Random Thoughts II - Page 1026

crocos · 19th May 2018, 23:31

Quote:

Originally Posted by StN

^^^ Hmm - I suppose it is possible that some day, even the staunchest atheists may have to acknowledge a higher power.

A more powerful entity/race does not a god make.

Ab · 20th May 2018, 01:08

Quote:

Originally Posted by StN

^^^ Hmm - I suppose it is possible that some day, even the staunchest atheists may have to acknowledge a higher power.

If it exists, why would we not?

crocos · 20th May 2018, 06:10

Pfft, filthy Agnostic.

Lightspeed · 20th May 2018, 15:53

I wonder what our AIs will make of this forum...

Ab · 20th May 2018, 16:23

Quote:

Originally Posted by crocos

Pfft, filthy Agnostic.

Didn't say I'd worship it, just that if it exists I'd acknowledge it. Same as my position for the Christian god: even if a) there were evidence for it and b) I believed in it, it doesn't follow that c) I'd worship it. Dude sounds like a cunt.

StN · 23rd May 2018, 11:37

Look - I know there is a thread for this, and Ab will no doubt get the ban stick out, but the irony of the first comment cannot be understated.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/edu...e-arohi-editor

I so much want to reply with "Yes, the imagery is vile, and reminds me of a rather disturbing (pardon the pun) spread in NZX several years back..."

Cyberbob · 25th May 2018, 14:36

So, GDPR goes into effect today. Anyone very impacted?

Lightspeed · 25th May 2018, 14:47

Well, I'm considering creating a new mail filter for all these "our privacy policy has been updated" emails.

StN · 25th May 2018, 22:20

^^What he said. And I'm sick of getting all the staff reporting them as phishing FFS.

Cyberbob · 25th May 2018, 22:36

"Do you know a good GDPR consultant?"
"Yes"
"Can you give me his email address?"
"No."

MadMax · 27th May 2018, 11:11

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cyberbob

"Do you know a good GDPR consultant?"
"Yes"
"Can you give me his email address?"
"No."

Now let that be the end of it.

MadMax · 27th May 2018, 11:17

Quote:

Originally Posted by post on neighbourly

Found: little black kitten turned up at my door. I've given it milk and mince which it has devoured..!! but seems lost and jolly hungry. Will need to take to SPCA if no one claims..[image of cat drinking milk from a bowl]

feed random cat some milk
follow the trail of runny shit back to its owners house
profit

CCS · 30th May 2018, 17:46

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Auckland woman fighting for North Shore to become independent from NZ

My first thoughts were "Statue, Liz?" but no, this is some other nutty bitch.

Quote:

Clements wants the referendum to ask New Zealanders: "Should the North Shore establish as an independent city-state to demonstrate a new economic model at the heart of New Zealand?"

She believes the Labour Government is leading the country towards "financial ruin" and hopes independence will save the North Shore from the same fate.
~
She also believes 1080 could be responsible for Mycoplasma bovis disease, affecting New Zealand cattle.

Ironically, she's a member of the Logic Party. In fact, it looks like she's the founder and possibly only member. The website is full of nuttiness that isn't really worth reading in full, but this nugget caught my eye:

Quote:

[The Paris Agreement] will also transfer out billions in our taxes to finance the United Nations into genuine global power, based on increasing control over sovereign tax systems; that both Bill Gates and The Pope now currently promote. We should also not discount the current use of weather warfare, in the form of electromagnetic and EMP technologies and Haarp, that are capable of inflicting weather catastrophes that could 'in the future' trigger mass transfers of sovereign taxes to the UN, under the guise of humanitarian support for weather emergencies.

Yep. You mentioned EMP and HAARP. That's how I know you're nuts.

Ab · 30th May 2018, 18:24

Subtext: all Jews out

pxpx · 31st May 2018, 08:49

I would like the north shore to become independent from Miriam Clements

Juju · 31st May 2018, 09:53

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She wanted the city to be governed by its own two Prime Ministers and also envisaged a new airport at Whenuapai

I wonder if anyone has told her that Whenuapai isn't on the North Shore.

Lightspeed · 31st May 2018, 17:32

Well this is something different:
Arkady Babchenko: Ukraine faked murder of journalist

Deadmeat · 31st May 2018, 21:56

Quote:

Originally Posted by Juju

I wonder if anyone has told her that Whenuapai isn't on the North Shore.

