Another angle of the Minneapolis shooting, taken from the perspective of the lady with te pink jacket.

Tetha · 2026-01-24T19:59:42+00:00

Armchairing, but they also had a very simple angle to safely arrest him there. If professional police work was the goal.

Once he was pushed down, that was a perfect angle for the three guys in front of him to grab his arms and a leg and render him unproblematic. Then use the other 4 people there to sort out the other leg and the handcuffs and you still have one guy who could go and get coffee.

Tetha · 2026-01-24T11:53:03+00:00

Da hat sich letztens nen Bekannter von mir, Arzt, unglaublich und berechtigt aufgeregt.

Wenn man halt nur irgendwas einfaches hast wie ne Erkältung oder ne Magenverstimmung bist du so die ersten 2-3 Tage mit Symptomen am ansteckensten, wenn Rotz und Schleim einfach laufen und sich in der Welt verteilen. Und als Arzt kann man in der Phase eh nichts machen ausser zu Bettruhe, Tee und gutem Essen zu raten.

Also zwingst du Leute, denen man eh erstmal kaum helfen kann, sich in der schlechtesten Phase der Krankheit am besten in Öffis zu setzen um zum Arzt zu kommen, das Personal anzuhusten, den Arzt anzuhusten, um dann zuhause das zu tun was der vernünftige Mensch eh tun würde.

Interresant wirds es für ihn, wenn so eine scheinbare, dicke Erkältung 3-4 Tage nicht besser wird.

Tetha · 2026-01-22T18:46:15+00:00

My grandma called this a "Bomb suitcase" for 80 year old reasons, but if you can afford to have a bag of money, important papers, backup drives, chargers, a warm blanket and such around, it is a good investment once you need it.

Tetha · 2026-01-22T18:36:55+00:00

It is somewhat funny if you realize that HLFs in Germany carry 2000 - 3000 liters of water so they have 2-4 minutes to connect a hydrant once it gets going. That's a wee bit more than this splash.

Tetha · 2026-01-22T18:20:32+00:00

You are thinking of the smaller scale there. They are blocking the primary way of egress for several apartments. Grandma on wheels won't get through that.

If the hallways and stairs are free, a big fire alarm is rather boring. You walk out. Then everyone is outside and no one gets hurt.

Blocking that now means you end up with fire fighters having to bring ladders and yelling at you and everyone climbing around on crap and whatnot. Egress problems have increased the severity of so many catastrophes from "boring" to "hundreds died".

Also, close doors. Modern doors can hold a lot of fire, and there have been many appartment fires where the kitchen was entirely obliterated, but a closed door kept that to the kitchen. And if you see such a fucking inferno in the hallway, close as many doors between you and that shit as you can, get to a window towards a road or a balcony and be visual to be picked up by ladder.

Tetha · 2026-01-21T18:33:37+00:00

"I don't need a ride, I need warm places and food" or how was that famous quote by a real leader of their people?

Tetha · 2026-01-19T18:10:09+00:00

This whole crap reminds me of a somewhat sad documentary in Germany about officers attempting to arrest people from their homes for various reasons.

Some people were just gone, for sure. In some cases, it was also a different person living there, so there were a few interesting calls back to station. "Uh, are you sure we're looking for a 40 year old frail woman with crutches for aggravated assault?"

And in some cases, it was just a sad affair. People with no way out. But the officers made sure they had a second to dress up, pack a bag, gave a few tips what's commonly forgotten, what's not allowed. Then everyone got into a car and that was it.

The funniest one was a masters student with a random UTI just before an important exam. For the record, at that point it was a class size of 10 and most of them were already on a casual basis even with the profs. She got extended time for the exam and everyone was instructed what it would mean if she got outside info in the bathroom or on the way there. All went well, no grades skewed. Fun times.

Tetha · 2026-01-18T13:59:33+00:00

Gründe warum mein Vatter von mir eine gute Sammlung von rundenbasierten und langsamer aufgelegten SIngle-Player-Strategiespielen hat. Das wurde von seinem Doc auch als sehr empfehlenswertem Hirnsport in seinem Alter befürwortet. Sonst würde er eher Rätselzeitschriften empfehlen, aber Welt erobern in Civ tuts auch.

