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Australian citizen here.

There are massive tax, fuel, land tax, health care subsidies for our farmers.

Even doctors who cater to the remote areas where farmers dwell get extra payments from our governments.

https://www.health.gov.au/topics/rural-health-workforce/clas...


Even doctors who cater to the remote areas where farmers dwell get extra payments from our governments.

Very common in the United States, too.

There are a lot of doctors who get their student loans reduced or paid off by state and local governments in exchange for working a certain number of years in less-desirable locations. I've worked with a number of them.

There was an entire TV show based on it that ran on CBS for five years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Exposure


And if the bad output leads to a decision maker making a bad decision, that takes down your company or kills your relative ?

The sandbox in question was to absorb shrapnel from explosions, clearly

Things look much better when looked at with the foggy lens of the retrospecto-scope.

I began reading newspapers in the 1960's.

Most journalism even in those days was bad and of dubious quality.


Attempting to lecture me on what journalism was is a misstep on your part. My first professional development gig was supporting software integrations between 33 local newsrooms, their printing floors, and their (at the time fledgling) online presence. In addition to my normal development work I was frequently called upon to work directly with editorial and newsroom staff on specialty projects and provide on-site support at industry events. As a result I spent a lot of time in the room where shit was going down.

While it's always been possible to find shills in the media landscape the overwhelming majority of the men and women I worked for were the kind of intense scary-obsessive anti-authoritarian types that literally skipped meals and sleep (sometimes days at a time) just for a chance at catching industry or government fucking around. And with literally hundreds of newsrooms scattered across the country staffed similarly journalism was a force to be reconned with. But hey, having to pay $5 to sell your couch to a stranger was kind of a drag so I guess this is better.


If you think that every comment on social media is an "attempt to lecture" you, a random nobody on the internet, who once basically worked as support staff to journalists, you have personal problems beyond my powers to fix...

""Code reviewer" is a much less fulfilling job than "programmer." Code reviewers are also easier to replace than programmers.

A code reviewer is a reverse-centaur, a servant to the machine.

Every time you hear "AI-assisted programmer," you should substitute "programmer-assisted AI.""


Right. Even if headcount stays the same, replacing previously highly skilled roles with low-paid fungible operators of AI is a big win for employers.

China will beat this....

Seems like a triumph of hype over reality.

China can do breathless hype just as well as Nvidia.


TLDR: Dying company with terrible products uses AI as an excuse for sacking people who should have been sacked years ago.

AI is a convenient way to hide their their poor strategy and execution.


AI is great !

It is a great excuse for underperforming and incompetent CEOs.

It provides the CEO with a wonderful excuse for sacking people.


A rich relative arranges charity balls. Her friends buy 20K tickets to them and in return she buys tickets to their balls.

The money presumably goes to some good cause ( her thing at the moment is some rare pediatric neurological disorder ) and the organisers get to socialise with each other and wear millions in clothing and jewels.


Or BYD vs BMW.

BYD is more reliable and arguably better by metrics that matter to people.

BMW still has more cachet and is bought largely for the brand value.


SAP is truly terrible.

Well....

Before you say SAP is terrible, have you tried the competition?

It has some data entry screens that are super efficient, cursor always goes to the right place, tab moves you to the right place etc. 15 years and lots of ERPs later I have never seen better

When you are viewing a purchase invoice on the ledger you can see the PO it is matched to, click on it and it goes to the PO. Click a line on the PO you can see the GRNs related. Click on them you go to the actual GRNs

Oracle ERP can't do any of that.


SAP is much better than the home-grown stuff Tesla, Space X, or Amazon are using. One needs to compare the "new" public cloud solution, rather than the outdated soon not supported ECC system.

SAP is just a skeleton and a library. How processes are implemented on it depends on the company consulting and adapting it to the business using it.

A merge between Palantir and SAP would dominate the market in a way there wouldn’t be any competitor left.


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