dragonsky67

I think that you are describing the coming of Wisdom... Seeing how things in many different domains fit the same patterns. This does not have to be a negative thing. If you see something new that fits a known pattern, then look closer and see how it's different or how it modifies the pattern to fit it's unique state.

54, this is my life.

There is so much out there to know and experience and it makes me sad to realise that there is no way that I'm going to be able to do everything.

I've a history of every couple of years diving deep into an interest. Woodwork was a thing for a few years, then wood turning. Gardening has come and gone a few times.

We spend a lot of time travelling and seeing new areas, slowly in a caravan, we never get to see it all.

Recently I've started running a Dungeons and Dragons game for a couple of my kids and their friends, there can be a lot more depth to that than you may think.

I've got to agree with you that you start to see a lot more things that you are familiar with. This is not really surprising if you are staying in the same environment.

Cycles of initiatives at work seem to come back every 5 or 6 years and they always ignore the same problems... sigh. There is truth in the idea that history repeats and the more things change the more they stay the same.

My suggestion for dealing with the feeling that nothing is new is much the same as everybody. If your world is getting boring and feels like everything is just on repeat, just change your world. Even if that means you are stepping into the unknown or you are taking risks, you are still going to change your experience.

I think the point that the article was making is that if you don't use a framework, even if you make your own, then you can select the libraries you are using by how supported they are.

The other point about building your own "framework" is that you can reduce the library count significantly. You don't need to include a library you only need one function from... Just reimplement that function in your own code.

One of the things that seems to be missed a lot of the time is the cost of cybersecurity policies, tools and the workarounds users are forced to use to circumvent cybersecurity policies.

Password change policies - say no more, virus checkers - slowing down workstations for minimal benefit, internet access filtering - Businesses doing deep packet inspection on the off chance that one of the staff members might bring in something nasty.

The cost in time and frustration is over the top and the benefit is mostly around perception.

The reality is, that if somebody wants to compromise your security, they will find a way. The chances are that it has already happened and you have no idea about it.

I'm not advocating do nothing, but there needs to be an understanding that most of the measures taken these days are patches put in place for broken software, incorrect configuration and poor user education.

Some of the best hospital clients I've had have been doctors who are smart enough to understand that info tech knowledge is almost as important to them as medical knowledge. If you spend the time with them to advise on how to best implement their ideas for new systems/processes then you can end up with the best possible win/win result.

That said, you have to know what you are talking about or admit you don't. Doctors are used to being mislead by the best, and if you try to mislead or bullshit them they will know and you've lost their trust. Admit when you don't have in depth knowledge about what they are asking for and they will respect you for it. In a lot of cases you may be able to learn from them, as there interest is specific when you will have to deal with the entire environment.

The other important thing is don't waste their time. A lot of Doctors are working 18 to 20 hour days, and don't have time for you to be disorganised. If something is going to take a long time to do, then tell them so they can plan around the job. If a quick task suddenly looks like it's going to take longer, let them know as soon as you can so they can plan.

Keep at the top of your mind that the clinical staff you are supporting are their to save the lives of real people, they are not there at your convivence. Remember one day you will be a patient and you don't want your doctor to have to stuff around with a unhelpful IT specialist.

Is a good point and much what I thought was going on.

So your choices are, put up with it, with potential health problems for older/infirm people, rebuild to suit the new normal, or add an AC which hopefully is running from renewables and not contributing to the problem.

There is no easy solution.

I'm in Brisbane, and our climate is starting to move from northern subtropical to tropical. Most of the older houses are built for heat, but they are not built to deal with cyclones and extreme summer storms. Most of the new houses are not even built for heat, being designs that are popular in Sydney and Melbourne. Actually considering Sydney and Melbourne can get some stinking hot summers they are not even really built for that. Upshot is that most new houses are unliveable without AC, and this is in a country that has always had extremes of heat.

Just interested in what temperatures have risen to that you need an AC?

I also understand that buildings in normally colder climates are optimised to keep warm so that if things get hotter in general they are not going to cope well so an AC may well be necessary at temperatures that in other regions would be considered relatively cool.

