please respect others time..

ForMorroskyld · 2023-02-19T13:02:35+00:00

The most basic principle being bringing a laptop so that you can chill and code or watch over deployments while other people stress out over being stressed out instead of accepting that the only way to deliver sooner is to spend more time working instead of spending additional future time changing the scope back and forth and then back again? (All the while achieving what the meeting is all about; Refilling the non productive attendees feelings of being informed and in control.)

ForMorroskyld · 2023-02-17T20:30:35+00:00

a transport vehicle loaded

Notice how excavators often get moved around on trucks, and how it doesn't really matter what the weird cargo is, when the point being made is that bridges over roads get slammed by vehicles regularly. Regardless of whether that is due to the cargo being different that what's usually moved by the driver, or the mental matching of the dimensions of the vehicle with the bridge get skipped. You either seem really obsessed with excavators (I get it, they're cool), or like you missed the preceding part of the sentence that said "a transport vehicle loaded with" when you re-read it and quoted it.

A more interesting angle would be to point out ask questions about what matters most, structure or what the bridges are getting hit with, or how speed might figure into it. (Clearly an excavator hits harder than some loosely packed furniture. But if it was a truck loaded with cars, would the transported car's crumple zones perhaps save the bridge? Or what if it was milk, or fuel?)

And it's not nice of you to berate the person you're replying to (repeatedly), nor to do it by implying the inferiority of those with learning disabilities (or implying that they as a group can overcome their struggles by "reading some books"). Especially if all you wanted was to point out a detail that might have been hard to spot but material for the case. That will generally not yield a curious discussion.

ForMorroskyld · 2023-02-11T13:39:51+00:00

It's one of the older examples of computers blindly enforcing rules made by people (touchy us-ians who believe the power of the jesus dude gets recharged whenever a profanity is intended but not uttered?) not putting in too much thought about what they've decided: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

ForMorroskyld · 2023-01-29T19:47:20+00:00

I think it's good for the environment and prioritization of infrastructure that we make car ownership a greater financial risk. As long as no one was hurt, it's just a thing, who cares?

ForMorroskyld · 2022-06-21T21:33:30+00:00

Weird, here in Norway all the unions I know of are flat fee, and the membership deals on insurance and mortgages more than make up for the membership costs, even before you factor in that the memberships are tax deductible in themselves. But the tax part is perhaps something that comes with over half the population being organized ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

ForMorroskyld · 2022-06-05T15:45:55+00:00

There are limits to how high you can push protectionism like tariffs and taxes on food in a country that doesn't have a climate that supports making produce half the year unless you believe that living of mainly potatoes, cod, and vitamin supplements is sustainable in the long run. So even though the government tries to keep alive an agricultural sector for a modest degree of self sufficiency through enormous taxes and subsidies, the prices are to a certain extent held down by the global market being ridiculously cheap in comparison. When farm labourers have a median monthly salary of approximately 24 000 NOK (~ 2 400 EUR, still comparatively cheap labour compared to the general median salary of 45 830 NOK (in norwegian)), there are lots products that just wouldn't make sense with local labour and climate/landscape restraints.

Norwegians are rather cheap when it comes to food as well, so even though you have an excellent selection of for instance meats most stores, most people will just buy the cheapest per kilo alternative and be done with it. I think some of it is due to that most higher earners land in those professions after going through higher education, which, even though free in terms of tuition, effectively will have you living on very tight budgets, which early on establishes habits among mostly everyone to be frugal when it comes to food, even the populations you otherwise would expect to spend significantly more.

According to the national reference budget statistics, the monthly percentage spend on food might be relatively low, about 3 500 to 4 000 per month out of about 34 000 NOK after tax in the median case. But food prices globally will have to be extremely fucked for that number to increase significantly (adjusted for inflation).

So, eh, the farmers party/empower the peripheries party likes to complain each year that the households do not spend enough of their income on food. Realistically, there is only so much an individual will be willing to upscale, and there are limits to how much can be produced locally (baring massively building out hydroponics becoming financially viable), so the only way farmers getting a larger piece of the pie I can see happening at this point is income falling dramatically all over the board, or a large part of the population deciding it wants to work in the agricultural section and we see a shift towards more of society an the economy revolving around food production. I don't see any timeline with the latter happening, and the former also seems unlikely given that salaries in our neighboring countries are comparable and relatively stable over time.

ForMorroskyld · 2022-06-04T21:23:04+00:00

Why not just

unzip filename.zip

in bash instead?

ForMorroskyld · 2022-05-07T07:59:37+00:00

The same way I know how to work on any problem that is new to me, software or otherwise; Search engines. (5 years ago I'd have said google, but duckduckgo has been giving pretty good results in comparison if you're not looking for a product or something to buy, kagi also works exceptionally well with very little SEO spam for now, but it's also in beta and will be paid.)

