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I really love these stories - as a contractor who fixes the badly implemented shadow IT crap

aaaand let me guess? have they assessed whether this tool needs backups? monitoring? resilience? patching? obviously in 5 years time the author would have left leaving NO documentation on a mission critical 'small' app - likely hosted with a shit ton of other mission critical crap

It's MS Access all over again, my future rates are looking good

seriously it's like going back to the 90's

I see where you're going, but this happen now where I live. All prices are with in 2p of each other in a 2 mile radius.

but travel around 5miles and it's typically 5-9p cheaper

no way can this make it worse for me - hopefully people will travel to punish the garages.

> this causes price convergence

aka competition

It can be more complex than that, sure for one person your comment makes sense

but if enough people use their time to go to the cheaper station further away, then they may force the closer garage to to reduce their price

either that or the close garage goes out of business and the one further away puts up the price because they can.

but still, it can be more complex

in reality there should be a legal minimum leg room that's based on the distance of the flight

the recline feature should be baked in to this as well

thanks for clarifying,

my excessive procrastinating definitely overlaps with this (as I call it in project) meaningless bollocks. and I intentionally let people go on and on, until things stabilize. Endless meetings going around and around, discussing loads but coming up with nothing much

Mostly I put it down to education/ understanding - eg people need around 5-10 repetitions to understand stuff.

To combat this, I modify my documents and diagrams to show how simple things are, make sure all acronyms are explained properly (over and over again) and make 'solutions' into a "story" eg beginning, middle and end explaining how/ why / decisions.

Meaningless bollocks still exist, I let other people run around like headless chickens - I think people like the chaos and fun (well I try and make it fun)

yep, the same - I got shit marks, but I was very efficient at getting my shit marks

I hadn't realized there was a name for this! (i thought it's just procrastinating)

This what I do 90+% of the time, I work with my ADHD and put off doing as much as I can until the last minute. Then do weeks worth of work in hours.

To note: If you're thinking of doing this, be careful, it can be extremely stressful

Only do it on stuff you're good at or understand the implications if it goes wrong, because this method doesn't allow much time to change your mistakes.

If its something new i will not do this (or i'll break it down in chunks)

I was trying to think of an analogy

Kind of like wanting to learn how a car engine works and asking about fleet management in trucks/ lorries.

BGP is one of things I've learnt then forget the next day (multiple times)

I had missed the collaboration list,

being tested on trains makes complete sense

Call me sceptical, but I suspect if this works very well it will be used in weapons.

Which then leads me to think the whole thing is a smoke screen, not sure why

I moved away from SysAdmin around 2010 and I worked with a fair amount of other techies and it really was the wild west in the stuff various people did with: sizeable production systems, Firewall rules (or lack of) network connectivity/ switches, and code changes

Get a cool tool from a magazine? yep just throw it on to production servers - no testing or letting people know what the hell they did (I got burnt a few times from people doing this!)

no change control, no documentation - just reverse the changes, if it doesn't work immediately - although some people never even made back ups of the previous files - crazy shit

why would an enterprise turn to IPv6?

everything fit's nicely in the 10.0.0.0/8 range

in my many decades of enterprise infrastructure, no-one has ever mentioned IP6 either.

why would they, whats the business case?