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monkeydreams··on Trump to make historic move toward revoking birthright citizenship
Until there are consequences for actions, he gets to do whatever the hell he likes. It may be unconstitutional but his bootlickers and lackeys will round up people until someone/s actually yanks his chain and brings him into line.
monkeydreams··on The Tsunami of Burnout Few See
I have found that the psycho-social hazards model (popular in Australian workplaces) has had a real impact on my understanding of my own burnout.

There are a range of risk factors which, if realised in the workplace, result in an exponentially increased risk of harm to an employee. From my understanding, any workplace in which employees are routinely subjected to 2 of these hazards are required to develop and execute a plan to reduce the risks where practical.

The details of these risk factors may be found here: https://www.safeworkaustralia.gov.au/safety-topic/managing-h...

monkeydreams··on Ask HN: Predictions for 2025?
I can't see how, not unless it is a 'AAA' always online game or if the quests are cached.

I think the most amazing use of AI in games (specifically RPGs) will be with statistical models to crunch "planning" and "cause and effect" to draw players into plots, schemes and storylines and then to demonstrate the impacts of success or failure of the player's quest. Think economic simulations of a city due to the player's actions or sabotage where the player has crippled a port leading to the NPCs barking about hunger, prices and disease.

monkeydreams··on Time for a code-yellow?: A blunt instrument that works
>there is a large temptation to declare them for everything.

Agreed. We have a very tight description for an Incident and, therefore, a major Incident. We don't call MI's often but anyone can call one.

monkeydreams··on Time for a code-yellow?: A blunt instrument that works
I work in public health so our outages are critical to safe treatment of our patients.

We have the concept of a Major Incident/Major Event (because the term Code Yellow is already co-opted to mean any administrative fault across a hospital which might impact the flow of patients).

These are all-hands-on-deck moments. They may be called by any member of staff who discovers an event which will impact our service, though it will be ratified by a Major Incident Manager (MIM). While the event is underway the MIM is God; except when it affects staff welfare. If a member of staff says that they cannot attend a war room for whatever reason, then the MIM will move onto the next person up the chain, even calling in directors if they feel it is required.

What is being described above is tech-bro shittery. Calling a major event because you haven't hit a sales target should keep the C-Suite up at night, sure, but calling in techs and devs and 'sacrificing the L and the B in Work Life Balance'? The C-Suite should be making the strategic decisions to reverse the decline, not suddenly drag everyone into a meeting to fix their lack of foresight and working towards an end that the average tech/dev cannot influence.

monkeydreams··on Godot Isn't Making It
> It's weird that people suddenly expect 4 year old to accurately reproduce encyclopedia just because it can talk now.

But we are not talking of a four year old but a system wthat has devoured literally all of the works humans have produced to date. If we are going to see further improvement I am keen to see where this emerges from.

monkeydreams··on Italian supervolcano "Phlegraean Fields" is showing signs of waking up
Also non-geologist, but my understanding is that the gassing is a sign of "frothing", active magma. It's the difference between boiling just water in a saucepan, and boiling water and pasta - the latter will result in the saucepan overflowing.

I believe that the switch in out-gassing behaviour suggests that the magma viscosity and gas levels have hit a critical point that means that the field is more likely to erupt.

monkeydreams··on Nordic neighbours release new advice on surviving war
> Maybe the Australians wouldn't allow that?

I think the US leases bases in Australia. Given that a single aircraft carrier group contains more power than the ADF combined I would suggest any that limp back to Australia's shores would be able to continue using these ports.

monkeydreams··on The Silurian Hypothesis
We are in a golden age of comedy. There is literally more comedy in wider and deeper streams available for your consumption than ever before.
monkeydreams··on A near impossible literacy test Louisiana used to suppress the black vote
> It's a really fascinating part of history I always try to learn more about.

I suspect the regressive cultural backlash at the US at the moment as the "next generational" response the the civil rights campaigns in the mid-late 20th century.

monkeydreams··on Core: an experimental new way to write videogames
> Godot is objectively a way way better tool

If you like things like Godot, Godot is the type of thing you will like.

Seriously though, Godot works way better for me using C# than it does with GDScript and the OOP structure means I can refer to classes by their identity.

monkeydreams··on My fake job in Y2K preparedness
I got my first IT job doing Y2k compliance. About 20% of our systems broke with the date changed to 01/01/2000, including the PABX (continual reboot cycle) and the sales leads system which would crash every few minutes.
monkeydreams··on CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
No hospital will shift to Linux because of this incident. They may shift away from Crowdstrike, but not to another OS.
monkeydreams··on CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
Auditing: using Windows plus AV plus malware protection means you demonstrate compliance faster than trying to prove your particular version on Linux is secure. Hospitals have to demonstrate compliance in very short timeframes and every second counts. If you fail to achieve this, some or all of your units can be closed.

