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Forecasting Prophesying what will happen is fun.
- Face-to-face meetings are sometimes necessary, so there will still be meeting rooms and offices.
- For commuters, their manager's request for a face-to-face meeting will often portend very good or very bad news!
- If a sufficient percentage of employees don't commute, there won't be fixed seating. You'll just take an empty desk when you arrive (this is common enough already).
- Many people would prefer not to commute, so employers will have to provide incentives for employees to commute if competitors don't require it. This will be an extra hit above the cost of office space.
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Don't think we will go back. Maybe a "day in the office" once or twice a month to keep "some" interaction. But overall we learned to work efficiently, and - what I had not considered before - pair programming is WAY more efficient this way, as you can both sit in front of the screen and you can talk without disturbing others. Also works great when onboarding new people.
Spending energy going to the office just to work less efficient does not sound like the right approach... and I used to think being in the office was a good idea.
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How this plays out with my employer should be interesting.
Their current main office space, hundreds of people, was subleased and getting their own lease is going to cost a shyte-load more. On the other hand, they own another build (where I used to dwell).
They were clearly looking to save on rent - hence my being told to work-from-home as they gave away my office occurred just before COVID expanded that to universal, employees only now coming in. Many still work remotely. The less space they need, they realized even then, the less it will cost.
My hunch? Their aversion to people working totally remotely has been mitigated. Staffing has seen some serious cuts, especially last year, and the aversion has been replaced with accepting that some of us down need to be stared out so we look busy. Since all regular employees have virtual desktops, when you need to come in you can just sit somewhere and work.
so, it's a matter of managers at all levels finding some comfort level vs. costs. Some of us serve no useful purpose in the build that we cannot serve outside of it.
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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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...that sent me a confirmation mail with my credentials, with the password in plain text.
I deleted my account.
(And yes, they might have put the mail together before hashing and storing the password, but ... meeeh, I do not trust them. This is 1995 state-of-the-art anyway. ).
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Sites like that will force you to change password the first time you log on.
(not saying it's a good idea, but I've seen it many times).
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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How can you be sure that is was your password? Perhaps it belongs to another user with the same password... even more concerning
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That’s a little far fetched don’t you think? In this day and age where a password has to have upper and lower case, numbers and special characters what are the odds of somebody else using ‘Password1*’ as their password too?!?!?
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Also good, but I liked the double comeback of the first one.
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Pantera - 5 Minutes Alone[^]
This week I shared daily 90's metal classic with some friends.
And when you say "90's metal" you have to say "Pantera" too.
I've always liked Pantera's raw energy so needless to say I shared them (it was really a matter of who'd share them first! ).
While I shared the album Vulgar Display of Power, my favorite Pantera song is probably 5 Minutes Alone from Far Beyond Driven.
Although Walk, ing Hostile, Mouth for War, Becoming and Cowboys from Hell are also ing awesome!
Any of those songs would've done for the SOTW today, really
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I prefer CSNY, Neil Young, Jackson Browne, and the Eagles.
Otis Redding and Jimi Hendrix, too.
Glory Days
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A couple of days back, I attended a presentation where a high-school mathematics teacher was explaining the features of a software which allocates teachers from a pool to each student who registers for their online learning platform. She frequently said "The AI does this", "The AI does that", "The AI has this feature", and so on. Whereas I felt that there seemed to be no AI element in it. It was just a standard algorithm which was implemented. Maybe she felt that all software is AI.
Have you come across situations where people use the term "AI" to signify routine software?
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Amarnath S wrote: Have you come across situations where people use the term "AI" to signify routine software? 95% of the time.
To be honest, what's now referred as AI once upon a time was referred as "Expert System", which was software anyway. AI, today, is a buzz word in the real world and a plot device in fiction. A self-"learning" system is still software, it just expands on its ruleset based on the previous version of said ruleset.
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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'Expert System' haven't heard that since I was doing A Level Computing... Many moons ago...
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In answer to "Has AI replaced software?": Nope. AI is software.
Amarnath S wrote: Have you come across situations where people use the term "AI" to signify routine software? Yes, everyone seems to be claiming it's "AI" these days. Very annoying!
But, maybe, not quite as annoying as Dyson claiming his vacuum cleaners have "Digital Motors" and not once, (EVER!) saying what this is and why it might be better!!!
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5teveH wrote: what this is
The motor PWM is controlled directly by the microcontroller instead of an analog power controller piloted via a DAC.
5teveH wrote: why it might be better
Pros:
+ One less component that can break
+ Better chance of power control in case of overcurrents (shouldn't catch fire or burn out when encountering obstructions)
Cons:
- Harder to repair (when the MCU breaks it's game over).
- Pray the firmware is well written: if it hangs, expect anything.
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Sander made a very good point in a weekly survey a while back. Survey Results - How important is learning AI to you for job security?[^]
We have not seen true AI yet. What we are seeing is Machine Learning, if anything.
So, it is completely inaccurate for anyone to use AI in marketing, etc. as that is a false statement.
AI sounds cooler than Machine Learning, and the general public does not know any better.
Real, true AI (if possible some day) is scary sh*t, and should not be messed with -- that, IMHO, is the darkest of magick.
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Everyone loves the latest buzzword bandwagon.
I've heard simple regression analysis called AI.
Loved questioning a sales guys on that in a product presentation.
Me: So how does it do...
Him: It's an advanced AI
Me: I need to know what's behind it. Is it a neural network?
Him: It's complicated, it's..
Me: Is it a neural network.
Him: No, but we could use one, if it proved better
Me: So is it using a classification algorithm?
Him: It's a proprietary...
Me: Is it as simple as ARIMA?
Him: What it does is take the data and...
Me: We're not prepared to buy something we don't understand and that you can't explain.
Him: Maybe (the tech girl who hadn't said a word yet) can explain
Her: It's mostly a regression model that...
Me; Regression, like Gauss documented in the very early 1800's. Whats the rest of it.
Her: Arithmetic.
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Let's hope that girl got a decent cut of the commission!
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What commission?!
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Quote: Maybe she felt that all software is AI. Arthur C. Clarke's observation about sufficiently advanced technology and magic might explain it.
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