These aren't your Daddy's War Crimes... These are Cyber War Crimes!
p03locke
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Or sucking down on that Russian oil.
More than dozens.
I mean, how many articles do you need that you're never going to read on Reddit? You can load up Lemmy with enough communities to keep a good feed of news going.
And everyone in tech who has worked on ML before collectively says “yeah that’s what we’ve been trying to tell you”.
Everybody in tech would even have a passing understanding of the technology was collectively saying that. We understand the limits of technology and can feel out the bounds easily. But, too many of these dumbasses with dollar signs in their eyes are all "to the moon!", and tripping and failing on implementing the tech in unreasonable ways.
It was never a factoid machine, like some people wanted to believe. It was always about creatively writing something, and only one with so much attention.
A lack of critical thinking skills.
The comparison is funny, considering how easy it is to fire the mining laser accidentally. Button shiny!
Them and IBM. Everything IBM touches turns to shit. They are still hawking mainframes to poor saps that'll fork over the money on them.
less well funded
They don't have to be. Legislators can, you know, funding the fucking departments that need it. But that's an entirely different subject...
By contrast, most commercial enterprises can pivot to line their processes up with whatever the industry common practice is.
Not always. Sometimes it's pivoting to whatever is making them the most money. Or eating their own dog food to prove their product, even if that product sucks.
The entire reason that governments go to companies like Oracle and SAP for help is that building, maintaining, and changing bespoke applications, and the full stacks to support bespoke applications, in a way that is compliant with government-grade change management is incredibly expensive. The entire selling point of tailoring a commercial ERP system is that it should nominally do a pretty good job of handling “the things they all have in common” at least as well as anything you build yourself.
Yes, it is incredibly expensive, and sometimes these huge corporations think they can just do it the same way they did it with State X and hope that State Y can just map terms. And then they crash and burn hard because they don't understand that state laws are different, and sometimes you have to put in effort and time and money to actually get a working product. Corpos want to put in the least amount of work and money to get as much profit as possible from governments, and some of them have been burned so badly by that mentality that they look for better solutions. Often, there's not any great solutions and their infrastructure suffers.
the government bean-counters didn’t tell you about a bunch of the nitpicky requirements up front
Have you even seen a government RFP? They tell you. Every. Single. Requirement. In detail, in triplicate, in sometimes unreasonable or unrealistic terms, under 800+ pages that a team of experts need to pour over and that's before there's even any sort of contract negotiation that requires the team of lawyers.
Source: I work for a company that comes in after companies like Oracle have fucked up so royally that governments are begging for a quality product
Yeah, I like it when they put out articles like this. Teen Vogue only occasionally gets political, and when they do, that's when the threat is pretty serious.
Uhhh, yeah. Different kinds of cancer are different, in almost every way possible, except for the fact that they are all cancers.
That comes later. You need a good bustling community before a steady stream of original posts comes in.