Posts by DwarfPants 124 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Jun 2013
In the current climate of money for old rope from Hollywood the CyberTruck is world of possibilities
Cyber Truck don't get it wet or feed it after midnight
Will the aerodynamics let it do 88 miles per hour?
You can probably do a death racer 2024 or Scream holding part of an accelerator pedal in threatening manner
We all need to have had that sudden panic at least once in our lives, preferably on our own/test systems.
It teaches the fallibility of human condition in the clearest terms.
It is where we get our fear of things we don't fully understand and has us reaching for the manual, making n+1 backups and only when forced do we ignore this sagely wisdom "Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus"
Indeed. If everyone just voted for who they actually wanted, rather than thinking it would be a wasted / protest vote and voting for Waldorf or Statler, we might actually end up with some significantly different results even in our first past the post system.
For most values of politicians, I am also fairly convinced that anything like hung parliaments that restricts politicians actually doing whatever their current flight of fantasy is, might be a good thing.
No visible legs on the chip for their spring clip thingy to attach to in the milliseconds they have available. I guess if you have the access and the time you could de-solder them from the board and stick some extension legs in between it and the board, then do the freezy thing.
This image is cropped in the article, the original has a third hand on the right hand side, suggesting the hands on the right are from a third person. However, its still a bit weird down that side.
Probability of hands in photo of person 80% -> add more. Probability of hands looking correct 10% judging by the images in this collection (though that could just be art).
I think the points being made as far a anti-theft is concerned
- Most people don't leave their phone attached to the thing they don't want stolen, as they are trying to minimise their losses, using an air tag instead. As the phone/device is not near the air tag it goes in to anti stalker mode alerting the thief to the presence of the air tag, dramatically reducing its efficiency as a covert property tracking device.
- Things are generally stolen when you are not standing next to them, muggings and robbery being the obvious exceptions. In these scenarios loss of property might be the least of your concerns.
"It was only then that my boss began to teach me that it is often easier to find and apply a solution than it is to educate a user,"
That does not stop me trying. They need to have some comprehension of the magnitude, complexity and effort that is required for their request/issue.
I particularly enjoy
- Schrodinger requests: When we do X = Y should happen. Unless it shouldn't, followed by a list of criteria which results in do X != Y at precisely the same time as X = Y
- Rare occurrence exceptions. Does not happen often, so we will handle it manually. Followed by a massive panic and drama as the very thing that does not happen often occurs repeatedly and is some how our fault.
Hornets appear to get a free pass. Maybe its the similarity of paint job, or just size and pointy stinger, or they are cool and dangerous (from an entomological point of view).
The group does come with a snowflake warning of dead things with pins through them.
You would have thought a hover fly was a better match than and ant, apparently not
Only a fool would confuse a Beefly with a bee.
Beware the custom job title, due to minimal conversion effort to redundant role at company convenience.
Stick to something nice and generic, preferably were there are a lot of the same role already in existence; project engineer, sales person etc. no need to make it easy for them.
The most likely action when copying a phone number is not to ring it.
It is to put it in some other piece of correspondence or some form or data collation tool. If I want to ring it I will use my phone with its handy address book, no copy and paste required.
Please stop, and whilst you are at it make paste as plain text the default.
There are no use cases I can think of, like bugging, remote surveillance, network snooping that could be enabled by Send-My.
The whole find-my network thing seems badly thought through/implemented. Can people not use the historic approach; lose keys or other important item, go through pain of sorting it out*, make a point of not misplacing important stuff for the remainder of life.
* rediscovery of lost item may occur after this point.
Lockdown has made hair long for everyone (usual exceptions apply: bald people (not quite there yet), people with hair trimmers, people with a competent hair dressing person in the household)
Roll on the mullet removal operation tomorrow, no more hair bands for me.
Daughter asked, now my hair is longer what am I going to have done? No.2 on the sides and back, shorter on top. I see no reason to change style after 40 years, that way madness lies.
Just got myself a second hand industrial lock stich, 4000 stiches per min. Good job I am making new trousers.
And anything a user says should be considered a lie until proven otherwise. Best treated as a general hint. Which is about all they appear to be recently "There has been a error", oh dear that is sad, you have my condolences.
Windows, Installs fine writes loads of stuff to the hard drive, except compatible hard drive controller driver. Rebooo....oh
Not really driver, Linux multiple screen setup. Two screens exactly as I want them. Reboot no trace of ideal configuration or even the ability to set it again.
these are both historic and offer great learning experiences, if you don't want to get on with whatever it was you were installing the stuff for in the first place
It will certainly end up as a stick to beat someone somewhere.
Aside from that it turns out:
I communicate with my team most often
I communicate with my customers less than my team
I answer and send emails
I participate in meetings and calls
I looked for bears crap in the woods and the percentage of Popes that were Catholic metrics, but they appear to be missing
I opted out of the emails they seem to require several seconds to open.
Provides no clue if it I should be communicating more*, but if I communicate more I am less productive. Am i trying to hit some magic probably secret ratio**
* Introvert and happy with my own company and have no intention of communicating more
** Will end up being part of the annual Pointless Development Review
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