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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
If your IT staff need assistance parsing the licensing agreement you’re heading for trouble.
I'm surprised our IT staff remembers to breathe without somebody's help ...
Its usually easier and cheaper to hire more admin staff to do admin than it is to purchase a new system and force the admin on the rest of the company.
Have you considered becoming a highly paid consultant and getting hired by my employer to help us find ways to work more efficiently?
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Oracle is never the answer.
I've been told Oracle Linux is.
@Arantor said in In other news today...:
Repeat after me: we do not issue compliments to Oracle around here.
Never mind that.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
Have you considered becoming a highly paid consultant and getting hired by my employer to help us find ways to work more efficiently?
I'm sure that would depend entirely on what the involuntary separation package is.
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
@cvi said in In other news today...:
Have you considered becoming a highly paid consultant and getting hired by my employer to help us find ways to work more efficiently?
I'm sure that would depend entirely on what the involuntary separation package is.
Gonna be hard to match watching the inception of an outsourcing fuckup first hand.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Gonna be hard to match watching the inception of an outsourcing fuckup first hand.
We have some variety. We outsource some of our fuckups, but some we keep in house instead. For example, we're working at a enormous train wreck at the moment, and that one is in house. I'm sure we'll be able to cater even to the most demanding fuckup connoisseur.
In fact, that might be the one thing that's not being fucked up here.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Gonna be hard to match watching the inception of an outsourcing fuckup first hand.
We have some variety. We outsource some of our fuckups, but some we keep in house instead. For example, we're working at a enormous train wreck at the moment, and that one is in house. I'm sure we'll be able to cater even to the most demanding fuckup connoisseur.
In fact, that might be the one thing that's not being fucked up here.
Colour me interested. Start a thread.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
we do not issue compliments to Oracle around here.
They make one good RDBMS. And MySQL.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@BernieTheBernie Brass isn't a modern alloy, it is literally older than steel. And some stainless steel did make rounds and wasn't even bad. But I don't think farming machinery ever used either, and nor is baling wire made of them, so they are not a concern.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Oracle is never the answer.
I've been told Oracle Linux is.
Simply going by all I’ve read about Oracle on here, I would say absolutely not.
But with the recent license changes to RHEL and also our stuff being old-as-fuck , I’m not sure it’d be worse.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@Arantor said in In other news today...:
we do not issue compliments to Oracle around here.
They make one good RDBMS. And MySQL.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
@izzion said in In other news today...:
@cvi said in In other news today...:
Have you considered becoming a highly paid consultant and getting hired by my employer to help us find ways to work more efficiently?
I'm sure that would depend entirely on what the involuntary separation package is.
Gonna be hard to match watching the inception of an outsourcing fuckup first hand.
Not sure where to post this, so here's as good a place as any.
This guy is going to be in for a hell of a ride:
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
@izzion said in In other news today...:
@cvi said in In other news today...:
Have you considered becoming a highly paid consultant and getting hired by my employer to help us find ways to work more efficiently?
I'm sure that would depend entirely on what the involuntary separation package is.
Gonna be hard to match watching the inception of an outsourcing fuckup first hand.
Not sure where to post this, so here's as good a place as any.
This guy is going to be in for a hell of a ride:
Fuck me, we should invite him here. They’re trying to do agile in the outsourced crowd but they don’t quite understand that business release dates, often tied to legatastion and seasonal events, can’t be moved to accommodate their technical incompetence.
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Who the hell is using winrar?
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
@izzion said in In other news today...:
@cvi said in In other news today...:
Have you considered becoming a highly paid consultant and getting hired by my employer to help us find ways to work more efficiently?
I'm sure that would depend entirely on what the involuntary separation package is.
Gonna be hard to match watching the inception of an outsourcing fuckup first hand.
Not sure where to post this, so here's as good a place as any.
This guy is going to be in for a hell of a ride:
Fuck me, we should invite him here. They’re trying to do agile in the outsourced crowd but they don’t quite understand that business release dates, often tied to legatastion and seasonal events, can’t be moved to accommodate their technical incompetence.
My favorite part is that they're just going to code some stuff and wait to hear if it isn't what they wanted.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
@izzion said in In other news today...:
@cvi said in In other news today...:
Have you considered becoming a highly paid consultant and getting hired by my employer to help us find ways to work more efficiently?
I'm sure that would depend entirely on what the involuntary separation package is.
Gonna be hard to match watching the inception of an outsourcing fuckup first hand.
Not sure where to post this, so here's as good a place as any.
This guy is going to be in for a hell of a ride:
Fuck me, we should invite him here. They’re trying to do agile in the outsourced crowd but they don’t quite understand that business release dates, often tied to legatastion and seasonal events, can’t be moved to accommodate their technical incompetence.
My favorite part is that they're just going to code some stuff and wait to hear if it isn't what they wanted.
