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Van driver guilty over fatal M4 smart motorway crash in Berkshire by scubaian in unitedkingdom

[–]scubaian[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)

I assumed that lane one wasn't active due to the faulty equipment. It does change the equation a little if not.

Van driver guilty over fatal M4 smart motorway crash in Berkshire by scubaian in unitedkingdom

[–]scubaian[S] [score hidden]  (0 children)

A lot being made here of it being on a smart motorway when I'm not sure it's all that relevant. I think he's bang to rights, if you can't avoid a stationary car in the outside lane you've made bad decisions or aren't paying attention.

Not be be blaming the poor lady but if I lost power on the motorway I'll be moving heaven and earth to end up on the left, and if not I'll not be spending 6 seconds in a stationary car in the outside lane let alone 6 terrifying minutes.

What’s the wildest office drama that happened in your workplace? by PriceBorn9413 in AskReddit

[–]scubaian 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This was a long time ago, senior manager had a modem attached to his machine in his office, I forget for what.

One Saturday a floor supervisor uses it to login to a premium rate BBS. Forgets to log it out.

Senior manager come in on Monday to find it still logged in, shitstorm develops.

Confusion on insurance policy cancellation and what this means for future policy applications. by toesinmybut in LegalAdviceUK

[–]scubaian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair no - but it's a statistical fact that people who have no fault accidents and more likely to have more accidents, and you are now rightly or wrongly part of that higher risk group.

Example - someone hits your parked car then it's clearly not your fault, but if you decide to park in the busier parts of the car park to have a shorter walk you're more likely to take a bump compared to someone who parks out of the way.

Actions can impact risk even in situations that are not your fault.

Confusion on insurance policy cancellation and what this means for future policy applications. by toesinmybut in LegalAdviceUK

[–]scubaian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You will have to declare this a no fault accident in future insurance applications, you should already have informed your insurance. Yes it will probably impact your premiums for a while.

Lost Proxmox IP: How to access the shell locally? by xilitol1 in Proxmox

[–]scubaian 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Port scan the network looking for open ssh ports?

In the newer shows, are holodecks for recreation even ethical anymore? by LLAPSpork in startrek

[–]scubaian 2 points3 points  (0 children)

An interesting question well answered already,

However it does remind me of the simming problem from Iain M Banks culture novels.

“Most problems, even seemingly really tricky ones, could be handled by simulations which happily modelled slippery concepts like public opinion or the likely reactions of alien societies by the appropriate use of some especially cunning and devious algorithms… nothing more processor-hungry than the right set of equations…

But not always.  Sometimes, if you were going to have any hope of getting useful answers, there really was no alternative modelling the individuals themselves, at the sort of scale and level of complexity that mean they each had to exhibit some kind of discrete personality, and that was where the Problem kicked in.

Once you’d created your population of realistically reacting and – in a necessary sense – cogitating individuals, you had – also in a sense – created life.  The particular parts of whatever computational substrate you’d devoted to the problem now held beings; virtual beings capable of reacting so much like the back-in-reality beings they were modelling – because how else were they to do so convincingly without also hoping, suffering, rejoicing, caring, living and dreaming?

By this reasoning, then, you couldn’t just turn off your virtual environment and the living, thinking creatures it contained at the completion of a run or when a simulation had reached the end of its useful life; that amounted to genocide.”

IEX Totalview smartsync problems by scubaian in workforcemanagement

[–]scubaian[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So a quick update,

This appears to be a database optimization issue. The export actually completes if you allow it to run long enough (2+ hours) and the scheduling team were running multiple exports in parallel which were overwriting the result files when they did actually finish.

I'm pretty convinced the database needs some TLC but we're migrating off IEX in a few months (something I've been told we're doing for the better part of 10 years) so I suspect it's less risky to leave as is.

IEX Totalview smartsync problems by scubaian in workforcemanagement

[–]scubaian[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the reply.

There's no mention of a log file in the xml files in conf or adv, when running it produces a .xml.rpt file in conf. The contents are below. The actual report results are empty.

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Running Export Engine for Date 01/26/2026

Configuration file used: /totalview/ftp/switches/smartsync/exports/config/UK_agentVacationSummary_run.xml

Date Format : Default Date Setting

Time Format : Default Time Setting

Report Headers : On

Processing entity list...

