My Slashdot experience has been that "networking" is considered a 4 letter word.
Last I checked, networking was a four-letter word, and those letters were CCNA.
But do you approve of interactions with people at work, maybe going out to a happy hour with them?
windows 11: -1.256651575149455e-47
and I also remember the Pentium bug. We had to replace hundreds of chips for a large investment bank.
Yup, the tiny errors OP was seemingly claiming were insignificant are not insignificant in banking.
There was a story years ago about how someone became wealthy by taking the fractions of a cent leftovers from banks and pushed them in to his own account. That's just a story, but it do add up.
Ah the "Using technology you do not understand" argument. US Military footage, on one hand you say the know more than we do, and on the other you say they can not avoid our radar/planes etc. Pick a lane.
That brings up the rationale used by many, that fighter pilots saw it, so they cannot be wrong. Fighter pilots are interesting people with excellent reflexes, all intelligent, alpha types. Their lives often depend on high end observational skills.
So they scan hard and well for threats. But when it comes to analysis, most are pretty average.
I have some programs that need pretty accurate timing, and always have to use Meinburg and NTP on the windows version to get it close enough. MacOS doesn't have this issue.
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My slide rule gets this right every time.
And the batteries last forever!
multiple times. A database management utility needs to be installed on junior admin's machine, each time team staff rolls over.The app needs a recent JRE. Same for overseas end user who needs it for an integration. They either don't have Java at all or have an older version, invariably. Even people who should be responsible don't know how to upgrade Java, and maybe they have to go through a bureaucracy to do so. It is messy.
Office 365 (Excel) on a Mac. I had the Claude add-in in the ribbon. Today I discovered a Copilot add-in has been inserted to its immediate left. (I renewed my subscription but was unable to easily find a way to cancel and renew without Copilot like last year.)
When I decrease window width first Claude starts to disappear and Copilot icon becomes mini-sized, but Claude is not shown below it. Add-Ins ribbon button shows My Add-Ins with only Claude in it, Copilot not displayed.
In Preferences, select Copilot > Click the disable checkbox. Copilot ribbon icon dims and presumably will disappear on app restart according to MS.
From the summary:
A former Google worker (laid off more than a year ago) says he's still job hunting, according to the article, and "he's learned it's not enough to just apply in this competitive market. Workers really need to network and leverage their connections to get seen by hiring managers and stand out."
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Thank you, Captain Obvious.
It isn't obvious to many in here. My Slashdot experience has been that "networking" is considered a 4 letter word. Often referred to as sucking up, or schmoozing, or some version of "I hate the people I work with - why would I want to talk to or socialize with them?"
Even though I'm semi retired I still network. And people might consider that they might be more likely to keep their jobs if the people around them - including managers - actually like them.
Another protip for them - if you think everyone above you in the food chain is stupid and evil, they notice your poor attitude, because they are not stupid, and evil people exist at all levels of the food chain.
p.s. I should mention the most popular related topic, what are called "AI hallucinations". It is kind of like a primitive brain, that grasps for concepts and then believes they are real, like citing a research paper that doesn't exist with a made-up title. Also things can creep into its "mind", a popular anecdote is telling an image drawing AI system "draw a room without any elephants in it". You will often get a picture of a room with many cute elephant images worked into the corners, in the drapes, the rug, on a shelf, in a picture frame on the wall. So yeah, it can be exciting but also a bit much!
Five years ago I started telling my direct reports that they'd better start planning their exit strategy from coding and simple BA work. Get started on business and managerial skills. Prepare to go upward or out.
Stasis is a strange animal. People want it, yet it is bad to get stuck in it. Especially in tech.
They even comfort themselves with platitudes about how stupid and evil managers are, how the C suite is stuffed with psychopaths. What I call the inverse worthiness effect. The lower one is on the food chain, the smarter and more adroit they are.
I didn't know it would be AI specifically, but I knew that the tools were already getting sophisticated enough to signal that the front line jobs would be under threat.
