Weird. He has a choice.

1. Make a trade agreement
2. Be a dick and threaten to take things by force.

All resources were there for the asking, but not as a zero-sum.

They are not ran by smart people

not ran

Glass house?

Jesus christ. I haven’t heard of that, and now I’m afraid.

fuck managing ssh key auth for hundreds of engineers.

You can pull the ssh key out of LDAP/AD. We did this 10 years ago. Really slick.

Now with modern config management (sit down, Ansible, you millennial junk) the keys update anyway in about a second.

AT BEST it’s gonna be some ridiculous npm svalbard worth of projects in one tree, require all new hardware, and declare bankruptcy on the way. Canada did this with the Phoenix Pay System, except didn’t have ‘efficient’ funding so it only sucked but didn’t die.

This guy drones.

Not raising taxes unless strictly necessary, lowering them if it is permissible according to the above.

The tax rate is never the issue. If the gov can push through a responsible plan for spending our consolidated resources so it costs less than we’d need to pay separately, then it’s a win. Fuckwit conservatives talk a about reducing taxes and conveniently omit how they’ll reduce costs to match. Hint: Here, it’s always food inspectors and anti-corruption.

The word ‘literally’.

It’s been abused and needs to now just die.

Additionally, anyone uttering that word must be slapped by everyone who hears it.

No, they just need to enforce PDFs for things that leave an office so everyone else isn’t locked into loading and running a bloated mess just to view a read-only spreadsheet.

The analogue to the printed chart isn’t an XLS6 attached to e-mail. It’s a PDF.

That’s it. Done.

Sleeping through the worst parts of the heat is not a bad idea.

In 2021 when the heat got oppressive here, we couldn’t sleep through any of it. it was 45c in one daytime, and with 90% humidity it was an actual killer. There was no sleep at night, no sleep all day, it was all just counting the hours until it was over – or we had an excuse to go to work where - for me - it was a cool basement attached to a cooler datacenter. We joked we should move desks into there, but our little group may have left a door open to the DC and let the chiller do an extra 10% space on those days!

“Nosferatu spiders” in Germany

Apparently they’re called Fox Spiders in other places. It looks like a ‘wolf’ spider from here, but that’s apparently a common mis-identification. The two species love to hang out in wood piles and in corners and chase prey.

It looked like a few of the formerly-Tenegeria spiders we have here - Domesticus, Agrestis and Gigantica - which now all have new groupings I don’t care to learn. Thankfully none of those jump. But, then again, the jumpers are the only cool ones (eg Salticus scenicus and other spider-bros).

This.

Having ONE room that can get cool enough is a game-changer for sleep and daytime respite. Ideally it’s a North window.

HARDWORKING

Oops.

Hey everyone! Guess which cohort OP’s from!

news tech

Not a lot of sites advertising broadcaster vans and steadycams.

Did you mean “tech news”, or maybe something with punctuation?

Ironically, from a truck driver I learned bears seem to shit an awful lot in the roadway.

Hospital. It’s 100m away. I’m in a long queue for surgery deemed non-essential in the post-covid no-doctors-left triage. All good.

So some guy sends you a particular emoji and gets to live rent-free in your head for an hour?

Okay, I’ll bite. Explain the connection between maga and the 9/11 vandals.

I suspect that’s the years before the founder dies.

I saw my retirement fund .

I’ll probably be in the ground and STILL working.