Well for the same reason lots of not great software is used.
It was once the best (or only) in the market, and now it’d cost literally millions of dollars to change in training/conversion/hardware changes. As long as we keep above the “We cause less damage than a change costs” folks stay.
Heh, yeah but my metrics don’t care about how many trucks I roll! Just how long my calls are! “Modem restart didn’t work? Truck will be on its way.” “Modem restart didn’t work? Truck will be on its way.” X100
100 calls an hour BABY.
sigh
So I work for a large enterprise type software with a database. And because our installer is trash, we don’t trust clients to do it. It’s very common for the installer to error out with SQL error messages and we have to go fix things in the database. Think stupid things like if a value is null in one field, installer crashes.
So they call in, get paperwork for a test upgrade (we require they upgrade a test database first), then after they email that paperwork and it’s approved by management, the call to schedule the test appointment happens. Then 3 days before the actual appointment, we can call them and transfer via Bomgar the files they need. Because we don’t wanna give them the needed files early for… reasons never explained properly to me.
Then the actual install/upgrade call happens.
Then we do it all over again for the live.
Welcome to corporate policy that’s been building over 20 years, and never cut back. Things get added to the install process, never removed.
There’s always next weeks call deflection meeting for me to try again!
I haven’t been uninvited from it yet! But yeah gotta love these “problem solving” meetings from management, where they don’t actually want to give any resources or allow any policy changes to come from them.
Anything really!
Also it annoys me because swords and bows are THE most difficult weapons to learn from the medieval ages. We have legends about master bowmen and swordsmen because they were notoriously difficult to use.
You can look up videos of reenactors of people using spears vs. swords, and people who have never touched a spear in their life can beat people who have been using swords for reenactments for years.
To use longbows effectively was a life long commitment.
Crossbows didn’t have more power than longbows, they were popular because it took 20 minutes to teach a strong peasant how to fire, and a few weeks to get them firing at the proper cadence to be effective. Being effective with a bow took far longer.
I’d rather read that than another story of a child being handed a sword and killing grown men.
Give them a spear and have them focus on tricking people into charging! Anything besides a sword or bow, the two most difficult to learn weapons from the medieval ages!
The book is a parody of itself.
I dare you to find a part that isn’t near gibberish!
Dang it, I feel like this could be a really stupid study. Do this to hundreds of people and record the average response.
Except… if you said you were throwing paper, they would think you were trying to bait them into going scissors so you could go rock.
So wouldn’t they themselves go paper? Why would they go rock?
Sooo how many chemicals are one or two atoms from being deadly with exposure to just a few millileters?
I’m guessing just… a lot.
Obama as now, or at the same age as me?
30 YO Obama looked amazing.
Must not be anywhere near to the actual free way entrance then if it’s that cheap! Cheap places always have trash commutes.
I mean I just think of him as zoomer game show host. So that’s a bit harsh.
Most of his challenges either are straight rips or would feel right at home in survivor/fear factor, then some challenges are just big brother straight up.
But I suppose you can say the same thing about all game shows that have normal folks on it competing for life changing amounts of money.
He’s zoomer game show host.
All you really need to know.
You know what? Yeah you’re right, that’s just a motorcycle with pedals and probably could do a lot of force if it hits a pedestrian and probably should just be treated like a motorcycle.
I have a cutesy little escooter that I feel like has a better chance of harming someone by picking it up and using it as a blunt weapon than trying to run them over at 15 mph. Make no mistake, riding on sidewalks is still super dangerous and shouldn’t be done if there is any chance of a pedestrian, but you’d think they would just build proper infrastructure instead of limit them. If they had a bike lane with passing space, they could be as beastly as they want while passing me.
Ahh, that was from an event 2022, probably also part of why I missed it, also I was looking in US last time I looked for statistics. Any chance finding statistics for like 2023?
The obsession with scooter and bike speeds that don’t have the mass to seriously hurt people at top speed is crazy.
Like you can find videos of people being hit at top speed by scooters/bikes, usually the pedestrian is pretty fine but rightfully annoyed. Every fatal accident I can find is the escooter/ebiker was hit by a car.
Fingers crossed they stop being dumb and just make actual infrastructure for micromobility so they don’t have to compete with giant murder machines.
Baby sitting my mom’s dog and that’s my cat! He wants that spot.
Well I did say “for same reason lots” XD so yeah, basically.
Then sales reps can rope in new people with “It’s industry standard! It’s easy to hire people who know this!”