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I get 5-7 hours on battery from my X1C7 FHD running Ubuntu. I carry a power bank in my bag that gives me that much again.

I've had servers in FMT1 since 2000. They had a series of power issues. Generators didn't start and everything died. Next time the power went out the generator started and the switch from the grid to the generator blew out the switching system (and killed one of my hard drives and who knows what else) IIRC. I'm pretty sure Linode moved to FMT2 because of this. There have been other problems but around 10 years ago they reached a point where the whole power backup system was new and they have only had one outage that I can remember since then.

I remember reading "Modern Manners" and laughing so hard. The first edition was so extreme that the working was softened in later versions. "Dating is a social engagement with the threat of sex at its conclusion."

And this Stanford guy is good too. This may not be the best one of his podcasts for addressing the exact goal but it's still relevant. https://hubermanlab.com/optimizing-workspace-for-productivit...

I was a huge Desqview fan, and I tried Desqview/X but didn't stick with it.

In the 80's I built a multi-line electronic claims submission host for a local insurance company that ran the same app 4 times under Desqview (not X). Each app talked to different port of a 4-port serial card, each port hooked to a 2400 baud modem. I had to write an ISR in assembly to handle the incoming serial data because the drivers for the serial card couldn't do the job, but other than that, the Desqview APIs were all I needed.

I expect bots on a new unadvertised site within minutes. I've seen it many times. Bots are always scanning, along with script kiddies.

What's the difference in cost to the organization giving the shots or the antibody tests? My expectation is that they're about the same. If that's true, it's easier and more certain to just require vaccination.

Also, this article provides some arguments based more on biology. https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/10/prior-infection-vs-v...

I was hoping the article would mention the recent "security improvement" that prevents daemons from using Bluetooth in Big Sur. I haven't seen anything from Apple (or anyone else) explaining how that improves security.

That just happened to me! I have been a contractor at a Fortune 50 company for a while and they opened a position for the job I'm doing. I applied and was rejected by the HR algorithm (the rejection email came about 2 minutes after I submitted my application so I seriously doubt that any humans were involved). The job site I had to apply through was taleo.net.

Centralized HR is for managing benefits and setting policies. They never help with the hiring process, in my experience.

2 of the 4 credit cards in my wallet have greatly restricted the coverage they provide for rental cars in the last 2 years. Check your cards to be sure you're still covered.

Food poisoning is real too, and I got a food handling certificate online in 20 minutes for about $20. Is cosmetology that much more complicated (safety-wise; incompetence has its own consequences, same as in the restaurant industry) than food handling? I really have no idea.

It does seem like quite a few of the things that require licenses in Texas would be just as safe with a certificate and random inspections (like they do with food handlers).

I thought it was Naples FL, tied with Newport Beach, CA. Every financial offer I've gotten with one of those places in the return address has been extremely scammy looking, and I lost a pile of money to a Newport Beach scammer in the 80s.

But then Georgia allows loan terms that are not allowed in other states, so predatory lenders like to be based in GA, IIRC. I think Florida is second in allowing non-consumer-friendly loan terms though.

I don't know anything about the normal real estate closing process in Canada, but I learned (through a word game, of all things) that there are types of real estate fraud in some countries that are impossible (without explicit seller cooperation) in others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazumping

I once had a conversation with a couple friends of friends who did targeting for the credit card industry, figuring out which demographics to send cards to. Their goal was to find people who paid responsibly and spent irresponsibly. If people who pay well weren't irresponsible enough in their spending, incentives would be provided. I'm sure this is even worse now with all the data and data-driven tools available.

Funny; I have a Polish friend who lives in France and LOVES peanut butter. When she travels to the US she always maxes out her luggage weight with peanut butter on the return trip. I'm sure there are outliers everywhere.

An Italian friend said his mom would say "who puts peanuts on bread?", but she'd slather hazelnuts and chocolate (Nutella) on bread all day long. I think it's just what people get used to.

In my first job (early 80s), we wrote 6809 assembly in Wordstar using non-document mode. It worked very well for that purpose.

We had a Molecular Supermicro 32, basically a card cage for Z80 boards running CP/M and sharing a small (large at the time!) hard drive. My first task there was pulling serial cables to the engineering lab to hook up terminals. We had a band printer for program listings (aka backups) and a ball printer for docs. Good times.

