I’m a statistician. What point are you trying to make? Write it off as an anecdote? It’s not 1999. It’s two observations. Observations lead to questions which lead to collecting more data. Which lead to a conclusion…
I was going to do a mathematics PhD years ago but I’ll be honest and I’m not bashing the process or the outcome here. I literally just couldn’t be bothered to put the effort in. It’s not an insurmountable task but there…
Or maybe I just have higher standards and better risk appraisal after seeing their customer support response for two separate people after they had problems was “fuck off and talk to the ombudsman”. Problems being stuck…
I wouldn’t assume that is the case. The failure modes are different that is all. I saw a whole corp POS platform a couple of decades ago that was hanging off a TFTP server on a machine that no one dared turn off in case…
I work in the sector. There are lucky people and unlucky people. Welcome to lucky land. So far.
I’ve been here a long long time. Around 2009. Occasionally I walk away for a few months. I was there when it wasn’t possible to criticise MSFT because of the second coming of Satya. I was there when Google did no evil.…
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Ah I just get annoyed. You write up your genuine experience and it gets buried. That's not helpful to anyone. It's not helpful to the engineers on a project or the customers. But it validates someone's ego somewhere. It…
This is exactly the problem. The logical outcome is so bad that the only risk mitigation is to not use their services at all.
UK here. All my data has been removed from iCloud and other public cloud services now. I cannot trust the UK government, the EU or the US government to do the right thing for my data. I also can't trust the cloud…
Ha I saw that one when I was trying to work out why this wasn't working. Alas no nothing that good. Turned out the issue was if you set a print range then it has to talk to the printer driver on windows and that takes…
Mine is that one where I can't open ODS documents if my printer is turned off.
+1 for imap-backup. I use this as well and have used it to migrate IMAP mailboxes between providers. Very reliable.
This stuff worries me. I have already seen colleagues using LLMs and not checking the results. Really it just makes stupid people more dangerous. And there is a weird absolutist mechanical faith among certain people to…
To be fair Open University still do a lot of decent stuff which goes deeper than documentaries. It's quite well hidden: https://www.open.edu/openlearn/ Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@OpenLearn_OU/videos
That is exactly the problem. When my family watch science documentaries I die inside a bit. They seem to have left with some insight but they managed to slap about 20 words together and some fancy scenes and…
I hate marketing releases for scientific papers. The one paper I co-authored whilst mostly drunk on a Mediterranean island would have been described as "new statistical model could save billions of lives!" if we hadn't…
Funnily enough the first thing I thought was ketamine.
My father was a professional photographer. He was also a professional asshole so his response was always to respond with the shittiest worst lens he could think of and see if they bought it.
We jumped I think 8 year old CentOS versions without too much issues. It depends how badly you fucked up in the first place really.
Most professional photographers use autofocus all the time. Photography is less about the technology and more about the art.
No one remembers Expert Systems which were supposed to do this before but failed spectacularly due to the complexity of the issues, some of which were political and contractual, and the requirement of actual…
I reckon Musk is so over extended that the only reason he’s doing what he’s doing is to basically rob what he can to cover it before a bigger fish comes along and he falls off a yacht like Madoff.
Zombo already took that title https://zombo.com/
This I appreciate :)
I’m a statistician. What point are you trying to make? Write it off as an anecdote? It’s not 1999. It’s two observations. Observations lead to questions which lead to collecting more data. Which lead to a conclusion…
I was going to do a mathematics PhD years ago but I’ll be honest and I’m not bashing the process or the outcome here. I literally just couldn’t be bothered to put the effort in. It’s not an insurmountable task but there…
Or maybe I just have higher standards and better risk appraisal after seeing their customer support response for two separate people after they had problems was “fuck off and talk to the ombudsman”. Problems being stuck…
I wouldn’t assume that is the case. The failure modes are different that is all. I saw a whole corp POS platform a couple of decades ago that was hanging off a TFTP server on a machine that no one dared turn off in case…
I work in the sector. There are lucky people and unlucky people. Welcome to lucky land. So far.
I’ve been here a long long time. Around 2009. Occasionally I walk away for a few months. I was there when it wasn’t possible to criticise MSFT because of the second coming of Satya. I was there when Google did no evil.…
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Ah I just get annoyed. You write up your genuine experience and it gets buried. That's not helpful to anyone. It's not helpful to the engineers on a project or the customers. But it validates someone's ego somewhere. It…
This is exactly the problem. The logical outcome is so bad that the only risk mitigation is to not use their services at all.
UK here. All my data has been removed from iCloud and other public cloud services now. I cannot trust the UK government, the EU or the US government to do the right thing for my data. I also can't trust the cloud…
Ha I saw that one when I was trying to work out why this wasn't working. Alas no nothing that good. Turned out the issue was if you set a print range then it has to talk to the printer driver on windows and that takes…
Mine is that one where I can't open ODS documents if my printer is turned off.
+1 for imap-backup. I use this as well and have used it to migrate IMAP mailboxes between providers. Very reliable.
This stuff worries me. I have already seen colleagues using LLMs and not checking the results. Really it just makes stupid people more dangerous. And there is a weird absolutist mechanical faith among certain people to…
To be fair Open University still do a lot of decent stuff which goes deeper than documentaries. It's quite well hidden: https://www.open.edu/openlearn/ Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@OpenLearn_OU/videos
That is exactly the problem. When my family watch science documentaries I die inside a bit. They seem to have left with some insight but they managed to slap about 20 words together and some fancy scenes and…
I hate marketing releases for scientific papers. The one paper I co-authored whilst mostly drunk on a Mediterranean island would have been described as "new statistical model could save billions of lives!" if we hadn't…
Funnily enough the first thing I thought was ketamine.
My father was a professional photographer. He was also a professional asshole so his response was always to respond with the shittiest worst lens he could think of and see if they bought it.
We jumped I think 8 year old CentOS versions without too much issues. It depends how badly you fucked up in the first place really.
Most professional photographers use autofocus all the time. Photography is less about the technology and more about the art.
No one remembers Expert Systems which were supposed to do this before but failed spectacularly due to the complexity of the issues, some of which were political and contractual, and the requirement of actual…
I reckon Musk is so over extended that the only reason he’s doing what he’s doing is to basically rob what he can to cover it before a bigger fish comes along and he falls off a yacht like Madoff.
Zombo already took that title https://zombo.com/
This I appreciate :)