Hope they played it right. I knew someone who worked on proprietary factory machines and he always refused to train anyone else on them and got paid stupid amounts to service them.
Those "POS" terminals can't be hacked, worked fine for 40 years, and paying a guy to maintain them is far cheaper than a modern system anyone can hack and will get bricked with a software update.
I'm pretty sure they can be hacked, i'm just not sure anyone would think it was worth it.
i don't know what their maintenance fees are, but the enrollment fees at square are cheaper than what i charge for fucking around with [old programming language].
the difference is my clients' system is custom to them. i just don't know why they haven't switched.
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cowboydan@quokk.au · 18 pts · 71d
That's gotta be one hell of a raise for those folks
reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net · 16 pts · 71d
Hope they played it right. I knew someone who worked on proprietary factory machines and he always refused to train anyone else on them and got paid stupid amounts to service them.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 71d
I know an engineer that does very well because he services systems originally programmed in Fortran.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 70d
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 68d
Those "POS" terminals can't be hacked, worked fine for 40 years, and paying a guy to maintain them is far cheaper than a modern system anyone can hack and will get bricked with a software update.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 68d
oh sorry. Point of Sale, not Piece of Shit.
I'm pretty sure they can be hacked, i'm just not sure anyone would think it was worth it.
i don't know what their maintenance fees are, but the enrollment fees at square are cheaper than what i charge for fucking around with [old programming language].
the difference is my clients' system is custom to them. i just don't know why they haven't switched.
Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu · 3 pts · 71d
What... Of Fortran that old already?
Damn, I am that old already....
Ostrakon@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 70d
The idea that Fortran is old is old at this point.
Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu · 1 pts · 70d
Does that make it new or old squared?
outerspace@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 70d
If you read the article they only realized that they fired them too early and hired them back to train the machine first.
randomname@scribe.disroot.org · 3 pts · 71d
Another Klarna moment.
MrFlibble4747@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 70d
Should not the AI be used to perform the work without errors
You cannot inspect quality into a product just find faults for rework and identify process improvements.
QA vs QC, but then again the good ole USA does not differentiate, it is all QA to them!
QA Inspector as a role ROFL! Really?