The 'do your job' guy wasn't somebody I worked with. He was somebody who used to be a friend (until it turned out he was a sexual harasser and I stopped talking to him)
He was trying to commiserate with me about shitty IT departments.
Me: "God, 99% of IT people are shitty."
Him: "I know right? My IT guy gave me pushback when I requested a bigger hard drive."
Me: "Oh really? How big?"
Him: "Does it matter?"
Me: "Well, kinda. What sort of dev work do you do?"
Him: "Does it matter?"
Me: "Yeah, it matters. We don't fulfill hardware requisitions unless they're justified."
Him: "You should! That's your job! Your job is to give me the hardware I need to do my job. Just do your job! That's all I ask. Do your job."
Me: "Sure, but we need to make sure you actually need it first, which means getting a justification for the requisition."
Him: "The justification is that I asked for it. I shouldn't need to explain my job to IT just to get the hardware I need."
Me: "Um. Okay. We're just gonna have to agree to disagree there. I'm gonna... um... go refill my drink."
If someone can't even string together a single sentence about like "because the damn git repo is 400 gigabytes" or some such they don't deserve a new HD
At my job, I have folks in marketing who edit advertisements. They do Adobe After Effects work on video files, and they might edit a few hours of footage into a 30 second spot. After Effects requires 3D acceleration, and video files are enormous of course. So no sweat, three or four lines in a requisition request saying that, and these guys get discrete Nvidia GPUs, i7 CPUs, 16GB RAM, and 4TB HDs. No big deal. Just work with us a little.
And every once in a blue moon, I encounter somebody (either at my workplace or outside of it) who is just like "No! *folds arms* Give me what I want, computer slave."
Arguing with people that don't know what I do about the specs I need has been like half my career.
Is it really even arguing if somebody asks why you need it and you tell them fuck you
The 'do your job' guy wasn't somebody I worked with. He was somebody who used to be a friend (until it turned out he was a sexual harasser and I stopped talking to him)
He was trying to commiserate with me about shitty IT departments.
Me: "God, 99% of IT people are shitty."
Him: "I know right? My IT guy gave me pushback when I requested a bigger hard drive."
Me: "Oh really? How big?"
Him: "Does it matter?"
Me: "Well, kinda. What sort of dev work do you do?"
Him: "Does it matter?"
Me: "Yeah, it matters. We don't fulfill hardware requisitions unless they're justified."
Him: "You should! That's your job! Your job is to give me the hardware I need to do my job. Just do your job! That's all I ask. Do your job."
Me: "Sure, but we need to make sure you actually need it first, which means getting a justification for the requisition."
Him: "The justification is that I asked for it. I shouldn't need to explain my job to IT just to get the hardware I need."
Me: "Um. Okay. We're just gonna have to agree to disagree there. I'm gonna... um... go refill my drink."
If someone can't even string together a single sentence about like "because the damn git repo is 400 gigabytes" or some such they don't deserve a new HD
At my job, I have folks in marketing who edit advertisements. They do Adobe After Effects work on video files, and they might edit a few hours of footage into a 30 second spot. After Effects requires 3D acceleration, and video files are enormous of course. So no sweat, three or four lines in a requisition request saying that, and these guys get discrete Nvidia GPUs, i7 CPUs, 16GB RAM, and 4TB HDs. No big deal. Just work with us a little.
And every once in a blue moon, I encounter somebody (either at my workplace or outside of it) who is just like "No! *folds arms* Give me what I want, computer slave."
Arguing with people that don't know what I do about the specs I need has been like half my career.
Is it really even arguing if somebody asks why you need it and you tell them fuck you
Are you suggesting that "because Illustrator go chug chug" isn't a good enough answer?
The 'do your job' guy wasn't somebody I worked with. He was somebody who used to be a friend (until it turned out he was a sexual harasser and I stopped talking to him)
He was trying to commiserate with me about shitty IT departments.
Me: "God, 99% of IT people are shitty."
Him: "I know right? My IT guy gave me pushback when I requested a bigger hard drive."
Me: "Oh really? How big?"
Him: "Does it matter?"
Me: "Well, kinda. What sort of dev work do you do?"
Him: "Does it matter?"
Me: "Yeah, it matters. We don't fulfill hardware requisitions unless they're justified."
Him: "You should! That's your job! Your job is to give me the hardware I need to do my job. Just do your job! That's all I ask. Do your job."
Me: "Sure, but we need to make sure you actually need it first, which means getting a justification for the requisition."
Him: "The justification is that I asked for it. I shouldn't need to explain my job to IT just to get the hardware I need."
Me: "Um. Okay. We're just gonna have to agree to disagree there. I'm gonna... um... go refill my drink."
