I talk to everyone and anyone; it's really great actually. Been doing that all over the world for most of my life (50+). Most people enjoy it; many are lonely and I often end up at parties / dinners etc at complete strangers.
Gemini is supposed to have this huge context; Gemini cli (paid) often forgets by the next prompt whatever the previous was about and starts doing something completely different , often switching natural or programming language. I use codex and with 5.3 it is better but not there compared to cc for us anyway; it just goes looking for stuff, draws the most bizarre conclusions and ends up lost quite often doing the wrong things. Mistral works quite well on smaller issues. Cerebras gml rocks on quick analysis; if it had more token allowance and less rate limiting , it would probably be what I would use all the time; unfortunately, on a large project, I hit a 24 hour block in less than an hour of coding. It does do a LOT in that time of course because of its bizarre speed.
Yeah, exactly. Most employed programmers I ever met in the past decades actually cannot code and really really struggled (not anymore with AI) to do anything. And yet, usually because of a degree of some crap college, they have a job as something they cannot actually do.
Large (non software) enterprises. Mostly. Government departments. That type of thing. Like I said in another thread; have a wander with me over to Shell, Barclays and stuff like that; entire bags of (many outsourcing/external) 'programmers' who don't know how variables or loops work.
Over 40 at least you are almost halfway. Definitely you can switch, if you are a half decent thinker, most things are possible; I am sure you can become an electrician and that, at least where I live, makes very good money. Plumbers you cannot find if you are keedeep in your own poop here. In my home country my old classmates (I have an electrician degree but became a software engineer) are making more than most programmers being electricians. Not sure what is wrong with someone who cannot flip burgers after 40.
Have you tried flip burgers after 20 years in IT and zero manual labor? Forced downshift is BRUTAL.
Youngsters are 2x faster than you and precise.
I'm not from USA tho.
I was SHOCKED that I was the worst at flipping the burgers at McDonald's. Pace is CRAZY and stress is NOTHING in comparison to let's say dropping production database or shipping 2 months late in startup.
Shit just looks easy, but noise, speed, temp and pressure (constant KPI over your head) is CRAAAAAZY.
Got kicked out after 3 months :| Got new job at tech support
I was responding to @TheRoque GP; I know λProlog quite well and I would be pleasantly surprised if they saw that in university, but I think they got taught Prolog. If you mean to say that they saw Lambda Prolog and it is therefor a lot more popular than I believed it to be, then excellent and ignore this reply.
I have been buying older servers by the truckloads. Older being a year or so. It will be enough to host whatever outside AI that we need for the coming 15-20 years. And the all were great deals, will have them paid for within a month per server. I have my own cage full with empty racks bought from a bankrupt company in AMS.
We run production on servers 15 years old for our company/clients. Servers now are far faster and the software barely changes performance characteristic wise. We run Java, Perl & PHP ERP/departmental type projects; nothing that gets added makes anything slower and I don't see that happening either. Unless clients will want vastly different things, which, you know, they won't as they are big sluggish companies.
Curious about the specs of servers that you are buying.
We are looking for some non-GPU HPC servers, but there's always the question of whether second-hand servers will be good-enough/power-efficient for our use case.
Easy in the US apparently. My bank refuses that here without (written, signed and sent by post) proof I have been scammed and this case wouldn't be that. It is a credit card, not a debit card. I only have it for hiring cars as many just refuse unless it is a cc.
I’m sometimes surprised at how easy it is to do a chargeback in the US. So much so that a lot of folks just click that button instead of reaching out to the vendor first.
In here (not the US) a chargeback is such a chore that I would only do that as a very last resort.
Not sure which is better though; as a former internet vendor, we blocked cc payments from the US for this very reason. Rather have less clients than being that easily scammed. Here it is too hard, there it is too easy. But hard does mean you have to think about it at least and not 'oh I made an impulse buy, remorse, let's chargeback'.
credit card company’s primary purpose is to protect me, I am making them a ton of money. hence, they should ablige to my every request (stop payment being number one on the list). insane they won’t help you without a ceremony. I never talked to the vendor first, the first thing I do is stop payments through my credit card and then I reach out to vendor.
Not sure if making a company a ton of money has anything to do with obliging anything. Many companies I ship money to (this post for AWS for instance) won't do anything for you at all, except, hopefully mostly, provide the service you paid for. If the credit card company (or it's AI) has any reason to not help you, they won't, guaranteed.
the credit card company makes money each time I tap my card. there has never been a time when they did not oblige to my request (and I was wrong before several times with legit transactions me (or my wife) made and did not recognize).
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