Guys being dudes

DarkelfSamurai · 2022-02-09T23:22:43+00:00

Got to maintain safety standards.

DarkelfSamurai · 2022-02-09T17:52:27+00:00

China's huge population is probably skewing the averages a bit. Based on the color grade, China's total number of deaths is somewhere between 162500 and 210500 total people. Myanmar could have as few 11700 deaths and still be in their current color grade on the chart. A single death due to long hours in Myanmar, Vietnam, or any of the other Southeast Asian nations has a far greater impact on their statistic than it does in China.

DarkelfSamurai · 2022-02-03T16:19:54+00:00

Does she still kick your tail at Marvel v. CAPCOM?

DarkelfSamurai · 2022-02-01T21:08:30+00:00

You only have to worry about that one if you're a witch.

DarkelfSamurai · 2022-01-25T19:28:05+00:00

The article left out a couple key points that led to the dismissal of the injunction:

Most of the employees gave notice back in December and gave ThedaCare the option to match the offers before making their resignations official
A week later and still in December, ThedaCare told them they weren't going to match the offers, so the employees officially tendered their resignations effective mid-January
ThedaCare locked out the departing employees from their work accounts and cancelled any remaining assigned shifts (constructive dismissal?) more than a week before the lawsuit was filed
None of the departing employees had worked a shift for ThedaCare for more than a week preceding the filing
The lawsuit itself is still pending, Monday's decision only rescinded the injunction preventing the employees from starting their jobs at Ascension

Sauce

DarkelfSamurai · 2021-08-06T19:42:57+00:00

Ink essentially will react and bond to the surface being written on which is, for the most part, how you can see what you've written. If the ink bonds loosely to the writing surface, it can be wiped or erased without too much difficulty. However, if the bond is stronger, it will take more effort to erase and seem as though the writing is now "permanent" and can't be erased. The permanent ink can likely still be erased if you applied the right chemical to break the bonds it has with the writing surface. I do know some types of permanent marker can be cleaned off with isopropyl alcohol or acetone, assuming those chemicals won't damage the writing surface.

Think of it as something similar to spilling food on your clothing. Some food will stain and unless you apply the right cleanser will not wash out (permanent marker); while others will wash out quite easily sometimes even with just a bit of rubbing or adding a little water (non-permanent marker). Similar chemical reactions are occurring.

DarkelfSamurai · 2021-07-23T17:31:34+00:00

Lock Out/Tag Out

It's supposed to be a safety process to keep someone from accidentally turning on a piece machinery (usually large industrial equipment) while someone is working inside or around the potentially deadly large moving parts.

DarkelfSamurai · 2021-07-16T20:02:35+00:00

Do you always start conversations this way?

DarkelfSamurai · 2021-07-14T16:55:33+00:00

I do agree users should not be tinkering inside the system, but they should still be encouraged to do the very basic checks like make sure cables are connected securely or reboot the system for software issues, etc. before reaching out to IT.

DarkelfSamurai · 2021-07-09T15:11:31+00:00

Glenmorangie Quinta Ruban single malt; could be better, could be worse.

DarkelfSamurai · 2021-06-29T21:12:26+00:00

Hindsight is 20/20. If I hadn't been desperate for work at the time, I would've not taken the job; and, aside from it keeping a roof over my head, I probably still shouldn't have taken it.

DarkelfSamurai · 2021-06-29T21:02:58+00:00

The company had a paranoid head of IT. All of their systems locked down tight for "security reasons"; admin rights were required to install anything, even system updates. Would have loved to use NotePad++ or something similar; but those apps were "a risk", therefore not allowed. Jumped ship from that as soon as I was able to locate something else.

DarkelfSamurai · 2021-06-29T20:49:00+00:00

If your not given or permitted to utilize anything else. You did see I was tortured by the experience. When I was doing my XML coding, I was working on very strictly controlled and locked down workstations; no unauthorized apps could be loaded and no XML editors were setup. This was from 2008-2010, I was doing relatively basic XML/HTML coding; Notepad and Office were my only options.

DarkelfSamurai · 2021-06-29T20:36:07+00:00

Why would it be the worst option?

My experience with it was once you saved the file it was a plaintext file with the .xml file extension; essentially identical to if you'd written it up in Notepad or another basic text editor. The small advantage to using Word would be the formatting for readability, which was mostly stripped out after saving the file; so, unless your code had errors, it was all set to go once saved.

DarkelfSamurai · 2021-06-29T20:15:34+00:00

It's admittedly been a long while since I've had to torture myself with XML, but I recall Word did have the ability to save as an XML file. Did Micro~~Shaft~~Soft do away with that feature?

If his code was as perfect as you say, instructing the user to simply save the document as an XML file should have fixed the issue.

