Will it EVER END????? :wtf:

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Daft Punk - Robot Rock Next, Death Row Greatest Hits - The Shiznit Its a very unique collection with the only theme being "Random"

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It was going to a good day till you served low carb cupcakes :)

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[Backblaze Drive Stats for 2023](https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-2023/) report is my favorite to see what drives fair the best over time.

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Isn't part of the magic of travel the surprise. It helps to have an idea of where to go, but once you get there, if you've watched all the YouTube videos and explored all the blogs, do you really need to go there? Yes it will be new, but you'll be judging it against the eyes of somebody else that only showed the "perfect" side of it.

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I work for a small tech company. Sometimes we try to look cool. Our conference room started with a web cam and a long USB extension cord plus a long HDMI cable. This setup worked just fine and everybody understood it. Along came the board of directors and we had to get a YeaLink system[^]. There was abrasion at first, but I've grown to enjoy it. You forward a meeting to an email address attached to its PC and then you can use a touch screen device on the table to start a meeting. No need to bring a computer with you to a meeting unless you're presenting. This has been our status quo for a few years. Fast forward to current time and the board of directors has decided we need to be more modern. We now have the [Owl Labs Meeting Owl 3](https://owllabs.com/products/meeting-owl-3). This thing is a serious mess. To use it via your phone (cause there is not touch screen), you have to be on the same wifi network and install an app to start the meeting. On a laptop, you have to install an app and physically connect to a USB-C cable. In Zoom, you have to change your mic, speakers, and video to the owl. Then you have to go through multiple steps on the monitor to connect it wireless to the laptop. Anybody that had dealt with smart TVs knows there is nothing smart about this process. I guess I'm saying meetings are bad enough without needless tech making it harder to get started.

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I've often cussed out the idiot that did something stupid only to use Git blame and find out that I'm the idiot :-\

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I remember buying a pair of headphones from Corwin on Amazon. I didn't like them and provided an honest 3 star review. The seller reached out and offered me free product to switch the review to 5 star. I lowered it to 2 stars and called out this practice which pissed them off via the additional pleas to change it. Rate inflation is crazy, but people do anything for free stuff they don't actually want.

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There is a reasonable balance between documenting something and the overly detailed documentation that is likely to get out of date. I like the "here is a new thing and here is the general pattern of how it works" type of documentation. Code comments are reserved for "I know this is stupid, but users." And references to Kelly Clarkson to make the other devs laugh when they read my code. We have to have some fun around here.

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Never trust documentation. There is no guarantee the last developer updated it when they changed the code. You can read it as a guide. So trust, but verify.

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That is like asking if 9 women can have a baby in a month :laugh:

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I graduated in 2000. I started my freshman year going for a Computer Science degree. After barely passing my math class my first semester, I transferred to the Computer Information Systems degree. I was fortunately that my university offered both. My CIS degree had no additional math requirements. There is a need for both degrees and 24 years later, I'm still slinging business software. The most difficult math I have to do is finding the weighted cost of an item in a shopping cart when applying a credit. I'll never take a job writing gaming engines or tracking real time objects, but I'm okay with that.

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Back around 2006, I was integrating DHL into the shipping system I was working on. I had a large certification process to go through with DHL. There were multiple instances where I sent a question to DHL about a certification step I couldn't pass with the details. Response was almost always, we'll update the certification steps with the correct answer. That was my first experience with DHL and I wasn't impressed.

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Its not that easy... I had a project that had been in prod for many years with simple string.split processing on a CSV. This was arguable a cheap and dirty approach that lasted about 8 years. Boss came along and said we had to fix it for a customer. A Co-worker came in and abhorred the cheap and dirty approach. Refactored a TON of the code to do the correct CSV style processing with a tried and true nuget package. Unfortunately his correct method also came with a bug that didn't get caught till late in testing. I asked why he didn't just import the Microsoft.VisualBasic DLL (we're a C# shop) that would have done the parsing with close to 3 lines of code changed. Complaint was about cheap and dirty. Yeah, its one example, but refactoring for pretty and "correct" only works if its correct. We need to replace cheap and dirty with fast with some debt. There is a time and place to just get it done. It takes an experienced dev to recognize this and to just get it done when the time is right.

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I prefer WinForms still. It is such a fast way to deploy new apps. Rather than worrying about how something looks, I just used the standard interface and get to writing the code which was the whole point of opening Visual Studio.

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I've got a neighbor feeding the strays. I can't leave my suburban street without seeing 3 cats every time I come and go. Most I've seen from one place was 18...

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The title is misleading. Should say "For the Coffee Snobs". I drink coffee every day, but its just a bit of Folgers and I'm quite satisfied.

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But do you have sausage with your eggs?

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I spent 1 year at a large company and went crazy waiting for work and then approvals when I did do said work.This is why I only work for small companies (less than 100 people but preferable 25 ish people). When you hardly have enough revenue to pay the people that are there, everybody has to work and do multiple things. You learn more when there is nobody else to do the work. When a company gets to big, I'll move on to somebody that actually needs me.

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I was frustrated when I pressed the "X" on a window and then had to select a drop down button of close. I can't imagine what this could be useful for so other than that small feedback, I'm of no use. Now I'm gonna go work so I can play outside this afternoon.

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