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davad ,

I think part of the issue is how business accounting practices work. When you buy a machine, you can call it a capital investment and count its value as an asset. When you hire a person and cultivate them for years, from an accounting perspective their salary is strictly a liability / expense. Even though that person is an asset in every other way, our standard accounting practices don’t reflect that.

davad ,

Does anyone have concrete info on the offer and why it was rejected? Reading between the lines, it sounds like some of the issues were:

  • 24% is a lot, but doesn’t bring them back to where they were 16 years ago when their last general wage deal happened
  • Contract reduces or removes performance incentives, which might reduce take-home pay overall
  • Some employees are mad that their pension was taken away a decade ago
  • They don’t trust Boeing to keep it’s promise about building the next commercial jet in the region

Anything else?

davad ,

I assume some variation of this exist for other jurisdictions, but in the US, some crimes require prosection to prove “intent” (mens rea) Depending on the crime, you might have to know that it’s illegal for mens rea.

In US Tax Court, there’s precedence that ignorance of tax code is a defense for criminal tax.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea#Ignorance_of_law…

davad ,

So sad, so true.

davad ,

My wife worked at a rental office for an apartment building and had the same experience.

davad ,

The bigger deal is how many customers will react worse if you engage with them in any way. If that weren’t the case, pointing to the hours, shaking your head, etc, would be reasonable.

davad ,

I love the idea, but I don’t believe the timeline.

davad ,

Which isn’t to say there can’t be leftist antisemites. But it does seem like a lot of anti genocide people are unjustly treated as antisemitic.

davad ,

It’s hard to prove the blanket statement, “there are no good reasons to have a private jet.” But it’s easy to prove, “one overpaid person taking a private jet to commute 1000 miles is frivolous.”

davad ,

Maybe the equivalent of OSHA in the US?

davad ,

I’ve never worked in the UK, so I don’t know what the processes are like, but here’s my two cents from the perspective of probabilities.

It’s possible to have a large, freak accident at an otherwise safe work environment. But if an environment has lots of small issues, it seems more likely for a larger issue to happen there.

davad ,

Glad it wasn’t just me that read it that way.

Best way to backup files

I have about 500GB of data (photos, documents, videos etc.) that I have accumulated over the years. Currently, I keep them on my computer and rsync all additions / changes once a month or so to an external hard drive. Do I need to be worried about data loss (sectors going bad, bit rot, bit flip, whatever it is called)?...

davad ,

I started using restic for backups.

Pro:

  • Encryption
  • Deduplication
  • Flexible backup location
  • Data integrity checks

Con:

  • No good GUI
davad ,

So is price fixing.

fathermcgruder , to asklemmy
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What is it about the text messages and emails sent by older people that make me feel like I'm having a stroke?

Maybe they're used to various shortcuts in their writing that they picked up before autocorrect became common, but these habits are too idiosyncratic for autocorrect to handle properly. However, that doesn't explain the emails I've had to decipher that were typed on desktop keyboards. Has anyone else younger than 45 or so felt similarly frustrated with geriatrics' messages?

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davad ,

What if I like ellipses…

davad ,

Under the bed

davad ,

No. As a general rule with all software, you purchase a license to use the software, not the actual software itself. That being said, GOG and Itch.io can’t yank games that you’ve already downloaded. I don’t know if Steam does or not, but it probably can.

davad ,

Not the original commenter, but for me it’s a comfortable chair, desk, and computer set up in a quiet room with a door I can close. Nice speakers and/or headphones and a small couch are a plus.

davad ,

If anyone else is interested in details on the effect of active sonar on divers, I found this physics.stackexchange.com/q/93222

davad ,

That’s not exactly how it works. There are “territorial waters” which are entirely under the control of the state. And there is the “exclusive economic zone” (EEZ) outside of that, where the state has rights to resources. But the surface is “international waters”. This incident happened in the EEZ.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusive_economic_zone

davad ,

Here’s another plug for gitea. It’s lightweight, but still has a nice feature set.

I tried hosting GitLab a number of years back, but it was more resource hungry than my host machine could handle well.

davad ,

Check out mogrify. I think it’s installed standard with ImageMagick, and it does wildcard conversions.

davad ,

Yes. I’ve used it to batch convert PNG and jpg to webp.

davad ,

Do you have a write-up or anything if someone wanted to start building their own?

davad OP , (edited )

For organizing and searching the files, I’m using paperless-ngx. It’s worked pretty well for these and for scanned documents.

My issue is getting the PDFs without having to spend time every month manually downloading them.

All solutions that integrate with banking sites I’ve ever encountered were nothing more but ugly hacks, IMHO.

Yup. That’s basically what FileThis provided. A maintained set of ugly hacks to pull the files for you automatically :D.

davad ,

It took some digging, but here’s a link to the actual paper: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2304318120

davad ,

Sounds like a great design direction to me. I’m excited to see how it turns out.

davad ,

I assumed that was something everyone could do 🤯

davad ,

Honestly, I figured it was one of those things people didn’t talk about because it was useless.

davad ,

Yeah, I’m wondering the same. Maybe it’s helpful for containerized apps or something?

Anyone else have any insight on this?

davad ,

Restic using resticprofile to configure and schedule backup runs.

davad ,

A dot files repo for some basic config and an Ansible repo to stand everything up. This applies to both my Linux and MacOS machines.

All the people taking about their NixOS setups had me thinking of giving that a try, though.

davad ,

Definitely try what you have first. I’ve had good experience with my knockoff Instant Pot.

davad ,

Restic using resticprofile for scheduling and configuring it. I do frequent backups to my NAS and have a second schedule that pushes to Backblaze B2.

davad ,

Mind sharing your Kubernetes config? I’m living off of a bunch of docker compose config files, and I’d love to make the jump to Kubernetes.

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