Many of the professional sport leagues in the United States claim their league winner is a world champion. The hockey league maybe possesses thr best claim as many teams are in Canada and often win the league. But, plenty of near Artic countries also field professional leagues that could compete. In the 1960s when many…
A thought about treating employees well on Labor Day. With minimum wage not keeping up with inflation, people in too many jobs are falling further behind. Seems like a potential fix to something like SNAP could come from taxing the companies who pay so little their workers end up on it. They include the employer…
My Google Chrome web browser of late bogged down my work computer to the point of such slowness I could not use it. Chrome created a nice Task Manager tool to see what uses the computer resources. Stuff that I normally look at for servers like CPU, memory, network, etc. All the last couple weeks,…
At two parties the weekend, people learned I work in IT and wanted to talk about AI. When non-IT people found out I work in IT and asked me about making a website, buying tech stocks, social media, podcasts, or cryptocurrency, those technologies were at peak buzz. People for who this stuff is hitting the…
I keep seeing where people will post on social media about an event happening now to within hours, but it doesn’t appear for me until after the event even days later. It’s not that I wasn’t checking. It’s that the algorithm didn’t present it to me until that point. Back when I had the energy,…
From Screenage Wasteland: May the 4th be with you, screenagers! It’s Star Wars Day, and while we do have a new list (or three) in the works for the franchise, they won’t be ready until The Mandalorian and Grogu hits theaters later this month. Instead, we thought we’d throw out a real softball of a question to get some discussion…
On “Make Me Smart” episode “It’s tough our there for new college grads“, Kimberly Adams interviewed NYT writer Noam Scheiber. He mentioned in the world with so much AI, there’s still going to be a need for people who can synthesize and make a decision and make an argument. That stopped me cold because it’s…
Anthropic accidentally released their Claude source code. There are humans checking out this code and upset about how the terrible nature. I’m 27 years into working in IT. I’ve seen open source programming code and proprietary programming. Sometimes it’s thoughtful, well documented, and clear what’s intended. Most of the time, I’m amazing the junk actually…
The incident management system has a nice feature where when changes happen on a ticket, it puts something in a notification pull down where I can easily go to see what’s new. My only problem is the listing basically says “Follow Update – CMP-INC1…” for everything. There’s no way to tell what it’s an update…