You’re confused. I said “this thread” and not “The OP”.

If you read the comments, do you see a frank discussion of people attempting to locate a gender neutral term for a tech enthusiast or a bunch of people just riffing insulting terms?

Regardless, to address you specifically. You’re trying to “win” an argument using rhetoric in place of reason. You’re not winning the argument, you’re just throwing a punch and declaring victory.

You win arguments by having better arguments, not by coming up with the best clever clapback so that you get more upvotes

This thread is basically “Please help me brainstorm pejoratives”, a very toxic mindset to have.

for no gain.

Nearly $3 billion USD flowed through the TRUMP cryptocoin rugpull, whoever owned initial coins made very, very large gains.

The $3 billion in quid buys a lot of anti-Ukraine pro quo

But, thanks to the Supreme Court, Trump could go on national TV and say he change US policy on Ukraine because he was bribed and he’d still be immune to any legal consequences (other than impeachment, but never anything criminal).

NYT doesn’t do real journalism anymore, they just report on the narrative.

They basically have purchased an unlimited number of certifications from Oracle and let you access them as an employee benefit.

You still have to learn the material on your own though. Your employer probably has their course available material, for free to you, as well.

It’s a deal OPs employer (a school that offers tech courses to teach various certifications) has with Oracle.

OP is just getting the same deal that Students get when they purchase a course at his company. It’s pretty standard to include the certification along with the course and they deal with Oracle so the company only has to pay a flat rate to offer certifications to their students.

Ah.

Yes, if they’re directly through an Oracle partnership with your job that’s legit then.

Your company likely gets this as part of a package that they buy from Oracle. I’d guess that they offer certifications as part of the courses that they teach.

They likely have a partnership with Oracle to buy (some of) the certifications. You’re just getting that same deal (free first try, costs money afterwards).

So, if you’ve already studied for a certification, then it can save you money.

But unless it says otherwise, assume that it is just the test portion. In addition, some certifications require proctoring and that may at your expense. This is probably part of “the necessary info” package, but you can ask a supervisor about the details.

I was under the impression, from reading one of the developers write of his interaction with the owner, that they’re just selling dropped shipped white label laptops.

They’re simply add branding and a disk image which the white label manufacturer applies before shipping.

So it doesn’t even seem to be an OEM… Just some guy trying to make an easy buck with some slick marketing and white label laptops… he just couldn’t get the image setup and failed spectacularly in collaboration with the people who could help him.

Correct, horse_battery_staple

Your things may be owned by root and have unusual permissions.

So, to make your NTFS drive be owned by your user and group and to set the permissions you can:

# Change owner to user:user
sudo chown -R username:group your_directory

# Change permissions to default (typically 755 for directories and 644 for files)

# For directories
find your_directory -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;

 #files
find your_directory -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

Can I just type my credit card number here or, ?

The President has unlimited pardon powers, and so do juries.

I feel this pain.

I’ve been trying to get simple telemetry working over lora on a ESP32-C6, LLMs are largely worthless in this. We gotta fall back to old school RTFM models

I used 3.7 on a project yesterday (refactoring to use a different library). I provided the documentation and examples in the initial context and it re-factored the code correctly. It took the agent about 20 minutes to complete the re-write and it took me about 2 hours to review the changes. It would have taken me the entire day to do the changes manually. The cost was about $10.

It was less successful when I attempted to YOLO the rest of my API credits by giving it a large project (using langchain to create an input device that uses local AI to dictate as if it were a keyboard). Some parts of the codes are correct, the langchain stuff is setup as I would expect. Other parts are simply incorrect and unworkable. It’s assuming that it can bind global hotkeys in Wayland, configuration required editing python files instead of pulling from a configuration file, it created install scripts instead of PKGBUILDs, etcetc.

I liken it to having an eager newbie. It doesn’t know much, makes simple mistakes, but it can handle some busy work provided that it is supervised.

I’m less worried about AI taking my job then my job turning into being a middle-manager for AI teams.

It’s interesting because it lets regular people with little to no training produce software.

It isn’t great software, it doesn’t always work… but considering the amount of software that an untrained person could produce previously was exactly none, it’s a pretty interesting development in technology.

and, it’s only going to get better.

I dunno bro, I can really see how the chicken could be enticed to cross the road by virtue of his chicken instincts. I’m something of a biologist myself

Well, they’ve certainly worked out a proper solution since them. I had laparoscopic surgery and they didn’t so much sew me up as calk up my holes and send me home.

You’re not attempting to state a point, you’re sealioning.

They replied to you and stated what people on the left are doing. Asking the same question over and over again while not actually engaging in a conversation is just trolling and unwanted.

My brother in society, how do you think movements start?

There’s not going to be a Blue-vested Donkey that flies down from the sky and smites Elon and doge. You’re not going to be saved, there’s nobody coming.

Until more people realize this, they’re going to continue acting with impunity while everyone acts paralyzed and waits for someone else to do something. YOU do something, acting cynical on the Internet isn’t contributing in any way in a positive direction.

Power off.

Many phones can be accessed by digital forensic software (like cellebrite) only after they have been unlocked for the first time.

Depending on the phone, a restart may not reset the hardware security module, a power off will.