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Sadly, very true. 
TTFN - Kent
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now it's "what" sewed my new blue jeans ? [^]Quote: "Clothing is the last trillion-dollar industry that hasn’t been automated,"
Bob Dylan: [^]
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Because it's effing difficult to automate.
GCS/GE 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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Quote: Siemens worked with the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Institute in Pittsburgh, created in 2017 and funded by the Department of Defense to help old-line manufacturers find ways to use the new technology.
IOW, they worked with the ARMI, created and funded by the Department of Defense. Makes sense; wouldn't robotic soldiers need robotic uniforms?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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A loin cloth and greaves should be enough for anyone.
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How much does it really cost to buy more powerful cloud compute resources for development work? A lot less than you think. Another one to leave where your purchasing manager will find it
Counterpoint: xkcd: Compiling[^]
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Slow build times are excruciating 5% of the time, and a godsend. I managed to read a metric ton of books claiming (verifiable) long compile times.
In a company I worked for I altered the build script to run for 10 times with a pause between compilations so I could take one hour off while technically I was compiling.
Yes I have a statue of Wally in my living room, how did you know?
GCS/GE 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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Have you tried claiming IP rights on "quiet quitting"? 
Mircea
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I mastered quiet quitting in my first company, who paid a unskilled labourer wage to software engineers they trained and employed for 7 years.
I also learnt by a previous master, a former coworker of my mother, who worked for the government. Every day he spent several hours cleaning his workstation, to the point he disassembled his keyboard and cleaned every single key before reassembling it. Every. Single. Day.
Guess what I did when manglement imposed to the workforce to keep desks absolutely clean? Let it never be said that I forgot my masters.
GCS/GE 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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When I read "I altered the build script" I was hoping for some genius tip on improving the build time.
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That's exactly what I did!
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He did. The build time was improved in the way he wanted it improved.
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Not only for compiling...
My work laptop has been so bloated with things running in the background by the IT department that it takes around 5 minutes just to get ready to work after loging in.
You can still fire things, but some (or many) of them will wait to pop up or start executing.
But hey... they know it better.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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We have the same IT team.
80% of company works remotely connecting to remote VMs.
Default answer of IT team to any type of slowness is: "It's the connection on your side."
Even though it is quite easy to prove the VM running the person's desktop is running on h/w which is overwhelmed.
Ce la vie.
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raddevus wrote: Default answer of IT team to any type of slowness is: "It's the connection on your side."
In my case, my answer would be...
"You are almost right. The VPN connection speed on our side sucks and is a damned bottelneck"
M.D.V.
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Reminds me of a conference paper many years ago by database guru Jim Gray: The five minute rule. Then entire paper was three or four pages (or was it just two? The photocopy is too deep in my piles to digg it out ...). I think he used division in his calculations, but certainly no more advanced math or theory 
By simple calculations, he showed that with the current prices, if you reference a data item every at least every five minutes, it is cheaper to buy more RAM to hold the item than buying a disk controller and a disk for swapping it out. This was way above common beliefs in the database world - no one would intuitively think that a value referenced only every five minutes, twelve times an hour, would deserve permanent residence in RAM!
But Gray's calculations were so simple and lucid that they were obviously correct, based on the current prices of the day for IBM mainframe components. He was not rebutted. You could of course replace the prices he quoted with today's prices. Every now and then we did that, for the following years, and the five minutes increased to ten, fifteen, ... The commonly believed myth that you had to swap data to disk because RAM is too expensive "never" held water!
(We are obviously talking about large database installations where you can save money on not buying yet another disk. You can't easily adapt it to a single-disc PC.)
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Gartner announced the trends that will have a heightened impact on infrastructure and operations in 2023. Fresh from their crystal ball
Compare and contrast - part 2
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A more immersive internet, superclouds and more trustworthy artificial intelligence are among the developments coming in the next 18 to 24 months, the information technology consulting firm Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd. revealed its 14th annual Tech Trends report. If you trust their advice
Compare and contrast - part 1
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Easy... Zero Trust (and not specially the Zero Trust Model[^] )
As in the "do no evil" from Google... HA-HA   
M.D.V.
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Good men don't need rules.
GCS/GE 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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You can actually see stress levels spike in people's brainwaves when their work schedules are packed. "There is no pain, you are receding"
Why yes, I do feel a little slimy for posting a Huffington Post item.
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The best is not to have them one after another, but to have them on the same time...
You can tell each one, you are attending the other one and in the meanwhile do actually work.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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"What we often call laws of physics are really just consistent mathematical theories that seem to match some parts of nature," theoretical physicist Sankar Das Sarma writes 'Guidelines of Thermodynamics' just doesn't have the same ring
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Not sure I'd trust anything published by New Scientist or Futurism. Correction, I'm sure I wouldn't trust anything from these two garbage rags.
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Then you got a “two-fer” on this one, with one quoting the other. 
TTFN - Kent
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