It is actually in the interest to owners of private property to prevent the species from becoming endangered, because if that happens legal restrictions go into effect on what they can do with land with endangered populations on it. But if steps are taken to prevent this from happening, those legal restrictions do not ever go into effect.
It's definitely more in the interest of the owls. If even a hint of those legal restrictions comes to bear, those owls will be dead / nests destroyed before the ink is dry. Nope, no endangered species here!
For me, it is still unable to perform clean shutdowns. At least the filesystem has journaling to help recover from systemd's problem.
Funny you should say this, because RedHat now has systemd with xfs as the filesystem. And for some reason xfs likes to pretend it's written data when it hasn't, a lot more so than ext4 ever did. So, if an unclean shutdown occurs during a massive file op, such as a yum update, you end up with a seriously broken system with a bunch of 0 byte files in place of major libraries and binaries.
Here is the cynical reason why companies wouldn't opt for that - there is already a mechanism for aggregating 50 people in a suburb all going to the same place - a commuter bus. If the bus has wifi there's a good chance that companies are getting free work out of that 90-120 minutes of commuting time anyway, because bus rides are boring.
LG produces some decent phones. They were one of the last holdouts with removable batteries, and still have a memory card slot and headphone jack on their flagship phones. But they don't seem to be overtaking anyone...
So how would I view the cert info once they take that away? Right now it's a quick two clicks starting with that "secure" lock to see if the cert is real or a proxy's man in the middle cert (they usually don't MitM on financial and shopping sites, but how do I know the particular one I am going to is on the whitelist?).
It's one of the rare occasions where the Japanese willfully break the law. It is considered morally OK because it balances out the useless land problem: 1. Old rural person dies. 2. Next of kin living in $BigCity inherits useless rural plot of land, and annoyingly, the tax burden on said land. 3. No one wants to buy the useless plot of land, and there is no mechanism for abandoning the land. Until every last member of your family line dies, that land will have its taxes collected from whoever is still alive.
Basically, the next of kin will collect the dead person's pension and send the money back to the government to pay the tax on the land they don't want. In a strange way this works out.
Skype for Business fails at instant messaging. Any other messaging client (including business competitor Cisco Jabber) can properly handle people logged in from multiple places. Microsoft's offering? I can be mid conversation with someone, and suddenly their messages start going to another desktop 3 buildings away that's been locked for hours, or my phone, or who knows where. How hard is it to send the same messages to all clients logged in with the same user?? If anything it should be easier than whatever fail logic it's applying to try and figure out which one is the "active" session...
The problem with tunnel bores like this is it creates the need for escalators or high capacity elevators. The cut and cover method results in something that people can just walk down 2-3 flights of stairs to get to stations. The time from surface to platform is much lower with the "old" stations.
It would be far better if cities took the "temporary pain for permanent improvement" approach and continued with cut and cover. Yes pipes and cables will need to be moved.
There's also the emergency evacuation consideration. I was on an NYC subway train during the 2004 blackout. It took 2 hours for them to get our train evacuated, during which time all the battery operated emergency lights in the nearest station had completely drained - the only light which worked were the turnstile "exit" arrows floating in a sea of complete darkness. after one flight of stairs there was sunlight. Evacuating through 10-20 flights of seldom used emergency stairs in complete darkness seems nightmarish. One person misses a step and falls, and suddenly it's a trampled mess.
That's actually a potential side effect for Finasteride: Finasteride Side Effects. It's also a drug used (in higher doses) for male to female transition.
Yup, but it wasn't until the 20th century that Korea had stopped using the Chinese characters (called Hanja). Hanja=Kanji=Hanzi="Chinese characters from the Han Dynasty". I was more illustrating that while Korea and Japan created their own simplified phonetic alphabets, Vietnam threw in the towel and modified the Roman alphabet to suit their needs.
