Posts by Pascal Monett 19424 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
I am very happy for you that you are in a position to change employer whenever it suits you.
Guess what ? Not everyone has that privilege.
There are various possible reasons, but some people just have to slog it out whether they like it or not.
You can understand or not, you can be empathetic or not care, but it won't change that fact.
That is the unavoidable problem when you have a methodology that does not require certification to be adopted. I can call myself Agile, I can put it on my CV. I can (and have) made multiple commits to production environments on the same day. I have stand-up meetings, mainly because I come with a question and I need the answer right away.
But I am no Scrum master, I code what needs to be coded in the order required to solve the problem at hand. I am not Agile, I just provide solutions.
For companies, there should be a certification to call oneself Agile. Sorting the wheat from the chaff.
Won't happen though.
Not by a long shot.
We're now being told, in France, that a fourth wave is going to happen. The D variant is, apparently, much more contagious.
Despite all the vaccinations.
All of this is just an excuse to force people to get vaccinated whether they want to or not. Macron has pleged billions to the pharma companies, so now we are marched to the needle despite all Constitutional and Human Rights arguments.
I am sick of my government changing its tune like a weathervane.
Pick a path and stick to it, for frak's sake.
I am aware that smartphones a quite powerful these days - for their form factor.
But it pays to know that entire racks of powerful machines are used in farms to mine funny monies ; a smartphone, as powerful as it may be, cannot hold a candle to a Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080.
So a mobile app to mine stupid money is about as useful as a tricycle in a Formula 1 competition. You'll get there one day, years after everyone else has forgotten you even exist.
But of course, the article used the right word when it said "marks". Yup, one born every minute.
With one caveat : the US already has boatloads more data than China, so China's fears are justified.
The US' fears are simply that China gets more data than it has.
And we are stuck in the middle, being data-raped all day long by everyone else.
Fun times, right ?
It's great that someone offers a free product with useful functionality.
It's less great when that someone is an Internet behemoth that changes its mind on a whim. Disruptive is meant to improve the user experience, not destroy it.
Killing Drive and then ressurecting it to kill its successors demonstrates that nobody thought the whole thing through in the first place.
Google should test its products internally more thoroughly before offering them to the public, and then throwing everything away. Again.
I disagree.
First of all, I doubt that the author of the article is an idiot.
Second, I do believe that he advanced a lot of valid arguments.
Teams is a nightmare for me and I only use it once a week. Microsoft is increasingly nightmarish and totally overstepping its bounds. Forcing me to log in with a corporate ID just to open Excel ? WTF ? Am I going to have to send a dick pic as well ?
Thankfully, my Borkzilla ID issues are constrained to an environment where an actual admin is available to solve issues since it is all for customers and I work on their own hardware (sent to me via UPS or whatever else last year).
I shudder to think of what I would have to go through if I had to deal with that shit on my personal hardware.
Thank God for Firefox + NoScript + uBlock Unity.
I think I would have a lot more confidence in an autonomous sea taxi than in an autonomous land taxi.
If the sea is calm, you've got plenty of warning if something is coming and I'm sure the programming can handle that (aside from the fact that it would be using radar).
And if the sea is not calm, I won't be on it, so . . .
So, you created a Frankenstein monster of cobbled-together code requiring an AI to configure it, and you're surprised that it's not good ?
12 billion parameters. That in itself amply demonstrates that there isn't a company in the world that has enough resources to configure this thing.
Erase it, start over. Use humans to evaluate the code. Yes, it's more expensive, but it works better.
We are not at the point where computers can code software for computers.
I'm pretty sure that there will be harder ones in the future.
That said, I have come to believe that Kaseya should have the benefit of the doubt. White hats have pointed out that Kaseya reacted swiftly and properly to vulnerability alerts, and did everything it could to plug the holes as swiftly as possible.
Unfortunately, the criminals got in first. You cannot guard against bad luck.
I'm now convinced Kaseya is doing what it can to pick up the pieces and put everything back together again. All the noises being made point to a team that is working its ass off and trying its best to recover from the situation.
I no longer think that Kaseya was asleep at the wheel. I feel sorry for everyone involved, and I really wish someone could stop those despicable criminals.
Good luck, Voccola.
Sorry, but I don't think that pixel count defines camera capability.
I have a Canon EOS 400D. I have 3 different lenses I can put on it, 2 rechargeable batteries and two SD cards that, put together, can record a total of over 700 high-definition pictures.
There is no smartphone that can hold a candle to the picture quality of that camera, even if it only has 10MP.
The only issue is that I can't carry it in my shirt pocket.
To do that, I use a revolutionary new technology. It's called bookmarks. The channels I'm actually interested in, I bookmark them.
I have scores of channels bookmarked. I don't have enough time in the day to watch all of them, especially since some of them regularly propose content that lasts 40+ minutes at a time (Timeline, Absolute History, etc).
I have absolutely no need for Youtube's homepage and I practically never go there unless I want to search for new channel that I got a referral for.
Really people, learn how to use your browser. And brain.
And most of them are likely very capable of handling a Zoom call and an Excel spreadsheet at the same time. It's more than likely that it's the Internet bandwidth that is an issue, not the CPU power.
No, Dell, you're not going to renew 700 million desktop PCs this year. Nor next year.
"I see this with banking. Unless you've actually recently sent an international wire transfer, you did not know how infuriating that process is. You don't know where it is, you don't know how long it's going to go and you don't know how many banks are going to take obscene amounts of cash off the top of your wire transfer. "
What I see is that the US banking system is so fucking shitty you had to go and invent something that makes global climate change worse instead of fixing your fucking shitty banking system.
I live in France. I have a company registered in Luxembourg. I have no problem with international bank transfers. They happen on the day I set them for, and the annual fee is ridiculously low (maybe I shouldn't have said that last bit).
In any case, now I know why Bitcoin and the rest of those funny money pyramid schemes are all the rage overseas. You have a shitty banking system and you can't be arsed to fix that.
Well I'll leave you to your toys and blame you when Florida is finally underwater.
Well, at least they're good for vacuuming - maybe.
In any case, it seems that Real Humans are still a good ways off.
Maybe that's a good thing.
