Posts by Valeyard 881 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Nov 2012
When a new kid who can't stand up for himself is subject to raised voices that's when one of the old guard (who knows too much about how the legacy stuff works to ever upset) traditionally steps in and calmly throws his weight around, liberally invoking manager names and HR meetings.
Preferably during the event so the kid can see this isn't acceptable before he jumps ship for a new job and the bullies are caught redhanded
Active bystander 101
my TV is 13 years old now and I've wondered how I'll ever replace it.
There are sites I came across that gather together the current new dumb TVs and I can only imagine this news (And of course the likes of Samsung sending ads if you change the volume...) will only make that more of a popular thing people look for
Ironic when I prefer to use a Mac for work due to being able to live in the unixlike terminal
The explorer for example is incredibly awful and it's easier to do file copy or move operations by command line, let alone something as simple as changing the current location in an address bar
Why are commercial modern OSes unable to do something perfected back in the days of windows 95
The internet is fine, as a series of useful resources which are searchable. It's a tool to be picked up, consulted then put down again and it's amazing for that.
For idling on and anything social media, not so much
Same with beer, pick it up now and then for a chat then leave it and go, amazing. Drinking for 6 hours a day every day while you ignore your family, again not so much.
everything in moderation
Yeah it might've been better if it hadn't porported to be based on the watch series, but they took that piece of crap knock-off handbag and slapped the Gucci label on all the same so the whole thing still makes me bitter
They can do fantasy, before twitter directed BBC policy Gormenghast was great
had a guy reschedule his interview 3 times as he "lives in the sticks and has a really dodgy connection a few days at a time"
after working with team members who are in maybe 1 daily meeting per week due to connection issues, I had enough annoyance built up to say sorry mate but you're applying for a remote role here
my wife and I don't use our phones when the child is in the room, don't want her growing up with the opinion that your face stuck in a device all day is at all normal, nor do i want her to have to keep prompting for someone's attention
she only watches proper approved TV. Her nursery kept trying to show her online videos such as the likes of cocomelon which is insanely fast-moving quick shots of constant motion to constantly overstimulate. She's exposed to long-form media more, and now she's just started learning to read she's limited to 30 minutes of TV per day (or 1 full-length film) as she can entertain herself more that way instead
When she gets older there'll be the FOMO and peer pressure of needing a smartphone, but I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. I use a dumbphone myself so I'll try to pass that habit along
we just made a big red "rollback" button
at the slightest sign of new errors after go-live the button is pressed which backs out the code and undoes the migrations then you investigate at your leisure, because no one wants to investigate while the fires are still burning. no easy rollback strategy = no go-live without a big risk assessment.
and that's AFTER a fucking massive set of CI tests
"If you see this then talk to 'Pete'".
I've seen this in-house once or twice. with nothing else to do i'm like "may as well send x a message see if he still cares"
only to have the dev run to my desk to find out how I managed to trigger it as it's been wrecking his brain that something that should be impossible is occasionally happening
3. How on earth do you begin to think about securing these cables from external interference
someone help me here but didn't the register have an article years ago where they followed some huge important undersea cable to shore in what was essentially an unlocked shed or something
Those of you that wonder why we have a second house that is full of people who weren't voted in are about to find out why it's there.
it shouldn't work but a load of rich people who can think on a longer cycle than the next election really does work
A few times they've been offered bribes and walked away laughing and telling everyone all about it because how can you bribe a rich guy with a perma-job. Wasn't there a big event around the EU ministers taking huge bribes from big tobacco or something and our guy just going right to the papers telling everyone all about it because he was worth many times more than they were offering
My company was about to get a lease on a larger office than the one we had, which was already huge, then covid hit.
After that, they went the other way and downsized the office to accommodate around 10% of the staff and are saving hundreds of thousands.
The only time the office is used is if people can't work from home undistracted or if a whole team has to come in for a whiteboarding session, in which cases they book in advance and get free reserved parking etc, all whilst still being a massive cost saving for the company that keeps everyone happy
also widens the catchment area for hiring devs from commutable-to-office to the entire UK
He also vowed to implement an escalation process for any reports of problems with calls to Triple Zero.
surely this is top of the checklist stuff, even if the rest of the network shits the bed the emergency calls should still be working.
This statement just shows it for the tacked-on afterthought it is with Optus
Ok this was good insight and jolly japes, but I'm missing how they specifically and only targeted this bad actor in the first place
Unless literally everyone that installs their tool will be under this kind of surveillance, in which case I don't think this is quite the glowing advertisement they think it is?
paying for ads served? in my experience working at an advertising tech company years back it was conversions, they don't even look at how many got served (especially with how easy that is to spoof) even with clicks that don't convert they're interested only informationally but very rarely pay on that metric, again because a curl call would abuse that
"you owe tax, fill in how much you owe"
"ok where do i find that i dunno how much it is"
"click here and this page'll tell you"
"ok so why don't your various pages talk to each other then"
just automating that sort of carry on would be helpful, although an AI would be overkill just to patch together bad implementations at least it's a very expensive plaster
Boss asks an intern to do something and doesn't check they know how? Boss's problem
at some point common sense has to come into play. if a component doesn't fit right away two people at full pelt is probably wrong. a work experience supervisor can help by anticipating most things but his job isn't to hover and teach them to suck eggs
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