I was maybe a little inebriated, and he was very rude.

He had to wait for the next train, and I had a sore jaw for a week. Mild inconveniences al round. I think everyone got what they deserved.

Threw a man’s belongings off a train because he was listening to music without headphones.

Worth it.

He was a shareholder and board member too. He 100% was an instigator.

I worked for a tech company that went through an acquisition. The GM for my department knew what was up and insulated everyone from it.

6 months later, redundencies for every department but ours.

He also just told us what he wanted, and not how he wanted things done. Probably one of my best bosses tbh.

They were first to market with a decent GPGPU toolkit (CUDA) which built them a pretty sizeable userbase.

Then when competitors caught up, they made it as hard as possible to transition away from their ecosystem.

Like Apple, but worse.

I guess they learned from their Gaming heyday that not controlling the abstraction layer (eg OpenGL, DirectX, etc) means they can’t do lock in.

While suing everyone else that makes shovel handles that work with your shovel heads.

I should probably be doing it anyway, but back to wearing masks in store.

Problem then is, You Still gotta buy a truck to buy and haul your 2nd motorcycle, your 3rd motorcycle, your dirt bike, and your track bike.

It’ll most likely mean the people running stuff in the background. payroll, asset management and purchasing, IT staff, etc.

These people will have an impact on ‘crime fighting’, but marginally. Eg. If there’s a problem with payroll it might mean the police officers are paid a day or two late. Or maybe office supplies aren’t kept well stocked in station.

But it might also be anyone who’s not an “officer”. So police station support/maintenance, mechanics, analysts (people who help the police analyse gathered intelligence), 111 operators, etc.

This would probably have significant impacts on ‘crime fighting’. 500 extra police isn’t going to be as effective if police cars are broken, intelligence isn’t accurate, or there’s a wait time on 111.

Alternate headline:

Companies accept money for a thing that will happen anyway, and will be unable to prove if they say no.

GenAi is unfortunately here, and the technocracy wants you to want it so they can farm you for more and more intimate data to leverage and enforce their technocracy. And the only way they’re going to do it is by keeping the press positive, and feed it more and more data in the hopes it fixes things.

I was expecting some sort of “Ai discovers new bug in 30 year old software”… cool I’m excited.

Then they were talking about how the bug was persistent, and I’m more intrigued “is the bug some weird emergent behaviour corrupting state somewhere?”

Nope, just another example of a shit in shit out data model.

I thought everyone decided “jfgi” in online discourse was a toxic years ago. It’s the same attitude as :

chemtrails make you sick!

How so?

go do your own research

If you’re going report on something, provide a little more information than just “no”. It’s more helpful, better for the community, and in 5 years time when the facts are different, there’ll still be a reference of what was factual in the past.

Let’s not get carried away.

Mercator have the ikku range of zigbee switches.

I can’t say they’re great as they’re capacitive, and the no-neutral ones I’ve got give up pretty quickly.

But they do up to 6(?) gang. … if you can find them (you probably need to get them from Aus)

Honestly AS/NZ standards are shiiit. If only for having smart things that probably won’t burn your house down, and if they do it’s (less) your fault.

$5 that this is all fluff.

They’ll “set up the framework” and then not use it.

“Ah yeah, Australian building standards far exceed ours in most metrics, but none of it’s been … uh … earthquake tested. Yes! None of its been earthquake tested. So … no”

Then labour will come in, start to actually use it, and when we flip flop back to National, finger point, blame, and retroactively tear it all down. Then anyone with Australian building materials in their house get their insurance claims denied or something equally absurd.

Some tradies working on a site near me do it to give a bit of warning around a corner.

They don’t actually put the cone around the corner and it’s a bit pointless, but the sign they hang off it shows the intent.

Yeah. I’ve had employees go through mental health episodes, families with cancer, flus, sick kids, multi-week migraines, list goes on.

Not once has the business gone “why have you approved all that sick leave?” In fact it’s been the opposite in some cases “why are you asking me this? We have unlimited sick leave”.

Maybe next year we’ll see “hot cross dinner rolls” at countdown.

What even is a hot cross bun? The lines blur every year.

At what point does “brioche with chocolate chips” become a hot crossy?

I’d argue never. It’s not a spiced and fruited bun with a cross. The supermarkets on the other hand will want you to believe it’s a bun with a cross on it sold between December and May.

Orrrrr. Just allow unlimited sick leave (within reason)? Works in other countries, and some NZ companies provide it, why can’t it be universal?

It’s bizarre that we went through (and still are going through sorta) a global pandemic that can knock you out for weeks, is highly contagious and you can get multiple times a year. Yet we’re cracking down on WFH and still only have a legal minimum of 10 days sick leave.