Theres a nice one of him on stage at the 1988 "Monsters of Rock" singing "Bomber"
Readit Newsspsrich2 commented on New Steve Jobs recordings from the '80s released sfgate.com/tech/article/N... · Posted by u/mindcrime
spsrich2 commented on Mouse found atop a 22,000-foot volcano, breaking world record nationalgeographic.com/an... · Posted by u/greenyoda
In 1927 col walter snetterton disappeared while trying to cross the Andes by frog. Maybe someone tried with mice?
spsrich2 commented on Announce bad news without lying to your team deliverydoubled.com/annou... · Posted by u/chrismdp
Why do leaders think lying, or obfuscating works so well? My personal experience has been when you let people know the facts and act on them, it is amazing what happens. Every time that bad news is delivered to my team directly, be it the loss of a major account, a financial crisis, or even a legal problem, the collective intelligence of the team often finds the solution. I've had interns rescue accounts (oh, my uncle is the CEO there), engineers solve legal problems (what if we just asked if we could move service X over to them and finish the contract with that instead of unneeded canceled service), and incredible suggestions on cost-cutting instead of layoffs. None of these things happen when the team doesn't know because some executive was afraid of telling the truth.
>> Why do leaders think lying, or obfuscating works so well? <<
because it got them where they are today ?
spsrich2 commented on Announce bad news without lying to your team deliverydoubled.com/annou... · Posted by u/chrismdp
"The bad news is we are merging with Swindon and some of you are going to be laid off.... The good news is, I've got a promotion!..... You're all still thinking about the bad news aren't you?"
I've tried Google Meet, Jitsi, and some other things, but Zoom is the only service that my 6+ year old laptop can handle for more than 5 min without nosediving into 100% CPU usage and freezing up.
Does anyone have other suggestions? Either for other services or for troubleshooting Jitsi?
I've been using Whereby.com. It's clean, simple and 'just works'. No permissions popups or anything like that.
After reading the schedule...
I understand how this benefits Cloudflare, but I don't really see why I'd tune in. Seems like a mix of Cloudflare ads and "technical" content that is barely technical. More vague TED Talk-style philosophy.
If I had to describe who I felt was the target demographic, I'd name middle managers who work in tech but don't actually know much tech.
I mean they have someone from McAfee talking about security, and title it "Cyber: The New Frontier," it is so cringy, and they seemingly don't realize that.
I obviously don't speak for others, so maybe I am wrong and there is a lot of people who want to watch video content showcasing corporate America's biggest tech illiterate "tech" luminaries, spouting their outmoded concepts of what the future will be like from the viewpoint of ten years behind the cutting edge.
McAfee? It has to be a joke. Worthless bloated crapware
spsrich2 commented on Travelling long haul in 1939: Melbourne to New York (2015) nla.gov.au/stories/blog/b... · Posted by u/benbreen
I've wondered about how churchill and roosevelt got to Yalta in wartime. Also the number of trips churchill made to the US risking U boats
I have often eaten eels but I have never considered how they work
spsrich2 commented on The Insane Engineering of the SR-71 Blackbird youtube.com/watch?v=3hYSn... · Posted by u/sahin-boydas
Read the novel Skunkworks for a fantastic account of what the engineers had to overcome.
at the end of that they give Kelly Johnson a flypast and he is too far gone to realize what is going on. Ben Rich says "Kelly, they are saluting you !". That part made me tear up.
I almost got one of these stringy floppy drives for my Commodore 64, but then my cousin discovered girls and didn't need his 1541 anymore, so I didn't have to buy one. From what I've read since then, I was lucky that I didn't, as they were supposed to be horribly unreliable.
It's interesting how almost all storage media for the last 70 years is either on a long string, a spinning circle, or now a chip.