ISP around me had policies like “we can provide Usenet except for the binaries trees”

I used to really like an apple turnover. Warm, with cream

It just was not much different to 98 and had less good UI

I wouldn’t, but only because I enjoy writing, even for email

I have a friend who’s a new PM (in scaled agile). He isn’t up on expectation management.

We have a process where we request data from another agency which takes “from 7 seconds to 12 days”

And of course he tells people that. And of course they hear “7 seconds”

I have told him that if the SLA is 12 days, say “less than 12 days”

I miss CRT monitors in text mode with the field in “idle CRT screen” black and the text in cyan

Dark mode tries, but always goes for maximum contrast

As

That looks like an oddly capitalised “as”

That really gives the reason it’s acceptable to use apostrophes when pluralising that sort of case

If they didn’t properly test validation I would complain about that, what that regularly miss is a test showing correct function for each major use case

As a PO I’m usually asking QA for some tests that actually show the product meets the requirements

There might be 50 pages proving it rejects bad input, and nothing showing it can successfully handle a perfectly correct case. We seem bad at training testers.

High tech blinkers

That’s her 5 year old kid’s. Super sweet :)

Don’t you want it to look a little nicer? echo __LINE__ . “: Moo!”;

I mean, presuming cowsay is unavailable

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So comment it with //this function fails here if clientCount >20 000 000

We do. We make the best we can in the time we’re given. People say “minimum viable product” but we never deliver that

The reason courts have rules of how convinced one must be to declare guilt is because they dread punishing an innocent over allowing a guilty person free

We aren’t in a position to hurt the probably guilty party so it doesn’t matter a bit of we jump to conclusions unfairly

Me to Google support for a problem with my brand new pixel 3 back when the 3 was the new hotness

Me: my camera only works for one photo, then doesn’t work again until I reboot it. Then it again works only for one photo, then it gives the error “camera [number] is locked” (screenshot)

Support: that sounds like a fault. Could you reboot your phone and tell me what happens?

Me: ok. … Right I’m back. Just like for all the ten photos I took before contacting you, it worked for one photo then that same error. That makes eleven times I rebooted my phone today.

So organising a meeting for 03:30 has the problem of that not being working hours for some people, and you have to look up what working hours are in each area. What problem is that supposed to solve?

My workplace which now uses scaled agile used to be waterfall. We have an enormous system to take care of and there’s loads of specialised knowledge, so we were pretty well siloed

So obviously when the sales people sold agile to the organisation they also sold the idea that a programmer is a programmer, designer a designer, tester a tester; no need for specialists, so in 2015 they spun up 50-odd agile teams in about six trains, one for each major system (where the used to be seven silos in one of those systems) grabbed one senior designer and programmer from each major project to put in an “expert” team

And told the rest of us we were working on the whole of our giant system. Where we had trouble understanding how part of it worked, we could talk to one of the experts

Now nine years later those experts have mostly retired, we have lost so much institutional knowledge and if someone runs into a wall you need to hope that someone wrote a knowledge transfer document or a wiki for that bit of the system

30% of jobs are going if self driving is achieved. Low pay jobs are here to stay for a while as they’re too expensive to automate. The current LLM stuff seems to obsolete low productivity people but still need the skilled writers or programmers to come up with new stuff or do the correct detail work the LLM sucks at.

Some management is going to royally screw up by firing junior programmers since the senior programmers can get all the work done with the help of copilot

But they’ll forget that they will in future need new senior programmers to herd the LLMs