Went for the first time in probably 5 years the other day. 15 freaking dollars just for me. Ridiculous. I’ll just keep going to my local burger place for that price

Sounds like it, I think docker is exactly what you’re looking for

There’s many ways to do this. Saving the disk state is one, I believe that’s what the other person suggested - essentially stores the disk as an image which then you use for future vms as your jumping off point. This is also essentially how workstations are deployed at companies. (Essentially being the key word). Cloud providers have different names for this too, in AWS this is called their AMI.

Another option is Ansible, which essentially handles deploying a VM by running your scripts for you. I haven’t played too much with this, and I doubt it works with VirtualBox, but it’s something you may want to look into, it would definitely uplevel your skills.

Thirdly is dependent on what you actually use your VM for, you haven’t given your use cases but this is one of the reasons containerization became such a thing - because when running an app we mostly don’t care about the underlying system. It may be worth it to learn about docker.

Seconded. This seems like a gamers nexus story ready to happen.

Best buy had one of the lowest lows and best recoveries I had ever seen while working there. The new French CEO made it about customer service, and I saw people and teens who had never considered going to a best buy start going. Stock price went up, people were happy.

Then the board ousted him a few years ago and made it all about profits, going right back to where they were in the downward spiral, completely unaware of the irony. I hope they fail now. They could have come out on top but greed took over again.

Is there a site like this for other refurbished items beyond storage? More cases, tam, cpus?

That’s the nuance of AI that anyone who has done any actual work with ML has known for decades now. ML is amazing. It’s not perfect. It’s actually pretty far from perfect. So you should never ever use it as a solo check, but it can be great for a double check.

Such as with cancer. AI can be a wonderful choice to detecting a melanoma, if used correctly. Such as:

• a doctor has already cleared a mole, but if you want to know if it warrants a second opinion by another doctor. You could have the model to have a confidence of say, 80% sure that the first doctor is correct in that it is fine.

• if you do not have access to a doctor immediately, it can be a fine check, again only to a certain percentage. Say that in this case in the future you are worried but cannot access a doctor easily. A patient could snap a photo and in this case a very high confidence rating would say that it is probably fine, with a disclaimer that it is just an AI model and if it changes or you are still worried, get it checked.

Unfortunately, all of that nuance in that it is all just probabilities is completely lost on both the creators of all of these AI tools, and the risks are not actually passed to the users so blind trust is the number one problem.

We see it here with police too. “It said it’s them”. No, it only said to a specific confidence that it might be them. That’s a very different thing. You should never use it to find someone, only to verify someone.

I actually really like how airport security implemented it because it’s actually using it well. Here’s an ID, it has a photo of a person. Compare it to the photo taken there in person, and it should verify to a very high confidence that they are the same person. If in doubt, there’s a human there to also verify it. That’s good ML usage.

The article said there’s a phone companion app

There’s a good chunk of us who used it with the web, and they’re adding that to the vast Google graveyard. That in and of itself makes me excited to see an alternative because Google will kill the app version on a whim too.

Haha because our school system failed the entire generation, get it, because that’s funny

Having worked at best buy, I’d say there’s a very small chance the manager can even do anything at this point. They already have such a small level of power. Maybe the store manager, like the manager of the other managers at the store, usually the store locator can do that. They have authority to actually just give away a laptop and eat the cost, maybe they can disable the cheap ass shipping options

RAID definitely does not count as part of your backup, it’s a helpful thing, but the entire array can fail. You still need minimum 2 other copies of your data to be considered safe

In a raid? No. A drive that has an application copy it every night or something? Yes.

Remember that cloud backups is the last location, the 1 in 3-2-1. You should have two local copies already on top of your cloud copy

Agree with this guy. If you like, I’ve done the tech job hunt too many times now, feel free to DM me your linked in and I’d be happy to give impressions on it

They probably will, doesn’t mean she shouldn’t be shamed for parking in the middle of the walk

That’s what I thought was happening, There’re no other system things that need to do?

Agreed. Needs to be a required mount in fstab. System won’t even start then if the mount fails, docker always has access

Google has been floundering since chatgpt came online. Their press releases all sound the same to me. “We haven’t had real competition for so long that we got complacent, and now we’re not really sure what to do”

Peak programming