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Fresh gripe for new thread: The app I work on searches a client's data for bad things, which it flags as "violations" of internal best practices. The client sometimes complains to us that we've found false positives in our weekly reports. Only they don't use the term "false positives". They say "false flags". Subject: False Flags 1/3/2023 "Hello! Happy Monday!  I would like to share that our latest report has 4 false flags, with the following details..."I guess because they heard the term on the news, but ... I just keep wanting to butt my way into the client conversations and be all like NO PLEASE STOP USING THAT TERM, YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT IT REFERS TO. gently caress But that's not an in-my-lane kind of thing
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Ah yes, the orange note
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 There was also a version of the printer queue dock icon that if you clicked on it just said "Stop Jobs" and I was like 
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Weedle posted:when i was a small childe using windows 95 i thought the "illegal operation" error meant i was in huge, huge trouble and might go to jail Same except all the customers at the small-town ISP that I worked support at
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door.jar posted:Some ancient software (niche industry "SharePoint" type thing) I was using back in 2012 had components that super users could create and these could have further nested components. When you tried to delete the very top level component that existed you would get a browser alert of "Are you sure you wish to delete this component? It will destroy all your children.". Ah yes, "zombies killing their children", what a fun artifact of computing in a certain era that we had to explain about our jobs to our families That ISP that I mentioned working at, the owner was this dude with a really weird prankish sense of humor, the kind we all knew we should do our best to keep from having any contact with customers but we could never really bring ourselves to intervene because it was always just really funny to see him loving with customers, some of which even deserved it. One time our SunOS DNS box lost its mind and had some kind of runaway system process that resulted in name services breaking for all our dialup customers (who were all dialing in to our rack of US Robotics Courier modems at 33.6) and nobody could get to anything on the Internet. We were fielding all kinds of calls from bewildered little old ladies and explaining as best we could that we were experiencing technical difficulties, in between me and Jim, the owner, frantically trying to figure out how to restore named to its previous working condition. In the middle of all this, while the rest of us are all juggling phones in both ears at once, the phone next to the DNS machine (where Jim is flailing away on the keyboard watching processes and trying to restart services) rings, and he snatches it up. We only heard his side of the conversation: "Hello?" "...." "Yes, we're working on it." "..." "Named turned into a zombie process." "...??" "NAMED TURNED INTO A ZOMBIE PROCESS." "........" "Thank you." He hung up, and I stared at him, and he stared at me. "Well, it did!""
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"Um, I want to know if we have a particular software package.." "Which package is that?" "Uh, B-A-S-I-C it's called." >clickety clickety d-e-l b-a-s-i-c.e-x-e< "Um no, we don't have that. We used to though.."
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Feb 13, 2023 12:19
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:ms teams logs mouse movement for whatever reason I'm sure it's purely for benign reasons Like making sure that if you're idle it won't send you any notifications to that device. I'm on two different laptops and logged into Teams on both, and if a meeting starts or someone sends me a message it only shows up on the one I'm using, but then if I jiggle the mouse on the other one all the notifications suddenly come through in a flood. It's extremely strange and unnecessary
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Apr 26, 2023 18:50
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Everything Teams does is insane. It's like they said, hey let's make Slack, except every single individual little feature? Make it about 30% worse or more annoying
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That's happened to me before, fairly recently. Company was imploding rapidly and of a backend team of over 20 when I joined, I was the only senior one left by the time they did the final cull. I was the only one left who had any historical knowledge of how anything worked. But the two just-joined junior devs under me, they survived. So it was all about how much person X costs, evidently. Glad to hear you got the additional context that ought to help put your mind more at ease.
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I'm  'ing from a big fintech soon and  June 8 can't come soon enough. 87 and counting
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On the plus side I get to hear from EVERY SINGLE PERSON where they are based and who has an illicit WFH exemption that they are proudly talking about as a way to inform everyone that they are not based in Chicago "Everyone, please do not Reply All" *hits Reply All*
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Xerol posted:Who exactly is using the blackberry in 2023? It says right there, ______________________________ 200 and counting, not slowing down. So many "me too"s I feel like I'm right back in AOL-influx Usenet
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I was going to say: "I disagree, I think we should all reply more" At least some people are having fun, like "only if you're delivering food to Delaware" and "Will there be a keto option??" (that one was in earnest though lol)
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Maybe if the new stuff of today actually had anywhere near the relevance and impact of the stuff that was solidifying in our time. Oh you have THREE blockchain apes? That’s impressive kid, sounds just like when you could suddenly chat with people around the world or when all the knowledge of humanity was made available for free
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Oh hi US Robotics Sportster, haven’t seen you in a minute
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Yeah I was gonna say. At what time did you have in mind Like ... ImageWriter II era maybe
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The Delta gates at the airports all apparently still use dot matrix printers stuffed into wall cubbyholes, I noticed on my trip last week
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Place a small dog at your feet like a king of old
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Will they take "goons"?
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Nov 14, 2023 19:52
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Dr. Ian Gibbis, your time has come
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Nov 14, 2023 20:12
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Portland just got a little cooler.
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Nov 18, 2023 06:43
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Doing floating point math in Javascript, smh Amateur hour for decades
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GreenNight posted:You kidding? it's gonna rain and fucker will electrocute you. That's what happened in Bored of the Rings
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klosterdev posted:Every time you nod off the implant zaps you Every 5 minutes it pops up an AI-generated quiz on the last 5 minutes of content oh god I just manifested this it's too easy
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kensei posted:Aka Windows 12 Now now, we can't expect them to break the "no more than 2 consecutive versions of Windows may have the same naming scheme EVER" pattern. It'll be Windows Psi or Windows Neptune or something
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Feb 3, 2024 17:30
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Reminds me of a video or meme I saw years ago where someone was commenting about something they saw in the big long ingredients list on a bottle, they said "So I'm reading this bottle, I'm scrolling, and I come across ___ ...."
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sfwarlock posted:I mean, they're moving/using stuff that's not theirs without permission. That counts as twocking in my book. I'm sorry it cracks me up that this is a thing
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Feb 28, 2024 15:55
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"The Homer" rear end keyboard. You can never find return when you're mad!
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They would if they were big enough
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Can't NOT read it in the voice
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pyf widely deployed infra passwords
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I once got interviewed by one of those. In a conference room, on-prem. The interviewer was in Turkey.
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sudo show results with sausage
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Volguus posted:Well, Netscape came with all those applications (mail, IRC, and who knows what else). Netscape 5 being a shitshow, Mozilla was made. Mozilla too came with all those applications. Then one guy got fed up with all that bloat and took out just the browser and released Phoenix. Which became Firebird because Phoenix was used by someone. Turns out Firebird was too, so Firefox it was. That was a wild few months when that poo poo went down, felt like the world was ending
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90 days from now, they'll be brandishing that postit in your face: IT'S BROKEN FIX IT
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"Person in charge of product versioning for Microsoft" sounds like the kind of ironic job they would give you in hell.
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Bone Crimes posted:Post your favorite (derogatory) Microsoft product names (current or old) : How about  
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It was always wild because Word and Excel for Mac were every bit as old as the Windows (and DOS) versions, going back to the earliest days. It's not like the OS X versions were completely new products that were playing catch-up on feature parity.
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