we’d never get 100% of the employees to buy in, but we also don’t need 100% of the shares, so to keep it easy I calculated if 60% bought 60% of the shares… and it would cost each employee around $2.3 million.
That tells me that each employee provides $2.3 million worth of value to the company… and we’re not getting paid anywhere near that. Not even close.
When I left one of my prior jobs I wrote up several very cathartic resignation letters… it was good to get it out of my system before doing a proper and professional resignation letter. I’m glad I did because the tech community in this area is very tight and you end up bumping into a lot of the same people over the years.
“ones”? That would seem to imply you did it more than once.
My cousin gave me a gallon bag of the stuff once… it was all he had left and he just wanted to be done with it. I packed a bowl in my bong and had a huge hit. It last about 10 minutes and I saw some pretty fun stuff (stuffed animals getting up and dancing), but the overall experience was not fun. I handed the rest of the gallon bag off to a friend. That was over 20 years ago and I’m pretty sure that same bag is probably still being passed around.
*James
James Cameron is an incredible film making technologist. His accomplishments in film will not be remembered for the stories but will be remembered for the technology that he developed and how he pushed the envelope. I wouldn’t go so far as saying that he doesn’t care about the story and getting the details all right… but I will say that creating the best looking version of his vision is his #1 priority.
That’s what FOSS is all about… the steady march to perfection.
While commercial applications must enshittify themselves in order to survive, open source is mostly immune. It isn’t fast, but it is inevitable that an open source product will eclipse the commercial one.
And this is why iOS gets progressive web apps from me. It isn’t that I can’t afford $100, it’s more fuck Apple for demanding tribute from my work.
What I’ve been seeing is the opposite: companies are replacing most senior devs with junior prompters. At least 3 places where I have friends working have let go several of their more expensive senior developers and replaced them with cheaper junior developers who can use AI.
Horrible for all involved.
I’ve been the boss in this situation, and it sucks.
And a year later I was there with HR and my boss.
And a year later my boss was there with HR and his boss.
Fuck HR.
It doesn’t have to be unhealthy. They do have salads and grilled chicken, and even grilled chicken salads. Of course, the healthy items are quite a bit more expensive than the unhealthy items ($3 for large fries vs $4.20 for kale salad).
I’d go with the DSL option before paying Comcast anything. I swore I’d never use them again in 2004 and every place I’ve moved since one of my requirements is an ISP that isn’t Comcast. When I moved into my house I found the Comcast cable buried in my back yard and chopped it. Fuck em!
God only asks for 10%… shows you what Apple thinks of themselves.
It was successful for Radiohead and Oasis, I’m sure the storks are just looking for a quick payday.
Still no way I could afford to see them.
It works in Europe too. It uses LoRa (A Long Range radio protocol) to be able to send messages out to other nodes, which can bounce them out to further nodes. A node can be configured to relay through the Internet to reach people in other areas.
I ordered the radio shown below from a kit on Amazon (it’s a Heltec v4 and came with a battery that isn’t pictured) and it took about 5 minutes to setup. Attaching the antenna to the board was the hardest part.
Uh, I’ve got some bad news for you …