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Quote: : Report: IT jobs expected to get harder in hybrid work model
FTFY.
All the easy jobs are being replaced with robots and code.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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IT professionals need to realize that this is a rude wake-up call for them either shape up or ship out cause the CEO wants to move them to the cloud in the sky with no life always stuck to the front of the computer doing devops and coding debuging.......never leaving the house...only visiting the toilet to perform some primary operations...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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If you use a laptop and wi-fi, toilet breaks needn't be disruptive.
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Ever wondered how long it takes for a Windows Update to install? Well, you don't have to guess because Windows 11 will give you an estimate. It may not be accurate, but it will tell you
And by "may not", of course I mean, "almost certainly will not"
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It will probably be like the old NT4 file copy time remaining estimates.
-2,147,483,647 seconds remaining.
Kelly Herald
Software Developer
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Obligatory XKCD[^].
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It may not be accurate, but it will tell you
Much like the progress bar with a time estimate that stops at 99% and says "0 seconds remaining."
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"It will take ten hours!"
Oh, look, it only took two minutes, aren't we amazing?
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The Scotty algorithm.
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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forever....
by the time first update gets installed microsocks will release another update and so on
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The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence
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Ah, like the old days of copy windows. 1 minute, 40 seconds, 7 minutes, 12 days, 1 second, 1 hour...
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Bingo!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I don't want an estimation... I want a "I don't want this damned update" flag that is respected when set to TRUE by the user.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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Ah, the "good old days" of perpetually-vulnerable machines that could never be updated because the user decided they never wanted to install one update, which then prevents other updates that depend on it from being installed.
But of course, MS should have no problem correctly updating the infinite variety of installations caused by letting users pick and chose which OS updates they do and do not want installed, right?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Well, they could display a dependency graph of updates, with nodes labelled with different colors (e.g., red for a critical security update), also indicating which updates the user had blocked, so that better decisions could be made.
Actually, this isn't tongue-in-cheek for serious systems with knowledgeable administrators. We had live patching 40 years ago and eventually developed a system to track which patches were prerequisites for others, superseded others, and so on. The patching capability was so good that many customers asked for new features to be delivered via patch, as this allowed the short outage for a new software release to be avoided. Naturally, the yes-men acquiesced.
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If they were not rolling out unfinished / untested updates and using their use base as beta testers, overwriting user configuration in things that has nothing to do with security and things like that... I would not be missing the times of Win7 updates.
And note that I am not telling to have the computer un-updated, I have always had all the pcs in the family up to date but I have not installed 100% of what it was offered
You can't now discriminate the crap from the security updates and updates are way more intrusive than before and more than what I think it would be needed to do the job.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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modified 2-Jul-21 11:29am.
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I have once had an update start just as I was about to leave office at the end of the day, when it said "Please don't unplug your computer. Updates are getting installed", and this made me miss my bus back home.
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If the new system only has 2 values "5 minutes" and "5 hours" I'll be happy. Unexpectedly triggering a multi-hour biannual feature update and then having to chose between losing half a day of system use or power cycling mid-update and gambling that the recovery mechanism will work has been my biggest hate with W10's upgrade process since beating the random reboot while you're AFK feature to death.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Funk was a member of the "Mercury 13" group of women who underwent the same testing as NASA astronauts, but never went to space. Better late, than never?
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No offense intended... but will she survive it at that age?
On the other hand... kudos back then and kudos today too.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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Hard to tell from just that photo, but she looks like she's in better shape at 82 than I am (or ever was).
But yeah, major kudos for her, and good on Bezos for bringing her (one of the few good things I can think about with him).
TTFN - Kent
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Yeah, where are the space flights for out of shape nerds who can't even afford a GTX 3080?
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Animation is fixed, but is evidence of the typo still in the blockchain? I always knew there was something fundamentally wrong with the web
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Of course...
that price was only due to buy "the first", to have it error free costs another $2M
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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47% of respondents' organizations currently use the technology. Can't have bugs if there isn't any code, right?
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