II, too, do not know what he means by "innovation." It sounds like standard CEO conference-speak blather to me. How do you "innovate" in gaming when your staff's top priority is clinging desperately to their jobs?

The issue is not that the climate has changed - it has, and it will continue to do so - but what we're going to do about it. No matter what the crisis, the solution always seems to be greater government control. Usually at the cost of our way of life.

What part of NO do you not understand?

...laura

My employers recently signed up for a ChatGPT account and I've been seeing how it can help me.

I remain responsible for the big picture, for actually making apps that work on iOS and Android. I've found ChatGPT helpful for refining details. It saves sifting through years worth of Stack Overflow postings. It's a handy tool, but it won't replace me any time soon.

If you say "Chat GPT" in French it sounds like "chat j'ai pété" ("cat I farted"). I guess I need to get out more...

...laura

Despite impressive results, submarines cannot swim.

I too, call for a ban on time travel.

As I said in a prior post, I lost multiple services in Idaho.

Given that the outage was claimed to be in Eastern US, why did I suffer multiple service outages in Idaho?

Oh, and by the way - one of the services I lost was Amazon shopping :-)

Regional my ass...

But the OP says the 32GB was "Not used. Not allocated. Leaked." It's a little hard to parse, but if true, then maybe the actual effect is truly negligible.

Crypto "money" is just another form of promise. While I agree it might be useful in a global financial crash, I'm skeptical. For it to have "worth", a huge amount of expensive global infrastructure has to keep humming along. If fiat currency fails, I fear for the reliability and availability of the Internet - and all that essential stuff reachable by way of it.

But more to the point, you seem to be disregarding precious metals. Have you noticed what has been going on recently with gold and silver? And no "Internet" or other "infrastructure" is needed to barter with coins or bars. But - to be fair - you do need to be "face to face". But as I said - if the communications infrastructure poofs, that's where you stand in any case.

It's not that long ago that I found myself with a box of 8" floppy discs from a legacy product and no way to read them. Yes, the software on them was long obsolete. But I would have liked to be able to preserve a bit of company heritage.

The product in question (Glenayre GL-3000) had been updated in the interim to use 3.5" floppies, though with a bespoke format. I figured out how to use Linux and creative parameters to dd to write disc images. We packaged this as a bootable CD for customers to write their own disc images. After a sharp drop in floppy quality around 2005 I discussed other storage options with my boss (e.g. USB) but the business case just wasn't there.

...laura

The 757 got a new lease on life when it was certified for ETOPS. But they're old and, by modern standards, inefficient.

I'm sure the Boeing folks have considered a 757neo (sorry for the Airbus terminology there) or a 757Max, but they appear to have opted for a clean-sheet 797 instead.

...laura

What the hell? You go to bed at 4AM? Allergic to all-nighters? How about all-weekers? Sometimes that's what it takes to push through. Of course it's unsustainable, but employers notice and appreciate dedication to get through the tough patch without sacrificing the employer's business for the sake of sleep :-P

In my career (retired now, btw), my longest sustained software development crunch was 5 months. Many all-nighters, more 7-day weeks than I could keep track of. The biggest overall, however, was a one-year dash to slap together a large system (more system design/integration than software development) that was sold way beyond what the product could do. To my pride, the product is still sailing along swimmingly, 3 years after my departure.

And with the all-nighters, you sometimes get to finally go home with a huge sense of pride in a job well done.

has been living under a rock. I've been retired 3 years and I was trying to alert my former employer that this was coming before my last day. Got no audience at all, they had bigger things on their minds. I wonder what they're doing now.

I found Proxmox to be a good replacement for vSphere, though maybe not as polished. But TONS of features nonetheless.

So, how does anyone enter the workforce?