The problem solver [workchronicles]
The problem solver [workchronicles]
That's one of those paradoxes with human behavior around problems. If you put in effort to resolve the problem before it becomes significant, either no one notices, or they claim your effort was unnecessary because it wasn't a problem in the first place.
Y2K bugs are a great example. Lots of effort, time, and money was spent ahead of time to prevent it from becoming a problem...and you get people claiming the whole thing was just nothing to be worried about at all and the expense was pointless.
192what's Y2K bugs exactly?
11Dates with the year stored as two digits only (say, 1995 was stored as "95"), which worked fine for things like comparisons (for example: "is the year in entry A before or after the year in entry B?") which were just done by numerical comparison (i.e. 98 > 95 hence a date with a year ending in 98 is after a date with the year ending in 95), until 2000 were the year being store would become "00" and all those assumptions that you could compare those stored years as numbers would break, as would as all the maths being done on two digits (i.e. a loan taken in 1995 would in 1998 be on its 98 - 95 = 3rd year with that system, but in 2000 it would be on its 98 - 00 = - 98th - so negative - year which would further break the maths downstream with interesting results like the computer telling the bank it would have to give money to the lender to close the loan).
Ultimatelly a lot of work was done (I myself worked in some of that stuff) and very few important things blew up or started producing erroneous numbers when the year 2000 came.
37https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2000_problem
Generic summary: Two digit clocks hitting 00 thinking its 1900 not 2000.
18It's similar to the Y2K38 bug:
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Happens at work so often.
Put energy into building robust systems organically (A lot of problems get solved because they where experienced, not because they where predicted) and then a year later you have folks asking "Can't we just simplify this and remove XYZ? Do these problems even exist? Can you show us how often edge cases a, b, c happens to justify why this needs to operate this way?"....etc
Should have just let it fail and fixed the issues once pagerduty got involved instead 😒
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The message at the bottom sounds like pretty shitty move.
86Message at the bottom sounds like someone trying to distance themselves from reddit and Twitter. It's an excellent move that I support completely. It's free, the content gets delivered to you directly upon it being uploaded, and a newsletter doesn't want any extra data out of you other than an email address to send your letters to.
Also the comics will probably end up posted here anyway, since it doesn't ask you not to repost them, so why does it matter?
95Why not just post the comics on the website like every other comic author does. Even this comic is normally posted on the workchronicles.com website, but for some reason, the author added this to the website:
📣 ANNOUNCING
NEWSLETTER NOVEMBER!
For the entire month of November, the comics will be posted only on my Email Newsletter.
Join now. It’s free!
Stopping posting on website and posting only in newsletter, which many people including me find extremely annoying and not the right tool for the job, can't be excused by distancing from twitter or reddit.
69newsletters can have trackers and shit built right in, and this is especially true when using a service to do the mailing. this is, of course, on top of the contact info and anything else requested at 'signup'. none of which needs to be 'required' when reading a web site or an author-submitted post somewhere. there's basically two reasons to lock content behind a 'newsletter': a paid sub is coming, or selling readers' data.
31other than an email address to send your letters to.
No big deal! Totally not key to your digital identity or anything.
Also click tracking is a thing so this perceived boost in privacy isn't even real.
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Glad I’m not the only one that saw that, seems like a super terrible move unless you have a huge audience on your newsletter anyways
22Not really, as the Oatmeal put in their comic.
The newsletter means you are not behold to the almighty algorithm and have to pay money to a corporation to encourage your content to be promoted to followers.
16Please see my response to similar comment. They specifically stopped posting to their website to force people to sign up for the newsletter.
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I was going to disagree with you, then I realized this author has a full website. So yeah, I agree.
9Why?
If I put work into making entertaining material, it's 100% within my rights to publish it where I want to publish it. It's mine, I made it, if I only want to post it on my personal website or newsletter who are you to say I cannot?
Calling that a shitty move is in itself an entitled, shitty move.
1Please see my responses to the responses to my comment. I agree it's 100% within the author's rights, but that doesn't mean it can't be a shitty move.
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There is no glory in prevention
46I think in real life, the manager ends up taking credit and the worker gets a pizza party.
46pizza party? We just had a terrible incident take most of our profit margin, money is tight right now. I want you all on brain storming sessions how thos happened and how we can prevent this. Unless your solution involves management listening to workers warnings three month before the problem got out of hand. I won't here any of this, while enjoying my salary increase for quick and decisivie actions against serious threats to the company.
23Wow this is exactly my company right now
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The accuracy in this comment is making me cry.
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I'm sure someone will repost old mates comics, bit strange to signup for newsletters just to get a comic that could easily be delivered on their website, the way every other artist does it.
37Yeah, I understand wanting a more devoted/consistent following, but I think it would probably be better to have an incentive like an extra panel or behind the scenes information in the newsletter if you wanna attract people and not lose your casual audience.
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Protip: Cause the fires yourself
36From personal experience, this is exactly how things work in big companies.
28My coworker
13We are assuming equal vision here for both, and risk tolerances which seems unlikely, also, assuming the fire isn't moving, and no heat is being felt at that burning skin distance, bro is probably worried that some thermodynamics laws are being broken and had to be sure.
At that point you sure have a big problem
8Ah yes, except instead of the fire going out, it would just engulf them both.
4Is this some diet cyanide and happiness?
Art is derivative and then there's just straight ripping someone off.
-7This looks nothing like C&H. Even if it did, the humor style is completely different.
16I mean it's not like they themselves invented putting a circle on a rectangular body.
15Yeah I was wondering on that comment. If someone uses stick figures are they ripping off xkdc.
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