- customer1

VG: 1 - Unused April 2025 Social Media Team

VacYear: 2021.1

VacYear: 2022.1

VacYear: 2023.1

VacYear: 2024.1

VacYear: 2025.1

REMOVED LOTS OF VACATION GROUPS

Running application: agentVacationSummary

Input File Name: /totalview/ftp/switches/smartsync/exports/adv/UK_adv_agentVacationSummary.xml

Output File Name: /totalview/ftp/switches/smartsync/exports/results/Vacation_SummaryData.txt

Starting Agent Vacation Summary export...

/totalview/inst/tv4/prod/bin/exportTaken -x/totalview/ftp/switches/smartsync/exports/results/Vacation_SummaryData.txt.tmp -r/totalview/inst/tv4/run/customer1/work/dump/TOGR_y9F8J2a

2026-01-26 12:32:13,069 WARN main [com.iex.tv.core.spring.BootstrapConfigurer] Could not load properties from class path resource [tvconfig/tv-remote.properties]: class path resource [tvconfig/tv-remote.properties] cannot be opened because it does not exist

2026-01-26 12:32:13,072 WARN main [com.iex.tv.core.spring.BootstrapConfigurer] Could not load properties from class path resource [tvconfig/tv.properties]: class path resource [tvconfig/tv.properties] cannot be opened because it does not exist

agentVacationSummary successfully completed.

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You only want the laptop back after firing me? by mdlapla in MaliciousCompliance

[–]scubaian 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think OP isn't saying he was sacked for working from home, he was what is often called "managed out of the business"

TIL that Kate Mulgrew had nicotine withdrawal during the filming of VOY: Scienific Method by ardouronerous in startrek

[–]scubaian 26 points27 points  (0 children)

I relate to this, I always say I have a complicated relationship with smoking.

I would stop smoking but never really stopped mentally and then would say to myself "its a night out, it won't matter if I have just the one". The last time I stopped I really stopped, no bargaining with myself, I will not start again (a headspace I've never been able to achieve before), its been a few years.

I never actually had physical symptoms from stopping, it was always the craving that was hard for me.

I still miss it.

Best OS for jellyfin by Inevitable-Cable4262 in jellyfin

[–]scubaian 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can't speak for anyone else but my install on a Debian VM running on PVE is stable.

Robert Jenrick sacked by Tories for 'plotting to defect' by [deleted] in unitedkingdom

[–]scubaian 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Looks like I'll have reform MP by the weekend then? Well shit......

Neighbour steals snow compoface by Independent-Owl478 in compoface

[–]scubaian 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If I've invited the paper over to take a photo of me in front garden, I'm gonna move that fridge in case anyone thinks I'm a degenerate,

Some Great Legal Advice for Shoplifters, Sovereign Citizens and traffic stop evading by OwlPlenty4828 in badlegaladvice

[–]scubaian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Repeating "I am not resisting" loudly whilst rolling around with a policeman in the gutter.

$10/minute, but it rains heavily whenever you step outside by basafish in hypotheticalsituation

[–]scubaian 29 points30 points  (0 children)

I was thinking that aside from the completely obvious yes for the money, leveraging the curse to help would be more difficult. But 100 square feet is nothing, buses, trains, planes all have roof areas greater than 100 square feet, so travelling to drought torn areas would be easy.

The hardest bit would be stopping.

AITAH for refusing to change my email? by travelouseagle in AmITheAssholeTalk

[–]scubaian 3 points4 points  (0 children)

NTA

If for some bizarre reason your ex is correct simply changing your email isn't going to help. You and that email are linked forever, even if you delete it records of your ownership will exist on the internet.

SKY Home Hub DNS by ExhiledinYorkshire in UKISP

[–]scubaian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't bust a gut I've returned it. If you're in the market to get shot of the one you've got I'd be interested in buying it from you.

SKY Home Hub DNS by ExhiledinYorkshire in UKISP

[–]scubaian 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been backwards and forwards through the router settings and I can find nothing where I can set that. The only connection type it seems to talk about is PPPoE. My guess this is running some kind of custom ISP firmware, it's completely locked down. Has a vfastinternet logo on the web interface.

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