Local governments aren’t businesses – so why are they force-fed business software? - Oracle’s repeated public sector failures prove a different approach is needed::Oracle’s repeated public sector failures prove a different approach is needed
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
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.
Sure. The ability to pivot has a lot to do with whether the process is fundamental to the way they make money. The more fundamental it is (part of their “core competency”, as Weird Al would say), the more likely they will have a “secret sauce” that they can’t change (or even openly discuss until you are contracted, onboarded, and NDAed).
think they can just do it the same way they did it with State X and hope that State Y can just map terms
With respect, that’s the same error that I’m accusing the article of making. You can’t just tack on complex bespoke development on an open system and expect to get the results you want for cheap.
Have you even seen a government RFP? They tell you. Every. Single. Requirement.
Ehh… I respectfully disagree.
I work in the US, and I’d say that what you just said is true for a subset of well-specified federal contracts.
But at the state and local government level? It’s not true at all. I’ve done requirements gathering at the state and local government level and it’s like herding cats. The contract itself will have high-faluting language about “the contractor shall implement an information processing system to X, Y, and Z”, but as for HOW you’re going to X, Y, and Z, figuring that out all comes after the ink is dry on the contract. And there’s no guarantee that X, Y, and Z actually make any sense in light of the data and capabilities that the state or local government actually has. That language came from legislation, or the mind of a high ranking bureaucrat, not any of the people who do the literal day-to-day work.
Why are women turning to TikTok for advice about the pill? Because doctors won’t listen to us::To counter social-media conspiracy theories, we need more honest information about contraception and its side-effects, says writer Kate Muir
It’s too easy to say that people listening tosocial media for advice is as a result of X or Y not being helpful. Lets keep inmind that there’s a huge difference between breif medical reviews and TikTok or Instagram being scrolled and feeding more of what you click. You doctor, nurse, pharmacist cannotfollow you about to give you information each time you open an app. Social Media medical experts grow in popularity proportionately to their worry factor.
I like the way you think. That also leaves open the possibly of the yandwich, which is cut into three equal segments in the same way as the opening post, and the xyandwich when you combine the x and y options.
Are you disagreeing with my assertion that certain breeds of dogs naturally exhibit certain traits?
I’m calling out your use of it just lays in their nature as some sort of objective truth, yes. Feel free to support the notion. I suspect you’ll at best be able to highlight a minor correlation between some breeds and certain behaviors, if that.
If not, then wouldn’t it be much more of an anomaly if a breed that was bred for fighting didn’t also possess appropriate traits?
I’m not sure how “bred for X” is particularly relevant to your assertion that “X will Y”. The motivation for seeking to bring about a given change does not lend any validity to whether or not that change exists.
That aside, feel free to highlight traits unique to the conflated amalgamation of breeds known as pitbull.
I do not have any studies to back up my statements, so I have not completely ruled out the possibility that there is no genetic basis, just found it unlikely.
Don’t you think you should?
Moreover, the same is true, of course, for any other dog breed that becomes a systematic problem.
Has it become a “systematic problem”? I’m curious as to how you’ve drawn that conclusion. Media sensationalism does not a problem make.
I’m calling out your use of it just lays in their nature as some sort of objective truth, yes. Feel free to support the notion.
I never claimed it was an objective truth, I just believe it to be likely. Breeding is used to reinforce desired traits and I see no reason to believe that ‘inherent aggressiveness’ can’t be bred.
I’m not sure how “bred for X” is particularly relevant to your assertion that “X will Y”.
Again, likelihood. It’s possible that humans were ineffective at achieving their goal of breeding an aggressive dog for fighting but reality gives me no reason to doubt it.
Don’t you think you should?
There is neither concrete evidence for or against it. Again, I came to my conclusion by applying the same logic I apply to other bred traits.
Has it become a “systematic problem”? I’m curious as to how you’ve drawn that conclusion. Media sensationalism does not a problem make.
