I’ve seen some wonky tech in my time, but USB-C is up there with VPNs and printers…
If something that’s “not very good at covering its tracks” is all up in your system for THREE DAYS before you notice it… 😱
The AI might have “followed inefficient routes and exhibited clumsy behaviours”… but it still broke in to HuggingFace on its own.
You’re being objectively bullshitted by a support team but in a non-production environment . Do you: a) Labour the point and get everyone wound up b) Chuck it in the fuck-it bucket until Monday. It’s Fri-YAY !
No, Co-Pilot, I do *not* want you to automatically accept meeting invitations. Ever.
PSA: Lineage includes ownership. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
We’re changing the scrum team names ? Yay, that means we’ve fixed all of the other proble…. Oh.
I have an awful feeling that even if I concatenate all 29 columns in this table to create a composite primary key, it still won’t be unique… #dataLife #DataQualityMatters
Yes, Artificial Intelligence can be a great help, but most of the time it’s a douchebag…
Tommy Robinson is not the best-known far-right extremist in Britain. It’s a tie between him, Nigel Farage, Richard Tice, and that other twat.
As a: Data Engineer I need to: Do random infrastructure / operations tasks across all environments So that: I don’t feel like a Data Engineer any more #UserStories
There is one generation, and one generation only, that knows the difference between ‘usrmgr’ and ‘musrmgr’.
Enshittification isn’t new. It’s only recently that it’s been applied to technology and given a name. We’ve been progressively making things worse since Thatcherism.
If I had a time machine, I would make everyone in IT now make work 2 years on the helpdesk in 1998. The number of things people don’t know now is stunning, and these days there are policies specifically designed to prevent anyone being actually useful. It’s sooo depressing.
I have an idea for a session on building data pipelines, provisionally titled ‘Spray, wipe, done !’ Would that be something you’d be interested in seeing ?
Reform UK want only two things: Money Power They specifically do NOT want: Better education Better social care Better public services Better health care Fairer taxation Renewable energy Free movement of people Equality of opportunity Equality of justice Remind me why people vote for them ?
I was just straight up lied to about something I know quite a bit about by someone who should know better… #ProjectPolitics #Gatekeeping ☹️
Hot take: Azure Arc is the missing part of Policy-based Management for #SQLServer It’s only taken 15 years…. 😀 #SQLBits #sqlfamily #iykyk
Tonight’s Newsnight is a parade of the under informed being led by Silent Gary…
Most of my current job appears to be sorting out integration problems because previous wonky decisions and half-arsed solutioning by people who are no longer contactable…
To all UK politicians using the phrase ‘woke nonsense’ - take a look at other countries who have used that phrase and where it got them to. You should be ashamed of yourselves, but I guess that’s not in your nature.
IIJM, or do a lot of use cases for AI try to solve the problem that search is so broken ?
Watching the semi uncut version of Indiana Jones and the Temple Of Doom. It’s dark. It was so dark it created a whole new rating (PG 13). Still a great film, though.
Asked by a homeless person for spare change, but I don’t carry cash any more. Asked if there was anything they wanted from the shop next door - there was : “Banana milkshake”. Shop had none, so got Strawberry instead. They seemed happy with that. #OddlySpecific
Robert Jenrick has unusual two-tier hair - it looks softer at the top and thinner there than at the side.. Almost like he’s moved his arse closer to his mouth to make it easier to talk out of it. #bbcqt
New game: Every time someone mentions CoPilot on a call, hang up for 10 seconds and then dial back in…
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.
Rob Sewell He/Him@robsewell.com · 6mo agoWithout naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.