Frau Blucher!

Personally, I find the concept of the Cybermen more chilling than the Daleks. At least the Daleks will kill you. The Cybermen will Cyber-convert you, condemning you to a life of servitude with no free will. Unlike Borgification, there's no reversing the process.

The jury is still out on the long-term durability of bi-fold screens. Looking at the folding mechanism for the tri-fold doesn't inspire confidence in me.

While not even the office dress code requires a shirt and tie, I still wear them when WFH, as well as smart trousers. At the end of my working day I change into casual clothes. That's how I delimit being "at work" and being "at home".

There's a certain irony to AOL dial-up being shut down in September, given they gave rise to the September that never ended.

I work for a software company in the UK. About six months ago, they laid off about 50% of the R&D dept with the idea that AI can do the development work instead. Then in recent months, they took the axe to the services and support teams with the idea that AI chatbots can answer customers' queries. We've seen support teams of 10 reduced to a team of 2. Some support teams are now down to one person, who are having to manage 100-200 tickets for the product they are responsible for. Literally no contingency there for holidays and sick days. Nor did they run any of the AI stuff in parallel with humans to see if it was as effective as providing ticket resolutions. Our customers were already getting pissed off at the declining level of support due to other non AI-related job cuts over the past couple of years; they're going to be really pissed off over the next few months and will probably start pissing off.

Sky TV are absolute bastards in that regard. Whenever they re-bid and won the rights to show Premiership games, they put up the cost of all their packages and not just the Sports package to cover the cost of their winning bid.

There are 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary, those who don't and those who didn't expect a joke in trinary.

Two languages I've used every day in my job for the past 30 years.

There were no dupes on the first page.

The one I use at work is at least 18 years old and still going strong. Sure, the silver coating has worn through in a few places, but all the buttons and the scroll wheel still work. I expect it'll still be working on the day I decide to retire, which is 10+ years away.

I hear you. I'd much rather have a season be 8-13 well-written, tightly-paced episodes than dragged out over 20+ episodes of which some are filler and barely advance the story.

"I am altering the deal. Pray I don’t alter it any further."

"Oh no! Anyway..."

Yes, but enough about Slashdot...