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@Demolishun > "I learned the gimp word in late 80s to early 90s."
A previous dev mgr here is a diehard Tarantino fan and talked about all the weird sex stuff Tarantino put into his films. Never noticed the feet thing before either until he pointed it out. Too weird for me. -
I wonder after the release of 'Pulp Fiction' the makers were like "Oh crap, now everyone will know what a Gimp really is"
I had no idea. Now anytime I open Gimp, my mind goes to that scene. -
I use Brave for youtube. Haven't seen a youtube ad in years.
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@retoor > "I said last couple of years"
I don't think racism is any worse, I think the liberals/socialists/far-left has fired up their base as victims (again) and using race (again) to make themselves legitimate.
Before my far-right friends jump in and scream "YES!!", the same thing happens when I hear "Christians are under attack!" or "They want to cancel Christmas!!!"
When our local high school allows a LGTPZ-whatever parade down the halls during school and bans a student led prayer group in the lunch room *before* school, then I'll say we're under att...oh crap. -
@retoor > "Racism got much worse last couple of years."
I disagree.
My dad grew up in a time where they chased blacks down in cars and routinely beat them up for no reason. My mother-in-law (in her 80s) still call them the n-word (and she says she's not racist). She'll say "I don't want to go to that part of St. Louis, its full of n.... and I'm not racist"
Because snowflakes are offended by words they read in a chat room isn't racism.
Morgan Freedman eloquently told a reporter if you want to stop racism, stop making everything about race. -
@dissolvedgirl > "I carry a firearm"
Nice. Stay safe, practice, practice, and practice some more. When/if that time comes, have that 'muscle memory' ready.
Are you in the US?
Insider tip, buy ammo now. Prices are only going to go up. -
> "They lose half of their value when you open the box."
OK, fess up. What did you buy and now regret? -
@PaperTrail
Part 3:
As common sense would tell anyone, call numbers go up, then costs go up, then complaints go up, the 'powers that be' step in and started demanding answers, which Adam was ready for.
Adam told them Frank was his best supervisor and didn't know why the high numbers only occurred on Frank's watch. The cost cutting measures were justified and no other supervisor was having these troubles. Adam told them he had done everything he could to reduce Frank's workload (ex. pushing clock adjustments/time off requests to others) and allow Frank to focus on his job. Adam being a master manipulator, no one bothered to check the details of the spreadsheet #s.
When the VP put Frank on a correction plan (get your numbers down in 30 days or be fired), Frank quit.
To this day when someone feels like they are being targeted (given crap hours, crap job assignments, etc), they say "Oh no, I'm being 'Frank Garvin-ed'" -
@PaperTrail
Part 2:
When Frank wouldn't quit, Adam started cutting staff numbers only when Frank was scheduled (forcing Frank to take calls, handle CS issues, etc).
When Frank still wouldn't quit, Adam started removing system permissions (approving clock adjustments, time off requests, etc), requiring Frank to delay those requests to the next supervisor and/or the employees asking our accountants for the approval(s). TL;DR, our accountants manage all that data when sups aren't around/available and didn't know that Frank couldn't do that job.
Why is coming up next in part 3. -
@PaperTrail > "I can believe he was targeted for retaliation for not towing the company line"
<names have been changed> Example, it was called 'pulling a Frank Garvin'.
Part 1:
Frank was a contact center supervisor who questioned, on multiple occasions, his boss's unethical behavior. TL;DR, think sexual stuff, scheduling folks for 39 hours just to keep them from being 'full-time' and avoiding overtime (too much detail to get into here).
Frank tried to get the message 'up the chain', but 'Adam' was very good at manipulation (he was a typical type-A, alpha-male type) and no one could argue his performance numbers.
Adam couldn't fire Frank without justification, so he started scheduling for example, Fridays until close (11:00PM) and opening at 8:00AM on Saturday/Sunday (essentially ruining his weekends).
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@TrayKnots > "I am supposed to believe ..."
You've never been around those alpha-male, type-A personality types that end up being CEOs/mgrs.
Granted, it wasn't a strong marriage to begin with if his wife was so easily 'seduced', but I can believe he was targeted for retaliation for not towing the company line. -
Whenever I see a post from @B2Plane, I downvote and flag it as spam.
