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> If we tallied up all technical projects in the Western world that failed, how many would be failing due to lack of kindness versus, say, straight-forwards incompetence?

That's like saying a company didn't fail because it ran out of money. It failed because no one was around to operate it.

A lack of kindness can lead to mistakes not being rectified, as well as the wrong type of folks doing the work.

(Classic case of false dichotomy).
A PoE-supplying switch doesn't need to dissipate that power. Assuming a power supply efficiency of 85%, supplying 3400W to downstream devices means having to dissipate 600W of heat.

Keep in mind that you'd be supplying 71W to every single downstream port. That's an insane amount of power. Something like a Cisco Catalyst 9136I Access Point only comes up to 47W, and that's assuming 16 radios, double 5Gbit uplinks, and a USB device drawing 9W.
Denial of Self-Service Attack
IMO replying unsubscribe should always work for marketing emails and if it doesn’t then I flag the email as spam. Nope, I’m not going to visit that tracked / info gathering unsubscribe link.
Pardon me for widening the question, are there part time maintenance / weekend gig ? I often think I'd enjoy non architectural short jobs to save more money...
I've always thought of scarcity and FOMO as different things, at least from a product marketing standpoint.

Scarcity: There isn't much of this thing, so I need to compete to get it. I will prioritize it more highly. There is a scale of desire for this thing. If I believe I need it in the future rather than now, I may defer.

FOMO: 0 or 1. I am going to miss out on this. Is it important to me? If it is, I will prioritize all my resources to get it now. If I believe I need it in the future, I will act now.
I couldn't find a recent article from a reputable source with a decent image of the note. Though I didn't spend too much time looking. The note enters circulation July 2024.
I've never heard of anywhere that cutting in line is illegal nor seen people get punished for cutting in line.
>A forest is not just trees.

No one claimed this but you.

>Lots of carbon storage happens between them, not to mention how important they are for biodiversity.

Yes we know, it's almost like this subject deserves its own field of study [0][1].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Forest_manageme...

[1] https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/wjsf20
>Most companies don't run an Amazon style PIP program where you HAVE to cut X% annually on every team.

I cannot comment on pervasiveness, but I thought the "fire bottom x%" (or stack ranking or yank and rank) strategy started on the east coast, with businesses like GE, hence it would not be a trait isolated to either coast.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitality_curve

>The people in the middle aren't just "for when you need to sacrifice".. they are simply the middle 50%. You obviously want to see them improve as well.

Everyone wants to see everyone improve, but time and energy are a scarce resource, so it is just a matter of how much you want to bet on each person.
You made a universal statement, namely, "there is no secure software".

If you had written, "99% of software used in anger is insecure," or, "most leaders of most organizations don't realize how insecure the software is that their organizations depend on," or, "most exploits go undetected", I would not have objected.
This is very, very long, and I've read about the first third while skimming the rest. (In general, Venkatesh's essays tend to be enormously padded with a very low signal-to-noise ratio, so this isn't too surprising.) That said, my impression is that you could condense this essay to, roughly, the following:

"It's always optimal to leave some energy aside rather than use it to increase performance in areas where you want higher performance, since your environment is more unpredictable than you think, no matter how unpredictable you already think it is."

Stated this way, it feels relatively trite for anyone who's already spent some time thinking about this sort of thing, and also largely unobjectionable (you could argue for some caveats, e.g. in situations when you're putting energy into increasing your energy capacity, foom-style).

Would anyone here disagree? If you think I've missed something important or I'm not giving the essay enough credit, I'd be really curious to hear your points.
There is nothing in this ruling that is new as it relates to non-competes or non-solicitation. Overly broad non-compete’s and non-solicitation clauses have always been unenforceable.

