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kreims commented on Sustainable Web Interest Group Is Formed w3.org/blog/2024/sustaina... · Posted by u/agumonkey

tsobral · a year ago

I hope they're successful. I think the web really needs some "decluttering". The ratio of processing power by useful payload nowadays is unsustainable. For example any news website, in order to read some text, you need to load a ton of JavaScript, ads (some even video) that add zero value to the intended purpose. My nostalgia wants some of the early 00s web again, but I believe in something between. Which consumes far less watts and potentially reducing many tons of e-waste globally.

kreims · a year ago

RSS is a pretty good way around this. Disabling JavaScript is also a good option to cut down on the silliness. If it breaks the site, it was probably not worth reading.

kreims commented on Only 5.3% of US welders are women. After years as a professor, I became one theconversation.com/only-... · Posted by u/Michelangelo11

CyberDildonics · a year ago

Did you take two years of your life to go into the military in your early 20s?

kreims · a year ago

Four years.

kreims commented on Failure analysis of the Arecibo 305 meter telescope collapse nap.nationalacademies.org... · Posted by u/mhb

foxglacier · a year ago

Yea and that's a violation of professional ethics. Being corrupt or working for a corrupt organization in no way justifies it. Professionals are trusted by society to act responsibly even when it's against the interests of their clients or employers.

kreims · a year ago

If only you knew how bad things really are.

kreims commented on Why Companies Are Ditching the Cloud: The Rise of Cloud Repatriation thenewstack.io/why-compan... · Posted by u/panrobo

WaxProlix · a year ago

How much of that is what technologists would consider "cloud" (IAAS, PAAS) versus what someone on the business side of things would consider "cloud" - office365, google gsuite, etc?

kreims · a year ago

I’d suspect there is significant growth of businesses acting as intermediaries for cloud storage. I think that other software providers have also realized that ransoming users data is a great way to extract predictable, hedge-fund-owner-pleasing revenue without performing useful work.

AEC software providers all do this. ProjectWise is worse than owning or renting a plain file server in every way I can imagine, yet every consultant in transportation dutifully cuts Bentley a five-figure check or larger every year so they can hold your project files hostage and pretend to develop software.

I pray for a merciful asteroid to end it all.

kreims commented on Only 5.3% of US welders are women. After years as a professor, I became one theconversation.com/only-... · Posted by u/Michelangelo11

naming_the_user · a year ago

I went the other way (grew up working class) and I still, decades later, find middle class folk (in the UK) to be uptight and terribly afraid of causing/receiving offence.

I can't pinpoint exactly "what I mean" but basically traditional values. More willing to accept the fact that men and women are going to find each other attractive, that you probably don't want your wife or husband to have a "platonic" friend of the opposite sex that they meet up with one on one, etc etc.

Whereas the highbrow view is more like - okay but if we accept those things then women can't work on nuclear submarines alongside the blokes. We want women to be able to work on nuclear submarines alongside the blokes, anything else is unacceptable, so we should sanitise all of the interactions and punish everyone for being human and then we might be able to make it work, sort of kind of but not really, everyone will be miserable but we pretend.

kreims · a year ago

I think universal conscription is a good idea for the sole reason that everyone should get a bit of this perspective. The people who’ve never left the nice-people bubble of college and professional employment will go to completely inappropriate lengths to avoid feeling offended. You said the manager’s idea was maybe not as good as the other thing in a meeting? You just made an enemy for life. Meanwhile soldiers have productive and respectful working relationships with people who they physically fight with the day before because that’s a better alternative to however UCMJ allows your commander to screw up your life.

It’s a great exercise in personal growth for coping skills.

kreims commented on Failure analysis of the Arecibo 305 meter telescope collapse nap.nationalacademies.org... · Posted by u/mhb

deskr · a year ago

> The lack of documented concern from the contracted engineers about the inconsequentiality of the cable pullouts or the safety factors between Hurricane Maria in 2017 and the failure is alarming.

This is crazy. Basically cables were pulling out for months and years and no one raised the alarm? In many industries that could be a criminal or career ending malpractice. Are the "contracted engineers" liable?

kreims · a year ago

You go to school and learn that 2+2=4. You get a consulting job and learn 2+2= whatever the client says it is.

I wouldn’t jump to the conclusion that the consulting engineer was incompetent. Sometimes a bureaucrat tells you to sharpen your pencils and come back with the answer That fits the budget they have if you want to keep your professional services contract going.

kreims commented on Once Linux's Biggest Enemy: Darl McBride Dies and Nobody Notices fossforce.com/2024/11/onc... · Posted by u/marcodiego

no_wizard · a year ago

Every time someone says Oracle will meet a fate worthy of their actions it never seems to materialize. Somehow they manage to produce strong revenue in todays environment and I really thought recession fear induced cost cutting would hurt them

kreims · a year ago

Never bet against a CIA spinoff.

kreims commented on Working from home is powering productivity imf.org/en/Publications/f... · Posted by u/rwmj

akoboldfrying · a year ago

Why do you think bosses overwhelmingly want RTO?

I think they want it because they fear productivity losses that mean lower profits, and ultimately lead to the threat of becoming uncompetitive.

If you agree with that, is your position that these fears are irrational (because in your view, no such productivity loss would occur)?

kreims · a year ago

Small benefit with externalized costs, I think.

There are benefits to in office work. I don’t consider them valuable enough to offset the cost of 10hrs of uncompensated time every week or doubling my mortgage cost. I hope tax codes will incentivize allowing remote work options given the reduced burden to transportation infrastructure.

kreims commented on Is Tor still safe to use? blog.torproject.org/tor-i... · Posted by u/Sami_Lehtinen

flufluflufluffy · a year ago

As knowledgeable users of the Internet in 2024, we would do well to assume that nothing is 100% “safe” (I.e. there’s no such thing as perfect security/privacy).

However, some things, like Tor, can make your use of the Internet safer.

If all you’re doing is arguing that Tor shouldn’t be used because it isn’t/was never “safe”, then you might as well not use the Internet at all.

kreims · a year ago

Well, for the sake of clarity I would say Tor is safer only if it’s not a honey trap. That is not knowable as a user, but I think that suspicion is well-deserved.

I think the Middle East gave us a very clear example of how state actors may target channels in unexpected ways.

kreims commented on Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week cnbc.com/2024/09/16/amazo... · Posted by u/jbredeche

kreims · a year ago

You know, I’m actually pretty surprised that there’s not more lobbying for some kind of tax incentives to promote remote work. It takes a lot of burden off transportation networks. Honestly, it’s probably cheaper than building more roads and more rail.

I suppose the best you can do is just use the commute cost in your calculations of what your compensation is worth. I made a lateral move to a company that offers hybrid work. The irony is the company I came from was all in office, but I worked exclusively with people outside of my office so I would drive to work just to interact with people on MSTeams.