https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wo9l--9bpms

National security priorities definitely in order.

You should have seen them in the lead up to Iraq invasion. They’ve been training for years for this moment.

Same playbook UK just did, they are in the middle of trying to renationalizr rail because it’s such a cluster.

Saw a headline that the MMR vaccine may be reduced in effectiveness after 40-ish years. It’s all breaking news since people being so backwards as to not be vaccinated in numbers to allow this kind of study to even materialize in a world that has a proven cure is certainly recent.

For the same reason housing should be a speculative investment, and healthcare services available only to the highest bidder.

A General ignoramus

I miss these links! Loved them so much before coming over from The Borg to Lemmy. Thank you.

Oracle exists solely on inertia and big, dumb, uninformed customers. They were an early mover in the space for erp, and then they tried to develop everything else. I work in HR and filter out jobs where “PeopleSoft” is their product as it’s so monumentally unfit for human and operational use and eats up all technical, financial and employee resources to try to make it do simple, common things. Companies spend far more training, hiring consultants (because the product is unintuitive and limited in functionality) to operate the system and “customizations” that take years to build and a cadre of expensive folks to keep running is not the exception but the standard. If you see “Oracle” or “PeopleSoft” in the URL for a job application, run far, far away.

20 years ago only big companies had a need for the scale of an erp, and unfortunately many of them went with Oracle. SAP was the other dog and while similarly unintuitive at least worked well at what it did, bless the Germans. There are soooo many better, more flexible more intuitive, modern products that users can learn and use to choose from, only the truly hopeless are still using Oracle products for ERP and HRIS.

The most insidious part of Oracle is that because of how difficult it is to use, change, modify and learn, the people responsible for changing these systems experience Stockholm syndrome where they don’t want to change to a better system. All they know is failure, pain, lack of comprehension and lack of understanding of products and the thought of starting over in another system mortifies them, and so they become the barrier to telling Oracle to piss off.

“scanning…you do have a pulse, indicating you’re alive, your heart will at some point stop which means you are in the process of dying.”

“WARNING YOU ARE DYING REEEEEE!”

I work in HR. No one cares.

Life hack and Consumerist used to be two of my favorite reads and forums. Then they were absorbed into the Borg and stopped putting out anything useful.

Great article, you should x-post to [email protected]

The last few years watching the hype train and thinking that Nigerian prince emails, lottery winners and everything else still makes it through their pathetic email filters and they want to launch rocket ships with their omnipotent AI? GTFO

It’s telling the wording - continue to work on AI while rigorously reviewing ROI of other initiatives. Shouldn’t AI be rigorously evaluated? Too much money in slopping out poor quality shit while laying people off in any company, that’s why companies are putting NOS on the AI bandwagon. You don’t even have to calculate it, you just know LLM slop will be cheaper than humans.

Until, of course it isn’t. When you break trust, and there are impactful catastrophes, or just regular incompetence…suddenly AI will lose its star status of “this will get me my annual bonus or stock options” status and be relegated to its actually helpful use cases like parsing medical insurance claim denial statements. Then they’ll be hiring humans back–and that cycle may not take long. Once AI is demoted, people who actually want to make it work instead of getting paid will likely improve it a good deal, but the charlatans will have made theirs by that point. And that’s always the point in the cycle to get big spend from gullible decision-makers.

When the US govt and heads of most companies are old, white men who do not understand the tech implications for their product, and won’t be around in 30 years to care if it’s still marketable and sustainable, I guess it makes sense for them economically to just get paid this quarter.

The sermon at the mount, and the subsequential Loaves and Fishes miracle was actually funded by a 12% Square transaction fee on all the loaves that Jesus handed out, attendees had their addresses and children’s DOBe wholesaled on Alibaba and all miracle Witnesses had to sign an NDA.

Why have I not heard “Old Spice” before now? Much better than using that sack’s given names.

This is the opportunity the Fediverse was waiting for.

“upgrading”

In the same way poker players misuse or misunderstand “pot equity” as a concept to justify chasing poor hands.