aiiotnoodle

Stuff like this is great.

Fast moving consumer goods is a vastly underrated represented technology sector, they do so much cool stuff that just goes completely unnoticed.

I started my first job in a warehouse and it really gave me a good look at the proprietary technology powering day to day life. It should be more open but few work on stuff like this.

The postgres developer had disabled a bunch of optimization in order to create a low noise floor on his test machine that increased the delay too.

Normally it would be much quicker but potentially could have been picked up downstream by other developers when the code became more mainstream.

He did an interview for Risky Business #743.

Did airhelp talk to aviation ADR do you know? We've Just essentially lost based on what we provided but still think we're owed compensation really. Just absolutely exhausted doing all the admin. Originally went with resolver but they did nothing. I think aviation ADR is our last course of action unless we actually sued them, do you know if you did that?

A lot of this sounds like they were under-resourced and the business increasingly adopted new technology with no ongoing support for their IT infrastructure.

> These legacy systems will in many cases need to be migrated to new versions, substantially modified, or even rebuilt from the ground up, either because they are unsupported and therefore cannot be repurchased or restored, or because they simply will not operate on modern servers or with modern security controls.

> There is a clear lesson in ensuring the attack vector is reduced as much as possible by keeping infrastructure and applications current, with increased levels of lifecycle investment in technology infrastructure and security.

> Our reliance on legacy infrastructure is the primary contributor to the length of time that the Library will require to recover from the attack.

A lot of lines like the following, also indicate to me IT was increasingly were involved in fighting fires and maintining operational systems ("keeping the lights on") rather than deploying new infrastructure and automation, updating software etc.

> Some of our older applications rely substantially on manual extract (...) which in a modern data management and reporting infrastructure would be encapsulated in secure, automated end-to end workflows.

Modern business is IT, I know that I am preaching to the chior but this sounds a lot like their IT was seen as a cost.

If you are referring to NCR self checkout cameras. This is generally NCR SmartAssist and NCR ScanItAll which is for shrink and employee theft rather than mass identification. I only know of ASDA near me that has this implementation.

> We each have a choice.

You really don't though. You can either pay more, or go to another supermarket with a similar scheme. Doesn't really seem cricket, am I really loyal for buying bread or cheese because I needed them and this supermarket is in my neighborhood?

And users unable to correct the data themselves

It was temporarily halted in 2020 but now is back in production.

According to here anyway,

https://europe.autonews.com/automakers/vw-plans-restart-sale...