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@cvi said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
Well someone's got to be the useless overhead!
I wonder if people have that as a career goal?
: What do you want to be when you grow up?
: I wanna be ayoutubertiktoker!
: I wanna be a doctor!
: I wanna be useless overhead!Filed under: One of these three will realistically have a decently paid job with a reasonable work-life-balance.
What about doctor with PhD in YouTube production quality management?
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@Arantor said in In other news today...:
why does Zoom have 8400 employees
I've often wondered that about LinkedIn. 25000+ employees. A few hundred to keep the computers running. A few hundred to write and maintain the software. 24000 to ... ???
I think LinkedIn is an interesting point because there is a lot of the platform that you or I might not see. Even just the extra functionality of âpremiumâ is significant versus the free plan, and there are higher tiers. So cost of development is probably not as subtle as youâd think - especially factoring in web, devops, secops, plus the mobile dev people.
But I suspect the reality is that a number of the staff are regional support staff - they have presences in a number of countries, have something like 25 human languages in-house and that means youâre putting in local presence. As a result youâre going to end up with local IT, local HR, local etc functions that bulk out the employee count.
That's all good theories, but I remember how shocked I was many years ago to find that monster.com is about this big as at least 10000 of that are developers. I have asked on coworker that used to work in a regional office and he said: "About 5k are working on DoD stuff (all US citizens in Virginia), 3k for the other US government offices (London, Prague, Bangalore)"
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in In other news today...:
What about doctor with PhD in YouTube production quality management?
I already mentioned "useless overhead" once...
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@Boner This is a milestone of sorts, in that it is the first time since before 2020 that someone was legally prohibited from wearing a mask.
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
@Boner This is a milestone of sorts, in that it is the first time since before 2020 that someone was legally prohibited from wearing a mask.
Not the hero that you need, but the hero you deserve?
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@Carnage I would like to think that the hero I deserve is not someone dressed as a worm wriggling on the ground, but I'll leave that for future historians to debate.
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Stand down. No body or gold were found.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Stand down. No body or gold were found.
What about "implements"?
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@DogsB Anyone put in a heads-up call yet to Geraldo Rivera?
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Stand down. No body or gold were found.
For a room that size to go unnoticed they must never have accurately mapped the interior.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Stand down. No body or gold were found.
For a room that size to go unnoticed they must never have accurately mapped the interior.
@Tsaukpaetra's theory of an Epstein room makes more sense.
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@izzion I am reminded of a scene in The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett, where a secret room was discovered because someone was measuring for carpets.
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Do you use external SSDs? If so, be careful: Western Digital / Sandisk have some issues with the filesystem (irregardless if Windows or Mac), and, you know, if you have to re-format, all your data are gone.
Article at heise.de in german (my does not want to look for an english version):
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
have some issues with the filesystem
How the đœ do they cause issues with the filesystem when they only present an array of blocks in the interface and the operating system builds the filesystem on top of that itselfâœ
Of course if they have problems with the data, it will also affect the metadata, so the filesystem will become corrupted, but that's still data problem, not a filesystem problem.
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@Bulb A bug in the firmware module that sends your sensitive data to China
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
if you have to re-format, all your data are gone.
I had thought that was always the case. Or is that the joke?
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
(my does not want to look for an english version):
TFA links to several. My is sad though because I only realised that after finding one on Google.
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@loopback0 Hmm... I have 3 of those. (All the 1TB variants)
edit: who the hell decided yellow text on grey was a good idea. I can see the SSN on my black one (in theory, not affected), but can't read it on either of the grey ones.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
have some issues with the filesystem
How the đœ do they cause issues with the filesystem when they only present an array of blocks in the interface and the operating system builds the filesystem on top of that itselfâœ
Of course if they have problems with the data, it will also affect the metadata, so the filesystem will become corrupted, but that's still data problem, not a filesystem problem.
If it screws up when writing/moving/remapping/wear leveling/etc. the blocks with the partition tables and filesystem info or the area where the drive stores its internal data then you'd see something like this. With the former you can probably repartition and reformat the drive and it'll work until it screws up again, with the latter the drive is probably unrecoverable at the user level.
ObStory: Once upon a time I worked for WTF Drive Company Technical Support. We started seeing a lot of a specific model of drives die in the same way; it turned out the factory's clean room got contaminated and so if you were unlucky you got one with a speck of dust inside. Naturally we weren't allowed to tell the customers this; we just replaced the drives and, if they complained enough, bumped them to a slightly different model.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
have some issues with the filesystem
How the đœ do they cause issues with the filesystem when they only present an array of blocks in the interface and the operating system builds the filesystem on top of that itselfâœ
Of course if they have problems with the data, it will also affect the metadata, so the filesystem will become corrupted, but that's still data problem, not a filesystem problem.
It really just means two things: 1) it doesn't work anymore and without an official statement nobody knows what's going on. 2) instead of just random data corruption it (often?) manifests as the OS not recognizing the filesystem at all anymore, making all of it useless at once without some form of recovery.
Maybe metadata gets written to more often and the drive fucks that up?
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
Maybe metadata gets written to more often and the drive fucks that up?
Metadata does get written more often. A lot more often. So if the drive occasionally fucks up writing, it's inevitable that it will more likely fuck up writing the metadata.