She may have inadvertently disclosed part of the Lebensraum part of her plan.

Ab · 1st June 2018, 19:24

If life’s getting you down, just remember you’re not jr smith

StN · 3rd June 2018, 11:02

Hmmm - full credit to Taika, and all his work so far. Just wondering which last name he'll use in his credit for this movie...

Jojo Rabbit.

“I’m stoked to begin shooting my anti-war satire,” Waititi said. “We’ve assembled an incredible cast and I couldn’t be more excited to finally ridicule Nazis and their beliefs. This film is going to piss off a lot of racists and that makes me very happy.”

Has the precident of a Jewish decendant man of colour playing Hitler been established?

MadMax · 3rd June 2018, 11:19

Is it just me or does When the Saints Go Marching In seem to appear in every good kids music book? Is there a kids Casio keyboard that doesn't have it as a built-in song?

It's a great number for teaching relationship the between notes and chords, just a shame that's never specifically mentioned in those early stages of learning.

Nich · 4th June 2018, 12:46

Quote:

Originally Posted by MadMax

Is it just me or does When the Saints Go Marching In seem to appear in every good kids music book? Is there a kids Casio keyboard that doesn't have it as a built-in song?

It's a great number for teaching relationship the between notes and chords, just a shame that's never specifically mentioned in those early stages of learning.

My thought is that we don't teach harmony early for the same reasons we don't teach something like the Oxford comma when someone is first learning punctuation.

When I teach, my mistake is that I usually go to the mechanics first, and build up the components that produce the song. My girlfriend is a beginner and is learning a piece of music, it is in F, and it has a standard iii-vi-ii-V progression using various inversions that make for nice voice leading. I point this out with the intention of revealing that there is nothing unusual about the song....Perhaps my pointing this out will spark her curiosity in the many layers of depth that can be derived from any piece of music, and how knowing these things can be little shortcuts one can use to learn and comprehend music.

Wrong.

This doesn't help her at all. Her intuition and familiarity with the song will tell her when she's playing the song correctly, while learning a 2nd inversion A-minor chord as a precursor to actually playing a song might take her to extreme depths of boredom.... well, because before you can learn A-minor, I have to teach the concept of modal scales ... and before you know it I've got her playing scales and arpeggios rather than playing the song. I am asking her to understand tenses, adjectives and first-person proclamations before she can say "I am hungry." The point is, she will be able to communicate perfectly fine without understanding these elements of the language. Just as she can play the song without knowing the underlying harmonic components.

With our words, or our music. We learn to communicate well enough that others can get our meaning, then when we wish to communicate more effectively we learn more about grammar and vocabulary so we can control tone, flow, comprehension of new material, et al.

Cyberbob · 5th June 2018, 10:39

So I just got a spam/malware alert email at my work address, supposedly from my personal email address.

My personal email address is Gmail /Gsuite for Business, and isn't hooked up to any external client, i.e. Outlook, etc.

Is there another avenue in which my Gmail address could have been used as a spam sender, or is it more likely to be on of those early 2000's malware that send emails that look like it came from one of your contacts, so the compromised individual just so happens to have both my work address (the recipient of the spam) and my personal address (the fake sender) in their address book?

StN · 5th June 2018, 13:33

^^^ Probably the latter - have you checked "Have I been pwned"?

MadMax · 5th June 2018, 21:56

in all my years i've never seen a spam email purporting to have come from an employee's personal email address.

Client email addresses however, of course yes. I'd look at your work contacts that also might have your personal email address. Can happen to amatures that add personal email addresses to their work phones and wonder why they're suddenly emailing their clients from the wrong address.

MadMax · 8th June 2018, 22:24

Christ almighty

i5-8400
GA-Z370XP-SLI
ADATA XPG SX8200

DrTiTus · 9th June 2018, 01:11

This guy clearly didn't get an Apacer.

(But he also runs Windows, so any gains were lost to random processes doing things he didn't ask for)

MadMax · 9th June 2018, 20:35

Just a shame raid0 of pcie ssd drives just doesn't work out.

On another note, I wasted an evening to backup testing only to find my old raid0 array -- "legacy" even, just magically turned up on the new build. UEFI everything fastboot enabled even.

StN · 13th June 2018, 18:20

Quote:

Originally Posted by StN

Hmmm - full credit to Taika, and all his work so far. Just wondering which last name he'll use in his credit for this movie...

Jojo Rabbit.