From what I recall in language classes, while Korea and Japan imported the Chinese characters and used them as-is while simply grafting their own pronunciations to the characters (and eventually developing their phonetic-only alphabets to augment), Vietnam took a different route and rearranged the characters to fit their spoken language better while retaining meaning. The end result was something highly confusing and difficult to learn (for the time period). When the Portuguese showed up preaching Christianity the response seemed to be "this Jesus stuff is great and all but, wow can you teach us that alphabet your book is written in?"
The rollover is incredibly useful. People bank time for a few years, have a baby, and take half a year off to bond with their kid. One woman used her sick time plus donated time from other employees to stay at full pay for 2 years while undergoing cancer treatment.
The system is fantastic for employees. And really the only reason it actually slows down projects is the number of single-person-of-failure scenarios due to chronic understaffing; there should be a minimum of 2 employees and 1 manager who can do any given job (so that 1 can be on a planned vacation, one can have an unplanned emergency, and things still get done by the manager). This can be done with overlap (Employee 1 does A & B, Employee 2 does B & C, employee 3 does A & C; manager can do A B & C). But what happens is employee 2 retires and is not replaced, and suddenly there's a hole in the redundancy.
I use the + feature of email addresses on a secondary email account, like someguy+bobsfineats@example.com. The trick is to have a rule that anything *without* a plus gets discarded. You get your receipt, and when your email is re-sold to a mailing list you either know exactly who did it (since the + will still be there) and can optionally add a new filter, or if they stripped the + out, you never even see the unsolicited mail.
It's not the 12 holidays which everyone gets at the same time, it's the other 35 days which can be taken as desired (vacation), needed (sick), or under various other circumstances (weather, time off for specific medical screenings, etc). And since the two main categories of vacation and sick roll over year over year, some people will go whole years never touching them, and before you know it they take an entire season off.
I'd pretty easily take a cut in salary for more time off, even if it came with a bunch of restrictions on consecutive days off or days off per month.
Work for the government. Decades ago unions and management negotiated weird concessions in lieu of raises which translated into ungodly amounts of time off. Want three weeks each of vacation time and sick time as a brand new employee, bankable with high maximums? Done. 12 paid holidays a year, paid lunch? Yup. How about other categories of time completely separate from vacation and sick, requiring no notice or reason to use? Sure! Great for shitty weather and public transit woes.
In exchange, ~25% less pay, and prepare for a lot of slow projects due to... well with all that time off, the likelihood of everyone you need actually being in on a given day is pretty slim.
We centralized too much. States should have the resources to experiment with things like this. Problem is, the federal government takes the lion's share of tax money and makes the states beg for it back, and can thus only spend it the way the federal government wants them to. Slash the federal tax rate (and yes, programs) enough and let the states fill in the gaps with what they think is best. We'll get our 50 experiments going and may the best state win.
I saw a good writeup on Japan vs European addressing which boiled down to this:
US/Europe: Streets and roads have numbers or names. Blocks are those unnamed pieces of land between the streets. Japan: Blocks are numbered. Streets are those unnamed pieces of land between the blocks.
They just hammered me with dozens of questions about alcohol, firearms, food, soil, and ebola, no criminal questions.
And if you encountered USCBP on the way *out* of the country you must have been doing it wrong - US has no exit controls. International departing flights leave from the same gates as domestic. Heck, leaving US from San Ysidro to Tijuana is a simple metal one-way turnstile, identical to what you'd find in a NYC subway station, with no US authorities in sight.
For years my (dual citizen) buddy would offer one of his passports for ID checks. Scan that, f-kers.
A trusted traveller card (Global Entry, Sentri, Nexus) would also work. As long as it has a picture, birthday and is issued by a government, good to go.
Problem was buying beer at Target or Walmart. The mega chains are juicier targets for enforcement (fines) and thus they make 100% certain their ass is covered. Instead, go to a trusted grocery store (mine just keys in the birthday off the license to get past the prompt, and for obvious over 35s just keys in a random date). Absent that, try an independent beer distributor or older gas station. Chances are even if they once had a scanner, it hasn't worked in years.