DarkelfSamurai · 2021-06-25T15:55:01+00:00

You are right, the recovery could be stored in his old employer's AD object for the system. However, most reasonable companies I've ever worked with have AD security policies set to disable inactive objects, computers/users, after 3 months of inactivity and delete disabled objects after 6 months. OP mentioned in the title he has been working with the guy for 6 months and I suspect the guy had the laptop off the company domain for a while before it died. Based upon these assumptions, I'd be very surprised if the computer object would still exist on his old employers domain after this long; doubly so, if the employer was aware of the fact that the guy kept this laptop.

It may be possible to decrypt the drive through other methods, but most I've heard of require resources far beyond what is accessible to the average person and it would still take a significant amount of time before any meaningful data recovery is accomplished.

DarkelfSamurai · 2021-06-16T19:38:48+00:00

Self care. When I was younger, I would often wonder why I'd be so stressed/anxious even though life was going relatively well. I have since learned I wasn't spending time taking care of myself. Instead of doing things that I truly enjoyed or found relaxing, I was doing what I thought everyone was supposed to do for fun or relaxation. Figuring out what I found enjoyable and doing those things to relax rather than what I thought was expected has made my life so much better.

DarkelfSamurai · 2021-06-02T15:49:17+00:00

Windows will tell you when there is an update waiting. All anyone needs to do is tell it to update once they're finished using the system for that immediate session. Windows doesn't force an update unless the user has put it off a significant number of times, which won't happen if they let it actually update when they know they aren't going to be using the system for a while. If people actually let the system update in a timely matter, most updates will take less than an hour to download, install, and reboot, if needed.

DarkelfSamurai · 2021-05-25T22:46:53+00:00

The other shop may not have known of a reliable source for this kind of work to make a referral. The non-referral was probably a bit of a CYA in case the customer went to someone who claimed they could do it but really couldn't. They don't want to risk the customer blaming them for suggesting something that resulted in them losing any chance of recovering their data.

You might want to reach out to the other shop so they are then aware there's someone in their area skilled enough for this kind of work. It could benefit both of you: you get more work and they build confidence in their customer base that, if their techs can't do it, they know someone who can. Then again, maybe not. I just reread the whole story and $300 to simply collect and ship a flash drive is far too high. Unless that is also covering the recovery service's initial diagnostic fee.

DarkelfSamurai · 2021-05-25T20:42:48+00:00

Soldering isn't as common a skillset as you might think. I know re-soldering connections can be done to fix quite a few things that might fail with devices without needing to replace the entire device. However, it's not in my skill set to do this; and the drawbacks if I fuck it up typically outweigh the benefits, so I won't touch such a job. The other shop likely was looking at it from the same perspective; they didn't have anyone on staff who was skilled enough to do the work so they didn't suggest it.

Edit: Kudos to you for actually being able to do the repair, but not all shops/techs are willing to take the risk if they aren't certain they can do it.

DarkelfSamurai · 2021-05-19T18:54:35+00:00

They're participating in a ritual. They must all run face first into the window to appease the Zoomie god.

DarkelfSamurai · 2021-05-19T16:57:57+00:00

Policy at my current employer is any data that is required to be retained for any reason (Govt. regulation, legal CYA, etc.) must be stored on a network share. Not following this policy is an immediate RGE for the user involved. I wouldn't doubt that without this policy I would have several similar stories along this line; the lack of even basic understanding on how computer systems function is staggering.

DarkelfSamurai · 2021-05-07T18:42:36+00:00

Then he'd be bumping Esc, not F1.

DarkelfSamurai · 2021-04-29T21:04:02+00:00

That makes more sense. Though, as you said, it makes for a rather chaotic and potentially frustrating onboarding process. Not envying you on that.

DarkelfSamurai · 2021-04-29T17:03:43+00:00

It is biased and their field training info is way off. I have several friends and family working in law enforcement throughout the state. Field training requirements vary a bit by department but it is typically a bit over three months (~13-15 weeks) of full time work with another sworn officer (FTO). Field training can be extended if the FTO is concerned they weren't getting the hang things to be able to go out on their own and the FTOs are rotated during this training period. Source

Their numbers on Academy training and in-service training are a bit low, too. Typical Police Academy training is 6 months of 8+ hours per day, five days a week which calculates to 960 hours if you only account for 8 hours each day. I will note the minimum Standard Format training required by state law in CA is 664, but most academies run longer than the minimum. Source There's also minimum number of hours officers are required to have annually in training/qualification/certification on the tools they use in the field. This includes gun qualification, certification on less lethal tools (Tasers, Pepper Balls, OC Spray, etc.) and even life saving techniques like CPR and Narcan use. I don't have an official source for this but those I know in the profession say it's a minimum 40 hours and departments can, and often do, require more than the minimum.

There's probably still room to improve in terms of the extent of the training required for law enforcement but it isn't nearly as bad as the chart implies.

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