Knees are overrated.

Sell your Enron stocks immediately!

Knew one family that had a big rear projection in their “media room”. Going to watch movies at their house was a legit event.

Forgot “Pasting it into a Word document”.

Bringing back Gnutella.

The best thing about MongoDB is that you can stop using it completely and switch to PostgreSQL, which will happily accept all the horrible JSON data you can cram into it.

“…If there’s a problem writing your data, you’re fucked. Does that sound like a good design to you?”

“If that’s what they need to do to get those kick-ass benchmarks, then it’s a great design.”

Oh God. I am laughing so hard watching this.

Hi dad!

This is already laughable without even considering the fact that the population of Venezuela is overwhelmingly Roman Catholic. Might as well claim to be able to move the earth off it’s axis.

The Mayor should just go ahead and resign. Take the city attorney with him while he’s at it.

What a bunch of asshats.

I wouldn’t pay for an AI subscription but I have no problem using my own PC for work on the condition that they give me a VM to remote into. Mainly because I like using my three big monitors and the shitty laptops my previous employers provided are either underpowered or locked down to the point where multi-monitor support is really poor.

I do pay for tools that I use outside of work and if it’s something that helps me with my day job, I have no problem using it for that. That said, using AI to generate code is usually a waste of time. Unless it’s something really, really basic.

You’re not missing anything.

Unfortunately, the current penalties are insufficient.

Even if it were actually doable, this a dumbass idea. It doesn’t take a genius to recognize that night/darkness are necessary for life and that we already have enough environmental problems related to artificial light pollution.

I seem to recall about 13 years ago when “the cloud” was going to put everyone in IT Ops out of a job. At least according to people who have no idea what the IT department actually does.

“The cloud” certainly had an impact but the one thing it definitely did NOT do was send every system and network admin to the unemployment office. If anything it increased the demand for those kinds of jobs.

I remain unconcerned about my future career prospects.

Just the other day, the Mixtral chatbot insisted that PostgreSQL v16 doesn’t exist.

A few weeks ago, Chat GPT gave me a DAX measure for an Excel pivot table that used several DAX functions in ways that they could not be used.

The funny thing was, it knew and could explain why those functions couldn’t be used when I corrected it. But it wasn’t able to correlate and use that information to generate a proper function. In fact, I had to correct it for the same mistakes multiple times and it never did get it quite right.

Generative AI is very good at confidently spitting out inaccurate information in ways that make it sound like it knows what it’s talking about to the average person.

Basically, AI is currently functioning at the same level as the average tech CEO.

“OMG. Are you a hacker?”

“…I’m just using Powershell.”

Resiliency and security have a lot of layers. The crowd strike bungle was very bad but more than anything it shined a bright spot light on the fact that certain organizations IT orgs are just a house of cards waiting to get blown away.

I’m looking at Delta in particular. Airlines are a critical transportation service and to have issues with one software vendor bring your entire company screeching to a halt is nothing short of embarrassing.

If I were on the board, my first question would be, “where’s our DRP and why was this situation not accounted for?”

What BMW owners think they have:

The envy of all other drivers on the road.

What they actually have:

An overpriced four wheeled trash can.

We got our oldest a smart phone a few years ago. Based on that experience, our younger two can buy their own smartphones when they’re adults because we’ve decided we’re not going to repeat that mistake.