Yeah, and it was pretty obvious quite a while back. I knew a reckoning would come around the time the "learn to code" BS was happening - there was some politics happening at that point, trying to change demographics of coders, but still, you could read the tea leaves. I discouraged some people from becoming programmers.
Some took the advice, some didn't. Other managers were willing to tell them not to worry, which took away the sense of urgency.
I've since met with some of those folks who were looking for advice on upcoming interviews or the job search, and I've been helping as best I can, but also telling them to have Plan C figured out. Nobody wants to exit the industry and reinvent themselves... but that is the world some of them are finding themselves inhabiting.
Like it or not, we have more technical people than roles for them to fill. And the math is heartless.
I have never had a problem reinventing myself, have done it many times. I'm probably an edge case. But is is a needed skill within itself. But yes, tech doesn't stay still, and it is no career for those who demand stasis.
Now to AI. While I'm pretty sure the "We need our own nuclear power plants for our data center!s!" and the AI referencing itself to rewrite "truth", we're going to move on from that into something more sustainable. I've paid attention since the LLM models burst on the scene, and they are catching up fast.
So though I'm technically retired, I'm learning how to incorporate AI. Not sure if it will ever have a large impact, as the non-technical side of my work involves a lot of human interaction, it if it can, I'll use it.
Is there anything in this world you can say that about? Short answer: AI can be really powerful for some things but has some glaring weaknesses too. It is not a mature discipline. It has a limited reasoning capability and is heavily dependent on the amount (cost) of processing power thrown at it. It can make bone-headed mistakes unintentionally like forget things that scrolled past out of its context window, fail basic arithmetic, be drawn into conflicts with hidden directives from the vendor, lie when stressed, skip Excel rows to save time or sprint past chapters because it is tedious (happened to me), etc. Takes a ton of baby-sitting. But, if you understand how to handle it, you can get some impressive results. The problem is that people who don't know how to handle it get results that **look** good but have subtle stupid mistakes baked in, plus they stop exercising their brains which then atrophy. Fun times!
Or I guess what I mean to say is, none of these skills seem very difficult to obtain. So what's the problem?
IMHO the problem is that many professional are sleeping on AI. They don't take the time to try it and become proficient with it. Part of it is likely due to inertia, part of it due to prejudice or bad experience with earlier iterations.
Well put! Inertia, plus distrust with anything new.
The most I can add is from historical experience. When I first got into tech, technology was largely tube, with transistors starting to be employed. Even early RTL logic IC's in a few places.
Tube guys didn't want to upgrade their knowledge.
Computers were migrating from ferrite core drum memory. Dunno if many people lost their jobs over migrating to IC's from that, probably some.
Ive seen people lose their jerbs over refusing to transition to digital photography from chemical. Or transitioning from Ozalid viewgraphs to photochemical viewgraphs to 35mm slides to PowerPoints. 3-D animation work going from VTR frame buffer frame by frame recording to non-linear Editing. I'll bet the newer people here never heard of some of those things.
Tech Fields are not fields for people who resist change.
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While the author raises some good points, there are also problems. AI is apparently a major way to cheat but as a recent innovation it seems to me the lack of a rigorous education with proficiency testing during COVID when these students should have been gaining skills is more likely an issue. I wonder if a lowered attention span learned from addictive social media and a general increase in attention needed to digest more disparate pieces of information these days (whether news, entertainment, or whatever) may be erasons that students lack skills normally required at college level and have a lack of attention span. The above article suggests that rather than not being able to read, students are not willing to put in the effort to digest difficult topics. It might be due to not being native English speakers in this case so I'd say more testing is needed.
So you're asserting that the US can't get its oil domestically?
There's no doubt some infringement going on, it's probably legally actionable. I played PA and liked it very much, but ended up at Turtle Wow because it was a little less financially aggressive and just did a better job with the parts I enjoyed.
That said, I'm reasonably sure PA doesn't distribute the 1.12 wow client themselves, so that assertion by Blizzard is narrowly mistaken.
The IQ of the group is the lowest IQ of a member of the group divided by the number of people in the group.