They must be specific and unambiguous.
For a couple of decades I have ran my desktop without swap, for the simple reason that all it does in practice is slow down the system to a crawl when a rogue process is gobbling all RAM. For my taste, a straightforward failure is better than an unresponsive system. Not that it happens very often, anyway.
I wonder what would cause that. It seems intuitive that it would happen, but like the other commenter I don’t recall any bad smells when we used on growing up. But it was also a very dry climate, so maybe that is the solution?
Yes. Not being kind leads to defensiveness and not owning up to their errors.

I've worked in very competent teams and very incompetent teams. There were two types of incompetent teams. The type that always denied making mistakes, and the kind that owned up to their own incompetence. Being kind leads to the latter.

It still sucked being in an incompetent team, but when they admit their weakness, they get out of your way and defer to you. When they don't admit it, you'll face barriers all the way.
It’s seems like the solution to corrupt and incompetent leadership is always more power and centralization of government, forgetting what the original problem was (bad leads in power).

Is there a word for solutions to problems that really are just doubling down on the root cause of the problem?
Okay - that makes a bit more sense, not having to list your involvement with a union.
Speculation: Latest Starliner problems could strand astronauts on ISS
Does anyone really know what the return delays are about? Abundance of caution, or real problem?
There’s nothing bizarre at all about mentioning the recent prominent contagious disease crisis in an article about another rising contagion. It would be kind of weird not to.
"It is concluded that dedicated nuclear storage has a small but possibly useful role in providing intermediate and peak-load electric power."

The increase in PV and wind power means storage plays a much larger role today than could have been conceived of in 1977.
Background Contamination of the Project Hephaistos Dyson Spheres Candidates
Temperature isn't going to be much of a factor at the temperatures and temperature differences humans encounter in their homes. The dominant factor in CO₂ exchange is the difference in CO₂ concentrations.

Imagine a completely closed room surrounded by open atmosphere with the room air having twice the number of CO₂ molecules per m^3 as the open atmosphere. The room air and the outside air are at the same temperature.

Now imagine opening a small vent in the room, and consider what happens to the air close to the vent. Molecules near the vent and moving toward it have a chance of crossing to the other side. At the vent we have a constant flow of molecules from inside to outside and a constant flow of molecules from outside to inside.

What counts as "near" depends on the mean free path, which is proportional to temperature. With the temperatures the same the mean free path will be about the same.

Since there are twice as many CO₂ molecules near the vent on the inside, twice as many CO₂ molecules will be flowing out of the room as are flowing in.

A temperature difference would increase this, by increasing the mean free path on the hot side which increases what counts as "near" on that side. But what matters is what the temperature is above absolute 0. For a room at 40℃ (104℉) and an outside at 0℃ (32℉) that's only about a 15% temperature difference.
Nowadays it is the inverse. Is there ever a good reason to enable it? Most devices run on TLC or other fast wearing flash, and swapping there is both expensive in terms of durability loss, as well as still much slower than just having enough RAM.

I think my only device with swap is my Mac laptop and it is relatively conservative when it swaps, unlike Linux with default settings.
I had a c. diff infection two years ago and it was unimaginably bad. I wish I was able to try this instead of antibiotics. I still struggle with gut health now although things have improved with a lot of hard work.
How about "takes a 3 week vacation"? I've seen lots of companies that can't survive that let alone a permanent departure. Or "increase bus count" which refers to removing a single point of failure and focuses on the motivation vs the cause of why you're in trouble. If you were doing root cause analysis you shouldn't stop at "because Larry got hit by a bus / won the lottery" because that's not the issue.
Clearly written by someone who has never submitted an academic paper for publication. Latex (despite its many issues) does sevealthings well:
(1) bibliographic references in many formats (2) internal references to figures and tables (3) figure placement (4) mathematical equations and special characters. Plus, many journals provide latex templates that correctly format your paper. I recently tried to move from Latex to Word because my co-authors preferred word, but getting the biographical references correct was a lot more pointless work. Almost all the arguments about layout the author make are irrelevant if you cite references and need to resubmit to a second (or third) journal.
You can't escape "third country" status with a trade deal, though.