If someone can't even string together a single sentence about like "because the damn git repo is 400 gigabytes" or some such they don't deserve a new HD
At my job, I have folks in marketing who edit advertisements. They do Adobe After Effects work on video files, and they might edit a few hours of footage into a 30 second spot. After Effects requires 3D acceleration, and video files are enormous of course. So no sweat, three or four lines in a requisition request saying that, and these guys get discrete Nvidia GPUs, i7 CPUs, 16GB RAM, and 4TB HDs. No big deal. Just work with us a little.
And every once in a blue moon, I encounter somebody (either at my workplace or outside of it) who is just like "No! *folds arms* Give me what I want, computer slave."
Arguing with people that don't know what I do about the specs I need has been like half my career.
Is it really even arguing if somebody asks why you need it and you tell them fuck you
Are you suggesting that "because Illustrator go chug chug" isn't a good enough answer?
Seems like its probably good enough / equivalent to "After effects requires acceleration and video files are enormous "
The 'do your job' guy wasn't somebody I worked with. He was somebody who used to be a friend (until it turned out he was a sexual harasser and I stopped talking to him)
He was trying to commiserate with me about shitty IT departments.
Me: "God, 99% of IT people are shitty."
Him: "I know right? My IT guy gave me pushback when I requested a bigger hard drive."
Me: "Oh really? How big?"
Him: "Does it matter?"
Me: "Well, kinda. What sort of dev work do you do?"
Him: "Does it matter?"
Me: "Yeah, it matters. We don't fulfill hardware requisitions unless they're justified."
Him: "You should! That's your job! Your job is to give me the hardware I need to do my job. Just do your job! That's all I ask. Do your job."
Me: "Sure, but we need to make sure you actually need it first, which means getting a justification for the requisition."
Him: "The justification is that I asked for it. I shouldn't need to explain my job to IT just to get the hardware I need."
Me: "Um. Okay. We're just gonna have to agree to disagree there. I'm gonna... um... go refill my drink."
If someone can't even string together a single sentence about like "because the damn git repo is 400 gigabytes" or some such they don't deserve a new HD
At my job, I have folks in marketing who edit advertisements. They do Adobe After Effects work on video files, and they might edit a few hours of footage into a 30 second spot. After Effects requires 3D acceleration, and video files are enormous of course. So no sweat, three or four lines in a requisition request saying that, and these guys get discrete Nvidia GPUs, i7 CPUs, 16GB RAM, and 4TB HDs. No big deal. Just work with us a little.
And every once in a blue moon, I encounter somebody (either at my workplace or outside of it) who is just like "No! *folds arms* Give me what I want, computer slave."
Arguing with people that don't know what I do about the specs I need has been like half my career.
Is it really even arguing if somebody asks why you need it and you tell them fuck you
Yep. The bar I'm used to is super-duper low. Is it plausible? Can you talk about it intelligently with your boss in the room (or in the Slack conversation) for 15 minutes? Alright, you get what you're asking for.
The thing though is most of the people I work with are in teams, so it's not just going to be you - it's going to be you and six of your coworkers.
I'm going to steer the conversation away from "Does Doodmann need a 4TB hard drive" to "Does Doodmann's team need 4TB hard drives?" which means I'm also going to end up talking to your boss at some point.
Like Riemann said above, if the justification is "the damn git repo is 400 GB" then I'm going to ask, "Okay, who else needs a local cache of that git repo?" and then they're all going to be lined up for HD upgrades. The good news is that this 15 minute conversation might have bought new hard drives for six or ten or 100 people, depending on the size of your team and the other particulars of the situation.
If your justification is some one-off unique snowflake thing, and I talk to your boss and your boss says "yeah, he's is in a unique role, nobody else on the team does the same work he does," I'm not going to argue, I'm going to give you what you're asking for.
The goal isn't to be stingy with money. The $100 hard drive for one person isn't worth the time to have long protracted meeting about it. A half-hour meeting about it has already exceeded $100 in lost wages & overhead. The goals are twofold: first, to cut down on squeaky wheel syndrome. If you get a 4TB hard drive but the other people in your group don't, then that's unfair to them and they'll start putting in their own requisitions for other random shit. The second goal is to standardize hardware. When we have 1000 identical computers, we get efficiencies of scale from that. If we know that the 1-year failure rate of SSDs in that batch of 1000 is 10%, when we know to purchase 100 SSDs per year. Our helpdesk learns the signs of SSD failure and can diagnose it rapidly. We can also onboard people more rapidly, because we can get them the spec they need before they start. Even the weird problems get fixed faster - if one motherboard dies, we probably have a replacement motherboard in inventory already from an unused computer. Or we just give you a same-spec replacement computer entirely. If it's 900 identical computers of spec A and 100 identical computers of spec B, then you've made things a little less efficient, but not by much. When you have 900 identical computers, and 100 unique snowflakes each with their own hardware specs, then those 100 unique snowflakes end up burning a disproportionate amount of troubleshooting time
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every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
What actually brought the above example to mind was that when Microsoft started using git for source control a while back they found git just couldn't scale to the amount of code and number of engineers involved in the legacy codebase for windows. If someone was starting from scratch then of course there would be ways to organize the code such that it wouldn't need such a single giant repo but this is the part of windows codebase internally called "the swamp". All the backwards compat / legacy stuff that has evolved over the last 30 years.
