If it scratches an itch. Mother probably wants grandchildren though

It’s odd in the Australian public service, with COBOL programmers. They’ve been in the job long enough that they started when the public service was the only employer who would employ women as programmers. I’m on the systems analyst side of the fence, the programmers I have worked with include a bit more than 60% women

I think all the programmers I know are married or gay or not interested. I think the gay ones are mostly married too.

That sounds like work

heavily markdown formatting

They used one formatting mark, and it’s the most common. What are you smoking, and may I have some?

They absolutely catch badly behaved wealthy people

I have some perl code still good after ~20 years. Personal accounting and bill prediction, command line with todo comments about a never made web interface

I wonder if there are any TOTP apps for Linux phones (though I think I’ll have to keep an Android or Apple device around for my workplace’s 2FA which doesn’t have anything for anything other than apple and Android phones, and only with full security)

I feel like I saw this or the same thing on a different screenshot before AI, I’m not sure whether it’s deliberately crafted bad security thing or legit bad from the wild

I don’t think it’s the result of vibe coding

The aim with simple antennas is to get their length right to match the radio waves. Often at 1/4 of the wavelength.

The type of metal an antenna is made of matters, as the speed of light is different in different materials.

I suspect if it doesn’t work well it’s because the manufacturer either made it the wrong length or used a fibreglass tape measure rather than a steel one

In this example the LLM confuses a table for a database

Our more likely failed to correct what it stole from explainxkcd

Ed. Nope. Explainxkcd doesn’t make the same error

Any deal involving whole percentages of stock will affect the stock price, it’s insider trading when you get a call from someone at AMD before the deal is public, so you can profit. It’s not insider trading for AMD executives to exercise their stock options (which they already had) to profit from the stock movement they just authorised

Cui bono? The executives who approved the deal will make bank on their stock options

It’s never good for a company to have unprofitable decisions made by people for whom the decision is profitable

I feel sorry for 1990s people doing my job. When they moved a paper process to a highly automated IT solution they halved our workforce. When we do the same we get people moved to more valuable work

Government IT is rewarding but is also so dependent on political processes.

And nobody was unhappy that you estimated 3 sprints but took 12

I’m loving work from home. The ability to do whatever during dull meetings, work through lunch on something interesting because you had lunch during the all staff meeting

Have the radio on even

I can’t count the number of coffees I’ve made during stand-up

We also do SAFe, I think they buy it for the name. We’re reasonably agile except we don’t choose our work, our input on feature sizing is ignored, we get told off for failing to deliver on time, we’re not encouraged to demo work to business

At least we do have scrum masters and sometimes product owners and work vaguely to sprints

Test is the least agile as they have an 80 page document on how to document testing and it’s impossible for them to have admin done in time to actually start testing until sprint 2. Since we went to using Git, build is unlikely to finish anything quickly as the automated unit tests are time consuming

I have been a scrum master and it’s almost fun in that role to try to make a team more agile

My different printer does that when it takes a break from printing to disconnect any stringy plastic, for example when it moves to check the print adhered correctly. Mine behaves better when I cancel. I can prevent that behaviour by turning off “AI check file”

I think they mean: Arguing about words is what causes problems the current problems in American politics

I don’t think there’s much effort to get us to use different terms for that though. Slaved machines and programs though (what’s the word got to do with it anyway? It’s still going to be one thing directing another and the second following without question)

The big file lock issue for me is when it is the file browser locking the file in order to give you a summary of it in the side bar, so you can’t edit it, you can’t rename it