> Multiple studies have suggested that management roles - especially those at the mid level - are particularly vulnerable to automation.
Go away or I shall replace you with a very large language model.
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$ ls -l /bin/bash
ls: /bin/bash: No such file or directory
If you must use bash features it should be launched with #!/usr/bin/env bash
. /usr/bin/env
is almost standardised.
Moreover set -e
is overrated and unreliable. If a command can fail the script should check for the failure explicitly.
Unix, which is what's really being programmed here the shell language is a distraction, is user friendly: it's just picky about who its friends are.
If there were a reason to pay engineers what we cost (such as, for example, the incumbent supplier's prices rising ridiculously) an AWS clone could be built in a few months. The reason OpenStack and friends are shit is because nobody needed it not because it's hard.
Writing software is not like building the foundries America is trying to re-onshore in an attempt to make itself grate again.
Your big paragraph is spot on. Your conclusion comes from some other dimension.
Trump is making Europe an offer is can laugh at and piss on. Europe is finally waking up to the fact that America's help after they eventually showed up in WWII was very useful but is no longer necessary.
If America hadn't been so stupid they could have held the reins for centuries to come but after the show you've just put on even if Trump and his cronies were removed tomorrow the mask has been removed and America will never be trusted again.
Nice reserve currency you've got there. It'd be a shame if you wiped your own ar... oh you did already.
It matters not whether we can keep our own systems up without ever failing but whether we can repair them when they do fail.
How do you propose to repair Microsoft's servers during this outage? Restart? Reboot? Reinstall? Do you have the same access to their data centre that you have to your machine on your desk?
You could always not click on it.
And where does it say the reg is a newspaper?
> You seem to be completely, blissfully unaware that a such a statement by you says very much more--negatively--about you than about the object of the statement.
Indeed.
So an AI will take a set of keywords and checkbox flags and wrap them around with excessive layers of boilerplate bureaucratic bullshit nobody has time to or, obviously, needs to read?
Presumably interested parties will then use another AI to summarise the bullshit back into a set of keywords and checkbox flags that convey the few useful datapoints that were originally input, only without the certainty that what you're reading is what was written.
Shannon would be proud.
Cutting off the chip supply was Xi's gift (I think Putin and his cronies are too stupid to take advantage) and that cat is now out of the bag.
The world where nobody really bothers to try because we can all depend on America, and thus remain in their shadow allowing them to call the shots, is gone.
"No longer"? That's the sort of thinking that results in "he was the kind of person who thought if you showed up with all the facts and you laid them out in front of smart people they would do the right thing. I don't think he ever really got over the fact that that wasn't true and that doesn't happen."
People in power will ALWAYS abuse it. Rights are ONLY achieved (and kept!) by separating such people from their heads.
Ask the French.
It says we know a good thing when we see it?
America is squandering the output of its decades of frankly excellent education. We'd be stupid not to take advantage of that while you're throwing it away.
Thank you for educating the next round of Europe's money-makers while we were busy recovering from the wars you eventually got around to helping us with.
> how it could have been mitigated
One popular mitigation is to not perform risky manoeuvers immediately before the entire workforce of your employer and all of your suppliers goes home for 2 days, so that the people who can fix a problem are available to do so when one occurs.
> Users are *always* worth listening to.
Why? It's not their software. If they want it to work in a particular way they have all the tools at their disposal to make it do so. Why should anyone hobble themselves to accomodate their laziness?
> any change should deliver a material benefit to the end user.
If users want some material benefits they can offer some material money.
> it may affect uptake and usage of the project.
Is this project the solution to someone's problem or the extension of a developer's ego?
> All I keep pointing out is he didnt do a nazi salute.
Musk is many things but he's not stupid. He knew exactly what he was doing. -->
The only reason one of his favoured idiots was recently fired was because he didn't know how to keep his racism publicly ambiguous.
> I am not sure I can make that much clearer.
Keep trying.
> Somehow, an ethos of 'entitlement' has arisen, wherein the mere fact of a work being published confers an unquestionable accolade.
It's called copyright and it's not "somehow", the entitlement is its very purpose.
> a key protection against barefaced plagiarism, is given legal backing
Quite.
> If you are working from home, whilst you are doing it, your home is no longer your private home but your workspace.
Nope.
> So accept that your company has access to it.
Nope.
> If you want to separate your home and work, you have to actually go to work.
It's called a "VPN".
Work can stay out of my home. If they don't like that my skills will be welcome elsewhere. If you can't say that get better skills.