Nice! Veeam is already top tier B&R software but not having to run a Windows box to use it is a major enhancement.

No one in the recording industry has ever considered how stupid their plans are. If they did, they would stop constantly giving piracy free advertising.

You know what’s funnier? I mean, it’s not funny, but it also kind of is. At the same time, the Trump administration is pushing coal burning power plants. Aside from the high levels of pollution, including greenhouse gas emissions that coal plants produce, no one in the US is building new coal fired power plants. Twenty years ago, coal generated over 50% of the electric power in the US. Now it’s less than 20%.

Even if they were, it takes years and a huge investment, including getting rail access to the plant, to even bring one online. Electric utilities spread their capital outlays over decades rather than years. So I would expect that convincing the industry to switch back to coal, with the understanding that they’ll have to maintain new coal fired plants for the next 40 years, is going to be a nonstarter.

All tarrifing solar panels will do is push power utilities toward natural gas and exacerbate the (actually legitimate) issue of insufficient base load generation capacity that they’ve been whining about for years. Oh, and also kill residential solar projects.

Long way of saying this action will continue to weaken our already strained energy infrastructure. You could try to incentivise domestically produced solar panels. But this is not how you would do that.

After a quick glance at the demo, I think the UI design is better than Paperless-ngx (at least on mobile). But, it only has tags. Not correspondents and document types. It also lacks the automatic matching feature, advanced search filters, custom fields, and customizable document views that Paperless has.

And the President of the United States is a steaming pile of shit.

I asked ChatGPT to do a simple addition problem a while back and it gave me the wrong answer.

Does the new ISP require use of their router or just offer it as an option?

AT&T used to require using their router, which was a pile of hot garbage. I have a Mikrotik Router and managed to mostly cut the AT&T router out but I had to configure my router to use the AT&T router for authentication, at which point the Mikrotik would take over. It was complicated to configure but it worked.

There are plenty of people out there who believe gay people choose to be gay. Nevermind that straight people didn’t choose to be straight and can’t just will themselves into being attracted to people of the same sex.

It’s such a a simple concept and yet I have to admit there was a point in my life where this had not occured to me until a friend of mine, who was gay, politely pointed it out. It made me seriously reconsider much of what I was taught about human sexuality.

Being annexed by Canada would be a good option as well.

And don’t forget to say “Thank you”.

Who’s this nightstand for? Paul Bunyan?

That’s a tough one. There’s not a ton of great options for personal accounting apps, much less self hosted ones. I used Pocket Smith (subscription based) for years which actually does what your looking for. Decent product overall. I switched from them to Quicken mostly because I’m an anal retentive personal accounting nerd and the fact that they couldn’t produce a conventional income statement or balance sheet was a long running frustration of mine.

If I had to choose another platform again, I would go with spreadsheets since it can be as simple or complex as you want to make it. I know that’s not really what youre looking for. Wish I had a better suggestion.

I’ve been groped by women on two separate occasions. Granted, I’m a reasonably well built dude and I didn’t feel threatened. But those experiences were not wanted or asked for. Thankfully they were quickly resolved with a terse “Don’t do that again.”

I completely understand that women are often on the lower end of the power dynamic and have a harder time either saying “No” or providing their own enforcement so there’s theoretically a good chance that M -> F assaults are more prevalent. But the idea that women never engage in this kind of behavior is complete and utter horseshit.

People don’t harass or assault someone because of their [the assaulters] gender. They do it because they lack respect for others.

I’m holding off major home improvements because I can’t afford to do them at the moment. 🤷‍♂️

“Full Stack Dev” AKA Backend Dev who knows just enough about CSS to be dangerous.

Real talk: I wish more orgs place a high value on QA. A good QA team is worth it’s weight in gold and helps prevent a lot of stupid mistakes.

If they ever file for Chapter 7, I will be deeply disappointed if the headline doesn’t read, “Hooters Goes Tits Up”.

No good deed goes unpunished.

One time I worked on a team that had a ridiculously high defect rate. Stuff was constantly getting kicked back from QA. Management kept piling on all kinds of convoluted processes to try to reduce the number of defects which only made things worse.

I started really hammering the need for doing a root cause analysis as part of bug/defect tickets. Don’t just fix the bug. Make sure you understand what caused it and link the bug ticket to the ticket that caused it.

Big surprise (not really), 90% of the bugs and defects were being caused by like 3 people.

Your comment made me think of some of the PM’s whining about adding one story point for doing an RCA because apparently it’s better to just ignore the problem and keep pumping out shitty broken code as fast as possible.