Posts by spireite 595 publicly visible posts • joined 15 May 2015
I know the US is litigation happy but....
Elon could tell me and prove the software could handle any situation in self driving.... but I'd still be bloody alert to take over in the name of self preservation.
I can't believe that anyone would not notice a big rig crossing in front and not be ready to intervene.
This implies to me that the victims in these accidents didn't pay attention, probably playing on their mobiles.
Darwin in auto-action....
I was a new hire on WFH fully contract in the UK
When our Canadian CEO told us everyone had to work from the nearest office, we effectively told him to FRO.
Only after they lost over 80% of WFH staff did they recognise the devastation that diktat caused.
Horse has bolted, the genie has escaped
Ergo, it's not gonna happen.
My ex company has haemorraged its entire permanent tech staff by forcing a 5 day in office rule, now populated by contractors who
1. Don't care
2. Get paid for mediocre results
And the company suffers
.. yet the company claims they believe that in office is better for collaboration.
That'll be why each office worker uses Teams even when they are all in the office.
This is a mandate of companies that overpaid and over expanded with associated overpriced office space... Nothing more
You'll be tied and held hostage.
I'm always looking to do things using cloud agnostic platforms. I don't want to be tied any one if them if possible.
The biggest fight I have is when the uppers tell me to use something because it's part of the vendors 'stack' - for example Cosmos., or Azure Data Factory.
There are plenty of cloud-agnostic ADF types out there. It's not even like ADF is cheap!!
As someone who isn't chubby, but have some acquaintances who were definitely not built for speed and flood over the arm rests, I have no problem with them being 'analysed'
One of them could eat me for lunch, and normally books two seats so their 'average' is down.
On my last flight, someone of that build literally had to go in 'crab-wise' to get down the aisle, and in the bog at the back.
I was expecting them to need a shoehorn to assist.
In that respect, they should use something other than a plane.
Full body scanners? I've been thropugh them in a few UK airports - they do only randomly pick people it seems generally. Once when i set the main one off, and the hand wand was beeping for no obvious reason I got checked through the big body one.
I was waiting for the sound of a Marigold - just in case,
Self-driving tech... wouldn't trust i ever.
I work in IT, and it's a given that whatever you tell a user, they - in their minds - are getting something that is almost sentient.... no matter how dumb it may be.
I have a car with a touch screen - nothing fancy - quite simple in fact - Toyota (as used on C-HR, Prius). What I've noticed is that when changing anything on the screen - such as switching to Energy display - the small amount of time I take my eyes off the road still feels unsafe to me.
When I worked at a company that remains nameless........
f**k it...
Dye and Durham...
The CEO famously said in a company meeting to the underlings that anyone who didn't like it could leave and find employment elsewhere, despite those same employees putting in all the effort to keep it afloat, improve things.....
That CEO now stands looking out over a desolate wasteland where the techies with business knowledge for the most part did precisely that. Projects have apparently ground to a halt, and now the horse is borderline dead, with a few random twitches.... fighting to stay alive with contractors who don't have the biz knowledge, and probably don't have the sense of belonging, and frankly don't care...
Meanwhile, those who upped sticks on the whole found better paying jobs, with better benefits.
CEOs.... BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR........
Or, to cut through the corporate bullshit.... (please replace the cloud-provider with the any of the others - it's still relevant for them all!)
Amazon:
"We recognise that the utopia of low-cost we sold to customers was a myth. Our customers have recognised they are spending 2x/3x what they did when they self-hosted.
We are absolutely desperate to retain our customers, before they go back to what they used to do"
Customer:
"We now recognise that we were sold a dud/lemon. We now recognise that maintaining the cloud infrastructure still requires us to pay staff to maintain it. We now recognise that our original pre-cloud setup was cheap!! "
99.9% of customers....
The end.
A former employer of mine, when I blatantly pointed out that Cloud was costing us 4x what on-prem did (we still had on-prem servers etc), with out a hint of a smile said....
Yeah, but that's CapEx - CapEx is bad...
yes, I know they operate differently so far as accounting but 3m (Cloud) vs 750K (on-prem) is a hell of cost to do OpEx!
I'm a paid up nerd, and looked at the same thing.
I have a Dell Workstation 3610, hardly cheap to run at home.
Priced what I need in Azure or AWS, and neither came close.
My various employers went for cloud ..the 'lack' of needing to employ an infrastructure guy made cloud cheaper.
Of course time has marched on, and they now employ several of them to manage the cloud.
Cloud is a fools errand for many.
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