I Hated this movie.

The level of discomfort it engendered was off the scale. The depiction of the political and media is so close to reality that I ended up fast forwarding through it and at this point have paused watching as continuing is just too uncomfortable.

So from that point of view, and at least for me I would say that the movie is a success, job done. Unfortunately I don't think I'm the person who needs to receive this message. I don't need to be told that the world is going to shit at a faster rate than ever. I don't need to be told that most (all?) media, main stream or otherwise only succeed in rating somewhere between barely acceptable and blatantly corrupt on an ethical/truthfulness scale. The only way I can continue to exist with some degree of happiness is to simply try to ignore the majority of what is going on outside my bubble. I don't think I'm alone.

That said, I'm really interested how this movie has been perceived by those who think everything is wonderful. Are their world views so different that they have any ability to understand that this is not a comedy set in a different world, where politicians and media are clueless to their own ignorance and stupidity? Do they understand that this movie is holding a big bloody mirror up to the Western world and giving a giant wake up call. Unfortunately given how a lot of people seem to have reacted to the last couple of years, I have to think that they would just look at themselves in the mirror, adjust the makeup and wonder how those stupid scientists can not understand that they are messing with the latest media fed delusion.

Now I'm going to close my door again and pretend that the world really is wonderful. Have a nice day.

I'm amazed that people always seem to link restriction on encryption and guns.

Encryption has a legitimate use in normal society, guns (apart from sport) are a tool applicable to a specific subset of society, easy to misuse or accidently use with extreme consequences.

I know (personally) of a number of cases where people have been killed accidently by guns, and more where anger/emotion has caused things to get out of control. This is not something that happens with encryption.

Simply said, they are not the same thing, stop trying to confound the issue.

From the outside, it looks to me like any time the US is involved in another country, you just have to follow the money. The US never does anything for altruistic reasons, it's always to their benefit.

I'm always nervous when our country makes new treaties or agreements with the US, there is always a sting in the tail.

You could give them a phone and ask them to call you when they get to the bus stop. Consequences of not calling you would be them getting board and having to wait for you to arrive.

But the question remains, why do you need to know where they are? Is it concern for their safety, is it concern that they are doing something you may not approve of?

I'm fairly old so my experience of tracking kids is limited but I am really intrigued as to why we are now so concerned about having 100% visibility of what our kids are doing.

The flip side of this questions is how often do kids who are being tracked in this way either have problems that the tracking helps resolve, or deliberately work around the tracking so that they can do something their parents may not approve of?

I'm interested, wouldn't continuous monitoring absolutely kill the phones battery?

and you sir would be correct.. bad spelling on my part and even worse spell check on my browsers.

Yeah, we seem to contract second level support from the lowest bidder. Tick, we have a support contract, regardless of how dubious it's value.

Except that a lot of our Government buildings were built in the 1970s and are totally reliant upon HVAC which even in the cooler months may struggle with getting enough air flow. (Cooler months, average temp about 23 deg C).

I'm sure that when I'm in the office I'm not getting any fresh air. Only benefit is at the moment about 70% of the workers on any one day are working from home.

Australian Team, We get $20 per day (pre tax) oncall allowance, then time and 1/2 for any work done, time calculated to when you can go back to doing what you were previously. Generally works out to a minimum of 30 minutes overtime for any calls.

If you don't get 10 hours continuous break before the next work day, you fall into fatigue leave and either get paid overtime for the next days work or are stood down till you have had a 10 hr break.

Still doesn't stop our operations team being completely snowed with both workday and oncall work, but they can make a fairly good bonus wage out of it.

In Australia it's just confusing. Black Friday was named after devastating bush fires in 1938-39 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_bushfires. Any Friday that has bad bushfires on it tends to pick up the name.

Over the last 5 years or so Black Friday sales have become a thing and I always suffer some degree of dissidence at the naming, as for me at least Black Friday has always had a negative connotation.

One of the things that becomes obvious as I gain experience, is that I actually think I know less.

As I gain experience the number of things that I could know something about seems to increase at an exponential rate, but my knowledge still only increases at the same rate... So as time goes on, the level of knowledge of all things decreases.

