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[Dorkeaux]

I saw it coming, but went ahead anyway.

An elegant solution. I'd have to test it, though.
Now where's my EBCDIC-based COBOL compiler......

[Dorkeaux]

Not to be a Boyscout, but I find this behaviour very disheartening.

Rule 1: Always act in the best interest of the final client. Good things will then happen to you (and the parasites between you) naturally.

Contractors with the attitude espoused by Protagoras and Oliveson...

[Dorkeaux]

In that case, I would probably use assembler language, not COBOL.

To avoid division (D is available in IBM 360 assembler, but not effiicient) I might:

a) Subtract 4 from the number repeatedly until either 0 or -ve
b) Subtract 100 from the number repeatedly until either...

[Dorkeaux]

See, now there are more details being revealed.

So input a 4-digit number and return a Y or N.
How exactly do we measure memory efficiency? I don't run a mainframe, and different compilers/linkers/platforms have different ways of using memory.
The DIVIDE statement is very inefficient...

[Dorkeaux]

Sorry, but I expect that when I propose a solution that doesn't use the DIVIDE statement nor a constant of 4 you'll say it's wrong and drip feed in some other requirement that fits only the answer you came up with.

Not my first rodeo....

[Dorkeaux]

All of my clients but one since before Covid specified in-office attendance of 2-3 days a week.
I wouldn't take it too seriously, none of them meant it.
I guess a little Dorkeaux goes a long way.....

[Dorkeaux]

Indeed, have another banana:

Yes, the people working out of their bedroom in India having no relationship with the client nor knowledge of the role offering half-rates are definitely clogging up the pipes.

Reminds me of kids setting up a lemonade stand in their front...

[Dorkeaux]

Don't think so.

The market is not the same thing as the kite-flying lowball roles posted by randos.
Linkedin, Jobserve, my phone and inbox are crammed with these roles obviously at the low end of the bell curve.
That's why there are so many of them. No one takes them, so all...

[Dorkeaux]

Likewise.
I don't believe I "deserve" a particular rate or engagement type, but I am very much aware of where the market bell curve is for what I do.
When you set your rate at the high end of that bell curve, you trade the higher rate and better contract for a longer seek time...

[Dorkeaux]

I should pay more attention to Cojak..

To be clear, I don't use LLMs on client hardware unless it it allowed, provided and integrated (like CoPilot into GitHub).
Nor do i input any PID nor company identifying information from ClientCo into an LLM. This is second nature, I'm sure...

[Dorkeaux]

I certainly do this already.
Obscuring PID and other sensitive data, and usually run on my own hardware or VM, but ChatGPT, Perceptivity and Claude are my friends.

AI might not be the thing that changes everything, but it is very, very useful. If you don't learn how to use it to...

[Dorkeaux]

I understand this, my father was the same.
He loved being a machinist, being in the Navy then being an Engineer.
He liked being an Engineer so much he got two degrees, Mechanical and Chemical.
But aside from my mum and beer, that's all he had. When he retired (forced out because of...

[Dorkeaux]

Haha.. Plenty cheapness...
Agreed, Amazon is no place to buy clothes, for the reasons you both state. Also, sweatshops.

Lucky for you, there is a massive stack of catalogues on the coffee table in front of me.
There seems to be a new parcel from one of these shops being handed...

[Dorkeaux]

I feel this as well, but lots of permies are more comfortable with the illusion of security.
The nutters.

It's not just the extended process of leaving, the insane onboarding cascade of interviews, tests and obstacles do not do it for me.

But needs must.
I don't...

[Dorkeaux]

Same. Southeast London, zero flags.
Multicultural, a monolithic labour council since 2010....

[Dorkeaux]

Actually, I was talking about Oliverson's plan A, B and C for retirement, not career planning....