Was talking to an executive at my company the other week. He sincerely seemed to believe the “executive insight” was one of the very few jobs at the company that couldn’t be done by an LLM. He predicted that he would probably lay off almost everyone under him by end of 2026 and just feed his amazing leadership ideas directly to an LLM to make happen.

Particularly a bit obnoxious as my usual experience about this guy is being called into customer meetings after he would meet with them. Usually the customer assumes we are a bunch of out if touch idiots if that is a “leader” in the company, and I’m one of the guys sales calls to have me reassure clients that they don’t have to take anything he says too seriously, and we do actually have some competence.

A local LLM probably costs about as much as the online LLM, but that usage is so widely distributed it’s not as impactful to any specific locations.

For climate sure, though local impact by focusing so much demand in such small geography does create outsized impacts for that local area in terms of local energy and water.

Each datacenter is set to handle millions of users, so it concentrates all the little requests into very few physical locations.

The tech industry further amplifies things with ambient LLM invocation. You do a random google search, it implicitly does an LLM unasked. When a user is using an LLM enabled code editor, it’s making LLM requests every few seconds of typing to drive the autocomplete suggestions. Often it has to submit a new LLM request before the old one even completed because the user typed more while the LLM was chewing on the previous input.

So each LLM invocation may be reasonable, but they are being concentrated impact wise into very few places and invocations are amplified by tech industry being overly aggressive about overuse for the sake of 'ambient magic.

Think they mean local networks.

If an IT department carefully curates IPv4 but ignores IPv6, then a rogue actor can set up a parallel IPv6 network largely without being noticed.

IPv6 can be managed, just that it is a blindside for a lot of these departments.

Come on, it’s e easy to remember one IPv6 address: ::1

Having the breathing room is great.

You have two teams that independently set up private networks but now someone has to talk to them both?

In IPv4, they likely stepped on the same private subnets. In ipv6, they pretty much certainly did not step in the same ULA prefixes. My VPN setup is a mess of a maze to deal with the fact that most things I connect to are all independently allocated 10. subnets, with the IPv6 focused customer being easiest.

Also, if you want to embed information in your addressing, like vlan I’d or room information.

Besides, you can have addresses like fd37:5f1a:b4c1::feed:face, and that’s fun isn’t it?

Well sometimes the lla is not predictable, some stacks take privacy addresses to lla, which is silly but they do it. Of course you can multicast ping and check your neighbor table to get the lla chosen in such cases.

But you could do the same thing with a rogue DHCP server I IPv4… With similar methods to prevent the misbehavior on networks

Did anyone say alive?

Trump Pyramid where he gets buried with his jet…

I mean given the right socket…

If someone never had and is not looking for a tenant and is actively waiting for someone to buy their property, they are not a landlord.

Usually they have moved into their new home and have their uninhabited house on the market trying to get rid of it.

Maybe I’m missing implication in another culture, but around me landlord specifically refers to someone owning a home that is being actively rented/leased by another. If you haven’t had tenants, you aren’t considered a landlord

Based on my experience, a house on the market is usally being sold by someone who lived in it. The seller being a landlord is plausible, but I’d usually just generically refer to that party as ‘the seller’.

Landlords tend to hold on to their revenue streams harder than a person holds on to their own residence.

That is unfortunate.

Old guy or younger guy? If this is their retirement income, they would probably be better off selling it and putting the proceeds into a nice account.

Of course those accounts also profit off of the inconvenience of others, but with social security all messed up, some form of screwing with the active working generation is needed to model retirement of the older generation, and a financial account is less egregious than sitting on potentially available housing stock.

My first landlord sucked, my second landlord was ok, but I suspect most wouldn’t be. They repaired everything in a timely fashion, and waived my rent for three months when I got laid off to let me get back on my feet. Still only made sense because I was in college and wasn’t sticking around that area long enough to justify buying then selling a property, but for the context acceptable landlords can exist.

But what if they can afford it, but just don’t like seeing reasonable housing go to waste? Not enough to try to exactly right-size their housing and move everything they own, but enough to offer it up for rent.

It’s certainly a niche that isn’t the typical story, but renting out portions of your house is a scenario that could make sense.

My in-laws have a house with one of the bedrooms with it’s own bath and it’s own external entrance, you have to walk outside to get to that bedroom.

There are companies that would do the maintenance for you, so I think if that was your concern, you could roll the dice with those while still actually owning the house.

But I will say if you aren’t going to be somewhere more than 2 years anyway (university or a work assignment), renting could make sense.

Bought a house, but there was a landlord?