RedFrank24

Well… Kinda depends on what you mean by ‘neighbour’. For a time, the natives were neighbours to the Canadians, and they didn’t exactly have the best of times with their new neighbours.

You’d think IT would be able to look at the team and job title and skip the script though, or even just read the description of the ticket.

I wish that applied in my workplace, where the IT staff treat you like a regular user every single time and go through their little scripts when you’re clearly telling them what the actual issue is, you just don’t have permissions to fix it.

For example, when debugging containerised .net applications through Visual Studio and Docker Desktop on a Windows system, there’s a Powershell script called GetVsDebug which gets you the files you need to debug, since they aren’t included in the installation by default. Normally, if you have admin rights on the machine, it’ll just run that script quietly, get the files and you’re set. In my workplace, Powershell scripts are banned from running from anything that doesn’t have admin rights, including Visual Studio, so it was failing to run every single time.

IT told me to restart my PC, asking me what Visual Studio was, asking me to get a link to it on the Company Portal, trying to get my to re-install it. They even offered to get a new Laptop when I was outright telling them, “None of that is going to work. The issue is that this software doesn’t have the permissions to run powershell scripts”, but nooooope… In the end I just went looking for the script and ran it manually using my own admin privileges and from now on I only ask IT to do something if it is literally impossible for me to do it myself. Other devs are going to have the exact same issue in the future but I’m not going into that mess again.

I want to enjoy Idiocracy, but there’s this undercurrent of eugenics in there that I’m not ever so fond of…

Well he’s hardly gonna take a trip across the Atlantic to solve your problem for you, is he?

My dad has a pretty straightforward approach to Americans these days: They’re the enemy. Every single adult US Citizen is the enemy, no matter what side of the political spectrum. Americans have the power, they have their precious 2nd Amendment to get rid of Trump, but choose not to use it. By not doing anything, they’re complicit.

Tiny bit overboard if you ask me, but I can definitely understand calling for disassociation with the US, pulling all critical systems away from US companies. I would also suggest threatening to stop respecting all US copyrights just as a middle finger. It’s now completely legal to steal any intellectual property from an American company. Distribute official cracks for Adobe Creative Suite, why not?

The only times I’ve seen devs do inline comments in their code is when it’s been done by AI, and I can tell it’s AI because the comments are all useless and describing what’s happening, not why.

Technically Vader never once destroyed a planet. Tarkin gave the order to destroy Alderaan, no planet was destroyed until Force Awakens, by which point Vader was already dead.

I wish I could say the same. I didn’t get into programming for the money, I got into it because it was the only thing I was any good at and generally wouldn’t discriminate against me because of my disability.