Well for the same reason lots of not great software is used.
It was once the best (or only) in the market, and now it’d cost literally millions of dollars to change in training/conversion/hardware changes. As long as we keep above the “We cause less damage than a change costs” folks stay.
Heh, yeah but my metrics don’t care about how many trucks I roll! Just how long my calls are! “Modem restart didn’t work? Truck will be on its way.” “Modem restart didn’t work? Truck will be on its way.” X100
100 calls an hour BABY.
sigh
So I work for a large enterprise type software with a database. And because our installer is trash, we don’t trust clients to do it. It’s very common for the installer to error out with SQL error messages and we have to go fix things in the database. Think stupid things like if a value is null in one field, installer crashes.
So they call in, get paperwork for a test upgrade (we require they upgrade a test database first), then after they email that paperwork and it’s approved by management, the call to schedule the test appointment happens. Then 3 days before the actual appointment, we can call them and transfer via Bomgar the files they need. Because we don’t wanna give them the needed files early for… reasons never explained properly to me.
Then the actual install/upgrade call happens.
Then we do it all over again for the live.
Welcome to corporate policy that’s been building over 20 years, and never cut back. Things get added to the install process, never removed.
There’s always next weeks call deflection meeting for me to try again!
I haven’t been uninvited from it yet! But yeah gotta love these “problem solving” meetings from management, where they don’t actually want to give any resources or allow any policy changes to come from them.
This post was 4 months ago.
Fun to know that it’s still absolutely screwed.
I mean… it’s just a specialized search engine so I’m not aware of why they would. But scraping a website and determining ingredients then sticking them in an array seems like a pretty straight forward task.
Dang it, I feel like this could be a really stupid study. Do this to hundreds of people and record the average response.
Except… if you said you were throwing paper, they would think you were trying to bait them into going scissors so you could go rock.
So wouldn’t they themselves go paper? Why would they go rock?
“Oh that has funny jokes!”
“Oh… they were the only good jokes.”
Someone posted to the class discussion form with the bit about being an ai bot still included.
I wish it was a joke.
I didn’t do great in that class, but it was me getting 70% for not wanting to try and explain a mathematically concept in 500 words! They won’t take that away from me.
Well now have a new service to use!
I’m so tired of Nordvpn and raid.
Like if you’re playing an indie game that sponsored the video, that is sick.
I in no way wanna hear about man scaped while watching a Pokémon video.
Someone else makes a complicated tools for teeth doctors to record what they do and helps them keep track of how much money they are owed.
I teach people to use that tool, and fix it when it breaks. Usually both because I’ll try to explain how to do something and realize it’s broken half way through
Except that was malicious and blocked a solution.
Beast isn’t preventing in a solution. He went and gave water to villages that had been searching and begging for a solution for years. He gave cataract surgery to people who couldn’t afford it. He gave them exactly what they wanted, not something worse then didn’t deliver.
In a better world, either Mr Beast couldn’t exist because people couldn’t have 100,000 times more wealth thqn others, or there would be no one for him to help.
We don’t live in that better world. To me it looks like the world is a better place because of him. He’s helped many directly, and inspired others to help. The harm he has done seems to either be hypothetical, or claiming people were harmed who they themselves say are fine.
So it seems like the world is better because he is in it.
Well I think of it this way.
If Mr beast didn’t exist:
A few thousand people wouldn’t have been embarrassed on the internet
Tens of thousands of people wouldn’t have been given access to clean water.
Hundreds would have never received medical care.
Amazing charities like ocean clean up and team trees would have never gotten the level of support they did.
Many were lifted out of poverty both on main channel, games channel, and philanthropy. They wouldn’t be.
Thousands wouldn’t be employed in jobs they like.
So given the fact that we are in the system we are in, I’m glad we have him.
As annoying as it is, to help people, you need money. People who help people without monetizing it, run out of money. It’s just what it is. He’s playing the game, and unlike 99% of billionaires, the game involves enriching others.
I’m fine with a system where building a home for the needy rewards you with the money to do it again. Better than the alternative.
Yeah some products don’t work because the sellers don’t fill out the information properly.
Ahh looks like it might be the sellers put in the wrong information. Which sucks, cause I was like… surely I can do something fun with that much sand!
That’s a fine point!
I usually only buy dry rice/beans and the like bulk, which I eat the same amount of every week pretty much regardless. But still only ever buy like a month or so worth at a time.
Getting bulk snacks though from costco… that is a bad move.
Baby sitting my mom’s dog and that’s my cat! He wants that spot.
Curses!
Garbage in, garbage out I suppose!
Charmin really is the king of “1 sheet equals 3, and 1 roll is 2, but our sheets are half the size! So really this roll is 12 rolls!”
Well I did say “for same reason lots” XD so yeah, basically.
Then sales reps can rope in new people with “It’s industry standard! It’s easy to hire people who know this!”