Posts by rskurat

Re: Rice-Davies applies

Odd, isn't it, that they can spend two or three years getting an MBA, and either never hear about Dunning-Kruger or the Peter Principle, or be utterly certain that neither one applies to themselves?

Re: Low quality coding

He appears not to understand the distinction between education and credential.

No doubt a Darwin Award nominee?

Re: In reality

I'm sure avocado toast pairs very well with a pint, so yes they're best kept secret

Re: Nobody tells students nothing

The media go on and on about how "tech-savvy" kids are. My arse. They know their phones and possibly some video or sound editing software. The end.

Re: Physics will still be applied

right, no VC money for seatbelts, not even a TED talk

Re: Gotta Feel sorry for the Dev

Here at a major US mid-market retailer, the developers design all the UIs. You can imagine how well that has gone. Intelligent people are incredibly stupid outside their area of expertise.

Re: It's worse than the antivaxxers.

exactly the opposite, they all drive 4-tonne SUVs because the safety of their little snowflakes is paramount. Screw you if you're driving a Fiat.

Re: Press CTRL-C before logging in

nowadays OG = "original gansta" but evidently OG has been in use for some time.

Re: Dolt

:Doctor, it hurts when I do this!"

"so don't do that."

Re: Shouty men...

I believe "jake" can be confidently identified as a Shouty Man. Best to just hang up the phone.

Re: Am I the only one who loves it?

projection, no doubt. They play online poker with their feet up all day so obviously you would too if you worked from home.

Re: Oddly

probably WordPerfect, my advisor and all his friends used it.

Ditto. Luckily we had vaxes at uni so command line wasn't a problem despite being a biochem major. Thank god for FTP and "3.5 inch floppies" - let's just take the jokes as given shall we?

Re: What Were They Thinking

Overeager grad student, overbusy supervisor, negligent reviewers. That is to say, US academic research business-as-usual.

When personnel stayed with a company for longer than 6 months, then yes it would be possible for the guard to know everyone. Now, not so much. Even at companies with low turnover, the guard himself is a contractor who's replaced in less than a year. Systems "Analysis" promotes efficiency, they say.

Re: Lightning strikes many times

Hope someone put the beancounter in his place (but somehow I suspect not).

Re: Science?

right - science journalism is an oxymoron

Re: "The buck stops here."?

that would be the '80s, when business school MBAs were taught that you didn't need to know anything about the underlying business, you just needed to know how to "manage" - dishwashers, banking, oil refineries, hospital management, it's all the same when you know Excel.

Re: Some people would argue....

the entire point to the existence of corporations is the evasion of responsibility

Re: Stalling?

Not going to convince many people inside the US either

in the US, Consumers Union has done the same. "Take the money and run" is the new 21st century work ethic.

Re: Not that quiet

Apparently the lessons and adverts are no longer given, then.

Re: Alternate system

The governance doesn't appear to be failing the governors.

Re: comforting innit.

exactly - a nicely orwellian-named "citizens notification service" charged at $1.99/month with weather & emergencies added as a figleaf

Re: Risk assessment

right: a spray can dropped from the height of a meter won't explode/puncture, while one run over by a robot or forklift very well might.

Re: came home absolutely paralytic

One of the several hats I wear is that of tutor to University & High School/6th Form students. About a third have admitted to having two accounts on social media platforms, an 'official' one and another for a dozen friends, at most. The Kids Are All Right.

Re: it's like Vertu only cheaper

Don't forget kale or quinoa

"The real war stories end up in the comments. The article only seems to serve as an air duster to clear the mental cobwebs away."

This is true at several websites I follow: Not Always Right, Clients from Hell, Off the Menu, etc. Not unique to El Reg.

Re: An "AI powered cooking assistant"?

Techbros live on takeaway and are baffled by cooking, as it requires the manipulation of physical substances.

Re: Riot outside my front door...

Your neighbors were the Palins, then? Pretty much anywhere counts as rural in Alaska.

I wish the US had ASBOs!

Re: Not happened to me, but...

Never say "I'll ask her" within range of alexa

Re: How much does it all cost?

... as it has been contrived to do. FTFY

Re: Advertising from mobile 'phones

That's what University is for: getting your own, non-parental mobile and no Mass from August to December.

Re: and to think...

Efficiency is not the goal of any (good) healthcare system, good health is. Staffing for peak load for a time slot means you don't have gurneys in the corridors.

Re: Not quite IT

I hope his job is currently worthless.