I have an older person right now cleaning up an unbelievable mess that two younger people made because they didn't know what they were doing, and the people managing them didn't catch it because they assumed young people are always talented and get everything.
Somewhat related CSB. 15 years ago I was working at a startup writing Linux device drivers for our product. Things were going well, I was on schedule, no issues whatsoever. One day my boss' boss shows up with a consultant who was supposed to help me with my work, he was very experienced, I could learn from him, yadda yadda yadda. Ok. At the time I was writing a PCI driver and was hip deep in the read part, so I gave him the write part. A week or so later I got his first cut, he was using an ioctl() to write data to the board. Hmmm, thinks I. This is different. But he's an expert, maybe he knows something I don't. Another week later I get more code from him that just doesn't make sense. I take him to lunch to talk to him a bit. Turns out:
1) He's never used Linux before
2) He's never written a device driver before
3) He's never talked to hardware before
4) He's only been programming for a year
5) In his interview he never claimed to know Linux, hardware, nor device drivers.
6) I never saw him because not only was he on a different floor, but he spent his lunch breaks in his car studying up on Linux
I went to my boss with a WTF, the guy was gone the next day. I felt bad about that, the guy was actually nice and once the blinders were removed from my eyes I realized he was very trainable. I never did hear why he was brought in, who interviewed him, nor how he became a Linux device driver expert.
That company was full of management problems, one of the biggies was at the CXX level they were all snakes in the grass who stabbed people in the back on a regular basis.
Me too. I keep a daily log using vim. It's FLOSS, cross-platform and uses an open file format (text), It's also easily searchable via several tools. I don't think it's been updated for a few years now, but it doesn't have any limitations that really bother me.
A bull and his son are standing on a hill, looking out over the herd. The son says "Hey pa! Lets run down there and fuck a cow!". The bull says "Son. Why don't we walk down there and fuck all the cows"
My experience says that electrolytic caps dry out after 20-30 years, which is the age of these machines. Not sure what else goes bad, I haven't worked on old hardware for about 20 years now.
Did/. really change 'Reply', which tells me I'm replying to the current article, with 'Post', which tells me I'm creating a new story? Dafuq Dice, are you driving anybody with more than 12 happily co-existing neurons out?
Forbes and LA Times are 2 sites I never visit as their pages don't render for me. There are also a few other newspaper sites that don't work, I suspect they're all owned by the same billionare.
For the newspapers, by not work I mean I get a blank page for a couple seconds, then a normal page for about 1/10 of a second, blank page for a couple seconds, repeat forever.
Shooting high intensity RF through a pointable device? One that could also be pointed at, oh I dunno, that annoying a-hole talking too loud on his phone? Or that cop chasing you for whatever reason?
Not to mention the hazards of having 20 lb of plastic and steel falling several feet out of the sky onto who knows what?
Prolly won't work for a lot of them anyway, if they lose signal they're programmed to head home.
I see fail in a lot of different areas on this one.
Games are the only reason I still run Windows. I suspect that when my current machine dies I'll be buying a PS4 and going to Linux for everything else.
Wish I could mod parent up. China is having major issues, from cities nobody wants to move to, to mass corruption that is becoming more and more evident, to companies than only survive because the government props them up, to huge environmental issues. Lets not forget that traffic jam that hit the intertubes yesterday, 50 lanes being throttled to 20. 50 lanes in 1 direction! Jeebus,
I suspect China is going to run face first into reality Real Soon Now (tm), and it's going to give the global markets a huge headache.
Wish I had a laser pointer about now. My toilet was leaking, called maintenance. Guy rings the doorbell, cat makes a beeline for the bedroom. Toilet is fixed about 2:30 this afternoon, he's still under the bed. The cat, not the maintenance guy. I did not kill the maintenance guy and stuff him under the bed. It's now almost 7 hours later, cat is still under the bed. No, he is not nibbling on the maintenance guy, I did not kill him and stuff him under the bed. Stupid cat is under the bed all by himself, looking at me with big green eyes when I get on my hands and knees and point a flashlight at him.
/ maintenance guy is in the dumpster // kept him in the bathroom til it got dark /// hopefully, enough people will throw trash into the dumpster while it's dark nobody notices him tomorrow
I haven't applied any patches since I learned they're adding their spyware to Win 8.1 updates. Makes me nervous, but I'd rather trust my habits and firewall than Microsoft.
The assumption is you bought it because of it's pep and mileage. VW "fixes" the problem, both take a huge hit. Do you still want the car? Will VW buy it back? How about resale value? The Kelly Blue Book value just took a huge hit as the pep and mileage went way down. Who pays for that?
I for one am glad I didn't buy a diesel car in the last 10 years, sounds like a nightmare for those who did.
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Enterprise finally got it's feet under it in the last season. Too bad the writing was already on the wall.
But dear god did Enterprise have a crappy intro song.
I seem to remember IMDb started on Usenet in the 80s.
Optimizations, both memory and performance, are difficult.
And typically take older, more experienced (read: $$$$) folks to do right. H1-Bs need not apply.
I have an older person right now cleaning up an unbelievable mess that two younger people made because they didn't know what they were doing, and the people managing them didn't catch it because they assumed young people are always talented and get everything.
