They probably have to recite a standard company line, gritting their teeth as you both know it’s bullshit.
I don’t envy customer service reps. Most of them probably didn’t apply for the job because they love Microsoft or enjoy the prospect of fielding frustrated customers’ calls.
We had that some time ago with a service account for a specific system where individual personal accounts weren’t (yet) feasible. The credentials were supposed to be treated with confidence and not shared without the admins’ approval. Yeah, you can guess how that went.
When the time came to migrate access to the system to a different solution using personal accounts, it was announced that the service account password would be changed and henceforth kept under strict control by the sysadmin, who would remotely enter it where it was needed but never hand it out in clear text. That announcement was sent to all the authorised credential holders with the instruction to pass it on if anyone else had been given access, and repeated shortly before the change.
The change was even delayed for some sensitive reasons, but eventually went through. Naturally, everyone was prepared, had gone through the steps to request the new access and all was well. Nobody called to complain about things breaking, no error tickets were submitted to entirely unrelated units that had to dig around to find out who was actually responsible, and all lived happily ever after. In particular, the writer of this post was blissfully left alone and not involuntarily crowned the main point of contact by any upset users passing their name on to other people the writer had never even seen the name of.
I use them as short term bookmarks, split into topical windows.
One is a bunch of articles on a blog that I wanted to read during my hour-long commute, two windows are for two different APIs I’m trying to work with for a hobby projext, one for a bunch of documentation pages for different features of different modules of the language I’m using. One is for various entertainment pages I’m using at home, where fast WiFi offers a better experience for watching videos and streams and such.
It’s perfectly possible to juggle those windows, and once I’m done with one of the APIs or the blog or something, I can just close the window to get rid of the tabs. It’s a convenient way to keep things open for either quick access or later reference without having to
or having to constantly navigate back and forth between different parts of the API and language reference and blog subpages.
So no, I’m not too dumb to close tabs, I simply have a different workflow. I don’t understand why you feel the need to insult people over enjoying something you don’t get, instead of trying to learn why it’s useful to them. Is there a particular reason to get offensive here?
Nobody thought it would become nearly as important as it has become.
This is why I’m wary about all the quick and easy “temporary” solutions I’m building because I don’t have the time to do it properly, and pushing hard to replace them with a more solid permanent one at any chance. I’m already mortified at the idea of someone proficient ever looking at any of it in the inevitable event of it becoming a long-term fixture.
For those unfamiliar with the magic behind this, the rough outline goes like this:
++ is an operator to increment a number.
The string 'a' can’t be incremented, because it’s not a number.
++'a' thus evaluates to NaN (Not a Number), which in turn is converted to the string 'NaN'.
The string concatenation expression is thus equivalent to 'b' + 'a' + 'NaN' + 'a' which evaluates to 'baNaNa' and is then lowercased to 'banana'.
(You could get more pedantic about the exact evaluation mechanisms and order, but if you’re proficient enough to make sense of that, you probably didn’t need the explanation in the first place)
“I spent an excessive amount of time having fun to produce a few seconds of footage for another thing I do for fun” - sounds like the average Gaming Content Creator’s ideal pastime
New Backronym:
Admirable
Sound
Meeting
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I’d actually put forward Engels before Marx. Much more easily digestible, at least in my opinion.
You can acknowledge both that NATO has imperialist tendencies and that Putin is a capitalist oligarch pig. It doesn’t have to be either or. Not everything is black and white.
It’s easy to mistake in-depth topical knowledge for general intelligence and knowledgeability, both in yourself and in others. Most topics are far more complex than a superficial examination could ever hint at.
Hell, cognitive biases of knowing more about a given topic than you actually do are a studied phenomenon, and it would be unwise to assume anyone - including ourselves - to be immune to that. There are even several relevant XKCDs about it.
They might have artificially augmented the training set with such things in an attempt to communicate “Look, even ChatGPT thinks it’s not reliable”.
(If you’re about to point out that ChatGPT doesn’t think, you probably didn’t need to be told that in the first place)
They’re great at showing up where there’s nothing left to save
Mycology is the study of mushrooms. I’m guessing they give you two bits of mushroom, one from a lethally poisonous one. If you can tell them apart (or get lucky) you get to join the club.
What, the code is made up by the number of consecutive spaces, delineated by tabs, line feeds, carriage returns (which have different semantics from line feeds) and non-breaking spaces?
Right? I’ll just open the “go to line” box, enter 1 and boom- I’m there.
Or I’ll click the filename.ext:1 in the IDE’s console to jump to the right line. Super convenient not having to scroll vertically anymore.
Bananas aren’t uniform in length, unlike a fixed standard. Metric is more convenient in scientific or mathematic contexts where conversions are much easier to make with it, but there’s nothing disqualifying Imperial from being uses as a general system for measuring distance.
And before you dunk on me for being a dumb American, I’m German. I’m just also not a moron nor an asshole with a misplaced superiority complex over something as trivial as units of measurement.
Unless you wanna talk about MM/dd/yy, stick to the public transport topic. You had a valid point there before you smeared it with stupid shit.
European here, we’re not all like that. I do think the metric system is better (not least because I’m used to it, probably), but I’m not about to use “hurr durr u so stoopid using imperial” as an argument in a conversation about privacy and the unfeasibility of using public transport in a system where that infrastructure is clearly deficient.
That guy’s a cunt, but don’t generalise that any more than you’d want me to generalise Bush to be the average US-American.
…until they’re all too old to use safely.
Have any actually sustainable advice too?
Our system wasn’t quite as critical, thankfully, but the app owners failing to respond to “Hey, by the way, your service account for your data base is gonna be closed” is just gross negligence. My condolences that you had to take the brunt of their scrambling to cover their asses.
For all the complaints I may have about certain processes and keeping certain stakeholders in the loop about changing the SQL Views they depend on, at least I acknowledge that plenty of people did heed the announcement and make the switch. It’s just that the “Oops, that mail must have drowned in my pile of IDGAF what our sysadmins are writing about again. Can’t you just give me the new password again, pretty please?” are far more visible.