It would be much more valuable if you explained rate-limited anonymous credentials or provided an article (even wikipedia). ChatGPT is non-deterministic and telling someone to use it feels a bit cold for this website.
> Banks used to have rooms full of bank clerks who manually did double-entry bookkeeping for all the bank's transactions. For most people, this was a very boring job, and it made bank transactions slow and expensive.
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> And the people who had to do double-entry bookkeeping all day long got to do other, probably more interesting, jobs.
I don't mean to pick on your example too much. However, when I worked in financial audit, reviewing journal entries spit out from SAP was mind numbingly boring. I loved doing double-entry bookkeeping in my college courses. Modern public accounting is much, much more boring and worse work than it was before. Balancing entries is enjoyable to me. Interacting with the terrible software tools is horrific.
I guess people that would have done accounting are doing other, hopefully more interesting jobs in the sense that absolute numbers of US accountants is on a large decline due to the low pay and the highly boring work. I myself am certainly one of them as a software engineer career switcher. But the actual work for a modern accountant has not been improved in terms of interesting tasks to do. It's also become the email + meetings + spreadsheet that you mentioned because there wasn't much else for it to evolve into.
I did qualify it with "most people" because of people like you who enjoy that kind of work :).
I would hate that work, but luckily we have all sorts of different people in the world who enjoy different things. I hope you find something that you really enjoy doing.
That's fair enough! Most accountants I crossed paths with dislike the modern type of busy work. Lots of marking up spreadsheets and PDFs rather than crafting journal entries. Luckily for me, I switched into software engineering, and system design scratches that same exact itch. Now I build software for financial auditors to make their work less dreadful, and it's very popular with them because they don't have to do as much of the terrible, modern tasks that have befallen them with advances in accounting tech.
This is a really interesting observation! Cars don't have to dominate our city design, and yet they do in many places. In the USA, you basically only have NYC and a few less convenient cities to avoid a city designed for cars. Society has largely been reshaped with the assumption that cars will be used whether or not you'd like to use one.
What would that look like for navigating life without AI? Living in a community similar to the Amish or Hasidic Jews that don't integrate technology in their lives as much as the average person does? That's a much more extreme lifestyle change than moving to NYC to get away from cars.
There’s got to be a chronological point where older Greek gets much easier, though. Or at least, there was back when Greeks still had to work with katharevousa in school. I learned both Ancient Greek and then, though a year spent in Greece, Modern Greek. When I pick up late Hellenistic literature like Achilles Tatius, I feel like it is activating more the Modern Greek part of my brain than the 5th-century BC Athens part of my brain.
This might sound crazy as a software engineer, but I actually like the occasional "snow day" where everything goes down. It's healthy for us to all disconnect from the internet for a bit. The centralization unintentionally helps facilitate that. At least, that's my glass half full perspective.
I can understand that sentiment. Just don't lose sight of the impact it can have on every day people. My wife and I own a small theatre and we sell tickets through Eventbrite. It's not my full time job but it is hers. Eventbrite sent out an email this morning letting us know that they are impacted by the outage. Our event page appears to be working but I do wonder if it's impacting ticket sales for this weekend's shows.
So while us in tech might like a "snow day", there are millions of small businesses and people trying to go about their day to day lives who get cut off because of someone else's fuck-ups when this happens.
Absolutely solid point; there are a couple of apps I use daily for productivity, chores, even for alarm scheduling, that with the free versions, the ads wouldn’t load so I couldn’t use them but some of them were updated already. Made me realize I forgot that we’re kind of like cyborgs relying on technology that’s integrated so deeply into our lives that all it takes is an EMP blast like a monopolistic service going down to bring -us- down until we take a breath and learn how to walk again. Wild time.
> This might sound crazy as a software engineer, but I actually like the occasional "snow day" where everything goes down
As as software engineer, I get it. as a CTO, I spent this morning triaging with my devops ai(actual Indian) to find some workaround (we found one) while our CEO was doing damage control with customers (non technical field) who were angry that we were down and they were losing business by the minute.
sometimes I miss not having a direct stake in the success of the business.
