I think the concern is more around sensors that provide input, such "big object ahead"!!! Sensors like that needs some form of validation routine that says "I can still see stuff"

I wish I had a mod point for you.

Contract work is by the hour. If you're not clocking your hours and getting overtime, you're doing it wrong.

Without the almighty Google to guide us in our everyday life, we will falter and be led astray, fumbling blindly in the absence of readily available knowledge.

He didn't have access to Google when he was writing the summary to know which to use.

How will it be delivered?

I worked at a place for 7 years as a developer. I gave 2+ weeks notice. I was immediately bolted to another dev and we began the brain drain on getting that person (more senior) up to date on all my systems. I retained full access to all of the systems I had prior. I was removed from all new dev work and was a "reference point" for the remaining developer base for the remainder of my time.

A DBA at the same place left about a year after. He didn't make it back to his desk before he was given his boxes.He was paid to "not work" from home. Part of that was risk aversion, because of his production access and part of it was his everyday attitude.

If you show yourself to be low risk, you will be treated as such. It is in the company's best interest to siphon off as much knowledge at possible, but not at the expense of a disgruntled employee with production access. The comments about "locking file-shares and emails" was silly. If you are doing pre-delivery archiving and server file system level backups, you're doing it wrong.

I'm glad you realize that your are critical part of your offspring's development.

That was amazing. Thank you for protecting our future.

That'd work right up the point the new grounds keeper drove the lawn mower over the edge.

If the food doesn't stick, you can't get constipated (or fat).

2 problems:

The Business is a generic alias for "whoever" is doing the asking. It's a polite way to not point fingers at crazy requests.

It is usually those that have just mastered Excel for The Business that are causing the problems. I've seen Excel workbooks which referenced other workbooks and did queries against Access and SQL databases. I was amazed that it worked.

Excel spreadsheets are what "The Business" uses when "you IT folks" can't make a "reasonable" system that retains all data forever fast enough.

They didn't produce theirs.

well the opposite of God is...