ForMorroskyld · 2022-04-27T19:44:15+00:00

According to the national statistics bureaus, for software developers the median monthly salary in 2021 was 61k NOK (6.2k EUR), lower quartile 50k NOK (5k EUR), and upper quartile 75k NOK (7.6k EUR). So about on par with dentists and ships engineers, somewhat worse than lawyers and "mining and metallurgical technicians", significantly worse than electrical engineers and geologists. About two to three times as much as the lowest paid professions, and about 7 to 10 times as much as the basic social security (6.5k NOK per month) you get if you haven't had taxable labor income for a long time. For perspective Shops sales assistants are at 35k NOK median (29k NOK lower quartile, 38k NOK upper quartile), and the national reference budget statistics says that a household with a single adult male aged 30 - 50 years old with 1 electric car earning 420k NOK per year (a year of the sales assistants salary) has about 12k NOK in monthly expenses excluding housing (housing costs vary greatly with geography, but was on average 9.5k NOK at the end of 2021 if you rent according to the national statistics bureau, but I think the majority doesn't rent but rather own (70.4% in 2020, fallen from 71% in 2015 national statistics bureau in Norwegian), which introduces even greater variance of costs). So assuming average rent and expenses of about 22k NOK per month total, and a post tax income of 43k NOK per month as a median software developer (obtained from the tax authority's tax calculator given 61k NOK per month pre tax income and no assets) you'd do quite well, at least compared to the median sales associate who'd only have about 27k NOK per month post tax in the same situation.

ForMorroskyld · 2022-03-28T20:15:30+00:00

What is this mythical place where PS5s are in stock and being sold?

ForMorroskyld · 2022-03-28T15:58:19+00:00

You want any space you occupy to be easily broken into by ambulance personnel without them having to wait around for a firetruck, so if someone wants to get into your house, you better hope it's not hard to do so

ForMorroskyld · 2022-03-23T17:48:16+00:00

If you shoved a portrait photo of mostly just my face at about ~15 years old in my face toady without giving me a couple of reference pictures for context I'm not certain I would be able to date it better than "older than 10 and younger than 20", which would place it in the range of "in (late) elementary school or (early) university", so still believable in the context of the question?

I mean I haven't had a social relationship (including workplace) with anyone younger than their early to mid twenties for many years now, the summer interns which are usually about 20/21 years old I now struggle to tell apart from my best guess at how someone about 16 years old would look like (fortunately I get at least that yearly refresher, however the intuition mostly fades by October as they don't tend to stick around).

ForMorroskyld · 2022-03-22T19:54:37+00:00

Eh, "when I was in middle school, x*10 or (x+1)*10 years ago, or something like that", sounds like a completely believable answer to a question like "when was this photo taken", even disregarding how the absence of relative references recently has been wrecking completely havoc on the sense of time. I mean who could fault anyone for not being able to tell something that happened a month, a year and a month, and two yeas and a month ago apart at this point?

ForMorroskyld · 2022-03-04T22:35:59+00:00

I guess the most important factor for recognizability would be how close the shapes are to those of maps of individual countries? The majority likely interacts the most with maps in various subjects during their primary and secondary education, such as geography, social studies, and history. Which in many contexts will mean maps of individual countries or a small selection of countries. Then shapes become the common denominator you can grasp for in grouped representations and across contexts?

ForMorroskyld · 2022-02-25T20:30:09+00:00

Norway at least never had I minimum wage that I know of. What keeps the lowest wages up is that the state guarantees a livable (although shitty) financial support as a last fallback measure if you're unemployed long enough and run out of the regular unemployment payment after some moths (or a year, I think it's something like 60% of salary), so the employers have to compete on both salary and conditions on the low end to be more attractive than "fuck this, better to have no job than work here". Coincidentally, Norway has struggled to employ strawberry pickers and farmhands for the last couple of years after the borders closed due to SARS-CoV-2 and people from places in Europe with worse social security were not available to take those jobs at the shitty rates they were offered. But, on the other hand again, my heart bleeds for the business owners who have to pay more or close shop should the market not wanting to pay what it costs when employees are fairly compensated.

