Back in the 90s I was sysadmin for about 16 Sun workstations. I was supposed to do this in my spare time, worked out to 10-20 hours a week. I tried to get offsite backup but management refused to either pay for the tapes or a company to store them. So I managed the tapes such that I did a nightly partial backup, a weekly full backup, and every month I took a weekly tape home.

They laid me off, saying I couldn't meet deadlines reliably. By the same guy that had a habit of giving me sysadmin work when I was busy with "real" work on a tight deadline.

Sure enough, 3-4 months later I get a phone call. Seems their new sysadmin, a person who didn't know squat about Unix nor backups but did it in their spare time, had managed to lose the source code. She knew I'd been taking monthly backups home and asked if I still had the tapes. I looked at my bookcase with a couple months of backups and said "nope, I threw them away".

They've got long hours because there aren't enough controllers. If they can get the number of controllers up where it should be they can work 40 hours, or possibly even 30.

I guess that rules surgical robots right out.

I don't get a small popup, I get a disabled screen with the message "install the app to continue using reddit". The only thing I can do is hit the back button.

by forcing them to use an app and then wonder why they don't come back. I refuse to install an app for McDonalds, Wendy's, Pizza Hut, and any other site that works just fine in my web browser Every app is one more source of trackiing, advertising, and attack envelope.

They added a bunch of shit I don't care about, and made the damn thing slower than snail snot on Valium in winter to boot. It also seems to have started streaming the Roku channel when I think it's turned off. Several times I've turned it on only to see a movie streaming.

How's that "let's not let anyone sell advanced chips to China" working out for you? From where I sit it looks like not so well.

Bash, Makefiles, and Perl are things I got really good at 3-4 times in my career, only to forget how to use them until the next time I needed them several years later.

Can you tell I retired almost 20 years ago?

the bribes have been paid.

He's not just not collecting data, he's spending money to actually remove the buoys that collect the data. If you don't measure it then it's not happening (MAGA 3:16).

My favorite all time winner got the "Worst abuse of the rules" consisting solely of #include "/dev/kbd"

When it comes to string theory I'm not ashamed to admit I'm too dumb to understand, And I was a math major in college (40+ years ago).

Asks the bartender for a drink. Bartender says "I'm sorry, we don't serve strings in here". String leaves, ties himself into a knot, rubs himself on the ground, walks back into the bar and asks for a drink. Bartender says "Hey, aren't you that string that was just in here?" "Nope, I'm a frayed knot".

I don't even know what MongoDB is but, thanks to Slashdot, I have a very negative opinion of it.

RIP Live365. I loved that site. Got the Lazarus treatment a few years back, nothing like the original.