“I’m stoked to begin shooting my anti-war satire,” Waititi said. “We’ve assembled an incredible cast and I couldn’t be more excited to finally ridicule Nazis and their beliefs. This film is going to piss off a lot of racists and that makes me very happy.”

Has the precident of a Jewish decendant man of colour playing Hitler been established?

Now they're lobbying for him to be Boba? Miffed that the comments have closed and I can't correct them when they say originally played by Jeremy Bulloch in ESB - we all know he was introduced back in 1978 by Don Francks….

Cyberbob · 18th June 2018, 14:30

Well, i guess Fail Fast is part of the Agile methodology.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/ind...-job-contracts

Lightspeed · 18th June 2018, 14:46

I don't understand how it's legal to insist employees accept changes to their contract or lose their jobs. A new contract shouldn't be able to nullify an existing contract. It's a recipe for bait & switch.

Nich · 18th June 2018, 14:52

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cyberbob

Well, i guess Fail Fast is part of the Agile methodology.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/ind...-job-contracts

*cringe*

I worked in an AV company where the general manager (ex-Telstra) would host Sales Meetings as stand-up meetings. And would then punch the sales goals into Trello ... oh my... this is what happens when a programmer from the 90's somehow ends up managing a national sales team without ever being in sales.

From what I can tell, agile (along with pretty much any other "management science") is lucky to work even in development team, let alone applying it to other teams. It's the story that middle managers tell themselves so they can sleep at night: "I just haven't found the right management methodology yet..."

Lightspeed · 18th June 2018, 15:27

I've seen Agile used as an excuse not to document, or plan, or do anything really, except what the customer who is screaming the loudest today is demanding.

Nich · 18th June 2018, 17:07

hah! Yep. Call it "Agile" and it sounds like there is high-functioning team behind it all. Like how one can create a few new folders in a shared drive and call it PRINCE2

Unfortunately in my example, agile was used to blissfully ignore customer feedback. The method, the strategy, and the workflows were developed in a hypothetical vacuum by people with no experience in the jobs to which they were applying governance. So long as the methods were untouched by ... you know ... REALITY then they worked perfectly. And not once did they come out and interview any subject-matter experts to gain any insight before unleashing their corporate utopian vision.

I think the death blow to company culture and morale was the unveiling of the "end-to-end process" outlining the lifecycle of projects. They used characters from animated movies and tv shows to redefine everyone's role in the company and how they play their specific part in the project. I was a pre-sales engineer, and my character was a Minion from Despicable Me. Every single employee was visibly offended or just straight up depressed that their contributions to the company had been diminished instantly.

I had to sit across the table from screaming customers ready to flip a table. I tried to relay the experiences back to upper management but all I got in return was stories of how great the company was 5 years ago. So I resigned.

CCS · 18th June 2018, 17:11

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lightspeed

I don't understand how it's legal to insist employees accept changes to their contract or lose their jobs. A new contract shouldn't be able to nullify an existing contract. It's a recipe for bait & switch.

It's simple really - it's not a change to an existing contract. The old position has been disestablished and the contract along with it. New positions have been established and new contracts with them.

Before you shit your pants and start putting words in my mouth, I'm not saying I agree with it. I'm just saying that's how it is.

Lightspeed · 18th June 2018, 20:17

You've become fragile in your dotage, CCS.

CCS · 18th June 2018, 20:39

Nah, you've just got form.

StN · 19th June 2018, 07:39

pxpx · 19th June 2018, 08:30

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nich

hah! Yep. Call it "Agile" and it sounds like there is high-functioning team behind it all. Like how one can create a few new folders in a shared drive and call it PRINCE2

Unfortunately in my example, agile was used to blissfully ignore customer feedback. The method, the strategy, and the workflows were developed in a hypothetical vacuum by people with no experience in the jobs to which they were applying governance. So long as the methods were untouched by ... you know ... REALITY then they worked perfectly. And not once did they come out and interview any subject-matter experts to gain any insight before unleashing their corporate utopian vision.

I think the death blow to company culture and morale was the unveiling of the "end-to-end process" outlining the lifecycle of projects. They used characters from animated movies and tv shows to redefine everyone's role in the company and how they play their specific part in the project. I was a pre-sales engineer, and my character was a Minion from Despicable Me. Every single employee was visibly offended or just straight up depressed that their contributions to the company had been diminished instantly.

