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XKCD #612 “Estimation”

Disturbing, but entertaining, and reasonably conversational in either case.

Yes, when there’s a new new guy.

Common practice in most workplaces is to continue the cycle of dumping the shit work on the new guy. But, if you want to build influence, you don’t do that. When the next new guy comes along, you adopt them, you show them how to get things done, and when other people dump shit on them you help clean it up. You don’t do their work for them, but you also don’t leave them to do the work alone.

And you teach them to do the same thing with the next new guy. When they’re up to speed you start load balancing with each other intentionally. They need to leave early for personal reasons one day so you handle some of the extra workload for them. They do the same for you.

(side note - this works when you offer first - you don’t open this by trying to get them to do you a favor first; you will run into people who will take advantage of this and not grasp the concept of returning the favor - when this happens you don’t whine about it, you don’t confront them about it, you don’t even mention it, you just note that this is an indication of that person’s character and you don’t ever offer to help them out like that again - there will be others who understand cooperation and join in automatically, those are the people you make part of your group; so you worked extra one day and didn’t get reciprocation, that’s OK, it’s a cheap low-risk way to learn about who that person is - scratch it off and don’t catch feelings over it, be professional, you still have to work with this person you just don’t have to trust them)

(second note - this does not work for anything that you might be legally liable for - if the other person has to sign their name for the work or is in some other way accountable on record you cannot cover for them and even helping may be problematic, especially in the medical field)

Maybe you’re still shoveling shit, but you’re not doing it alone. If you don’t have a tribe, build one.

And then break the cycle.

The only catch is that you would have to keep your expenses at 65% of what you spend right now.

Permanently? or like, adjusted for inflation? do I get rent control?

Because 65% of what I make now will be worth a lot less in 10 years.

Learn how things work. Take them apart. Try to put them back together again properly. Buy sacrificial items at thrift stores/Goodwill/Craigslist for this. Look for broken/worn out items and try to make them work better. Small kitchen appliances are a great place to start. Sometimes all it needs is to be taken apart, cleaned and relubricated. Collect common components (motors, screws, magnets, springs, wiring, lights) from the things you can’t fix, and recycyle the rest if possible.

As you take things apart, pay attention to how the different pieces are connected. Take pictures for later reference. Look at it and ask, why this component and why is it oriented this specific way inside the appliance and connected to that other component? What function do the two parts accomplish together? What were the design choices that led to this arrangement? And if applicable, which part of it broke, and what was the likely cause, can it be fixed, and can the failure be prevented in the future?

You can really learn a lot by taking things apart, even if you’re not able to fix it.

…and the penalties are enforced.

“male climate change”?

Is that what you call it when you shrink up because it’s cold?

There’s a food source somewhere. Assuming they’re not getting food from your kitchen (you’re not finding them in the pantry), there must be something else nearby. What’s around? Anything you can get rid of? Old cardboard boxes? Dead plants/yard waste? Pet food?

How old is the house? Does it have wallpaper? If you are unlucky they might be eating wallpaper glue or something like that. Also have you made sure there isn’t a sewage leak under the house?

Emerging evidence of abrupt changes in the Antarctic environment

…evidence is emerging for rapid, interacting and sometimes self-perpetuating changes in the Antarctic environment. A regime shift has reduced Antarctic sea-ice extent far below its natural variability of past centuries, and in some respects is more abrupt, non-linear and potentially irreversible than Arctic sea-ice loss. A marked slowdown in Antarctic Overturning Circulation is expected to intensify this century and may be faster than the anticipated Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation slowdown. The tipping point for unstoppable ice loss from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could be exceeded even under best-case CO2 emission reduction pathways, potentially initiating global tipping cascades…

This is just an example from today, but overall the climate news from recent years scares me more than anything else. Insect counts are plummeting globally, wildfires are getting noticeably worse everywhere, all of the ice is receding, ocean currents are destabilizing as the temperature patterns in the air and the water shift, and crop growing seasons are changing. I get the impression that the predicted climate changes are not only happening now, but are accelerating noticeably.

Unpredictable food production is bad bad bad. If you watch the series Fall of Civilizations, one of the most common elements of collapsing societies is destablised food production (not necessarily no production, just irregular). If this happens globally, everything stops and people start dying in large numbers.

Personally, this is the only political issue that really matters. Every other thing that people argue about is just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

Basically, .COM files are not commonly used and definitely not commonly shared on the Internet. The overlap between use cases for .COM files and .com TLDs is almost nothing.

In contrast, .ZIP files are very commonly shared on the Internet as a convenient way to transfer a group of files all at once, and there are a few different techniques for using .ZIP files maliciously. There is a lot more potential for conflicts between .ZIP files and the .zip TLD on the Internet.

The “.zip” TLD isn’t itself a security risk, but it should never have been created in the first place due to the overlap with .zip files.

Understanding the context of why the .zip TLD is a bad idea, you should be questioning the general competence of a web admin that would intentionally purchase and operate a .zip website. There are plenty of other cheap TLDs available that do not overlap with common file extensions. It’s such an obvious and avoidable problem that you have to wonder what other obvious problems they are failing to avoid.

…what enemy?

I would start many companies and organizations based on open source business models developing various software and computer networking technology. The goal for each would be to become self-sustaining (paying employees appropriately but not necessarily attempting to generate profit), and with an objective of creating a unified suite of system administration tools that is equivalent to Microsoft’s Active Directory - but 100% open source and interoperable rather than proprietary.

Absolutely none of the developed software would include or support any of the kind of surveillance-state functions that are part of the current trend of collecting data on users for “AI”. If possible, technical methods for preventing any such data collection on users would be developed and implemented in every single project.

Overall the goal would be to out-compete every other computer networking product on the market in terms of convenience, stability and affordability - creating a complete set of best-in-class systems which act as a bulwark against any privacy-invading AI-enabled surveillance software.

*Edit: also some advocacy organizations like the ACLU and EFF with the same overall goal of reducing the global presence of surveillance-state garbage. Basically the antithesis of anything Peter Thiel is trying to do.

One of the best thing about old reddit was how often you’d see a post for a news article about some scientific research, and if you went in the comments you’d find something like, “I’m a graduate student who helped work on this research and the reporter completely misunderstood it and their conclusion in the article is all wrong. Here’s a link to the original paper, and I’ll give a brief explanation of what our research actually found…”

Looks like your textures didn’t load properly. You gotta shut down the road and restart it.

There’s no place like 127.0.0.1

Obviously the solution is to have thousands of nodes per file transfer to increase the bandwidth.

This is a perfect plan which has absolutely no downsides.

The existence of Wide Area Network implies Narrow Area Network.

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