@Oktokolo I do wonder about the fiscal cost of commuting. Here in the UK east mids, there's few places you can work if you come by public transport

@Grumm depends on the cost of commute

@oiledwheels yeah, I mean
One the one side of the coin, I started remote and I've been a real credit to my team. I teach the new juniors, SM a project after only 2 years, and am fairly liked and respected amongst my seniors and bosses.

But on the other side, the guy who was hired at the same time as me just had no clue what he was doing. Masters in cyber sec or something and beyond useless.

Aside from his security knowledge being nothing more than script kiddie bullshit, he just literally couldn't code.

Couldn't understand python or typescript syntax to the degree of "this is inside a code block and that's outside a code block", couldn't understand logic to the point of "if this then that, else the other" accounting for every case, etc.

We held on to him for a year or so before he finally quit after receiving a candid word to the wise from our line manager.

@sariel can't reproduce won't fix is one of the few good policies that we have at my work. Don't waste valuable people's time on a ghost hunt

@12bitfloat thought I'd ran into enough noobs that I'd have a grasp on the dialectical fuck-ups, but fair enough

There's always a better idiot I guess 😅

@12bitfloat must be regional or something, I never caught someone saying "codes" before in this context

@Lensflare "a few waters" actually works though, and "enough dollars" works well enough that if a language used the same term for their currency as money, you'd see similar mistakes

Natural language is weird

@12bitfloat is this weirdly common somewhere? I work in the UK and never hear "code" pluralised

@Lensflare I mean
If they called it a debugging code I don't think they're fully up to spec on the lingo anyway, I'd say it could be a mistake in either direction
Pluralising "code" to "codes" likely means they're just a foreign language speaker, perhaps where "code" or "text" are pluralised differently (there's a lot of weirdness to do with pluralising unquantifiable things in different languages, like "waters" "skies", etc.)

but if it's just "debugging codes" for "error codes" I'd say that's more likely to be someone missing the jargon

@Lensflare I think they mean "error codes", so it's really the word debugging that's being misused

But if a garden path sentence really

@cho-uc a 500 GB drive shouldn't be much more than your *hourly* wage, let alone daily. I can find HDDs, sata SSDs or even m2 SSDss around that size for anywhere from 8 quid to 40. If you've little need for speed this should be cheap as chips

@vBitza yeah, we operate in "sprints" but our clients (who are more or less monopolous in the industry we wrote our apps for) have a huge shifting goal post problem and or managers are too worried about losing their business to insist on a solid spec (or any spec doc at all, it seems).

Business has been great for about 20 years straight, but our clients get pissy with us about stuff not being exactly what they want even though they don't tell us what they want, and that manifests in tickets being added to spirits and good, correctly solved tickets being rejected (when they should write new ones)

Not to mention the way we act like we're writing COTS software but we let the big client write the speed, which makes it distinctly bespoke

@melezorus34 yeah it's just like
Not my job to do that, that's the job of the person who writes the tickets.

Just frustrating. I usually end up doing this anyway, I just don't like it

@catgirldev I often run teams off my phone so I can make food during team meetings, can confirm it's a good move so long as you're not expected to screenshare at any point

@ars1 mostly corpos and schools, yeah, and I guess people with no eye patches or peg legs handy

@AleCx04 hey look, we don't go to work so we can spend the other half of our waking hours cold and hungry. Get that money, spend it on good times and happy living

@ars1 what's hotDogWrong, dude?

@sariel I was still playing monkey Island games 14 years ago
This software has cobwebs on it

I'm interested, I work with typescript and haven't had anything upset me too bad so far. What other gripes you got?

@melezorus34 I mean
Depending on what you enjoy, quake's Fast InvSqRt() is pretty sick

float Q_rsqrt( float number )
{
long i;
float x2, y;
const float threehalfs = 1.5F;

x2 = number * 0.5F;
y = number;
i = * ( long * ) &y; // evil floating point bit level hacking
i = 0x5f3759df - ( i >> 1 ); // what the fuck?
y = * ( float * ) &i;
y = y * ( threehalfs - ( x2 * y * y ) ); // 1st iteration
// y = y * ( threehalfs - ( x2 * y * y ) ); // 2nd iteration, this can be removed

return y;
}

@cygnus I guess they're trying to make their explanations context free (ha), but I agree that just providing a couple of contexts helps give off a weird message

@IntrusionCM in a strange turn of irony, I read "VPE means usually in Germany" as its own line and then couldn't tell what the hell you meant by the rest of it at first because I thought you were saying "VPE => 'Usually'"

@matt-jd well that's a different story to be fair. I don't see why they would have to cover it unless it's part of their medical benefits.

Socialised medicine ftw, private-only med countries' citizens can't afford their emergency services a lot of the time. That's a pretty scary reality

@BobbyTables what you're saying makes enough sense to me. Never heard of the "removing nulls" approach in my database module at uni, weirdly, but I can see how putting every attribute of something in a separate table isn't useful for anyone, especially because there's rarely s useful relationship between names and anything other than employees, and no useful function of finding employees who share a name

Aren't Kaspersky famously not good av? I thought they had some scandal a couple years back that they're using your machine to mine, or they had some exploit or something...

GDG => God-Damn Gary

Yikes, I hope you can find a position with a better company soon.

I'm shocked that it's legal to contract individuals against using emergency services. Is this the US, perchance?

@BobbyTables as someone new to professional use of SQL, what would you consider to be "overnormalisation"?

Also Elon musk is such a rediculous manchild. The only people to be inspired by him are deluded capitalists who think they stand a decent chance at becoming a billionaire if they only follow "these three easy steps", and people who fail to understand the sheer damage he causes by creating horrifying working conditions, destroying the planet and hoarding enough wealth to solve hundreds of the world's problems all at once and still have more money than the average erson can actually imagine.

Superboss? Grandboss? Who knows.