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>should adapt their business processes to their ERP, and in my experience they are wrong

That depends. I’ve seen a lot of adaptation to processes that are legitimately & measurably better in time & accuracy ignored in favor of costly customizations out of nothing more than “not created here” syndrome. If a customer doesn’t like that then an off the shelf product is the worst choice they can make unless they are prepared to hire a significant in house dev team.

Otherwise, if you have been adapting your current business processes to deal with the limitations of a legacy system first deployed in the early 80's then there's an excellent chance that at least some of those things can be done more easily in a more modern system. (Though SAP may not always be the best place for that to actually be the case).
A CBDC system would radically simplify the current system of intermediaries approving/checking/extracting-fee/etc shifting 0 and 1 from one digital ledger to another [e.g. https://www.bankofcanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/sdp20...]. Under CDBC a person has open account only with a single 'independent federal/global bank', making it the only liability to government not a private institution (technically Fed would is private institution, but that is topic on its own).

The abolition of an analogue payment system (cash) is from the first principles a tragic idea regardless of the actual implementation mechanism, despite the few pros one can but forward in this argument. The system with CBDC can make money have an 'expiration date' ! This is not a theoretical construct, but its discussed as a way to 'manage' economy (and private individuals). Inflation, spending, propping up economy is fully in the hands of a government entity and can be matter of coordinating policies and laws. This alone, this principle goes against all the progress of modern times from Babylon. The opportunity for tyranny (not used lightly) under such system is limitless (I will not enumerate it here, Im just outlining an argument on a important and complex issue).
Well, this is possibly the only one thing they have down, IMO.

It’s a strategy. No products. No quadrants. Just a more reasonable way of looking at business IT and enterprise development.

It happens to mesh well with my experiences and it’s sometimes nice to be able to whack “Gartner” about in certain settings - especially when someone’s trying to get traction for a magic quadrant product! :)

And to be fair - this is a thread about SAP and ERP…
My house is two blocks from the ocean, 2.6m (8.5') above mean sea level. I know at some point it can't last. I expect to move before then.
Well it could be a small list chosen by Firefox as a result of an honest selection of the best options their users would most likely want, rather than just defaulting to the megacorp that bribed them with the most money.

But I'm really solutionising here, and I'm sure some of the worlds brightest engineers can come up with a solution thats better for users than "we default to whoever pays us the most money".
Democratizing Context: Communicating in public by default
I'm a Minecraft player myself but fact remains that most players are children and the moderation needs to be adapted accordingly.
I’m not so sure about this. Apple doesn’t (seem to) mind killing off sources of revenue by doing something new.
UI issue... when you click on a penguin and then click the "Vote For" button, it sends you to the form below, however your penguin isn't selected, you have to select it again.
That's of course the tricky question. To a degree it might be a presentation thing that they are all shown equally.

E.g. to me, I'd expect a headline profile that's equivalent to "Advanced IM + Advanced Mobile". And I'm not sure the split into "Basic/Advanced" esp for mobile makes much sense. But I also can totally understand why people thought each of the distinctions was valuable, but that makes it feel a bit too comittee-style of trying to make everyone happy by including their variant and over-complicating the entire thing as a result. Certainly something I've seen happen to other specifications.
See the wikipedia article to learn what actually happened, the Oberlin statement and the NYT article are misleading:

An employee took a photo of the shoplifter in the act of stealing, the shoplifter got angry and assaulted the employee for this. That's when then the employee tried apprehending the shoplifter.

Assault, not petty theft. Also, doesn't violence turn theft into robbery?
Lidl tried to switch to SAP, keeping their own processes and customising SAP to fit their needs.

After seven years and 500 million euro spent, the project was cancelled and they went back to using their old inventory system.

So, in this case, customising SAP to fit the company's processes wasn't worth it even for a rather large company like Lidl.
Good. Because doubt is unscientific.
>The thing with an SAP introduction is that one has to analyze and understand how the business actually works to adapt the system to it.

Anyone who's ever worked with ERP software knows the entire system pushes you to do the reverse - adapt the business to the ERP. Going against that flow is possible, but expensive. This is especially the case with SAP which was always even more difficult and expensive to customize.
People don’t enjoy more complex search inputs. This can be readily seen at libraries where users strongly desire Google-style catalog search and don’t like being shown separate fields for author, title, keyword, etc. Worldcat hid that traditional search view years ago and, like Google, keeps it around for those who prefer it.

Increasing max query length seems more promising since it keeps the simple interface. Search expectations are changing as we Google more verbose errors and eventually expect to shape our search queries as we do our GPT prompts with extra moods, language styles, countries of origin, etc.
Yep. I remember a few years ago I was all gung ho about us fixing the problem based on the napkin math alone. Came out to mankind having a budget of something like 10 quintillion man hours until climate was permanently fucked with sealed fates. Seems like more than enough to orchestrate a solution.

