Posts by Prst. V.Jeltz 3576 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Sep 2015
I've used low code
It absolutely sucks balls, I spent 2 days and calls to the vendor trying to figure out how the fuck to do the equivalent of:
variable01 = true;
"Low code" just appeals to non programmers who are not in a position to judge what the easiest method of programming a given task will be.
It also means you spend 90% of the time learning that particular system's completeyly unintuitive methodology of dragging and dropping shit and are limited to what the software's task as , unlike a real language which can do anything.
I'll do my coding in a text editor thanks very much (one that makes the code all pretty colours)
assign it to an engineer who can 'Think out of the box'."
As someone with higher education in actual engineering (mechanical and electronic I feel I have to clarify ) ....
The term "Engineer" has been really diluted by these types.
As was bad if enough when "Technician" (root: technical ) was redefined as "incapable button pushing moron " , now Engineer is in the sights
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I was actually in a TUPIE / merger type conversation with new boss for a long time with the term "Engineer" being bandied about before I realised He was talking about desktop support staff.
I was gonna reply "so how did you di it ? chewing gum? "no more nails"? gaffer tape? "angle steel and screws?"
Then I saw you'd already replied with "Sticky pads"
I'm sorry but even if I close my eyes and try really hard i cannot imagine any type of furniture that would work on (except possibly the fisher price plastic toy seats for the under 2's) let alone the steel box section you describe.
re the polaroid: You cant post pics here, but there's imgur etc , and if you can remember the brand of the magic sticky pads we'd all be very interested .
I've got some welding to do on my car this week, maybe these pads could save me the bother.
One day the window was open so we sneaked in and stuck all the furniture onto the ceiling
I call bullshit! (mainly because furniture legs have very little footprint area to stick with ( and also everything ive ever tried gluing has fallen apart) )
is there an icon for that?
I built a pc with new case recently and it was metal, in fact I have never seen a pc without a metal case , including the dinkiest of laptops.
There plastic involved sure .... i must have missed the point.
The story seemed to be more about "hard" on off buttons
I spent longer in front line support than anyone should ever have to thankyou . Decades.
I think it has instilled and understanding and sense of duty towards the people we are actually supporting that *some of* my new colleagues , who have barely ever worked with the frontline people doing the primary work , haven't got. (its user error! close that! not us! tell em to got the official' takes weeks' route! etc )
I dont see how microsoft changing the layout every ten minutes helps.
The ONLY thing I ask of end users is they understand what a filepath is. Its the key to knowing where your shit is .
All of Microsoft's (and others ) attempts to undermine that principle (Library folders ! ffs! ) is basically just shooting everyone in the foot and "enabling" IT illiteracy.
Theyve got rid of the f8*&king save dialog in office !!! This is even more infuriating than scrapping the start menu in windows 8
Now in ,say ,Excel you find "save as" on that stupid f**king ribbon thing and guess what happens - Some totally unfamiliar screen pops up with a incomprehensible array of guesses about what you MIGHT be trying to do!!
its fucking clippy all over again but made mandatory!
You have have to REALLY search for the secret tiny "more options" text and click on it to dig out the actual controls to direct the machine to save your file in the place you choose in the format you want
the customer had bought an external hard disk and successfully plugged it in. He was calling and asking politely why his floppy disks where not loading and saving faster as a result.
Thats fantastic , you can just picture the conversation with someone telling him how a hdd would speed things up : )
I've virtually given up, I'm proudly the luddite of the office. I can do a lot in vis studio , or vs code , or npp++ , or SSMS
... but I just cannot bear learning smartphone apps , even gmail , Id rather get mail on a desktop with all the buttons on display. Most of the time with these things its not a case of "which button / menu?" , more often its:
" there are zero controls ?? wtf am i supposed to do with that ??"
I felt slightly vindicated / outraged when googling how to "mark all as read" to stop the phone constantly informing me I had hundreds of mails - i found out that:
"You cant do this on the mobile app , please log onto your computer and go to gmail"
not long ago I wrote a thing that swapped solitaire.exe for another exe that logged the use , and then launched the game
and pushed it into everyones start menu .
I dont know why the games were even in the build , or why we didnt just delete them .
it was either politics or someone too lazy to biuld oproperly
You forget the hidden part - attrib +h ? or would that not help?
Anyway I'm not saying it was bulletproof , just a bit of a laugh at the time and the best my pretty inexperienced self could do at the time.
I've still got the disciplinary letter for that stunt - very proud : )
Ah yes , the old prompt command , I used to use that at college to make people feel they were logging in using login.exe on the network F: drive , and not my login.exe on the c:\login folder. (Thats a hidden folder with a weird half space char on the end of the name to make it difficult to cd into. )
Having been only able to afford a pitifully small dwelling , it wont take much to heat : )
Although more than previously because I now work from it all day.
Can I claim the tax back on that - no sir! : (
That bullshit scheme they've got for working from home tax relief amounts to about the cost of a packet of biscuits per week .
I'm pretty sure it costs more than {amount that would be the tax on} to heat my house all day!
moving jobs every few years
That ^ is probly the easiest and most beneficial of the steps on the road to mo money. (if roads had steps)
I've done it a couple of times , once by accident.
All have been good moves.
Stops you getting "in a rut"
broadens experience,
more ops for salary negotiation
The recoil from a gun is a pretty significant .... train their robot's AI to detect it,
Thats sounds like a really minor issue compared to the tech they've achieved in these robots .
Guns can be made recoil less (like a Bren gun ) , and they wouldnt need to *detect* the recoil - they know when they've pulled the trigger!
"recoil" from incoming fire might be harder to deal with - but perhaps theyd be better getting knocked on their shiny metal asses in that case so as to take immediate cover !
it just seems like such a waste of time though.
(they could have read / recopied those notes as last weeks homework)
Face to face teacher student time is valuable and should be spent teaching / interacting , not both teacher and students doing a shit impression of the worlds slowest fax machine
the rules about who did and who did not get to go into the computer room were rather more tightly enforced.
I've worked at that place (or similar ) The old man still employed there with the legacy knowledge was the one responsible for the coffee based rule enforcement some years previously.
Its hard to see how it happened in a standard rack environment , but he did it!
sounds like a ....
backronym
/ˈbakrənɪm/
noun
an acronym deliberately formed from a phrase whose initial letters spell out a particular word or words, either to create a memorable name or as a fanciful explanation of a word's origin.
"Biodiversity Serving Our Nation, or BISON (a backronym if ever there was one)"
amazing how many acronyns a re coincidentally cool sounding words,
Like RAID , which in some circles has changed its definition from inexpensive to independent.
Cars got a lot harder to steal I guess
With todays asynchronous encryption it should be absolutely impossible to steal a car without the key or a recovery truck.
...but the manufacturers seem to want to put massive holes into todays security tech like these bloody stupid keys that are so determined to open the car for any tom dick or harry 24/7 that you have to lock them in a tin to stop them .
Stupidest. idea .ever
Then theres the "smash a window and ask the car via its odbc2 port what he key code is" technique, so that you can spoof a key. The manufacturers have for some reason made this info available to anyone with a hammer and a fancy odbc reader.
I think he meant back in the day the screen was all you had - terminal / thin client etc
No "base unit" to rebuild (or hard drive as the users call the box bit)
so you could get another , no configuring , log back on the mainframe.
...unlike when your win pc goes into an unstoppable loop of not completing an update
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