I think the bit that annoys me the most is the flip-flop politics.

Why bother with any long term policies or projects if in 2 election terms it’s going to be attacked by ideology, called a failure and reversed at considerable expense.

It’s about time we banned CGNAT.

And supposedly; You’re more likely to die from a donkey than a plane.

What do you use to bundle into one file?

At least these ones are flared at the base.

Yet, in other parts of the UK it’s mostly based on who is the most skilful at standing where the bus doors will stop.

Don’t wanna get on last? Git gud.

Them in China can only do a 180 Wivel.

Fuck yeah! Murica!

What difficult conversations? Huh? Which ones?

The “we’re not sexist, we promise” one?

Or the “it’s not our fault new employees are paid more than long time staff,” one?

Or the “you’re valuable to us, but we just can’t afford the CEO and your pay rise ” one?

18,000kms here

I’ve circumnavigated the globe on 8 flights across 4 continents, with a knife (mistakenly) in my bag, only to have it detected on my last leg.

Then on domestic flights, I’ve been asked to take my knife out… so they can measure it.

Refusing to identify scooters as motorcycles for 20 rounds.

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Now do PM and VOC levels at petrol stations.

Then PM and VoC levels on roads entirely occupied by combustion vehicles, and entirely occupied by electric vehicles.

It’s a formulation of various hydrocarbons.

You excite it in a closed chamber and capture the expansion of gasses. You then use this captured energy to make something magnetic spin around next to some coils.

This in turn will create a flow of electrons you can use to drive a motor.

Most common adhesives will be less effective under hot (ie sunlight) conditions.

If you don’t need it to come off, 3Ms GPH (General Purpose High-temp) VHB tape. 50% of your car is probably held together by it.

Or, the PM doesn’t think they’re too far right to be a problem.

Effectively, “we’ve loosened the leash, but don’t want them doing anything too dramatic”. The ‘just-right’ of racism.

Ditto.

But I manage a team of embedded developers. On a specialised commercially restricted embedded platform.

AI does not know a thing about our tech. The stuff it does know is either a violation of the vendors contractual covenants or made up bullshit. And Our vendor’s documentation is supplemented by a cumulative decades of knowledge.

Yet still “you gotta use AI”.

While true; do curl http://copilot/?query=what+is+the+time; sleep 10; done

Bet the AI can’t see through this.

You should be putting sunscreen on regardless, and reapplying every 3 hours.

Taking a line from our Australian friends

fuck off, we’re full (of rich cunts)