Tag: unix
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A representative case of the oddly simple things that LLMs are bad at
Does it seem right that computer systems that use billions of dollars of hardware, electricity, and clean water need my help to add line numbers to a few kilobytes of plain text? No, it does not. But at least this gives me deterministic results for one part of the processing. Recently, though, I’ve observed that…
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How to add a directory to your PATH – Computers are easy, they said. You just need to read the manual, they said. It’s so intuitive!
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Link: The Platform Matters More Than Ever, The Operating System Less So
“Windows Server 2019 is a case in point, and going through the highlights shows it. Back in the day, when a new Windows Server release came out, everyone was obsessed about its scalability and reliability and how it compared to alternatives such IBM i, a slew of Unix variants (including IBM’s own AIX), and the…
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About Miller
‘It operates on key-value-pair data while the familiar Unix tools operate on integer-indexed fields: if the natural data structure for the latter is the array, then Miller’s natural data structure is the insertion-ordered hash map. This encompasses a variety of data formats, including but not limited to the familiar CSV. (Miller can handle positionally-indexed data…
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Server sales
Basically, if you sold a Unix or proprietary server, your revenues shrank. –The Server Biz Stalls In The First Quarter
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