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Cake day: June 10th, 2024

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  • May I?

    A controlling department wasn’t granted any money for digitializing their workflow.

    So these guys created their own solution(s!). Things like dedicated “user interfaces” loading data from tables created by hand. After years these people realized that data formatting is quite the issue.

    They started to put random rules into different tables:

    Two empty lines: New Group Data Record. One empty line: New Subgroup Data Record.

    Excel tables aggregating this data via hardcoded links.

    A dedicated table to start calculations on parent tables.

    They mutated data like this:

    Load data from excel files into one. Manually delete, add or change lines (or columns). Start a collection run from dedicated excel file and load new excel file data and replace old excel file data.

    They had files where ‘it was easier to read’ when they pivot the data. This was troublesome since some values are intermediate results. Dropping one column may imply dropping another one as well.

    All workflows required manual alignments along the way.

    They were only able to process 10% of the data from a year within a year. Managing millions in cash.

    Their data input came from different internal sources. Programs which were written two decades ago once and without any tests. Talking like VB, macro’s from host servers and copy-pasta data from other internal programs.

    And don’t get me started on customer tables… They created a zip-code encoded filesystem hierarchy where each customer data (you guessed it, excel file) was renamed and then saved. In each of these directories where randomly named files if something went wrong; So no actual file patterns to rely on.

    I respect them.

    They creates a diagram for their tables with word. Word! (Didn’t know either: you can select the web view in the bottom right corner and you get an infitive canvas…) Madness.






  • Launches faster sounds like you have a weird shell config.

    Also scrolling isn’t really existing in a terminal. If you are tail -f somefile then it depends on how fast it is written to, how fast tail is. If you have some TUI tool open it dependa how fast it can emit it’s UI.

    If your program only emits 100MB data each seconds then a terminal sink of 30GB/s wouldn’t really benefit.

    Power users like me run a terminal multiplexer anyways so there is another bottleneck.

    And the configuration is onetime only (if the terminal configuration will be downward compatible with a version 10 years from now).



  • I attempted to upgrade such a card and were suggested the Geforce FX 5200.

    I was so hyped. After finally installing the games I always wanted to play I ad to realize: This passive cooled card supported DX9 on paper but its performance was worse.

    It crushed me back then and since then I have never bought a desktop PC part ever again.

    But then recently I was gifted an old rig from a friend. Put a Readon RX 6700 (or so) in it. So my first actual graphics card is this radeon!! :)

    Buddy, if you read this: Thank you again, much love. You are an awesome beeing.


  • Our countries welcome Ukrainian refugees.

    I am friends with Russians in my country.

    Russiana living here sneak benefits by saying they are Ukrainians.

    The majority of Russians living here voted for Putin polls have shown.

    Some Russians denounce our media and only watch Russian state TV.

    So if they can’t adapt after beeing here for decades I tend to believe that the Russian common sense differs immensly from ours. And therefore I agree with this propaganda: Fuck Russia.

    They talk about eachother on the highest level but Russian citizens - here or in Russia - do not form loud critique. If my Brother was jailed for critique I would apread the word in my circles who would spread the word… WE IN THE WEST WOULD MAKE US HEARD.

    Russians benefiting from the lower prices just agree with their government and apparently do not care about their country killing innocent people.

    So fuck Russians as well.

    • Obviously not every Russian is stupid or bad. But if they want to get out of their war, they have to speak up. This is exactly what they demand from other countries with inner conflicts.