Who's going to #BedrijvenContactDagen in Antwerp?

https://antwerpen.bedrijvencontactdagen.be/nl/

TIL: How to say 'walkie-talkie' in French?

"talkie-walkie"

The simple fact that ChatGPT #o1preview now takes a little time to think before it answers makes it already seem more intelligent to me.

Previously it was so fast in answering that I sometimes thought: "you didn't think this through did you?"

There is a way to hire coders on online marketplaces like #upwork and keep your sanity.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-hire-online-freelancing-platforms-still-keep-your-vanhaelewijck-tiugc

Glad to see that #Slack now added myself as a potential person to talk to. Finally someone will listen to what I have to say.

Oh no, I just realized the reason I am procastrinating is because I need to startup my windows vm again...

Read this somewhere and I can't get it out of my mind:

"If your backlog keeps expanding, it may be a sign you need more customer conversations."

Probably because it's true.

@ghalldev hopefully, this is not the start of a downward spiral where everything gets worse over time. I wish you the best of luck!

@ghalldev What happened?

Saving songs from #spotify Discover Weekly list makes it remarkably better after a few weeks. The algorithm got me.

Good people are everywhere; it's the bad ones that make headlines.

I just had a three-hour lunch with a friend. It felt like 30 minutes or so. I should do this more often...

#Nerdland, a popular monthly podcast for nerds in Belgium now as an AI assistant. Although it is in Dutch, you can communicate with it in English.

I asked whether the podcast speakers believe in the #singularity. This was its nuanced answer:

@bowreality This seems to get worse by the day

@bowreality Oh man, that's brutal.

We're not there yet with this #GenerativeAI. This image was generated with the prompt 'girl lying in the grass'.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/06/ridiculed-stable-diffusion-3-release-excels-at-ai-generated-body-horror/

@bowreality Switched to #linuxmint for those reasons a year back. Running a little vmware on the side to launch MS Office and 1 or 2 other windows specific pgms when I need them.

Here's one for those Windows user's sitting on the fence.

My laptop has Linux Mint, Gnome Desktop, KVM/QEMU, Brave, Proton Suite, Libre Office and whatever else comes with the standard install.

As you can see, this entire file system and all my apps and data use ~11% of my 250GB NVME SSD.

So, if you're low on resources or power, I suggest you give it a try before spending money on upgraded hardware.

#linuxmint #linux

The #crowdstrike f*kup painfully demonstrated how many corporations rely on #Windows for mission-critical apps.

#Microsoft #CrowdStrike #Outage