Posts by Evil Auditor 2630 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Jan 2009
Sometimes this is not even required. As in a former life when I learnt about the company being sold. There was a non-private appointment in the boss' calendar which took place off-site and involved the CEO, CFO, L&C, and a law firm specialised in M&A... (And yes, my access to that calendar was licit)
Pointy-Haired Boss: "I want our data and stuff in the cloud."
"But... it already is?! We use Azure for this, AWS for that, and PhantasiCloud for all the rest."
"Okay, and where is it, I mean physically?"
"Well, there's one data centre in Ohio, another location in the Netherlands, and and and..."
"No, you don't understand (are you stupid, or what?), I want it IN THE CLOUD! My golf/fsck/whatever buddies tell me that they all put there stuff there and it's much better. So put it IN THE CLOUD, no matter what it costs!"
"M'kay, I'll see what I can do..."
Why didn't your friend use theirs?
Moderately experienced pilots tend to be at highest risk of jumping the checklist.They are certainly no beginners anymore and develop an overconfidence: "I know what I do!"
What it was in this case, I certainly do not know but I really wanted to reply to a dog replying to a cat.
That was, unfortunately, many years before Youtube.
But here you'll find the Investigation Report, see section 1.5.1.4.2 Unintentional retraction of the landing gear on the ground on page 24. And yes, that report was not about the unintentional retraction but about the unintentional touching the ground with sudden deceleration done about ten years later by the same pilot.
Absolutely. One of the best things is when someone phones and wants to bring their business because of a recommendation. All we have to do is not to fsck up. Well, and if something goes pear-shaped, fess up and correct.
It also goes the otherway: when I stop doing business with crappy clients and put them on our black list.
Microwaves, the ESA notes, operate at a non-ionizing frequency that won't cause cellular damage
The dead cat in my microwave oven tends to disagree. Seriously though, 2GW spread over 10 square kilometers is in the same order as regular solar radiation on European soil, on a sunny winter day. Or did I miscalculate something here? I'm slightly underwhelmed by the fact that this microwave beam wouldn't even heat my porridge.
In June 20191582, Oracle announced the university was moving to the Cloud.
Funny that even more than 400 years ago this sentence would have made some sort of sense. Mind you, uttering that back then might have caused terrible consequences. Terrible as in: thrown in the loch with hands and feet bound to see whether you float or drown.
...if "Zero COVID" is indeed an effective policy...
As Fr. Ted Crilly very accurately quoted 1984China's Communist Party Book, it's been decided long ago that the policy is indeed effective and therefore it is. That is the truth and anything else is ridiculous and implausible and who says otherwise is obviously insane and will be treated in suitable institutions for their own good.
...I would have thought it was an impossible target.
As it turns out, and China keeps demonstrating, it is an impossible target. The problem (i.e. one of the problems) there is, the governing structure is unable to admit a mistake and must continue with whatever inept decision was taken in the first place. Anyhow, this is obviously only my totally unfounded opinion, and see icon.
HDMI to DisplayPort cable (which I have no recollection of acquiring) that snakes a short distance from the PC's second HDMI port to drive an ancient Dell 13" LCD monitor (that I do recall acquiring in 2002 or 2003)
DisplayPort's not a typo on the front page, but some sort of typo nevertheless.
You may be right. And no doubt, it did play a part amoungst some Tory members. Although, I'd like to believe his losing against Truss was mostly because of his involvement in BoJo's exit. Anyhow, I was more referring to what I heard -or rather didn't hear- in public debate during his campaign.
I had been positively surprised that Sunak's origin and colour of his skin weren't an issue during his "ramp-up"* to become PM. I even caught myself thinking what a mature society this is. Well, and probably it's again only my very limited perception, now I get the impression that left and right it's always been a big issue, just kept under the rug for a little while - anything for «look, how feckin progressive we are!» to «we're never going to win the next general election with a non-white boy as PM».
* yesterday, we could clearly see that he wasn't fully operating yet. Sure, reading capabilities were up and running. But not much else. SCNR
Only reading this, the pain kept creeping back into my index finger - a numb finger from feeling a button that seems to be pushing back with increasing strength, And slowly losing the sense of how much of a push is really needed to keep the button pressed....
Yes, been there, pushed that, and simultaneously heard «DON'T!!!» It wasn't the NHS though, only some local server for the CAD. What I cannot remember though is whether is was a colleague or my own brain who shouted the «don't».
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