I had to sit across the table from screaming customers ready to flip a table. I tried to relay the experiences back to upper management but all I got in return was stories of how great the company was 5 years ago. So I resigned.

I can see the nearly the exact same thing happening at the place I'm at now. Key similarities bolded. In my case the end-to-end process unveiling hasn't quite happened yet, but it's coming.

pxpx · 19th June 2018, 09:19

Put offer on a house, subject to the usual things. Knew there were a few maintenance issues with the place but did not expect all 3 bathrooms to be leaking (tiled showers w/ poorly designed waterproofing).

We were about 90% certain we were going to pull out based on that alone, but got pushed to 1-fucking-00% percent when we found out from the locals that the current occupant was a known meth dealer and the house was used for dealing.

Stoked to dodge the bullet, but gutted because we were expecting to move in to our "next 25 years" home.

23rd May 2018, 11:37	#41006
StN I have detailed files	I most humbly apologise in advance... Look - I know there is a thread for this, and Ab will no doubt get the ban stick out, but the irony of the first comment cannot be understated. https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/edu...e-arohi-editor I so much want to reply with "Yes, the imagery is vile, and reminds me of a rather disturbing (pardon the pun) spread in NZX several years back..." Last edited by StN : 23rd May 2018 at 11:39.

3rd June 2018, 11:19	#41021
MadMax Stuff	Is it just me or does When the Saints Go Marching In seem to appear in every good kids music book? Is there a kids Casio keyboard that doesn't have it as a built-in song? It's a great number for teaching relationship the between notes and chords, just a shame that's never specifically mentioned in those early stages of learning. __________________ My degree of sarcasm depends on your degree of stupidity. Last edited by MadMax : 3rd June 2018 at 11:20.

5th June 2018, 21:56	#41025
MadMax Stuff	in all my years i've never seen a spam email purporting to have come from an employee's personal email address. Client email addresses however, of course yes. I'd look at your work contacts that also might have your personal email address. Can happen to amatures that add personal email addresses to their work phones and wonder why they're suddenly emailing their clients from the wrong address. __________________ My degree of sarcasm depends on your degree of stupidity. Last edited by MadMax : 5th June 2018 at 21:57.

8th June 2018, 22:24	#41026
MadMax Stuff	Christ almighty i5-8400 GA-Z370XP-SLI ADATA XPG SX8200 __________________ My degree of sarcasm depends on your degree of stupidity. Last edited by MadMax : 8th June 2018 at 22:26.

9th June 2018, 01:11	#41027
DrTiTus HENCE WHY FOREVER ALONE	This guy clearly didn't get an Apacer. (But he also runs Windows, so any gains were lost to random processes doing things he didn't ask for) __________________ Finger rolling rhythm, ride the horse one hand...

20th May 2018, 06:10	#41003
crocos	Pfft, filthy Agnostic. __________________ Ξ √ Ω L U T ↑ ☼ N وكل يوم كنت تعيش في العبودية

20th May 2018, 15:53	#41004
Lightspeed	I wonder what our AIs will make of this forum... __________________ Stay shook. No sook.

25th May 2018, 14:36	#41007
Cyberbob	So, GDPR goes into effect today. Anyone very impacted? __________________ ɹǝʌo sᴉ ǝɯɐƃ ʎɥʇ

25th May 2018, 14:47	#41008
Lightspeed	Well, I'm considering creating a new mail filter for all these "our privacy policy has been updated" emails. __________________ Stay shook. No sook.

25th May 2018, 22:20	#41009
StN I have detailed files	^^What he said. And I'm sick of getting all the staff reporting them as phishing FFS.

25th May 2018, 22:36	#41010
Cyberbob	"Do you know a good GDPR consultant?" "Yes" "Can you give me his email address?" "No." __________________ ɹǝʌo sᴉ ǝɯɐƃ ʎɥʇ Last edited by Cyberbob : 25th May 2018 at 22:37.

30th May 2018, 18:24	#41014
Ab A mariachi ogre snorkel	Subtext: all Jews out

31st May 2018, 08:49	#41015
pxpx	I would like the north shore to become independent from Miriam Clements

31st May 2018, 17:32	#41017
Lightspeed	Well this is something different: Arkady Babchenko: Ukraine faked murder of journalist __________________ Stay shook. No sook.

