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I'm still confused about the context. I'm assuming "VM" doesn't mean "virtual machine" in this case? Or maybe it does with a different meaning?

Idk im just an IT guy, not a web developer

Man I've been there too. You do exactly what HR asks you to, when they ask you to do it and all of a sudden it's "oh whoops that's actually supposed to be next week)

Or like the meme says, it sucks when you get an email telling you to term someone at the end of the week and you have to interact with them all week.

GMT+4 would add 4 hours to Greenwich Mean Time though? That's GET (Georgia Standard Time), so 10am (1000) GMT would be 2pm (1400) GET.

GMT-4 would be EDT (Eastern Daylight Time), so that 10am (1000) GMT would be 6am (0600) EDT. Also, Georgia the state is in that time zone funny enough haha

(For the most part. Timezones are really really complicated and you should probably just look up the offset for the specific city/region you want Everytime and use some other package for time stuff lol)

We have an app that drivers use to file paperwork and stuff like that. We are going to start requiring them to do a vehicle inspection before each load (not CDL, so it's not required), and so I built a little form for them to use.

If there is no issue, it just saves their report to a database so we can keep record. But if there is an issue it's supposed to generate a report and send it off to the maintenance department.

While I was working on the formatting for the email, it just stopped working! I was trying to troubleshoot my code thinking I broke the SMTP send part, reading my HTML formatted email thinking I missed some syntax, working with the SMTP relay provider we are using. Nothing. Everything looked perfect. There were no errors. Reports were properly saving to the database. Just no emails.

I was forgetting to click the checkbox to mark that I had an issue 🤦‍♂️

Anyways, now you can't actually list issues or until you check that box haha

They are there as a backup, for if the bank loses power or Internet

I feel like you aren't actually reading my comments?

it occurs to me that we're not a representative section of the online community

This! I have been preaching this for years, both online and IRL with the IT techs I manage. Tech nerds (myself included) forget just how little the normal person even cares about computers, let alone how they work.

The vast majority of people just want to buy a computer in a box, and have it work mostly perfectly. Which windows and Mac's do really really well. And yes, windows isnt perfect but neither is Linux. And for 95% of people the most demanding and complicated thing they'll do is web browsing, and power users might do something wild like play games through steam or install an alternate browser.

And we havent even touched work computers yet, which is a whole other level of "I don't care at all" from end users.

Remember people "Linux is amazing!" is meaningless to people who have never heard the acronym SSD let alone what it is or why it's better than a HDD.

I like to compare it to sewing because I genuinely don't care at all about it. But I hear people say "just thrift clothes and tailor them to you!" But that ignores two things.

1. I genuinely can't think of a whole lot of other leisure activities I'd want to do less than sewing and tailoring.
2. I barely know how to sew a button or mend a rip. Do you think I know how to actually tailor something? Or what types of tools I need? Or how to use them?

They are there as a backup, for if the bank loses power or Internet. Normally they just use the computer system.

There is one specific cigarette that reminds me of my first boss when I got into IT. She mentored me for a few years and taught me so much about being in IT, and more generally in a professional environment. My entire career up to this point has been built on the foundation she built. I'm just below a C level position now and I'm not even 30 yet.

But I've long since forgotten what cigarettes she smoked, and it's been a few years since I've stopped myself. But every once and a while I meet someone who smokes them and the smell will shunt me back to that first shitty job and everything that's happened since then. It's like when Ego tries the food at the end of Ratatouille.

If I could have any job from my youth it'd be the go kart track.

It was actually a ton of physical work, people were just as shitty back then as they are now, I got paid less than minimum wage ($5/hr in cash compared to $7.something in taxable income so it wasn't too bad) and the owners were this crazy white-trash couple who screamed and yelled at everyone including customers.

But damn man that job was so much fun. I miss running tournaments and hanging out with the regulars and fixing karts and getting almost unlimited free track time.

One of my friends found his old Gamecube with a copy of 007! So of course we had to have all the boys over to have a little tournament complete with 2 liter sodas and chips and cheap pizza.

Man I forgot how rough around the edges those earlier FPS games really were. They were super bare bones, with janky at best controls, and mediocre hit registration. At least the maps were still good.

Are there plastic horse shoes now?

The cameras and screen are for two different purposes.

The cameras do what they already do, act like an action camera type thing giving you POV recordings and live streams.

The display is basically going to do what the old Google glass did. Give you heads up notifications, navigation markers, potentially some game integration. Basically what a smart watch does now.

Werd the banks in my state are still required to have bank books specifically for this reason.

how will we get gas without working gas pumps

Gas stations are required to have generators where I am for this exact scenario.

How will stores open their electronic doors

These are legally required to be openable by hand without power in the United States.

How will stores process payment

Hence the reason why cash still exists.

But yes, I believe everyone should have a week or so worth of clean water and easily cooked non-perishables in the case of an emergency. Although I'm more worried about natural disasters rather than some random power loss.

Which is the reason the right to bear arms is the second amendment.

The founding fathers anticipated and understood that without the ability to defend it, the right to free speech only exists while the population and propaganda are in agreement.

In Indiana cops are not excluded from castle laws

Yeah I'm with you. I also manage about 800 devices at my current role and I've never had any major issues with BitLocker.

I'm tempted to think they're just lying but that's a little mean. Maybe they just didn't know? I don't know but BitLocker is not the problem here.

Big facts

Motorbikes are considered cool cause they're fun as fuck to ride

Yeah, but it's really hot ¯(ツ)/¯

(I do not have the most responsible taste in women haha)