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  • Old.

    The new ones, I wouldn’t even call military or war games. They’re like Overwatch with things based on real life objects. Basically it’s about how good you are at performing a gymnastics routine in a firefight. Slides, spins, dives, rolls, have a pretty outfit, performing in this cute battle theme arena. Nothing really at all to do with being called for any sort of military duty.




  • You just rock up and say, “I need something for this” and they give it to you. Otherwise a doctor prescribes it. And it’s cheap.

    Companies will advertise approved drugs to medical boards to be distributed down to doctors. So medical professionals decide what the best options are. There’s no taking drugs just because it was on TV.

    Considering Americans lag behind the developed world in life expectancy and general health, I think it’s safe to say the drug industry is only there to make money and it certainly causes harm, ironically.


  • Among the controversial historical assertions attributed to Dr Solehah are claims that ancient Malays could fly and had taught the Chinese flying kung fu, as well as claims that ancient Romans learnt shipbuilding techniques from the Malay world, according to NST.

    More recently, Solehah suggested that ancient Kedah’s rich iron deposits may have been linked to a meteor shower or extraterrestrial impact.

    Classic academic. Absolutely dumb as bricks on anything outside their lane, but never lacking confidence.














  • I’ve worked for two organisations that distributed licences for users. Being able to prove, under scrutinisation, that your general requests do not need to be questioned for that level. Anything above your level of liberty in the data governance would be checked—though 99% of the time you already know this and explain in full detail on the request to help.

    It worked perfectly and I don’t know why it’s still not the norm.

    In a ‘wet cement’ org structure, often the specialists in an area know far more about what’s going on than the juniors gatekeeping. If you aren’t buddies with the person on top, you join the queue and a 5 min job becomes 6 months and several meetings; if you don’t already botch a dodgy workaround before then.

    Edit: I’m in year 3 of getting the Oracle SQL add-on allowed to direct query, read only, in Excel. My current workaround is to use the IDE to export to CSV, store on SP, then PQ that… And, yeah, I have write access in the IDE even though I keep telling them that’s bad… Apparently, that solution is more secure. I’ve spoken to the CIO about the concerns and how it breaks the fundamentals of our data governance framework. The new infrastructure architecture gets it, but has to spin the better way of doing things as a “trial” which has taken 6 months to approve and counting…


  • That was not what you should’ve gotten from my point.

    But, yes. That is also obviously correct.

    Edit: Granted, my bad for really dumbing down the wider scope of it. I re-read the comment now seeing why, when regarding the specifics of signal disruptions of a network for identifying—which is a part of IDing and tracking secondary to the actual top layer identifying—is a thing. Thought that went without saying…

    Am learning this is somehow surprisingly new to people. Which is honestly the bigger concern.