• superkret@feddit.org
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    3 months ago

    More like:
    “IT people when software people talk about their requirements”

    No, we won’t whitelist your entire program folder in Endpoint Protection.

    • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      3 months ago

      Yep, unrealistic expectations.

      Or “you need a 12th gen i7 to run this thing”… the thing is a glorified Avidemux.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        Christ, if you could see the abysmal efficiency of business tier SQL code being churned out in the Lowest Bidder mines overseas…

        Using a few terrabytes of memory and a stack of processors as high as my knee so they can recreate Excel in a badly rendered .aspx page built in 2003.

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    3 months ago

    “IT people” here, operations guy who keeps the lights on for that software.

    It’s been my experience developers have no idea how the hardware works, but STRONGLY believe they know more then me.

    Devops is also usually more dev than ops, and it shows in the availability numbers.

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      3 months ago

      Yup. Programmers who have only ever been programmers tend to act like god’s gift to this world.