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V8Granite wrote: Tue Oct 06, 2020 8:30 am I know we are full of IT superstars but since 1998 I’ve never known a newly installed or bit of IT software that has simply worked.

I think apart from some auto calculating excel forms (which invariably have some limitation with date or access etc) everything has been version 2,3,4 etc.
This includes software, things like Concur, WinTid, Zalaris, our own work portals etc etc.

Dave!

I know where you're coming from, but can I suggest someone is maybe doing it wrong somewhere if that's your experience?

Can't you nerds just work a bit harder?

Anyway, enough of these lolz, I hear we're getting a two week lockdown up here soon. Good times.

In the meantime, here's how the French cases are tracking - you know, the ones that Vallance and Whitty suggested we'd follow a similar path to when they showed their "doubling every 7 days" chart:

All those other jobs that are waiting around.

Same energy

Ascender wrote: Tue Oct 06, 2020 9:40 am

V8Granite wrote: Tue Oct 06, 2020 8:30 am I know we are full of IT superstars but since 1998 I’ve never known a newly installed or bit of IT software that has simply worked.

I think apart from some auto calculating excel forms (which invariably have some limitation with date or access etc) everything has been version 2,3,4 etc.
This includes software, things like Concur, WinTid, Zalaris, our own work portals etc etc.

Dave!

I know where you're coming from, but can I suggest someone is maybe doing it wrong somewhere if that's your experience?

Luckily this was company wide and not my normal level of ludditeness.

Dave!

To be fair though, Dave, you face the same mediocrity in your own industry. Lazy fixes, bodges, that's why you have a job rather than whatisface from the subcontinent, as there is a lot of money on the line. One stupid data error in my industry and someone drills in the wrong place, many millions down the drain.

The shocker here is many lives being on the line.

Would you approach it differently though ?

Given the opportunity I presume you would do more testing etc but is the method used to get there any different than any other data entry, organisational bit of software ?

Dave!

Lots of speculation regarding the source of this current spike - university clusters being blamed but I doubt that is all of it.

Nonthrless, hospital admissions and ventilated patients remain less than a tenth of those at peak.

V8Granite wrote: Tue Oct 06, 2020 8:23 pm Would you approach it differently though ?

Given the opportunity I presume you would do more testing etc but is the method used to get there any different than any other data entry, organisational bit of software ?

Dave!

Yes, very much so. Everyone else uses a database! In theory completely limitless. Excel is just the thing at the end that you create a data dashboard or reporting tool in, and dump the data to.

Can anyone recommend a decent reusable mask that you can actually breath through but doesn't make you look like a cunt? It's pretty unpleasant on my train commute wearing one, but I can live with it. They're now on about wearing one whenever you leave your desk at work, which it going to be a bit much. Time to spend a bit more on something I can live with.

I got a mask with the elastic on the top and the bottom so they don't hook behind your ears etc

Way more comfortable...

This looks pretty comfortable

dinny_g wrote: Wed Oct 07, 2020 10:14 am I got a mask with the elastic on the top and the bottom so they don't hook behind your ears etc

Way more comfortable...

Yeah, ear pain is one thing, but it's more about something that allows a more free flow of air.

I have a fabric washable 55 Deltic mask to spread the word that I’m a cool person who likes trains. It works well and looks brand new after multiple washes.

Compared to a proper single use medical mask though it’s not even close.

The only free flowing masks I’ve used have carbon canisters on.

I’d have a re-useable one for work if you are going to be able to take it off when at your desk and a medical style throwaway one for the commute.

Dave!

duncs500 wrote: Wed Oct 07, 2020 10:11 am Can anyone recommend a decent reusable mask that you can actually breath through but doesn't make you look like a cunt? It's pretty unpleasant on my train commute wearing one, but I can live with it. They're now on about wearing one whenever you leave your desk at work, which it going to be a bit much. Time to spend a bit more on something I can live with.

No need to thank me.

When they issue out these lockdowns it amazes me that they think um 16 days will do it or 2 weeks or a 6pm kerfew or 10 or just shut everything.

Can't help but wonder where it will end.

mik wrote: Thu Oct 08, 2020 9:35 am

I think they're genuinely now just using this advanced tool to make decisions every day while hanging about in the staff canteen.