My response is similar, usually the good old ‘Do you shut the door when you shit?’.

When we start getting specific, I’ll often try and frame data harvesting in a much more visceral way. If they say they don’t care that xyz keeps track of everyone they talk to, I ask them to imagine an actual person standing behind them, making notes on a clipboard about every interaction they have with someone, and how that would make them feel.

My understanding is that cookies were generally just used as a fingerprint- it’s just a unique ID that is used to tie your device to their database, which is where the information is kept.

That’s very clear, thanks.

I’m guessing you’d have to search the database to make the index, right? To search for ‘gazter’ you’d have had to go over the whole dataset and assigned each entry with a starting letter value, and so on?

Largely ignorant, but data-curious person here.

…what?

I’ve got the fourth Sharma, I used points to get a large Austrian man to walk over the left side of my body.

I’m interested in why you chose the i5 for the automation, rather than the video server?

I’m no expert, but things like transcoding (or even just re-encoding) take a lot of grunt, which it seems the i5 would be good for.

The i3 would be good for more constant, lower power tasks like automation.

At least, that’s my thoughts, happy to be shown your reasoning…

If it’s non-critical, with a bit of work it can be made ‘waterproof’, at least at 1atm. But realistically, unless you need a specific shape, it’s going to be easier and more reliable to just use an off-the-shelf case.

Oh jeez, I hadn’t even thought about capitalisation in the file extension. That would be especially confusing if extensions are hidden- the user would be presented with two files that look exactly the same.

Bunker.

Deep bunker.

Oooh, amazing! Do you use it? How mature is it?

But do I type ‘ImportantFile’, or ‘importantfile’?

As I understand it, if I searched for either of these strings in a case sensitive file system, I would not find a file called ‘IMPORTANTFILE’.

At best, a case sensitive file system makes naming conventions more complex. At worst , it obfuscates files. I just can’t imagine a scenario where it would be helpful. Do you really see a need to have a file called ‘aaaAaa’ and a totally separate one called ‘aaAaaa’?

So if someone tells me to look for a file amongst a long list, I need to look in two different areas- the uppercase and lowercase areas.

I get why it’s more technically correct to differentiate, but from the perspective of a human user, it’s a pain in the ass.

Ascending order implies going from low to high

If I have four files, a.txt, A.txt, b.txt, and B.txt, in what order do they appear when I sort alphabetically?

I have one in theirs, they have one in mine.

OP was just talking about one job post.

You could always go to the old school version of general intelligence, and ask your family, friends, and mentors to offer advice.

Can you run the local llm at all? Just ask the question, go make a cup of tea, ask the next, go for a walk, ask again, play fourteen hours of Factorio…

Otherwise, there’s services like hordeai (I think that’s what it’s called) where you tap into people who volunteer compute resources to run your own model.

If it reads as gibberish, you’re too old. If it makes perfect sense, you’re too young. Somewhere in between those ages is the funny zone, where you can sorta understand what it’s meant to be doing.

Wait, ease of installation? As someone who had to walk away from a semi-homebrew, mildly complicated cloud storage setup recently, that’s not the experience I had. Networks within networks, networks next to networks not talking to each other, mapped volumes, even checking logs is made more complicated by containerising. Sure, I’m a noob, but that only reinforces my point.