Judging by the statistics, it has. Pitbulls are responsible for 65.6% of reported attacks in the US, yet only make up 6% of all dogs. Whether that’s the fault of the dog or poor training from the owner doesn’t change the fact that it is a systematic problem.
I never claimed it was an objective truth, I just believe it to be likely.
“Shepherds do not need to be taught to herd. Pointers do not need to be taught to point. Retrievers do not need to be taught to retrieve. It just lays in their nature.” These are assertions with no room for ambiguity or compromise… unsupported assertions, at that. You use them as if they’re some sort of objective truth - you do not state you think shepherds do not need to be taught to herd.
Again, likelihood. It’s possible that humans were ineffective at achieving their goal of breeding an aggressive dog for fighting but reality gives me no reason to doubt it.
Unfortunately, “likelihood” really cut it in rendering a motivation for a thing relevant. A reminder, the criticism wasn’t that humans are ineffective but rather that I’m not sure how “bred for X” is particularly relevant to your assertion that “X will Y”. - that intent is irrelevant to the action and its impact or validity.
There is neither concrete evidence for or against it. Again, I came to my conclusion by applying the same logic I apply to other bred traits.
Sweeping generalizations born out of explicit ignorance… nifty.
Of note, you still ignore the criticism of the validity of bred traits as relates to actual behavior, particularly relevant as the previous commenter’s point regarding assholes moving to the next-best breed still applies. You do nothing about the behavior of shitheads in seeking to develop insert dog breed into an aggressive fighter suitable to the same tasks.
Judging by the statistics, it has. Pitbulls are responsible for 65.6% of reported attacks in the US, yet only make up 6% of all dogs. Whether that’s the fault of the dog or poor training from the owner doesn’t change the fact that it is a systematic problem.
Firstly, I’ve already highlighted the issues with the over-representation in stats, a thing you just kind of seem to keep ignoring -
“Are they perhaps also over-represented in ownership by dipshits tending toward incredibly aggressive behavior and/or other scumminess?
An overrepresentation highlights nothing more than an anomaly we should seek to understand; on its own it’s nowhere near sufficient for a conclusion.”
Secondly, I’m curious as to what system you believe this problem is related to, along with how the fault of … poor training from the owner would somehow uniquely reflect on the dog.
Actually, That AI Drake and The Weeknd Song Is Not Eligible for a Grammy::The song “Heart on My Sleeve” was pulled from streaming services after it was revealed to have been created with artificial intelligence.
What? This is their real, day-to-day job. This isn’t a competition, in the sense which you describe.
Their managers submit their works (read: the stuff they made at their day to day job) from the calendar year, which are reviewed in private by the judges.
If the goal was ‘you have X time to make Y song within these parameters’, you’d have a direct comparison but it is not, and you do not.
It's far more complicated than that. You need X amount of energy density to do Y amount of work, and there is certain specialized work that is only now beginning to look for replacements, although well-to-wake is tough to do.
All religions have it’s own myths, own stories, own set of values. And these are/were good stories, I mean, even though they are not true, they are certainly interesting. You won’t feel bored by it....
We tell ourselves stories about our own actions, choices and beliefs (internally). We desperately want to believe that our own behavior is consistent and coherent. Fitting our behavior into a narrative helps us maintain this illusion (“I did Y thing because X thing happened to me, and then Z thing happened because I did Y”).
We tend to assume that cause-and-effect relationships are true and real, that we perceive causes and effects correctly, that we associate causes with effects accurately, and that we perceive all causes and effects that are relevant. These assumptions give us a narrative structure through which we make sense of our own behavior… though they are about as reliable as any of our other assumptions.
Anyway, the upshot is that framing the actions, choices and beliefs of others into a story helps us to understand and empathize with them (or condemn and villify them). The stories are a construct formed mostly from confirmation bias, but we struggle to make sense of reality without them.