While touristing there, I saw the Melbourne inspectors drag a couple of annoying teenagers off for not having tapped in, something like $250 fine. When they protested, the inspector loudly stated "all these people have properly paid, and you haven't. Is that fair?" Gotta say I wish we enforced fare evasion over here as rigorously...
The DC metro will allow you out (if you beg the human attendant), but the card will have a negative balance after. Since the system only allows entry with at least the minimum fare, the highest amount of negative the card can go is $max fare-$minimum fare, a number which totals $4. A new card costs $5, which means there is always incentive to restore your card to a positive value rather than chuck it and get a new one.
Both are needed; the cloud is a quick and dirty offsite backup. When a house or apartment burns down / floods / is sucked into oz by a tornado, there's no time to take the SAN, especially if no one is home when it happens.
Sneakernet-ing a hard drive swap to a safe deposit box gets old after a while... and knowing my luck the guy one box over will be storing his rare earth magnet collection in there.
It absolutely does, but requires practice and training to do it regularly (which I cannot). I would have thought it was total bullshit if it hadn't happened to me a few times completely unintentionally. Usually something so crazy happens that your logical mind wakes up for a second and is like "wtf is this nonsense" followed by "ah, this is a dream!"
Also, according to "experts" in the field, teleporting in a dream (which came completely naturally to me) is apparently one of the hardest skills to master, because your brain has to instantly discard and rebuild the world it's created. After I learned that, I turned that on its head by using teleporting to completely change the dream. So some bullshit where I'm in France being chased by mimes (I have never been to France and trying to figure out how I got there is what triggered my realization that it was a dream) became a nice relaxing warm beach after I "teleported" out of there as a shortcut to destroying/rebuilding the dream world.
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It is actually in the interest to owners of private property to prevent the species from becoming endangered, because if that happens legal restrictions go into effect on what they can do with land with endangered populations on it. But if steps are taken to prevent this from happening, those legal restrictions do not ever go into effect.
It's definitely more in the interest of the owls. If even a hint of those legal restrictions comes to bear, those owls will be dead / nests destroyed before the ink is dry. Nope, no endangered species here!
For me, it is still unable to perform clean shutdowns. At least the filesystem has journaling to help recover from systemd's problem.
Funny you should say this, because RedHat now has systemd with xfs as the filesystem. And for some reason xfs likes to pretend it's written data when it hasn't, a lot more so than ext4 ever did. So, if an unclean shutdown occurs during a massive file op, such as a yum update, you end up with a seriously broken system with a bunch of 0 byte files in place of major libraries and binaries.
Here is the cynical reason why companies wouldn't opt for that - there is already a mechanism for aggregating 50 people in a suburb all going to the same place - a commuter bus. If the bus has wifi there's a good chance that companies are getting free work out of that 90-120 minutes of commuting time anyway, because bus rides are boring.
LG produces some decent phones. They were one of the last holdouts with removable batteries, and still have a memory card slot and headphone jack on their flagship phones. But they don't seem to be overtaking anyone...
So how would I view the cert info once they take that away? Right now it's a quick two clicks starting with that "secure" lock to see if the cert is real or a proxy's man in the middle cert (they usually don't MitM on financial and shopping sites, but how do I know the particular one I am going to is on the whitelist?).
It's one of the rare occasions where the Japanese willfully break the law. It is considered morally OK because it balances out the useless land problem:
1. Old rural person dies.
2. Next of kin living in $BigCity inherits useless rural plot of land, and annoyingly, the tax burden on said land.
3. No one wants to buy the useless plot of land, and there is no mechanism for abandoning the land. Until every last member of your family line dies, that land will have its taxes collected from whoever is still alive.
