Forget servicing the product. Hell, forget the product. Why can’t they just charge every person alive a subscription for existing? You can choose from monthly or annual, which is slightly cheaper, and either way you get nothing in return.
I think in some ways Generative AI is very emblematic of the current state of software development. Projects are approached from the outset with the driving question being, “how can we make money materialize out of thin air?” Not, “What kind of problems are we trying to solve?” Or, “Why would someone pay for this?”
The last several projects I’ve worked on have been solutions in search of a problem. Hyped up products that made executives see dollar signs but didn’t actually produce any because they failed to provide any tangible value.
You use sun block? Straight to jail.
None. If I broke up with someone it was because I didn’t want to continue a relationship with them.
My wife. She often has no idea what I’m talking about but she listens patiently and at least looks like she’s interested. I appreciate her for that.
Granted, writing the boilerplate for all possible 64 bit integers is a bit laborious,
I’ve been trying to figure out roughly how many lines of code that would equal out to but I’ve run out of fingers.
That’ll show those pesky pirates.
It won’t.
My advice is avoid tape backups. The cost, risk of media degredation, and management overhead make them not worth it, especially for a homelab.
Also, restoring an entire VM is almost easier than recovering a single file, just because of the sequential nature of reading data from a tape. Data recoveries are pretty slow in general.
I backup to an external hard drive with regular copies to iDrive S3. Been doing it that way for a number of years with no problems.
“I got on the plane but I did not exit when we landed.”
Ignorance and hubris are consequences of youth. The fact is that your parents do probably know quite a few things that you don’t, if for no other reason than they have more lived experience. That shouldn’t necessarily make you feel foolish. Part of growing older is realizing that you possess a microscopic fraction of all the knowledge in the universe. Meaning that most people know things that you don’t and you could learn something from them. That’s wisdom. Some adults never embrace that, seeing their ignorance as an asset and turning their hubris into blind arrogance. Those people should feel foolish because they are fools. But they probably don’t.
I don’t agree with every decision my parents made. But in my mid thirties, I do now understand why they are the people they are and why they made some of the decisions they made. They were far from perfect parents. But they did ok, especially in light of the incredibly shitty examples they both had for parents.
Ingen went all “move fast, break things” but with genetically engineered apex predators. Pretty much worked out exactly as expected.
And a guy with an (oddly accurate little) golden gun who also has his own theme song.
Indeed has been steadily enshitifying for quite some time so this tracks.
I hate scammers. People who call you pretending to be the “IRS” and claiming that you’re about to be arrested for unpaid taxes. Sick bastards who make money ripping off (mostly elderly) people.
One time I started getting those phone calls. I went down to the customer service department where I worked, which still had a fax machine, stuck a blank piece of paper in, dialed the scammers number, set retry x100, and hit send.
I called them back an hour later to see if they were getting the message and the guy gave me an earful. I politely explained that every second of his time that I wasted was one less second he got to spend ripping someone else off. He hung up on me but I kept calling back until they finally disconnected that number.
Totally worth it. Fuck scammers.
Well they wouldn’t if not for that hefty bailout by the American taxpayers that they got back in 2008.
If you’re one of the largest and oldest car manufacturers in the world and the most “innovative” thing you’ve managed to do in the last 20 years is rebrand Buick into a young family brand, then you probably need some good competition.
I believe the technical term for that is “Keepy Uppy.”
That’s a toss-up for me. Maybe give it one date and see how it goes?
Pre-skeeze is not unwarranted but not enough info to know if full on skeeze is. If nothing else it would give you a good sense about whether he’s just enthusiastic or whether he’s more attracted to his idealized version of you. That said, if he’s making you uncomfortable, you should make that clear. His response will tell you what you need to know.