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Including a regular Linux column by Charlie Stross before he started writing novels

Wouldn’t want to see separate “topics” on hn, but would love to see posting of chatgpt content banned/discouraged - trying to figure out if a comment was written by a human or ai is tiring

You’ve needed to do that for years to get past HR.

No difference here, just automated scanning of keywords with still no actual understanding

Clearly we should all just use unixtime with seconds from midnight if you want a relative local time of day

SI units can then be used instead of minutes, days, etc

Makes much more sense

https://www.decimalisetime.org/

No they didn’t.

More people voted against the conservatives than voted for them, but due to the first past the post system they got a massive majority in Parliament and can do whatever they want.

OSSEC is good for monitoring logs, system files, etc. as well as alerting (and blocking traffic if you want) when anything suspicious happens

Takes a bit of work to set up but is worth it and includes lots of basic checks by default

https://www.ossec.net/

Maltron was first, 1976

https://www.maltron.com/

A lot of it is also due to French pronunciation changes. There are many "french" loan words where the english version is much closer to the original french than the modern french pronunciation is -oyster for example.

Then again several of the more obviously "french" words are drifting the other way as people assume they should be pronounced like modern french - valet is a great example here where most english people now drop the final 't'

Actually it should be "onety" and "onety-one". "ten" is as much of a problem as eleven and twelve.

Mind you, I've always had a soft spot for dozenal so could quite happily go the other way, but I guess that's a different discussion

Nice work. In a similar vein I've considered using twtxt for this kind of thing, having each server/service generate a stream of messages that you can selectively subscribe to. Obviously there a other (and better) ways to do this but twtxt seems like a really easy option that could be just be used by default so I've always got something and if I decide I need better logging/monitoring for a particular thing then I can put that in alongside twtxt

[https://pypi.org/project/twtxt/] not affiliated just thought it was a cool idea with potential for a lot more than just 'microblogging'

Indeed. Religion may well be the best defence against memetic attacks.

And I say this as a lifelong atheist, which is a distressing thought given the amount of deliberate memetic manipulation we are being subjected to.

G Heavy Industries - the maker of the keyboard used in the article - also makes a keyboard specifically for plover if you are interested. (not involved in the company, just a happy customer)

https://www.gboards.ca/

I love how honest this is about the limitations and the whole design process. Truly a great example of a real hacker project

I have a Georgi keyboard (mentioned in the article) which I started getting to grips with then put aside during a way too busy period at work. This has made me want to dig it out and try again.

I’m also thinking that two of those faunchpads put together on the long edges could make an even better ‘back of phone’ keyboard (or back of mini tablet) for a handy portable note taking device

Sending multiple queries from your web server will likely put more load on the database server than using a stored procedure.

With either technique you are still pulling all the data you need from the DB but with multiple queries instead of a stored procedure you are usually pulling more data than you need with each query and then dropping any rows or fields you’re not interested in. Together with multiple calls over the network to the DB server and (often) multiple SQL connection setups this is much worse for performance on both the web and database servers

Jerry Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy

https://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html

Agreed and you’ve just described PowerShell which I think is perfect for this.

That said, I do also appreciate bash scripts which are cleaner if you just have a long list of commands to execute and no real logic involved

A lot of the “fun drugs” were originally used for medical purposes and only banned because people started using them for fun

I tried a Maltron keyboard (very similar to Kinesis Advantage) and loved the concave key wells - its the only keyboard I've ever had that I could confidently hit the number and FN keys without looking. Only reason I didn't buy it was because the hand separation was not large enough (shoulders are my big problem area ergonomically) so I would love a fully split Maltron/Kinesis.

For that upcoming split Kinesis, I really hope the cable is longer than it appears in that tweet photo so that the two halves can be moved far enough apart.

Is there an open source Remote Monitoring and Management solution though?

My company used to use Kaseya but luckily changed to a competitor a few years ago so dodged this particular bullet, but I’ve always said that these are extremely high value targets to hackers and I’m surprised there haven’t been more incidents like this - though Kaseya was also hacked to deploy crypto miners a few years ago too so this is not a one off event.

