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Maersk will be in touch to gently ask that MRSK desist using their trademark.

Like the London Whale (£3Bn??) for JP Morgan and countless other examples

The UN courts can issue judgements…

Human Rights Courts: e.g. Slobodan Milosovic, Radavan Kardzich etc

A lot of the global treaties are kicked around there

They also enforce peace zones (poorly) like Lebanon, Israel demilitarised zone.

They coordinate aid programs UNRWA etc

I had to write some ugly stored procedures to attempt sanitising myself

2) Query batching where queries are submitted to a database together and then results are returned. If this could be done without a connection per query that would be awesome. The use case is a global truth database needing 1 write to 20 reads… If the server is in the UK and the client is in Fiji then batching the 20 reads together is a massive latency win.

Freedom… depending on where you lived (Sydney in my case) you could party every hour Friday night until Monday morning, linking up clubs

Parking was easier, you could drive places without a permit

Anonymity… there was no social media and cameras were few and far between

Music… some of the sounds had never been heard before. Even in 2023 you can go into a wanker bar and hear stuff like Kruder and Dorfmeister or Dmitri from Paris playing overhead. Music sounds just stopped being made

Scale… Gatecrasher, Creamfields, Ibiza, Love Parade, Bush Doof, Raves … it is less these days or more atomised

1999-Millenium… just an amazing transition time that cannot be bottled

Institutions such as Police, Universities, NHS, Scouts, MsF, Religions, Churches, YCombinator et alia have a hierarchy of internal loyalties in strict precedence:

* The Staff Member

* The Staff Member’s Family

* The Friends of the Staff Member

* The Colleagues of the Staff Member

* The Group within the Institution the Staff Member belongs to

* Wider Groups in the Institution

* The actual powerbrokers within the Institution

* The acknowledged Leadership of the Institution (may be different to actual powerbrokers)

* The actual goals of the Institution

* The acknowledged goals of the Institution (may be different to actual goals)

* Helping YOU in accordance with what the acknowledged goals of the Institution are…

Only when all the loyalties in that list are satisfied is there the slightest chance you may get anything positive from the Institution.

Despite the long list of higher precedence loyalties it is still frequently possible to have positive outcomes…

But because it is a long list of loyalties far more important than helping YOU, there are often breaks.

And because people and families and relationships are involved they can change at any moment.

So trusting Institutions to do the best for you or act honourably needs to be carefully weighed against the likelihood that will happen

2/2) Mortgages

How mortgage repayments change over time as you pay off some of it (YMMV)

* All time King keeps on giving: MS Excel

* MS Visio… last good Sequence Diagrams etc

* Adobe Illustrator… keep visual scrapboards

* Perl one liners with cygwin getclip/putclip

* DBeaver SQL gui

* StreamDeck with Autohotkey custom actions

* SimpleNote - your notes everywhere when you need them for creation, reference and search

Is it angry with code or capitalism or the human condition? You get the impression all three. Solutions? never looked at

It also ends with the ultimate cop out:

  Q: What is the solution? (paraphrased)
  A: I don’t know

I looked at Wikipedia about Fleming’s schools and Eton and Sandhurst werelisted there… archetypical venues for that ingrained behaviour.

Fleming in that section of the article was highlighting that he personally had some axes to grind but kept them firmly out of his novels.

I don’t think paying for sex quite has the sting

https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/Bubble_Bobble

You can even do a graphical diff against each candidate timestamp in a gui wizard

As others have mentioned JetBrains cloned this feature too

UDP used successfully many places.

  Avery Fisher Hall

  David Geffen Hall

  cygwin
  mintty
  stream deck
  firefox / thunderbird
  eclipse
  linux
  socat / netcat
  postgres / mysql
  ms windows (ducks)
  emacs
  ms excel

rockstar

ninja

10x

Sid says it stuck after Pirates! was a success.

Big Orgs have big re-orgs all the time and the entire management structure can change swiftly. Leaf node workers left untouched.

Although TIL the Uluru/Ayres Rock appears to have been lost to fire in 2018

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leyland_Brothers_World

I was cycling safely from Coogee to the City in Sydney.

A lady driving her kids to school rear ended me at a round about.

My head smashed straight into the asphalt. Fortunately helmets are more or less legal requirements in Australia or else I would have been dead or brain-damaged.

Nile turned to Blood again ?

The Wrong Type of Fire followed by the Wrong Type of Brimstone ?

Frogs blocked the way ?

Not enough sunlight for 3 days?

Family Bereavement.

Loss of Hebrew assistants

“Don’t attempt to wash your wife’s blood out of a Honda Element… it will rust !!”

My projects use Unity and any time the camera gets 1800m from the world (0,0,0) the camera begins to shake. By 2000m the shake is too violent to use.

So you have to reset the coordinates by a hack if you want a world scale 1:1 map

When they lose all their most important customers’ data because the feature flags got too confusing… they can take this same article and say: “BECAUSE WE xxxx that led to YYYY.

In future we will use a Staging or UAT environment to mitigate against YYYY and avoid xxxx”

Saving time on authoring a Post Mortem by pre-describing your folly seems like an odd way to spend precious dev time