As in, this is base EU law. At best, you could get some agreement which would be accepted to treat UK as acceptable party for GDPR-conscious business, but you're still a third party, and navigating patchwork agreements is why some companies will want to deal with company completely in EU instead.
Can you make a 2.5g version
"High-Assay Low-Enriched Uranium", that is
Looks like it, given (FTA):

“The aim of the Imperial College project […] is to create a device that […] does not rely on receiving external signals.”

and

“At the heart of the quantum compass – which could be ready for widespread use in a few years – is a device known as an accelerometer that can measure how an object’s velocity changes”

So, it’s advanced dead reckoning (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_reckoning).

I wonder whether they really don’t use external signals at all or occasionally use them to correct for accumulation of errors. For example, the ability to detect that velocity w.r.t. earth is zero would help with that.

(Of course, for the London subway, the fact that trains tend to follow the tracks can help, if the system knows the track layout. That probably is the simplest way to prevent accumulation of errors, but then, do they really need such a complex accelerometer?)
It allows the "fail fast" philosophy, where things break quickly and noticeably (in this case, when you run out of RAM), rather than risking a silent degradation in performance.
How did you write data onto the tape?
Every time I have to add water to the toilet to get it to flush (ie, every time), I thank the EPA for their efforts to make sure we don't waste water.
This looks nice. I added a package to the AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/elles-bin.
https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/jammy/man1/zramswap.1.h...
>>workers like that exist naturally

Ones whose only significant effort (if any) is to be a mainstream employee in all other ways since nothing will ever make them productive or capable of efficient operation.

>> and organisations are great at just sidelining them

>If that is your experience I would love to work where you worked.

Me too. That does seem like uncommon good fortune. Too often these are the ones that get promoted into higher levels of mangement, it is so widespread among different companies it goes undetected in the way the CIA intended. Plausibility beats productivity.
> And multiple batteries per day.

That's not necessarily true. My battery is rated for 45 miles, and I get every bit of it. I typically only do about 15-20 miles daily, but I have a weekly ride that is a little over 30 miles which after that the battery still shows 2 of 5 bars remaining. It all depends on how much output you're getting from your meat motor.
If you invent a slope you're legally allowed to put anything you want on it, just know that slopes tend to turn into curves when you back up.

The existence of carnivores hasn't eliminated herbivores. For some reason evaporation hasn't boiled all our oceans away.
Disappointing that the article doesn’t show a trend in the dead zone over time. NOAA has a better write up and a forecast for this year. It’s gonna be bigger. Apparently there’s a task force in place already to reduce the size of the hypoxic zone by a factor of three by 2035.

https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/noaa-forecasts-above-avera...

Edit found the historical data:
https://cdn.coastalscience.noaa.gov/page-attachments/Forecas...
I rather just monitor the memory usage and react ( = get alerts) if it goes too high. The performance impact of actually swapping is frequently more visible than occasional oomkill.
Beep boop, humans are so illogical.
> Realistically a B2B contract should draw in as first party terms that all the relevant protections will be provided, confirm in compliance with GDPR (which UK has in law) if the UK removes it the protections still apply.

The moment UK makes a legal change that overrides those protections, you're left with worthless words on paper. And the point of GDPR status as "EU Regulation" is that it's not exactly feasible for EU members to override it like that.

And leaving EU isn't instant thing.
Here’s an excellent history of american economics and the role the railroads played in it:

https://nyupress.org/9781583671351/railroading-economics
> I'm curious what the logic is to justify lying about employment history in order to salt a union.

Being from outside the US, I'd never heard this term before, and actually in my country it's rare that you join a company and aren't given all the documentation by HR about what unions you can join on the first day.

But anyway, when I googled this term, from the wikipedia article:

> The tactic is often discussed in the United States because under US law unions may be prohibited from talking with workers in the workplace and salting is one of the few legal strategies that allow union organizers to talk with workers.

