Posts by EarthDog

Salesforce users grumble after Agentforce AI replaces search on some help pages

Now Slack has done it

They’ve shown a bunch of young and impressionable youth the failures of Capitalism. They are now budding Socialists.

There's no international protocol on what to do if an asteroid strikes Earth

Re: Didn't we solve this in 1979?

I’m highly experienced with several high scores under belt. Where do I volunteer?

Re: That's not all...

https://www.ready.gov/community-preparedness-webinar-series-zombie-awareness

Re: Eh?

Because we all know it is easier to train rig hands to be astronauts than it is to train astronauts to be rig hands

Techies thought outside the box. Then the boss decided to take the box away

Re: Aquarium offices....

Where I work we had an empty desk. People would move there while some sort of HR/disciplinary action occurred. Usually they’d be gone after a month or two after all hearings etc. we’re done. We came to call the seat “the chair of shame”.

AI can't replace devs until it understands office politics

But seriously, 2 observations 1) as the author pointed out coding creates things that have never been created before so finding tracing data is impossible. 2)

So far I have been generating boiler plate. Stuff I don’t want to write that I know have Bennet solved, such as listening on a port. That might be the best use cases for it.

So your [expletive] test failed. So [obscene participle] what?

Useful in fighter cockpits

“Fuck FATAL ERROR. Bail the fuck out!” Is both appropriate and useful. Assuming the pilot is still alive.

Re: No Comment!

Don’t forget pedogenisis. Which I only use when talking to a specific audience

'I see you're running a local LLM. Would you like some help with that?'

“It looks like you’re writing a su1c1de letter”

Clippy can help

Brewhaha: Turns out machines can't replace people, Starbucks finds

Startbucks is dead

They just don’t realize it yet. As soon as tariffs kick in coffee, tea, and chocolate will disappear. I’m telling Americans to by their mothers chocolate this Mother’s Day as it may never again be an option.

Elon Musk makes another cut – to his time at DOGE

He’s just a rich boy

Flitting from hobby to hobby

Bankruptcies were part of his business plan. He made money off of them

Isar’s first orbital rocket crashes into sea – CEO calls it a 'great success'

Space 2.0

Move fast, break things, and fail to learn as all information is proprietary

Dems ask federal agencies for reassurance DOGE isn't feeding data into AI willy-nilly

Re: Today's Democratic Party...

I’m convinced the Democrats are riddled with GOP operatives

Re: Speculative.

I often say that the difference between me and a bunch of other people is that I *know* lm crazy.

BOFH: HR's AI hiring tool is perfectly unbiased – as long as you're us

If those demons knew that they’d leave our universe alone

Eggheads crack the code for the perfect soft boil

Great job!

This is the sort of hard boiled news I have come to expect from the Reg. The writing was top notch, not scrambled at all.

Re: "a total duration of 32 minutes"

in a vacuum water will boil at room temperature. Or did you mean the appliance?

Musk’s DOGE ship gets ‘full’ access to Treasury payment system, sinks USAID

Re: POV of an American

Well I have thought MAGA = SA . As far as SS goes I’m not sure. I’m not sure it will repeat but it will rhyme.

The narcissists will kill each other but also don’t forget the role of syncopaths. They can also be dangerous

Re: "I don't personally know anyone who has had trouble with the IRS. "

well he's long dead. No one can know him personally. Also, he deserved it.

and it wouldn't have been long before states started inviting in foreign powers to help them settle disputes with other states. The 40 years war and English Civil war were recent history to many of the people who wrote the constitution.

The death of the sysadmin has been predicted for years – we're not holding our breath

Re: Biased A.I models written by white men

The reason training datasets are biased is that the datasets from the beginning were biased. Only time can fix it. Until then GIGO.

Bosses face losing 'key' workers after forcing a return to office

Why not convert to apartments

Why not convert some of them to convert unused space to apartments? There has been a glut of office space over the years and not enough residential built. rezone to multi use and apartments can be leased out.

Scientists think they may have cracked life support for Martian occupation

Re: May??

the lack of nitrogen has huge implications for agriculture.

Re: How about plants ?

