om £14,000 to £500,000 in an almost perfect straight line.
During those boom times I never once felt that what I was doing justified the cash my gormless bosses threw at me and found it almost unbelievable that they kept doing so year in year out. With hindsight I suffered from something psychobabble aficionados refer to as ‘imposter syndrome’ throughout my entire City career.
CRRRRRUnch(nice shoes)…
two decades • [IT] undoubtedly became second nature as a result of my inherent ability as a visual cortex dominant mirror-writing left hander, to command the ability to sense, through the advanced radar technology available to me, the capability of manipulating multi-dimensional space-time in my head so to speak, and as a result issue appropriately rationalised instructions to pilots, to very accurately maintain mandatory separations in time and space, twixt all of the aircraft under my control.
During my career I had five near-miss complaints filed against me, during complex extremely heavy traffic situations, by an individual pilot, and on every occasion, following a comprehensive analysis of an electronic evaluation of same, I was completely exonerated of any failure to maintain legally required separation, from every perspective of space-time spatial requirements.
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ll keep hearing of shows I want to see on streamers I don’t have. Maybe there are people who carefully analyze what’s available and keep unsubscribing and resubscribing, then methodically bingeing what they miss and deactivating again. Please do not sit those annoyingly competent people beside me at a dinner party. I’m just barely getting by.
Worse, my precarious balance was wholly overturned a few weeks ago when the Netflix movie I was watching suddenly flickered, and, with brutal abruptness, quit entirely, dumping me into the anodyne pink abyss of the home screen of my Roku-powered smart TV. I did what anyone would do in that situation, opening the Netflix app again to try and resume the movie. I didn’t get to see another full minute before the app crashed again. Well, when in doubt, reboot. I pulled the plug on the TV, waited a minute, and started over. This time I was able to complete the movie. But two days later the same thing happened again. And later that week, I had the same problem with the Amazon Prime app. For the past few weeks, to watch a movie on either of those services has meant pulling out the power cord and rebooting the television before pressing the Play button.
STEVEN LEVY - W•I•R•E•D
https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-my-quest-to-fix-a-crashing-app/…
Added by Michael Grove at 10:03 on February 29, 2024