It'd seem them that at least one reason why they might explicitly protect the right for union members to lie about their employment history when trying to join a company for the explicit reason of salting is that they would also be / have been an employee of a union, and disclosing that could well get them deselected from consideration for the role.

Presumably the company will still be responsible for their own due diligence in checking that the potential hire had all the necessary qualifications to legally carry out the work, and might well discover the lie in that process. Presumably they could then also terminate the employee for that reason at that point because they couldn't actually legally carry out the job duties, but equally I'd imagine if they uncovered a lie which could be shown (presumably in court) to be for the purpose of salting, but they were otherwise legally able to perform the work, then the company couldn't fire them.
Gitlab Songbook
I think it is generally a good thing to do on any dedicated machine.

But for some things, especially with some k8s uses, overprovisioning can be okay. Some stuff just needs to run somewhere where cost of swiping in or out is lower than cost by provisioning more/bigger machines or cost of scaling from zero to one and back.
Bilt Economics Revealed: Wells Fargo Losing Money?
Considering how many different things "nice" has meant over the past few hundred years, I doubt one more meaning will make a difference!
That's for their sodium test facility, which they have just started construction on.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40658852

They applied for their NRC permit on March 28, 2024.

https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/advanced/who-were-...
I generally want my applications to be oom killed when they run out of physical memory, not when they run out of swap. The latter is much slower and more painful.
Haha, yeah I absolutely did. Reading his post and then your response it seemed to me to be a claim that there's nothing out there to discover, as opposed to there being nothing in the way of this means of exploration.
Visually Observing Earth Satellites
Unfortunately, it's not really useful for our use-case. Our robot only uses ~kB amount bandwidth.
That's vvvv beta, the recent version is gamma.

Scroll down further.
According to Perplexity, Perplexity is lying about its user agent: https://www.perplexity.ai/search/According-to-this-QpoXEZ_AS...
I would think the majority of people would be running this of of 3.7-4.2V lithium batteries or 5v USB so the step down Delta would be minimal, but yeah probably good advice to incorporate a more efficient buck step down for those running traditional 12v systems which usually operate at 14.4v.
https://celestrak.org/
We only found ~gigabit and ~fast ethernet chipsets that are easily accessible. However, it's definitely something we will think about in the future! Thanks for the suggestion!
Honesty doesn't conflict in any way with kindness, but with being "nice". Actually I think is a requirement of being genuinely kind.
I'd imagine it'd go to court and the union would have to testify that this is the case, and also have documentary evidence to back it up.
impossible is now possible
I don't think omitting some of your old positions that you think are irrelevant amount to lying.
Study finds electrical brain stimulation eases heartache
But when did your mom ever need to download videos on her device when she can access them on the internet?
Hello! It supports 100Mb throughput, nothing more, nothing less. It's been tested with iperf. I believe it switches at line rate, but don't quote me on that haha. The chip's extra features can be enabled with an EEPROM, which we removed to cut costs and size further. It's on V1 though.
What if I'd want to warn users that the list really only encompasses sports related domains? Genuinely want to follow the etiquette here, but I like being useful.
You can buy them right of Digikey by searching "4 position Molex Picoblade cable assemblies" or similar!
but the manager is obviously (unless they are very, very bad) using a metaphor (that you don't like). By responding literally, what you're really saying is "I don't really give a f what happens at this stupid company after I LEAVE MY CURRENT RESPONSIBILITIES" regardless of why. It sounds like you have extreme trust issues with your manager if they can't make a (pretty benign) verbal mis-step with you, without this sort of response, and your follow up suggests you're in a really bad space. I can't believe it's not visible and leaking into other aspects of your work and interactions.
That's manageable with a bit of preparation: when I'm travelling, I allow access from other networks, e.g. those from phone providers. Or add a web form where I activate the IP address with a cryptographically signed "token" which the server can verify and then add the IP address to the set of allowed ones.