So Microsoft re-architected git to scale several orders of magnitude beyond the previous largest use of the product. Which is now the version of git most people use.
At the time they just bought every single engineer in any way connected to windows development a new 1tb ssd hard drive. So maybe 10,000 of them?
What actually brought the above example to mind was that when Microsoft started using git for source control a while back they found git just couldn't scale to the amount of code and number of engineers involved in the legacy codebase for windows. If someone was starting from scratch then of course there would be ways to organize the code such that it wouldn't need such a single giant repo but this is the part of windows codebase internally called "the swamp". All the backwards compat / legacy stuff that has evolved over the last 30 years.
So Microsoft re-architected git to scale several orders of magnitude beyond the previous largest use of the product. Which is now the version of git most people use.
At the time they just bought every single engineer in any way connected to windows development a new 1tb ssd hard drive. So maybe 10,000 of them?
The legacy situation sucks but it sounds like the modern response was the best they could do in that situation short of burning it all down.
every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
What actually brought the above example to mind was that when Microsoft started using git for source control a while back they found git just couldn't scale to the amount of code and number of engineers involved in the legacy codebase for windows. If someone was starting from scratch then of course there would be ways to organize the code such that it wouldn't need such a single giant repo but this is the part of windows codebase internally called "the swamp". All the backwards compat / legacy stuff that has evolved over the last 30 years.
So Microsoft re-architected git to scale several orders of magnitude beyond the previous largest use of the product. Which is now the version of git most people use.
At the time they just bought every single engineer in any way connected to windows development a new 1tb ssd hard drive. So maybe 10,000 of them?
The legacy situation sucks but it sounds like the modern response was the best they could do in that situation short of burning it all down.
Yeah. Every year various teams chip away at the swamp and modernize bits here and there but its a slow process.
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If astrology was real then it would've been in the bible
I don't see Jesus asking someone if they're a Taurus, do you?
If astrology was real then it would've been in the bible
I don't see Jesus asking someone if they're a Taurus, do you?
There's a bunch of references to divination or signs based on stars / constellations in the Tanakh (aka old testament). That's probably part of the Babylonian influence on a lot of the writing.
But I don't remember anything like the kind of nonsense of modern astrology assigning people traits based on the date of their birth.
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Is there anything worse than repeatedly refreshing the covid test results page to find out if you can go back to work in the morning?
"I will write your name in the ruin of them. I will paint you across history in the color of their blood."
Lowered the amount of stone required to Raise ground using the hoe
Nice
Yup but a very double edged sword as all of the old tricks about raising ground no longer work
There's some weird side effects with the hoe update and the new terrain system as a small lump of ground in my fort that just wouldn't lower grew to about four times it's size (and also can't be lowered) when I had the audacity to touch it with the edge of the hoe's leveling ground circle.
Not the end of the world, but certainly annoying.
If win32s shit still works outside of an emulator ten years from now we deserve the alien invasion and subsequent glassing.
I know apple has convinced people that it's ok to completely ruin backwards compat and require people to re-purchase software (or just go screw as old software is never updated) every 2 years but it doesn't work like that for windows
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TNG season 1 is amazing and it explains SO MUCH of The Orville
Like they just put Data through Starfleet, knowing nothing.
That's so insane even in a peaceful future
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If win32s shit still works outside of an emulator ten years from now we deserve the alien invasion and subsequent glassing.
I know apple has convinced people that it's ok to completely ruin backwards compat and require people to re-purchase software (or just go screw as old software is never updated) every 2 years but it doesn't work like that for windows
Slightly hyperbolic but touche.
That said, sometimes 20 year old shit doesn't need to run on the core OS if it keeps you from being able to move tech forward. Emulation and VMs are right there.
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Also Data's nips can cut glass. They should have programmed him a t-shirt under that onesie.
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Is it really even arguing if somebody asks why you need it and you tell them fuck you
Are you suggesting that "because Illustrator go chug chug" isn't a good enough answer?
Linux Admin RiiiiIIIICK!
