sam_bristow

I've used an even less-kind framing in the past: incompetence is multiplicative. Two half-wits together gets you a quarter-wit.

Are they planning to pull a Jimmy Hofa with Jesus...

A mechanically-minded man reasons that the rules of grammar are fixed by certain, almost mathematical principles. By exploiting this idea, he is able to create a mammoth machine that can write a prize-winning novel in roughly fifteen minutes. The story ends on a fearful note, as more and more of the world's writers are forced into licensing their names—and all hope of human creativity—to the machine.

Wait, are these the same GPUs that were diverted from Tesla into xAI a couple of years ago?

The linked page seems to think it does.

"As of June 29th 2020, CTA, the CERN Tape Archive, started to be operated as the successor of CASTOR and gradually replaced it."

I think that a large part of Atlassian's problem is their network of extension vendors. Every time you look at a feature request for simple things like "as a user I'd like to see a total of the worklog hours I've added to tickets this week" you get a chorus of vendors popping up to sell you their $10/month plugin that approximately covers your request.

If Atlassian actually fixed these papercuts their product would be better but they wouldn't be getting a cut of all subscriptions from the dozens of plugins people install to make it a usable tool.

Someone should chuck a clean-up ticket on the backlog.

It's a completely different failure mode, but this reminded me of an infuriating situation I had a while ago with single-use URLs and safe-links functionality in MS Outlook. I can't remember the exact details but the gist was that Outlook would replace the actual URL with an indirection which would scan the page to check it was safe when you clicked. The result was that every time I would request an activation link it would be expired by the time I clicked it. I ended up having to reverse engineer the safe-links encoding algorithm to get the original URL. I wasted hours.

No, but it seems to be par for the course for enterprise software.

Any idea if their internal version has improved dramatically since they stopped maintaining the public version?

What does Facebook use internally these days. I'm amazed that the state of review tools is still at or behind what we had a decade ago for the most part.