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  • I ended up on a project to integrate an HR system with Active Directory.

    Did we technically have to insist that the HR system became the source of truth and we would never make manual changes on the AD side? No.

    Did we have to use the new integration and automated new hire account creation process to punish the managers who kept trying to get new hires processed at 4pm Friday to start Monday, claiming no way to rush the processing so the previous “rule” about lead time was now set in stone? No.

    Did the integration actually force the reorganization of our Active Directory to clean up a decade of band aid fixes layered on top of each other? No.

    Did we have to finally implement a proper data retention process including deletion of former user accounts and mailboxes for the integration to work, along with formal methods to request temporary access to old mailboxes that included an automatic time limit? No.

    Did my boss and I use it as a golden opportunity to push all of the above and more into official standards, saving an absurd amount of man hours since? Fuck yes.

    Not all of it was tech debt, sure, but in short you should use a available opportunities to improve as much as you can, instead of always defaulting to “I do exactly what was requested”. If for no one else, do it to save yourself pain in the future.


  • Yeah, far_university got it. Infrasound is what I was referring to specifically, and your comment has me wondering now if there’s been any attempts to measure for it around wind turbines too.

    The known negative health effects from the noise pollution around data centers are bad enough, but there’s evidence of further effects than that due to the infrasound as well, which isn’t immediately obvious as it’s not within human hearing range


  • At least something made them reconsider. Land zoned for housing development near where I live just got abandoned after multiple years owned by some shitheads who were suing the local government for not allowing them to turn it into a ground shipping hub in the middle of miles of residential land (broken up with the occasional school and strip mall type businesses), only for the land to be picked up by a group trying to build a data center claiming it would bring significant jobs to the area.

    I’ve been to a few data centers for work. Job hubs they ain’t.





  • Your boyfriend is at most 25 35 years old, and only if you are 69.

    Oooooh boy I’m glad that I already have everyone responding to you blocked.

    My wife’s ~15 years older than me, and while it generally doesn’t matter more than making restaurant servers that check ID do a double take, there are times where her pulling me up past a stage of my life has resulted in me lacking some skills people normally build up during that time.

    Just be safe and make sure you’re doing what is truly best for each of you. Good luck and enjoy yourself.




  • It’s mostly a metaphor for humanity’s ability to self improve, evolve, and exponentially reproduce. There’s some minor things here and there also drawing a line between spiral power and the “spiral” of DNA.

    Series spoilers as I get into more detail

    Bear in mind that all the animal folk are artificial beings engineered by the big bad of the first half, and that is the main reason why they can’t tap into spiral energy. I believe at one point it’s stated that they can’t reproduce. Viral is the only one the eventually gets access to some spiral power, but he was given the special gift of immortality and also spent a shit ton of time with the humans and trying to better himself.

    There is a small undercurrent theme, mostly shown through Rossieu (fuck if I know the spelling) regarding the danger of spiral power, that is, unrestrained uncontrolled evolution growth expansion and reproduction against the limited resources of reality.

    This is also part of why the end hits so damn hard, as it basically says “Fuck resource scarcity, we’ll find a way. We’ll fucking find a way to rewrite reality if we need to, but we’re never going to stop trying to keep growing and moving forward”

    Edit: Oh, you might also be confused because I’m not sure how much of the finer details pointing at this are in the recap movies. It’s also worth noting that the finale movie is a remake/reimagining of the show finale that takes everything that was already there up to another exponential 11, so while the recaps just cut stuff for time the finale movie is effectively an alternate ending.




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    I’ve recently switched to writing my notes in markdown in a code editor, since I already have one open most of the time. vsCode for work (I do a lot of PowerShell), vsCodium at home, although I’m sure there’s better options.

    My one gripe with Notepad++ is that I haven’t found any easy way to do dark mode with it. You can make the window “chrome” dark mode, and you can make general text background black and text white, but then that screws up the language specific and file diff themes/coloring.

    There’s probably a collection of importable settings for that somewhere online though.




  • You’re right, but I think you underestimate the intersection of what’s theoretically possible and desperation.

    We’ll probably see multiple different things. Some of the equipment will be repurposed for other cloud GPU workloads. We’ll probably see some companies try to make adapters and drivers to get the server hardware compatible with consumer desktops (there’s someone who did a writeup, either on hacker news or hack a day who got older server RAM working on a desktop with an adapter and Linux tomfoolery). Buy up the stuff being sold at a loss, strap their adapter on it, and sell for profit.

    But on a low level, all this shit is turing complete. There will be performance losses and considerable overhead, but in theory translation layers and emulation should be able to be written to effectively convert GPU compute to whatever other format is needed.

    If it’s taking a total loss vs squeezing the last squirts of profit out, I think there’s going to be attempts to squeeze.




  • Not really. The cords are all the same inside, the colors are just for convenient matching of the ends.

    If both ports are the same color, and wire has the same color on both ends, you’re fine. You can send yellow through a red cable. I’ve definitely had a few times where all I had were a couple of loose cable pairs and it works fine.