I don’t remember season 3 being better or worse, though I did roll my eyes pretty hard when they decided to go to the Land of Space Nonsense where Mysteries Abound, which I think was season 3.

Hard to say which series had the rougher start, IMO. I can get onboard with the TOS-ish cornball nature of ENT, and I like it for what it is, but TNG found its footing and matured, and I don’t feel like ENT ever pulled that off so it just kinda… stayed the same.

Ah makes sense. Thanks!

Very cool, thanks. I migrated from top to htop a while ago and never looked back, but I occasionally have to use machines that don’t have htop so it might be time to get familiar with the default tooling.

Why do they say that SIGKILL bad practice? I use it as the second tap if a SIGTERM doesn’t knock something out. The link in the article is 404ing.

I think that’s broadly true, but just because you work somewhere as oppressive as IBM doesn’t mean you don’t long to breathe the free air. I like to imagine some of the contributors to the IBM songbook felt trapped in their day job and grabbed at that as the only available creative outlet, and they had their own magnum opus that they were going to publish just as soon as they felt safe enough to take the leap. I can’t find any credits for the songs so maybe they did.

This is as good an excuse as any to break out the ol’ IBM corporate songbook

Tech has always been suits at the top, hippies at best an annoying necessity because they know how to actually operate the machine.

I had thought I had seen both as well.

Wow, I haven’t seen that comic in years; the first time I saw it I was in a pretty bad mental space and I think this perspective helped more than I realized at the time. Thanks for the memory ❤️

Skipped over the opening graphic on first read but just read it. Could they have picked a creepier sample sentence.

You sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole, but it turned up an interesting answer. Turns out they are nondeterministic, and why they aren’t deterministic is still an open question https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/defeating-nondeterminism-in-llm-inference/

As long as I hang onto it I can convince myself that I might pick it back up at some point. To give it away is to admit defeat.