With no notice, construction crews came by our neighborhood installing fiber. Yes, I realize that if we paid more attention to city government, we probably would have seen some sort of notice.

Haven’t heard anything from any company announcing service so we will have to see who it is. I have been using comcast/Xfinity for over 20 years and I wouldn’t mind having some competition. I know 5G is competition, but it is different than fiber. With fiber, we start out at the bottom of the capability. With Xfinity or 5G, we would start out at the upper end of the capability.

Hopefully they have figured out customer service.

Yes, a bit clickbait-y on the title. It isn’t so much as exposed and illustrated. This isn’t a secret to anyone who looks into it.

A walk thru, in simple terms, of the fundamental components of AI. Running on old iron. You need a bit of tech background to enjoy this.

I was researching the number of car companies over time for an update to my IT books. I asked Gemini for some numbers and it gave me the below table. I presume that the numbers are off, but from the verification I did, they aren’t far off and are certainly correct from an order of magnitude point of view.

There was a time when everyone with any mechanical skill went into the car making business. Then the shakeout happened and the all went away.

The same is happening in AI. Anyone who can make a prompt and knows how to fiddle with software has a grand idea for a business. There are probably hundreds of companies that are create software tools to support AI work.

The majority of these companies will fail. They will go under or get bought by a few big companies.

Owning a car from a company that has gone out of business is not a bad thing. You can still put gas in it and drive it. But software (that is probably running on a subscription) is a different thing and when that company goes under, you likely won’t be able to run the software anymore.

Be careful.

At the last couple of jobs I had, I had a concept of interim trash. This was mainly in Outlook as there wasn’t much actual trash. Instead of deleting messages I didn’t need, I created an Outlook folder called “Keep 6 Months” and moved everything there. Well, not everything, if it was a legit email that I know I would want, I would move it to an appropriate folder.

But most emails are the kind I probably won’t need, but maybe will. And the time frame for “maybe will” is short, less than 6 months.”

So I created that folder and put a rule on it to delete any emails older than 6 months. I did need to pull out an email from time to time, but mostly I didn’t and I could “delete” far more aggressively. Most project emails and reports could go there.

I do the same with boxes that new stuff comes in. If I need to return it for some reason, I will need the original box. I have a place downstairs where I put all the boxes and once or twice a year, I go through and dispose of them.

Setting up a temporary spot where (1) after a certain length of time it gets deleted, and (2) is out of the way means that you end us deleting or getting rid of far more than if you keep stuff “just in case.”