Its called tracer fire.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
But with the recent license changes to RHEL
Don't forget when Oracle gave IBM shit for "not acting in their customer's interests"
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
@izzion said in In other news today...:
@cvi said in In other news today...:
Have you considered becoming a highly paid consultant and getting hired by my employer to help us find ways to work more efficiently?
I'm sure that would depend entirely on what the involuntary separation package is.
Gonna be hard to match watching the inception of an outsourcing fuckup first hand.
Not sure where to post this, so here's as good a place as any.
This guy is going to be in for a hell of a ride:
I especially like that sentence:
My team was not involved in the selection process for the vendor.
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@topspin On the other hand, the vendor knwos that
Working with Legacy Code
isthe title of a book by Mike Feathers, hence they are intelligent enough to start over from scratch.
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
@topspin On the other hand, the vendor knwos that
Working with Legacy Code
isthe title of a book by Mike Feathers, hence they are intelligent enough to start over from scratch.But on the third hand they don't know that starting over from scratch is A Thing You Should Never Do (part I).
Filed under: there ain't no third hand
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We’ve all fudged the rules once or twice, or technically 34 times last week, but 29!
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@DogsB This is the kind of thing I think of when people act like concern about the safety of nuclear power is irrational.
This is the man our safety depends on:
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
This is the kind of thing I think of when people act like concern about the safety of nuclear power is irrational.
Do people really act like that?
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@boomzilla I have seen people imply that nuclear power is a clean source of energy with no downside, and yes, there's an implication that hesitancy is irrational.
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@jinpa hesitancy absolutely is irrational. Sure, it's not perfectly safe. Nothing is.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
@topspin On the other hand, the vendor knwos that
Working with Legacy Code
isthe title of a book by Mike Feathers, hence they are intelligent enough to start over from scratch.But on the third hand they don't know that starting over from scratch is A Thing You Should Never Do (part I).
Filed under: there ain't no third hand
Of course, when owning the product, you should never do a Netscape-style rewite.
But you look at the wrong end. What about the vendor? I guess they'll get paid (as long as the company stays liquid, of course) anyways , except when they fücked up their contract management.
And the vendor's developers will feel lucky: they have a greenfield project.
And they can (and will) write fresh legacy code from the beginning...
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla I have seen people imply that nuclear power is a clean source of energy with no downside, and yes, there's an implication that hesitancy is irrational.
It’s about as rational as fear of flying.
Pretending that nothing could ever happen is surely nonsense, but that’s probably just a mischaracterization of what people who argue it’s safe are saying. There’s terrible plane accidents, but it’s still statistically safer than driving. And during your average day, you would look funny at people who are afraid of driving more so than at those who are afraid of flying.
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@jinpa New nuclear power definitely has risks and downsides. However, base-level electrical load will continue to exist, and most likely increase due to EVification. Wind and solar are too irregular to fill that role. Storage techniques have limited efficiency, limited capacity, and (for newer techniques) rely on toxic and/or conflict minerals. Hydro is geographically bound and has ecological considerations. Combustibles, even "clean" combustibles, are too dirty and will be exhausted "soon". Let's assume new nuclear is completely off the table. That leaves our existing power plant fleet: in the Americas, for base loads, mainly 1960's-1970's Gen I nuclear, which in many cases has already exceeded design life and was built before modern reactor processes or high-level automation or human factors analysis. Isn't that the option with the worst downsides and risks?
Some hesitance is rational. But there's a point where it stops being justified caution and becomes unjustified recalcitrance. If there's a realistic alternative to Gen III+ or Gen IV nuclear I'd love to hear about it, but in the twenty years I've followed this debate I haven't heard one, and our existing fleet is only getting older.
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@TwelveBaud From what I can tell, the good-faith people just haven't thought that far through things. They expect the magical technology fairy to solve the battery issues (or just haven't thought through the reliability issues with wind/solar).
The non-good-faith people...well...that's a conversation for the
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
the good-faithpeople just haven't thoughtthat far through things.that's a conversation for the
And we converse about it a lot there.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
"What is the primary reason for wanting The Big One to come and wipe SF and the Bay off the map?"
Big Red is based in Texas though.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
The non-good-faith people...well...that's a conversation for the
That's where all the non-good-faith people go.
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
The non-good-faith people...well...that's a conversation for the
That's where all the non-good-faith people go.
TBQH, I've have as many good-faith disagreements with people in the as out of it. And about as many bad-faith ones. The ones in the garage are just (more often) honest about the fact that they're bad faith). In fact, I'd say I've probably learned more and had more people try to understand different thought processes in the garage as out of it.
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@Benjamin-Hall I see that as being a symptom of the management decision to exile all interesting conversations to the garage. As an analogy, it's kind of like if a nun jaywalked two feet to rescue a toddler who walked into traffic, and she got thrown in the same cellblock as hardened criminals. To be fair, we are a small group here, so it's not terribly surprising that there's not enough interest for the Civilized Salon to succeed.
