Dragoon
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RE: In other news today...
As I am fond of saying when bugs are raised at work: "It is working as coded"
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RE: WTF Bites
So, this past month I was scheduled to train some new workers in another country. I was required to get a visa for this. Now I will admit that I made a mistake and left the visa a little late in the process, but I still had 9 full business days. So, on a Tuesday afternoon I overnight ship everything to DC (with UPS, as the embassy ONLY return ships with USPS I went to the UPS store and not Fedex to make it easier) for my visa application. Was suppose to be 10:30am delivery (I was a little late to guarantee earlier than that).
Wednesday morning comes and I see my package is stalled in Kansas due to weather, so it won't arrive until Thursday if I am lucky. Thankfully, it did arrive on Thursday. I get a call on Thursday from the embassy and they inform me that my cashiers check can not be accepted because the rates have changed. See, the rates were set to change on Wednesday. I had seen this on the site so I had had the check made out for the correct price for Wednesday, but it was created on Tuesday, so they refused to accept it because on the day it was created it was the wrong value. Even though it was the correct value when it arrived. I have no idea why that matters. But they refused to take it. So, Thursday I overnight another check to DC. This one gets stuck in Virginia due to weather, so does not arrive until Saturday.
The Embassy processed it on Monday, but it was a holiday so I did not expect the USPS to pick it up and sure enough they did not. Tuesday I call the embassy and they can confirm that my application was successfully processed and sent out for pickup on Monday. Finally at 11:33pm Tuesday night my package is in the USPS system.
I needed the visa by that Friday before 3:30pm (when my flight was scheduled to leave). So I am frequently checking the update status of my package. Wednesday and Thursday at 12:33pm it states that it is in transit. So Thursday night I place a stop order on my package and try and get it so I can pick it up at the Denver dropoff location (this was a horrible mistake). After work Thursday I head to my local post office and waste an hour of my time trying to get them to help me, they can't but I do get the number for the regional collection point so I can call them when they open Friday morning and hopefully arrange to pickup my package there.
Thursday night at about 10pm my boss calls me and informs me that my trip is cancelled as the team I am training is having contract issues. So I breathe many sighs of relief and just decide to let my passport arrive when it does.
But recall, I had placed a stop order, well I had set it to the local post office and not the dropoff location (apparently you can't set it to that location). So for 4 days I got failure to deliver notices because they kept trying to take my package to the post office after they were closed. Finally, Friday (a week after I had initially needed it) I got my now useless visa.
In the end I could of driven from Denver to DC and back in less time and less expense than trying to ship it there.
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RE: NPM package that does nothing accidentally removed, breaks shit AGAIN
@Grunnen said in NPM package that does nothing accidentally removed, breaks shit AGAIN:
I'm not a JS developer, but from reading such news I wonder: why don't they have unstable / stable branches or something like that?
That sort of thinking is why you arn't a JS developer. They don't allow your kind.
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RE: In other news today...
“In our always-on, always-connected world, it no longer makes sense to expect employees to work an eight-hour shift and do their jobs successfully,” Hyder adds. “Whether you have a global team to manage across time zones, a project-based role that is busier or slower depending on the season, or simply have to balance personal and professional obligations throughout the day, workers need flexibility to be successful.”
I read that as: "Expect to work more hours and be available 24/7"
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RE: Things that remind you of WDTWTF members
The better question for WDWTF is 'How many people write "would of" simply to annoy someone?'
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RE: Hacking News
@topspin said in Hacking News:
And if it's obvious that you're not supposed to win at slot machines, but (consistently, due to a bug) still do? Is that stealing?
You lose on average, at any snapshot in time you can be winning. So no as a user of the slot machine I would have no idea if I was in a winning streak or the slot machine was broken.
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RE: Disk too full to delete files; Delete files to free up space
Yeah, I do have Win 10 Pro at home and do recall editing the registry, so I guess it was fuckery.