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At office: shutdown every single day.
At home: I let the laptop battery die
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Just overnight?
I don't think I've shut down or restarted my desktop PC in weeks. Maybe longer.
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I used to. Then microsoft demonstrated they can not be trusted with it so I don't anymore. I am sick and tired of opening it up to find it powered on and too hot to touch after having closed its lid at the end of the day.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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True, I've had those issues quite often after several OS updates. I had to check several times what was waking the laptop in the middle of the night (also, why wasn't it going back to sleep as it should after 30 minutes?) but couldn't find anything useful. Eventually I changed a setting to disallow the computer to wake up for updates, and now it's fine (until the next update that messes it up).
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I shut it down completely when I'm done with it.
Closing all my work puts me in the relax mode so I do that anyway, and it's back on in a minute when I need it again.
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Yep I do, reboot once per week 
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Hibernation mode for me, on the laptop.
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I boot it up Monday morning, shut it down on Friday when done with work. In between I just lock it at the end of the day which puts it into sleep anyways.
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Not me, laptop sits lid closed and additional screens off at the office. If I'm needed, use my main machine at home to remote into it for whatever requires doing.
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I always shut down my computers at night, always have.
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When you run your PC it gets warm and all of the tiny components expand. Shut it down and they all contract again. Over time your just asking for trouble. Not sure if that's really true but it seems safer just to leave it on all the time (or off all the time if it was my choice).
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all times until Windows want reboot fo update
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When I leave any of my computers I expect them to be in the exact same state when I return. The only thing that ever gets powered down are my laptops when I'm mobile.
Needless to say I don't share well when it comes to hardware I earn a living with.
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"Needless to say I don't share well when it comes to hardware I earn a living with."
amen brother, long time ago, the kids learned not to touch dad's laptop. The desktop machine on the side was available if permission was granted. One night I was imaging my laptop drives (the one's I make a living with). Teenagers came in, unplugged it and moved it out of the way to use the desktop.
There was a very angry teaching moment...
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Among other things, I used to write productivity tools and monitoring for businesses. These days I've seen such tools misused by businesses like Amazon to overwork their employees.
I can't do anything about abuse of technology, but I can choose not to have a hand in it and I sleep easier for it.
I don't want any hand in anything like this:
Life Inside China's Total Surveillance State - YouTube[^]
I don't even want to delve into that arena.
This isn't a judgement of anyone else. The tech is fascinating and I don't fault anyone for wanting to pursue it.
But I can't.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Interesting that you should use Amazon as an example.
I was just revisting the evils of that company over coffee.
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You'll have to make quite a few pots of coffee if you want to revisit all their evils 
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What if you wanted to cheat in online where's waldo?
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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heh. that's actually cute.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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I worked briefly for a company that does on-line surveys and, I found out after a while, "legal" spyware to track supplicants on-line activity. They agreed to have this keyboard tracker installed and then got entered for raffles to win TVs and Cars, etc. We gave away a car every week so for some of them it was probably worth it! 
My part was to finish off work on a bio-metric recognition system that analysed the speed and time of keystrokes to recognise one user from another (on the same machine, so different family members essentially). My boss, who wrote the initial code was proud that it provided up to 98% accuracy at telling who was whom. My task was to write code to identify who was whom and assign names to their keystroke signatures. This proved fairly tricky but I came up with a fuzzy logic algorithm and then, using a form of time travel (looking at the logs), assigned the ids to past interactions and activities. 
However, I calculated that my boss's confident 98% was more like 28% and one of our clients demanded a minimum of 30%. I brought this up in a "report to the big bosses" status meeting and the world exploded. My boss demanded I be suspended while another team checked my results for the error I had "clearly" made while using his perfect code. 
The big bosses just had me re-assigned temporarily to another project that needed my help and brought in that other team to find the error. They found the error, as I had. It was firmly in my boss's code, he'd overlooked some obvious scenarios and had filtered his tests to agree with his predictions. He got moved to "Special Projects" and I was asked to fix and continue his work. I quit.  The best decision...
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I had one contract where my boss got so upset with me over something like that he had me escorted off the premises.
Most abrupt firing I ever had, but I was glad to go.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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honey the codewitch wrote: he had me escorted off the premises
Glad I'm not the only one! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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me too. I was hesitant to even admit it. Not really my fault maybe, but also not my best moment.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Forogar wrote: My boss demanded I be suspended while another team checked my results for the error I had "clearly" made while using his perfect code
How good or wrong was his code?
If he had said "Nice find Forogar, let's look at my code together to see if we can find out what's wrong" would you be singing his praise now?
Forogar wrote: a form of time travel (looking at the logs)
You should be working in marketing! 
"Using AI and a time travel algorithm, we were able to [whatever...]"
Stocks go through the roof!
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Quote: would you be singing his praise now
Possibly, but then that would have been because he would have been a different kind of person.
I quit that job anyway because I felt dirty just making things work. I enjoyed working on the fuzzy logic stuff I wrote - that bit worked great - and I could probably have improved his algorithm to beat 30% easily enough, I just didn't want to.
They had a weird system in that all job titles were "managers", I was a "Senior Software Development Manager" - but I only had an intern reporting to me.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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