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@PotatoEngineer said in In other news today...:
I figure a working-
dayweek is maybe 4 hours of actual programming.FTFM
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@ixvedeusi said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
Why is our productivity down? Let's have an all-hands meeting to discuss it...
: The meetings
about low morale will continue untilproductivitymorale improves.
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@topspin Yeah, I feel the pain. A day with 4 hours of programming seems like heaven right now.
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@PotatoEngineer said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
@MrL said in In other news today...:
And estimation units.
We went the simple route here - 1 unit equals 1 day. My previous company had some weird thing no one could figure out.
When I estimate, I figure a working-day is maybe 4 hours of actual programming. There are too many other things I do. Someone gave me some respect once, and the punishment for that is to assist other people.
Huh. I figure about 6 hours of productive programming... or one meeting.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
Huh. I figure about 6 hours of productive programming... or one meeting.
It's Friday. Meeting schedules at 1:30p. At least that's better than the 3p or 4p one. Thankfully, no schedules meetings later than that. Especially since I WFH, therefore, I start early. And knock off at 4p.
But I did just submit a bug-fix PR!
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@PotatoEngineer said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
@MrL said in In other news today...:
And estimation units.
We went the simple route here - 1 unit equals 1 day. My previous company had some weird thing no one could figure out.
When I estimate, I figure a working-day is maybe 4 hours of actual programming. There are too many other things I do. Someone gave me some respect once, and the punishment for that is to assist other people.
Huh. I figure about 6 hours of productive programming... or one meeting.
Right now, I'm doing well to get 2 hours in, and almost all of my meetings have been cleared for this all-hands-on-deck work. It's not that I'm unable to work -- it's that I hate this particular kind of work. It's security-configuration stuff, and it's a) under-specified, in b) an area I'm just barely familiar with, c) ties into a bunch of other things that I have no idea about, and d) is hard to test because we're locking everything down -- the only real way I can test is "deploy to almost-prod (newly created! Does it work? Who knows?), and see if I can make it get through the auth on all the relevant services". (What security principals are we using? There are fifty network settings -- which ones apply? How has logging in changed? Which accounts/tenants/clients are required for which particular work? I have no idea, and it's generally not written down anywhere.)
I've been spending 6 hours avoiding working, and getting tiny bursts of work done. And then, just as I'm finally getting going, my daughter walks in and wants to play, and I'm not about to refuse her.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
status Joined a Zoom call. It's 'dinging' every time someone joins. (Just heard someone comment they're trying to figure out how to silence it)
You didn't ask for help, but in the Participants panel (Host or presenter only IIRC):
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For the longest time I didn't realize the iPad doesn't have the same calculator app the iPhone does, but when I did it was a serious moment.
How can you not include something so basic it's like "babbie's first app"?!
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@topspin I bought a calculator app in the store many years ago that was actually better than the iOS stock one anyway, no regrets.
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@Arantor I use the calculator app for quick calculations. It doesn't need to be much "better" than a real calculator would.
For anything more advanced I use Wolfram Alpha or Python, anyway.
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@topspin yesterday was also when I realised the iPad doesn't have a calculator app, despite having had an iPad for 7 years.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Arantor I use the calculator app for quick calculations. It doesn't need to be much "better" than a real calculator would.
For anything more advanced I use Wolfram Alpha or Python, anyway.The one I have has a history I can refer to which I find immensely helpful. It also has a list of common conversions where it knows the conversion factor so I don’t need to. (And a whole bunch of shit I don’t care about, but I don’t care about it so fine with me)
According to my email receipts, I bought it in 2013, and it gets updates every couple of years to keep it working, I’m happy with it.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@topspin yesterday was also when I realised the iPad doesn't have a calculator app, despite having had an iPad for 7 years.
Heck, even Android's not immune to this kind of foolishness. Neither platform comes with a basic text entry capability.
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@da-Doctah Notes app: am I a fucking joke to you?
Though Notes is less basic than it used to be.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
@da-Doctah Notes app: am I a fucking joke to you?
Though Notes is less basic than it used to be.
I've got Google Keep, but I had to download that from the store. And it still doesn't create straight-up text files I can port to my laptop to open with Notepad. Not without a lot of screwing around.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@topspin yesterday was also when I realised the iPad doesn't have a calculator app, despite having had an iPad for 7 years.
ď…ą : In 2024 we unveiled our brand new invention that'll let you do quick arithmetic tasks. Throw away your old slide rule and abacus!
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
* nervous glance at the update notification on my work laptop
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Time to buy an apple approved gold plated charging cable? I think HP used to have a convenient link to the hp store if you didn't use a hp cable.
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@DogsB Is this new for iOS? My android phone has been telling me about "slow charging". I've been assuming it means that the connected USB port does not support the high-power modes and only provides the minimum standard USB power.
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@DogsB I think both my Android phone and Windows laptop do that already.
Edit: ½
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@ixvedeusi said in In other news today...:
@DogsB Is this new for iOS? My android phone has been telling me about "slow charging". I've been assuming it means that the connected USB port does not support the high-power modes and only provides the minimum standard USB power.
Well, if you don't want to laugh at Apple fanboys, I have nothing to offer you.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
apple approved gold plated charging cable
Is it also
audiophile
?
Asking for a friend.
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@BernieTheBernie No, but for a short time you can get the audiophile variant for only $500 more! Hurry and get one before the offer runs out!
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We all love Oracle. And we also have our "I Hate Oracle Club".
And Oracle knows how to print even more money.
