Posts by a_yank_lurker

Aliases-Questions

Was Tesla aware of the aliases? If so, what were the reasons for the aliases? If he did supply a good reason, why did they hire him? I can think of a couple of reasons for an alias (adoption, marriage, legal name change come to mind) but there are not that many and AFAIK they all leave a paper trail to easily follow. The article implies the reason for the aliases was dodgy at best which means HR is run by idiots (but I repeat myself per Mark Twain). Twain's quote (paraphrased) "Suppose you are idiot and suppose you are member of Congress, but I repeat myself".

Pot Meet Kettle

The whole Aussie fiasco sounds to me (a non Aussie) like 2 toddlers throwing tantrums if they do not get their way. Depending on the details, the media companies might have a slightly better case. The threat to leave if the bill passes largely as is appears to be rather idiotic and arrogant. Leaving would reinforce the complaints of many of the excessive power of the tech giants; not good optics when the complainers can point to Australia as an example.

WFH vs In Office

First point is some jobs require one to go into the office, others can be done remotely, and some require a mix of time wfh and in office. Also lets define WFH as a situation were a person might darken the office no more than once or twice a quarter whether scheduled or not. Lab work (I am an ex lab rat) will require going into the office. Some drafting work might require going into the office (the equipment required to make drawings might be rather awkward to set up in a home. Sales, marketing, can often be done from home. Many IT jobs again can be done from home, though some will require someone babysit the servers, etc.

Also, as czechitout noted many meetings have to be on Zoom/Teams/etc. because not everyone is in the same state or country even. So it does not matter if one joins the meeting from home or in the office (home might often be easier).

Once the pandemic eases and some sort of normality is restored I do not see many companies going back to having the staff come into the office with the same frequency as prepandemic. My group and others, because another group required more space, lost our individual cubes and as of yet my group does not have any cubes to call home.

Facial recognition

Trying to determine someone's trustworthiness from facial expressions, etc. during a stressful situation (job interview) seems like it could give too many false negative (not trustworthy) to be reliable. 'Training' the system with mock interviews is a failure as by definition a mock interview is not a real interview; the actual stress for a candidate is not there.

i386 Support

Many have been dropping i386 support recently. For newer kit, this makes sense as there is not that much i386 gear that is online. Most of the still running kit is for the CNC machine (and the like) that probably never was online on even on a network. So it can safely run whatever OS and software they currently have installed. If the OS was updated, I suspect there is good chance the software installed would not run. So from Debian's perspective (or anyone else's) is with the effort to continue to continue to support i386, etc. in the future.

Pointless

So India Business Machines thinks it can buy itself back into relevance. The reason they are mocked now is they botched too many important projects, acquisitions, and products over the last 40 years that many are surprised they are still around and marginally viable.

Not Unexpected

At the risk of many down votes, this was not unexpected. The US elites detest 'flyover country' calling residents 'deplorables', etc. implying they are subhuman. The arrogance and disdain they have towards the 'deplorables' is will known and is rather corrosive. It does not help the US media is notoriously unreliable at the best of times and has not exactly done their best work over the last decade or so.

The last election had many issues with dodgy counting in at least 6 states (Stalin noted he who counts the votes has the power) with a serious lack of any attempt of an investigation by anyone particularly at the state level. The courts have generally refused to step, generally tossing the cases on procedural grounds not on the merits. The legislatures in at least 3 of these states are furious. In Georgia there is chatter of impeaching the governor and secretary of state. There are rumblings in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania over the vote counting in those state's legislatures. The regular session of the legislatures generally starts sometime in January for the new term, so they are beginning their new session. Many feel the election was stolen by massive fraud and there is evidence of fraud in at least 6 states. What is not known is whether it was extensive enough to change the outcome of the election in each of these states.