I recently read a book where the killer convinces victims (via hypnosis) to swallow their tongue, which blocks the airway and suffocates them.

Decades ago, there was an episode of Hawaii-50 where the killer used bullets made of ice, so there was no evidence to work with.

I have gotten a lot of books via alibris.com (no affiliation, just a happy customer), a marketplace for used booksellers. I got a brand new $170 statistics textbook for about $35 because it was intended for another country; thinner paper and crappier binding, but the same book. I've also gotten used books that were indistinguishable from new books.

Not as cheap as ebay, but an enormous selection with pretty reliable quality ratings.

Maybe I haven't been paying attention, but I've never had a site attach extra text to copied text like this site does. I wanted to see what the test machine's case looks like, so I copied the make and model and pasted it into a search bar, and got "Read more:" and a link to the page along with the text I wanted to copy.

No thanks. I'll be skipping that site in the future, unless that javascript comes from a place I can easily block with pi-hole.

When I was building back end software, I could and did work from anywhere. I enjoyed working in the same space with my team, but not all day and not every day. And it wasn't necessary except maybe once or twice per quarter.

Now I work on firmware, and I have about $6000 of test equipment that is required to do my job, as well as multiple fragile circuit boards, some that I'm afraid to touch because some of the rework wires might break. I am working at home, but I guarantee that I'm not as productive as I would be in an office with access to the EEs and MEs and the people who built the firmware for the previous version of the product. Yes, I can schedule a call or ask questions on Slack, but so much is passed to new team members by osmosis or exposure or context, whatever you want to call that side effect of colocation.

> The best thing you can do in any period of change is to bet on neither black or white.

I agree, in some cases. There are still some cases where the best bet IS almost entirely black, or almost entirely white.

Serious question: what are the 'far-left' analogs of QAnon, Pizzagate, and the anti-vax and flat earth movements?

I'm sure it's just my bias, but I can't think of any right now.

George Carlin did a great routine on 'stuff'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvgN5gCuLac

"a house is ... a pile of stuff with a cover on it".

Of course she learned to swear from her friends. For better or worse, that's where most people I know learned to fit in with their peers and confuse their parents. That and older siblings who were a little farther along the path toward individuation.

What would you tell a five year old about the reason for nearly content-free conversation?

When my daughter was about 5 we were on public transit and a bunch of teens were talking near us. Every second or third word was 'fuck' or 'shit'. My daughter asked why they talk that way. I told her it was because they didn't know enough words to say what they meant.

15 years later, she speaks two languages fluently and 2 more at about middle school level. She swears a little, but she knows how to say what she means.

Yes, on both Digital Ocean and its 'brother from another mother' Linode. I have a client with a few Linode VPSs and their biggest attacks by far come from the 'private' network.

I completely agree with you about acceptable risk; sorry I misread your last sentence above.

It sounds like you accept the bill's authors' claim that EARN-IT is about protecting children.

I'd be very interested in hearing from child abuse investigators how the controls in the bill line up with how tech is used in abusing children. My expectation is that there is very little alignment, because "for the children" is most often the rallying cry of politicians who want something that is not in the best interests of the people they are supposed to represent.

I had some Levi's 501s that I got at a farm supply store for $12 when I was in college (early 80s). I wore them regularly for about 15 years then occasionally until a few years ago. They had no holes when I donated them. Newer 501s don't last anywhere near that long.

Carhartts are more functional for me now, but they wear out after 5-8 years depending on the style (model?). I haven't noticed any change in durability since I started wearing them 18 years ago.

I have several pairs of Injinji socks that are close to 10 years old, and still in great shape. I have also worn out two pairs of those socks after about 5 years, and the newer ones are softer so I suspect they'll be less durable.

I switched to VS Code with the PlatformIO extension. A little bit of conversion is required, 'ino' to 'cpp' and some shuffling between directories.

This reminds me of the old SGI postmortem memo [0] which said "optimists tend to be promoted". I've seen the exact scenario described in the 'management issues' section of that memo played out several times, so it resonated with me when it came out and I still see it happening today.

[0] http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/tirix/embarrassi...