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pnutjam··on The elderly are becoming homeless at a rate not seen since the Great Depression
As if you can live anywhere without paying in perpetuity.

If there wasn't an endless drive to increase the value of homes, this would all be moot.

pnutjam··on The elderly are becoming homeless at a rate not seen since the Great Depression
Equity is a red-herring. People just want a place to live. Developers want equity.
pnutjam··on New York employers must include pay rates in job ads under new state law
Myself as well, but that information is out there and easily found through payroll subscription services.
pnutjam··on Average Age of Spontaneous Reading in Unschooled Children 9 Years Old
"To clarify - I think 'able to read and understand most things' qualifies? So - if they needed to read instructions to get to another level in a video game, or read a menu in a cafe, etc? Obviously we are all learning new words all the time. And not every kid wants to read a novel."

Every kid should be able to read a novel, this is a sad commentary on why parents are often poor teachers.

pnutjam··on Molly Holzschlag has died
She died at 60, so no eligibility for Medicare or Social Security. That's a nightmare scenario in the good old US of A. RIP
pnutjam··on Toyota blames factory shutdown in Japan on ‘insufficient disk space’
I once plugged a toner into a network patch panel to locate a drop and crashed the AIX system at a medical office. :(
pnutjam··on Toyota blames factory shutdown in Japan on ‘insufficient disk space’
In a past job I took over for an enterprise linux setup where all the log volumes where way too small. It was dozens of alerts every week to just grow the log volume or delete some stuff. It took me a couple years to get everything resized properly and logs rotating correctly. This was around 700 servers with all the change requirements of a heavily audited environment.
pnutjam··on Toyota blames factory shutdown in Japan on ‘insufficient disk space’
on-prem block storage like a Scality Ring is where it's at.
pnutjam··on A currently maintained fork of SSHFS
https://openbuildservice.org/help/manuals/obs-user-guide/cha...
pnutjam··on ‘I just assumed it would happen’: the unspoken grief of childless men
Have you considered doing volunteer work with children. Something like Big Brothers?
pnutjam··on Farmers Insurance Laying Off 11% of Workforce, Citing Industry Challenges
Read the act 1 section, or listen to the podcast. This has been tried and it's basically impossible in a capitalist system with local democracy. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/762/transcript
pnutjam··on Learn AutoHotKey by stealing my scripts
woah... This works in KDE too on linux.
pnutjam··on Amazon Pharmacy automates discounts to help insulin patients get pledged prices
This is an artifact of capitalism driven healthcare. It's only an issue in the U.S. It's the end results of incentive's designed to extract money vs incentives designed to provide healthcare. (i.e. capitalism)
pnutjam··on Amazon Pharmacy automates discounts to help insulin patients get pledged prices
Get a load of Mr. "everything I hate is communism" over here.
pnutjam··on Amazon Pharmacy automates discounts to help insulin patients get pledged prices
It's an end run around re-imbursement rates for insurance and how the pharmacy benefit managers get paid. Basically an artifact of why capitalism sucks.
pnutjam··on Remote work requires communicating more, but less frequently
Sure, all you ever said was you could not believe and you could do remote stuff in person. Way to support your statements.
pnutjam··on Remote work requires communicating more, but less frequently
So you're just ranting, no data and looks like no experience. OK

In person is worse. I've done both. It's noisier, you're crammed into a cube taking notes, etc. If you're going to use remote tools, what's the benefit of in person?

pnutjam··on Remote work requires communicating more, but less frequently
Please elaborate how it's better in person? Remote: I can see and hear the person. I can see their screen. I can copy past back and forth (as can they) through the screen sharing app. I can invite others into the training pretty much instantly. I can send links and commands typed properly in the chat. User can record session for later.

In person: Usually have to face the person or the screen, can't see both. I have to write down commands and pass them, or type them myself. There is a delay finding others if we need to talk to them. More chance to transpose commands incorrectly by the user. Harder to record the session without losing parts.

pnutjam··on Remote work requires communicating more, but less frequently
100% this. Keep an open channel for IM and setup regular shadowing. I've been on both ends, learning and teaching. It's way preferable to have your own computer, shared screen vs trying to look at another screen and taking notes. Remote is better for collaboration and training. Proper documentation is a big part of it, and open channels for IM, like slack.
pnutjam··on Remote work requires communicating more, but less frequently
A culture of good, clear documentation is critical.
pnutjam··on AWS to begin charging for public IPv4 addresses
And all those cloud compute instances are probably strangled for io if there is any real load. Colocating your own equipment is going to give way better base performance. Compute is not just processor and memory, it's also dependent on network and disk i/o. Disk is often overlooked because modern disks are so fast, people don't even realize it's crippled in the cloud.
pnutjam··on The Coming Enshittification of Public Libraries
Yeah, KRR is bad, but they are just a cog in the machinery of crapitalism.
pnutjam··on Systemd auto-restarts of units can hide problems from you
https://www.baeldung.com/linux/systemd-service-fail-notifica...
pnutjam··on Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck job hunting?
Just anecdotally, I got 2 of my last 4 jobs by direct applying with no networking, and 2 from recruiters. One internal and one external. The internal recruiter oversold the job and it was not great. The other jobs were all good and about what I expected.
pnutjam··on On the future of free long term support for Linux distributions
IMO, SUSE does this right. SLES 15 (and OpenSUSE leap) is supported until 2031 and it was first released in 2018.

You do need to apply updates, but that's the point of support. You can take any version of linux as is and run it for 20 years with no updates, no changes, and no support. In my experience, SUSE also rolls from major release to major release with very little problem, so upgrading to SLES 16 is probably an in-place upgrade.

EDIT: also, RHEL never did this right in my opinion. They lock the kernel for a decade, SLES updates the kernel.

pnutjam··on You Know I Couldn’t Last
citation needed
pnutjam··on U.S. pedestrian deaths reach a 40-year high
It's always fun having gun nuts pretend to debate in good faith. Thanks
pnutjam··on I'm Done with Red Hat (Enterprise Linux)
Same, RHEL says you should be compatible against all minor versions and it doesn't matter if it's 8.5 or 8.6. Upgrades can happen without you noticing, but our software would only run on specific minor versions without investing time and development energy. Several installs I've worked on required an OS rebuild because the version crept into an unsupported minor version.
pnutjam··on I'm Done with Red Hat (Enterprise Linux)
Vendor support is pretty crappy. By the time you're done gathering all the logs and running out the response time clock you've usually figured it out. Then at least half the time they do help, it's wrong because you're environment has some special requirement.
pnutjam··on U.S. pedestrian deaths reach a 40-year high
Oh yeah, that's 100% true, but take a look at the way they train each other.
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