Time to watch some TNG and check excel boxes different colors as servers are patched and try not to be too inebriated for government work
Seems like its probably good enough / equivalent to "After effects requires acceleration and video files are enormous "
Nice
*looks at [chat]*
Hey I started off believing in astrology
The Monster Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickinson
Steam: Korvalain
Ridiculous. Everyone knows it’s Sagittarius.
Yep. The bar I'm used to is super-duper low. Is it plausible? Can you talk about it intelligently with your boss in the room (or in the Slack conversation) for 15 minutes? Alright, you get what you're asking for.
The thing though is most of the people I work with are in teams, so it's not just going to be you - it's going to be you and six of your coworkers.
I'm going to steer the conversation away from "Does Doodmann need a 4TB hard drive" to "Does Doodmann's team need 4TB hard drives?" which means I'm also going to end up talking to your boss at some point.
Like Riemann said above, if the justification is "the damn git repo is 400 GB" then I'm going to ask, "Okay, who else needs a local cache of that git repo?" and then they're all going to be lined up for HD upgrades. The good news is that this 15 minute conversation might have bought new hard drives for six or ten or 100 people, depending on the size of your team and the other particulars of the situation.
If your justification is some one-off unique snowflake thing, and I talk to your boss and your boss says "yeah, he's is in a unique role, nobody else on the team does the same work he does," I'm not going to argue, I'm going to give you what you're asking for.
The goal isn't to be stingy with money. The $100 hard drive for one person isn't worth the time to have long protracted meeting about it. A half-hour meeting about it has already exceeded $100 in lost wages & overhead. The goals are twofold: first, to cut down on squeaky wheel syndrome. If you get a 4TB hard drive but the other people in your group don't, then that's unfair to them and they'll start putting in their own requisitions for other random shit. The second goal is to standardize hardware. When we have 1000 identical computers, we get efficiencies of scale from that. If we know that the 1-year failure rate of SSDs in that batch of 1000 is 10%, when we know to purchase 100 SSDs per year. Our helpdesk learns the signs of SSD failure and can diagnose it rapidly. We can also onboard people more rapidly, because we can get them the spec they need before they start. Even the weird problems get fixed faster - if one motherboard dies, we probably have a replacement motherboard in inventory already from an unused computer. Or we just give you a same-spec replacement computer entirely. If it's 900 identical computers of spec A and 100 identical computers of spec B, then you've made things a little less efficient, but not by much. When you have 900 identical computers, and 100 unique snowflakes each with their own hardware specs, then those 100 unique snowflakes end up burning a disproportionate amount of troubleshooting time
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
I like to think it's just a different kind of hellscape. They are both equally bad in their own unique special ways.
So Microsoft re-architected git to scale several orders of magnitude beyond the previous largest use of the product. Which is now the version of git most people use.
At the time they just bought every single engineer in any way connected to windows development a new 1tb ssd hard drive. So maybe 10,000 of them?
Yup but a very double edged sword as all of the old tricks about raising ground no longer work
The legacy situation sucks but it sounds like the modern response was the best they could do in that situation short of burning it all down.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Yeah. Every year various teams chip away at the swamp and modernize bits here and there but its a slow process.
I don't see Jesus asking someone if they're a Taurus, do you?
Yeah but you can't raise the ground 20 meters from the ocean floor in one click anymore.
but they're listening to every word I say
There's a bunch of references to divination or signs based on stars / constellations in the Tanakh (aka old testament). That's probably part of the Babylonian influence on a lot of the writing.
But I don't remember anything like the kind of nonsense of modern astrology assigning people traits based on the date of their birth.
The Monster Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickinson
Steam: Korvalain
If win32s shit still works outside of an emulator ten years from now we deserve the alien invasion and subsequent glassing.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
Good at 69 maybe?
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
There's some weird side effects with the hoe update and the new terrain system as a small lump of ground in my fort that just wouldn't lower grew to about four times it's size (and also can't be lowered) when I had the audacity to touch it with the edge of the hoe's leveling ground circle.
Not the end of the world, but certainly annoying.
I know apple has convinced people that it's ok to completely ruin backwards compat and require people to re-purchase software (or just go screw as old software is never updated) every 2 years but it doesn't work like that for windows
Like they just put Data through Starfleet, knowing nothing.
That's so insane even in a peaceful future
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
Slightly hyperbolic but touche.
That said, sometimes 20 year old shit doesn't need to run on the core OS if it keeps you from being able to move tech forward. Emulation and VMs are right there.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
no, because your job will be like "oh, no results yet? come on in!"
just like my job
federal government, babyyyyyy
pisces are very emotional
you probably cry after sex
or during
or before
"oh my god, it's going to happen!"
*crying during*
"oh my god, it's happening
*crying after*
"oh my god, it happened."