Now I realize it just doesn’t matter to the people really behind the wheel.

Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we’ll die. Fuck it
I would imagine that the rising ocean levels would be more concerning
So that analogy makes absolutely no sense considering they grief and ruin active servers, and destroy people's hard work. I don't understand how they can live with themselves. The careless attitude to this fact by the poster, casually mentioning they are part of the group like it's something normal, makes it even more unempathetic.
I dont think that will be an issue in your lifetime, unless you are in an area prone to storm surge. In which case your elevation is ALREADY a problem.
Russia offers bounty for the capture of robotic vehicle deployed in Ukraine
https://youtu.be/RLU0w8DNo7M
I propose more funding all around.

In one sentence you suggest funding one group without the expectation anything will come from it. And then the next you say we shouldn't fund one group because there is no expectation anything will come from it.

You are just anti-fusion.
In theory it is and yet the extremely high price Google is willing to pay to keep it default suggests that it's harder than it looks.

Plenty of non techies are deathly afraid of changing any settings. Google is paying a high price to erect an artificial barrier to entry against less well capitalized competitors looking to target them.
Oof. That's really complicated and still doesn't do the trick.

Concrete example -- when searching Reddit, I can check a box to confine the search to the current subreddit I'm on. That does a wonderful job of restricting results, and... it's one checkbox.

You don't need to make search feel like filing your taxes to make it better.
worst case if we try to address the problem and it doesn’t come to fruition is that we improve the environment around us

worst case if we don’t address the problem and it does come to fruition is mass famine
Shut down the tesla factories then. Where did you intend to store all the energy from renewables?
The TAK Ecosystem: Military Coordination Goes Open Source
The example with feeling comfortable asking trivial questions hints at a common theme of successful teams: psychological safety.

If you are interested in learning more on it here are a few resources!

1. Project Aristotle - A study from Google
https://rework.withgoogle.com/print/guides/5721312655835136/

2. Good to Great had a couple chapters touching on safety, but also making company information easy to access.

http://www.squeezedbooks.com/articles/good-to-great-why-some...

3. A more sciencey approach
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK310384/

I couldn't find the second study I wanted to link to. I recall reading a study on team composition that focused on impact of different types of leaders. Teams that had a leader which got everyone to talk in a group were consistently successful. That was the one constant over time, even beating out visionary/charisma types that weren't inclusive.
Thank you for your insight. Definitely made me reevaluate my opinions.
1kB is charming, the site shows the limitation: it's not even very much text, there's limited room in the medium to leave one's mark.

Not a thing wrong with haiku, but for a whole art movement, we'll get more mileage out of a one-trip website.

Ignoring a bunch of caveats I won't get into, a normal TCP packet is no larger than 15kB, for easy transit across Ethernet: the header is 40 bytes, leaving 1460 for data. Allowing for a reasonable HTTP response header, we're in the 12-13kB range for the file itself.

That's enough to get a real point across, do complex/fun stuff with CSS, SVG, and Javascript, and it isn't arbitrary: in principle, at least, the whole website fits in a single TCP packet.
Essentially. The parent comment was struggling with the idea of viewing entrepreneurship as seeing which market would stick, rather than which product would stick. I was (poorly) trying to connect the concepts.
And the only one. Who needs to beg every other year for money and risk going under even if they falter in being able to gather 2 years' of runway at any given point. Precisely how the non-profits were designed to be.
It's an interesting observation. SAP has opened up some of their offerings (like OpenUI5) but there's been very little buy-in. Perhaps it's also partly due to the earlier comments from then-SAP CTO Shai Agassi claiming that open source stimulates innovation? Maybe it's because the products aren't great (I'm no fan of UI5).

FWIW, I'm a massive HANA skeptic - I think it's overpriced and SAP betting the farm on it a few years ago wasn't necessarily the best option. It's a product that was put together from various disparate components - TREX, P*TIME (from Transact in Memory), etc - and that shows. It hangs together like something made of brown paper and string, with so many tuneables it puts Oracle to shame.
The answer is super clear:

These large bendable screens belong on desks where you may both do work up close at high pixel count (4K-5K, not 1440p) and game at 4K 60hz, 120hz, or 240hz, and sometimes watch TV from across the room.

Note: Most ultrawide or curved panels are not work resolutions, they are 1440p so cheaper gaming cards can drive them at reasonable framerates. But for PS5 and XSX and PC w/ RTX 3090, you want the 4K, and that cuts your options down.

There were only a couple panels on the market available before this announcement that were the pixels and color and game capabilities to do a reasonable blend of all 3 activities, both were LG, and this article incidentally are also LG.