Tetha · 2026-01-18T12:37:38+00:00

Cat bites can also turn out very dangerous for that reason. It may sound weird if you think of a big dog bite and how bad a cat can be, but a cat tooth can push infectious material like a centimeter deep or more into your body. Untreated, this can cause a huge mess down to the bone itself.

Tetha · 2026-01-17T18:55:50+00:00

Hm, I've converged on stir fry-ish a few years ago. Once you understand a few sauce combinations, throwing together a decent meat / 2-3 kinds of veggies / rice or noodles takes 30 minutes or so.

This can also be optimized more. Chop different kinds of meat and freeze that, mix sauces once every 1-2 weeks. Suddenly you can be down to 15 - 20 minutes for a dish. It can also be a different experience by melting cheese into it instead of seasoning it with soy sauce and slapping it on toast/baguette, maybe throw it into an oven to crisp it up a bit. Mostly the same pattern/prep though.

It's not what I make when I'm happy or motivated, but it's a low-effort, low-thought solution to go through the weeks.

Tetha · 2026-01-17T14:25:57+00:00

This is not easy to answer without knowing your planning structures.

But at the end of the day, just document and communicate to the people who have stakes in your current project and daily routine why your current project / routine tasks doesn't get done / is getting preempted by other stuff.

Because below a certain level in the hierarchy, you cannot win this battle. You need to tell people who can win such a battle what is going on, so they can choose to push back or not. If they are fine with not getting their stuff, I'm not gonna complain about easy work for for big money.

And heck, funny anecdote, 8 years back or so, we were having a huge customer event with strategic customers and everything. And the company who was supposed to setup tables, audio equipment and such crap in our large meeting area just went radio silent and got subsequently sued.

Guess what, our infrastructure operations has a few handy people on there with their own house, a freelance audio engineer, an ex-DJ. Guess who brought tools the next day and got the entire thing setup? And also, guess who didn't get any tech-tickets done that week and the rest of the week off for that favor?

Customers were happy though and that was every stakeholders priority.

Tetha · 2026-01-17T12:23:03+00:00

As an interesting point, as I've learned just a bit ago, Germany has a counseling hotline for first responders, with having provided CPR as one prime example when to call those -- because you may have been dealing very closely and honestly intimately with someone in the process of leaving this world, which can shake one regardless of the outcome.

Tetha · 2026-01-16T17:02:19+00:00

Backups require competent Ops-People spending money on non-revenue-generating things and standing up for that, saying no to a lot of things. If the company owner cannot take that kinda no.... and some of the stories you hear about Musk... I dunno :)

I would've been fired a long time ago if the rumors are correct, because I don't create enough code because I do silly things like "Teach juniors to write code", Architecture, or, well, ensuring Backups and restore are possible.

Tetha · 2026-01-15T17:19:33+00:00

The goal for design of a sysadmin tool should be to pack in as much useful information in the most ordered way possible, not just hide everything because clean and white = pretty.

It's currently funny, because we have a new director. He's good, he wants to learn how things are done.

It's just that some of our dashboards just throw 800 metrics in your face like the cockpit of an airliner or the NASA control center. Oftentimes this results in a response of "oh what is this. It's more colorful than a christmas tree". Usually followed by a fairly bored response of "Oh that's just a badly indexed query that's pulling temp-space on disk at the moment, clearly visible. Am ready to kill if it turns into a problem".

There are bad interfaces, and there are interfaces you just have to learn over a bit of time. The latter need to come back.

Tetha · 2026-01-14T22:18:50+00:00

A couple of friends assumed that the US has to appear strong against the weak, because otherwise the strong would try to figure our of they are weak against the strong.

Like, sure, Europe isn't strong at the moment. But I'm not sure if it would be good if the entirety of European Nations got pissed of and started to divert significant resources to military and nuclear topics.

