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xahteiwi, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

A screw-up happened. The screw-up is ultimately due to a crucial piece of information not being relayed to the right person. Multiple levels of seniority were in the loop, all of whom could have caught the omission, but nobody did. Who bears responsibility for the screw-up?

A — Everyone, jointly.
B — The most senior person involved.
C — The person who would have normally been "most likely" to catch the omission.
D — Someone else. (You pledge to add a comment who that would be)

(Boosts fine.)

xahteiwi, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random German

Wer malte "Guernica"? Wer baute die Z3? Wieviele Frauen erhielten bisher den Physik-Nobelpreis? Wer schrieb "Die Wolke"?

— Wenn jemand viele solcher Fragen aus dem Stegreif korrekt beantworten kann, (1) beeindruckt euch das und (2) findet ihr, dass solches Wissen in einem Bewerbungsverfahren für eine Stelle in einem Unternehmen oder eine berufsvorbereitende Ausbildung¹ relevant sein sollte?

(Kann man retrötieren.)

xahteiwi, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

What's your personal minimal acceptable lead time for a conference talk?

If you submit a talk proposal, and it's accepted, then you'd expect to be notified of that acceptance some time prior to your talk, so you can prepare and rehearse well and sort work and travel around the conference. What's that minimum time for you?

(Boosts would be nice, thanks!)

xahteiwi, 5 months ago to random

Serious question: why do we have "flavors" in cloud computing? They've been around ever since EC2 started, but is there a good reason for them? The bin packing problem is NP-hard; reducing the permutations of cores/RAM/disk space per instance doesn't make it more solvable in principle. Do flavors allow for better or more efficient approximations? Is it purely a marketing/billing thing (why)? Or is it just cargo cult?

(Feels like something @isotopp might know a thing or two about).

Boosts OK.

xahteiwi, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

Yesterday I had a 90-minute "meeting". I was alone, in my office, doing a video call, in which I did a normal share of the talking.

The CO₂ level in my office was 700ppm at the start and 2000ppm at the end. Just from me exhaling while talking.

Cognitive function starts getting impaired somewhere between 1200 and 1500ppm.

Please draw your own conclusions as they relate to closed-door, in-person "executive committee", "company leadership", or board meetings.

Or ministerial cabinet meetings. 🥴

xahteiwi, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

Here is a question where I believe the answer may be very much influenced by where you grew up.

Suppose you have a direct manager. That person also sits on something called an executive council or management team or whatever applies to your organization, the chair/head of which is your manager's manager.

Now suppose a cockup happens at that level, which directly affects you and/or your own reports. From your personal perspective, who are you most likely to consider responsible?

(Boosts OK)

xahteiwi, 6 months ago to random German

"Nein ich schicke für diese Besprechung keine Agenda, denn wenn die Eingeladenen meinen sie müssten sich vorbereiten, dann lehnen sie die Teilnahme eher ab" sind Worte aus der Hölle.

xahteiwi, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

“I just finished my slides”, ”I did my talk on the flight over, it's a little rough around the edges”, “I forgot all about this conference and then whipped this up in a panic two days ago”, or something of the sort said casually at the beginning of a talk, is

xahteiwi, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

“Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization for one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.”

— Peter Drucker, "The Effective Executive", 1966.

xahteiwi, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to random

Guess: which of these appliances consumes the greatest amount of energy (as in kWh/month) in my home?

#HomeAssistant

xahteiwi, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

The pinnacle of "return-to-office" ("RTO") stupidity is requiring people to be in the office some number of days per week, with first-come-first-served hot-desking.¹ Leads to people ostensibly in the office "for improved collaboration" now sitting at desks spread all over the office space, and then using their remote collaboration tools from the office. Including video calls.

Managers implementing this sort of policy deserve a metaphorical bucket of ice water dumped over their heads.

xahteiwi, 5 months ago to markdown

Hivemind, please help.

One thing that still eludes me is a way to lint #Markdown files to enforce a one-sentence-per-line rule. This is remarkably nontrivial.

Can somebody point me to such a thing? Ideally in #Python, but I'll take any language (even an emacs minor mode will help).

