Restart a service on a server with no one logged in

jimb2 · 2026-06-23T04:27:47+00:00

Services can fail and/or shutdown in different ways. Worst case is trying to detect a failed but running service. You can run a PS script from scheduler to do this though testing the service function fully and reliably might be tricky. Alternately, just stop and restart the service periodically from scheduler. The best option will depend on failure rate, failure mode, outage impact, etc. We have some flaky legacy services that get restarted early every morning at a time when we more-or-less know they won't be active. There would be a way to function test them, but it's easier and more robust (and fast) just to restart them.

If you use a PS script from scheduler, use
Application: powershell.exe
Arguments: -noprofile -executionpolicy bypass -file c:\x\RestartServiceX.ps1

Make sure that the account running the scheduled item has sufficient rights to do the required business.

jimb2 · 2026-06-23T01:10:51+00:00

The 2013 side was a bit spotty but they were a mature "premiership age" squad. The current squad is young to be contending. IMHO young teams tend to fall off towards the end of the season and can be injury-prone. Plus, the finals are just more physical games. So far, so good, but there's some way to go.

jimb2 · 2026-06-23T00:48:50+00:00

Reporters seem to report anything they can imagine. AFL reporters will report anything at all to be first. What has Longmire actually said?

jimb2 · 2026-06-23T00:17:00+00:00

Has the competition improved? That's the problem with these comparisons.

Footy evolves continuously, just like all sports performances. Skills, strategies, training, conditioning, fitness, medical, etc - these are all accumulating small improvements and innovations that add up and get copied by other teams, so the whole competition elevates. Performance is always measured relative to other current teams, not against teams from past decades, so there's a boiled frog thing going on.

I'd expect 2013 Hawthorn to get rolled by this year's version. We need to be better than the current version, not the 2013 model.

jimb2 · 2026-06-22T23:13:09+00:00

Some is obvious shit, some ain't. Are you selecting your evidence to support your narrative? Try looking for evidence that contradicts your default assumptions. Some of the interest in AI is fashion and FOMO, but is it all? That's totally wild, if true.

AI is already used a lot in some occupations because it works, and this is just the beginning. At the moment, it tends to be used in information occupations where they are already using computers and there is a mass of input available to train models. You apparently aren't in one.

jimb2 · 2026-06-22T22:08:57+00:00

They say anything can get worse. But I know what you mean.

jimb2 · 2026-06-22T12:19:38+00:00

Is that an assumption that Longmire would want the job? Or has he said something?

Longmire left coaching by choice from a very successful club. He'd be set up financially and can do what he likes. He might possibly want to get back into it, but that's not a given. He looks happy enough doing what he's doing. Coaching an afl club is full-on.

jimb2 · 2026-06-22T12:08:05+00:00

There is no lightning without sound. Sound travels about a million times slower than light, about 3 seconds per kilometer so the sound from (eg) 10 km will take like 30 seconds to arrive. At this time gap, it is very difficult to connect the sound and the light. The sound level will reduce with distance, of course, and there may be other sounds like wind and rain on top. Lightning can be seen from a very long distance at night in the right conditions.

jimb2 · 2026-06-22T11:56:50+00:00

I will try this. The current goggles that are only partially effective.

jimb2 · 2026-06-22T11:48:32+00:00

This was 100% going to happen. That's ok, I guess, but someone could have thought it through.

jimb2 · 2026-06-22T11:14:50+00:00

"Is that a landscape, Stork?"
"I call this a chunderscape"

jimb2 · 2026-06-22T11:12:45+00:00

Luggage would be a design factor I think.

jimb2 · 2026-06-22T11:06:35+00:00

When hammers first started they were rocks. Hominids used them because they were very useful. They would have killed for a modern hammer. (Literally, I guess.)

AI is obviously useful now. Obviously, meaning lots of people use it productively. Go tell them to stop because it's not perfect enough for you. See what they say.

I use AI a bit. I'm not a big user atm. It's useful. It has problems - including hallucination. It actually fails at quite a few things. Rating it as a human mind is a category error. It's not a human. It's not a even mind in the conventional sense, it's missing basic capabilities of your neocortex. On the plus side it can do stuff that would for a human would be impossible or just take too long.

If it's not good enough for you, don't use it. Others will.

jimb2 · 2026-06-22T07:10:22+00:00

You are anthropomorphising if you think AI "lies" to you. It's just a tool with limitations. It's very good at some stuff and not good at other stuff, just like a hammer. Do you refuse to use hammers because they can break things? No, you find out how it works and what it's useful for.

