Don’t let having an opinion and knowing what you like (being a critic in the classical sense) ruin your enjoyment of everything in life. Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor, bottom. They travel with a knife-sharpener. Smart Tool Selection: Achieving 34-64% Token Savings with Spring AI’s Dynamic Tool Discovery People are often the largest part of an ROI sudy. Abby Bangser’s keynote at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2025. Check out Tyler’s theory of interview podcasts at the end.
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“Oracle’s predicament is more acute than the hyperscalers’. Its business is smaller, its pockets shallower and its lot hitched more tightly to the fate of a single customer, OpenAI, which accounts for over half its $500bn in pledged revenue.”
Recently in the Netherlands:
The group of people experiencing anxiety or depression has grown over the past ten years. In 2014, it was 36 percent, and last year almost 44 percent. The increase is particularly noticeable among young people and women.
More than half of Dutch renters ages 18 to 34 fear they will not find a rental home because of high rents and growing competition among house-hunters, as the supply of available housing continues to shrink.
🔗 Over 40% of Dutch have anxiety or depression; 1 in 20 receive mental health treatment
“The question that actually determines success is simpler—and almost never asked: Are we ready to operate a private cloud as a product for the next 3–5 years?”
“a new AI-infested economy”
“Let’s say one person forgot to pick up groceries or didn’t accurately recall a conversation; the other would say, ‘Oh, you’re gaslighting me. This is psychological abuse,’” he said. “But they weren’t. They were just having what I would consider pretty normal miscommunications.”
Relative to your interests on Thursday
Your aging brain stops being a people-please. But: “The same directness that would be called ‘no-nonsense’ in a man gets called ‘abrasive’ in a woman over 40.” “I had to teach a lesson on asparagus, an ingredient I couldn’t care less about but apparently was good for SEO.” Forrester’s highlights from re:Invent, including things that are not AI. “Artists are not using AI to make art. They use it as an ‘Admin Shield’ to handle invoices, emails, and code so they have more time for the actual creative act.
Day 2 AI looms
Achieving enterprise AI ROI still tough:
According to a recent Gartner poll, over half (53%) of participants were exploring Agentic AI, whereas 25% were piloting it and only 6% had reached production mode. The high exploration and pilot percentages suggest strong interest and perceived potential in Agentic AI. However, ==the low production percentage implies barriers to scaling, such as technical complexity, lack of maturity in tools, governance challenges==, or unclear ROI.
Woke fonts. I wasn’t sure what size they used for Courier New.1 How I long for the all business, utilitarian thrill of Courier New… It was a simpler time.
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From the original memo, it looks like 12 point? ↩︎
If you are only allowed to learn from the internet at age 16, you are probably not ready for marvelous achievements at age 18 or perhaps not even at 20. The country may become more mediocre.