there was a tendency for MUCH worse surprises to be included.

Yeah, like strange unreleased Weird Al tracks with sex and drugs references… Every spoof was labeled weird Al back in 2000

Listen to Baz Lurhman’s “everyone’s free to wear sunscreen”. And I mean listen to it. Every single line is true.

The right honourable, Sir Cunt?

Mother fucker! I nearly broke my tongue just trying to pronounce that in my head

That’s with the mindset that I wouldn’t want to stay long at a job like that

Oh I concur, but elsewhere OP mentioned that the job pays a rather unskilled (OP mentioned having an A+) 20 year old 55k USD, and OP is getting certs as well. In that case I’d seriously be working on my STFU-skills, instead of meddling in something that my boss really wants me to stop meddling in. Maybe do a bit of CMA - but not to the extent of emailing my boss to get a paper trail.

When you’ve been in an organization for only three months, and it’s your first job in the industry, maybe just absorb what’s happening instead of trying to change stuff. Make up your own opinions, sure, but keep them to yourself. Maybe evaluate on how you perceived situations, and how they played out, and modify your views based on that.

OMG the naming schemes for powershell is enough for me to stay away. A +20char name for a command that shares the first 10 chars with 15 other commands, so you can’t just tab through it? No thanks!

Will look into nushell though, thanks for the advice.

It’s your first IT job and you’ve been there for a few months? While your safety concerns definitely can be relevant my advice is this

You should

1. Don’t rock the boat as a new hire. Figure out what is going on first. Maybe there’s a reason to some of the madness you see.
2. Do NOT contact the owners. Doing so will likely be seen as disloyalty by your boss and possibly the owners as well. Only go through your immediate superior.
3. Don’t bring it up again with your boss. It’s not your responsibility.
4. Leverage the user. Let the user be the one to push for a system switch.

You could

1. Figure out if you can get the system on a separate VLAN and get it locked down in firewall rules.
2. Research the system. Why don’t your boss want it replaced? Does it run some ancient software? We’ve got some machinery that is running windows 7 at work. When I got hired, in the days if windows 8, the controller was running windows XP. The setting up of drivers and archaic proprietary software, involved in upgrading, is immense. When we switched to 7 this €60k equipment was down for days, and it was a week before it operated properly.

I guess that the technology shouldn’t be deployed indiscriminately. But it could also mean a better hit ratio, since distance and speed is more accurately recorded with radar, than by naked eye.

We as in the people who don’t want to get fucked by Putin next. Check out the name, not an American.

The cheap kamikaze drones present a new strategy which we don’t have a viable long term counter for. As well do the swarms of drones. Relatively inexpensive autonomous defense systems, using inexpensive ammunition, seems like something we could use around important infrastructure elsewhere in Europe, as well as in Ukraine.

Agreed, but seeing as the Ukrainian defense forces are already doing this manually, why not optimize it?

Do what I do, plan for porn, fastfood and beer. In reality you buy a six pack of your old brand, then drink half a beer with a large cheeseburger. Get queasy from the burger and fall a sleep before you manage to play with yourself. Wake up to find that the dog ate your fries and got diarrhea, which you slept through on account of the beer. Now clean up dog diarrhea with hangovers while swearing that you’ll never drink half a beer.

LPT: disable the roomba before sitting down, and make sure that the dog has been walked…

Embedded engineer, working in education. I use 3 for mental estimations and whatever is stored in the calculator, I have happened to grab, for “precision” work. Sometimes I’ll even round pi to 4, to build in some tolerance when calculating materials.

Exactly! How else would I get to preface a comment with “anal” in uppercase? I need an acronym that includes “penis” or “boobs” and is annoying to pedants. Maybe it could be CPENIS for “Caution: Pedants Exasperatingly Nitpicking In Stubbornness”, and it’s pronounced “see penis” so it’s even dirtier.

IANAL, but I watch a lot of legal eagle on nebula.

It’s about research capacity. Finding applicable case law can take a fair amount of time. Maybe less with AI, unless you start citing the AI case law https://duckduckgo.com/?q=AI+generated+case+law, but you need to know how other cases went, if you want to create a successful strategy for your own case.

Thank you for telling why I’m wrong :)

I agree with you partly on your first point. Putin has other ways of making his fortune. BUT that doesn’t mean that he couldn’t also do this. Maybe it’s not the primary reason, but if Putin doesn’t care about Russia or the Russian people, then money could be a motivator.

On your second point IDK though. Russia still has a pretty large black sea port in Novorossiysk to the south east of Crimea. That port is on the mainland, has a rail connection, and doesn’t rely on an explosion prone bridge. Sevastopol may be an important port, but important enough to go to war over? Besides, the black sea ports aren’t the only warm water ports west of the Urals. Not counting the unconnected port in Murmansk, on the Baltic sea there’s Kaliningrad and the three large ports near Saint Petersburg. On wikipedia’s list of largest ports in the Baltic sea, the three at Saint Petersburg are in the top four.

So why go to war for a fifth port? Was Novorossiysk operating at capacity? I dont buy it. The war wasn’t for a path to Sevastopol alone.

Update: it would seem that people disagree with me, fair enough, but perhaps somebody would care to tell me what is wrong with my theory?

Original comment:
I’m going to try with a crazy conspiracy theory(but the crazy ones are the more entertaining ones, right?):

Putin’s investment in the western defense industry drove the invasion of Ukraine to stimulate European NATO countries’ military investments.

Reasoning:

1. Russia’s actions towards Eastern NATO countries and the invasion of Ukraine could be strategic moves to encourage European NATO nations to bolster their military investments.
2. Sweden and Finland’s potential NATO membership could further incentivize their procurement of NATO-aligned weaponry.
3. Other Western European countries are already allocating significant resources to military investments.

Considering Occam’s razor, is it simpler to assume Putin, heavily invested in the defense industry, initiated conflict for profit, or believe in complex internal political motives?

I’d maybe try youtube music, if google didn’t force it down my throat. But when I can’t uninstall it without rooting my phone. Or when I’ve got Spotify already setup, and then have to specify that I want to use it on my home devices. That’s just annoying.

Me: ok google! Bedroom lamps color red, bedroom lamps intensity 30% and play Diana Krall the look of love on the bedroom speakers

Google: Playing The Look of Love by Diana Krall from youtube music, but first listen to these ads before you get your freak on

Two things

1. Overwriting existing text
2. Some legacy scheduling software I use at work, where ctrl+ins inserts the copied day for a given coworker. Useful if you need to swap days in the schedule and a coworker has 3 different classes in as many rooms, and in some classes there are students from multiple courses. It’s archaic, but it saves time.

You can take my ins from my cold dead hands!

Was that the one where he enlarges Jennifer Anniston’s boobs?