fujinghg

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by fujinghg 2y ago
I’m a statistician. What point are you trying to make? Write it off as an anecdote? It’s not 1999. It’s two observations. Observations lead to questions which lead to collecting more data. Which lead to a conclusion that it is not pretty. W
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by fujinghg 2y ago
I was going to do a mathematics PhD years ago but I’ll be honest and I’m not bashing the process or the outcome here. I literally just couldn’t be bothered to put the effort in. It’s not an insurmountable task but there were easier things t
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by fujinghg 2y ago
Or maybe I just have higher standards and better risk appraisal after seeing their customer support response for two separate people after they had problems was “fuck off and talk to the ombudsman”. Problems being stuck payment during migra
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by fujinghg 2y ago
I wouldn’t assume that is the case. The failure modes are different that is all. I saw a whole corp POS platform a couple of decades ago that was hanging off a TFTP server on a machine that no one dared turn off in case the world ended. One
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by fujinghg 2y ago
I work in the sector. There are lucky people and unlucky people. Welcome to lucky land. So far.
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by fujinghg 2y ago
I’ve been here a long long time. Around 2009. Occasionally I walk away for a few months. I was there when it wasn’t possible to criticise MSFT because of the second coming of Satya. I was there when Google did no evil. Now look where we are
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by fujinghg 2y ago
Ah I just get annoyed. You write up your genuine experience and it gets buried. That's not helpful to anyone. It's not helpful to the engineers on a project or the customers. But it validates someone's ego somewhere. It just
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by fujinghg 2y ago
This is exactly the problem. The logical outcome is so bad that the only risk mitigation is to not use their services at all.
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by fujinghg 2y ago
UK here. All my data has been removed from iCloud and other public cloud services now. I cannot trust the UK government, the EU or the US government to do the right thing for my data. I also can't trust the cloud vendors to handle my d
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by fujinghg 2y ago
Ha I saw that one when I was trying to work out why this wasn't working. Alas no nothing that good. Turned out the issue was if you set a print range then it has to talk to the printer driver on windows and that takes forever to respon
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by fujinghg 2y ago
Mine is that one where I can't open ODS documents if my printer is turned off.
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by fujinghg 2y ago
+1 for imap-backup. I use this as well and have used it to migrate IMAP mailboxes between providers. Very reliable.
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by fujinghg 2y ago
This stuff worries me. I have already seen colleagues using LLMs and not checking the results. Really it just makes stupid people more dangerous. And there is a weird absolutist mechanical faith among certain people to the point even critic
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by fujinghg 2y ago
To be fair Open University still do a lot of decent stuff which goes deeper than documentaries. It's quite well hidden: https://www.open.edu/openlearn/ Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@OpenLearn_OU
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by fujinghg 2y ago
That is exactly the problem. When my family watch science documentaries I die inside a bit. They seem to have left with some insight but they managed to slap about 20 words together and some fancy scenes and extrapolations and turn it into
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by fujinghg 2y ago
I hate marketing releases for scientific papers. The one paper I co-authored whilst mostly drunk on a Mediterranean island would have been described as "new statistical model could save billions of lives!" if we hadn't call
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by fujinghg 2y ago
Funnily enough the first thing I thought was ketamine.
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by fujinghg 2y ago
My father was a professional photographer. He was also a professional asshole so his response was always to respond with the shittiest worst lens he could think of and see if they bought it.
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by fujinghg 2y ago
We jumped I think 8 year old CentOS versions without too much issues. It depends how badly you fucked up in the first place really.
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by fujinghg 2y ago
Most professional photographers use autofocus all the time. Photography is less about the technology and more about the art.
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by fujinghg 2y ago
No one remembers Expert Systems which were supposed to do this before but failed spectacularly due to the complexity of the issues, some of which were political and contractual, and the requirement of actual intelligence to resolve them.
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by fujinghg 2y ago
I reckon Musk is so over extended that the only reason he’s doing what he’s doing is to basically rob what he can to cover it before a bigger fish comes along and he falls off a yacht like Madoff.
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by fujinghg 2y ago
Zombo already took that title https://zombo.com/
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by fujinghg 2y ago
This I appreciate :)
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by fujinghg 2y ago
I think you might have hit the nail on the head there.
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by fujinghg 2y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "modern backups". Have you done a "modern restore?". Urgh. I backup once a week. And both the machine and the disk are encrypted. And the disk is entirely physically disconnected so the
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by fujinghg 2y ago
I don't keep anything I can't replace on my phone. Hell I still use paper for some stuff...
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by fujinghg 2y ago
This should probably be phrased as: Why didn't the medical procession find my autoimmune disease after $100k and 30 hospital visits?
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by fujinghg 2y ago
You're making it much harder than it needs to be because you're used to operating in 2024 mode. Roll back to 2004 mode. You probably don't need to sync everything. You probably don't need a backup vendor. You probably do
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by fujinghg 2y ago
The best option is to remove everything you have from any cloud at this point and stop bothering about the vendor’s policies entirely. I am in the process of doing that. What I use it for now may be an issue if a regime changes. As evident

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