vrek
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- Comment on Libraries are cool 1 hour ago:
Yeah, my previous employer had shutdowns on the week of July 4th and Christmas so the production operators on contract(aka not paid for holidays) could volunteer to help in the counts.
I was curious if libraries have a similar system…
- Comment on Your job is going to fire you for an unexcused absence. So you send them a pic to prove that you are in the hospital 2 hours ago:
One time I was sick. I was stuck in the bathroom rotating between sitting and kneeling. I called my team lead and said I couldn’t come in and I was taking a sick day.
He responded by claiming I was lying and was not really sick. I responded with a picture of the toilet bowl after several rounds(unflushed).
He responded with “get well soon”
- Comment on Libraries are cool 2 hours ago:
Out of curiosity do you have a routine to periodically (annually, quarterly, I don’t know) to re-arrange books put back in the wrong place?
- Comment on Brazil President Bolsonaro has been arrested. Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting 11 years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷 7 hours ago:
Oh so Brazil actually has consequences for politicians…
- Comment on Brazil President Bolsonaro has been arrested. Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting 11 years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷 8 hours ago:
Asking out of ignorance, what exactly did he do?
To be clear I’m not saying he didn’t do anything wrong, or that there is a justification. I literally just don’t know what he was charged with.
- Comment on now kith 1 day ago:
You end up with a kid?
- Comment on How to test if the internet is working as expected.. 2 days ago:
I’m really trying to make a udp joke but you may not get it
- Comment on Ever go back to your old job just to visit friends and see THIS? 3 days ago:
I always thought about what it would be like to work at the unemployment office… Get fired… Next day you have to go back and be like “good morning Sheila, can I get a copy of form 2431-b please?”
- Comment on I got a sneak peek at the Epstein Ballroom before it opens!! 3 days ago:
Damn accountants and health and safety destroying all our fun…
- Comment on So now that it's that time of year again in the US, what are some tips and tricks for dealing with that one relative who goes on about the same bullshit for hours and won't shut the fuck up? 3 days ago:
Even more fun… Ask random unrelated questions until they break…
What was the horsepower of a 1971 horsepower?
Where did the “curiosity killed the cat” come from?
What is the square root of 144?
How many moons does the earth have? (this is fun because it’s anywhere from 0 to 1 to 2 to many depending on the definition of moon of which there is no formal definition)
- Comment on So now that it's that time of year again in the US, what are some tips and tricks for dealing with that one relative who goes on about the same bullshit for hours and won't shut the fuck up? 3 days ago:
How to admit you are from the Midwest without directly admitting it…😉
- Comment on I got a sneak peek at the Epstein Ballroom before it opens!! 4 days ago:
I hate creating a association between these people but…there is a xkcd for everything… xkcd.com/150
- Comment on Stupid sexy raft 5 days ago:
True, maybe didn’t create the concept but definitely expanded it
- Comment on Stupid sexy raft 5 days ago:
Fun fact a lot of people, including myself, believe the invention of reality TV was actually the writer strike in early 2000s. Basically TV writers went to the producers and said “you make all these millions and only pay us this small amount when we are the reason people watch these shows”. The producers basically said “fuck you we will make TV shows without writers”
That created reality TV in America and panel shows in the UK.
- Comment on When you wake up, how long does it take for your brain's "OS" to "resume from hibernation"? 5 days ago:
Yeah my mother forced him to contact her when she was pregnant with my sister. My mother felt my grandmother deserved to know she was going to be a grandmother.
- Comment on When you wake up, how long does it take for your brain's "OS" to "resume from hibernation"? 6 days ago:
Funny story, there were problems with his paycheck in the military and would get checks of like 10 cents. His mother got diagnosed with leukemia and he made a deal to forgive all the unpaid wages to get out a year early to care for her. He got out, came home, found out his mother had his horse…“fixed”. He didn’t talk to her again for 10 years.
She ended up living longer than he did.