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In cold areas, squirrels store nuts in soil. But in warmer climates, that may lead to rotting nuts. What can squirrels do there? They found a way to fix them between twigs:
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@BernieTheBernie theyâre gonna love deez nuts.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 Hmm... I have 3 of those. (All the 1TB variants)
edit: who the hell decided yellow text on grey was a good idea. I can see the SSN on my black one (in theory, not affected), but can't read it on either of the grey ones.
Ask motherfuckin' HP. Theirs is silver text on metal back.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 Hmm... I have 3 of those. (All the 1TB variants)
edit: who the hell decided yellow text on grey was a good idea. I can see the SSN on my black one (in theory, not affected), but can't read it on either of the grey ones.
Ask motherfuckin' HP. Theirs is silver text on metal back.
The serial number printer was out of cyan that day.
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 Hmm... I have 3 of those. (All the 1TB variants)
edit: who the hell decided yellow text on grey was a good idea. I can see the SSN on my black one (in theory, not affected), but can't read it on either of the grey ones.
Ask motherfuckin' HP. Theirs is silver text on metal back.
The serial number printer was out of cyan that day.
They must not have been using an HP printer then.
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@dcon HP's limitations do not apply to HP.
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Le shock! Le horror!
Or, you know, standard marketing drivel.
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@izzion Soooo... f.lux?
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@izzion yeah. Also, blue light from phones causing sleep probelms is also meant to be a myth. It's slinging shit at Randos on the internet that's doing it to you.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
@izzion yeah. Also, blue light from phones causing sleep probelms is also meant to be a myth. It's slinging shit at Randos on the internet that's doing it to you.
Yeah, my phone goes full Terminator mode at 8pm sharp. No improvement on sleep prerogatives.
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f.lux works for me.
Is it placebo?
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Also, blue light from phones causing sleep probelms is also meant to be a myth.
I opened the wikipedia page on the f.lux thing mentioned above and it says
but a 2018 study showed that changing the spectral composition of self-luminous displays without changing their brightness settings may be insufficient for preventing impacts on melatonin suppression.
⊠a bright display set to low colour temperature probably still emits more blue light than a dim display set to high colour temperature.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Yeah, my phone goes full Terminator mode at 8pm sharp. No improvement on sleep prerogatives.
"As the download progress bar reached completion, the unsuspecting users were met with a sudden and inexplicable transformation. Their smartphones went from being helpful pocket-sized devices to menacing amalgamations of metal and technology. With sharp metallic teeth, red glowing eyes, and an uncanny resemblance to the Terminator, the once-harmless gadgets were now fearsome and powerful entities."
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@sockpuppet7 Iâd have thought that the duh-duh-duduh-duh staccato rhythm was sufficiently loud and vibrating that itâd prevent you from sleeping anyway.
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@Arantor That was a great music. Dunno if I'm just getting too old, but newer movies didn't mark me as these old ones. I'm probably just getting old
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@sockpuppet7 no, youâre not getting older, this has been a thing for a while.
Hans Zimmer is partially to blame for this. He can do music to fit a mood but itâs rarely iconic or memorable, and heâs definitely done âtemp trackingâ for projects over the years where he writes it based on the script but itâs generic just to set the vague mood then it becomes more permanent because temporary.
(Heâs not the only one, but heâs probably the most high profile to work this way.)
Itâs also not unheard of for films in a series to use previous filmsâ scores as the temp track, so theyâre somewhat bound to make the next one like the last one.
tl:dr; Hollywood gonna Hollywood.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
itâs generic just to set the vague mood then it becomes more permanent because temporary.
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Itâs also not unheard of for films in a series to use previous filmsâ scores as the temp track, so theyâre somewhat bound to make the next one like the last one.Fun fact for the day: the score used for 2001: A Space Odyssey was the temp track.
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I'd probably be more excited about this if I used Excel.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
I'd probably be more excited about this if I used Excel.
That might be interestingâŠ
Python in Excel runs on the Microsoft Cloud
Nope. Do not want.
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@Zecc The real question is whether they will localize the Python code too.
It will apparently later be a paid feature. I'm not the target market. Even if I'm forced to use Excel and/or Python, I'd rather keep the two separate. But whatever.
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@Tsaukpaetra I've never looked at Eve closely, but it always felt a little lot like "having a day job: the game" to me.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
The real question is whether they will localize the Python code too.
The Real question is how many security holes this will open
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra I've never looked at Eve closely, but it always felt a little lot like "having a day job: the game" to me.
For some, it really is a day job.
Apparently it can be easy to get sucked on too. The key is to know how casual you are, and if you'll let your testosterone guide your responses.
Or something.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@cvi said in In other news today...:
The real question is whether they will localize the Python code too.
The Real question is how many security holes this will open
Random thought of the day: How many holes does a Python have....
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
most systems down here would block two equal payments in a short sequence
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra I've never looked at Eve closely, but it always felt a little lot like "having a day job: the game" to me.
I've played it before. Depending on what you're doing, it can be. If you just wanna get in a spaceship and shoot other spaceships, or fly around doing the occasional cloaky-sneaky research/extraction mission you can. If you want to take up a second job running a massive interstellar war engine with associated logistics, you can do that too.
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
The key is to know how casual you are, and if you'll let your testosterone guide your responses.
This. Always this.