As an end-user (that is, the IT staff that will be deploying/managing things), I prefer less-frequent releases. I’d love to see 1 or 2 releases a year for all software

The hard floor for release frequency must always be “as security issues are fixed”, and those will rarely be infrequent in our current environment of ever-shifting dependencies.

If your environment is struggling to keep up with patching, you need to analyze that process and find out why it’s so arduous.

As an example, I took a shop from a completely manual patch slog 10 years ago to a 97% never-touch automated process. It was hard with approvals and routines, but the numbers backed me up. When I left 2 years ago, the humans had little to do beyond validation.

The sad news is, the great loss of mentors after Y2K will be seen again after RTO, and we’re not going to fix the fundamental problems that enable longer release cycles in a safe way; and so shorter update cadence will be our reality if we want to stay safe …

… and stay bleeding-edge. Shifting from feature-driven releases to only bugfix-driven releases means no churn for features, but that’s a different kind of rebasing. It’s the third leg of the shine-safe-slack pyramid; choose 2.

I’m pretty sure they’re not getting my face or fingerprints.

I guess our national airline - worst in rankings - will kill its US routes before they become non-profit.

More due to negligence than by design.

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anytime

You need the space in there.

• xargs
• parallel
• PXE (ohai cobbler)
• tee
• task-spooler (ts aka tsp)
• rpm -V

Nothing new, just forgotten.

Aw jeez not this again.

We’re gonna elect the fuckwit greaser, and this dog of a bill will be gently pushed along. They’ve successfully made us hate the best non-conservative we’ve had in a while, and their 9-year quest is complete. Our best chance is a minority-cheesedick gov, but even then the opposition will be a feckless post-justin red party.

We’re doomed, Mr Harry.

And if we’re not careful, we’ll lose universal access.

I’m “racist” against billionaires

Does that make you classist?

Either way, all good. It ain’t racist if the fact they’re all white guys or Clearence Thomas is accidental or their own nepo action.

My new Aeron arrived two weeks ago. It replaced my 18 year old … Aeron. It has served me well, and needs just 200 in repairs (new pads, new struts, cylinder) so I may give it to my cousin.

Yeah. Comfy chair, cool lifty desk, sweet river view, floofy cats. I dearly hope we can keep WFBest in our next union contract too.

I actively do less work in the office.

This is known. It’s been proven; for introverts and/or ADHD especially, since the interaction is stressful and/or completely disturbing. The difference is stark.

But, for extroverts, the office can be where they thrive, and it’s the environment that lures them in. So unless they adapt (what? Them? But adapting is for the introverts who run the shit) quickly, they’re gonna be fish outta water in short order.

There’s absolutely no automatic tangible benefit to RTO for those jobs that are remote capable (ie anything at a desk with no customer interface). Only a subset works marginally better with people to disturb, and I’ll question even that number or the benefit. The only reason they want you back in is this lie about being unable to manage your ass unless they can see your ass – which is the creepiest way to cover for “sunk cost fallacy” for the space lease.

But yeah, keep some space for extroverts who can’t cope. It’s us being the better people about it.

It’s in my union contract. Your move, hair plugs.

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Look; If you can’t spell the word, I’m not going to assume you’re an expert in it.

You say “secede” funny.

But, are the guns okay? :-(

If they truly are business orientated let them invent something and go market it and be an actual entrepreneur in the real world,

They’re going to do none of this, even if you did the hard work of writing all those words. No dentist wants to take his 9 years of schooling - or something equally ridiculous - and gamble his food security on a 99%-failure like every other startup. It’s a non-starter.

Yeah, they’re running extortion rackets, sure. But for any dentist who survived that gauntlet, let him cook. Don’t hate the playa`. Change the system and force them into a humane model.

Survey seems broken. JavaScript crutches?