I'm not defending the invasion, far from it.
But Putin went in, that's a fact, and there is 70 years of NATO paranoia that says that Putin's army should have steamrolled the place.
That didn't happen. Not by any measure.
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Russia's failure in Afghanistan was understandable. It was a mistake for everyone who ever set foot there.
Russia's failure in Ukraine is not understandable. It should have been a win. Maybe not an easy one, but a win, nonetheless.
To have the Russian army bogged down, or even retreating, is a damning indictment of a serious lack of preparation and foresight.
The bear has lost its claws. Russia's credibility as a military threat is in the toilet, and Putin's reputation has been hit for six.
I wonder what mayhem will come from that.
Of course, Intel.
Nvidia and AMD have been slugging it out over video performance for 3 decades, but you are the future.
Yeah, sure.
Meanwhile, Nvidia's RTX 3080 draws 320 W of power, has 8704 "stream processors" (damned if I know what that is), and can display any game on a 3840 x 2160 screen without trouble.
I'm left wondering if your piddly little 150W part is good enough to play Minecraft on.
But hey, competition is a Good ThingTM, so you go for it. Who knows, maybe 32 ray-tracing units is the future ?
I wish.
With the removal of all COVID restrictions, I now have to be on-site for most of my customers. There is nothing more I can do on-site than at home, but the order has been given.
I only have one customer now that still appreciates the fact that I can help without occupying a desk, or wasting an hour getting there. With one of my other customers, I am planning to have them accept that, from time to time, I can give a second days' work in the week, but I will mandate that it be from my home office. Still, there's only so many days in the week.
WFH was great for me, but it's fast looking to become a beautiful souvenir.
And well she should. All that money and no taste, tsk tsk. A G550 and a Range Rover ? Did you even drive into the woods one day ?
The E450A is very much more in your comfort zone, I'll give you that, but buying two Cadillac Escalade ? What en Earth were you thinking lady ? Did you at least give one to someone ? You already had a shoebox, you didn't need to buy two more.
No, all that money and she buys practically nothing but shitty SUVs.
She definitely deserves 20 years.
Buddy, you can do better than try.
Take his kit and sell it. Be done with it.
Not blaming the parents for not knowing what was cooking. I spent a whole lot of time on my PC way back when I was in school, and my mother wouldn't have had a clue what I was doing. It was in the days before the Internet, so no hacking involved, I was learning how to program.
But now that you know, you should act. No pussy-footing around.
I'm sure SAP could make a mint selling armies of consultants to configure that beast.
Language is complicated, for sure, but how long does it take to configure 176 billion parameters ?
It seems to me it takes way too long to be useful. Tell me there is some form of automation here.
Well, first on the list is selling all the stuff she bought with stolen money and giving the proceeds back to HP.
Which will obviously not suffice because the stuff is no longer new, so it'll be sold at a markdown which might be quite important.
Second is her spending the rest of her life remembering that time she had it all only to squander it and find herself cleaning toilets.
Because she will never be given a company card again, that's for sure.
It beggars belief that someone would actually try this. I mean, sure, a counterfeit luxury purse is still a purse, but a counterfeit processor ? How do you justify that ?
You can't just go sell an 8086 and brand it a Pentium. A counterfeit luxury purse can look as good as the original, but a counterfeit chip is going to be found out real quick.
These guys must be happy to sell just once to each customer, because I'd never buy from them twice.
Oh I absolutely agree.
For a given value of "immediate", that is.
Nor did I say that the ticket wouldn't be read immediately.
In other words, we are in perfect agreement.
Now, let me tell you how things would go in some other customers I have worked with (ie banks and insurance companies) . . .
To put it simply : do you know what an SLA is ? It's what a university generally doesn't have.
Obviously. It's a university. They don't have the money or the intellectual resources to do things properly.
I know I'm not going to make any friends by saying this, but I've never seen a university network without some major, jaw-dropping choices (and I've seen a few), all because the IT people they have were never top-tier in the first place.
In the second place, an "urgent" ticket is generally considered as something that must be fixed this semester. University IT does not live in the same timeframe as its computers. A cyber attack ? That must have reset their clocks in a very hard fashion.
Maybe some good can come of this. And, if indeed there was no data leaked, well their IT guys do deserve a few brownie points.
Now all they have to do is properly segment their data domains and, the next time, they might be able to not lose everything.
I hope their backups are good.
Honestly, with so many failures on its CV, how the Hell is it that Capita continues to get contracts ?
Who's is whose cousin in the upper spheres ? Or is it somebody's wife's son ?
Because there is absolutely no financial, professional or reputational reason to choose Capita. With its history of delays, overcost and underdelivering, it simply boggles the mind that it keeps getting new contracts - that it regularly fails at.
Current ?
I don't know if you're aware, but BitCoin's price has never stopped fluctuating (wildly).
It's only because it is the funny money granddaddy that it has attained such heights. As usual, the first into the pyramid scheme reapes the most rewards.
Adopting BitCoin as legal tender. I don't think that will last all that long. Then again, it's El Salvador, so they can go ruin what's left of their economy, it won't be a big problem on the world scale.
It will be a problem for the poor in El Salvador, though.
Of course you can have proper project management, just like you can design an Access database correctly.
The only problem is that, when you put design tools in the hands of Joe Anybody, you get a project coded by anybody. From my experience, that mostly means a collection of Excel spreadsheets with buttons calling VBA code that nobody knows what it does because the guy who coded it left the company, there is no documentation, cryptic information popups and basically everyone is praying every day that the whole hairball keeps working.
So you go ahead and put process design tools in the hands of people who don't know how to code. I will be chortling quietly when reading about how your customers are frustrated because they can't make anything work properly.
"Online services like fraud analysis or threat intelligence are some of the areas that are expected to become increasingly powered by AI, and these capabilities were already previously handled by software"
And they will continue to be. Just slapping AI on the process doesn't make it AI. Fraud analysis is not entirely easy, but if you think that a statistical analysis machine is going to erase fraud I have a bridge to sell you.
I have had a training course in detecting fraudulent activity, mandated by one of the clients I work for. It is . . . complicated. I'm not convinced that an "AI" is going to do any better than what is in place at the moment.
But hey, banks have money. If they want to waste it on this, good for anyone who gets the deal.
Yeah, but when you don't care about collateral damage, or you're too stupid to imagine that your actions just might be detrimental to some people who are not like the ones you lump in one giant category, it doesn't matter.
So, this Miller is an asshole.
Oh well, maybe it will help people understand that YOU DO NOT DOWNLOAD LIBRARIES TO YOUR PRODUCTION SERVER.