I think it's a sysadmin thing to have a little bit more wimsy in the code.
Administrative work by nature leaves you a bit bored, if you do it right. So you sometimes pick something up just to play with.
I can't speak about every sysad experience, but in mine a lot of scripts tend to be in a "make once, remember for ten years" category, and even a bit of creative naming can help a long way.
Working with a larger codebase with "creative" code, on the other hand, is frustrating. And if you don't have to write code, you might as well go take a walk, "monitoring" isn't in your job description.
--- a rant about using illustatration in articles ---
I open article. I see am image of a skeleton staring at a tablets back.
I am left to wonder what author meant by that metaphor.
The text after image states that "a white walker id reading Wikipedia" but I can plainly see that its not a white walker, the tablet is turned away from him, and the styling of the site is paroding New York Times.
After reading the article I still do not understand what this image is meant to communicate. And then I suddenly remember that alt text exist, and surely the text description would be useful to understand the intentions of the author. There isn't any alt description. And the bottom text is lying.
As I stare at the image looking at the teeth fused and ages lines on the skull, I suddenly understand that I might be the only person who looked at the image for more than 2 seconds.
Which is shite, because images are such a good way to communicate complex ideas simply or to illustrate a point. I shouldn't be expected to just skip it entirely.
Yet all the time I spend trying to understand it was a time wasted.
You don't have to put illustrations in, if you don't know what you want them to mean! You especially don't have to put illustrations that have "high effort" appearance to them, because people would assume that it MEANS to illustrate something!
And if you choose to generate something, it doesn't sound as a bad idea to check if that image conveys what you want to convey.
I love illustrations. I love pictures. There are great illustrations in my favorite manuals.
It's saddening that people nowdays choose to add illustrations that create confusion, not even because better illustrations would be preferable, but because no illustration would be preferable to that.
I worked as an electrical civil engineer for few years.
>> the world needs a low voltage standard
we have high voltage standard because it means we can have low amperage to transit same VA.
Because voltage doesn't kill, amperage does.
It's for safety.
DC is far more safer then AC, but it's not that much safer.
If we convert 20A 240V AC (very bad, you can't move your hands away) to 48V DC we get a wooping 110A (instant death)
But if we convert 20A 120V AC, we'd get 55A 48V DC. It's on the same level and has the same problem with moving your hands away.
My country used 220V (as most do!) so switching to DC would mean huge safety threat, but for 120V countries I'd say – go for it!
Not an electrical engineer, but doesn’t the voltage combined with the bodies resistance dictate the amperage? So anything under 50VDC just can’t transmit enough amps through the body to be harmful?
Since nobody pointed that out yet: rat utopia results are questioned now, based not only on a fact that the enclosed space where rats resided were sitting in direct spotlight, but also on a replicability issue.
An experiment with results that couldn't be replicated should be dismissed.
It's entirely possible that the mice in this experiment were overheated, and dominant males didn't fight to "stay in solitude" but rather to be out of direct sunlight.
That's to say, if the cause for such mouseslaughter really was in the temperature, climate change could make original experiment relevant again.
Back when http was more popular my mobile provider injected popups with ads on every http page like nobodies business.
And I couldn't switch to another, they all did that.
This isn't about theoretical MITM attack, it used to be widespread.
And there isn't any reason why it wouldn't spread again if http got more popular
More likely, of course, would be people making a few thousand posts about how "STRATETECKPOPIPO is the new best smartphone with 2781927189 Mpx camera that's better then any apple product (or all of them combined)" and then releasing a shit product named STRATETECKPOPIPO.
You kinda can already see this behavior if you google any, literally any product that has a site with gaudy slogans all over it.
>> vast majority of fatalities are the fault of the pedestrian
>> This doesn’t necessarily mean the pedestrian was at fault — it could simply indicate that in a pedestrian death we only get one side of the story, which makes it hard to charge the driver with a crime.
But I have to say, I agree with both of you there. I lived in a country where car drivers are explicitly required by law to avoid killing people, and therefore are always at fault, even if pedestrian was crossing illegally. Law even requires drivers to speed down if they reasonably couldn't see a pedestrian. Basically, if you can't not hit people, you might as well abandon you car.
Just the fact that the pedestrian could be at fault for their own killing, I think, makes the chances of that happening way way higher.
It's insane that "well my car weights 8 ton and cant stop in time even when im under speed limit" is even an argument for an innocence, and not a jail ticket that has "didn't care enough about not killing people" written on it.
My grandma lost her vision when she was young. Even before capacitive buttons, buttons were very hard to find by touch. It has been an issue for more then a decade.
Off topic, but a lifehack for those who have visually impaired loved ones: we use glass paint contour paste on the center of buttons.
It's basically used in glass paintings to stop paint sliding from the glass, so it can make a good noticeable bump or line.
But – it only works on hard surfaces and if the buttons themselves are not very sensitive.
If you can lightly brush the button while you are "looking" for bumps, then it works.
>> a nice place to raise a family
is it? No free childcare, no free medicine, no free urgent care and almost no third places for children. Add to that almost no food regulation. And, for immigrants, no support from their parents
What's nice about that, getting into debt as soon as one of us gets medical emergency? Or staying in a suburban home 24/7 with a child until they can go to school?
Administrative work by nature leaves you a bit bored, if you do it right. So you sometimes pick something up just to play with.
I can't speak about every sysad experience, but in mine a lot of scripts tend to be in a "make once, remember for ten years" category, and even a bit of creative naming can help a long way.
Working with a larger codebase with "creative" code, on the other hand, is frustrating. And if you don't have to write code, you might as well go take a walk, "monitoring" isn't in your job description.
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