100÷. I used to work for a bank and the lending team didn't even know how to calculate loan repayments. They just deferred to what the core banking system did.
The core banking system was written in a proprietary language in the 70's and machine translated into another (slightly newer) proprietary language in the 90's. At the time I wouldnt be surprised if management was patting themselves on the back for a modernisation job well done. Just get the computer to do the conversion, right? The sales guys of the new platform assured us they could migrate everything automatically and we always trust a sales guy!
Of course the machine translation is like reading machine code so very difficult to understand / follow / change. The developers working on it were in maintenance mode and everyone was afraid to touch it incase some calculation broke.
The point is that it's exactly what you described - the users were trained to push buttons and trust the system output without actually knowing what they were doing and if it was correct.
Pretty sure the bank recently got fined for compliance breaches as well. It's not because anyone there was bad, they just had no idea how anything was meant to work
I can make up numbers too!
I supported ACT at the election but they've become increasingly unhinged lately and started doing a bunch of stuff I don't really agree with.
Still, I'm happy that MMP finally worked for the first time since it was introduced to NZ. A coalition of more than 2 parties is a net win imo and at the next election I'm hoping the minor parties get more support
France is a safe haven for foss media codecs because its law does not consider software patentable
TIL there is a country that sees reason about software patents
If I was a bot author intent on causing misery I'd just use the user agent from the latest version of Firefox/Chrome/Edge that legitimate users would use.
It's just a string controlled by the client at the end of the day and I'm surprised the GPT and OpenAI bots announce themselves in it. Associating meaning on the server side is always going to be problematic if the client can control the value
TIL Cert Warden is a thing. Looks awesome!
Takes me back to my first Arch install in like 2008.
I used Arch btw
The irony is, unlike the old days - actually AMD (ATI) is recommend for Linux now because the drivers are better.
This is in stark contrast to the fglrx days where that driver was an absolute abortion and NVIDIA was really the only usable one.
Not sure when you started your Linux journey but I avoided AMD for years based on that.
Now the tables have turned but I didn't realize until after I purchased my NUC which has NVIDIA RTX graphics. So I guess I'm stuck on NVIDIA for the foreseeable future
^ this guy corporates
Also, new manager would be part owner in a UX design firm of "experts" that conveniently, via their expert advice, convince management that a major redesign is needed and their firm is the only one that can do it (since everyone knows you can't get expert advice internally)
80% of the way through the project, the manager gets promoted and moves on, leaving a new manager with no vested interest in their predecessors project to try and clean up the steaming dumpster fire that is now 300x over budget
640 exabytes should be enough for anyone!
In a free market, aren't you free to collude with your competitors in order to fix prices?
Ah, I misread. I thought they were saying acetone = acetic acid but actually they were just saying there was something worse
I believe you're mixing up acetone with acetic acid
Well, yeah. Anything less than 0 is freezing and anything greater than 0 isn't.
Ezpz
What are you talking about? TempleOS isn't a punishment, it's a reward
We cannot, Python explicitly doesn't do TCO.
http://neopythonic.blogspot.com/2009/04/tail-recursion-elimination.html?m=1
RecursionError: Maximum recursion depth exceeded image manipulation toolkit
No way, at least Gentoo is up to date
Te Pāti Māori wants to establish its own parliament
Im quite surprised by this, isn't Parliament a crown/british concept? And Te Pati Maori are usually quite opposed to Crown concepts.
Regardless, I think as much hate as ACT gets for this - it seems obvious that clarity on the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi is required so that every New Zealander knows where they stand (legally speaking) and we can move on as a country.
The different interpretations from different groups are distracting from the real issues because the solution gets muddied.
Should we establish group-specific organisations that all do the same thing, just for different segments of society - or should we pour our energy and resources into making organisations work for all New Zealanders?