I think its more that they’re worried labour voters won’t bother actually voting then the tories win anyway.

That was my thought too, why’s that not a thing already?

I think another key difference is everyone can use whatever tool they like and still work on the same codebase. They don’t have proprietary file formats that lock in you and your entire team forever.

National insurance is supposed to be for our state pension but it’s only paid on earned income. I have no idea but I wonder how much it would raise if it was paid on all income?

Yeah, I think they were too niche, my point was that I was able to find answers for everything else before I had to resort to posting a question. One example was I had found a JS bug in Safari and was seeking a workaround. All I got was a couple of comments agreeing and then one a year later saying it was now fixed in the latest version.

I fell for it once, high school friend, seemed like a reasonable idea, I was early in my career and looking for experience. I did learn a lot but ultimately the business failed before it started and I got paid a few 100 for nearly as many hours work.

Totally agree, it’s not just toxic either. I don’t find it useful anymore. My account is from the first 6 months of the site’s existence, opened in early 2009. I still get upvotes on questions I asked back then.

For the past several years though it’s been a last resort for me to post something there, and nothing I’ve posted in the past 5 years even has a single answer on it. They’ve not been closed as duplicates or anything, just no answers.

I go chatgpt now, it’s often wrong with those kinds of questions but usually gets me close enough to fix my issue.

I exclusively use CLI, it’s not ego at all, I simply find typing what I want to be quicker than clicking buttons. I’ve written a bunch of aliases to automate my common workflows.

When I need to help a colleague who’s made a mess of something, I can easily give them the command to fix it rather than finding the right options in their GUI of choice and it’s often because of some broken abstraction in the GUI they got into the mess in the first place.

You’ve never worked in finance then. All our systems at work do nothing but move large amounts of txt files around.

That said, many of our clients still don’t support utf-8 so its all ascii and non-latin alphabets are screwed. They can’t even handle characters 128-255 so even stuff like £ is unsupported.

A client paid us for a bespoke platform for managing invoice payments. Probably 20 man years sunk into it, they wanted to sell it to their customers but no one wanted it. They’ve just given up trying and axed it.

Yeah I’ve been dropping not very subtle hints. We’re only a small company, about 25 people. We don’t have any dedicated database admins at all.

It’s on the list I think but we don’t have the people to spare to get it done.

We use SQL Server at work and I really don’t get why. It’s so expensive. We’re hosting it on AWS as well. I can’t remember the numbers but it’s several times more than a similarly specced postgres and we’re only using Standard edition.

I don’t think we’re really using any features that would stop us moving over, it’s really just inertia and in-house knowledge.

Good to hear you got it. We get stuff misdelivered all the time because the houses have names and next door is very similar. It usually depends which way down the road the driver is going, they just deliver it to the first one they see and figure it’s close enough. But they don’t have our parcel this time. I’ve emailed the seller but I doubt they’ll see it until Tuesday.

Last year I had an Amazon one delivered to a neighbour when we were out, that’s fine but they didn’t say which neighbour and wouldn’t tell me when I got hold of a person. They just declared it lost and sent it again. A week later someone bought it around asking why I never went to get it

I had one yesterday like this. I’ve got a photo from parcelforce of someone else’s hallway.

I phoned them, they won’t tell me where it is but agree the GPS they have for the photo isn’t my address. They said they would send the driver back to get it and would call me to keep me updated.

They’re now closed until Tuesday so I’m not hopeful.

Most of the other 38% probably don’t want it dominating the news for another 4 years

She’s had surgery last week and feeling sorry for herself but blankets make it better

I think the Mersey bridge is a similar system? I’ve got an account for that but crossed in a new car that I forgot to register. Didn’t realise until it was too late.

That was 2 weeks ago and nothing yet…

“How many Transporter accidents have there been in the last tens years, Reg? Two… three? What about the millions of people who transport every day without a problem” - Geordi - TNG Realm of Fear S6E2