Basically, the next of kin will collect the dead person's pension and send the money back to the government to pay the tax on the land they don't want. In a strange way this works out.
Skype for Business fails at instant messaging. Any other messaging client (including business competitor Cisco Jabber) can properly handle people logged in from multiple places. Microsoft's offering? I can be mid conversation with someone, and suddenly their messages start going to another desktop 3 buildings away that's been locked for hours, or my phone, or who knows where. How hard is it to send the same messages to all clients logged in with the same user?? If anything it should be easier than whatever fail logic it's applying to try and figure out which one is the "active" session...
The problem with tunnel bores like this is it creates the need for escalators or high capacity elevators. The cut and cover method results in something that people can just walk down 2-3 flights of stairs to get to stations. The time from surface to platform is much lower with the "old" stations.
It would be far better if cities took the "temporary pain for permanent improvement" approach and continued with cut and cover. Yes pipes and cables will need to be moved.
There's also the emergency evacuation consideration. I was on an NYC subway train during the 2004 blackout. It took 2 hours for them to get our train evacuated, during which time all the battery operated emergency lights in the nearest station had completely drained - the only light which worked were the turnstile "exit" arrows floating in a sea of complete darkness. after one flight of stairs there was sunlight. Evacuating through 10-20 flights of seldom used emergency stairs in complete darkness seems nightmarish. One person misses a step and falls, and suddenly it's a trampled mess.
you may as well just be chopping off heads with a sword in the public square.
Considering the death penalty is supposed to be a deterrent, this sounds like a much more effective approach...
That's actually a potential side effect for Finasteride: Finasteride Side Effects. It's also a drug used (in higher doses) for male to female transition.
Yup, but it wasn't until the 20th century that Korea had stopped using the Chinese characters (called Hanja). Hanja=Kanji=Hanzi="Chinese characters from the Han Dynasty". I was more illustrating that while Korea and Japan created their own simplified phonetic alphabets, Vietnam threw in the towel and modified the Roman alphabet to suit their needs.
From what I recall in language classes, while Korea and Japan imported the Chinese characters and used them as-is while simply grafting their own pronunciations to the characters (and eventually developing their phonetic-only alphabets to augment), Vietnam took a different route and rearranged the characters to fit their spoken language better while retaining meaning. The end result was something highly confusing and difficult to learn (for the time period). When the Portuguese showed up preaching Christianity the response seemed to be "this Jesus stuff is great and all but, wow can you teach us that alphabet your book is written in?"
The rollover is incredibly useful. People bank time for a few years, have a baby, and take half a year off to bond with their kid. One woman used her sick time plus donated time from other employees to stay at full pay for 2 years while undergoing cancer treatment.
The system is fantastic for employees. And really the only reason it actually slows down projects is the number of single-person-of-failure scenarios due to chronic understaffing; there should be a minimum of 2 employees and 1 manager who can do any given job (so that 1 can be on a planned vacation, one can have an unplanned emergency, and things still get done by the manager). This can be done with overlap (Employee 1 does A & B, Employee 2 does B & C, employee 3 does A & C; manager can do A B & C). But what happens is employee 2 retires and is not replaced, and suddenly there's a hole in the redundancy.
I use the + feature of email addresses on a secondary email account, like someguy+bobsfineats@example.com. The trick is to have a rule that anything *without* a plus gets discarded. You get your receipt, and when your email is re-sold to a mailing list you either know exactly who did it (since the + will still be there) and can optionally add a new filter, or if they stripped the + out, you never even see the unsolicited mail.
It's not the 12 holidays which everyone gets at the same time, it's the other 35 days which can be taken as desired (vacation), needed (sick), or under various other circumstances (weather, time off for specific medical screenings, etc). And since the two main categories of vacation and sick roll over year over year, some people will go whole years never touching them, and before you know it they take an entire season off.
I'd pretty easily take a cut in salary for more time off, even if it came with a bunch of restrictions on consecutive days off or days off per month.
