Posts by Doctor Syntax

Re: Major major cock-up

"As for the rivet holes, these should have been picked up during manufacture and fixed at the time:"

Possibly this is related to recent reports about rivet holes being drilled in the wrong place by Spirit and retrospective checks and remedial action being taken after the planes had entered service.

Re: Err... not so fast

And the directors, otherwise they'd just appoint more of the same.

I've found myself on the committee of a local organisation. I'm told the previous treasurer, an accountant, of course, used Excel ad a word processor.

"I'm starting to wonder if there is a single project that has ever gone live without catastrophic issues."

I've been involved in one or two, even involving Capita. You never hear about them. Good news is no news (and vice versa of course).

But when things go wrong they go very wrong.

Re: Fuses?

Not unless the aircraft being simulated had a bug red stop button in the cockpit. I suppose a big red button to stop turbulence in the real aircraft would be quite popular.

He had to wrestle with the controls.

Re: What Manager Ever Learns Lessons?

"Name one ?"

The first one in the next to next to last paragraph in TFA

Re: "if they want to keep their tax breaks"

OTOH two can play that game. Find a city where the lease is nearly up or at a break point. Walk away, closing the office completely. No taxes being paid, not even broken ones. No footfall for shops and cafes. Make sure other cities know what happened.

Is it just the US where this tax-break thing happens?

Re: Bad expectations (was: Bad code)

"CoPilot is an absolute God-send for writing tests and documentation"

And while it's doing that what is it doing with the code you're asking it to document?

Bad grammer is married to bad granddad.

Re: It’s not just C-Suite

"Especially sites which require 10 to 20 "Legitimate Interest" areas of data processing to be unchecked individually, in order to opt out of tracking. Or worse, sites that list 200 or more advertising partners, and having to uncheck every one individually."

Looking at it another way, it's good of these sites to make it clear that you will want to leave now and never go near them again.

Re: It’s not just C-Suite

"I'm convinced that the framers envisaged a default of no tracking with options to allow it if acceptable, with clearly explained consequences."

This should have been how it was framed. No doubt there was a lot of lobbying to make it as it is now. It's time the EU held a review with the specific objective of deciding whether to make on-consent the default.

Re: As many comments in the Jetbrains discussion said - this smells like a marketing ploy

It's the old story - what they'd like and what they need are two different things.

"On-prem is far superior."

I've also yelled at on-prem on occasion.

Re: Not knowing what words mean

My analogy would be an old and old-type fabric surveyors tape, stretched in places.

Re: Questionable resolution

But what fixes the tech's hernia after replacing heavy kit at the top of the rack?

Re: What percentage?

OTOH it it's still sort of working and there are a number of users still poinding away on it a reboot will require a longish warning period to get them logging off including the trip with a 4x2 cluebat to deal with one of them. Even then the server process might need a staged shut-down. Don't just hit the power switch and hope everything will be OK when it comes back. Even if it cleared the original fault you now have more problems than you started with.

Re: Sort-of Recommendation

But whatever you do, don't lose the token from the token ring. You'll end up crawling all over the floor looking for it.

Re: Remote people might be right

The reality is that nobody could understand it and there was someone saying "It's more than my job's worth to let him poser down.". To be fair to that attitude I remember a box with a lot of drives which, according to legend, had a reputation for not coming back up once they'd been powered down. This led to major fretting when a re-do of the mains supply was needed. I think the UPS saw it through that without actually being powered down. Then there was more major fretting when it had to be relocated. In the end it all came back up OK.

Re: I see what you did there!!!

"The only other famous Edmund I can think of is the one in the Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, and I can't make that fit"

There's also Edmund Ironside but that doesn't fit either. So Hillary it it.

Re: A calculator...

"That line blurs a bit if the problem lies in one of the common runtime libraries but I still don't think we can blame the OS unless core functionality is impacted."

Common runtime libraries shipped as part of the OS - irrespective of what the OS is - are core functionality if applications depend on them. The entire purpose of an OS is to run applications. Where else would you put the blame?

"some other ancient bit of software that they refuse to give up under any circumstance."

That'll be the control software for some humongously expensive piece of hardware whose long defunct manufacturer confidently wrote to run on the then shiny new version of Windows. They could, of course, give it up but that would involve a large, unplanned write-off and and a large, unplanned project to replace it.

Re: No WFH - WTF

Why are you making an issue of his relative (from my PoV) youth?

I believe there's a push in Docklands to repurpose for biosciences. Lab work is harder to do at home.

"While certainly middle managers were used as pawns for this, the real reason for return to office is commercial property"

The two issues aren't mutually exclusive.

Re: if you, as a "middle manager"

When I was freelance I regarded the shit-fall as something happening over there in the client's hierarchy. SEP.