mihaaly

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by mihaaly 1y ago
I am stuck in an organization for some personal reasons. The first thing I noticed when I joined was the culture of "Please ask when something is not clear". After was given a quick overview in person. You guess: almost everything
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by mihaaly 1y ago
Now the whole purchase makes sense! : / Using fortunes falling in the lap to kill competition is a common practice of economics (vs. technology) oriented organizations. That brings benefits only for the organization, for others it brin
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by mihaaly 1y ago
> intentionally engineered "lack of time" This is so true. And it is making the industry eating itself. The purpose of the software is not profit, but usability. Profit for the organization/owner is a tool to achive that,
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by mihaaly 1y ago
I do.
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by mihaaly 1y ago
> Searching in chat channel for a specific problem is not a good way to handle documentation I just wanted to highlight this. I am so happy seeing this written down explicitly and finally. Throughout the years I struggled so much finding
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by mihaaly 1y ago
I believe thousands more adults are now hating it too, also reconsidering any current and potential dealings with them seeing their way of conduct. If not for the sake of righteousness, but for the sake of self interest (not to be extorted
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by mihaaly 1y ago
In my experience organizations providing services to me for money nowadays ususally just send mail instructing me calling a central number where I can be in the 15th place of the call queue. In case they call they do whenever they please, w
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by mihaaly 1y ago
I have no time and energy for the level of paranoia present web services RQUIRE. I started to cut back. One of the firsts: not accepting Terms and Conditions for a site my company delegated for the sole purpose of delivering my payslips (pr
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by mihaaly 1y ago
Unsure. Personally I like simplicity and avoid complexity. Sometimes it can be avoided. However two adages come to mind, "life is complex", and "complexity must live somewhere". Simplification only works so much and is i
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by mihaaly 1y ago
Jesus Christ! Who are the product designers of the present with these single-minded attitude not checking how the implementation affects the life of paying customers< Children?! Most take pride - on paper! - about what one can do 's
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by mihaaly 1y ago
These petty measures are as self damaging to reputation as futile: one can easily make screenshot or do recording with an other device, which is soooo commonplace nowadays. It is just ruining user experience with small-minded measures, driv
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by mihaaly 1y ago
There is land war in Europe. With the Russians agressively pushing for continuation! Germany had their nationwide emergency test yesterday. there are various suggestions in countries about how to stack essentials for few days without anythi
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by mihaaly 1y ago
It's popularity was not rooted in its closeness. Actually that was an annoying side effect of taking the easy way for the organization, not in the interest of the user. What made it popular were the nice new features. Regardless of how
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by mihaaly 1y ago
The loudest and the weirdest get the most airtime. Not all conversations are golden. He is a lying, opportunistic, self-existence driven ass. Farage is not a reference for how to do things, not even close, not at all! It is of course unfort
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by mihaaly 1y ago
There seems to be a "squeeze" phase in several of the software's life. When the organization goes from engineering oriented into sales oriented. Mostly true for those acquired by investors, wanting more money on spending no m
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by mihaaly 1y ago
"their documentation was either vague or out of date. Half the time, I felt like I was cobbling fixes together from obscure forum posts rather than relying on official support" Jeez! You just summarised my last decade working with
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by mihaaly 1y ago
perhaps others see it differently
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by mihaaly 1y ago
It is a good opportunity to ask: is it true, that Anthropic can get indemnification from user actions that end up in the company being sued? User actions that are related to the use of Claude. Even just for the accusation. The user needs to
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by mihaaly 1y ago
How do you know that your humble opinion is right about who knows what tool and how deep? Even if you know better than themselves how musch they know, isn't the tool inadequate just yet for power use then when it is sooo easy to misuse
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by mihaaly 1y ago
Since engineering is a "cost center", that must be decreased, it is a potential scenario, yes. The other is to fuck engineering. Sell what we currently have, until we can, as expensive as we can, and do not spend on engineering. T
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by mihaaly 1y ago
Our organization joined this trend some years ago. The original founders (did ca. 30-35 years ago) passed 60 and cashing out. Sold the company to an investor. Small fish, <100 employee, but in a niche of engineering app development with
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by mihaaly 1y ago
This is more about EBITDA. Serving the needs of customers (practically the quality of the product) sits down in the list of importance. Sales strategy, marketing, PR, organizational culture, company values, ..., basically the self-serving m
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by mihaaly 1y ago
I did delete many years ago. They blocked me claiming suspicious activity occurred in my account (just a low traffic personal account). Ignoring me wanting to know what suspicious activity was it and if it needed, or actually already was, r
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by mihaaly 1y ago
Agreed. Being a mere user of web or other apps developed using so clever and felxible and powerful services like this accidentally (due to sheer complexity) exposing all and everything I might consider dear makes me reconsider if I want to
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by mihaaly 1y ago
So what? Like there is no computing beyond gigantic screens held with both hands with weird look and 'features', or there will be no services to provide but AI? Maybe they won't be so big in monetary value anymore? So what? T
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by mihaaly 1y ago
Car manufacturers seems to be determined to discourage people from buying their car.
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by mihaaly 1y ago
Usually it is more about the weakness and incapacity of the authorities that are unable to carry out their job well, or several times they are lazy to perform difficult and tedious tasks, so they put limits on everyone instead, making every
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by mihaaly 1y ago
Proucts are made for the needs of the manufacturers nowadays (using borderline criminal practices like enforced mass surveillance), not for the needs of the paying customers. And apparently the cutomers are ok with it, most of the time, oth
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by mihaaly 1y ago
> That's why cloud-services became popular, and remain popular. Or, because they do not know and do not care what is happening. Yes, they only care about comfort, who reads TOS anyway, right?! : / But if the same was happening
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by mihaaly 1y ago
Actually when an algorithm results in something false, then you do not have to challange it, it is just simply wrong. Insisting and charging somoking based on implicit and obscure ways of a "revenue stream generating" detector is

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