Like many, I have changed my life to avoid getting Covid. I'm privileged to have been able to do so. It is possible, perhaps even likely, that if I were to catch Covid that (with the antivirals I'm eligible for) my experience would be unremarkable, "a bad cold" perhaps. 1/

The big problems with aging in the industry are health-related. There are several occupational diseases that any programmer sooner or later will have to deal with and the older professionals rarely warn the youngsters about them, and rarely coach them with preemptive measures.

The Tripitaka Koreana - carved on 81258 woodblocks in the 13th century - is the most successful large data transfer over time yet achieved by humankind. 52 million characters of information, transmitted over nearly 8 centuries with zero data loss - an unequalled achievement. 1/

The ancient alarm clock. People place a candle on a metal plate to create an alarm clock by inserting a nail into the candle at the desired interval. When the wax around the nail melts it would drop on to the metal plate and make a noise. This specimen has a snooze system.

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Introducing Everything Open, the grassroots open technologies conference covering Linux, open source software, open hardware, open data and the communities around them. We look forward to welcoming everyone to Naarm (Melbourne), Australia in March 2023. 2023.everythingopen.au/news/announcin…

I, for one, welcome our robot overlords

Here's my analysis of how our Redflow ZCell battery system has performed over its first twelve months: ourobengr.com/2022/10/tansta… #redflow #energystorage #solar

If you look at teams that have successfully worked remotely since pre-pandemic, you'll notice a couple things: • None use surveillance software • All ended any hybrid work experiments • All do team retreats • None have a heavy meeting culture Take a note from their playbook

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David Maillet They all chose an async-first work style. More here on how to get started: remoteworkprep.com/blog/asynchron…

...I would have just gone back to using the tanks that didn't suck.

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#TasFloods have caused Fibre breaks nr Riana & Spreyton affecting local services. Also puts at risk most services across Tassie because this is 1 of 2 key cables from the State to the Mainland. Extra connectivity to Tassie is overdue, ideally into HBA status.virtutel.com.au

Ceph developers and doc writers are looking for responses from people in the user/dev community who have experience with a Ceph cluster. Our question: What is the use case of your Ceph cluster? docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

ah yes, my favorite genre of sculptures - “hey you know what’d be extremely fucked up to see in the woods at night?”