Given that the nature of RMM software specifically requires being able to push arbitrary code to large numbers of devices security SHOULD be paramount and having a respected open source solution for this would be ideal

By the Byzantines

The books are the same. Every time the focus switches to Daenerys the quality plummets.

If I were to re read them I’d be strongly tempted to skip all the non-Westeros chapters

Thanks for educating me - I was unaware of that and have changed my opinion.

For anyone else thinking like I was, this is the evidence from the UK government site [1]:

Research has shown that DRLs are likely to reduce multiple vehicle daytime accidents and fatalities by up to 6% once all vehicles are equipped. DRL are likely to result in a small increase in fuel consumption and CO² emissions of around 0.5% but this is expected to be lower when LEDs are used in place of filament light sources.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/daytime-running-l...

Doesn't apply to wireless phone charging though, so I'm standing by that comment until someone disabuses me of that too..

Just because the waste is small doesn’t mean it is insignificant when you consider how many phones there are.

A quick search indicates there are 3.5 billion smart phones in the world, assuming these are all wirelessly charged and wasting 1kWh per year that gets you 3.5TWh which is more than the annual consumption of many countries

I had a similar discussion with a friend recently about all the cars driving around with lights on in the middle of the day - even if they might be using LEDs, when you multiply by the number of cars on the roads that is still a lot of petrol being wasted for no reason at all

Fair enough if you don't want to talk about it, but the OP had basically just told the person they were ignorant so probably shouldn't be too surprised at a 'fuck off' response

Of the cuff comment but it occurs to me that they may have been right.

I am pretty well informed politically and follow the news regularly, however, I still vote for the same party I voted for thirty years ago and always have done.

Knowing what is happening in the news has rarely changed my vote - pretty much whatever happens the parties are not going to substantially change relative to each other to the point where you would prefer a different party so following the news or not doesn’t really make a difference.

You may be in a bubble by thinking this is important when it really doesn’t matter as much as your bubble is telling you it does

Earlier than the Romans the word is originally Greek and basically meant “foreigner” - someone that doesn’t speak Greek

I wasn’t aware it came from the “bar-bar” sound though so thanks for mentioning that

Wow. PIPs should only be used when someone is underperforming so badly they are damaging the team (and the business) at that point you have nothing to lose if they voluntarily leave (which in fact, is probably better for everyone)

"what gets measured gets managed" is one of the reasons I don't like the usual metrics and performance reviews, but in the specific case of a PIP they are necessary. If someone meets the targets of the PIP but starts dropping other required behaviours then you just add that into the PIP to make sure they don't do that

As someone that has been in this position (manager in the UK) I have to agree and think you have summed it up perfectly.

However, it is occasionally successful and those (admittedly rare) occasions have been some of the most rewarding experiences of my career.

I also don’t think that what you have described is necessarily a bad thing. As long as the manager goes into it in good faith and genuinely tries to understand what the problems are and to help solve those problems then the process works well for everyone - either they improve and become a happy and productive employee or they leave (voluntarily or not) and can seek a position more suited to their skills or personality.

Most of the times I have been through this the person involved was perfectly capable of doing the job but they just didn’t want to for various reasons and putting them on an improvement plan helped them see this and they move on themselves before they were forced to

And that’s when you create a performance improvement plan.

If someone is underperforming then you take steps to try to understand why and help them to get to the level the company needs them to be at. Hopefully this works and everyone is happy but you need to be clear (to your employee and yourself) that ultimately this could end up in dismissal if it doesn’t work out. This is when you document everything and have regular meetings with the individual so everyone understands what is going on and if it ever becomes legal then you have everything you need to justify your decision.

Point is, you only need to do this if someone is underperforming so much that you’re thinking you need to dismiss them, and if someone’s performance is bad then you don’t wait for the annual (or quarterly or whatever) review before doing something about it - you deal with it straight away

Good work. This is called management - performance reviews are a sop to try and make up for poor management but are utterly useless and often counter productive (there’s no better incentive to start job hunting than having to prepare for a performance review)

Competent managers don’t need to do performance reviews and bad managers are not helped by them