Yeah, I agree that jQuery used to be pretty necessary for some pretty basic features in JS but is kindof obsolete now-a-days.
I don’t agree that any codebase that doesn’t use framewok X or Y will inevitably devolve into unmaintainability. If it does, it’s probably more because one isn’t following best practices. (Like the Unix Philosophy or SOLID (which functionally are kindof the same thing), DRY, ZOI, etc.) And no amount of frameworks can save you from that fate if you indeed aren’t taking steps to ensure the longer-term maintainability of your codebase.
This might handle scripts as you described, but just wait until it needs the context of random bits of a tens-of-millions-of-lines monorepo plus knowledge of custom infrastructure that isn’t documented anywhere and–oh wait, we can’t actually let this LLM-as-a-service read our code because X and Y compliance/security/legal/etc, even if we ran it on-prem.
The robots aren’t coming for you so soon, don’t worry.
Right. Only squeaky wheels get greased. If you don’t actively bitch and moan or threaten to leave, your company will never give you more because they assume you’re happy.
Mine gave me what appeared to be a fairly sizeable performance bump, percentage-wise, at the beginning of the calendar year.
But when I calculated it out in comparison to all the other increases they’d given me, accounted for inflation as measured by CPI, and excluded the amounts given in “class-wide” salary adjustments, the dollar amount was really put into perspective.
Per their own HR policy, an individuals position within their defined salary band is determined by their skill/merit achievements relative to the job position. Because a class wide salary adjustment also redefines the salary band, and I have a habit of snapshotting the salary bands every few months, I was able to prove with numbers that A) they’d only ever actually given me one “merit increase” that matched the words they use in my review to an actual, measurable, “skill increase” as measured by an individual’s position in the salary band.
And because the others had been so poor, using their own HR policy, they were effectively stating that I was only 2-3% better at my job than when they hired me 4+ years ago. Which was impossible, because if it were true, why would they have me actively mentoring individuals more highly paid but in the same band as myself?
It was compelling enough that they offered me an in-department “promotion” to the next grade and it came with one of two new roles, which I was allowed to trial and choose between. HR had previously squashed the grade increase two times over the previous two years, saying I didn’t have enough experience, despite pushback from the three levels of management over me. (Our HR is like comic book villain levels of sanctimonious overpowered karens left to their own devices, and are actively holding the whole company back.)
Because I was able to use their own language to state, “either I’m good enough to do the X,Y,Z you currently have me doing and therefore deserve more; or I’m not and therefore should not be responsible for the things I do for the team and will essentially ‘behave my class’ and stop doing them,” I forced their hand.
The dystopia of a balkanized Internet floated by net neutrality campaigners (e.g. ISPs charging people extra to access Netflix) has not come to pass.
You may be unaware, but that dystopia already exists today: Mobile service providers (= ISPs for their customers) are selling e.g. WhatsApp traffic quotas separately from other internet traffic. You’ll buy a package, and you’ll get X GB traffic, but Y GB WhatsApp traffic separately, with Y sometimes even being > X.
Meaning in effect that people have to pay more to access the non WhatsApp-Internet, which means “ISP charging people extra to access Netflix” (among other services). It encourages people who have little money to stay in their WhatsApp filter bubble.
Roku looks to be seriously tightening its pursestrings. The company’s laying off a full ten percent of its workforce, over 300 employees, in addition to a conducting a number of other cost-cutting measures, as reported by Variety. These job cuts are just the beginning, as Roku’s also removing streaming content, consolidating...
Hi, I would be interested in people’s opinion on the future of social media. Would activitypub ever become mainstream among “normies” that lack technical literacy?...
“In a last attempt to stay relevant, Spez added a new feature to Reddit, which automatically converts every comment into an NFT, that you can sell for real money transactions. The author’s name will change to the NFT owners.”
“Meta changing it’s name again, to ZombiOS, after releasing it’s desktop OS, based on iOS with Facebook integration.”