I'm guessing you're employed and your salary is guaranteed regardless. Would you have the same outlook if you were the self-employed founder of an online business and every minute of outage was costing you money?
If you're an event organizer whose big event is in two days, for example, then every minute your website's down translates to people not paying to attend your paid event. Bonus points because as event managers know, people often wait until 2 days before the event to subscribe for good. Bonus points if you knew this and therefore ran a costly email campaign just before the outage, a campaign that is now sitting at a near-0% click rate.
For businesses whose profit margins are already slim, which is most traditional businesses trading online, making less money than they usually would will put them into the red, and even for those that are still in profit, making less money than you usually would means you have less money to pay the expenses that you usually do, expenses that are predicated on you making a certain amount of revenue.
You're living in a bubble. I know enough people who live paycheck to paycheck and always have exactly $0 in their pocket before the end of the month. It's pretty normal in some parts of the world, maybe even most of them.
That's a weirdly flippant response to what's a serious issue, but I'll give it the courtesy of a reply anyway - maybe not, but a business not making enough profit might go under, or they might only have to fire someone to prevent that from happening.
any brick and mortar store can have an outage, sometimes multiple days when they repave the streets or have a utility outage. You are white-knighting for imaginary victims of imaginary tragedies. thats weird
You can make any leaps of logic into chaos theory. hell, maybe a fully-occupied orphanage will burn down because of some percolation of events that wouldn't have occurred had CloudFlare kept running. Maybe the next genocidal leader was conceived at the precise moment because CloudFlare was down and his parents used the time to make whoopie?
Careful with this method. I was unable to purchase plane tickets from Southwest or even change my email address because they changed their parsing rules on me and silently dropped the plus. I found out most airlines don't have a ticket counter to buy a ticket the old fashioned way! But the premier help can issue tickets. Took me two months to have CS get someone to run a DML to remove my "bad" email address.
It's probably easier to tell them "I lost access to that email, I need to set up a new account". People do this all the time.
On some level, my employer uses emails as the primary key for customer accounts, the baseline identifier which all information is filed under. It's quite ridiculous.
> On some level, my employer uses emails as the primary key for customer accounts, the baseline identifier which all information is filed under. It's quite ridiculous.
I've lost track of the number of places that use the e-mail as an unchangeable identifier. Bonus points for my company liking to change domain names for sport, which just confuses support.
And even big tech companies, who should know better, do this. Like the big blue CDN that's in the middle of half the web's traffic. Who also, for some reason, can't be arsed to send e-mails reliably if you need to change your account.
I did, but the CS agent kept trying to change the email to a new one when I told them I had lost access, and the validation failed because it wanted to send an email to the old address about the email being updated and couldn't. They didn't have the right tools to fix it.
> Linux sucks at running games, and there is no good Linux/x86 hardware out there.
This isn't true in the slightest. You must be dealing with some seriously outdated information.
I've been running games on Linux full time for 3 years. I made the switch the week Elden Ring launched when it immediately ran better on Linux than on Windows. That was the top selling game at the time. I've had extremely minimal performance issues since my switch. Other major games I've run include Baldur's Gate 3, multiple Resident Evil games, and the Oblivion remaster.
I'm running a 7600X with a 9070XT as of last month and am finding my hardware is perfectly fine.
Does it support all anti cheat and DRM? Does PCVR work well? What about old Windows rhythm games (with emulators like spice2x)? Until it has 100% coverage I’m not gonna drop Windows.
Yes to both. It works very well! Admittedly, I just finished the original Half-Life, so I need to push it a little harder, but it's been capable of running Oblivion and Civ CII quite well.
> Yet, still 1/4th of the time my ThinkPad with Linux wakes with a Thunderbolt display connected it dies with a kernel panic deep in the code that handles DDC (no matter what kernel version).
This doesn't happen on my ThinkPad but does on my MacBook. If anyone else faces these kernel panics on their Mac, you have to set your monitor to a hard 120hz rather than a variable rate on the macOS display settings. KDE handles the variable rate just fine on the ThinkPad for me.
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