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by funnybeam 6y ago
As someone that has been in this position (manager in the UK) I have to agree and think you have summed it up perfectly. However, it is occasionally successful and those (admittedly rare) occasions have been some of the most rewarding exper
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by funnybeam 6y ago
And that’s when you create a performance improvement plan. If someone is underperforming then you take steps to try to understand why and help them to get to the level the company needs them to be at. Hopefully this works and everyone is ha
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by funnybeam 6y ago
Good work. This is called management - performance reviews are a sop to try and make up for poor management but are utterly useless and often counter productive (there’s no better incentive to start job hunting than having to prepare for a
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by funnybeam 6y ago
Yes we did. I was on transhumanist mailing lists twenty years ago and the exact same comments were being made then as are in this thread today
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by funnybeam 6y ago
That’s exactly how I feel all the time. I guess I have an AI soul mate now
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by funnybeam 6y ago
Sounds like an Interocitor
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by funnybeam 6y ago
But not everyone uses wildcard certs so enumeration is a problem. Also lots of people use certs with internal hostnames on public servers (they shouldn’t but it does make some things easier and not everyone is aware of the security issues).
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by funnybeam 6y ago
Another UK commenter - over here that cotton twill is known as moleskin and a lot of the army surplus is in that fabric which I agree is much nicer than the ripstop stuff
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by funnybeam 6y ago
You want the same model but make sure they are from different batches. When buying SANs the vendor will routinely mix the disks supplied to minimise the chance of any manufacturing defects taking out multiple drivers at once
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by funnybeam 6y ago
As I find myself frequently repeating - redundancy without monitoring is not redundancy
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by funnybeam 6y ago
For me, noise cancelling ear phones playing pink noise works to blank everything out. Music I find too distracting and white noise too harsh (makes me feel like I have a hangover) but pink noise is soothing, almost like being in the womb an
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by funnybeam 6y ago
Yes they do, you just have to click the link in the email and request the full report
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by funnybeam 6y ago
Or maybe not. Turning the Sahara into a forest would have a massive climate impact. I am not a climate scientist but I’d imagine there would be significant changes to rainfall patterns over most of Europe, Africa, and the Middle East Edit -
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by funnybeam 6y ago
As a native U.K. person that went to school in the seventies (ie long before spell checkers), I can assure you that British English used S rather than Z in the kind of words you are talking about.
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by funnybeam 6y ago
Generally when I’m idly visualising something it is ‘in my mind’s eye’ as you put it. But if I’m really focused and close my eyes then everything else seems to disappear and I’m ‘really’ seeing it, not on the inside of my eyelids but it enc
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by funnybeam 6y ago
Very similar to my process. Most people struggle with prioritising because they think that it is deciding what order to do things in - I like to say that far more important than that is deciding what things you are NOT going to do.
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by funnybeam 7y ago
Thank you for making me laugh at loud while making breakfast
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by funnybeam 7y ago
I know so many people that have read the book multiple times but seem to have somehow missed the fact that Cirdan has a beard. It’s like they have a blind spot and just can’t see it
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by funnybeam 7y ago
That’s a bit more than a “mild” spoiler... I’d have been really annoyed if someone had told me that information before I read it (fantastic series of books by the way)
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by funnybeam 7y ago
To me, also a native speaker (UK if it makes a difference), “big old” implies size alone(fairly large) rather than age, while “old big” would definitely mean old and large
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by funnybeam 7y ago
The problem with this is the asymmetry of power relationships - if everything is transparent it is very easy for a powerful group to use that against an individual but much harder the other way around
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by funnybeam 7y ago
Eventually. Old numbers are held out of use for, I think, five years before being reissued specifically to address security and privacy issues like this
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by funnybeam 7y ago
That’s playing the Trust Game. People often see the Status Game as a proxy for the trust game which is a big mistake
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by funnybeam 7y ago
And then there is Diplomacy, where you have to cooperate with everyone to get anywhere - right until you stab them in the back
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by funnybeam 7y ago
Could you not just set you status in WhatsApp to all people to contact you via Signal? Not as good as an auto responder but at least people would see it when searching for you in the app
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by funnybeam 7y ago
Actually Microsoft are installing a chrome plugin that forces the search engine to Bing so users can’t change the default back until they remove the plugin
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by funnybeam 7y ago
Unfortunately it’s opt-out rather than opt-in. Pity the poor help desks that missed this announcement and get swamped with tickets next month
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by funnybeam 7y ago
Try running further. At 5k your body is only just about warmed up - I never really enjoy a run until after the 5k mark, it gets easier after that point
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by funnybeam 7y ago
True, but humans can see a bunch of kids loitering on top of a bridge, get suspicious and change lane or slow down as a precaution
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by funnybeam 7y ago
”We will eventually update markings and beacons on the roads to make it easier for the cars” We have already done this, they are called railways. Some of them evening have self driving trains. To get self driving cars on roads you need a hu

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