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I don't understand why these tensors specifically weren't changed during minimization (training) though. Maybe they were not activated, or a w part of an image decoder or something?
But the excel-boundedness is exactly my point. Several sheets are so large they have been split into three files, referencing each other or external sources via power query. I'm not even saying it's good like it is, but it's just the status quo. I don't see any viable way to turn away from Excel in the short term, which is why I seek solutions.
And knowing where which function or button is in Excel IS knowing Excel, and programming formulas, VB macros and power queries is knowing Excel too. It has been a cornerstone in this company for the past 20 years. These people aren't IT people, Their core skills and how they bring value to the company lie somewhere else, and that's perfectly fine too. but I cannot expect them to just change the software they're been relying on for years just because I say so.
They KNOW excel, they know where which buttons are, and the business logic and price calc are done in excel. These people aren't mentally challenged as you seem to think, they will know if their excel suddenly looks differently, offered by Google instead of Microsoft and in a browser instead of a native windows app.
So if you have nothing to contribute except power user arrogance, I will no longer interact with you.
Network shares aren't bad per se, but they encourage people to place multiple files with the same name and then a V4, V5, V6 etc suffix. People have to download or check out the Excel files if they want to work with them, delete their local copies when they are done, and make sure they always check out the most recent version. If multiple people have to edit an Excel file, they have to synchronize so they don't override each other's files. So yeah, network shares aren't bad per se, but they aren't ideal either. SharePoint has a clear advantage here.
I'm not usually someone who advocates for Microsoft, on the contrary actually, but in this case I don't see a really good alternative.
If you have a better workflow, please explain it to me.
The IT department has erected some network shares where all people just dump their files into folders and SharePoint actually seems like an improvement here, though I'm still on the fence about that. My own IT department seems to hedge a grudge against that too. But clearly, raw network shares can't be the solution either.
I've been a Linux fanboy pretty much my entire career when I worked in software dev, but since I've switched, I see the advantage and simplicity of all-in Microsoft. All our contacts use Teams as well. Other merchants, vendors, suppliers everyone uses Microsoft for E-mail and Teams for chat. If I wanted to introduce something like LibreOffice, Slack, Mattermost or RocketChat then I would face insurmountable obstacles within my own company. So why bother? If it works don't touch it.
Personally, I am not a big fan of Microsoft, but in this case, my company is so entrenched in Excel that I don't see any alternative.
The gas station operators sometimes do put stickers like "this is how much tax is in the gas price you pay" on the actual pumps as if to blame the government for the greed of the large refineries. But here, after the strait of Hormuz debacle, we've actually had the government lower the gas tax for a while so that people who need their cars for work arent stuck with the higher bill so much. And what do you know, somehow the gas got a little cheaper, but not nearly by the amount of lowered tax. Guess who pocketed the difference.
Worse still, the government then enacted a rule that the gas price could only be raised once a day, but lowered any time. And in average, gas was even more expensive than before.
So yeah, I have trouble blaming the taxes for the high gas price.
I should've stated more clearly what particular part of that statement I found untrue: the "computers being cheap" part when you pary 3k for a decent, but not great, gaming pc ;)
I absolutely believe that you paid 75k for 22 machines (I've used 20 in my post above in error). From the photos I can clearly and quite enviously see that no part of that setup could have been cheap.
I mean I have to admit this house looks live every geeks dream, but come on... Seven figure house price... In my country, most people don't make that much money in their entire working life. I do mean that literally, let's take "seven figure" as 4.5M. Evenly divided by 40 working years, that's 112.5k a year. That's almost double the median income. And I live in Germany, a nation that's considered rich.
Weeeell... Some services I use seem to have switched to a magic link EVERY TIME for login. No password anymore at all. And all of a sudden, my mail account is the single point of compromise for these accounts.
And there is absolutely nothing that I can do. If the mail is hosted by someone else, they may terminate my account at a whim. Or give it to someone else who happens to have convinced my phone provider to hand them a sim card with my number on it. If I do self host I still need a domain, and I can never really own a domain, only rent it from somewhere. So, whenever that lease goes up, my account is compromised by default.
I really hate that this problem seems still unsolvable. Keybase had the right idea, but no one used it and they got aquihired by zoom during the pandemic...
Top notch UX Google, as always.
If I want to tell a cable that can do only USB 2 from one that can do 3 from one that is actually thunderbolt, the treedix is a godsend. So. Many. Devices. Come with some unknown usb cable. Can it only charge? Transfer data? How fast? Stuff like signal integrity, dispersion, differential timing, phase shift etc are totally out of scope for this simple thing - telling apart these cables.
- one architect who was there from the apps inception yen years prior, who knows all the ins and outs of the application - one project lead, who was with the project two years, who could also code in the classical sense, but was mostly the connection to the customer - a tester who could not code, but also knew the app in and out (from the user perspective) and found things or relayed and reproduced bugs reported by the customer - a technical writer who could also code (somewhat), but was more responsible to think of user behavior, undefined app behavior, edge cases, logic issues etc - and several disposable code monkeys, who were exchangeable and expendable, who did most of the tickets. I joined as one of these
The work was great, the team functioned great and we delivered what the customer wanted. But what really struck me was that software dev is not science, or engineering, or an art form, it's most akin to a trade like plumbing or carpentry. I had computer science as minor in university and pretty much none of what I learned there helped for "real" work. I learned SVN in university, but obviously the team used git. And all of the software development and programming courses I did taught me nothing of how real software is structured or how a team works.
That impression only more strongly once I had to train new hires, PhDs in comp science, who knew basically nothing about real software development.
Again, it's a trade, something you learn on the job from someone who already knows it, like a master carpenter.
I am in Germany, and school starts at 8 in Berlin, 8:05 in Wiesbaden, 7:45 in some small cities in Baden-Württemberg... And those are only the ones that I, personally, experienced. I'm sure Poland and Spain have different times, not lastly owing to timezones etc.
Please don't treat all of Europe as one single country with one set of customs.
F Droid comes close and can even auto update now (never understood why that didn't work on the past), but most apps I want or need like banking, health insurance etc aren't on F Droid.
Mad respect for that. I've donated a couple of bucks.
So while I'm still on the fence about whether you're being meta-ironic or whatever, I am very certain that I will always prefer honest, human written blog posts (including wrong idioms, phrases etc) to slop that was "improved" or downright written in full by an LLM.
It came with over 20 electronic schematics, pictograms how they were set up in the box, an explanation how they worked and a kid compatible story about a professor, a robot and I think some kids. I absolutely loved it. And I can say with absolute certainty that I wouldnt have chosen my current career and hobby trajectory had it not been for this electronics set.
I've moved cities multiple times now and the kit has disappeared over the years. You can still get them on ebay some times, but I was too cheap to buy one.
Through an incomprehensibly unlikely coincidence, someone put this exact kit on the sidewalk for grabs a fee houses and away, maybe a year ago or two. Naturally I took it, and it's complete and seems even unused.
I am now a father and I hope my daughter will find this kit just as interesting as I did 30 years ago.