So, I ask stupid questions all the time, because I know that something may be related to what we are working on, but I don't have the knowledge to be able to ask smart questions. At this point, any question can help you get to how the subject area can help.

Don't worry about looking stupid asking questions. Anybody in this game who claims they know everything lying, there is just too much to know.

I think this is a wonderful project being worked on by dedicated people who are taking the shortcomings of the technology and creating something amazing.

Like anything art, the value is in the joy of the creator. The consumer of course has the right to dislike or like depending upon their taste. That said, I believe you should always acknowledge the skill and dedication of the creator, whatever their creative choice of media.

Depends on how you use your car. I travel long distances in very remote areas and am very invested in knowing that my mechanic has done their job well. I really don't want to end up on the side of the road waiting potentially days for somebody to come along and rescue me.

If somebody is interested in how things are being fixed, then it's a great idea to indulge them, they can be your greatest aid in solving other problems in their workplace so they never get to you.

Yeah, don't treat them like they are idiots just because they are not domain experts.. Listen to them and educate them if they want to learn. Don't blame them for not knowing something, that's your job.

In short, don't be a dick and treat them with respect and you are ahead of 90% of the people who seem to fall into support roles these days.

There is a whole world there I do not know and don't really want to. What a strange world we live in.

I think you have a strange view of freedom in Australia.

We'd have to be one of the more free countries around.

Yep, there are some laws that you would see as draconian, but are you offended because they actually impact you, or are they just something you don't like for "reasons"? Many places have laws and conventions that are different, it's about how you live with them. We have crappy and corrupt politicians. We have criminals and we have gangs. we are not perfect. The way we treat our first nations people is frankly shameful. Unemployed are in a in a hard shake, with benefits being far too low to both live and search for a job without family assistance.

We also have a country where you can walk down most streets without concern for your safety. Most places in the city you lock your doors but can get away with not setting an alarm. My current work at home office is on our back deck, and I'm happy to leave my computers out here for a few hours if I need to go out. Most places outside the cities you don't bother locking your doors. If you break down on a country road, your biggest fear is that somebody won't turn up to help you, not that they will come and rob you. Most of us don't know of anybody who has been killed by violence. I know one, she was shot by her boy friend when I was about 8 years old, way before the current gun laws were enacted. Most of the population understand that we need to work together for the common good, be it responding to natural disasters or putting on a bloody mask to help stop the spread of covid. In a disaster your neighbour will come and check that you are ok. If I want to have my say about something, as long as I'm not stupid or violent, there are many forum. I've walked all over the big (lol) cities in the country and never felt threatened or been accosted. This would be different if I were female, but I believe that is a problem world over. I still believe that the police are there to help and look after me, and have no fear about talking to them. Of course I'm white middle class male and my experience is not that of other groups, however police violence is still rare enough that it creates an outcry.

Overall, the only place I would prefer to live than Australia would be New Zealand, and then I'd have to put up with the cold weather.

23 years and counting... I've taken one block of 6 months long service leave (1/2 pay) and will be taking another block of a couple of years.

It all depends upon what your priorities are. Mine are working to live, with a minimum of ratrace.

I enjoy taking my month (20 days) off each year. I even have the opportunity to double it and take it at half pay if it suits. Work to live, not live to work.

Well what does it mean? the words are pretty plain and clear. I've never worked in a place with a unlimited PTO policy, so I have no idea what it means and would need clarification. Most of us work in technology and understand that in most cases the devil is in the detail.

Of course we got rid of slavery many years ago... We just call it different things now.

How can it be abuse? If 2 months leave is part of package then surely it's up to them how they use it. You wouldn't criticize them for using all the money they get paid would you?

I would find not having defined benefits extremely uncomfortable.

Saying that you have unlimited paid leave when that is obviously untrue and leaves the policy open for abuse by both employee and employer. I'm sure the example stating that less leave was taken when it was "unlimited" was because people understood that there were limits but didn't know what the limit was and didn't want to trigger management. Once things are defined, of course people will think that it's ok to take the maximum leave allowed.