Dependency chains: many pieces of kit either only have drivers on windows or work much better on Windows. You are at the mercy of the least OS diverse piece of kit. Label printers are notorious for this as an e.g.

Staffing: Many of your staff know how to do their jobs excellently, but will struggle with tech. You need them to be able assume a look and feel, because you dont want them fighting UX differences when every second counts. Their stress level is roughly equiv. to their worst 10 seconds of their day. And staff will quit or strike over UX. Even UI colour changes due to virtualization down scaling have triggered strife.

Change Mgmt: Hospitals are conservative and rarely push the envelope. We are seeing a major shift at the moment in key areas (EMR) but this still happening slowly. No one is interested in increasing their risk just because Linux exists and has Win64 compatability. There is literally no driver for change away from windows.

monkeydreams··on Windows 11 is now enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission
I worked it out when the (actively) working on broke compilation after returning from my lunch break. If MS can't get OneDrive to work well with Visual Studio then what hope is there for true third-party products?
monkeydreams··on A Day in the Life of a California Fast-Food Manager Who Makes $174,000 a Year
One of the key warning signs for burnout is a disconnect between effort and reward. If an employee feels that their reward matches their effort, relative to peers, then burnout might not be a thing.
monkeydreams··on New theory suggests time is an illusion created by quantum entanglement
> Cosmic coincidence that time flows in the direction our brains utilize entropy to encode and retrieve information

Memory flows in the same direction as entropic growth. If time actually moved backwards according to an "outside observer" then they would see us remembering the future and holding the past to be unknowable.

monkeydreams··on Why Did She Stop Writing?
I have an electronic monk around somewhere, but its watching my backlog of recorded tv on vhs.
monkeydreams··on Black holes may be a theoretical type of star called a 'gravastar'
Watch the Joe Rogan Experience? Why?
monkeydreams··on The Reign of Alexander III of Macedon
The fact that a champion does rather than holds back or tries to execute complex plans, is the point. They don't overthink - they just go in and give it 100%.
monkeydreams··on Seven Dyson Sphere Candidates
> Game theory reveals that the best thing an intelligent species can do is to hide. (The dark forest hypothesis)

Under certain conditions and with certain assumptions. Under other conditions and with other assumptions, the best thing for a species to do is be altruistic.

monkeydreams··on What if dreaming is the whole point of sleep?
So who trained the first brain and what was the costs?
monkeydreams··on A brief, weird history of brainwashing
The article literally refers to the case for which Stockholm Syndrome is named and offers a simple explanation; that torture and privation work to align a person's goals and motivations to minimise pain.

I'm not sure what you are finding so contentious about this article. We have accepted that people under torture will admit to anything for centuries.

monkeydreams··on What the Gardasil Testing May Have Missed (2017)
The COVID vaccine showed a positive impact in terms of disease severity and long term impacts.

Patients who experience long-term COVID impacts often demonstrate a range of major problems including lowered IQ, brain fog, increased risk of ischemic events, etc.

In my opinion you were absolutely correct to vaccinate your children, just as parents of boys should vaccinate them against HPV; not only for their safety, but for the safety of their partners.

monkeydreams··on Leave car keys 'at front door' to avoid violent confrontations: Toronto Police
Yes, that is why violent deaths are so low in the US per capita, the knowledge that you might lose your life in the commision of a crime.

/s, if anyone misses the sarcasm.

monkeydreams··on Titanosaurs were the biggest land animals Earth's ever seen
Not OP but...

Dinosaurs were slow, lumbering beasts.

Dinsoaurs were cold-blooded.

Large dinosaurs, like Brontosaurus (huh!), could not have lived outside of water and spent all of their lives at least partially submerged.

Dinosaurs were stupid because their brains were so small.

Dinosaurs were an evolutionary dead-end.

monkeydreams··on Forget about overpopulation, soon there will be too few humans
10 half-starving farmers could beat 1 fat hunter gatherer in a fight.
monkeydreams··on Your Brain Has Tricked You Into Thinking Everything Is Worse
Also a relentless diet of negative headlines, twisted by media outlets to make 'their guy' seem not quite so bad by comparison, doesn't help.
monkeydreams··on How Australia’s ‘Bluey’ conquered children’s entertainment
One of favourite Bluey facts is that the Dad is an archaeologist and the Mother works airport security.

One digs up bones and the other sniffs for drugs.

monkeydreams··on How Australia’s ‘Bluey’ conquered children’s entertainment
'Sleepytime' ruins me whenever I watch it.
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