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by bigbuppo 2y ago
I wouldn't say it's rich media, but the conversion of the web to be 100% marketing-driven. It's ads all the way down.
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by bigbuppo 2y ago
If you've read this thread, it would appear that most people here on HN aren't actually involved with policy compliance work dictated from above. Have you ever seen a Show HN dealing with boring business decisions? No. We do, howe
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by bigbuppo 2y ago
The fun part is that they don't demand anything, they just send you a worksheet that you fill out and presumably it impacts your rates. You just assume that whatever they ask about is what they want. Some of what they suggest is reas
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by bigbuppo 2y ago
The big problem is that everything in IBM-z world is negotiated, and often covered by NDAs. The pricing is complicated by which operating systems and what sort of workloads you'll be running, and what service level guarantees you need.
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by bigbuppo 2y ago
There's also the problem in that they need to take into account floor loading. They're not going to tell a customer upgrading from an older machine to a new one that, "oh, by the way, the rack weighs twice what it used to, so
636.
by bigbuppo 2y ago
I'm just sad the person that threatened to mail me a shoe to my PO box did not follow through.
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by bigbuppo 2y ago
And for freight... density, stackability, and durability.
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by bigbuppo 2y ago
...and that still runs on Unisys Libra systems, doing the sort of boring but important work that keeps the world running, such as processing unemployment benefits for the people that are going to be laid off of the AI companies once everyon
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by bigbuppo 2y ago
I keep seeing this MCP thing and I'm really happy that people are getting into Burroughs mainframes rather than that stupid AI crap.
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by bigbuppo 2y ago
The sort of people that like tracking the movements of everyone but also have no idea how reality actually works.
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by bigbuppo 2y ago
MCP? We doing mainframes again? Heck yeah, sign me up. Oh, different MCP. Meh. What is the deal with all these tech companies stealing the name of existing, established systems?
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by bigbuppo 2y ago
CNN.com was definitely using the StoryBuilder part up until the 2005 redesign as it's noted in the source of each and every article, and there were some tell-tale droppings on the home page as well.
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by bigbuppo 2y ago
It makes me happy that you left that terrible industry.
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by bigbuppo 2y ago
Not going to happen. There is no higher calling than advertising and marketing. Most of us here have probably worked on something that is at least adjacent to or in support of that noblest deed of influencing others to spend money.
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by bigbuppo 2y ago
I know in the late 90s, early 2000s they were Vignette shop, back when it was a Tcl application. Can only imagine their relief getting to carry over their tcl knowledge while no longer having to suffer with Vignette. I don't think I&#x
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by bigbuppo 2y ago
A few years ago I actually purchased a Netware license, right at the start of Covid. It was an ordeal, and not because of Covid. Multiple retailers and distributors stopped selling Netware/Attachmate/Micro Focus products because o
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by bigbuppo 2y ago
Remember how NFTs just weren't a thing and then someone got a well-placed article talking about NFTs and all of a sudden they "hot" even though it was just a sham the whole way, before and after "I been hacked. all my ap
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by bigbuppo 2y ago
And they're all going to IBM's one step forward, two steps back counterpart, HCL... it's literally there in the company name I-1, B+1, M-1 = HCL
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by bigbuppo 2y ago
What is this product so I can avoid it?
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by bigbuppo 2y ago
Well you see, there are lots of people that are dependent on bullshitting their way through life, and don't actually contribute anything new of novel to the world. For these people, LLMs are great because they can generate more bullshi
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by bigbuppo 2y ago
Wow. They really want us to know that they just received $30mil in funding and that they are going do disrupt the dominant paradigm because they just received $30mil in funding because they are the fastest growing startup that is disrupting
652.
by bigbuppo 2y ago
They're too busy in their vinyl pants, dancing awkwardly on a table in Manhattan screaming, "Got the girl. Got the money. Now I'm ready to live a disgusting, frivolous life."
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by bigbuppo 2y ago
This still won't convince anyone to use Windows 11 if they have a choice.
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by bigbuppo 2y ago
So you're saying I should avoid REITs focusing on US-based hyperscale datacenters for AI workloads?
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by bigbuppo 2y ago
I mean, the AI isn't coming up with anything new. It's just regurgitating what was fed into it. I guess /r/KevinRooseSucks must exist or something.
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by bigbuppo 2y ago
Having looked at that, I now have a headache.
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by bigbuppo 2y ago
My AI strategy is still "No".
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by bigbuppo 2y ago
If we didn't fail, we wouldn't learn.
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by bigbuppo 2y ago
I think you would have had significantly less blowback if you approached the subject from a positive angle. I know you were probably attempting to be humorous, but it just comes off as something wrong . That sort of humor is best left for
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by bigbuppo 2y ago
Learning how to properly use a chainsaw is of use to more than just those in the logging and treecare industries. Nobody is going to call me to remove that tree that's endangering a historic building or to cutdown a few hundred acres o

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