Re: How the hell does someone become foreman w/o a sense of cause & effect?
No, he's fine.
Cause : computer is fucked
Effect : Hell desk man comes
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Alistair tells it like it is.
We need to get and there and PROVE that these security-obsessed arseholes are the first against the wall come the revolution.
I love that my bank and credit card claim, by making their use impossibly difficult and resulting in multiple unwanted cancellations, to be trying to save me from 3rd world thieves. No, you're not. Be honest. You're trying to save yourselves from first world thieves by adding to my inconvenience. You forget that it's YOUR business and YOUR problem if you can't make it work reliably. Fix your own bugs. Don't pass them on to me. That is specifically what the banking regulations making you responsible for fraud were intended to so stop wriggling and stand up to the plate.
If you don't want constant updates the solution is simple : don't follow a dev track which is there specifically to allow frequent, poorly tested updates.
From your examples, I would suggest you want the releases marked 'LTS' or long-term-stable.
Try Debian. they're exceptionally careful about what goes in, and you won't suffer much harm if you miss out every other release for even longer life.
Conversely, Python generates more questions because you never know if the code you have will be compatible with the version you installed.
Amusingly, it's supposed to be superior to Perl because Perls is a write-only language. Python may be clearer, but it's still write-only because it has a too-rapidly-changing standard.
I rapidly dumped VS when its annoying autocomplete and function 'help' insisted on blitzing my screen with useless and incorrect messages. It seems unlikely Microsoft have learnt anything in the intervening years so why on earth would I want to take VS's advice on the code itself ?
"Therefore Apple are immediately guilty the moment an unencrypted image exists on an Apple server, and their human is also guilty if it's sent to their device."
This seems an excellent point. While Apple claim to avoid accessing a customer's data by searching on the phone itself and then alerting police to make further enquiries, the verification stage where they intentionally copy the data (having reasonable expectation that it's CSAM) to their servers to do a second hash appears to be a hole a mile wide.
Large solar cells and microwave transmission seems an inefficient way to do it : you've got two conversions and neither is very efficient.
A solar oven seems a better way : many moderately sized reflectors which together focus on a single area. Failure of a few of them tom track would not be dangerous : it would only double the sunlight on the accidental target.
The intentional target could be in the sea, boiling seawater to make steam and simultaneously desalinating while allowing a large safety border.
The large passive reflectors would be slow to re-orientate, making it difficult to use as a weapon.
> You all seem to have missed the point I made about requirements. If you need to chop down 100 trees in a day, then your axe will never be sufficient. It is obsolete. If you only need to chop down 5, then your Axe is perfectly fine and it is not obsolete.
That's not obsolete. It's just underrated.
> I'm not as up-to-date on Linuxes as I should be, but haven't some distros announced that they're abandoning 32-bit?
Much easier in Linux as there are very few legacy 32-bit binaries to cope with. Even those apps that still think an integer is 16 or 32 bits can be fixed, because source.
My pet hate is the gesture stuff, where you can't just grab a title bar and drag a window because if you do it wrong it will maximise or minimise the window instead.
And then there're those deep menu structures where you have to carefully and accurately follow each row to get to the next level, like a tightrope walker navigating a power distribution station on the 11kV wires.
All my best jobs have been those where the interview was not a test but a meeting of engineers.
My best advice for interviews is to turn them around. Don't let them be 'can I fool this person into employing me' but 'will I enjoy working with this person and do I want to confer on them the privilege of working with me'.
if you're only interviewed by nameless and pointless HR people and not the manager you'll be working with - or, better, the engineers - then run away as fast as you can. If that's the habit of your industry, abandon it and find one with actual people.
It's not a network form professionals. It's a network for people who want to be considered professional and generally show their neediness by talking themselves up.
Whether that makes it a good place to bare your soul is debatable, but unlikely since it's most likely to be read by other linked-inners and judged without love or tolerance.