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall I see that as being a symptom of the administrative decision to exile all interesting conversations to the garage. As an analogy, it's kind of like if a nun jaywalked two feet to rescue a toddler who walked into traffic, and she got thrown in the same prison with hardened criminals. To be fair, we are a small group here, so it's not terribly surprising that there's not enough interest for the Civilized Salon to succeed.
I don't totally disagree with the first part.
My experience with the Civilized Salon was...not great. Get asked a question about my beliefs, then get called a genocidal murderer after I say (politely) that I disagree with certain statements but believe that others are free to act otherwise and I do not support making laws against <thing>. By the same person who asked for a statement about my beliefs on that topic...something they already knew.
I see lots of worthy statements being made outside the garage, most often by people who claim to dislike the and how it acts. I am led to conclude that the thing being disliked is having people call them on their outrageous statements. Which leads me to be (more) jaded than normal, which is saying something.
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
That's where all the non-good-faith people go.
@jinpa said in In other news today...:
I see that as being a symptom of the management decision to exile all interesting conversations to the garage.
Your view of the Garage isn't correct. Try it out.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
I see lots of worthy statements being made outside the garage
I think part of this problem stems from the fact that everyone has their own take on what the is and is not for, and all of those takes are some definition of correct, and some of them even overlap.
I actually suspect I'd be more OK with the Garage than I am if not for certain individuals conducting what absolutely feel like attempts to twist what I say into not what I said then beat me over the head with it, so I just avoid it entirely. (NB: it doesn't matter if this is what happens or not. It's how I feel, subjectively, and I don't need that kind of BS in my life.)
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
twist what I say into not what I said then beat me over the head with it,
QFT
though to be fair that does happen, location regardless....
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@Tsaukpaetra We are a wretched hive of scum and villainy, in the and out.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
get called a genocidal murderer
That doesn't sound very civilized. ô_õ
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
I see lots of worthy statements being made outside the garage
I think part of this problem stems from the fact that everyone has their own take on what the is and is not for, and all of those takes are some definition of correct, and some of them even overlap.
I actually suspect I'd be more OK with the Garage than I am if not for certain individuals conducting what absolutely feel like attempts to twist what I say into not what I said then beat me over the head with it, so I just avoid it entirely.
In other words, non-good-faith.
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@topspin said individuals swear blind they’re arguing in good faith when they do that, and it’s just me who isn’t, obviously. This is why I don’t go back in there.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@jinpa said in In other news today...:
That's where all the non-good-faith people go.
@jinpa said in In other news today...:
I see that as being a symptom of the management decision to exile all interesting conversations to the garage.
Your view of the Garage isn't correct. Try it out.
To be fair, most of the garage is questionable memes and ruining railguns for everyone.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@jinpa said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall I see that as being a symptom of the administrative decision to exile all interesting conversations to the garage. As an analogy, it's kind of like if a nun jaywalked two feet to rescue a toddler who walked into traffic, and she got thrown in the same prison with hardened criminals. To be fair, we are a small group here, so it's not terribly surprising that there's not enough interest for the Civilized Salon to succeed.
I don't totally disagree with the first part.
My experience with the Civilized Salon was...not great. Get asked a question about my beliefs, then get called a genocidal murderer after I say (politely) that I disagree with certain statements but believe that others are free to act otherwise and I do not support making laws against <thing>. By the same person who asked for a statement about my beliefs on that topic...something they already knew.
I see lots of worthy statements being made outside the garage, most often by people who claim to dislike the and how it acts. I am led to conclude that the thing being disliked is having people call them on their outrageous statements. Which leads me to be (more) jaded than normal, which is saying something.
I miss the lefty presence in garage sometimes.
I want to have an honest conversation about religion but let me preface the conversation with: I think you’re delusional and you and yours have been a net negative for humanity.
Good times.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
attempts to twist what I say into not what I said then beat me over the head with it
While I would do that, it would definitely be for the purposes of some joke or other, sometimes one sufficiently obscure to be just obvious to me.
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Just have the courage of your convictions and block it.
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@DogsB the poll is missing the "Chrome doesn't do shit like this (yet)" option.
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Furthermore, if one of Google's proxy servers is compromised, the threat actor can see and manipulate the traffic going through it.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Just have the courage of your convictions and block it.
TBF Edge is exactly the same browser except it stores shit in a Microsoft account instead of Google account, so if you already have a corporate Microsoft account that you use to log into Windows, it makes way more sense to keep shit in the same Microsoft account rather than creating a Google one—unless you want to use personal Google account where you keep personal Google shit, but I'd strongly suggest Mozilla account for that instead. Not that they are always honest, but still a lot more so than Google.