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Linux aggressively caches things.
4 GB of RAM is not running out of memory.
If you start using swap, you’re running into a situation where you might run out of memory.
If oomkiller starts killing processes, then you’re running out of memory.
No, of the due and payable one.
I suspect that the house of cards will come tumbling down as soon as one of the companies in this massive Ponzi scheme fails to pay their bill.
In the Netherlands this is common knowledge, there’s even a nursery rhyme about it:
I’ll add it to the list:
Right until your PostgreSQL server goes down and you can’t call your IT department and have to start hunting for a contractor, find a budget, get it signed off by management and HR, then on-board the new staff member, that is, after you advertised the position, did job interviews, after first filtering through the 700 … or two, applications, each plausibly generated by a ChatGPT session. Give it something like six months in a big organisation, less in a nimble one.
Does an “entrenched” anything sound “nimble” to you?
Have you told her this, just like you have here?
What you’re describing is a general experience with LLM, not limited to the C-level.
If an LLM sprouts rubbish you detect it because you have external knowledge, in other words, you’re the subject matter expert.
What makes you think that those same errors are not happening at the same rate outside your direct personal sphere of knowledge?
Now consider what this means for the people around you, including the C-level.
Repeat after me, AI is Assumed Intelligence and should not be considered anything more than autocorrect on steroids.
And that right there is why Windows is so entrenched.
If you want this for real, adoption of open source, then treat it properly. Consider the business impact of your absence, document the systems, train others, otherwise this is just another timebomb waiting to go off and with it any hope of weakening the Microsoft stranglehold on the company and its C-suite.
I’ve lost count of the number of such “projects” I’ve encountered in my professional career.
This is not doing anyone any favours, least of all yourself.
Given the “deeply entrenched windows” in the company, together with a presumably similarly equipped ICT department, how are you protecting your department and the company against your absence?
In other words, what happens if you get hit by a bus?
Depends on the purpose.
Signal for private conversation.
Mastodon for my hobby.
Lemmy and Bluesky for participation in the world.
That makes no sense.
You can create a Lemmy or Mastodon account in moments with nothing more than a web browser.
Is that the entire fediverse, no.
Is Facebook one thing, also no.
Your restrictions on excluding the fediverse are nonsensical.
Well, unless it came back in the last 25 minutes, it’s working fine in Western Australia.
I’m guessing that the answer to that is … as soon as openai collapses … hopefully.
The article explains precisely what it is and why … it’s even written in English.
This is the job for the OS.
You can run most Linux systems with stupid amounts of swap and the only thing you’ll notice is that stuff starts slowing down.
In my experience, only in extremely rare cases are you smarter than the OS, and in 25+ years of using Linux daily I’ve seen it exactly once, where
oomkillerkilled runningmysqldprocesses, which would have been fine if the developer had used transactions. Suffice to say, they did not.I used a 1 minute cron job to reprioritize the process, problem “solved” … for a system that hadn’t been updated for 12 years but was still live while we documented what it was doing and what was required to upgrade it.