BitNet, AI, iPaaS, UUID, DNS0, Helpy, NTFS
Tested BitNet LLM AI model from Microsoft locally. It's basically useless compared to other models. But I guess that's not the point. The point is that the BitNet with tenacity works -1, 0, 1 aka 1.58 bit precision is incredibly fast even with old junk hardware. Yet it requires AVX2 support, the first system I tried it with, it didn't work out.
Updated my own user preferences prompt, with more details about units. I also configured it to prefer metric SI prefixes. Like 2.3 giga euro.
Checked out several European Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) tools. Yet so far we've been mostly running everything on platforms we control and manage.
UUIDs (@ Wikipedia) a new time sortable versions of Universally Unique IDentifier, with random and hash based approaches. UUIDv6 TS+MAC = UUIDv7 TS+RND
DNS0.EU (@ DNS0.EU) - A truly European Public DNS service with wide availability. I also love the fact that they have two independent providers from every country. It's so common to see redundancy and/or high availability implemented in a way where a common mode failure (@ Wikipedia) causes an outage.
Watched documentary about Finnish Demoscene and Computer Game Scene, yep... Things come and go, change, and there are challenges. Yet it's hard to say what happens, it's so much random after all. But without proper attempt and work, there's no success (possible). That's the only guaranteed thing.
'Helpy' vs 'helpful' - Hmm - I did read read an article about being 'helpy' vs 'helpful'. I think it was post written by someone being annoyed by 'helpy' people. Helpy is really helpful, especially in such cases, where it indicates that something is wrong or from user perspective absolute s*it, and I as developer don't even KNOW it. Example cases are where someone or even worse, group of people (end users, administrators, etc), have been doing some complex work to solve the situation, which would have been fixed by single IF statement... If they just would have told me that it's not working. Is it negative? If they just would tell me that this freaking badly implemented crappy process get stuck with error message XYZ when doing ABC. And it's really bad, it cases us to make complex and potentially dangerous operations to work around if. If you could just fix it... And all it takes from me to fix it permanently, is adding ONE if statement with something to do in CASE OF... I don't say that's negative at all? - Usually when I encounter such situations, I think that they're crazy, because they might have been doing it for MONTHS before telling me, and I thought that everything is good. - Well, again, this is a thing that can be viewed from so many different points of view in different situations. - Another way is seeing it that, you're a moron, when you do complain about something, without providing a completely ready fully thought pull request and documentation to solve the problem. - That's one way to see it as well.
By modern standards, I asked AI for 2nd opinion about my statement. "receiving any actionable information about a flaw ('helpy') is vastly preferable to ignorance." - Yep! - "I pretty much agree with that. If I think something is completely... uh oh, whatever [it is]. Then I don't even bother complaining about it. If I do bother to complain about something, it means that I care and it has crossed some threshold/bar.
Based on that, I also find timestamps (@ Wikipedia) with time zone (@ Wikipedia) information are just annoying and crazy, it's impossible to sort or select those in a sane way without secondary operations. All timestamps should be in UTC whenever used for anything like sorting and there CAN be additional information about the original timezone, if it's necessary.
NTFS (@ Wikipedia) atime, oh? It's not being updated by default anymore? Actually that's been the situation for quite a while. Well, now I know it. I've been wondering it at times, but I haven't ever bothered to dig to the topic. Yes, it can be enabled or realized, but default is disabled.
2025-12-28