Jim @sullybiker@sully.site

@HebrideanHecate It is also fraught with peril for the institution. You have to make sure you have everything, because if you employ or enrol an ineligible person suddenly the govt has all the resources in the world to jump on you.

@HebrideanHecate I had some involvement in the asylum process in two different past lives, one in recruitment, and the other in college admissions. It is almost impossible to vet these people. You wouldn't believe the enormity of the task.

@baldur They make simple mistakes too, like very short hedges on fuel, or no hedge at all, and so a modest increase bankrupts them as it completely trashes their Op-Ex.

@baldur It's not just Iceland.

Train enthusiasts tend to have very deep photo archives, which they then scan and produce images that have a present-day feel; this is from 52 years ago #photography https://flic.kr/p/2pxf8FA

"You tell me how many zeroes you want to spend and I'll put together a cloud proposal"

Sadly, the client has only a single zero in mind.

A colleague came up with a neat turn of phrase describing non-tech people's belief in how complex IT projects simply happen by magic, without consideration for work, time, and most of all, cost. The wish compiler takes wishes as an input and turns them into scaled-out projects with absolutely zero effort, in no time.

Of course, no such miracle exists. And yet the myth persists.

Friday! We made it. Once again I am in a house of plague as one child brought something back from school earlier in the week, and now we all enjoy the sickness.

Pleased that the Fedi has now endured several eternal Septembers (I arrived during one of them back in 2017) and is still, when the dust settles, a really good place to be.

My wife pointed out the Ross Google thing with the couch. It's sort of funny how Friends - a show that was funny if bland when it was still new - has thrived with a completely new audience. I'm middle-aged now, so it's so weird to me because all that feels like yesterday.

@emery That's the spirit! I enjoy this time of year. You get these little Spring previews of sunny days and short sleeves, people sitting in the parks. It's just a matter of waiting out the eternal month of March.

At the risk of angering the faithful the experience is very close to a modernised X201. I'd recommend it if you're curious.

It's interesting to go back to a 3:2 having been so used to wide displays; some apps including masto web look a bit confined because they have less space on the right, so do one or two work consoles. It is less a complaint but an observation of how these things change and you don't really notice after a while.

I don't buy myself much new computer stuff but I'm very pleased with this so far.

It is quiet and cool too, although I haven't particularly pushed it yet. I really cheaped out on the ram and SSD; work always buys me ludicrously overpowered kit that I barely stretch.

I am very taken with the 3:2 display and the general build. It's a nice bit of kit. Not entirely sold on the port concept but it's still very new to me.

I splurged on a Framework 13 AMD as a belated b'day present for myself as I really wanted a small laptop again after the various pandemic 16's I've been living with. I do not like traveling with them. Very impressed so far.

My son got my old phone for emergencies when he does after school activities. He is off today and is helpfully sending me emails 're - BOFA'

Convinced the boss to let us dump Atlassian because their product really is a gigantic pile of shite.