Lies, damn lies, statistics, and audited reports

The question to this non-auditor is just how reliable are audit reports once you get beyond 10 km overview, if that is even reliable. There seems to be any business expenses in particular that are hard to classify and more importantly any large business is rarely a pure play such as a pure software or hardware house. The description of Autonomy as a software house in a hyper technical sense may be inaccurate but in real world sense is probably very accurate. I have been of the opinion Leo the Galactic Idiot failed to do real due diligence and was trying emulate Jack(ass) Welch by trying to be the biggest (presumably baddest) on the block. Mergers and acquisitions often fail because for many reasons but one of the more mundane is by pursuing getting larger at all costs.

Access

At least someone had enough sense to use a database even if it is Access. My real problem with Access is not the program but that the Rejects of Redmond oversold its capabilities. If used correctly it was perfectly good solution. But like its stablemate, Excel, it tended to be pushed to places it should not go.

Dip Switches

Was the customer a dip switch or dip wad?

Hmm

If credit scores can be 'improved' by this then I wonder about the quality (and legality) of credit scores to begin with.

History Rhymes

It seems about 20 years or so there is a major anti-trust suit against an extremely large corporation. In the late 90's it was the Rejects of Redmond and now it is Chocolate Factory. Fundamentally both suits revolve around dominance of one area allowing domination in other markets. The details are obviously different. It seems like your average moron in manglement does not bother to even read recent history (assuming they are literate) as this pattern reoccurs with great regularity.

It seems like manglement focuses on the wrong issue, it's not about ad revenue or OS market share but dominance in key area allowing them to strangle competition in areas they chose to enter. Fraudbook and Twatter are another couple of overripe juicy targets. I do not see their manglement having enough collective gray matter to see the suits coming.

Certification Hell

It seems like certifications have become the new 'degree'. If you do not have the correct certifications you are assumed to be an idiot and completely unqualified much like not having the right degree can bin you into sewer.

Academic Exerciae (sort of)

These types of exploits always strike me as requiring many steps to go right for them to be used. Also, I wonder exactly how close you have to be to receive the signal. This distance always seems to be not stated which makes me suspect it is may be 100 meters under ideal conditions and under more realistic conditions may be 10 meters or so. Distances that tend make someone try to snoop a bit obvious in many situations.

Commercialization?

Linux adoption has been slow for several reasons. One of the major roadblocks for many is what software titles are available on Linux even if there is an option available that may be completely suitable for the user. This is a major problem for any new OS; users want to be able the box to do something. Bloatware sucks but it has the most titles available many of which are extremely familiar to users. Fuchsia may be best OS ever developed but without a robust title list it will be ignored by most users. True Chocolate Factory is try to develop an OS to use in place of Android and ChromeOS but Fuchsia must have titles available on release. Commercial vendors might be very slow to release Fuchsia versions. Here Linux is a good example, many common titles do not have a Linux version available.

I can continue with other issues about Linux I use Linux as my daily driver.

OS?

From the reference to dll's, I assume this has only been seen on Bloatware and not other OSes but is this assumption correct. If so, why are the dll's modifiable through the browser?

Excrement

So Excel is the excrement of the Rejects of Redmond. The mangling morons are telling idiots it's all right to write code in a spreadsheet with no documentation or proper testing. I wonder how many companies will go under when the merde spewed out is so wrong that C-suite has no idea about the financial health of the company until payroll bounces.

Spreadsheets are useful for fairly limited situations and calculations - those that can be verified by inspection of the formulae. But what many do is beyond what should be done in spreadshit.

Slime does like being called out

So India calls out the slimy scum who are defacto CCP intelligence operations. The slime calling the shots does not like being called out for what they are.

Security is a priority or a parody

Other than cheap I have not heard much good about GoDaddy.

Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics

Cherry picking favorable statistics has long been a marketing ploy. These bench marks ignore one important bottleneck for many tasks; the user's fat fingers. AMD apparently decided that certain tasks were not critical in most situations were a laptop is unplugged and extending battery life might be much appreciated. The tasks Chipzilla is ranting about strike me as either a task that is not what most will be doing while mobile or if they are time is not as critical. But this is typical marketing BS.

Scrooge

At least Ebeneezer Scrooge learned compassion in the Dicken's 'A Christmas Tale' which is something the manglement at Itsy Bitsy Morons could learn.