“Lemmy user number raised the 10th time year to year.”
“After Elon Musk shut off X in 2024, he decided to go for a comeback. To honor the name X, he let his son X$alaπ¢ work as CEO of the new Y website, targeting neuralink social Media, where you can share memories directly into the brain.”
Honestly, 90% of programming work now is “I got X library to work inside of Y new system in Z engine”. It makes sense too - it’s exceedingly rare that it makes sense to reinvent someone else’s wheel - and at times, not insignificant to implement the right hooks.
Florida parents are taking advantage of an expanded school voucher program championed by Governor Ron DeSantis (R), according to messages from private Facebook groups obtained by Popular Information. The private Facebook messages reveal how parents are using the new
No it’s like saying you have an option to participate in x program but choose not to because of y. No one is stopping you from accessing x other than your choice which is exactly what these people are facing.
I only said that more authoritarianism is not the answer to authoritarianism.
Come on, be real. Muslims and Islam force people into wearing x and y clothing. Dont come here and say they are not authoritarian. Yes, authoritarianism is the answer to authoritarianism. You are not going to win to authoritarianism with kind words.
Not their parents
Exactly. And they are the ones making a big deal out of this.
If a little girl wanted to dress as a unicorn to school, the parents would easily say: “no, you cannot dress to school, it is banned”, or do you think the parens would be like “WHY CANT MY LITTLE GIRL DRESS AS UNICORN TO SCHOOL. FRANCE IS FASCIST!”.
All these “but my daughter wants to cover her whole body, its her choice!!”, its coming from their parents.
There is no way to fix stupid. All of the elements needed to go underground are included in the instruction manual for all religions. It only creates further conflicts in future generations. The only way to fix this is to introduce scientific thought and principals at a young age across generations and slowly whittle away at them. If you present a solid target, you’ll never succeed. People must realize on their own that they do not believe in magic and that this applies across all of time in both directions without exception. They need to see things like the cosmological constants are the true signature of the universe. If a god made this place at a minimum she should have written these down to undeniably sign her work. People need to realise, the past had extremely uneducated people, but they still had clever conartists, they still had all the mental health disorders we see now and then far more because of those that get treatment now. When something says X-Y-Z happened and thousands of people saw it, do we have thousands of accounts or one person saying so. Did they write it down right after it happened or decades later. Do their accounts have errors like a school kid cheating on their homework and copying others or are they consistent. Saying “X-Y-Z happened, and ten thousand people saw it” four decades after it happened and after a giant rebellion where most of those people died is nonsense. Some prophet zooming around like they have Dr Who’s Tardis is just as fiction. People were stupid back then. They are not much better now. We were all very stupid as children. It is hard to reverse the stupid things we learned as children. The only way to fix this is to get to these children subtly without alerting the stupid children that are raising them.
I complained about that part too, and 8bitdo doesn’t seem receptive…
I mentioned it to them and they were very helpful… They specifically sent me a beta firmware for the reciever that allows me to toggle between Switch mode and Xinput mode by holding Select+Y or Select+X respectively.
Not impossible to maintain, just no one cares to anymore. It’s not new and flashy, which is all people care to work on these days. So they make something new with half of what the old standard did. For the rest, they let it fall to others to write hack workarounds, because hey, they didn’t need features x y and z, not their problem, right? Why should they care if they create a new standard that breaks shit for tons of people, it does what they want… which is likely fricking useless things like games. This obsession with gaming is out of control, and it’s pulling devs away from the things that really need working on. Get a gosh darn console if you need to drown your sorrows in games, ffs. Meanwhile, fix X11, or replace it, but do so FULLY so you don’t break things that have worked for over a decade.
it really is as simple as being able to distinguish opinions from facts, and clarifying each in the revew.
Facts: This game has X combat, Y selectable characters, the crafting looks like Z, etc.