So it's an equipment fault. Personally I've lived and worked at 960 hPa, about 3k meters. I've lived and worked most of my life at over 1800m . Most people could adapt to 3k meters even if they've lived at sea level most of their lives.

Ukraine war blurs lines between cyber-crims and state-sponsored attackers

Let's call them what they are

privateers

Modular finds its Mojo, a Python superset with C-level speed

Re: Static typing in Python

In my experience requirements are also constantly morphing. I've spend time in scientific/academic computing and business computing. In my experience business requirements shift faster than scientific requirements. The people I've met that were doing the Sci. programmer had no real training, exp., or desire to develop software and therefore produced crap.

Apache Superset: A story of insecure default keys, thousands of vulnerable systems, few paying attention

Using what "random number" generator

They all have weaknesses. Best to not use one shipped with any major SW package.

To improve security, consider how the aviation world stopped blaming pilots

Re: Management response

I think he stole that from "The Orange Man"

Re: The Big Difference....

you forgot "after obscene bonuses".

Never play the "blame game"

It's unprofessional and gets you nowhere. I've worked in almost every aspect of software development over the years, including QA. QA should never be used as punishment, instead the attitude should be "let's work together to make better software".

If you find yourself working in a place where blame is matter of course, get out. If you are working in QA and interviewing for a job and they want you to be confrontational, don't take the job. Likewise if you are taking a role anywhere else in development and they imply QA is their police force, don't take the job.

In fact the same is true of almost any work place.

Colorado sends agricultural right to repair bill to governor

They need to take a lesson from MS

Make money certifying and "taxing" people to fix the equipment.

40% of IT security pros say they've been told not to report a data leak

The bosses are always the problem

Always. They cover up, hire monkeys to do window dressing, have no policies, fail to enforce policies, cut corners, etc.

IT depts struggle with skills shortages despite Big Tech layoffs

Twitter shouldn't even be counted

The layoffs there are the result of one meglomanical narcicist and not an attempt by a suit to make more money by mimicing others.

Workers don't want these humanoid robots telling them to be happy

Re: Asimov nailed it

Better yet a robot that fetches and pays for pizza and pints.

Happy Valentine's Day: Here's the final nail in Internet Explorer's coffin

Job security for those of us who know windows registry

The Browser wars

I got caught up in the browser wars of the 90's. I was doing web development at the time. We tried to support IE and other browsers but constant breakage in our applications due to IE constantly introducing incompatibilities caused me to quit browser application development. Never again, chrome seems like a replay of it.

It took a while but I finally got the twitching under control.

The US would sooner see TSMC fabs burn than let China have them

Re: Comparison to OPEC

the article says the opposite

Re: Comparison to OPEC

That's not at all what the article says or 10 years of weapons inspections. There were no WMDs

Re: Isn't that their plan?

Sorry you'll have to queue up. We can get you in after Liechtenstein.

The nodes have it in the Great DB debate: Reg readers pick graph

Re: Late surge?

After it closed? It sounds like it was rigged.

Re: Choice of database? Luxury (and yoy try telling the youth of today that!)

Changing relationships can be easily handled by a link table either by changing it (not recommended) or adding a new one.

Re: Democracy

I keep saying basically the same think but it doesn't sink in. Programmers are by and large NOT database literate. They are not data literate. I've worked as a Sys. Admin, DBA, SQA, Programmer, team lead, Department Head, Business Analyst etc. I am sick and tired of developers blaming others, esp. the DBA, for their crappy code.

They think their code will do the job better than a database engine developed and optimized by people smarter than most of us over a 50 to 60 year period. Oracle was invented c 1977 before the web, the internet, ethernet, and other tech we are used to today. It has a clunky mainframe feel to it but the core tech. is solid. A smart person will NOT blame the DB before have overwhelming evidence.

Good God man! you've asked people to do actual Science!

British monarchy goes after Twitter, alleges rent not paid for UK base

Re: So, his "genius" is mainly..

Like most AMerican Universities they are de facto owned by corporations

Globalization is over, and it'll cost you, according to TSMC founder

Re: De-globalisation not going far enough

Backyard foundries would be a Great Leap Forwards

Re: De-globalisation not going far enough

WHat's the Sherwood MIlitia up to these days? They just keep going on and on about the 1%