When talking to a local merchant about why they dont take amex the fee was not mentioned. The merchant said that visa and mastercard settle at the end of the day and they get their money but amex it was sometimes 4 or 5 days before they actually got their payment.

Great if grandma doesnt know how to use a web form, fucking useless for everyone else.

Even server boards often have their SFP in daughter boards specific to the chassis.

Hell many many people now a days own only a tablet and phone and no desktop/laptop at all.

Someone else in this thread mentioned motherboards with SFP ports on them and I cant believe that will ever be common because people can barely handle the many flavours of cables using USB C, how are they going to manage the mishmash of transceivers that only like specific brands and the DAC cables that may or may not work depending on how they feel that day.

Their entire job is more related to corporate politics than prestige. Maybe it was in the past.

I had to disable application pooling as it was causing read only transactions I could couldnt pin down the cause.

This is for DBs that are ~1-1.5TB but doesnt have a huge amount of churn/qps

Effectively what is described here https://www.pgedge.com/blog/always-online-or-bust-zero-downt...

Being a generalist was very useful to me 5 years ago. Now AI models have made everyone a generalist. That wide but not terribly deep skillset was immediately devalued by the AI models.

You can argue that the models fuck up 20 percent of the time, or that they make poor code but there is a massive part for the industry that is totally fine with that and I think people ignore it to their detriment.

There is a massive number of software engineers that are closer to plumbers than computer scientists and for them the progressing AI models are going to be a problem.

https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/discussions/2727...

I get the complaints in that thread but I still think it is hilarious. That repo is a gong show to random shit and perhaps one of the best worst examples of "opensource" LLM development.

Google makes it very hard to use their shit and it was full of bugs.

Anthropic's current run is based entirely around Claude Code in this space and the last time I used the gemeini-cli it wouldnt give me access to the latest models and I was paying them for the privilege

Critical thinking is at an all time low to start with but even if you attempt to think critically while using social media you cannot do it constantly. This is one of the problems with social media as a whole. You might notice one thing is not quite right and discard it but you cant do that constantly and eventually you will absorb one of the 15 posts or comments.

My devops coworker just shrugs, pumps out some yaml and helm and away it goes.

It really depends on your experience and tolerance for a lot of things.

Usually maintenance burden doesent start to make itself known till you get off the happy path or something breaks. Sometimes it can be a long while before that happens, sometimes it happens right away.

If a repo is bare of CLAUDE.md but mentions a smoke test in a commit in the last year I assume it to be LLM written.