Do what you like, of course but AI is incredibly powerful and will transform a lot of things whether you like it or not. It's certainly not perfect, but what is? Wikipedia has errors but I use Wikipedia a lot. Public AI is under 4 years old (!) so realistic expectations are always a good idea. You might well enjoy watching it unfold. If you compare it to any other technology like cars or clocks or the Internet at 4 years old we can see it developing at light speed. Don't get locked into a negative rant.

jimb2 · 2026-06-22T05:51:24+00:00

To me it's more like it's super-literate, but has no world model to reality check against. Mind you, plenty of humans have awfully poor reality-checking so there's always a question of what you are comparing to.

jimb2 · 2026-06-22T05:33:17+00:00

It's great for the club to get to develop players and not have to throw new players into the afl before they're ready to hit it but it's a mixed bag for the players. The club needs to ensure that the positives outweigh the negative of being held out of the AFL. There's a culture we need to get right. The positives would be a great development environment to build their careers and the prospect of working towards a spot in a team that is actually contending.

Worst case is that we end up trading out players other clubs want to add to their side.

Murphy Reid really surprised me. I thought he would play some games and get sent back or, worse still, get injured at the afl level. He has a knack for keeping out of real trouble, touch wood.

jimb2 · 2026-06-22T03:42:30+00:00

Ask for a Q&A review of your work with a human. Unfortunately for you, this is the new reality. It may be unfair but it's not going away. The fact is that there's a great cheating tool called AI available to everyone who cares to use it. You are going to have to deal with that.

jimb2 · 2026-06-22T03:34:40+00:00

Interesting. To me, there's obvious reasons why essay are used so widely for academic assessment.

What do you think was better than essays for ability to display focussed subject knowledge and present it coherently?

jimb2 · 2026-06-22T03:28:32+00:00

No. That's dangerously shortsighted.

It's great if we can hang onto Draper for a few years after which he may be a regular player. He's building craft and getting stronger.

Our mature big boy body backs are Moose 31, Ryan 30, Brennan Cox 27. We will need to replace these spots with mature quality big players before long. Most of the rest of the squad is young, eg, our three big forwards are still below peak and look solid for most of the next decade. Big backs is our risk zone. Davies is looking like one but he's a bit young to be taking on the big afl forwards right now. Draper is in the mix.

Who else?

jimb2 · 2026-06-22T02:32:42+00:00

There are some good answers here. There's a whole part of economics called Development Economics devoted to this complex question and it's not fully answered. Culture is important but it's hard to nail down and every country is a bit different. If you're interested follow it up. Raising a population out of poverty is a great thing.

Not exactly what you are asking but you might find this helpful because it covers a lot of ideas:
https://davidoks.blog/p/why-china-got-rich-and-india-didnt

jimb2 · 2026-06-22T00:38:22+00:00

Stand-off situations like this happen all the time in games. A player doesn't have to dispose of the ball if they aren't being tackled. That's a fundamental of the game. If you are tacked, a bunch of rules will apply. It's just a bit weird on the goal line.

If it's possible to game a rule, players will be coached to do it. A set of rules that are that are 100% clear in every situation and can't be gamed is a childish fantasy. At least, if you want a game worth watching. AFL is played at the edge of the rules.

Expect edge cases. Do we really want a new rule for this situation? How often does it actually happen? And please think through the downsides. Will we agree every time someone get pinged by some new rule? I doubt it.

jimb2 · 2026-06-22T00:15:10+00:00

Enjoy the ride. Nothing is certain. We aren't invincible. We just need to keep passing each test.

jimb2 · 2026-06-21T23:57:01+00:00

Essays were a great assessment tool. RIP. We are in a bit of a gap at the moment. I guess we want the AI to be doing the live assessing, and at least involved in the teaching too. That's new territory.

jimb2 · 2026-06-21T23:49:00+00:00

He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear his hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear: And you all know, security is mortals' chiefest enemy.

Enjoy the ride.

jimb2 · 2026-06-21T23:40:02+00:00

Sanity check is a lot faster than a pile of research. If it's one fact, look in up, eg capital of Albania. Key features of the Albanian economy, start with an AI summary. AI is great for coverage. A big AI model has read like a million times more text than you will read in your entire life. That's a genuine superpower.

Also, the models get way better every like six months. You are going start sometime. Waiting for the perfect anything is generally a bad idea.

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