@djlink
How much wealth is wiped out of workers bank accounts paying for auto payments, insurance, gasoline, lunch? How much of the workers time is wasted traveling to and from work?
Then today is the perfect time to start an automated backup routine. You can get a USB-C enclosure and 1TB NVMe for less than $100 (in the US). Those drives are very cheap right now.
I guess I am getting old, because I have a strong distrust for backup schemes I cannot easily verify. Coming from a Unix background all the fresh NT 4 admins thought I was crazy for demanding a full image backup of servers, since Backup Exec was all they needed. Until they actually needed it.
Not saying it doesn't work, simply justifying my distrust of new-fangled ways of doing things.
#ChatGPT#translation is amazing. I work in a mostly Chinese office, and sometimes include Google translations when sending emails. Usually, it results in giggle from my co-workers.
Today I was trying to explain what a phishing #email was to our accountant. I asked ChatGPT to #translate. He responded back asking if I had been taking Chinese lessons.
Ended up having a long conversation with him, via email, using ChatGPT for two way translation. Both of us were amazed.
I'm good friends with someone who used to work here. I sent her a happy birthday message a last month that basically said "Happy Birthday you wrinkly old woman", translated by Google. She wrote back asking me why I called her "chicken skin". 😆
The accountant I was speaking with told me the ChatGPT translation sounded like he was speaking to someone who learned Chinese as a second language, but learned it very well.
@rbreich
During the Y2K craze I was able to make a ridiculous amount of money one year. I maxed out my SS, and received a letter explaining my projected benefits. It was evident I would never receive as much as I contributed. I asked a friend, an accountant who worked in government, about it and he explained it was designed to be an equal burden for everyone to make sure we didn't have millions of destitute senior citizens.
I asked why the burden wasn't shared by rich people.
Back in the early 90s I was a new Unix admin. The department manager started telling me about a new database we'd be switching to. He called it 'squeel'.
