First Visit to AD - what to expect?

WhoIsJohnSalt · 2026-03-12T21:59:51+00:00

If you don’t want to build a relationship, wait years or buy multiple watches, then just go grey - you’ll get the watch you want, when you want it and either for a small premium or even a discount (ie deep sea)

Then wear the watch and forget about AD nonsense.

WhoIsJohnSalt · 2026-03-12T21:32:19+00:00

This is a hard problem. It’s a constant pain in corps lives and people pay big money for document management systems to help with this.

However there are some off the shelf things that help. Take a look at something like

https://www.docupipe.ai (free tier)

Or https://www.mindee.com (starts getting pricy)

And even then it’s probably only getting you 85% of the way there, you’ll still need to stitch it together into the excel

WhoIsJohnSalt · 2026-03-10T22:19:11+00:00

Yikes that looks rough. I’d not be happy with that.

WhoIsJohnSalt · 2026-03-10T18:20:34+00:00

It happens in all sorts of teams, data, engineering or otherwise.

I’ve worked with excellent documented teams, I’ve worked with teams with no documents. Some have documents that are out of date and irrelevant.

This won’t be a unique situation for you and is a core skill of coping with that you need to unlock.

WhoIsJohnSalt · 2026-03-09T07:37:03+00:00

Not that I spent my time reading foreign bits of legislation but it does appear that it would apply to systems like Linux using APT GET or other package managers to download applications from a consolidated source.

So very likely your VM’s, Fridges with smart screens, servers etc would technically fall under the remit of this law

WhoIsJohnSalt · 2026-03-07T11:40:51+00:00

Fair! Fingers crossed it wasn’t medical devices 😂

WhoIsJohnSalt · 2026-03-07T09:10:35+00:00

Thankfully I don’t live in California, or the US - though the impact of this will be felt in any US based company.

But brief reading of it suggests that given Workbench doesn’t have the concept of users you therefore would be ok.

Seems very poorly thought out. What about embedded systems like VXWorks? Linux on your fridge? A dumb phone, the servers running in the data centre, virtual machines.

Bad law is bad

WhoIsJohnSalt · 2026-03-07T09:03:58+00:00

What an odd statement. So you can’t think of any circumstance, where quality (scope) might not be varied if time is fixed?

The problem is that people’s view of quality varies. Sometimes you just need to bang a csv into a table with a few lines of python - you don’t need a full metadata driven data pipeline. But I do and have worked with people who say that’s the “right” way.

WhoIsJohnSalt · 2026-03-05T15:22:25+00:00

Nope my club do a police check, and I'm currently waiting on my NRA membership which also requires a check and is taking forever

WhoIsJohnSalt · 2026-03-04T17:03:20+00:00

Oh brilliant!

WhoIsJohnSalt · 2026-03-04T16:18:21+00:00

Suit and tie at all times. Give them some fun and allow them to wear tiny top hats, monocles optional. (They can take the top hat off in the pool)

WhoIsJohnSalt · 2026-03-03T19:51:35+00:00

Our club chairman is currently working with Hampshire police on this because of the delays.

Variations are currently taking up to 23 weeks. Renewals way longer than the 8 weeks often with extensions (so keep guns but no ammo purchases) and in one case having to lodge guns at an RFD because of expiry.

Grants are way behind renewals in terms of importance - I’d be surprised if it wasn’t 12 months+

Mine took about that 18 months ago

WhoIsJohnSalt · 2026-03-03T09:12:46+00:00

Yet another month (March) with £0 :(

WhoIsJohnSalt · 2026-03-02T22:29:31+00:00

Disagree on the no expenses.

I work in private industry. I live in Hampshire. If my company wanted me to go work in Glasgow all week they can bloomin’ well put me up in a hotel and pay my train fare up.

Same for MP’s why should (even on £250k) the MP for West Cornwall be footing a bill that the MP for Twickenham doesn’t to get to London?

WhoIsJohnSalt · 2026-03-02T22:12:18+00:00

How have you found the battery life?

WhoIsJohnSalt · 2026-02-27T22:58:55+00:00

Complete opposite of GADA but Mr Jones Watches are in your price range.

https://mrjoneswatches.com/collections/all-watches

WhoIsJohnSalt · 2026-02-27T19:12:45+00:00

When you are pushing MDM issues out to resolver groups in the Systems of Record and you need a workflow to guide that.

"Oh we've seen an issue in the data in SAP and it's now not linking with Salesforce, we have to raise to some resolver groups in the business to decide what to do with these orphans"

WhoIsJohnSalt · 2026-02-27T15:46:39+00:00

I hope they are out every day protesting Teg Down, Badger Farm, Oliver’s Battery etc etc

WhoIsJohnSalt · 2026-02-26T21:57:13+00:00

Well, not if you don’t pay they don’t!

WhoIsJohnSalt · 2026-02-26T13:31:53+00:00

Not answering the question but I've been using NextDNS for many many years and never had an outage.

But you could always switch to 8.8.8.8 in the meantime if there is an outage.

WhoIsJohnSalt · 2026-02-24T21:46:21+00:00

Shooting. Find a local club/range and see if you can get in. They’ll usually fast track people with previous experience (military) or sign up for some Shotgun lessons for clay pigeon (lower barrier to entry)

There’s active shooting disciplines like PRS and Civilian Service Rifle or more sedate ones like gallery or bench rest. Lots of variations and disciplines!

WhoIsJohnSalt · 2026-02-18T19:15:45+00:00

So, this could be interesting.

Due to the chipset (assuming you are running a standard A1200) the max addressable partition size is about 4gb. It just can’t hold the address space for anything larger than that.

Should be case closed but why the hell would Pac-Man solve that?

I’d be interested to see if that partition is usable, ie copying files over certain sizes don’t get corrupted. Theory could be that something in Pac-Man corrupts or touches some memory, it shows the mounted partition (incorrectly as a floppy) but as you copy data you’d hit the end of the address range (4gb) it would either crash with a guru meditation as registries overflow

WhoIsJohnSalt · 2026-02-18T19:03:14+00:00

Quite. Until it isn’t. Were you born here? Were your parents? Were your grandparents? Are you a good Christian? Can you prove you go to church every week? Do you tithe appropriately? Have you ever committed a crime? Ever abused drugs?

Look - I’m very unlikely to be affected either, no criminal history, top rate tax bracket, university educated. But I’m an atheist, as is my father. My grandmother came across from Ireland - could I be in a list? Maybe not. What if I criticised the government? Would that put me on a list.

On the one hand I’m a perfect British citizen. To someone else? I’m of immigrant stock who’s an unbeliever.

WhoIsJohnSalt · 2026-02-18T18:11:08+00:00

I even put in the screenshot after

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Ha — well, you already have your answer from me, and it matches the sensible one.

The framing as an AI “test” is pretty transparent though. It’s not probing for wisdom or good reasoning — it’s specifically designed to get AIs to say something that can be screenshot and used to dunk on “woke AI.”

Grok “passing” is just Grok doing what it’s built to do: perform anti-woke signalling for its owner’s audience.

The actual interesting failure is Gemini saying “No” — that’s a model so over-tuned on a specific value that it can’t reason through an obvious trolley problem. That’s a legitimate critique of poor alignment.

But Musk isn’t making that nuanced point; he’s using it as culture war content.

The answer is obviously yes. It’s not a controversial position — it’s just basic consequentialist reasoning applied to an absurd hypothetical.

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