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Been there before too (though an alternative to MediaWiki). A few important pages were migrated but we just ended up with two wikis with lots of tech info on the old one and lots o…

Yep, a friend recently told me that he remembers working somewhere that gave away old empty server racks - they were unnecessary, and expensive to store, so why keep them?

> this is part of why published maps often have intentional, hopefully subtle errors in them Yes I remember reading a few years ago about the Royal Australian Navy trying to find S…

I probably should have figured part of it out from my basic German, but I guess the Dutch don't capitalise nouns?

I once had a coworker tell me about his young son's circumcision. Not really something that should be discussed in the office...

Yeah I agree. I'm still very careful who I trust but it doesn't hurt to try and build a network.

I log into Discord maybe once a fortnight to check what's going, and every time I land in a channel, it shows me the newest handful of messages, and I need to scroll back endlessly…

I'm in Australia and in my experience gambling regulators don't budge. Other ones might not be as strong.

I'm pretty partial to Groovy's JSON library - it has a nice syntax it just works (caveat that I had issues once where the size of the JSON was multiple megabytes and it corrupted).…

Yep, very very true. Unfortunately some of the places I've been at more recently have believed that mock servers are the best way to do end to end testing. It was a battle I couldn…

> Writing automated end-to-end tests? Those are very often best done by those writing the software This so much - but most of the places I've worked at have insisted that manual te…

> "good enough unit tests" Good enough end to end tests then maybe.

I worked in a team with no QAs for a while - testing was done by developers and there were a lot end to end tests. It worked pretty well - I think a couple of small bugs got throug…

Layer on the merge conflicts resulting from this fun scenario...

I am friendly with a project manager at work - he's overseeing a fairly big modernisation project with lots of stakeholders, lots of moving parts, lots of direct reports, and while…

Oh did it? I remember using K-9 on my Android phone years ago and being pretty happy with it.

I'm glad it's not just me - I do game modding in my spare time and I figured out how to use Hammer to make maps - it took a day or two but I figured it out. I wanted to make some m…

I'm not sure if it is possible in either game... GoldSource had a VGUI surface system (like a flat in-game surface that could have OpenGL-like commands run on it but apparently it …

> On the other hand, once multiple separate implementations are already in widespread use, there's immense value in working out a least common denominator of language features and …

> It's incredible how much traction the completely fabricated anti-data center propaganda has gotten Agreed - here in Australia one of the big TV networks was heavily advertising a…

Rightly or wrongly, you'll probably want to be local to have any chance of winning. Similarly, a friend who works in engineering went to tender to a country council. Working for a …

I'd believe it. In Australia, gun silencers (home made or otherwise) are absolutely illegal. In New Zealand no such limitations. A family member went to New Zealand maybe 15 years …

> it's based on the media company providing a service...forever? People in this thread are saying customers should get refunds and I disagree - customers should get video files! Ve…

Is it really the ability to download them all in perpetuity? Google Music (RIP) gave you five downloads or something like that and I thought that was on par with Apple Music at lea…

> That sounds pretty corrupt. I live in Australia and Australia is not New Zealand... but this sounds exactly like what would happen in rural Australia - people in small towns stil…