Used one or the other every now and then in the last 10+ years and still have my attackable footprint small the rest of the time.
How about the Mikrotik CRS510-8XS-2XQ-IN? 2x 100G uplink, 8x25G/10G/1G downlink, DC power input, and only 320mm (12.5in) wide.
Thank you! Noted.
This is actually why I like Kotlin. Java without all that nonsense that you are complaining about. That stuff is there if you need it but not really used heavily if you use Kotlin frameworks. E.g. Ktor is a nice alternative to Spring and uses no annotations whatsoever. Or reflection. Or AOP. Declarative functions all the way down. But it does that in a clever way that minimizes boilerplate.

It's also why it works well outside the JVM where reflection and AOP are simply not available. Ktor can actually work with the kotlin's native compiler. It uses a lot of the multiplatform stuff that Kotlin has these days that works in wasm, browsers, on IOS, or indeed on Linux. There's no Java/JVM code involved at all when it that way. And a lot more lightweight than what people are doing with e.g. Graal.
Windows doesn't overcommit memory so without a pagefile the available virtual memory is greatly reduced, you can "run out" of memory quite easily with certain applications that allocate but don't use the memory.
That would be super cool! I'm not sure how it'd work together. I would think we need a higher speed fabric-type connection.
> I wonder why they opted for a political framing of the article

What an interesting turn of phrase. In my mind, reducing interpersonal contact will obviously reduce interpersonal transmission of all infectious diseases. The policies surrounding covid reduced not just covid but also colds, flus, etc. That's a matter of obvious, well-understood cause&effect and strongly supported by the data.

But your reaction here is clearly and overtly political. Is the framing of the article "political framing" or is your kneejerk response "political framing?" Is it possible to mention covid policy without that being perceived as a political act, or is it merely taboo?
27MB is bogging down your system? And yt-dlp does not need admin privileges to be installed. All it needs is Python3 which is, if not ubiquitous, excessively common.
I can say work 100% certainty that the low resolution and limited colour reproduction of Vision Pro is no replacement. We're still a long way from that visually. And even if we do get there we've not considered the vibe and atmosphere. Particularly with live music you can physically feel the vibrations.
Adding 10% more memory via swap will not save you in most cases.
> nobody is making anyone do anything.

Not now. Now there’s plenty of ways to collaborate on a document. But 20 years ago, you couldn’t edit a word file on Linux and send it back in a form that hadn’t mangled the formatting. And everyone was using word for everything back then.
https://imgur.com/a/r2n3RMz

Are you really, really sure the hundreds of millions of images &c. it links you to aren't in the hundreds of petabytes in size?
Yes I had swap fully disabled on Windows since there was 64G of ram and the system was still swapping by default which was creating a lot of unnecessary disk activity and writes. In modern windows (10+) the swappiness is much more sane and that doesn't happen as much but if you have a ton of ram you can safely turn off swapping and force the OS to manage memory more aggressively.
I tend to live a small swap volume (1-4Gb) on my systems where RAM is much, much bigger, 32-64Gb mean, more because of habits than some reasoned technicality. Normally is 100% unused 99+% of the time.
How good is your password? If it's long, with special characters, it's fine. Install fail2ban. The problem with auth keys is you can't get into the server if you don't have your laptop/phone/NFC device because you got pickpocketed/mugged?
Congratulations, your brief comment has managed to trigger me in 3 different ways.
> For the kind of technology available to us, it could cost up to $100 a day to buy enough lime soda to filter out the CO2.

Doing some napkin math based on quickly googled(maybe incorrect) numbers, 100g of lime soda can absorb 10-20L of CO2 depending on the setup. Random offer off a Google search is $30 for 1kg, and I can get it cheaper locally. To go from 1200 ppm to atmospheric 421, you need to remove ~0.8L/m³. For my 50m³ room, that's 200-400g of lime soda. CO2 takes several hours with closed windows to build up that high, though, and it'd need a control loop to avoid wasting the lime soda by scrubbing below atmospheric CO2 levels...

I thought you were being hyperbolic but, damn, yeah, this doesn't sound very viable ):