I worked in a heavily regulated industry. Everything required a manual test. Let’s say you have an employee ID that is 10 digits long which they use to log in. You had to have some else (couldn’t be the developer) to write a series of tests, get those tests approved by 5 people(with specific titles) then a third person to execute the test, then the second person had to write a report saying it all passed, then that report had to be approved by the same 5 people.

That typically wasn’t the delay. The delay was to execute the tests we needed to stop production. That typically was a 6 week wait(unless urgent for “reasons”) and changes like “I will drop scrap by 83%” was typically told wait till July 4th or Christmas breaks. Why? Because production would be down for 3-4 days typically. Someone had to start the system, ok no entry produces error, executor and developer have to sign a physical paper, restart the whole system, now an entry of 1 digit produces an error, sign the form, repeat for all digit quantities up to 9, repeat for all digit quantities up to the choosen value(based on severity if an issue occurred), 2 people sign for each one, system restarted between each. If you had say an enter button and a cancel button each had to be checked for each quantities of digits. Oh but wait what if someone just types there name… Now repeat everything for alphabet values… What if someone does combination, more tests, more restarts, more signing.

Reports easily surpassed 1000 pages, no one really had time to check all that so I saw so many missed signatures and missed tests. I asked the “senior validation expert” can I just automate a lot of these tests using unit tests and attach a computer generated report of all tests passing and the source code of the tests? " the response I got was" what’s a unit test? "they still don’t use any of them to my knowledge.

Just use a normal power strip to power things in a natural disaster, or prepare proper and properly hook one up.

I had a cheap generator. I plugged in an extention cord through the window, into a powerstrip with the fridge, modem and 2 sockets to charge devices. Worked perfectly when I needed it but I also had a kerosene space heater so I wasn’t too concerned about freezing(bring all blankets into the living room, build a blanket fort atleast 6 feet away from the space heater and have everyone cuddle, calms people down, provides warmth and forms bonds.

Usually this are associated with Christmas lights… What’s the rush? Do it right this weekend instead of hoping you have time next weekend and you don’t burn down your house in the meantime

Ah that makes sense

That is true. Lovelace and Margaret Hamilton are both great women in computing. Arguably up there with babage and turing but not nearly as well known.

What’s TBI?

Why does all of trump’s “peace deal” just equates to “give the aggressors what they want”?

Actually only two “witches” were burned, about 70% were acquitted and almost the rest were hanged. That’s atleast true in England, don’t know about the figures for the US.

As evidence of the computers comment here’s Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_(occupation)

Long ago I think it was 2006, I worked in a computer store/corporate it support that used to also be a 56k dial up isp. When i first got hired it was supposed to be like a paid internship. 2 weeks in the guy “mentoring” me was fired. Only other employees was the owner was had a PhD in information technology from 1984 and never kept up and his wife who did the accounting.

Over the next year he hired and fired probably 15 people and then decided he liked me enough to make me full time. He had no idea what he was doing and neither did I. Basically I was responsible for 8 business networks(including a 150 employee credit union), any computers a customer brought in, and our own internal network.

One day it was slow so I was browsing various web comics. The owner comes on at 1030(we opened at 900) furious with me. He claimed I was “reading a page with black text on a white background” which meant I was reading how to operate a spam business. That was his proof, a page with black text and a white background which he could not find my history.

He had received a letter from his isp that we were sending 2.5 million emails a day, we had 72 hours to resolve the issue or we were to be cut off. I argued that I didn’t run a spam operation, he had no proof and there were simpler explanations. It got so heated I quit, keep in mind I was only employee.

Next day the credit union was having a server issue and he had no one to fix it. He called me asking for me to return, I negotiated a $1 hour raise, an official written letter of apology, pay for time the previous day and that day and told him I would be back the following day.

I went in, solved the server issue(eventually found out cleaning crew was unplugging the power strip to plug in their vaccum over night and the server was configured not to restart when power returned). Went back to the office and talked with the owner. He showed me the letter and it identified 2 ip addresses as being the source. Neither was my computer and I didn’t recognize them. There was a command you could send over the terminal to open the CD tray based on ip address. I ran the command and basically walked around looking for a computer with open CD trays.

Turns out there was 2 servers, outside of our firewall directly facing the internet and yes for the memes they were originally dns servers from the 56k isp days. They were running original nt4, completely unpatched, with no security software installed and permanent outside facing ip addresses. I ran a virus scanner on it, I stopped when it detected over 100k infected files. Disconnected the servers, waited 10 minutes, called isp and effectively all email had stopped (the boss and myself both sent 1 email to confirm it was still working).

The first computers were mostly women so… (originally being a computer was a profession which basically meant being paid to do calculations.)

Before that we even had “the thong song”… Still trying to figure out what “she got dumps like a truck” is supposed to mean.

Actually music from the late 90s, early 2000s was filthy… What’s your fantasy… Push it… It wasn’t me… Back that ass up… Slow motion for me…

Depends… Wait if it involves depends that a whole other fetish.

I asked that question a few weeks ago. My understanding is either it’s claiming two things are equal when they are not (something like "BMW… Family Toyota van… And pretending to weigh them in your hands) or comparing two things that are equal but self depreciation humor that you’re bad at math(like the old six on one hand half a dozen in the other but with self depreciation thrown in)

From the times when I was younger…

68 is you do me and I owe you one. 71 was 69 with 2 fingers in the ass. I guess 70 would just be training…

I got a Nobel prize… Now people have to knock on my door

Look… We don’t allow liquids cause they may be explosive, so put your possible explosive with all these other potential explosives in the busiest and most congested and concentrated area of this airport…i think I may of found a flaw in this plan

Yes… That’s the joke. I doubt anyone plays a rpg by mail either…

I play by mail so it’s damage by strike…do you have another meaning?

Make it have an insanely high damage, like 50, 000 dps but since he soon learns a sword is useless if you can’t swing it. Bonus points if he gives up his primary weapon to get the up sword so when he learns it’s useless he has no weapon