JURASSIC PARK was released 32 years ago today. Also, Jurassic Park is a cautionary tale about how you compensate IT staff :P
@nixCraft we should make June 11 International IT Appreciation Day.
@tyler @nixCraft so move sysadminday from 25th July to 11th June?
@nixCraft Their management probably also thought that AI could replace the staff...
@agowa338 @nixCraft Great plot for the franchise. Juraseic wuld 9: Vibe coding raptor

@agowa338 @nixCraft Please, a remake in which they have to fight HAL style against the AI to escape the park.

I'm afraid I can't let you go, Dave. This is Darwinism. People shouldn't survive dinosaurs. Nature always finds a way.

@nixCraft Wait, if Sam Jackson wasn't another IT guy, what was he?
@nixCraft Next time they will use only AI. 
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I mean, it's time for another Jurassic Park movie...
@nixCraft yeah and another is how we shouldn't fuck with nature for our entertainment
@nixCraft But Dennis Nedry was a damn good it guy if he managed to do the whole work alone.
@nixCraft How about not creating murderous dinosaurs at the first place?
@nixCraft What would have happened if one of these extra IT guys had come up with the idea of entrusting surveillance to an AI, which in turn would have exploited the associated potential for itself in order to eliminate these annoying control freaks?
@nixCraft But John Hammond kept saying he spared no expense!
@nixCraft Or just paying them more.

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John Hammond: "I spared no expense!"

yeah, right....

@nixCraft these are the most horrifying things in the movie, not the dinosaurs.

I wish I'd known it was true before I got into IT

@nixCraft I think the real lesson here was that going for the lowest bidder is not always a winning strategy.

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"Spare no expense"

*entire dinosaur park collapses because they wouldn't pay their one IT guy more*

@nixCraft "Spared no expense!" except the IT guy
@nixCraft the real bad guy was always Hammond
@nixCraft also a cautionary tale about how they thought they were only ever one fix away from glorious success

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It also has an important message of holding onto your butts

@nixCraft Having worked in corporate IT roles they definitely needed more peer reviews, documentation specialists, and probably divisions between the guest-facing environments, safety/physical plant stuff, and the lab environment.

There’s been some jnteresting discussions as to how Hammond is much more sympathetic in the movie vs. the book but in both cases the “spared no expense” is kind of a con artist polish on a rushed effort to get an idea out there. It’s just in the movie he’s more capable of regret and really does assume, probably correctly, that seeing actual huge dinosaurs live would be a big deal.