The Greybeard Crank

@greybeardcrank

A Greybeard in Software Development. And that means takes are more practical than elegant.

planandmanage.substack.com Joined April 2018

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Order of Priority
1. Legal Compliance
2. Business Expansion
3. Cost Centre Optimization
4. Cost Savings - Physical Operations
5. Consolidation of processes
6. Cost Savings - Memory Footprint
7. Everything esle

The Greybeard Crank @greybeardcrank 6d

Interesting to see Europe is suffering because of Deposit Return Scheme now, with vagrants rummaging through the trash and littering it everywhere in quest for cans and bottles. Those who designed it forgot the most important rule - human mindset.

The Greybeard Crank @greybeardcrank Nov 6

Another lazy design solution. Let me know the gaps in it.
Most languages have SQLite natively embedded. Meaning writing into SQLite is very fast as compared to any standard DB - two reasons - the write happens to disk, there is no network handover.

The Greybeard Crank @greybeardcrank Nov 6

Two more news hit the AI market besides Google messing up it's Search Model
1. Blackstone rated Antropic Junk post IPO. Question. If it is going to be junk in a few days, what's it now?
2. Nvidia is delivering goods against future payments. What happens when some go kaput?

The Greybeard Crank @greybeardcrank Nov 5

What is this kind of power Europe holds, which bends everyone?
microsoft.com/en-us/copilot/…

www.microsoft.com Bringing Claude models in Microsoft Copilot into the EU Data Boundary | Microsoft Copilot Blog Organizations across Europe will gain access to Claude models in Microsoft Copilot within the EU Data Boundary, with consistent security, compliance, and governance.