Posts by 'arold

Re: Now that is daring

maybe find something more conclusive than one fire, in a crappy European data centre, 3 1/2 years ago?

I hope the honourable gentleman comment is a quote from a movie, I'd hate to think people actually talk that way.

Re: But... I did nothing wrong

My missus is after a new one.... and I'm finding it very hard to go along with this now elon has revealed himself to be a podgy sociopath.

Re: ... and bean counters took over

It feels like the engineers always lose.. I reckon it's because they spend 95% of their time on constructive work, and reluctantly what's left over on politics. Bean counters, "management" have it the other way around.

Re: What about cryptographic hashes in crypto-currencies

I've asked this a few times to crypto "SME" (lol) audiences, and it's like the emperors new clothes, they just want to ignore it. It's literally hands over ears and "blah blah blah". No confirmation, no denial.

I wish I could help you and answer, but I'm still clueless :D

Re: Really??? This is a problem? Nothing better to write about?

Upvoted for mixing them, never thought about that!

And now my teammates will never forget.. :D

Re: Maintenance

I broke my wife's when trying to fix it. Told the Tesla mechanic it was the kids... he knew.

Unlike my wife, he was commendably cool about it.

He's a Fox! (I'll get my coat, that was bad..)

With respect mate, it's still about 50x what it should be, and it's not a world away from it's all type bs driven high.

Re: Up and atom!

Ah, thanks for clarifying :D

Re: The Inexorable Unbelievably Stealthy Advance of Almighty SMARTR AIMachines*

I hear you buddy, and I don't understand the comments either.

LLMs are brainless - yes. BUT they allow you to create work that in your view is excellent in a very short time. Almost instantly.

Want to turn your brain farts into a great letter or document - they're perfect. Want it to write code (and tests) that you can scan through and ensure is correct - very near perfect, and in a tiny fraction of the time you can do it yourself.

So what if they have flaws... they're a frigging awesome tool for us to use. And like chess computers they're only going to get better.

Good thing we learned so much from the last pandemic, like.... well.... nothing

I wonder if it's something psychological.... they (HR, "senior managers") genuinely think it's them that adds the value, and there can't possibly be key people / high performers lower down.

Re: No, no understanding of corporate data

It's so true.... and they love multi year deliverables as they can jump ship before it fails. And the company can't say it was a failure, so they present it as the CTO doing a good job.

Pants down, reach right, start shaking.

Re: IRS involved?

"but it turns out that tax you paid and didn't have to, can be sold to someone who didn't pay tax when they should have"

Wow mate, what country is this?

Re: Don't the chinese have a nice device to shoot down rogue satellites?

Lol, yeah, agreed, but something truly fucking stupid that makes his previous shit pale into insignificance.

Lots of people doing crappy diplomas / online courses from Harvard, Stanford etc then claiming to be graduates of the place on lickedin.

We employed someone for a graduate-only role (I don't see how gradates are better for most roles, but still...) and the person had done some 3 month part time course at a university.

Re: Sorry?

Agreed, there's no way sqlserver is folded. It's part of their vendor lock in - not just on prem, but to strong arm people to their cloud too.

Since when is WhatsApp and especially SMS unreliable?

Re: they're just an asshole corp making money from an asshole public

> those twats that downvoted you are the Reddit bunch.

Ah, now it's clear!

I was assuming they were all chumps that had overshared on Facebook :D

+1.... +1000 even. The web back then was awesome, exciting and full of promise. There was an optimism and a sense of world wide community. Edward Snowden talks about how helpful people were online back then compared to today.

Now it's shite, corporate and toxic. Useful apps (maps, streaming and, hmm, that's it), but they're just using the internet as a network layer.

Re: I mean it's not even a secret.

Damn, in the two weeks I played it, before getting bored shitless, airport departure lounges were always full of good stuff.