Posts by Doctor Syntax 33111 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jun 2014
Probably going to follow: Kirklees - Labour
That monstrosity was the product of the 1974 reform of local government. It welded together two local authorities which had no common history and named the result after a place that's actually in neighbouring Calderdale.
One of this year's gems has been to spenf goodness-knows what building out this corner to create a one-way, yes one-way, cycle lane about 10 metres long. It will probably last until the awkward turn into Acre Lane causes an accident. Or more likely well beyond the point when it causes several accidents. I suppose it contributes to some target for length of cycle lane.
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"It'll be even worse when they start offering it for free if you allow them to feed the text into their Bingbot AI training."
I'd like to see the effect on one of their bots if it had to deal with a suggestion Microsoft might offer something for free.
I've replaced to element in a kettle several times until the body of the kettle developed a leak. Since then I've had to junk one name brand hot water jug because (notoriously) a moulded plastic component in the latch failed. An appliance designed to be thrown away - but not to be replaced like with like. The much maligned Amazon Basics replacement just keeps working.
Word had a long history of not opening documents written by later versions, no doubt a means of putting their customers on the update treadmill. Old habits die hard.
In the meantime someone who, for whatever reason, has accumulated a stack of .rtf documents, or may has some application that produces reports in .rtf form and doesn't wish to be dragged into Microsoft's online world, will be able to open them with LibreOffice.
There's a lot to be said for being an all-rounder. If you know you're going to administer it you pay attention to making it easy to administer. If you've developed it you know what's in the tangle of code. As a DBA I've encountered some stuff that probably looked OK in development and test but caused problems at scale and, with my programming experience, been able to go through the code and find the problem. The skill sets and experience are complementary and it's best to have at least some of each even if you want to concentrate on one or the other.
The counter for this is that these are special channels wet up for criminal use. Targetting these is one thing, and a successful one, targetting those used by the bulk of the population is quite another. It overturns the presumption of innocence which is there to protect the public from wrongful attention of the state.
"The police refused to acknowledge any of this as a problem: all my complaints, to both police forces and the IOPC were brushed off."
Too easy to do when the casualty survives. A coroner's verdict citing the problem might be trickier for them. As with so many other issues nobody wants to think ahead to anticipate the occurrence of a worst case.
OP wrote "your desk and chair" and omitted to describe the machine similarly, i.e. "your machine".
I assume that when you go into the office your personally sit on your chair at your desk at to do work for the company. And likewise you personally use your computer to do that work for the company. The computer is no more the user's to take home but it is one being personally used by the employee. Perhaps you're too young to remember when using a computer meant accessing a shared computer with a dumb terminal and that the separate computer on the employee's desk was called a Personal Computer - I don't think I know what the P stands for, I remember it..
An application that keeps WIP files in /tmp - which is what /tmp is for - should remove them on normal closure. If you close down the server peremptorily and don't let the applications close normally you should expect the stuff in /tmp to be important; the application developer might have anticipated the possibility of this happening and been able to use them for recovery. The only files that could be safely deleted are those that haven't been touched for a long time.
The basic rule is if you don't know it's safe to delete a file don't delete it.
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