It’s a commonly-used tool for technology management.

Thank your lucky starts for that.

IMO stuff like that is why a good trainer is important.

IMO it’s stronger evidence that proper user-centered design should be done and a usable and intuitive UX and set of APIs developed. But because the buyer of this heap of shit is some C-level, there is no incentive to actually make it usable for the unfortunate peons who are forced to interact with it. See also SFDC and every ERP solution in existence.

It’s the worst of shite. It has inadequate models for depicting services, so you have do deform your own model of product and service delivery to fit their ill-conceived straitjacket, and its licensing model discourages open sharing of information within the organization. Also, it’s all clunky and half-assed, especially its integration points, and the whole monstrosity is based on the antiquated ITIL philosophy that support is a cost center and therefore all support services should be rationed, never mind response times, quality of service or value to the customer. That barely made sense in the time of on-premises data centers but makes little to no sense in a cloud-based environment.

And yes, it collects lots of metrics, but they’re all crap.

boomer brained judge

Boomer here. Don’t assume we all think the same. Determining behavior from age brackets is about as effective as doing it based on Chinese astrology (but I’m a Monkey so I would say that, wouldn’t I?)

The judge’s problem is being a nitwit, not what year they were born in.

The judge should have had the sense to keep this shitty craft project out of the courtroom. Victim statements should also be banned as manipulative glurge.

Has Musk ever met a dictator he doesn’t like?

Where would we be without predatory rent-seeking?

Someone’s going to make a fortune migrating firms off VMWare onto open-source VMs.

That should never be allowed in court. What a crock of shit.

1. It’s pretty straightforward to install PostgreSQL and its GIS extensions. Maybe not one line, but within the abilities of any semi-experienced Linux user.

2. If you want some visualization capability with your data, IBL Visual Weather (Go, Bratislava!) can also be made to be highly functional and performant, though it can be tricky to set up.

3. There’s no mention of EDR in the DuckDB blurb (which QGIS now has as a semi-mature plugin). EDR is a newish OCG standard that lets you do multidimensional GIS queries in a sensible way. This is especially useful for environmental data where you might want to query a large number of parameters in a region, a volume, or along a trajectory. Previous approaches to doing this in GIS systems were frustrating at best, and more often, nonexistent.

4. My job involves wrangling metric shit-tons of geo data and I know literally nobody who uses DuckDB. I’ll have a look in my copious free time, but if its main selling point is ease of installation, that one-time benefit means next to nothing compared to getting the DB (and its visualization capabilities, if any) to actually store and manipulate data in a useful way.

5. Having said all that, it’s nice that there are new entrants in the field. But please don’t make it end up like the situation with content management systems, where everyone thinks it’s a good idea to write a new CMS and 99% of them are crap.

“We lose value on every unit, but make it up through volume.”

The ultimate value of shares is in the dividends they represent, no?

No. The actual (and only) value of shares is investors’ expectation of the value of future appreciation in share value and of dividends. And there is not a constant relationship between share values and dividends: the price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio can vary hugely depending on the nature of the business and on investor sentiment-- for example, P/E can be massive during a speculative frenzy, with no underlying reason besides wishful thinking.

With the Winkie Magnification slider set to None.

Also assuming those human errors don’t bring them into contact with a driverless truck hurtling along at 70 mph.

I’d pay to see that movie.

Bring lots of aluminum foil to wrap it in.

This guy inductions.

Hmm, I thought they were using ligers. I’ll have to go back and read that again.

You’d think that, but you’re talking about Texas, where corporate profit always wins over people’s safety and well-being.

Something like 70% of transport-related particulate emissions (and microplastics) are from tire wear.