“There are hundreds of people on this train, and thousands more at the next several stops, but none are as important as meeeeeee!” /s
ETA: poster idea – You’re Not Superman. You Can’t Stop a Train.
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Ok, the plea for replacing my Cellulo Asado with Una Computadora is up.
I’m on my knees…
https://bbs.elsewhere.cafe/t/kellys-work-computer-hail-mary/2054
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Flashy at the end, but good response to movie metallurgy:
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You’d think that would be the kind of detail they’d get right; after all, film studios have entire departments dedicated to casting.
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Lindybeige is a gift to YouTube (loooove his video about what swords and knives really sound like coming out of a scabbard), but LOTR and GoT (and Conan, and and and) are fantasy stories which have precious little to do with actual history or technology, medieval or otherwise.
Anyone who says “that’s how out was back then” in relation to GoT or any other fantasy story deserves to be laughed at.
Me, I go Lindybeige-level apoplectic over costume anachronisms. Usually over crocheted items in non-fantasy films set CENTURIES before crochet was invented (18c). Or “peasants” wearing items which are considered lower-class now but would have been for the upper classes in the temporal seeing of the film. Or people wearing stuff that was virtually unknown in that part of the world during the temporal setting (lookin’ at you and your chunky knits in the 18th century, Outlander).
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And maybe, if you’re making a mithril sword, casting is the best option, but, fantasy setting or not, casting one side and not the other isn’t a good option.
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I’m at the clinic, waiting for my test results. Of course the only remotely accessible space, for me, with my disabilities, is the stairs. And the security comes around and kicks me out of the stairs. I’m supposed to wait in the official waiting areas, with the migraine-inducing pain-screens, and the migraine-inducing pain-chimes for the elevators, and the eye-burning and throat-burning cleaning fluid fumes.
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Roped into another all day “Design Session” where my input is in no way needed. It is supposed to be the entire week, but other than Monday, my presence is “optional”
I. Do. Not. Wish. To. Engage. In. This. Discussion.
My opinions on this phase of the project are neither unique nor required.
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Can you slip out the back and play hooky?
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Step 1. Engage the right people.
(I usually have the opposite issue, where I set up a meeting for a few SMEs and half the company shows up, “just in case” or “so they know what’s discussed”).
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My main issues are people who say, “I love your style” and proceed to micromanage the painting I’m doing, or “Take your time”, and then pester me every two days.
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I finally did. Almost rage quit, but managed to just close my laptop, unplug my charger and walked out the door.
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I spent the entire commute home attempting figure out what I could have “brought to” or “taken away from” this design session.
Most of it was “this is how the vendor does this element of ITIL”. Okay. Yep, that’s a workflow. I can’t argue that. Yep, you’ll be pulling data from the SQL DB I manage. Yep, I assumed you had some method to do so. Great. And then it was down to the minutia of how forms will route and what fields will be shown and what is default.
If I had nothing else on my plate and had been part of this from the start (6 months ago) I might have been a valid and willing participant, but just because you’ll be using some of my data in this stage, doesn’t mean you need to drag me (or my people) into this. Just tell me what Service Account I need to let to have access and we are cool.
Corporate America will be my death.
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Database applications are the fucking worst. Don’t give the users (the people who actually need to use the thing) what they need, which is to peruse and modify the data, run it over RDS so that whatever functions you give them function in the shittiest way possible, make it a third-party app so we have to fight for licenses and with our bosses who are invested in the shitty software company…
Software sucks in late capitalism and it gets worse every year. Our only entertainment is to play bro-coder-bingo.
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80% CRUD and 20% reporting (although that 20% may be 80% of the work and value), that’s no different than 30 years ago. But we have to keep adding more layers, making it more complex, and using new technology to do the same old things.
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…And never fixing shit.
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Then when there is an update that ‘fixes’ things, it makes things much worse. Example from last week:
(I’m glad I don’t work with node/npm. 
Although we have our own ‘updates will break everything’ debacle, it’s nowhere near that bad.)
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This is what caused me to jump ship in 2001 then coast to 2006. I think openSUSE is gud. I hope.
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Something the opposite of grinding my gears, but not quite triumphant enough to merit a post in Victory! :
During my lunch break I had to run a few quick errands; on my way back to the office I saw a young man who must work for some catering company or another, because he had one of those rolling food service carts. And he was giving away leftovers to the homeless, which is a sign of pure awesomeness in my book.
I decided to give him some positive reaffirmation for doing something good; I attempted to give him ‘dap…’ only to find out that he didn’t really know how.
So I grabbed his hand and showed him the simplest one; down, up, fist bump. (Don’t ‘blow it up,’ though; that’s just extra.)
The irony of having to show a 20-something (who slightly looked like Dave Franco) how to give a proper ‘pound’ is not lost on me.
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It’s 11:45. I want to sleep. I am tired. I am in a lot of pain. But the southeastward neighbor has decided I get EVEN MORE PAIN instead of sleep.
P.S. It’s 12:09. STILL MORE PAIN.
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