well, at my current job they use NoSQL, in this case it's DynamoDB and it's been frustrating at times. So I asked the question: why are we dealing with these problems day in, day out, if the problems we're trying to solve have been solved half a century ago with SQL?

The answer is cost. The way we access data may be convenient to do with SQL, but it's also expensive. We have big (not webscale but large) volumes of data coming in every day. Having this on SQL would cost us tens of thousands a month. Keeping it in DynamoDB costs us a few hundred. And it's stupidly fast - if we wanted to get that kind of performance from SQL we'd have to pay for a supercharged overprovisioned server.

And honestly it's been fun. It's turned "boring business software development" back into more of an engineering problem.

I see the problem as a more "get off my lawn" types here. They have fully adopted "vibe coding" as "anything made with AI assistance" as much as older people call anyone younger than them "millennials".

There's a big difference between an experienced programmer providing the AI with clear, concise prompts and guidance; than having someone with zero knowledge trying to build an entire app from scratch.

One is "augmented capabilities", the other is vibe coding. But the haters here just refuse ANY sort of AI involvement.

This is easy to fix! Pentagon should just publish the list of the assets that they want satellite companies to avoid taking pictures of. To make it easier, they can provide bounding boxes and maybe tag them to make sure companies blur the images enough to not be recognizable.

SaaS coming out of home lab level infrastructure. Not everything has to be big.

The idea behind SMR. Mass production comes to nuclear plants.

Well Mr empire builder is forcing others to take the Ukrainian lesson, and showing a good defense against it is to have the bomb. That and demonstrating guarantees are worth nothing.

Be nice if we all ditched the "what about them" and shoot for a higher standard of government employee, so we don't keep revisiting this every administration. If anyone failed it'll be because of circumstances beyond their control and not one of moral character.

So Meta == a tobacco company ... rather than a cartel - no wait - cartels do it too, heard of crack cocaine?

Even if that happened, absolutely nothing of consequence would happen to the people that actually did it.

No more fines. No more sanctions against organizations.

Criminal charges, multiple years of very punitive jail time - against the people that ACTUALLY did it - from Zuckerberg right on down to the SRE that deployed the changes. Every single one of them made an active decision to be a complete shitbag and they should be treated as such. I don't really care if the SRE was ignorant or just doing his job - if you don't expect people to put effort into it, they won't - AND ALL OF THEM could have spoke up and done something to stop it. But they didn't. It was easiest FOR THEM to just do what their boss said, and screw everyone else ...

No legal protection of any sort for any of them.

Theres a reason the only people on the planet that speak out against Luigi are CEOs and politicians - not the rest of us who are all basically like 'Yea, that was wrong, murder is never the solution - but he deserved it for being a pile of shit who profited from letting others die with 0 compassion, we aren't really going to punish Luigi'

Why would you say it doesn't?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_deities

It might be or it might not, but my god that article sucked. Way too general, and not specific enough. The picture was obviously wrong, If you encrypt an image, it looks like the option on the right produced by perfect randomness. You could not tell the difference between the two. Unless they are using some really dumb encryption method that highly depends on perfect randomness somehow. I'm not aware of what that might be, but no one should use it. Obviously even if this is a source of perfect randomness, you can of course Man in the middle the data and subtly shift it without anyone being able to tell.

Hit dogs holler. You're a redneck, hillbilly Yankee. I have no ill will towards hillbillies or rednecks, they are certainly in my family, but they don't accept me as one of them. I'm from the Yankee branch of the tree.

You won't let us come in the front and seemingly only door known to ever exist. Fine, good. Good and great. That solves the problem forever. you've suitably defeated us squarely. We know of no other way to achieve our goals than a peaceful, upfront takeover of a company. We shall take our mayflower ships and leave from your shores. We Yankee pilgrims know how to leave the Netherlands when we aren't wanted.

How is a tool that requires human prompting going to put someone out of work?

Yes, but only for the young'uns who didn't live through big tech layoffs in the 70s, 80s, 90s, 2000s, or 2010s.