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John M Free

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  1. about 4 hours ago on Andy Capp

    I have an Uncle that I’d say is close with the work, drinking and smoking (both have given up) – and to be honest I’m surprised he has survived as long as he has, but it has caught him up

  2. 1 day ago on Working Daze

    looks like the balloon bubble has pieced Picard’s head to me

  3. 1 day ago on Brevity

    Sounds a pain

    Fortunately didn’t have those rules where I worked – either you couldn’t put classified info on the computer or it was secured with no floppy disks access (well before USB & Internet access to desktop). A couple were in safes and you had to shut them down and lock them away when you’d finished.

  4. 2 days ago on Working Daze

    There is a difference between an anticipated error e.g. where user does something wrong and an unexpected error due to some unhandled data condition/bugs etc.

    If it is something the user can fix then we spend time producing sensible error messages, if not then you should get a error with message to help report it. systems are internal and there will be support to help if needed

  5. 2 days ago on Working Daze

    Probably doesn’t help the average developer/engineer much either, unless part of sequence in the logs.

    Most of unexpected error messages coming up in my systems will say – sorry something went wrong, please quote <> in ticket. The unexpected messages will generally be rather alien to a no programmer and a potential security risk if hackers get at it.

  6. 5 days ago on Working Daze

    There is a book Redshirts by John Scalzi that explains some of it, Wiki page probably gives enough

  7. 6 days ago on Broom Hilda

    When she says years – is it an Earth year, a Pluto year (248 Earth years) or a Sun year – i.e. how long it takes Sun to rotate around Sagittarius A* (Milky Ways super massive black hole) @ 230 million Earth years

  8. 7 days ago on Jim Benton Cartoons

    I thought pretzels were banned after attacking an occupant of the White House – perhaps we need to send a few to current occupant.

  9. 7 days ago on Brevity

    It looks like a 5 1/4 disk as well – so likely even less will know it

  10. 8 days ago on Working Daze

    In a small shelter which super heroes can change in