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I think at one point in the past there might have been some justification for the distributor/dealer model. I see it in my industry. The traditional cybersecurity model was Vendor produces, Disti distributes (as it's name), and resellers sell. Back when this started it made sense because no...

Of you'll be able to just go, customize your ride on line, do the financing through your bank or the manufacturer, and have it delivered... We can only hope to survive this long enough for the courts to see the error of these ways my friends.

You can. But with current coding technology that has it's issues. With fresh "code from scratch" it seems to do much better than with "Maintenance coding" tasks. It's not the old language itself (COBOL) that I see as a problem. It's that a lot of older coding is, to say the least, somewhat...

When those senior operators and coders who are writing and running those archaic systems retire/die this will pose problems for AI driven dev systems in that many of those old systems have evolved "organically" over time (i.e. horribly and often ill documented at best), and the newer devs have...

Essential gear for the IT helpdesk person around the office....

If you can imagine, I know for a fact a HUGE swatch of the federal reserve bank system still runs on COBOL. I know where they hire people for it, and have been doing so since I was a child apparently.

That's already here. I am watching a customer I have supported in the past who was a BPO (read : call center outsourcer) getting absolutely put in the cuck chair by AI based "Call Centers" that are coming in at 30-40% the cost and in many cases providing service customers like more.. Here's...

I'm in sales, a supposed job that combines both technical capabilities and "soft skills" , the latter is supposedly "immune to AI" if I listen to others in my career. But even I realize I might be LUCKY being old in that I only have around 5 years tops left in an active working career because...

This is the exact willful ignorance of the Pareto Principal which every executive pats themselves on the back for... until the collapse.

AI is the new Junior Dev. We have to hope it's the new senior dev before the ones we have retire.

Ah yes.. The Pareto Principal applies almost everywhere. Especially in "percentage of workers versus percentage of work they get done". I work in sales and see this play out time and time again, but companies never accept it. They always think "We'll just pare down the less useful 80% and...

Someone has actually done this.... And if you're not a metalworker... https://3dprint.com/103249/3d-printed-cat-armor/

And by "criminals" you mean people who just don't want to be at the mercy of the US controlled SWIFT system? ;) I have heard also that countries can pay it in Yuan.

I'm still down a tiny bit for the year, but mostly because of the one large stock holding I know I need to diversify (stock in the company I work for). Just trying to figure out the best way (i.e. least expensive from a tax event standpoint) to diversify it.

Looking at the headlines this morning when I woke up Trump seems to commit to keeping people there "until a peace deal is done and followed through on". And Israel is doing it's second day massive strikes on Lebanon (which Iran sees as a ceasefire violation). Iran has locked the straight back...

Apparently there was a study and everything that shows the banks are just essentially wanting to block customers from being able to get a better alternative to their non-existent yields..

Yeah, I've also seen some of the "local model" runners (like GPT4all) have the ability to reference flat files for "memory" as well. And I think if I do my "couple the model with an agent like OpenClaw" I would build into the pre-prompting a method for it to retain things, and or a "catch...

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As for Oil, there seems to be a wide variation on takes. As long as Iran limits flow, that will introduce inherent upward pressure. Supposed "industry experts" on Bloomberg today were saying if the strait is still essentially shut down in 2 weeks Oil will reach $150 before it goes down. Not...

My wife has some nerve impingement around her lower back and hip that she is prescribed Gabapentin for, and she only takes it when things "get bad" because of those exact side effects. She can't take feeling mentally flooby. I've evolved in the opposite direction. At first I always needed an...

If we look at how people are accessing AI right now, much of it is gated by larger and larger corps profiting off our use of it. This leads me to believe at least in the nearer term we're going to see AI's turning huge corporations into megacorps, and they will control what AI the lowly serfs...

OK. just finished season 2 and I can't think of a single thing they could have changed to make me like it more. So far it's a near note perfect adaptation. And as mentioned, it somehow manages to not take itself seriously... Yet pull off stuff like the Chopper origin story, and then the...

Saw a video today about this which said this movie has now had EIGHT screening runs with editing/reshoots after them to try to make it more audience palatable. (For those who do not know, 8 is a somewhat eye popping number of screenings to need to do).

That's apparently one of the big reasons this fraud is so prevalent. If my sister and I weren't watching her mail and tracking what was going on she never would have even noticed that someone flipped her insurance until all of a sudden she was getting massive bills from half her doctors because...

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The other problem is that it's SO EASY to defraud. When I got on the phone with the Medicare people, I told them my mom's name, and my name and that I was her power of attorney handling all her affairs. How did they validate this information? Asked for her DOB and her Medicare card number...

One of the most boggling parts of this.. a GOVENMENTAL OFFICE was able to do something more efficiently than two different private businesses, so I'm also having my cognitive dissonance today. Ah yes.. The US MEDICARE DIAL IN OFFICE : 1-800-633-4227

OK.... In today's episode of "What the hell is Rustling Haus' Jimmies So Much" : (Full disclosure, I am full power of attorney and handle all finances and medical stuff for my mom who is in her mid 70's) Her Medicare Part B or whatever was flipped from Humana to UHC without her or my...

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Still better than Disney Star Wars....

As for timing, from what I hear they're already filming the next season, so hopefully they're realizing these multi-year gaps don't work well when you have flesh and blood actors.

OK, question in case someone knows this... Do the mobs still scale up HP if there are multiple people fighting them? It kinda feels like that. And my usual Sunday afternoon nonsense in the game is my wife and I running some delves and prey runs. Also, funny when you're paired up and do...

True, option 2, even if not giving you your goal gives you at a minimum experience and hopefully some salty but funny stories. As I have heard said, few people lay on their death beds bemoaning the risks they took, but many regret the things they never tried. Now with that all said, we are a...

Bottom line reality here. You have three possible paths : Try and succeed Try and fail Don't try If your goal is to be in a happy and loving relationship now or in the future then "Don't Try" is the one path which will never get you there. Option 2 hurts a lot, Option 3 is a slow miserable...

OK. @Koushirou , I'm gonna frame this with my up front full disclosure. I'm in my 50's, happily married for over 20 years now. But I also stalled and delayed about getting married and being "serious" for various reasons I kept convincing myself were valid in my 20's that I now look back on and...

We have those where I work, we call them boomerangs. As @ShakyJake mentioned, sometimes there is a definite "grass is greener" effect. In my company's case, it is often they go to chase startup money/stock and it doesn't pan out. My company though... it's facing a situation now where they did...