My brotha' from who-knows-where has some serious problems no pill can fix. Wish I could help, but it's like all the homeless in my town. Offer jobs+job training, free education, free this, free that, and all they do is crap in their hand and throw at you. Then run in front of the main-stream-media/bleeding-heart-liberals/socialists/democrats crying "All I want is a little help...why won't <insert conservative group here> help?!"
@B2Plane, get some help. Stay away from that pill nonsense, put God first place, get into a Bible-based church, and surround yourself with real men*.
*Real man is of the male species who will call you out on nonsense to your face and hold you accountable. -
@Demolishun > "Like I go to dismount a drive using a file manager."
Likely the linux UI developers could care less about making those functions user-friendly. They would open a command prompt and type in the cryptic regular expression to dismount a drive and make fun of you+me+rest of the world for not knowing the command.
"What morons, must be Window's users....everybody knows the FileManager is broken and they should use 'sudo dsf adk^%4 =6 ~24 <' to dismount a drive...the command is so simple and intuitive." -
@jestdotty > "what's the difference between a scam call center and a call center"
Scam call center have better English speakers. -
@jestdotty > "evidently not"
I told my son to save emails they get from hospital administration regarding all the new words they are supposed to use now. It won't be long before the words change and they say+gaslight "We never told you to use this word, you must use that word now. It's always been that word. Always."
For example, a nurse will be open to disciplinary action if they use 'Breast Feeding' instead the new phrase 'Chest Feeding'.
A few nurses have already been 'dinged' for assuming patient gender. Its a crazy world out there. -
@Demolishun > "I think this political attack the language garbage that is going it utter bullshit"
I recently read (well, listened to on Audible) 1984. I knew it was written a long time ago, but didn't realize the liberals/socialists/left used it as their playbook all this time. Scary times we live in. -
@kiki > "If so, then aII the time you spent on fancy error mitigation was for nothing"
+1
Defend against what you know will likely happen (nulls, exceptions other code throws, etc) and log the rest. Then from those logs, tweak/re-factor as needed.
I can't find it right now, a developer tried to push the idea that exception handling was a mechanism for business logic flow. In a lot of his code, there were more lines-of-code in the exception handling ('fancy error mitigation') than the actual method.
Example
try
{
// 10 lines or so of database access code
}
exception
{
// 50+ lines of code, calling other functions, etc.
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@Lensflare > "just because it’s a viable practice, doesn’t mean it’s a good one."
Amen.
I'd been the one trying to figure out crashes, random data issues, etc, then to find the developer either 'ate' the exception, logged a generic "An error occurred" message (with no context), or caused side-effectual behavior (didn't check to see if a returned value was null and updated a field with bad data).
So over time, I developed our logging strategy that freed the developer from making decisions about what data bits were important and making it difficult to 'get around' the logging system.
Attached is an example of data we log to Splunk. -
I want to upvote this rant 100 times YESS!!!!
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@NoToJavaScript > "this one didn't happen the most"
I wish it didn't. When J pushed his SJW nonsense, hilarity ensued.
For example, a dev mentioned trying to eat better and started buying from local farmer markets..
J: "I never buy from those places. A lot of Amish and they don't pay taxes."
<awkward silence>
Dev: "Do taxes make the vegetables taste better?"
J: "No, but since the Amish don't pay taxes like the rest of us, they are rich. They don't pay taxes on any of the baskets and furniture they sell either. A table costs hundreds of dollars and it's tax free."
Dev: "So? How does that affect you?"
J: "I'm just saying the Amish need to start paying their fair share like the rest of us." -
@Chewbanacas > "I find hilariously pathetic"
We had a SJW who, when all that was going on, commented that our all repos needed to be changed.
J:"Sent you guys a link. We need to rename our branches. Using 'master' is now racist"
<laughs>
J:"Seriously, if we don't, it will open up the company to lawsuits"
<more laughs>
Boss:"Lawsuits? From who? All our repos are internal and private"
Me:"What is racist about the main branch labeled 'master'?"
J:"Come on. It's racist"
Boss:"I don't get it. Its a folder. How can folder be racist?"
