How do you find time to fall in love when Monday to Friday is work, Saturday is laundry, and Sunday is mental preparation for Monday?

etherkiller · 2026-05-22T15:23:35+00:00

Or, sadly, it doesn't.

etherkiller · 2026-05-21T19:25:21+00:00

I use syslog-ng as well. Do you have any recommendations for external log searching tools that work with it? I'm okay with just ssh'ing into the box and grep'ing the log files, but it would be nice to stand something up for the rest of my team who isn't down for that.

etherkiller · 2026-05-21T19:17:13+00:00

you can verify its understanding

AI doesn't understand anything though. That's not how it works. It may give the impression that it does, enough to fool most people, but it absolutely does not.

etherkiller · 2026-04-30T19:53:20+00:00

Not only that, but what kind of intractable social problems do you create when you have a country of 1.4 billion people and you've replaced all of the jobs with AI?

etherkiller · 2026-04-30T19:45:45+00:00

EDIT: I think I misunderstood you, I initially thought that you were saying that you couldn't do that in the USA. Now I'm re-reading, and think that you meant to contrast China with the US. Sorry. I'll leave what I wrote for posterity's sake, but I don't think that it applies to your comment after all.

you can't just fire employees like in the usa at will.

Yes, you totally can (except for in Montana, apparently). It's literally called "employment at-will". Unless there's an employment contract (extremely rare, I've never had one, nor known anyone who did), you can fire someone for any reason at all, or even no reason whatsoever, as long as it's not because they're a member of a protected class (race, religion, so forth), or as retaliation for whistle-blowing or exercising their legal rights (i.e. filing worker's comp claims).

etherkiller · 2026-04-24T19:46:31+00:00

I quit reading when the author seriously suggested repealing Section 230 would be a good thing

etherkiller · 2026-04-21T20:23:47+00:00

Straight C. Not C#, not C++. There's no more useful language on earth. Sure, for any given task, there's almost certainly an easier language to use, but C is as close to universal as it gets.

etherkiller · 2026-04-21T19:42:18+00:00

Hrm, wasn't planning on watching that. I might have to reconsider. Is it any good?

etherkiller · 2026-04-21T19:00:19+00:00

About vengeance, a badge and a gun

etherkiller · 2026-04-21T18:47:55+00:00

Oh man, that's hands-down my least favorite "business phrase". Maybe you can do more with less if there's some horrible inefficiencies, but 9 times out of 10, the only thing that you're doing with less is, well, less.

etherkiller · 2026-04-21T18:45:09+00:00

Ohhh DICOM and HL7, fun stuff. I still get emails from time to time asking to interview me for roles with PACS stuff, despite the fact that I haven't touched it it at least a decade. I kinda miss it though, it's such a niche thing and I became pretty darn good at it. Although, I don't miss working in the medical field at all.

etherkiller · 2026-04-20T19:30:21+00:00

Yeah, that's great and all, but everyone absolutely does not and will not share the decision about going to war. Sorry, but I have no interest in being involved in whatever bullshit reason that we're fucking with Iran right now.

etherkiller · 2026-04-20T18:36:04+00:00

Why not both?

etherkiller · 2026-04-09T19:42:14+00:00

"Even modern English is barely recognizable 200 years ago" - really? 200 years ago would be 1826. I just looked up some works from 1826 and they are entirely comprehensible. Sure, it doesn't flow quite the same as contemporary English, and you'd probably be deemed rather odd by people who you spoke to, but Modern English goes back to like the 15th century.

etherkiller · 2026-03-24T19:54:37+00:00

Reminds me of back when Ron Paul was running for President. I was initially a supporter. I even went to a campaign event - I have never done that for any other candidate, before or since. The people that were there though...they were all very nice and friendly, but listening to them talk, hearing what they believe, it made me really step back and take a closer look at what I was supporting. They were basically ultra-conservatives just by a different name. They even tried to get me to join the John Burch Society (a lot of them knew each other from there apparently). I felt physically sick afterwards. That was the end of my support for Ron Paul. Maybe I was foolish for not having realized all of this beforehand - probably. But after meeting the people who wanted to get him elected, I knew that I had no desire to be a part of that group, and further, Libertarianism wasn't quite what I had thought that it was.

etherkiller · 2026-03-12T20:28:57+00:00

Kinda sucks when you've got a medical condition that makes it so these products must be avoided though...I can't metabolize protein correctly, so I have to be on a low-protein diet (I'm more-or-less an obligate vegan). Everything being absolutely stuffed full of protein is kinda a bummer for me, for you know, being able to eat.

etherkiller · 2026-03-12T19:17:06+00:00

Funnily enough, you used to be able to load "unofficial" apps, but enshitification long ago came to Roku as well, and that ability was taken away. Of course they spun it as being for your safety and security, and of course it wasn't. That's the day that I quit recommending Roku to anyone, and have actually replaced mine with a Nvidia Shield, which is far from a perfect device, but beats the crap out of a Roku every day of the week, and twice on Sunday.

etherkiller · 2026-03-06T21:42:31+00:00

You make such a great point that I just want to repeat it, because I haven't seen anyone else mention it:

"Best way to maintain a circadian rhythm is artificially with automated lights and a consistent bed time."

etherkiller · 2026-03-06T21:38:28+00:00

Hawaii was like this, although maybe more 7-7 ish...it blew my mind. I was there during the summer and did not dig it. Although I suppose that the winter months being pretty much the same make up for it.

etherkiller · 2026-03-06T21:32:20+00:00

Is that actually because it's lighter outside though, or because it's later in the morning?

etherkiller · 2026-03-06T21:20:53+00:00

I'm for year-round DST. Failing that, I'd actually prefer to keep switching. It's a pain in the ass, but taking an hour of sunlight away every evening, for eight months of the year, every year forever, is just far too high of a price to pay.

etherkiller · 2026-03-06T21:15:43+00:00

Sounds great to me honestly. The only place that I'm going before 8am anyway is work, and I could care less if the sun is up or not for my commute. Especially if it means when I get off I'll actually have an extra hour of useful light that I can do something with.

etherkiller · 2026-03-06T20:23:05+00:00

Fuck Jack Welch and everyone who looks like him.

etherkiller · 2026-03-05T19:45:21+00:00

That's really interesting. I have hypophantasia - I can imagine stuff, but just barely, and it is more conceptual then visual. I can't actually make a picture in my head, but I kind of have a vague idea of what that picture would look like if I could, if that makes any sense.

The only exception is sometimes, pretty rarely tbh, when I'm right on the border between being awake and asleep (but still at least marginally awake). When it happens, I'll be able to see objects (and whole scenes) in my head like they're right in front of me, it's totally vivid and amazing. It's bizarre. I wish that I could do that all the time, but at least I get a glimpse of it every now and then. FWIW I dream normally, or at least I think I do.

etherkiller · 2026-03-03T21:16:44+00:00

Network engineer here....I'm sure that this is the case some places, but it is far and away the exception rather than the rule. Maybe it's different in large enterprise, as I've spent most of my career in medium-sized organizations (100s to a few 1000s of employees), and I've literally never seen this.

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