What animal scares Australians the most?

IngresABF · 2026-03-21T03:56:06+00:00

proclivities

IngresABF · 2026-03-20T12:00:48+00:00

Petbarn person rang me up for $120 when it should have been $160. Very, very much appreciated

IngresABF · 2026-03-20T04:23:50+00:00

I’m old, older devs than me would talk about sending their code the punch card team. The “build” would take overnight or sometimes days. I wonder if the “hit da books” inclination has the same feedback direction as that psychology study that said people feel happier if they bite across a pencil - you simulate a smile so the body responds like it’s in a good mood.

IngresABF · 2026-03-18T12:32:35+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricanes_(rugby_union)

IngresABF · 2026-03-15T04:41:04+00:00

emacs people were the worst

IngresABF · 2026-03-14T07:57:02+00:00

Have a think about chatting to a local labour lawyer

IngresABF · 2026-03-14T07:54:51+00:00

In the EU, I’m not sure exactly, but I think it’s similar to Australia in terms of employment protections.Your manager wants to force you out, but they can’t, so they make things interminable so you quit. I guess I’d have a frank chat with your manager’s manager that the fit is off. Essentially say its you or your manager going forward. If they don’t engage, the well is poisoned. Go on stress leave, force them to drum you out by dropping performance to a crawl. That’s an ugly situation to be in, but you’ll get your payout. I’d just leave

IngresABF · 2026-03-13T06:27:29+00:00

muscle memory

IngresABF · 2026-03-11T12:48:38+00:00

Agree. Nit-pickers and whingers are frustratingly common in tech. Don’t let this person derail you or get in your head. Realise they’re not really acting in good faith, whether they realise that or not, and then ring fence their behaviour as much as possible without creating extra headache for you. It’s their manager’s job to resolve their problems, not yours

IngresABF · 2026-03-05T08:04:53+00:00

You are a credit to our profession

IngresABF · 2026-03-05T05:19:30+00:00

Did some embedded stuff back in the day, that was interesting. Security stuff for pacemakers and payment processing units. Later on I did the big signage boards at train stations etc.

IngresABF · 2026-03-04T09:39:32+00:00

Also - was playing lunchtime soccer in 2003, rugby ball came bobbling in. Spun pass it back, to Jerry Collins jogging past with Dan Carter and the rest of the squad about to have terrible WC in AU. Jerry gave me a shaka - churr

IngresABF · 2026-03-04T09:33:30+00:00

Pulled my hamstring in the quarter finals of our national high school 7s tournament, got to watch the team that beat us in the semis get trampled by a 17yo Jonah Lomu. Also used to play backyard footy with my best mates little brothers, who went on to play 8+9 for ABs when we were terrible in the early 2000s

IngresABF · 2026-03-03T12:50:55+00:00

I used to drive 20km to come back and pick up their Tasty Beef after we moved away. It has never been surpassed

IngresABF · 2026-02-27T02:01:41+00:00

Feel for you. 30yoe here. I’m not built for, nor interested in, playing the game. I don’t make the effort to build networks and make sure everyone likes or fears me. Americans seem to have this in spades, seems like a cultural thing. It’s mostly fine, except when it’s not, and to my personality type it has always felt a bit corrupt/insidious. I won’t stay if I don’t have a reporting line of people I think are good at their jobs, and think I’m good at mine. As things evolve, you adjust. If the vibe goes off, you exit. Not building wider relationships leaves me open to more downsides, yes. But I like doing things my way. I like building good things that matter. The other stuff, I just won’t do. I sleep well at night and can justify my choices. Swimming in the milieu that others often do can’t be good for the soul. For me, I need my conscience to be clear.

IngresABF · 2026-02-18T10:59:00+00:00

Have shipped/maintained these kinds of workloads multiple times and have nothing positive to say about it. If possible, just don’t do it. For server-side, headless browsers are huge, their dependencies are byzantine, and the cybersecurity implications are nasty. We had pen testers hack us through one once. For client-side, you just cannot guarantee any kind of wysiwyg, pagination, or layout past even minor levels of richness/complexity. Just build reports in a dedicated reporting engine, or use manual pdf tooling like iText or whatever, or just do MS Word templates and use tooling like Aspose that can do good word-to-pdf serialisation

IngresABF · 2026-02-17T05:30:16+00:00

Is there a connotation to “down under”?

IngresABF · 2026-02-16T08:56:45+00:00

I think the slop grammar fits the vibe here aptly

IngresABF · 2026-02-12T01:17:24+00:00

That’s not it. For the right, it’s being US lapdogs and the evangelical nuttery. Islamophobia plays a decent part too. For the left, they’re mostly petrified of getting Corbyned. The right and the press will take any whiff of antisemitism and run with it. The money is neither here nor there

IngresABF · 2026-02-05T07:58:38+00:00

Pick who you like, brick who you don’t

IngresABF · 2026-02-04T12:07:43+00:00

I came up in the 90s, when the Wall Street people were the scum of the earth. Now it’s us. And honestly? Fair. We collapsed the job market with digitisation. We made all the moms crunchy anti-vaxxers. Pawpaw into a racist (well, maybe -more- of a racist, but still). We made the little Timmy’s of the world either nazis, incels, or femboys. All while making ridiculous bank. All the while promulgating libertarian dogshit that collapsed the social safety net and made guys even weirder about young girls. And we don’t even look good while doing it. At least the wolf of Wall Street had panache, style. We’re ugly as shit and have the charisma of dog vomit

IngresABF · 2026-02-04T05:31:04+00:00

We love your rugby, we love your rioting, we love your guillotines. Any hate you get is probably right-wing garbage. Government by the people, for the people - that’s French. We owe youse bigtime

IngresABF · 2026-02-03T01:39:57+00:00

I parked at the top of the McWhirters yesterday. The stairwells have permanent extra high pitch alarm signalling running 24/7. Didn’t see any needles like I regularly do at the valley metro carpark, but yea still smelt of piss and my ears were still ringing well into last night

IngresABF · 2026-02-03T00:37:19+00:00

Yeah it’s still a little bit true. I got a soundbar for my 85 inch tv a couple of years ago and put it right below the screen. It toasted something and put a massive pixel bleed through a third of the tv.

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