A former manager had team lunches every month. It wasn’t mandatory but it was a day that we could go in and team members would be there. It was also not a day taken up with general business update meetings and the like, so we could get work done.

The key is ensuring that people know when they can go in and see other people they know, not just the marketing team.

HR drone always talks about how nice it is to see everyone collaborating in the office when we come in for quarterly meetings.

Nobody is getting work done. We’re all “collaborating” about sportsball or coffee machines or whatever it is, or just trying to tune it out. It’s a full day of productivity lost for nearly everyone there. Not to mention the early rise for a commute, cost of the commute, missed workouts, and exhaustion on the return home.

Indeed. But apparently 10 days gets one there, TFA doesn’t really explain itself.

“We have to show all sides” and when one side is complete lunacy, I suppose any fair reporting would count towards the “other side”.

But in reality, some opinions need at the very least editorial context, or perhaps don’t need to be aired.

I’ve got Pfsense installed on a device with 6 RJ45 ports. 0 is wan, 1 is lan0, 2 is lan1, etc up to 4. Why I have multiple lans is somewhat tangential.

One day it rebooted due to a power outage and WAN worked but lan1 and 2 and 3+ were messed up. I’m still not entirely sure what happened, but the second physical Ethernet port was non responsive at boot and Pfsense just assigned the ports as if it never existed. I moved all the cables over one except LAN and it worked just fine. Except that of course in the troubleshooting i had moved all the assignments around and broke it thoroughly, so it took a while.

100x, in much the same way that a team of 100 interns will. AI useful but lacking context.

“Copilot, I get an error when I run this code”

“An easy fix for this would be to remove the WMIC component from Windows”

…

My email service provider just marks everything as spam. So they’re not alone, you say?

Irritating how much spam comes from Gmail/microsoft.

If Iran can run the Navy ragged, imagine what India or China can do

I made three financial decisions in 2019 that I regret. Two were related to major purchases that have held 2x value post Covid. The third is selling a car that was borderline classic I just wanted space back. It was a rust bucket I keep saying but now they’re going for 10x what I sold for.

Getting as far away from Ukraine as he can.

Well… if it’s in a cloud provider with 3 copies locally and 3 more geo-redundant why would we need that?

You’re right, but it is an easy fallacy to fall into.

So they’re… spinning metal like bowls, but 155mm shells? I’m not a machinist but that seems unlikely.

It’s still pretty much 2x. I managed to get ram bought before it went silly but I’m really short on storage.

If someone made “Spotify for movies”, where I could watch literally all the shows on a single subscription, without ads, with good UI and interoperability between platforms I would pay for it.

So Netflix, a few years ago. I know, they didn’t license everything, but they did have a good catalogue, good price, and it just worked. Now they’ve got tiers and ads and bullshit.

I’m tired of the grey. I’m also tired of the cars that are various shades of primer. They just look bad.

None of the chips built for datacentres are useful for gaming. None of the RAM in these chips is useful for normal computing - even servers - much less home gaming.

AI compute believes it’s still in a “race” so they won’t want to be using previous gen chips unless forced to in some way.

This isn’t the “dark fibre” of the AI bubble. It’s just a future pile of trash.

To build chips that are used as collateral for datacentres that have yet to be built, so the chips can’t be used, and they’ll just age out of usefulness.

pay for all the required transmission infrastructure that the project will use exclusively.

Emphasis mine. If the AI buildout can claim that the line will serve as a secondary entry point for a neighbourhood they’re not going to pay.

I skipped the 17 which was supposed to be my partner’s upgrade. I am anticipating regretting that decision.