1st June 2018, 19:24	#41019
Ab A mariachi ogre snorkel	If life’s getting you down, just remember you’re not jr smith

3rd June 2018, 11:02	#41020
StN I have detailed files	Hmmm - full credit to Taika, and all his work so far. Just wondering which last name he'll use in his credit for this movie... Jojo Rabbit. “I’m stoked to begin shooting my anti-war satire,” Waititi said. “We’ve assembled an incredible cast and I couldn’t be more excited to finally ridicule Nazis and their beliefs. This film is going to piss off a lot of racists and that makes me very happy.” Has the precident of a Jewish decendant man of colour playing Hitler been established?

5th June 2018, 10:39	#41023
Cyberbob	So I just got a spam/malware alert email at my work address, supposedly from my personal email address. My personal email address is Gmail /Gsuite for Business, and isn't hooked up to any external client, i.e. Outlook, etc. Is there another avenue in which my Gmail address could have been used as a spam sender, or is it more likely to be on of those early 2000's malware that send emails that look like it came from one of your contacts, so the compromised individual just so happens to have both my work address (the recipient of the spam) and my personal address (the fake sender) in their address book? __________________ ɹǝʌo sᴉ ǝɯɐƃ ʎɥʇ Last edited by Cyberbob : 5th June 2018 at 10:41.

5th June 2018, 13:33	#41024
StN I have detailed files	^^^ Probably the latter - have you checked "Have I been pwned"?

9th June 2018, 20:35	#41028
MadMax Stuff	Just a shame raid0 of pcie ssd drives just doesn't work out. On another note, I wasted an evening to backup testing only to find my old raid0 array -- "legacy" even, just magically turned up on the new build. UEFI everything fastboot enabled even. __________________ My degree of sarcasm depends on your degree of stupidity. Last edited by MadMax : 9th June 2018 at 20:38.

18th June 2018, 14:30	#41030
Cyberbob	Well, i guess Fail Fast is part of the Agile methodology. https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/ind...-job-contracts __________________ ɹǝʌo sᴉ ǝɯɐƃ ʎɥʇ

18th June 2018, 14:46	#41031
Lightspeed	I don't understand how it's legal to insist employees accept changes to their contract or lose their jobs. A new contract shouldn't be able to nullify an existing contract. It's a recipe for bait & switch. __________________ Stay shook. No sook.

18th June 2018, 15:27	#41033
Lightspeed	I've seen Agile used as an excuse not to document, or plan, or do anything really, except what the customer who is screaming the loudest today is demanding. __________________ Stay shook. No sook.

18th June 2018, 17:07	#41034
Nich	hah! Yep. Call it "Agile" and it sounds like there is high-functioning team behind it all. Like how one can create a few new folders in a shared drive and call it PRINCE2 Unfortunately in my example, agile was used to blissfully ignore customer feedback. The method, the strategy, and the workflows were developed in a hypothetical vacuum by people with no experience in the jobs to which they were applying governance. So long as the methods were untouched by ... you know ... REALITY then they worked perfectly. And not once did they come out and interview any subject-matter experts to gain any insight before unleashing their corporate utopian vision. I think the death blow to company culture and morale was the unveiling of the "end-to-end process" outlining the lifecycle of projects. They used characters from animated movies and tv shows to redefine everyone's role in the company and how they play their specific part in the project. I was a pre-sales engineer, and my character was a Minion from Despicable Me. Every single employee was visibly offended or just straight up depressed that their contributions to the company had been diminished instantly. I had to sit across the table from screaming customers ready to flip a table. I tried to relay the experiences back to upper management but all I got in return was stories of how great the company was 5 years ago. So I resigned.

18th June 2018, 20:17	#41036
Lightspeed	You've become fragile in your dotage, CCS. __________________ Stay shook. No sook.

18th June 2018, 20:39	#41037
CCS Stunt Pants	Nah, you've just got form. __________________ I just want to understand this, sir. Every time a rug is micturated upon in this fair city, I have to compensate the owner?

19th June 2018, 09:19	#41040
pxpx	GMG and an OMG Put offer on a house, subject to the usual things. Knew there were a few maintenance issues with the place but did not expect all 3 bathrooms to be leaking (tiled showers w/ poorly designed waterproofing). We were about 90% certain we were going to pull out based on that alone, but got pushed to 1-fucking-00% percent when we found out from the locals that the current occupant was a known meth dealer and the house was used for dealing. Stoked to dodge the bullet, but gutted because we were expecting to move in to our "next 25 years" home.