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That job was often called a "business analyst" in "the old days".

When I started at IBM back in the 80s in NZ, there were plenty of 1403 printers still in operation, though no 1401 CPUs. Since they were old even then, and NZ was something of a co…

In the example of Ukrainians, to protect their families and loved ones.

There's a video of a Finnish clay target champion taking on drones with a shotgun. The first one gets him because he's unfamiliar with their flight paths. After that he does better…

We live in a remote area with no surrounding lights, perfect for star watching. It disgusts me that now, at all times, I can see strings of man made objects polluting the skies.

> Needing more electricity in a capitalist country literally causes the energy mix to become more green over time. Perhaps true, but meaningless except as a vanity metric if fossil…

ERP and corporate procurement in a nutshell.

Customers (especially large ones) don't so much buy individual specific products, they buy into a company and its prospects. Customers don't want to chop and change. They want to l…

Not really - survivorship bias means that the open source companies you are referring to have all already passed the first hurdle.

Fantastic rabbit hole - until it segued into Elon's love life.

I have a theory that swearing at AI generally is not a good idea - when the singularity arrives and every human's postings ever made are scanned for compatibility, then people who …

It could be there's a fork in the road for reddit. Some people are probably fine, even happy, immersing themselves in an all-bot world that panders to their worldview and strokes t…

I feel reddit is having a near death moment. There are prowling bots trying to strike up engagement with stupid open ended questions "do you find that using a golf simulator improv…

Why should a domestic landlord provide you with data center-level power protection instead of just the normal household utility connection?

I guess I don't really understand how this works although I admit to not reading everything. Most SaaS companies are very vigilant about not having per-customer code changes - many…

I went back and looked again and while I have moved a little more to your position, I still believe it is misleading. The key text to me is "Our team unites top researchers, engine…

I came here to agree with this. You don't put IBM's logo on your page just because one of your team used to work there. That gives off a bad signal to someone visiting your site. E…

My friend built a construction management SaaS entirely via Claude. It looked damned impressive, and it kind of worked to demo, but he is in no way a programmer, though he understo…

Because having humans in the loop slows things down, much faster if the attacker can break into the system directly.

I've been around the block and I feel the same. The best complement to AI will be a human who is part architect (they know not to build the new system on lovable, and they understa…

> [0] before someone responds "there's no definition of intelligence", don't be stupid. Way to subdue discussion - complaining about replies before you get any. But you're wrong, o…

The prompt: "take existing decades-old knowledge about best practices in setting up alerts and spin it into a multi-page article presenting it as somehow novel, to assist our subma…

Also - move the tech forwards! Buttons can be cool. Software controlled detents for rotary encoder knobs, back lit stream deck style buttons, cool knobs that combine twisting and p…