I’ve been using Firefox on OS X since forever (never jumped to chrome and back) and I’ve never experienced this. Is there a bug report? Surely this would get a lot of attention.
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They're trivial to replace when the time comes.
She would take on a dozen small-ish projects (~6 months / $1M), and just jam them through by buying some off the shelf managed solution and using an external contractor who would write spaghetti to run tentacles to everything. She would routinely deliver projects early and under budget, which made her a stand out STAR. No other projects in the entire company were remotely close - normal was double time and budget. Green ticks next to her name, promotions, bonuses, etc.
Once I was invited to a conference call with a dozen people I didn't really know.
Her: We've tapped you as the main support person for this new system we've just deployed into production as part of this new project. I has customers live now.
Me: OK, great. Where's the documentation (there is none). What server does it run on? (Huh?). What credentials do I use to login (what?). Who is managing this SSL certificate? (What?). And so on.
I was told later that was a Career Limiting Move (CLM) on my part, because I wasn't being a team player, and I was adding friction to The Greatest Project Manager(TM).
She did this for at least 50 projects, always getting accolades while creating an absolute shit-storm for support to deal with. As the years rolled on I learned this is perfectly normal for a telco.
Thanks for all that incredible work and your insights here.
Every few years I like to leave the world for a bit and do something else to reset a bit. For example I just finished walking 779km on the Camino in Spain.
What you said is essentially true for the vast majority of people in our modern world. What we have built is terrible for us, and we’re all suffering and very sick.
FWIW every country requires you leave and come back to change or renew visa status. The computers and processes are all setup at points of entry and just aren’t designed for people that don’t physically leave/enter.
It’s so common the guys at the us/Canada land border call it “flagpoleing” because you literally drive a u turn around the flagpole and go back. I’ve done it a dozen times, even driving 4 hours each way in a gnarley winter storm into Alaska and back to Canada at -45.
This x 10000.
When I started at a large Telco in 2015 people would print an email they had just sent me, walk over to my desk and say "Did you see this email I sent you?"
These people were ecstatic when the new phone book came out each year, and shocked when I declined to have one on my desk.
The company was pushing hard to install a fax line in every home and office (in 2018!), because of huge government subsidies, and so these people were toeing that line and were all about it.
All of that aside, they knew the ins and outs of the business better than anyone, and could explain why things were done the way they were done going back 30 years. Their knowledge and expertise was irreplaceable. Also they were extremely kind, friendly, thoughtful people. And that really matters when you're spending 40+ hours a week in an office.
I understand you want to justify it's existence, but that doesn't mean it's good for society as a whole.
There were over 13,000, and I can’t remember how many were not unique, but it was staggering
He said when they killed something that big they would light a signal smoke fire and the entire village would come to the and basically have a party until it was all eaten.
Which is a direct result of corporations lobbying with billions of dollars.
Every other country calls it bribery for a reason
It’s a great signal I need to go to bed.
You’re a legal resident? You have 100% healthcare same as everyone else. There isn’t even a question about pre existing anything
To be clear, all of these people were going to die within days, weeks, or at most a few months.
Death is certain. Dignity at the end is the least we can ask for.
I agree 100%, though I will add it is important to have a manager who can do, so that at the very least they can have technical conversations.
Nothing worse than a manager who has no concept of what the doing even is.
Alternators, starters, ac compressors and so much more could just be small, medium, large, extra large.
The price would drop dramatically.
Sometimes breaking the law is the right thing to do, and results in great improvement.
Hint: it’s Tesla’s NACS
1 : https://driveteslacanada.ca/news/teslas-nacs-set-to-become-o...
I give you $10,000 to eat a pile of shit.
You give me $10,000 to eat a pile of shit.
What's the result?
Two shit-eating grins and $20,000 added to the GDP.
With a vastly higher percentage of its citizens in jail than any other developed country, much higher crime and violence than developed countries and many other very bad indicators it is, however, not a good country. It does not provide for or look after its citizens in the ways other developed countries do, and does not appear to be a healthy society.
Massively lower power consumption and way less waste heat to dispose of.
Literally the two biggest concerns of every data centre on earth.