Opinons: This game is amazing! 10/10! Best story of all time! GOTY!, etc
You absolutely can have an objective game review, it's just that no writer wants to do that. They'd rather make it more about their opinions of the game than of the game.
I can’t click on it, don’t find anything on lemmy.world about it (maybe I’m just not good at searching for this stuff) and it only appears on a single comment I made. I haven’t seen it anywhere else yet. What does it mean?...
It doesn’t matter whether a comment is “just” deleted or purged, there will still be an entry in the format “mod/admin purged/deleted X for reason Y” (if you scroll down to the “21 hours ago” mark, there is even an example for a purged thread)
Local governments aren't businesses – so why are they force-fed business software? - Oracle's repeated public sector failures prove a different approach is needed (www.theregister.com)
Local governments aren’t businesses – so why are they force-fed business software? - Oracle’s repeated public sector failures prove a different approach is needed::Oracle’s repeated public sector failures prove a different approach is needed
Why are women turning to TikTok for advice about the pill? Because doctors won’t listen to us (www.theguardian.com)
Why are women turning to TikTok for advice about the pill? Because doctors won’t listen to us::To counter social-media conspiracy theories, we need more honest information about contraception and its side-effects, says writer Kate Muir
Please discuss. (lemmy.ml)
Suella Braverman pushes for ban of 'lethal danger' XL Bully dogs (uk.yahoo.com)
Wow this post got popular. I got called into work and didnt see the replies, sorry ladies and gentlemen! Trying to catch up tonight.
Actually, That AI Drake and The Weeknd Song Is Not Eligible for a Grammy (gizmodo.com)
Actually, That AI Drake and The Weeknd Song Is Not Eligible for a Grammy::The song “Heart on My Sleeve” was pulled from streaming services after it was revealed to have been created with artificial intelligence.
US seizes nearly 1 million barrels of Iranian oil allegedly bound for China (www.cnn.com)
[SOLVED] Why do stories have such effect on us?
All religions have it’s own myths, own stories, own set of values. And these are/were good stories, I mean, even though they are not true, they are certainly interesting. You won’t feel bored by it....
Which side are you? Javascript or Typescript (i.postimg.cc)
Americans Are Less Motivated to Work This Year Compared to Last, New Data Shows (www.bloomberg.com)
What is your favorite terminal emulator.
I’m reconsidering my terminal emulator and was curious what everyone was using.
Senate confirms Biden FCC nominee, finally giving Democrats a 3-2 majority (arstechnica.com)
Anna Gomez confirmation means "FCC can act swiftly to restore net neutrality."
Roku lays off 300 workers and removes streaming content to save money (www.engadget.com)
Roku looks to be seriously tightening its pursestrings. The company’s laying off a full ten percent of its workforce, over 300 employees, in addition to a conducting a number of other cost-cutting measures, as reported by Variety. These job cuts are just the beginning, as Roku’s also removing streaming content, consolidating...
Future of social media in 5/10 years from now?
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Starfield players pirate the DLSS mod after the developer locks it behind paywall (www.gamescensor.com)
Disney tickets, PS5s, and big-screen TVs: Florida parents exploit DeSantis' school vouchers (popular.info)
Florida parents are taking advantage of an expanded school voucher program championed by Governor Ron DeSantis (R), according to messages from private Facebook groups obtained by Popular Information. The private Facebook messages reveal how parents are using the new
French state schools turn away dozens of girls wearing Muslim abaya dress (www.bbc.co.uk)
The Iraqi YouTube star killed by her father (www.bbc.com)
Tiba al-Ali's death has sparked the call for change for violence against women in Iraq.
Just Got an 8bitdo Ultimate Bluetooth Controller, What Now?
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Wayland or X11? Why?
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What does this icon mean? (lemmy.world)
I can’t click on it, don’t find anything on lemmy.world about it (maybe I’m just not good at searching for this stuff) and it only appears on a single comment I made. I haven’t seen it anywhere else yet. What does it mean?...