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  • TomMasz@piefed.socialtoScience Memes@mander.xyzThoughts??
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    5 days ago

    “Sometimes Excel is what’s available.”

    I worked for a Big Company that was cutting back and dropped their Oracle contracts, forcing all the DBAs to work in Access. Then they fired all the DBAs, forcing everyone to either try to figure out Access or switch to Excel. Guess which way they went.

    In my last job at that company, my department had built an Excel spreadsheet (database) so large and full of calculations they had to request money to update our machines to 64-bit Windows and 16GB RAM just to run it.














  • TomMasz@piefed.socialtoCyberstuck@lemmy.caWhat the frunk
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    1 month ago

    That’s the issue here. It’s so automated that if even the slightest thing goes wrong, the vehicle goes into a mode that makes it difficult to continue, though not impossible. I wouldn’t have chosen to get towed in this instance, since it still drives, but had they been on a highway, it would have been dangerous/illegal to continue at 15 mph. It feels like this was a design decision made without considering the consequences.

    I’ve seen what happens when a hood opens at highway speed. No one was hurt, but that driver probably filled their pants, if you know what I mean.