The worst is when the password manager (KeePass in this case) is in quick unlock mode in its default configuration “enter the last four characters of your password”
Me: like I can remember how my password ends. Just let me type the whole thing
The worst is when the password manager (KeePass in this case) is in quick unlock mode in its default configuration “enter the last four characters of your password”
Me: like I can remember how my password ends. Just let me type the whole thing
How do you then activate cruise control for cool?
Working from home, connecting to a VM, you can use a password manager on your machine to log into the VM
And your home machine can be always logged on, or fingerprint unlock, or USB stick unlock or whatever
I had a boring job years ago. We didn’t have web access in the office, we did have a typing tutor program
I could already type
So I decided to learn to type again
So now I type on a dvorak layout except for the first login where I must use qwerty. About the time the password expires and must be changed I get to the point where it’s muscle memory in both layouts
Does python not require you to include your libraries? How can the runtime environment not tell you “you used whatever library but whatever library isn’t installed” is it then hard to find the library? Does python not have anything like perl’s cpan to consolidate all libraries? Can’t you just grep for the libraries a project calls and loop over the results adding that library to the build environment?
People complain about perl, but no one uses perl.
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
We have a clean desk policy at my workplace too, we also don’t take classified documents home
We need to provide a photo of our home work area as part of our application for work from home. It’s needed as part of the employer’s duty of care - managers are supposed to examine the photo and determine its a safe work area
Really all that happens is a photo is attached to the application and never looked at
I doubt American employers have any duty of care towards work from home employees.
I bet the unblurring was about being able to see the documents. AI blur is pretty aggressive at blurring anything that isn’t a face
Lucky kids
I’m 47, and the early games for me were clear. Five year olds don’t get to play arcade machines in 1982, but they do get to play an older relative’s game and watch
And that stuff is memorable
I doubt the post iPad (maybe the post home computer) people have much chance though. 3 year olds have games made for them, though they’re in this thread, naming popular games
Octopus on a Nintendo game and watch (though it’s hard to put things in order, I had a knockoff portable game in 1987 “submarine battle”, and I feel the Nintendo has to be earlier, or what else could the knockoff be knocking off? Yeah game and watch was 1980 onwards)
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.
I moved from one project in my scaled agile using organisation to another and a week later got a phonecall “why are you billing half an hour a day to admin”
“Um” says I “working out where to put how much time against each of the five rows we’re tracking our work under takes at least that long”
Then management shot themselves in the foot
Step 1. Instruct people that all their time must be allocated to a project task, no more admin time, no more corporate role time.
Step 2. Assign a “tiny” piece of work to a team of 10, so the tiny work costs (10 x number of days to deliver) pdays, but was costed at a reasonable level of 20 pdays.
Step 3. Don’t assign any other work to the team
Step 4. Dissolve the team and scatter the staff 2 weeks later
So by the time the team was dissolved, the work was done but for QA, which was delayed and idle because of a bug found in unit test. At that point it had cost 10 people * 10 full days — a hundred pdays.
Management has been calling former team members asking for them to assign their time to a previous project to get the cost of the work down to its planned amount
I don’t think it’s fraud since it’s billing this part of the organisation for work done for that part of the same, but it really makes a mockery of the idea of tracking time per project being meaningful. Anyway, I’m glad they asked me to lie on MS project in writing
I lost the only job I have ever left involuntarily on a helpdesk for a small system partly because of the tracking tools they used
I was top in the team by tickets closed. The person they kept was top by time per call (spent the longest time on each call/worst at efficiently fixing callers’ issues)
Tech tools are not a solution for incompetent management
That’s her 5 year old kid’s. Super sweet :)
So it’s big and diverse ecosystem with multiple standards to choose between
The problem isn’t that it’s missing something like cpan, it’s that there are ten incompatible ones to choose between
Remind me not to learn python. If I get into microcontrollers I shall use their C++ like language not micropython ;)
I really like the ability to dig up code from twenty years ago and just run it