Unfortunately, jobs like technical writers, editors, proofreaders are becoming useless.
The commenter in the image above is correct. MBAs don’t care that it’s good. They care that it’s cheap. No matter what any of you think or your most impassioned pleas, that will win the day. Or lose, depending on your perspective.
Really glad I bought 128GB of RAM when it was at its very lowest and a separate machine with 128GB of memory in it as well.
That was good timing given mem prices now. The 128GB of RAM sticks would cost 5.5x as much now.
I worked for a sub-unit of a German company that made exactly those kinds of products. And I kid you not, their unofficial motto was, “We do not innovate.”
And in this case it was exactly what our customers wanted. These were all extremely large (many Fortune 100) enterprise customers that prioritized the tried and true, the stable, and the predictable. They did not want anything that changed like the wind every month or two, as is the usual tech industry way. If a product had been out and tested for 10+ years, they might consider using that “new” tech. And then adopt it over the course of the next decade.
More of the tech world should be that way.
This is the sort of thing I saw someone just a few weeks ago claiming that AI would “never be able to do.” Well, it’s doing it now. It’s only going to get better, too.
Too many people commenting on AI are only familiar with what it could do three years ago, or even a year ago. And that’s not good enough. These days, that’s like being familiar with a 1914 car or a 1928 car.
The OS is the malware. The ads are just evidence that you’ve installed malware.
Back to this. IPv6 makes sense if you have more than a few hundred thousand endpoints and a large engineering staff to manage it all. It’s tons more complex and fiddly than IPv4, so if you have, say, three full-time network engineers for IPv4, if you put in IPv6 you’ll need around a dozen (or one me, but I am rare).
It then does in fact totally make sense! Since IPv4 will always be around and IPv6 is as mentioned vastly more complex and often poorly implemented in hardware, you’ve just increased the difficulty of managing your network 50-fold at least. But some other problems do in fact go away.
Which is why mobile providers use IPv6 — they have the large full-time networking staff to handle it and millions of endpoints which makes even poorly-designed IPv6 a sensible choice.
And all of the above is exactly why no one else should use it.
Also, IPv6 sucks for all these reasons.
And yes, I understand how it works. I’ve implemented IPv6 networks, some with more than 100,000 endpoints. But it still is terribly designed and horrible to use.
With Claude Code and ChatGPT, I am pretty sure I could rewrite the functionality of most SaaS software as companies actually use it in a couple of weeks.
I don’t mean re-write all of SalesForce or whatever. No, I mean, the 2% of the features most particular companies use, I could duplicate them well enough. By myself.
A lot of people don’t realize this is coming. But it is. And it’s going to change a lot of things.
I really hate Git and that it became the default for version control.
Very few actual developers understand it and can use it properly, and almost no non-devs can make sense of that colossal mess. Git is terrible. It won because it is somewhat less terrible than those VCs that came before it.
And that’s a bad way to win.
That’s a newcomer. That screenshot is from Windows XP. I’d been dialing into BBSes at the command line fifteen years before that both on the TRS-80 and in DOS.
Changing the cert expiration period to 47 days is a good example of everything that is wrong with my industry.
This is a pointless change that will cause untold chaos, issues and labor with the most likely outcome being an overall decrease in security — all for the only the appearance of increased security while actually doing worse than nothing.
A lot of effort and noise, achieving only harm. Yeah that’s how it’s working these days in my career.
What‘s something that you miss about the 2000‘s internet age?
Almost no surveillance and what was present was easy to evade. And most things were built for the benefit of users and not large corporations.
It’s a different and much worse world now.
I wrote a right-click (context menu) search extension with the help of AI in 25-ish hours of work and prompting that would’ve taken me 500+ hours to complete on my own, and for a competent programmer probably would’ve been in the 150 hour range.
Huge returns if you know what you’re doing.
My tool has more features, a better UI, is more extensible and is easier to use than any other similar extension out there. It’s not even close. Mine is just better by every measure that matters. And there’s no way I would’ve bothered to create it without AI.
It really is odd that people get completely halted doing computer stuff if there is one single tiny little step even minutely different than what they were expecting.
Today, for instance, because no matter how senior you are in my field you still end up doing Level 1 helpdesk crap, I was helping a Sales Director add the company holidays calendar. I sent her directions but neglected the fact that she had to choose her own account in a step. It was the only possible choice. There literally were no others.
Nevertheless, this person was halted there claiming that it “wasn’t working.” They’d tried nothing and it all failed. At the very, very simplest of steps in a non-risky situation.
And this is the common case with people and computers. Why?
The return of 8GB RAM laptops (RAM mayhem) – Good luck with your Service Desk.
Aww hell no. No matter how much RAM costs, we will not be buying any 8GB laptops ever. That is way too low even for casual use these days, much less doing work. Bare minimum is 16GB, period.