J:"It will offend anyone of color"
Me:"Do we have folders named master? All my TFS migrations, I used main so I wouldn't have to change folder names"
J:"They should have been labeled master, it was best practice, but I'm sure we have some out there"
<I search all the repos>
Me: "Huh? Only repos with 'master' are yours J. You've got 2"
J:"OMG, thanks. I'll get those changed right away" -
> "I’m sorry for the next guy who tries to fw me"
Buddy's Taekwondo instructor told him boxing (as a self-defense) is only affective against someone who is not a boxer. Probably true for the majority of martial arts.
The military guys here say learning Jujitsu is the most affective self defense, since the majority of hand-to-hand combat will end up on the ground anyway. Might as well know how to lock the guy up and choke them out (before they do it to you). -
@Chewbanacas > "What’s gonna happen now? I don’t get it"
A social justice warrior head just exploded. :)
Search the intrawebs for 'github master branch controversy' for context -
@PaperTrail > "it's the powers-that-be never think beyond our web site as a native mobile app like Amazon."
For example, lets say we sell baseball cards and we're the #1 business the country for baseball cards.
Powers-that-be simply think a mobile app is an extension of the web site.
Since 99% of the employees love baseball, collectors of such, we want an app that allows us to manage collections, share stats, keep updated on players, card values, new collections, etc.
When that idea is pitched, it's "Nobody would use such a thing and customers will probably use the web site anyway for buying cards. Customers want our web site as mobile app!"
In the meeting, someone asked the VP "Do you have any site specific apps on your phone or do you always go to, for example, Amazon?"
VP: "I always go to the site. Why would I need an app for Amazon?"
Nobody said it, but everybody was thinking it. -
@jestdotty
With the ups and downs of business decisions, we've been on the upside for a long time (good+smart folks at the helm), every once in while a "WTF!?" decision comes down, like the idea for a mobile app. That proposal pops up from time to time with new mgrs and always dies at the feasibility stage (because it adds $0 and costs lots of $$). Now mobile getting pushed by the corner offices where feasibility is someone else's problem.
Not that we couldn't dominate in our particular niche, it's the powers-that-be never think beyond our web site as a native mobile app like Amazon. -
Which version of SharePoint? On-prem or SharePoint Online?
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@jestdotty I'm sure it's not all of them, at least locally here, the Libertarians seem to want near anarchy.
For example, they want to privatize Fire, Police, and 911 services where, for example, if you want fire protection, you pay a monthly/yearly fee. I know that's much different than what we do now with taxes, but that sort of scheme will lead to a tiered plan of
Level 1 $5 a month : Put fire out with buckets of dirt
Level 2 $50 a month: Put fire out with buckets of water (owner must provide their own water)
Level 3 $100 a month: Put fire out with the water hose attached to the house
Platinum Level $500 a month: Installation of a dedicated fire hydrant, full fire truck services, life saving options, and stuffed animals for the kids.
Knowing 99% of folks will chose option 1, and when they call 911...
P: "PLEASE HELP, MY HOUSE IS ON FIRE AND MY FAMILY IS INSIDE!!"
911: "Oh, I'm sorry, you are level 1, but we can upgrade you. Will that be credit card or venmo?" -
Nearly all publicly traded company CEOs have a fiduciary responsibility for profits, either real or imaginary (aka subscriptions = 'future growth'). and they answer to stakeholders, not customers.
Very likely the announcement was to satisfy some "SAY ANYTHING!" directive to appease a board of directors who read in their trade magazine that subscriptions is the new cash cow. -
@Demolishun > "The guy on the right did such a flex"
Worked with a guy, Dudley (that was his name), who could shoot 9mm and 45 ACP (1911) open sites, dead center at crazy distances. We thought he was some kind of freak. Never in the military, didn't train for 10,000 hours, just picked up a gun one day and found he had this 'talent'.
Its those guys I want on my side when the crap hits the fan. -
@Demolishun > "I had a health professional office fat finger $2000 instead of $20"
I'm almost surprised they caught and fixed it.
A healthcare group I belong to figured out they could 'double-dip' for wellness checks. They would get reimbursed for the first visit, then submit $xx until the insurance company approved the amount (sometimes just $15, other times over $50)
My wife called the healthcare office and, TL;DR, essentially told "You're not being charged, what do you care?"
That pissed off my wife. She contacted the insurance company and they basically responded "It's such a low dollar amount, we don't care. Call us when the bill is over $100,000"
Her parents are in the same group, so she looked at their EOBs and the group was doing the same tricks.
The whole medial billing industry is such corrupt mess.