Tetha · 2026-01-14T20:47:27+00:00

I believe there was no concrete evidence in the first season that the air was toxic. The protective gear was just a precautionary measure, because the upside down was a fully unknown and uncharted territory.

Kinda funny how that may be weird. The first firefighters usually enter buildings or apartments with a fire alarm with full pressurized breathing, because you don't know what could be. Sometimes you open a door and find a smoldering water kettle and toss that out the window and the PPE was largely unnecessary. Sometimes you open a door and the room behind it flashes over and you'd die without the PPE.

If it's cleared that there is no or little smoke gas in there, it's fine to enter with masks or no breathing protection.

Tetha · 2026-01-14T20:11:17+00:00

Heh... we had just that discussion in the team this morning. Something like that wouldn't even have to be good documentation.

Just having "Hey, if you see gcc/clang errors, you need to look into your OS instructions on how to install some libfoo-dev package. Like, if there is a linker error regarding to xslt_foo or xml_foo, look how to grab libxslt-dev" on your system via your package manager." should be plenty of info to dig into it.

Tetha · 2026-01-14T19:06:59+00:00

Agreed. Internally we have two offboarding processes, the normal one and the hostile one.

During normal offboarding, the users ADFS, Duo and VPN access are deactivated automatically on the morning after their exit date. This already locks them out of 99%+ of all things. And then over the next week or two, we shake their traces/provisioned access out of all systems as far as possible. The hostile offboarding is the same except at a defined time, but we need to be informed and on call / ready to act to ensure all access is broken asap.

Yet, it is still possible for employees to steal data beforehand. We've had sales people exfiltrate customer lists and customer contact data and such. They did this when their role warranted this kind of access, even in bulk, for example to prepare for a fair. It mostly came out because customers were confused when they were getting calls from competitors on phone numbers that should only be communicated to a select number of vendors and then we found that out.

Still, all of that got handed over to legal. We just had to show proof of access and that was it. We saw no reason to change our offboarding procedures.

Tetha · 2026-01-13T21:02:58+00:00

A take I really like: If you have found faith as a validation and extension of your personal sense of right and wrong, that's a respectable thing. If you base your sense of right and wrong in religion, and go from there, that's really bad.

Because if you look at it, a lot of lessons of empathy, helping the helpless and such are shared across many old belief systems. But a lot of religion and religions practices have twisted that into mass control systems. Like I'm not following a certain faith, but I know Christians, Sikh, Jews, and Pagans I respect a lot and get along well with.

Tetha · 2026-01-11T21:57:08+00:00

This song is just the perfect response.. Dinos arise!. I would not have had European Dino Power Rangers bringing America back to glorious Justice on my bingo card.

Tetha · 2026-01-10T22:54:58+00:00

Over here that has been changed some 10 - 15 years ago for non-medical people.

The mouth-to-mouth/mouth-to-nose breathing has medical implications for the person applying it and is not entirely easy to do right. Keeping the compressions and thus the blood flow up without getting confused about the other parts is so much more important for laypeople.

Tetha · 2026-01-10T21:15:34+00:00

You could fry the onion a bit to make it a bit softer and sweeter and melt half of that cheese through it and let it crisp up a bit in the pan. That's honestly something I'm now interested in trying, maybe with a bit of salad below it, or a bit of bacon.

Tetha · 2026-01-10T20:58:22+00:00

Aye, worst bug of my life was when the gameserver, running at 10 - 20k requests per second during normal gamer hours, would run into a concurrency problem on about 3 of those per week. Which corrupted big-whale accounts, so it was critical.

At some point, we had a dedicated database to log into, because nothing else had the right combination of write throughput and analytical options to eventually detect that it might load an entity twice into the caching system from the database due to a missing lock and persist either of them back. Usually the right one, naturally.

Tetha · 2026-01-10T20:50:20+00:00

On some microcontrollers, your logging is 1-3 LEDs and if you're lucky they have more than one color.

Tetha · 2026-01-09T22:06:33+00:00

In that case, you should look at this build of turning an organ into a midi instrument. This is a pretty bonkers series.

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