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IBM AS/400 lineup was fully designed to optimize customer segmentation and threfore capture better the customer value. For example, there were cheaper models where the hardware was…

At least Grok has the courage to recognize it is a black hole.

So if you had shingles in your youth then you are better protected against dementia?

Public Folders is what makes us stick with the old Outlook client. For 25 years Public Folder has been a simple drag and drop, hierarchical archive system for communications with c…

It seems we now have a new product category, HaaS, Hallucination as a Service.

Will it be possible to pay the UK VAT returns with this new payment platform? Paying the UK VAT return with a credit card from Spain does not work because there is an address verif…

My greatest concern about Mac hardware is that they are perfectly operational by the time software-driven programmed obsolescence comes its way, even when it is a nice problem to h…

How do you pay for data exfiltration ransoms or to purchase stolen data? My take is that if you remove crypto, you will hamper greatly these transactions.

Crypto has single handedly created a very large malware industry and has also made information security a massive industry. Ban crypto and both industries will become way, way smal…

This is what hapenned 10 years ago, when machine translation entered the professional translation business. Post-editing the translation was often slower than human translating sen…

When I started working at a time with no mobiles and no remote, calling or being called to the office for personal reasons was seen with disrespect from your coworkers. At work you…

I see you use Stripe. They have this Adaptative Pricing feature where you get paid in EUR and customer pays in their own currency. It has some drawbacks (fewer payment methods and …

Why do you have a 14-day money back guarantee instead of a 30-day free trial? My perception (although I never tried it) is that it reduces the number of people actually trying it a…

Am I the only one using Microsoft Money Sunset Edition? Granted I cannot connect to banks and get live quotes, but I think it is well done and has a lot of features.

Eventually, they’ll be fine. Wolkswagen was established by the German nazi regime and it has been fine for a long time in spite of its past.

I loved their old tagline: “Artificial Artificial Intelligence”.

I would dare to say that all business apps start as an Excel sheet (or Google Sheet) and after the usefulness of data collection and data arrangement/presentation is validated (oft…

If we are talking about real time phishing then sending a code to the email is as secure as a 2FA authentication with password and Google Authenticator code.

I believe it is in this interview from 1996 where I saw Bill Gates saying the same thing about Microsoft products, he saw them as subscriptions. It’s a long but interesting intervi…

It seems there is the opportunity to disrupt that market, so that tech companies can pay property owners directly, without the middlemen.

Actually, there is a restaurant where I go sometimes that when I pay cash instead of with a credit card, the owner gets so elated that rounds down the amount to pay in some 3-7%. T…

The pricing page says the Free version collects anonymous data. I understand the paid versions don’t. Does it say anywhere the kind of anonymous data that is collected in the Free …

I thought this was about getting the root password by burning the sysadmin with a cigarette lighter ( https://xkcd.com/538/ )

Has OpenAI been profitable so far? If not, is there any subtantial tax that you have to pay in the US as a for-profit organization if you are not profitable?

All that comes to mind is that he is now surpassing the net worth of Bill Gates, to a large extent because when he left Microsoft he said he would keep his Microsoft stock position…