Yeah, my last job I was part IT. It was amazing how bad some shit was. We had an old old computer running a machine and it was on windows 2000 (there was no upgrade path for this thing). One day it broke, HDD failure. User sends in a ticket saying its not working and that the software seems to be out of date…

At some point the place I was working at was acquired, and the new parent company bought one of our competitors across town. These people were a fucking tier 1 issue factory. “My teams doesn’t work” they weren’t connected to the internet. “My old email doesn’t work” that was discontinued 3 months ago. “My old email still doesn’t work” sir this is the 8th time you’ve mentioned this, it was discontinued 5 months ago.

To the guy a few weeks ago that said I wasn’t being fair to users not reading error messages and comparing it to a doctor reading your charts. Read this fucking thread.

I don’t know why, one laptop I tried years ago to use linux on had issues with so many distros. Mint the touch pad didn’t work, debian the wifi, manjaro the screen was funky. But one worked pergectly fine, Parrot, another debian distro which was weird because debian and mint didn’t work. And all the isos were current builds

I once told my boss that when I advertised as being a java dev when he was wondering why I was having a hard time with JS. He still didn’t get it and thought one was a subset of the other. I had to explain to him that you don’t drive your carpet to work, they are infact different and only share some letters in common.

My first like real programming job, in 2019, version control was “download the project from the share drive, update the code, then add your new code back to the share with todays date in the folder name”.

Everyone, except 1 dude liked SVN or mercurial, wanted the boss to just get us on git. It became the general standard for a reason. None of us liked the version control system we had, but HDD space was cheap so the boss wasn’t that concerned.

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should

I’m just joking, as stupid and impractical as it is to use the cloud as your boot drive I do always love seeing stupid stuff like this. Neat

Frequently repos say “git clone [repo url]” which i think is enough for most people to copy and paste. I’m a programmer and usually I just click things in my IDE to do git work for me so I’ll agree its not an easy thing to use.

Step 1) Download the LLM with git

Well, fuck we should have known that this requires a masters in computering. Dude these comands are easy, literally copy and paste. The instructions are literally handholding you to run it and thats still to complicated. Also who makes furry porn with a Large Language Model?

My old man told me he took one programming language in college and it was APL. Having looked at APL since becoming a software dev myself, I can understand why he hated it.

It’s just so gross and hard to read

I was recently tasked with the traveling salesman problem on a project. My first pass was quick but produced sloppy inefficient results. Well boss didn’t like it so he had me go back at it again so it would be far more accurate. Well now it slogs through figuring out an optimal solution of several thousand points.

Yeah, I’m in the IT dept (companys conatantly flop between throwing software into engineering, IT, or its own dept) and the other day, 5 minutes before I leave for a week long vacation a user comes up and asks if we’re ignoring her.

Outlook is constantly asking for a password to one of the emails she uses. She doesn’t know it and keeps clicking close on the popup. So she sends an email, FROM THE ACCOUNT SHE IS LOGGED OUT OF, to helpdesk a few days earlier.

One of my followers got giant hammered and sent to space. My only reaction was “My stuff”.

I was looking into self hosting. What can I do to avoid dealing with this? Can I not cache images? Would I get in legal trouble for being federated with an instance being spammed?

Yeah 76 is pretty rad and based now. There was an actual dialog I had with an NPC who wanted me to go find gold and I was telling them this unquenchable lust for money caused the whole damn apocalypse in the first place.

Web scraping bots can

Canada spent the whole time trying to draw the maple leaf. At one point their whole flag got banana’d.

Former “IT” coworker would do that too. He apparently didn’t know how to type characters on tge number row, you know like & for example.

I called him out on him using caps lock instead of shift and he asked “what do yoy do, hold shift?” with a tone that implied I was the crazy one.

I actually had a boss who thought they could let me do java at work (can’t in house executables were a “security risk” according to corprate) but he ended up making me do javascript, which I don’t know. I got very frustrated trying to get him to understand JS isn’t java and now because of JS’s weird behaviors I can’t actually do the thing he wants so easily.