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it's not interesting as a standalone question indeed. The question is, what do you enable by having a private chef?

Is it the fact that you don't want to spend the time cooking? or is it cooking plus shopping plus cleaning up after?

Or is it counting the time to take cooking lessons? and including the cost of taking the bus to those cooking lessons?

Does the private chef even use your house, or their own kitchen? Or can you get a smaller house without a kitchen alltogether? Especially at the rate of kitchen improvement, where kitchens don't last 20 years anymore, you're gonna need a new kitchen every 5 years. (granted the analogy is starting to fail here, but you get my point)

Big companies have been terrible at managing costs and attributing value. At least with cloud the costs are somewhat clear. Also, finding staff that is skilled is a considerable expense for businesses with a more than a few pieces of code, and takes time, you can't just get them on a whim and get rid of them.

claude and mistral seem to be in a good ethical place.

You actually can't fault llama either, as a standalone product. However it's still in Zuck Paradise

365 is not taking off. Numbers are average at best. Most companies now pay 20/user/month extra, and whilst the sentiment is that it likely kina is somehow worth it, nobody claims it would be better than break even. Many users are deeply disappointed with the overpromising in powerpoint and excel. Sure it's quite useful in outlook and the assistant is great to find files in scattered sharepoints, but that's the limit of my value with it.

OpenAI copilot, not microsoft copilot, actually looks like a stronger product and they're going full force after the enterprise market as we speak. We're setting a demo in motion with them next month to give it a go.

We'll have to wait for the first one to crack Powerpoint, that'll be the gamechanger.

You fail to grasp the value of bloomberg terminal.

The UI has in fact, evolved, but it has never changed. For example, higher DPI screen sizes, the UI is now instrumented in a web browser, no longer the the old TUI. It is fast, it is familiar, it's the same, but it evolves, if that makes sense.

If you know how to use it in company A in decade 1980, you know how to use it in company B today. That doesn't mean it hasn't improved or improved ergonomics.

It's a beautiful piece of engineering that got the basics right. Power users add whatever they need to it, modular, but it's not like Vim or VSCode where you are basically useless without a large effort when moving into a blank new updated version, let alone things like the ribbon design vs the old design in office.

big companies care more about how easy it is to automate the labels, the accounting, the scheduling, ... Saving 2 euro per delivery but requiring a few hour of human effort is typically not worth it

same here.

I guess it's Microsoft slowly making it cater to their enterprise clients

I have literally switched to a lower paying job because of IT issues at a previous firm. The extra headaches was not worth it to me. It doesn't help IT was full of Microsoft fanboys over there who saw Macs as a nuisance and did barely any testing on them of their updates

A work managed mac without a sort of helpdesk that can help you fix an update issue of approved software is equally unserious.

I have never had sudo on a work managed device, but always had a phone number to call for exactly these types of issues. Explain the problem, point them to the fix. They look it up internally, call me back half an hour later, take over the machine and perform the procedure.

Is it frictionless? No. Is it impossible? No, just part of dealing with corporate IT.

reboot your phone at that point ...

VDI is actually preferred by our security teams, because they have complete deep packet inspection on literally all traffic going in and out.

On our laptops, there are still some flows that avoid the vpn etc..

I wonder how this is mitigated by my current workflow of running jupyter and vscode from a docker container.

I did not start doing this because of security, but just to get something more or less self managed without any possibility to break different projects. I am tired of my team spending too much time on extensions, versions, packages, ...

Docker compose files have saved our team many hours, even if it's extremely wasteful to have multiple vscode instances running alongside each other

I genuinely wonder why people use SQL Server, is it just because of the active directory integration? Just because microsoft says so?

I mean, its a lot more expensive than Postgres for very very little benefit. Like what exactly is the value proposition? Is it saving developer time? faster? I guess none of those

or has the fast food industry and unhealthy eating habits in general, which lead to obesity, been the instigator of the mental health epidemic? Fix the food, fix the epidemic?

This is one of those cases where I think it's not one creates the other. But I assume they have a strong feedback mechanism. It's the combination that makes it a lot stronger. 2 + 2 = 5 in such cases

we more or less do for all the applications in my team, which don't follow the corporate standard.

They're all Django applications, and the limited dynamic elements are just simple jquery. We have some bootstrap stuff and elements like form elements in javascript, but that's about it.

We are extremely productive, especially compared to our official apps which follow the .NET/Angular stack, that run into all kinds of API versioning issues and errors, it's not even a faster user experience. The problem with such a stack is that you need a few highly skilled architects/system designers. We just have regular programmers piecing it all together, most of them learned these frameworks on the job and come from a regular app dev background, not web.

