Comment Re:OK so I am using Ruby for the last 13 years... (Score 1) 80
Now I interview graduates who canâ(TM)t explain what a HAVING clause does in SQL
I avoid using HAVING when possible, it's screwy to troubleshoot, especially when dealing with nulls. Instead I break the query into multiple sub-queries (CTEs) via WITH statements.
Comment Re:2 million? (Score 1) 54
That's DOGE's side of the story. Many employees found out they had to use their personal card for work travel and then file paperwork for reimbursement. That extra paperwork is created and processed on tax-payer's dime.
Cut-first-and-think-later...or quit.
Comment Re:Two Bits Of Bad News... (Score 1) 92
I guess you missed this part:
The firm’s findings still contrast strongly with those put forward by three Australia-based academics, who estimated in 2019 that based on transactional data from 2009 to 2017, one-quarter of all 106 million Bitcoin users engaged in crime, and that by 2018, illicit finance accounted for around $76 billion a year, or roughly half, of all transactions in bitcoins.
Cryptocurrencies have transformed drug trafficking by enabling crime syndicates to cut out street dealers and sell directly to customers around the world through darknet markets, as well as peddle higher-quality narcotics, said Sean Foley, a finance professor at Macquarie University in Sydney and one of the report’s authors.
“Chainalysis is trying to tell us about the total consumption of cocaine in Australia by telling us about how much cocaine has been seized,” Foley said. “It’s very difficult for me to meaningfully comment on the methodology because they don’t really tell you what they do.”
Comment Re:Oh goody (Score 1) 52
If the crypto pop coincides with the AI pop, 1930's 2.0.
Comment Less environ regs and (Score 1) 9
...cheap Russian oil. Profit!
Comment Re:It Was Never About the Content (Score 1) 102
What's with ELITE ?! That Harvard prof who hates students might be one-of-three people in the world who deeply understand their subject Books ... any books or the average PhD know about 10% of the hard-stuff, though they are mathematical athletes. I believe Socrates 1st proved this ... and hemlock was his reward. So don't go around in public, saying I need this one transvestite/fascist/Rando-Marxist dark-faced white-livered Columbia drug runner to teach me what's next with quasi-deSitter spaces. You will end up chewing almond pits ...
Comment Re:Education is knowledge (Score 1) 102
You have the university experience very wrong. It IS about knowledge and is NOT about finding yourself. One serious intermediate STEM course will send you out the gate ( yes G-A-T-E ) a different person. Unless you are Einstein or Feynman your brain no longer functions as a natural man(woman) , but directs itself at the combinatorial North-star where irrelevant nuances are stratified. You hope for nothing; you just do the path integral. And after 4-years, you're fit to earn a living .....
Comment I switched long ago (Score 1) 75
"It looks like you are attempting grift, would you like help with that?"
Comment Re:Next victim of Copilot? (Score 1) 22
At least customers asked for Xboxes.
It will be interesting to see how bad the AI bubble burst kicks MS.
Comment Re:Every firm I've worked at (Score 1) 54
But often it ends up the wrong tool for the job, used like a database or application. When the person who made the spaghetti-sheets leaves, everyone is left scratching their heads.
MS-Access would be a better fit, but it's often frowned upon because amateurs have also damaged its reputation. It's possible to write maintenance-friendly apps with MS-Access, it's just not tuned that way out of the box, and "maintain-ifying" an app is not taught.
(Web equivalents of MS-Access so far suck. The web ruins every CRUD/biz/data idea, I've come to conclude, probably because of the LSD-laced DOM.)
Comment Re:Ok (Score 1) 54
So Bricklin would not have gotten a patent, that's all that means.
Similar happened for lawsuits over dBASE's IP. With a little digging, a couple of similar languages and systems were found for older bigger computers. There was very little in dBASE that was original. The cloners just used synonyms for commands and key-words.
DOS did similar word-play per CP/M. In the early days of software, almost everyone was a dirty rat-thief, perhaps because patenting software was a legally murky area.
Comment You know rich people are (Score 2) 26
...going to fly to CRISPR Island and have their genes edited for a bigger dick, longer jiz, bigger tits, etc.
Comment Re:Education isn't a buffet (Score 1) 102
Directly suppressing the greedy is more trouble than it's worth, and carries nasty unintended consequences. Structuring social/financial/personal rewards to maximize benefit to the "commons" is both safer and more practical. For example, tax credits , custom sewage treatment and worker training could be provided to a tool-and-die machine shop, while a river-boat casino gets NO H1-B employees and is subject to weekly fire & food service inspections by agents with a bad attitude.
Comment Re: breathtaking (Score 1) 75
Nice point. Presumptuous vocabulary is a dead give-away for chat-bots. Chomsky and Buckley might have used such phrasing, but nobody else.
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