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@BernieTheBernie Any company stupid enoug to still use Oracle Java instead of one of the OpenJDK builds deserves having to pay Oracle through the nose. Everybody else will . The writing's been on the wall long enough.
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@BernieTheBernie
This reminds me of those internal meetings about SAP Licensing because if you quint wrong and take terms literal (aka you are a lawyer) the only conclusion is we are short several 1000 SAP licenses, of the expensive kind.
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@Benjamin-Hall
got to respond to everything.
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
We all love Oracle. And we also have our "I Hate Oracle Club".
And Oracle knows how to print even more money.
A lot of government contracts stipulate proprietary where possible or have an outright ban on open source but then Oracle would barely be a blip on what you can expense.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
A lot of government contracts stipulate proprietary where possible
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@HardwareGeek Because there's no difference in stupid bullshit, it's just different color and smell.
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@HardwareGeek Bribery, clientelism, nepotism, or a combination of them.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
A lot of government contracts stipulate proprietary where possible
because most government bid requests are written jointly with either an external party than then later will fill an offer (or a subsidiary/mother/sister company) being it directly or by the fact that the department writing the technical specs is staffed by external consultants or people who come from or go to jobs at those companies. Certainly in IT this is the case, where no customer has any idea how things actually work.
Also, nobody ever got fired for choosing a big name like Oracle, IBM, HP, Microsoft, Cisco, ... for a big thing. Even if it never ever runs and blows the budget several times.This reminds me of one of yesterday's meetings (damn you!). SAP has this thing called "Flexible Workflows". It is technologically different from their previous SAP Workflow solution. Somehow the phrase flexible workflow was used in this one offer request. As in "the solution should offer a flexible workflow allow responsible people to approve POs. It should allow to change, add, remove approvers on existing and future POs".
The language used by the bid request is reflected in the offering and the PO just references the offering for the details. So here we are with the specific phrase "flexible workflow" stuck in both the customers mind and some of our people's as meaning "SAP Flexible Workflow". Even if the "SAP Flexible Workflow" isn't the right tool for the job. It isn't in the requirements. So we'll just make a new 'version' (but in SAP lingo) of our workflow in good ol' SAP Workflows make it more configurable, have it check all functional boxes and slap the label "flexibel" on it. They can't see and neither are they interested in what lays technologically under their screens. Just please have it work like they intend to use it. SAP Workflow isn't going anywhere for the next 10 years, Everything past that is a discussion for the next contract renewal anyways.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
@topspin I bought a calculator app in the store many years ago that was actually better than the iOS stock one anyway, no regrets.
Same for me over on Android. The calculator app I bought for my first smartphone looks like the Casio scientific calculators I used back in high school. Thankfully the developer keeps it updated so folks can still use it today.
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That’s an interesting claim.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
That’s an interesting claim.
To be fair, that claim doesn't appear to actually be in the release notes, just some random queef on Ben-Twitter.
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@topspin it’s still an interesting claim, and the general vogue of “systemd increasingly absorbs the operating system” is apparently on course.
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what’s that sound?
its Furukawa furiously packing so that he can drop the lawsuit in person.
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
We all love Oracle. And we also have our "I Hate Oracle Club".
And Oracle knows how to print even more money.
can they just say no to the audit? it's not like oracle has authority to be auditing around
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@sockpuppet7 said in In other news today...:
@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
We all love Oracle. And we also have our "I Hate Oracle Club".
And Oracle knows how to print even more money.
can they just say no to the audit? it's not like oracle has authority to be auditing around
You probably answered this one in the other thread already:
@sockpuppet7 said in I, ChatGPT:
it's so dumb that everyone already signed the [...] tos, and now they go all [they are enforcing it]I'm assuming the license says that Oracle can audit. They can refuse, and then it's lawyer time?
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Police were able to identify White Jr from CCTV footage of his heavily tattooed bottom which was exposed as he fled
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Police were able to identify White Jr from CCTV footage of his heavily tattooed bottom which was exposed as he fled
Wow, that sounds like a serious pain in the ass.
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To continue reading this article...
Create your free accountSo without having RTFA, I'm going to guess that the young Mr. White belongs to the demographic who wear their pants around their thighs rather than their waists?
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@ixvedeusi said in In other news today...:
@DogsB Is this new for iOS? My android phone has been telling me about "slow charging". I've been assuming it means that the connected USB port does not support the high-power modes and only provides the minimum standard USB power.
They're worried their customers might be conserving battery life and not buying replacement iDevices frequently enough.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
Hah! We use Teams. Checkmate, HPCs!
Yeah, interruptions suck and it's easy for people to ping you via instant messaging. OTOH, they're not walking over to your cube. And you can ignore them for a while. You just need the balls to do it. Or be sneaky and schedule some meetings for yourself so you look like you're not available.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
We all love Oracle. And we also have our "I Hate Oracle Club".
And Oracle knows how to print even more money.
A lot of government contracts stipulate proprietary where possible or have an outright ban on open source but then Oracle would barely be a blip on what you can expense.
Not the US government. Though they like to have support contracts, so you get lots of, e.g., RedHat. But so long as the package is being actively maintained so you get patches for vulnerabilities, they don't mind.
Oracle has recently been outdone by the new WMWare. Apparently our renewal amount increased by something like 6,000%.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Hah! We use Teams. Checkmate, HPCs!
We use Slack (we do use Teams for some meetings). Since all it does is change the icon (maybe I disabled sound? can't remember, to check) it's easy for me to ignore. Especially if the icon has the green dot. A red dot means somehow wants me. (or a group I'm in)