Somewhat related CSB. 15 years ago I was working at a startup writing Linux device drivers for our product. Things were going well, I was on schedule, no issues whatsoever. One day my boss' boss shows up with a consultant who was supposed to help me with my work, he was very experienced, I could learn from him, yadda yadda yadda. Ok. At the time I was writing a PCI driver and was hip deep in the read part, so I gave him the write part. A week or so later I got his first cut, he was using an ioctl() to write data to the board. Hmmm, thinks I. This is different. But he's an expert, maybe he knows something I don't. Another week later I get more code from him that just doesn't make sense. I take him to lunch to talk to him a bit. Turns out:
1) He's never used Linux before
2) He's never written a device driver before
3) He's never talked to hardware before
4) He's only been programming for a year
5) In his interview he never claimed to know Linux, hardware, nor device drivers.
6) I never saw him because not only was he on a different floor, but he spent his lunch breaks in his car studying up on Linux
I went to my boss with a WTF, the guy was gone the next day. I felt bad about that, the guy was actually nice and once the blinders were removed from my eyes I realized he was very trainable. I never did hear why he was brought in, who interviewed him, nor how he became a Linux device driver expert.
That company was full of management problems, one of the biggies was at the CXX level they were all snakes in the grass who stabbed people in the back on a regular basis.
Me too. I keep a daily log using vim. It's FLOSS, cross-platform and uses an open file format (text), It's also easily searchable via several tools. I don't think it's been updated for a few years now, but it doesn't have any limitations that really bother me.
is going to use this stuff to make a Halloween costume this year.
A bull and his son are standing on a hill, looking out over the herd. The son says "Hey pa! Lets run down there and fuck a cow!". The bull says "Son. Why don't we walk down there and fuck all the cows"
Nope, it died when they started taking movie stunts as actual things that can happen. This was what, 3-4 years before they cut the rest of the team?
The show was great, they just ran out of myths to bust.
Wow. When I started my post some 2 minutes ago there were 0 replies. Now there are dozens. Do I detect a hot button issue?
My experience is training H1-Bs how to run 'rm -rf /' on critical servers, whilst maintaining my innocence regarding teaching them said commands.
but 16GB is not going to leave users happy.
It would be plenty if users could delete the bloatware they'll never use and didn't want.
My experience says that electrolytic caps dry out after 20-30 years, which is the age of these machines. Not sure what else goes bad, I haven't worked on old hardware for about 20 years now.
/. really change 'Reply', which tells me I'm replying to the current article, with 'Post', which tells me I'm creating a new story? Dafuq Dice, are you driving anybody with more than 12 happily co-existing neurons out?
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I vote for the toilet. I can't see heading outside in the cold to sit on a cold toilet seat. It would definitely cut into the reading I get done.
Forbes and LA Times are 2 sites I never visit as their pages don't render for me. There are also a few other newspaper sites that don't work, I suspect they're all owned by the same billionare.
For the newspapers, by not work I mean I get a blank page for a couple seconds, then a normal page for about 1/10 of a second, blank page for a couple seconds, repeat forever.
Shooting high intensity RF through a pointable device? One that could also be pointed at, oh I dunno, that annoying a-hole talking too loud on his phone? Or that cop chasing you for whatever reason?
Not to mention the hazards of having 20 lb of plastic and steel falling several feet out of the sky onto who knows what?
Prolly won't work for a lot of them anyway, if they lose signal they're programmed to head home.
I see fail in a lot of different areas on this one.
Games are the only reason I still run Windows. I suspect that when my current machine dies I'll be buying a PS4 and going to Linux for everything else.
This. I never heard of it before this article. That said, I don't see why I would need or even want it. It's a farkin browser for $diety's sake.
One of my first TRS-80 games, it was Hammurabi in space.
Wish I could mod parent up. China is having major issues, from cities nobody wants to move to, to mass corruption that is becoming more and more evident, to companies than only survive because the government props them up, to huge environmental issues. Lets not forget that traffic jam that hit the intertubes yesterday, 50 lanes being throttled to 20. 50 lanes in 1 direction! Jeebus, I suspect China is going to run face first into reality Real Soon Now (tm), and it's going to give the global markets a huge headache.
Wish I had a laser pointer about now. My toilet was leaking, called maintenance. Guy rings the doorbell, cat makes a beeline for the bedroom. Toilet is fixed about 2:30 this afternoon, he's still under the bed. The cat, not the maintenance guy. I did not kill the maintenance guy and stuff him under the bed. It's now almost 7 hours later, cat is still under the bed. No, he is not nibbling on the maintenance guy, I did not kill him and stuff him under the bed. Stupid cat is under the bed all by himself, looking at me with big green eyes when I get on my hands and knees and point a flashlight at him.
// kept him in the bathroom til it got dark
/// hopefully, enough people will throw trash into the dumpster while it's dark nobody notices him tomorrow
/ maintenance guy is in the dumpster
I run a pretty locked down openWRT, I trust that more than Microsoft.
I haven't applied any patches since I learned they're adding their spyware to Win 8.1 updates. Makes me nervous, but I'd rather trust my habits and firewall than Microsoft.
A childhood friend died of ALS last March. He was 55. He prolly could have lasted another year if he'd agreed to be intubated, he drew the line there.
The assumption is you bought it because of it's pep and mileage. VW "fixes" the problem, both take a huge hit. Do you still want the car? Will VW buy it back? How about resale value? The Kelly Blue Book value just took a huge hit as the pep and mileage went way down. Who pays for that?
I for one am glad I didn't buy a diesel car in the last 10 years, sounds like a nightmare for those who did.
Ad-block block. sigh.