MystikIncarnate

I can't find a new job. I literally hate my current one. My entire management team is full of micromanaging dipshits.

I keep applying for jobs and nothing happens.

I'm not saying it would be easy to find a new job, just that if you're in that situation, you need one.

Can I work at your workplace? Do they need an IT guy?

It updates your location status to "in the office"

It also changes to "away" if you don't move the mouse for long enough.

Anyone looking to these as workers not doing their job, is looking in the wrong place.

Hold on. Let me say this.

If your boss cares more about where you are doing your work, than if your work is getting completed, you need a new boss.

I work in IT support and I'll say that this isn't really anything that couldn't be done before, is just more visible. Office 365 logs what device and app you're using to connect, the IP address of the requester, what you were requesting from which service... The list is long. It's a massive amount of data that largely, nobody cares about.

The only time I even look at that information is when some security software flags some action as suspicious, then, and only then, do I even bother.

If you go on vacation and suddenly connect from Florida when you are normally connecting from the UK, I get a notification. If you suddenly start using a well known VPN, I get a notification. The logic is for security. If you suddenly log in from a new place, then it's more likely that the login in question wasn't you, and you've been hijacked. That's literally my only interest in your location. Most bosses don't give a shit either.

Oh, this was asked for, I assure you.

Not by workers, but it was asked for.

I get your point. Compatibility is definitely important (to the people who approve big purchases of tech), because app vendors are stupid slow to react to a new architecture, and port their software to it.

IA64 was faster over all than x86 clock for clock.... Unless you had to run non-natively compiled code. The x86 emulation layer in it was not great. Anything compiled for the architecture ran faster and better, but the only software vendor who seemed to even attempt to release anything for it was Microsoft. There was a full IA64 build of Windows server, and I believe they even built exchange for it too; possibly more, like mssql....

But as far as I'm aware, they're the only mainstream vendor who tried. So when someone wanted the IA64 server to run the QuickBooks server components and everything sucked harder than a $2 hooker on crack, the problems became immediately evident with the platform.

It's actually really good that we're moving away from natively compiling software for CPU architectures. Yes, it may run slightly faster that way, but CPU speed is rarely the problem with modern computing. It stopped being the primary motivator for CPU purchasing around the core i-series, 4th Gen. I would maintain that a 4th Gen platform would run fine today despite the obvious deficiencies, if we could cram it with enough RAM that goes fast enough to keep up, and a quick SSD. In fact, I have a handful of systems that are still running on that platform today and they're working great. With the extensions included in more modern CPUs, the need for compute speed is even less. AES is now handled in hardware. Which is one of the major slowdowns for older CPUs on the modern web. I could go on, but I think I'm making my point quite well.

Except for a handful of edge cases where every ounce of performance matters, it's basically irrelevant to have more compute power. A lot of the bottlenecks of those systems are because of their interconnects. Fix that and you would have a viable platform.

If anyone needs proof of this, we need not look any further than the trend towards SBCs. A raspberry Pi can run a lot of things far better than older hardware at a fraction of the power consumption. With trends towards architecture agnostic software, it's becoming more and more viable to use smaller, more power efficient systems to do the same work.

There will almost always be a place for big iron, but for most, smaller is better. It does what you need it to do, and that's it.

I describe it as unchecked auto correct that just accepts the most likely next word without user input, and trained on the entire Internet.

So the response reflects the average of every response on the public Internet.

Great for broad, common queries, but not great for specialized, specific and nuanced questions.

The worst is that they replace products and give them the same name.

Teams, was replaced with "new" teams, that then got renamed to teams again.

Outlook is now known as Outlook (classic) and the new version of Outlook is just called Outlook.

Both are basically just webapps.

I could go on.

I know there's doubt as to the validity of the claims. I only want to say this: when "AI" takes jobs, who is there to plug things in to make the "AI" machine go?

Sounds like Amazon fucked around and found out.... Allegedly.

Reminds me of a black mirror episode.

What a USA thing to do. Holy shit.

I have one, "the USA".