Work for the government. Decades ago unions and management negotiated weird concessions in lieu of raises which translated into ungodly amounts of time off. Want three weeks each of vacation time and sick time as a brand new employee, bankable with high maximums? Done. 12 paid holidays a year, paid lunch? Yup. How about other categories of time completely separate from vacation and sick, requiring no notice or reason to use? Sure! Great for shitty weather and public transit woes.
In exchange, ~25% less pay, and prepare for a lot of slow projects due to... well with all that time off, the likelihood of everyone you need actually being in on a given day is pretty slim.
We centralized too much. States should have the resources to experiment with things like this. Problem is, the federal government takes the lion's share of tax money and makes the states beg for it back, and can thus only spend it the way the federal government wants them to. Slash the federal tax rate (and yes, programs) enough and let the states fill in the gaps with what they think is best. We'll get our 50 experiments going and may the best state win.
I saw a good writeup on Japan vs European addressing which boiled down to this:
US/Europe: Streets and roads have numbers or names. Blocks are those unnamed pieces of land between the streets.
Japan: Blocks are numbered. Streets are those unnamed pieces of land between the blocks.
They just hammered me with dozens of questions about alcohol, firearms, food, soil, and ebola, no criminal questions.
And if you encountered USCBP on the way *out* of the country you must have been doing it wrong - US has no exit controls. International departing flights leave from the same gates as domestic. Heck, leaving US from San Ysidro to Tijuana is a simple metal one-way turnstile, identical to what you'd find in a NYC subway station, with no US authorities in sight.
For years my (dual citizen) buddy would offer one of his passports for ID checks. Scan that, f-kers.
A trusted traveller card (Global Entry, Sentri, Nexus) would also work. As long as it has a picture, birthday and is issued by a government, good to go.
Problem was buying beer at Target or Walmart. The mega chains are juicier targets for enforcement (fines) and thus they make 100% certain their ass is covered. Instead, go to a trusted grocery store (mine just keys in the birthday off the license to get past the prompt, and for obvious over 35s just keys in a random date). Absent that, try an independent beer distributor or older gas station. Chances are even if they once had a scanner, it hasn't worked in years.
While touristing there, I saw the Melbourne inspectors drag a couple of annoying teenagers off for not having tapped in, something like $250 fine. When they protested, the inspector loudly stated "all these people have properly paid, and you haven't. Is that fair?" Gotta say I wish we enforced fare evasion over here as rigorously...
The DC metro will allow you out (if you beg the human attendant), but the card will have a negative balance after. Since the system only allows entry with at least the minimum fare, the highest amount of negative the card can go is $max fare-$minimum fare, a number which totals $4. A new card costs $5, which means there is always incentive to restore your card to a positive value rather than chuck it and get a new one.
Both are needed; the cloud is a quick and dirty offsite backup. When a house or apartment burns down / floods / is sucked into oz by a tornado, there's no time to take the SAN, especially if no one is home when it happens.
Sneakernet-ing a hard drive swap to a safe deposit box gets old after a while... and knowing my luck the guy one box over will be storing his rare earth magnet collection in there.
It absolutely does, but requires practice and training to do it regularly (which I cannot). I would have thought it was total bullshit if it hadn't happened to me a few times completely unintentionally. Usually something so crazy happens that your logical mind wakes up for a second and is like "wtf is this nonsense" followed by "ah, this is a dream!"
Also, according to "experts" in the field, teleporting in a dream (which came completely naturally to me) is apparently one of the hardest skills to master, because your brain has to instantly discard and rebuild the world it's created. After I learned that, I turned that on its head by using teleporting to completely change the dream. So some bullshit where I'm in France being chased by mimes (I have never been to France and trying to figure out how I got there is what triggered my realization that it was a dream) became a nice relaxing warm beach after I "teleported" out of there as a shortcut to destroying/rebuilding the dream world.