- Comment on When you wake up, how long does it take for your brain's "OS" to "resume from hibernation"? 6 days ago:
I will say he died in '99 and this occurred in the early seventies so I have no evidence. It was just what I was told and I know was definitely in the military in Vietnam so…
- Comment on When you wake up, how long does it take for your brain's "OS" to "resume from hibernation"? 6 days ago:
My dad was almost court marshelled over that. He was in Vietnam, active war time, his lieutenant thought it was a good idea to wake him by shaking him and yelling. His first reaction was to wake up swinging and punched his liutenent. They tried to charge him with hitting a superior officer but was let off as technically under military law you are not responsible for the first 5 seconds of being awake.
- Comment on Cities: Skylines upheaval: Developer and publisher announce “mutual” breakup 1 week ago:
Wait… Who plays these games on console? I feel they need the mouse to have any sort ability to control.
- Comment on What's a 'common sense' thing that you genuinely don't understand, and have been too embarrassed to ask about until now? 1 week ago:
This isn’t everyone but it’s partially the Peter principal… Basically people get promoted till they are incompetent.
Let’s say you run a manufacturing plant. You have a team of 10 people but 1 is far better. They are quicker and cause less mistakes so you decide to promote them to team lead.
They are a good team lead. They share knowledge and help out in between so you promote them supervisor.
They are a decent supervisor, monitoring the workers, good communication etc. You promote them to manager.
They suck as a manager. Can’t keep track of inventory, quality is slipping, quantity produced per day is dropping. You can’t really demote them that’s not really a thing in most companies. You can either stick with a crappy manager or fire them. Either way you lost your best operator. To make it worse they have “manager” on their resume now so a lot more likely to get another manager position at a different company where they will also suck.
- Comment on Just how? 1 week ago:
I would let my dog shit there but just wouldn’t pick it up(I clean up after my dog everywhere else)
- Comment on If they need to post THIS it's probably not a place you want to go to 2 weeks ago:
Like I said on the response it’s like six on one hand half a dozen on the other just with poor math skills
- Comment on If they need to post THIS it's probably not a place you want to go to 2 weeks ago:
Yeah I get that but it’s has some meaning. Like it could be the number of some sport star or a reference to some show with a hero team with 67 in the name or could be even darker like with the number 88…
- Comment on If they need to post THIS it's probably not a place you want to go to 2 weeks ago:
Ah like “six on one hand and half a dozen on the other” but purposely with bad math?
- Comment on If they need to post THIS it's probably not a place you want to go to 2 weeks ago:
I’m getting old, what are s 6/7?
- Comment on Research shows research is the leading cause of research 2 weeks ago:
I went onto the Google and searched for it…
I didn’t get the answer I wanted so…
I researched it…
- Comment on Portland Launches Antifa Operation in New York With Special Agent 'Breakfast' Leading OINK-tel Command 2 weeks ago:
Why does the headline have nothing to do with content?
- Comment on You just had to ask that question 2 weeks ago:
To make it worse it was in a medical field…in production for atleast 7 years… To my knowledge still isn’t fixed…
- Comment on You just had to ask that question 2 weeks ago:
I had this happen to me. The program was only used internally but it was possibly the worst code that would compile. My personal favorite was the “login”. When launching the program it accessed a local sql server. On that server was a table named “login” which you would assume had a list of all users and their passwords right?
Now that would be bad because you could launch ssms directly and just look at the table but when you did that there was 1 entry user “admin” password “admin”.
But that’s not all… When you look at the code these values are hard coded in. There is a linq query to check the login table for an entry with username “admin” and password “admin” and return the values in password. Now you might be thinking what the hell but here’s the kicker…when it got the response back it checked len(password) => 5
Yup… Didn’t check if password was correct just that the length of the password was equal to or greater than 5.
The actual username entry box? Yeah it didn’t validate anything. You could just bang your hand on the keyboard and log in… Really you didn’t even have to do that. You had to click or tab into the field and then click login. It didn’t require you to enter anything just that the username field was active at some point.
- Comment on Remember to do your update 3 weeks ago:
17/f/California u?