For a Mac user with Thunderbolt / USB-C ports only, consider LG 40WP95C-W 40” UltraWide Curved WUHD (5120 x 2160) 5K2K Nano IPS Display, DCI-P3 98% (Typ.) with HDR10, Thunderbolt 4 with 96W PD, 3-Side Virtually Borderless Design Tilt/Height/Swivel Stand. It essentially has a $400 TB4 dock built in.

For folks with HDMI (newest Macs, Windows), consider the LG C2 42” if will mostly be TV only sometimes work or gaming. But if working and gaming at the desk, consider these, as 40” is too big to sit close to and work or game unless curved, while from across a (small) room you want it flat to e.g. have the news on.
"Do or do not. There is no try."
>Everytime I talk with my mother, she complains about the system and tells me that another colleague has quit

I used to be a consultant for a big non-SAP workflow product. Had a long time employee quit specifically because of how bad the product was. That was not an easy thing to explain away.
<link href=data: rel=icon> will work just fine ;)

Another fun trick is using <!doctypehtml> since the spec says to pretend a space is there if not present for whatever reason (https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/parsing.html#parse-er...)
It effectively already is. You cannot cross the border with more than $10,000 in cash without declaring it.
Yay, maybe fewer amazon recruiter emails now. I figure their recruiting team is big but they were sending 4-5 emails a day from different recruiters which feels like a lot!

Certainly seems like tech hiring is about to slow down like crazy, at least from my friends' qualitative experiences in recent weeks.
Thinking of getting some Yubikeys myself. Are you saying Google won't let you put the genie back in the bottle once you've added your phone# as a verification method? That stinks if true.
No point. People have completely lost any ability of nuanced thinking on this topic. Any doubt is immediately attacked.
I've stopped at Activism. I accept that it's already happening, but how bad it gets is entirely up to us.

I don't get the <throws hands in the air>It's just a done deal, back to netflix</> attitude, and prefer the 'Hey, our generation(s) have a task, let's get it done' one.
I tried that too but decided that saving a few bytes is not worth the parser restarting, so I adhered to strict XHTML for fast page load times.
Wikipedia is a good example of how bad the non profits have it. They have to beg every other year for 2 years' worth of money. If they cant succeed in gathering that amount even once, they go under. Mozilla is already on shaky ground.

And the others have permanent funding from other sources, so they are not really non-profit examples.
It fails on some points. There is a login screen (you must periodically connect to Microsoft’s servers), and accounts are reportedly locked until players provide Microsoft their phone number. The chat reporting feature being discussed here is a further example of restrictions on what you can do with the game you bought.

If the free-to-play microtransaction-supported model is more financially appealing than allowing customers own a product, then anything that allows to enjoy and extend the game without Microsoft overseeing it and getting a cut (like open-source Java versions of the client and the server) is a liability. Chat reporting is to me clear evidence of Microsoft trying to justify further lock-up and ongoing subscription model. Next they will say because OSS allows bypassing or cheating the reporting they must close the source and limit mod API.

I would be fine if Microsoft continued to release the game as a separate, adult-rated but unlocked product for gamers who care (and charged for major updates, they will absolutely pay), while separately providing a locked platform stuffed with coins, marketplaces, walled garden for mods, corporate moderators, safety guarantees and whatever else for those who want an easy solution safe for children without adult oversight.
I've always gone by the motto that if the dead didn't want us to speak ill of them, they shouldn't have been bad people during their lives.
Not a Perl issue, but a Windows Defender one.
I agree there has been a tremendous failure of leadership and that the people benefiting from the status quo are incapable of changing course, but let's get them away from that wheel.
It was my impression that the Catholic ban on Freemasonry was lifted some time ago. It also seems to have been codified in the 19th Century, later than I'd have guessed, and at least in some areas depended (like the earlier shutdown of the Jesuits) on the local sovereign putting it into effect.

I believe that the Scottish Rite Temple at Columbia Road and 16th St. NW in Washington, DC, funds a children's health center around the corner for it.
You're right, for some reason I just assumed all ERP's are as easily extendible as Microsoft's. It just makes sense they would be oriented that way due to the complexity of the world. I often hear horror stories about SAP, and can't for the life of me figure out why it's so popular(except it's more oriented than other ERP's to non-tech savvy people).
The short answer is we don't. The main issue we have now is that all the transfer mechanism are private and rent seeking. Most of the world has instant peer-to-peer digital transfer of money that is immediately in your bank. The FedNow is one upcoming program to end around the private interests.