A bajillion bonus points if the thing can also unwrap wrapped paragraphs and automatically turn them into one sentence per line.

Boosts appreciated, thanks!

https://sive.rs/1s

xahteiwi, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to random

I'm curious, how do you access your home's #HomeAssistant instance while on the go?

(Boosts fine, of course.)

Edit: option 3 is meant to include access to a local instance via VPN. It just that adding "VPN" would have broken the character limit for the poll option.

xahteiwi, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random German

Wer von euch lebt in einem Wasser-Versorgungsbereich mit großer Wasserhärte, hat eine Entkalkungsanlage im Haus und kann/möchte dazu ein paar Erfahrungen mit mir teilen?

Nachbearbeitung: im Thread wurden schon mehrfach BWT-Geräte erwähnt, daher interessieren mich auch Erfahrungen mit der Integration solcher Geräte in Home Assistant — eventuell mit der Integration im Link unten.

(Gerne weitertröten)

https://github.com/dkarv/hacs-bwt-perla

#haustodon

xahteiwi, 7 months ago to Kubernetes

I'm curious: is this something people actually use? Is managing resources in a #Kubernetes cluster with #Terraform something a significant number of Kubernetes users do?

If you're using this in production, or have done so before, I'd hugely appreciate if you would share your first-hand experience in a comment.

(Boosts also welcome, of course. Thanks!)
https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-kubernetes

xahteiwi, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

Are any of you aware of a contemporary issue tracker system that is in reasonably widespread use, has email integration, and will

• parse an incoming message's In-Reply-To or References headers,
• check whether they contain any message IDs that are referenced in already-tracked issues, and then
• link it to that issue/those issues automatically,

even if the sender has messed with the email subject, potentially removing the issue ID?

Update: @antondollmaier pointed out Zammad and Znuny/OTRS.

xahteiwi, 9 days ago to random

Serious question: why is it that so many people apparently have real problems adopting ISO 8601 dates and UTC, in a professional context?

As in, are those somehow fundamentally incompatible with human nature? Or do people just completely lack the cultural awareness to understand that some of their colleagues are used to a different date format than they are, or live in a different timezone, or don't use daylight saving time?

Related:
https://xahteiwi.eu/blog/2023/02/10/brown-mms/

xahteiwi, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

I am having to fly today and after months of rail-only travel I am already detesting it, even before boarding. What an exceptionally deranged mode of transportation.

xahteiwi, 5 months ago to random

Serious question for those of you who still haven't ditched Slack as a primary means of work communication: why? I am sure there must be explanations for this, I just cannot think of any good ones.

xahteiwi, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to Kubernetes

If you're evaluating a hosted #Kubernetes solution, which pricing model do you prefer:

A — pay per container: cost accumulates based on how many containers you run, and for how long, and what resource requests they come with.

B — pay per node: cost accumulates based on how many worker nodes you run, and how beefy they are. The number of containers you run only indirectly affects your cost, via autoscaling.

(Boosts appreciated.)

xahteiwi, 4 months ago to random

From the America-is-odd department: what would my European friends say to a USian who told them, unironically, that an Italian restaurant they went to was not at all expensive, when in the same sentence they asserted it was typically $55 (€50) per person?

I mean, I don't hold it against anyone if they spend €200 on a table of 4, but I'd definitely not call that cheap.

xahteiwi, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

I'm curious, tech folk. What's keeping you or you company from running an any-device approach (including BYOD) with all corporate-mandated software (edit for clarity: I meant desktop applications) running in virtual desktops in the browser, with something like Apache Guacamole?

As in, what are the primary concerns?

(Feel free to boost, and/or add comments.)

xahteiwi, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

If someone (say, someone you interviewed for an open position) rated their own proficiency in Linux CLI tools as high, would you expect them to have a solid working knowledge of Git?

xahteiwi, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

Question for people working in an engineering role in any company, or an engineering management role in any company, or any role in a tech/engineering company (boosts appreciated).

If I say "second-system effect", you say (before checking Wikipedia):

xahteiwi, 1 month ago to random

Tapping the sign:

You don't take meeting notes for the people in the meeting. You take them for people who aren't in the meeting.

That includes three-months-from-now-you, who also isn't in the meeting.