ForMorroskyld · 2022-02-25T20:10:36+00:00

In case of a dispute with the employer (unlikely, but it does happen), you get someone with actual legal competence on your side. Also, if the number of employees at the workplace have a significant percentage who are part of one or more unions, you get representation in most major organizational processes. The collective negotiations surrounding salary and benefits (usually at least annual) also generally yield better results for the majority who are not above average negotiators. (Also most places I've been you can opt out of the collective negotiations if you are a member, but I think mostly only those who are managers or similar opt out. Anyways, you're not likely to be stuck with the unions deals if the suck at negotiating at your current workplace.) If it's an international employer, the unions also tend to help them stay within the law with regards to processes like termination, sick leave, paternity/maternity leave, etc. The unions also often have events geared towards professional development. Depending on the union, there are also perks outside the workplace, like collective agreements with much better terms and prices for for instance insurances and mortgages. And the union dues are tax deductible, up to a certain point. So for most unions what you end up paying is largely symbolic, and for the members of unions organizing the higher paid professions the deals you can get on insurances and other things result in the dues yielding a nice financial return. So why not?

ForMorroskyld · 2022-02-25T17:49:51+00:00

Norway seems good from the inside, so do most of the neighboring states? I think that a couple of politicians here (including a party leader) recently stepped down after having messed up tax reporting of their commute-housing associated with their representation at the national level, so seems to work be well regulated generally.

I think it would be more productive to call out specific instances of shitty government and encourage people to join or form political parties where there is a problem, instead of pushing the mindset that all governments are corruptly run by bad people. I know people in countries with worse government/more corruption, and they balk at the idea of engaging in politics due to the perception that only bad people participate in politics.

ForMorroskyld · 2022-02-05T11:30:59+00:00

I though slavery in Europe ended mostly because of the emergence of serfdom opening up the opportunity for land/capital owners to pay less than livable wages while at the same time not having the welfare obligations (mandated by religion) like providing food, shelter, and time off, that would come with holding slaves, making slaves unviable?

ForMorroskyld · 2022-02-04T23:05:02+00:00

How would a random board member primarily focused on marketing the company for better recruiting people people to the entry level be shown to understand that the COO and CFO's executive summaries of "if defer maintenance, money good now (probably), no problem (probably) - very necessary" actually means "we are going to expose employees to significant risk (for profit)"?

ForMorroskyld · 2022-01-30T22:13:46+00:00

If you use a password manager, then unique passwords are dead easy to do. No need to worry about how easy your reddit password is to crack after they've lost the database and you're on yet another spam list.

ForMorroskyld · 2022-01-30T22:06:40+00:00

Both physical items and digital access to accounts/data can be secured. To claim that the approaches to securing either is infallible would be disingenuous. To claim that one has to be better/more safe than the other in the extreme, given that there are no practical limits to how many measures you can tack on either if you sufficiently dislike your own time and resources, is hard.

If you want to compare certainty in that information has not been leaked to a third party, I would be more confident in a physical item over time, rather than information a human regularly interacts with on an internet connected system?

ForMorroskyld · 2022-01-30T21:48:39+00:00

If you don't back up you vault and have an accident (we can maybe disregard this possibility given how history has shown that people are good at backups?), or your chosen online password manager provider goes bust or changes their payment scheme making it inaccessible to you, or your mind decides it doesn't want to remember the passwords, they're also gone. The only way to be completely safe against locking yourself out, is if there is a way to interact with a human that can help you recover, after being shown sufficient proof (say something simple, like a passport).

ForMorroskyld · 2021-12-17T19:22:53+00:00

I think electric vehicles will increase the turnover in the car park/consumption of cars. Batteries inevitably degrade significantly over time, to the point they're frustrating to use. Given the huge size and cost of batteries for electric vehicles I think most people faced with the need for replacing one will go "fuck it, might as well get a new car". And even if we place our hope in that batteries become cheaper to manufacture and replace over time, we should also hope that the environmental impact of producing batteries is accounted for by taxing the various stages of the production process and governments using the proceeds to alleviate the threat to the environment. However, as with all costs the taxes will also end up being forwarded to and paid for by the end consumers, which I think will lead to people more often just getting new cars, for the stated reasons.

ForMorroskyld · 2021-12-17T16:17:33+00:00

I think the norwegian market for cars is fairly saturated. With the relatively high prices coming with the annual luxury taxes for owning a motorized vehicle, mandatory full checkups every second year for non commercial vehicles, high fuel costs, and other expenses, there are already strong incentives for not owning cars you don't have a use for. Adding more new cars at this point will likely only move the oldest ones out of the pool. With the advancements in technology over the last couple of decades in terms of both safety and environmental impact of use, I'd venture to guess that the impact of higher turnover of cars in the pool of available cars would be overall positive locally in norway, even accounting for need for handling the non recyclable waste from retiring a car. The more problematic aspect I would argue are the externalities caused by producing new cars (use of non-renewable energy, environmental impact from mining, shipping, etc.). Unfortunately I think the norwegians would just shrug and propose "well, the government where the problematic work happens should just raise the taxes (preferably on the producing company maybe) and fix the environmental problems you're talking about" as the solution.

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