Fun new way to orange pill internet anons: make them order some Bitcoin books from https://thesaifhouse.com/ and tell them you'll pay for it if they send you the Lightning invoice.
Just bought this rando The Bitcoin Standard , Gradually Then Suddenly and Broken Money nostr:nprofile1qqsw4v882mfjhq9u63j08kzyhqzqxqc8tgf740p4nxnk9jdv02u37ncpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9uju6mpd4czuumfw3jsz9nhwden5te0wfjkccte9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wsq3yamnwvaz7tmsw4e8qmr9wpskwtn9wvql3tqm
It is Friday, my dudes
Reminds me of Balaji's theory about networked nations:
American Hodl and Erik Cason spitting fire on this episode
When one of the comics at a comedy tour (Porch Tour) 
show uses your joke:
Another fun story from the front lines of TradFi fiat world with KYC/AML...
A bank recently fined millions of dollars for KYC/AML "failures" asks my consulting company to take a look at their SAS Anti-money Laundering application platform because all the performance issues they're having (https://www.sas.com/en_us/software/anti-money-laundering.html)
They have an old, out-dated version (not even the vendor wants to touch it because it's so old) and a newer version (Canada/US).
Leaving aside all the manual steps they have in their process that could be automated (we're talking SPREADSHEETS), they are complaining that when users click on a certain Search button in the UI, for certain cases, it completely locks up the database and makes the app non-functional for all users
Presumably because the query is taking too long and has a read-lock.
My guess is we're talking a least several million records across a few tables, and the query is probably not fully optimized
But then we asked to see hardware specs and their database VM said it had 0.9 CPUs allocated to it
My co-worker and I were utterly confused, see attached convo.
Then I was looking through an old spreadsheet they had of issues with recommendations for fixes, and a cost estimate from internal and external resources. One was for "increasing JVM heap memory" and they had like "estimate of up to two months and $40k"
It's literally just updating a few config files from "1028" to "2046" or whatever, and then restarting the services. Maybe 30 minutes of work.
Incompetence and grift are everywhere.
Peak fiat world with so many things just barely getting by, held together by duct tape and Rube Goldberg processes, with very few people with the WILL and the BALLS to make the hard decision to fix things
Primal on desktop didn't like my image attachment? Amethyst coming for the win 
Another fun story from the front lines of TradFi fiat world with KYC/AML...
A bank recently fined millions of dollars for KYC/AML "failures" asks my consulting company to take a look at their SAS Anti-money Laundering application platform because all the performance issues they're having (https://www.sas.com/en_us/software/anti-money-laundering.html)
They have an old, out-dated version (not even the vendor wants to touch it because it's so old) and a newer version (Canada/US).
Leaving aside all the manual steps they have in their process that could be automated (we're talking SPREADSHEETS), they are complaining that when users click on a certain Search button in the UI, for certain cases, it completely locks up the database and makes the app non-functional for all users
Presumably because the query is taking too long and has a read-lock.
My guess is we're talking a least several million records across a few tables, and the query is probably not fully optimized
But then we asked to see hardware specs and their database VM said it had 0.9 CPUs allocated to it
My co-worker and I were utterly confused, see attached convo.
Then I was looking through an old spreadsheet they had of issues with recommendations for fixes, and a cost estimate from internal and external resources. One was for "increasing JVM heap memory" and they had like "estimate of up to two months and $40k"
It's literally just updating a few config files from "1028" to "2046" or whatever, and then restarting the services. Maybe 30 minutes of work.
Incompetence and grift are everywhere.
Peak fiat world with so many things just barely getting by, held together by duct tape and Rube Goldberg processes, with very few people with the WILL and the BALLS to make the hard decision to fix things
So true 
Mebbe u listen
Tasty dip. Nom nom nom.
Democracy, working as intended
Nightmare fuel
Anyone using Amethyst know why I never get Push notifications? Pixel 7 and I verified notifications are all enabled in Android app settings
Yes, totally norma and healthy to want to cut off body parts. Having a normal one. Some things don't need to be debated.
This account is wild. I scrolled through a couple days of posts. Can't tell if it's a bot or a crazy NPC. Fun times
I spent the better part of the day banging my head against the desk trying to help some junior devs on my team figure out why this one piece of a newly installed modeling platform/environment was not working as expected. Figured out right at quitting time that one log directory (of maybe 50+) just didn't have the right (write) permissions on it. Needle in a haystack.
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