People also seem to forget that banks do serve several key purposes (in addition to their anti-consumer and rent-seeking behaviors) that I don't think any central bank wants to be in the business of dealing with.
I have gone from activism to some kind of cynical acceptance. Fundamentally people don’t really care so you might as well go on that cruise or fly out to see the coral reefs before they die.

Try to account for possible scenarios when deciding where to live. Not too far south, on high ground.

I do find it hard to get used to the idea that everything will (probably) keep getting harder. More frequent pride spikes, weird weather, more instability. But even within that I think you can carry on happily if you only focus on what you can control. Possibly this attitude is what helped get us into this mess in the first place.
I've been doing this to my lawn (central Texas): putting in a turf varietal of the native Texas Buffalo grass. This year, we had a 5ish month drought with a couple months of 105° daytime temps. My Buffalo went dormant; all of my neighbors' Bermuda died: the soil temp went too high for it. Soil temp death is something I've been warning people about for years.

It started raining, again, a couple weeks ago: my lawn is a lush, bright green, native surface (with Butterflies, again!); the rest of the street is gray mush.
I am not being mean but that is historically illiterate. Britain had over seventy overseas territories in 1952, including swathes of dependent colonies across Africa and the Middle East. The Labour government that had just left office had a full-throated vision of a recrudescent British Empire. Britain violently repressed independence movements in Malaysia, Kenya, Cyprus and Yemen while the Queen sat on the throne. South Africa had just entered into apartheid. The Suez Crisis was still to come.
Why is there so much overlap between infosec and furries?
Now is the Eternal September of our discontent.

Is this a comment box which I see before me, the submit button toward my hand?
Transacting in Person with Strangers from the Internet
>But anytime some c-suite manager picks up SAP, you can be sure there were some nice meetings done in ultra luxurious places and more often than not some bribes went that way, in one form or another. This is the way, if your system sucks so much it destroys companies

The drive to ERP is understandable. The issue is that homegrown solutions suck too - most businesses aren't IT companies and can't properly maintain a custom solutions. Using a third party makes sense, and allows you to hire outside devs with experience. SAP is however usually not the best solution...
> But why do we need a digital currency when most of my transactions (presumably true for most people in a modern economy) is digital?

Your transactions seem to be digital, but there are actually many complex systems and institutions involved to guarantee they're backed by real stuff that's actually worth something.

Digital currencies are all about removing this complexity.
> where our kids can be independent (where we are now, Ireland, is horrible for this)

Could you elaborate?
I don't think the US needs a CBDC. Availability at the retail level will suck deposits out of the commercial banking system. The Fed has some FOMO but I anticipate any CBDC to be more of a settlement tool than something like e-cny.
My text was unclear. Lets suppose some pharma researchs MDMA, and finds that it is useful against depression. With any other non controlled substance, they could mass market it in 5 years. With MDMA it would be delayed, and then delayed a bit more, and then banned in some places, and then only available in some specific cases where other substances doesn't work.

Just look at the history of ketamine: known since 1970, it's controlled until 2000's when finally is found to work better than anything against depression. But even today it isn't marketed, unlike hundreds of antidepressants known to have worse secondary effects and be less effective. Reason? Some people might have fun with it.
And we're shutting down nuclear power plants? How about we do what France did in the 70s-80s and solve this problem once and for all.
Yes, fair point - I didn't explain myself clearly (I've been commenting too much in this thread as it is!). My thinking is that why would they speak up? Lidl has deep pockets so the thinking was probably "another $5/10/20 million will get the project over the line". Not looking at the project and saying "we've billed you so much already, we've delivered something that's not fit for purpose so we'll absorb some of that and get something that works".

For all its faults, SAP is the market leader ERP. Without knowing anything more than what I've read in the general press, I'm fairly confident that the implementation could have been a success.
It really has to do with the "programmer" and not the language.

Those learn to program and make fast money books were a product of the 1990s, and they appealed to people who cared more about making money than about producing any kind of product.

For example, I once had to fix some code that was supposed to delete files that were sitting in a directory for more than a week.

Rather than do something sane and simple, like look for files where the mtime was less than a cutoff and delete them, it looked for files where the absolute difference between the age and 7 days ago was 0. So it had the side effect of deleting things that were 7 days old, or were less than a day old. It also missed things that happened to be older than 7 days old.

(And nevermind that it was written because people couldn't bother to figure out why files were stuck in the directory.)

The company's codebase was filled with nonsense like that.

The person who wrote that would not have written anything better in Python or anything else.

But from the outside it worked well enough and they made a lot of money.
Apple did build a search engine, but it doesn’t look like Google on the front end, it looks like a set of features in Siri, Maps, iOS, MacOS, etc.
Lidl is a private and entirely family-owned business. They tend to have more idiosyncratic business processes compared to public companies. That might partially explain why they struggled with SAP so much.