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Mayube

Oct 11, 2024 15:25

at work when we push a change into prod and it has issues, sometimes we just push a fast-follower change to fix the issues instead of reverting the change. Those fast-follower changes are called 2EB promotes.
Occasionally somebody from business or product will ask what EB means.
We usually tell them it's "Emergency Bandage", we never tell them the truth

Mayube

Oct 11, 2024 15:18

@rydwolf that's absolutely what happened and you can't convince me otherwise

Mayube

Oct 4, 2024 20:10

@rydwolf Also related; I had a weird identity crisis a few months ago and described it as "There are 2 wolves inside me. One just found the other and realized it's actually an oversized otter, and now they're both confused on what to do about it"

Mayube

Oct 4, 2024 20:06

Deer population is growing out of control as a result, leading to local spruce populations dwindling, which is impacting the wellbeing of several native bird populations

Mayube

Oct 2, 2024 15:07

we just do everything from our work VM, within which we have admin access. Does suck though cos it means if I need something that interfaces with hardware I'm SoL

Mayube

Sep 13, 2022 19:01

the good news is I have 0 intention of ever running 3rd-party scripts of any kind, I just need my macro keyboard

Mayube

Sep 13, 2022 18:59

@pxeger oh yeah for sure, and AHK also installs itself at the driver-level for mice and keyboards IIRC, which is also a potential security risk as malicious software at that level could act as a keylogger

Mayube

Sep 13, 2022 18:56

@cairdcoinheringaahing hence the problem with blanket policies. ANY non-Microsoft software, no matter how reputable, no matter how endorsed by Microsoft it might be, must be audited by InfoSec

Mayube

Sep 13, 2022 18:53

@thejonymyster I never said it was unreasonable, it's just tedious

Mayube

Sep 13, 2022 18:50

We don't have admin access on our work laptops, so we need to get service desk to install software for us, and if it's not Microsoft software, it needs approval from InfoSec first

Mayube

Sep 13, 2022 18:50

@thejonymyster No, as in they have to look it over and make sure it isn't malicious and doesn't have any security flaws they should be concerned about

Mayube

Sep 13, 2022 18:32

The hoops we have to jump through when employees can't be trusted with tech

Mayube

Sep 13, 2022 18:32

speaking of office laptops, I'm currently wasting InfoSec's time getting them to audit AutoHotKey so I can get it installed on my office laptop.

Mayube

Jul 8, 2022 17:43

@WheatWizard oh boy, guess it's time to learn Haskell then :P

Mayube

Jul 8, 2022 17:42

how esoteric is it?

Mayube

Jul 8, 2022 17:42

why not?

Mayube

Jul 8, 2022 17:39

@WheatWizard you called?

Mayube

Jul 8, 2022 16:47

@mousetail that would be less than 1 bit per character, which we already established isn't a thing

Mayube

Jul 8, 2022 15:47

@thejonymyster the former has a real-world precedent

Mayube

Jul 8, 2022 15:29

what kind of encoding does Fig use?

Mayube

Jul 8, 2022 15:29

3.292 bytes??

Mayube

Jul 8, 2022 14:44

Happy timezone folks

Mayube

Jun 28, 2022 14:11

@graffe Highest voted question on CGSE ever. Only has "1 answer" split across 8 answer posts

Mayube

Jun 28, 2022 14:09

does it count if that one answer is split across 6/7 posts?

Mayube

Jun 26, 2022 20:32

@DLosc Stellaris, Endless Legend. Could probably argue that Factorio is a 4x game :P

Mayube

Jun 3, 2022 20:26

anyway it's quittin' time, so I shall see you folks on Tuesday o/

Mayube

Jun 3, 2022 20:26

which I also don't play much, but have played more recently than 5

Mayube

Jun 3, 2022 20:26

@DLosc oh that's pretty much the same as Civ6

Mayube

Jun 3, 2022 20:21

@des54321 um actually it's a reversed virgule

Mayube

Jun 3, 2022 20:20

@pxeger I'm not gunna remember that the next time I need a slosh

Mayube

Jun 3, 2022 20:20

@RadvylfPrograms No I didn't, it was a slosh

Mayube

Jun 3, 2022 20:19

tfw I didn't escape my own slosh

Mayube

Jun 3, 2022 20:19

I shall from now on exclusively refer to `\` as a "slosh"

Mayube

Jun 3, 2022 20:18

@DLosc not much of a civ fan, there are better 4x games. How does combat in Civ 5 work?

Mayube

Jun 3, 2022 20:16

C++ introduced classes, and it got the idea from smalltalk

Mayube

Jun 3, 2022 20:14

C doesn't have classes

Mayube

Jun 3, 2022 20:14

Wasn't smalltalk the first language to have "classes"?

Mayube

Jun 3, 2022 20:12

if C# is partially-blown Java, is TypeScript partially-blown JavaScript?

Mayube

Jun 3, 2022 20:09

@cairdcoinheringaahing I'm never wrong

Mayube

Jun 3, 2022 20:09

TNB

Mayube

Jun 3, 2022 20:08

@pxeger yeah, it's called C#

Mayube

Jun 3, 2022 20:06

@thejonymyster This is now my religious belief. We exist in a universe simulated in a rock-based computer built by Randall Munroe

Mayube

Jun 3, 2022 20:04

@cairdcoinheringaahing I appreciate the historical accuracy

Mayube

Jun 3, 2022 20:04

@mathcat you just said yourself; Scratch

Mayube

Jun 3, 2022 20:03

@pxeger Yes. British tanks even had water heaters in them for tea and bovril

Mayube

Jun 3, 2022 20:02

do the brits also need more water rations?

Mayube

Jun 3, 2022 20:01

@cairdcoinheringaahing wait for real?

Mayube

Jun 3, 2022 20:01

@cairdcoinheringaahing gotta look at which side Italy's on :P

Mayube

Jun 3, 2022 19:58

@Seggan I don't think lyxal's ego needs any more stroking than it already gets :D

Mayube

Jun 3, 2022 19:57

An amazon recruiter just emailed me... they tried to draw me in with a picture of their dog :|

Mayube

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