that bleak feeling when the customer says “I exported all orders and only got 2 orders instead of many, why??” and you can see his screenshot where he set a very specific filter for which orders he wanted to export
This talk was really fascinating:
“How Ukraine’s largest bank performed disaster recovery in the beginning of the full-on war, 2022”
Oleksiy Zayets, Head of IT Infrastructure, Privatbank
@eater
Haha, yeah, one of the first projects I inherited at work used a table to display three tabs with rounded corners, and when you clicked one of the tabs, it fired off a single $(...).addClass().next().removeClass().next().next().next().addClass()...
statement that had probably 30 .next() calls chained to each other, it was wild.
> emperor penguin populations in the Antarctic are suffering catastrophic losses, with no chicks surviving the spring of 2022 in four of five colonies observed for a new study
Mitch McTurtle stands at the podium, its eyes boiling in the camera lights, willing its neurons to unfreeze its body, but it can’t. Not without your help. And you’re not helping. It’s okay, neither am I. Nobody is asking “Why”. Everybody knows why.
If I had some spare time, I would probably compare Zoom’s ToS to Microsoft Teams’ ToS.
Gotta wonder if Teams has been making some tin can learn from my clients’ conversations.
@nf3xn
They advertised AI-driven improvements to call quality a year ago, maybe the ToS wording at the time was wiggly enough to cover this :/ Or it might be the case that people did raise a proper stink at the time and it fell off the radar two days later…
In 1968/69, two Conferences on the nascent topic of Software Engineering were held in Western Europe, organized by the NATO Science Committee.
These conferences produced, among other things, my favourite longform shitpost of the 20th century. You might also know it as Tom Simpson’s “Masterpiece Engineering”.
@srfirehorseart@dcoderlt The full quote is "The customer is always right in matters of taste", which is something else again. Leaving off that last bit has caused all sorts of headaches and misunderstandings.
@nf3xn@dcoderlt For russia to get a unanimous vote from all member nations, they will have to do a lot of reforming.
To start, they will have to give back the land they are occupying to Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia.
I'm not saying that Russia should be let in, but, give Russia a long list of requirements, like a functioning democratic government, international oversight, etc.. as a condition to enter.