Granted, we only serve something like 20-30 concurrent users for each of tthe Django apps (as in, page requests/second), but still...

agree there, but then again using ort in Rust is faster again.

You cannot compare python with a onxx executor.

I don't know what you used in Python, but if it's pytorch or similar, those are built with flexibility in mind, for optimal performance you want to export those to onxx and use whatever executor that is optimized for your env. onxxruntime is one of them, but definitely not the only one, and given it's from Microsoft, some prefer to avoid it and choose among the many free alternatives.

I have confidence as long as the current leadership stays on board, they'll honour the perpetual license.

However, I am also very confident next year they'll just release a V3 and we'll have to buy it again of course, but no worries we'll get a discount as previous owner!

jup, eurotruck simulator, but in the air, would be amazing

it's one of those things I'd do as a millionaire.

Some people would buy boats, private planes, art, ... I would hire a team to replicate my child neighbourhood perfectly in a gran turismo or preferably GTA 5 engine lol. You'd get pretty far with a million USD in the modding community

in my experience from a few years ago: I commute by bicycle to shool (and in the meantime work) in a very rainy country. My entire childhood, I had to replace phones every few months jsut because they got soaked in the rain and I didn't close the protective case perfectly or whatever.

Then I started to buy waterproof phones, and my life was noticeably better. those still die from water damage, just slower. Every time you drop the phone and the case pops off, the water protection gets a bit worse, and after a year or so, the rubber gets hard, especially in winter, and its no longer waterproof. I wouldn't dare to put it in actual water.

Now I have had my smartphone for many years, and I had the previous one for many years. So yes please, glue it together, glue it shut, at least if you're serious about water damage and dust ingress

you forget the fact that your laptop comes out of your bag with a dead battery and hot enough to cook an egg

Modern standby is making my laptop unpredictable, and that is very inconvenient for me

why should they spend engineering effort it their target platform (windows) doesn't really support it? You can't blame Intel for this one

I don't know where you live, but in Europe there is a standardized backoffice management protocol that you can link up to basically anything in modern chargers. Except the cheapest of the cheapest.

I have mine running through EVCC.io, setting it up was as simple as throwing that thing in a docker container and figuring out the IP address of the chargepoint.

basically, make sure your data governance is on point. It should almost live outside of your software stack.

Tools like collibra, purview, informatica, ... that know you database, are your best tools at enterprise level.

ah come on. It's halloween. Brothers dress up as their sisters, sisters dress up as their brothers, kids dress up as their neighbours.

You are an acceptable costume. Face it. But context matters. The reading kid is not singled out, nobody is making this negative. It could also be perceived as a celebration 'hey I want to be like my adopted asian sister, she is cool'.

Live and let live, and give context if the kid is asking questions. But don't censor because you feel like a special snowflake

those times have long been gone. Warranties were not the driving factor, but taxes and exchange rates.

Today, the price difference is negligible on most hardware (smaller than $50 on MSRP on an iPhone if you compare New York to Paris for example)

you forgot one obvious solution, but seemingly most people ignore this option: contact the companies

If you are big enough, you setup your own terms and conditions and negotiate a master agreement. I work for a rather large insurer, and we can use azure openai, nvidia workbench and gemini

no you describe narcissistic personality disorder.

Homo economicus would try get as much as possible for himself, or have others bear the cost (e.g. have society pay for roads but don't want to pay taxes).

They would not lower the quality of service for someone else out of spite without any gain for themselves, let alone waste time on it. They would also understand this would rise the cost of the service they might potentially want to use in the future.

Only narcissists would feel the desire to fuck up a service out of spite and ruin it for anyone else, just because they feel bad for not agreeing to the deal of having to pay

because they forced their policies and standards onto the new startup company.

It's the classic mistake: you setup a separate 'startup style' company to move fast, but give them too much budget and too much rules, so they just spend the budget on rebuilding the same mess instead of innovation. It's a consultant heaven to make a lot of money, but in the end this really only works if the group company stays in the dark for a considerable amount of time and doesn't impose their ideas

that's what this is about, the EU warned MS to unbundle, and they are not impressed with how they have implemented it.

Yes you can buy teams separate from office now, but MS is still clearly abusing their market dominance to force teams upon you (same about onedrive to be fair)

it's because teams is not really free

It's free per user, but it's quite expensive if you start adding meeting rooms, voip, webinar, ...

Zoom+slack are literally cheaper in total, but the startup cost is very visible and teams startup cost is 0.