I am sorry Dave, I cannot do that.

Former assistant deputy backup courier with the Ostrol B heretics - until they took his tooth :(

Maybe not every single one of them will shoot an unarmed civilian, but all of them just stood by and did nothing.

Verdict: ACAB.

“I only recently lost my sense of smell.”

Happy birthday!

Ours tried to explain to project leaders that employees are not mostly interested in their salary, but in praise. That went over well.

some would try to appear “we are family” to retain employees

Nope. Rule of acquisition 111. They claim that everyone is part of a happy family because family is easiest to exploit.

Fucking assholes. From what is known about their sex test, it is similarly scientific to the “I know it when I see it” rule from the 1960s to determine if something is obscene. In other words, utter bullshit.

And all of this pretending to care about women while at the same time you have abuse scandals in sports every five minutes that never seem to have real consequences or result in positive change for the athletes.

Yeah, I don’t believe you one bit when you say you want to protect women.

Good thing there are no actual problems to solve…

We have a customer, a big international corporation, that has very specific rules for their intranet passwords:

• Must contain letters
• Must contain numbers
• Must contain special characters
• No repeats
• Passwords must be changed every two months
• Not the same password as any of the last seven
• PASSWORDS MUST BE EXACTLY EIGHT CHARACTERS LONG

I can only assume that whoever came up with these rules is either an especially demented BofH, or they have some really really weird legacy infrastructure to deal with.

Slachten in de grachten and stuff

I would not count on them telling the truth.

I checked my Windows 11 work laptop a while ago, and that shit was enabled. Did not see that in any UI, but using command line. Said that shit was enabled and active, but apparently it was not yet doing anything. I will have to check again next time I am firing that machine up again, because I absolutely trust them to re-enable it without my consent, those bottom-feeding scum suckers.

Obligatory info on how to check and disable recall in Windows 11:

• Click on the Start button with the right mouse button and select “Terminal (Administrator)” or “Windows PowerShell (Administrator)”, or if necessary log in as administrator and confirm.
• In the Terminal or PowerShell, enter the command DISM /Online /Get-FeatureInfo /FeatureName:Recall and press the Enter key.
• If the entry “Enabled” appears next to “State”, the recall function is already activated. In this case, the function can be disabled using the command DISM /Online /Disable-Feature /FeatureName:Recall
• Close the window.

From this page.

As a long time C/C++ developer, I think it has a lot of really great ideas. The one thing preventing me from using it a lot more is that there is no stable ABI that would allow to use shared libraries in Rust - everything is statically linked, and if I use the same crates in a number of programs, the same code exists in each of these programs. That is not really a good thing whne you try to develop for a system with very limited space and where program load times make a difference, such as for certain embedded platforms.

But honestly, Rust support in the Linux kernel? Java never got that far, nor any other language (apart from C, obviously).

Well… a turnip, obviously.

Finally, prepare thoughtful questions to ask the interviewer. This demonstrates your curiosity and engagement. For example, you could ask about the team dynamics, opportunities for professional growth, or how success is measured in the role. Avoid asking about salary or benefits too early; save those discussions for later stages.

So… waste my time to interview for a job with a salary that might be a joke? Riiiight. Pretend we’re not doing this for the money. Riiiiiiiiight.

Is this for real? Are people really asking you to reverse a string in python during a job interview?

“Eierkuchen” (literal translation “egg cake”) is another word.

Where “Pfannkuchen” means something different, “Eierplins” is used (mostly in eastern Germany).

And then there is “Palatschinken” which is similar to the Czech word “Palačinke”.

Buy a Fairphone instead.