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Shouldn't a landlady be the opposite of a mermaid?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I don't know, but you shirley don't want to myth your rent.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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That must come up at lease as off-fin as . . . what?
I cannot flat-out say.
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I don't know, but I once made the mistake of referring to a female accountant as a bag lady. I thought she and her husband would get the joke, and it was rather embarrassing when they didn't.
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Well, I think the problem is with the joke, because I also don't really get it...and wondering if there is something to get...?
Google isn't helping.
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Bagman is slang for someone who controls the purse strings. It usually involves shady dealings, but since it was supposed to be a joke...
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Greg Utas wrote: since it was supposed to be a joke...
Well at least now I know. 
I'll have to ask some accountants if they've ever heard the term. But then, I don't know many accountants...
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Merriam-Webster Definition of bag lady
: a homeless woman who roams the streets of a city carrying her possessions in shopping bags That's the definition I am familiar with, and if someone called my wife that, she'd probably kick the crap out of them (which I would love to see by the way). 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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That was supposed to be the joke, that bag lady means something very different than bagman.
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Wouldn't landholder be the antonym of water seller?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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 or maybe not. I've never seen so many "Out of Stock" messages on NewEgg.
Brings home the virus impact.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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NewEgg has been (and still is) my go-to place for computer stuff and electronics. That being said, I'm concerned about how they are becoming more and more like Amazon.
By that I mean that more and more items are featured from third-party vendors and it seems every more often no one at NewEgg vet's these offers. Whether it's a US$12 item with US$18 shipping, fraudulent claims, and just general gouging, it's becoming more and more the norm.
My personal take on this is that for a couple of years now, NewEgg is now more than 50% owned by a Mainland Chinese company. As such, their promoting more and more of the local riff-raff production we've all grown to know and loath. For merchandise of some quality, the prices are less and less good all the time: I noticed I was less often purchasing what I needed from them because I could do better elsewhere. (TigerDirect went down a slippery slope - I've not bought anything from them for at least ten years).
Being out-of-stuff is certainly more common. What I can't understand is how they never seem to have re-stocked (logitec webcams, for example). Like nearly everything else, they're made in China. Could this be a new 'conspiracy' to get us into the habit of buying off-brand and no-brand junk?
Oh Brave New World!
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Concur with the assessment on NewEgg, and I've caught Amazon doing the slippery swap on me as well. NewEgg has been my go to for parts, because they are adamant in keeping gray market crap out of their supply chain. Or perhaps not so much now with the acquisition by Liaison Interactive. I haven't built a new rig in 10 years, so times change. If their quality slips, they lose their one distinguishing feature over amazon.
I was just shocked at how many new motherboards (I'm looking at a high end Ryzen 9 build) are just not available. We have processors out the wazoo.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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TigerDirect had been my longtime supplier of barebones systems. I have since gotten one from NewEgg (I think). So far, however, high-end is not my target. No use for the power.
Lot's of processors (that wazoo thing) - makes sense if no MoBo's in which to install them!
Actually, my most recent purchase was a "NUC barebones" from NewEgg. It's my Linux box, for now. Also my Raspberry Pi 3 . Actually, also the refurbished DELL Optiplex I'm using now to VM into work (and from there, RDT to my Xeon, where I am now).
Sad - how mediocrity and even less is becoming ever more an acceptable norm.
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Manufacturers are having a hard time getting stuff out of China. There's not enough space on planes and ships to get the stuff out. A lot of space is being taken up by PPE because of the virus.
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An endless supply of shyte, Chinese brands, are making it to the US. What gets on planes, aside from PPE, is controlled by "The Party". It's called building acceptance and increasing market share.
Coincidentally, came upon this today, just after posting[^]
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modified 11-Jun-20 12:35pm.
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Newegg needs to cull anything less than 3 stars, but now that they are owned by a Chinese firm, meh. Amazon knowingly ships the same garbage, they just hide it better.
What I found interesting is that I could buy any processor I wanted. Intel has world wide sites, just two in China. AMD farms out all of their manufacturing, but it looks like the latest chips are coming from the Republic of China (taiwan )
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Gamers Nexus covered the part supply shortages about two weeks ago; for anyone too busy to watch a 25 minute video, the TL;DW is that the Corona outbreak in China made the post-lunar new year inventory slump larger than normal. While on the demand side enough people decided to use their $1200 stimulus checks to build new PCs that demand surged from what's normally the lowest levels of the year to that of the November/December peaks. Production in China is getting back towards normal; but between the withering of air-freight due to passenger jets not flying (they carry a lot of trans-ocean cargo too) and medical supplies having priority on the available air/sea freight manufacturers/resellers are struggling to get supplies from the factories to the US. The prediction at the time was that PSU inventory would recover during the first week or two of June; but mobo/gpu shortages are coupled (both are bottlenecked on the same pick and place machines for PCB assembly) would continue for a while longer. (And the GPU in particular side will get walloped again later this year when AMD/NVidia stop production of their current cards to start building release day inventory for their new ones.)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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So, over the years, the place where I work has slowly, grindingly improved their s/w processes. In 2020, the mission is to get build engines going for all current and recent products. Right now, we're all laptop sensitive, code releases being built on individual developer laptops. So, naively, I ask IT to spin up a few virtual machines on our development server. This simple request morphs into.. oh never mind, let's say it got complicated.
So, let's say you have N products you need to do regular builds for. I'm of the opinion that unless the products are very close in their nature and build tools, they each get their own VM. In my mind, it limits the coupling between products and build requirements. I'm sure I'm going to have to explain this approach.
Thoughts and opinions?
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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That should not require explanation.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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You would think. Every time I ask for a VM, it turns into a research project. I mean, it's trivial. But I'm just here to help.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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What color should it be? Nasal fitment?
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That's the problem with professional IT. They understand nothing of development workflow...
I consider myself lucky, to be my own IT...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Truth. I get the 1000 yard stare when I tell them development will be managing the VMs.
The local IT is all goodness. I've worked with them long enough that they understand what
I'm trying to do. It's the corporate IT Borg that give me trouble.
Example:
me: "I'm sorry, 2 of the virtual machines will need Windows Xp."
IT: "Sorry, we don't use that anymore. We don't support it."
me: "Well the development tools for the product that our biggest customer uses needs Xp."
IT: "Can't you try Windows 10?"
me: "No, the tools don't work."
IT: "But we don't know how to support Xp anymore. It's a security risk."
me: "It's okay, development will manage it. Besides, we're not surfing the web here. Honest."
IT: "But...."
me: "I'll have my director call your director... What we've got here is failure to communicate."
3 months later....
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I also am my own IT and Developer where I work. It seems to be the best balance as I can spin up what I need or request one of my coworkers to do so with very little explanation if any at all.
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