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Comment #1 rule in technology (Score 1) 148

As technology improves, the customer experience gets worse.

It's been that way for at least 15 years, probably longer. It's the weirdest damn thing to watch; we have all this power and sophistication, but development houses can't seem to get out of their own way and make a product that doesn't A) Suck balls, and B) gets worse with each iteration.

MS is the most famous example of this, but they're hardly alone in this practice.

Comment Re:What's going on in Australia? (Score 1) 97

More accurate to say the bill of rights prohibits the government ( largely ) from certain actions.

Taking this a step further, who enforces "human rights" in dealing with businesses and citizens, if not the government? Who's to say that's a good thing anyway. Why can't I restrict access to me and mine from someone saying things I don't agree with? That's if you believe your "human rights" are equally and fairly applied, of course, which we all know they aren't.

No, the only sane approach to something like freedom of speech is to restrict the government and otherwise let people do as they will.

Comment Re:attack (Score 4, Interesting) 66

City Council member of a non-listed Twin Cities suburb I know:

FBI is involved. Most water systems use one of two control/alert systems that are old and make them easy targets.

All they did was shut down components of the systems e.g., wells/sewer lift stations. Most cities were able to cycle manually to get back up and running. There was not messages warning or ransom of which I am aware.

They could have done a lot more damage if they wanted to, rather than just shutting things down.

Comment Re:We will see (Score 1) 79

The problem is that we were on the Team plan which is a flat rate plan.

You raise a valid point but it has no substance. Management confronted us and said "you are doing it wrong!" And I stopped them "no, we aren't. even if we are, we can try to economize on tokens. We can get a 100% improvement, 200%? 500%?

It's still order of magnitude LESS than what we were doing and it's costing us, in dollars, twice what we were paying before.

You see, the problem with the Enterprise plan is that, unlike Team or Pro, it does not include any (subsidized) usage. Every token counts towards the budget. And corporate either did not read the fine print, or they had more than 150 developers (the maximum allowed by Team plan) and they were forced to switch.

Comment Re:We will see (Score 2) 79

and they are not yet charging for the "tokens" what they need to charge to become profitable

We recently got access to Claude Enterprise and found how expensive it is. We were given $45 a month of budget. Everyone in the team blew through that in 2 days. And considering this is still being "subsidized" I honestly don't see what's the future for "AI Coding".

Comment Re:Accounting oddly is resilient (Score 4, Insightful) 79

As to HR, a critical function of HR is resolving conflicts.

No it's not? HR's only role is to protect the company from their employees.

HR is not your friend. Raise any concerns with HR and you will be flagged as problematic. They are not there to resolve conflicts. They're there to AVOID conflicts. And the best way to avoid conflict is not having "conflictive" people in the first place.

HR does not work in your interest. HR works in the interest of the company.

HR is there to document your mistakes so the company can fire you cleanly. That's HR's main function.

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