sysadmindotfail (u/sysadmindotfail)

sysadmindotfail commented on Up to 78M batteries will be discarded daily by 2025, researchers warn cordis.europa.eu/article/... · Posted by u/teleforce

bArray · a year ago

If you think that is bad, wait until we need to start decommissioning electric vehicles on scale. I've worked on fossil fuel vehicle EOL for quite a while and a very large amount of recycling happens, there is literally zero waste. Nobody I know wants to do the same for electric vehicles, they are simply too dangerous.

sysadmindotfail · a year ago

>Nobody I know wants to do the same for electric vehicles, they are simply too dangerous.

No offense but this is just wrong

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/dead-e...

sysadmindotfail commented on The tiny chip that powers Montreal subway tickets righto.com/2024/06/montre... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

altacc · 2 years ago

In some places, like Oslo's metro, tram & bus systems, the solution is that there are no ticket barriers, you're trusted to have bought a ticket for your journey. There are occasional ticket checks with big fines for non-compliance.

sysadmindotfail · a year ago

>There are occasional ticket checks with big fines for non-compliance.

I'll likely mangle the explanation but this sort of policy does not fair well when there is a large divide between have/have-not and little/no social safety net.

If you are poverty level you will be forever stuck in this cycle: Ticket/fine, court, loss of income, etc. What might work is simply granting free access below a certain income threshold.

sysadmindotfail commented on Humanity Is Dangerously Pushing Its Ability to Tolerate Heat wired.com/story/extreme-h... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

bloomingeek · 2 years ago

<Sure, 30degrees and 90+ humidity is survivable, but only just.>

And how could you get any work done? I worked in the oilfields when I was in my early twenty's, if the temp was over 100F, less work got done because we didn't want to die. I knew men who got heat stroke, they were never the same again. I myself got heat exhaustion several times, it took a few days to recover. Our bodies can only take so much, no matter how tough you are, wet rags and frequent breaks don't always work.

sysadmindotfail · 2 years ago

>And how could you get any work done?

Drink (hopefully cold) water and cover up from the sun. I grew up doing manual labor in a climate like this. People adapt, but there are of course limits.

Children die sometimes being pushed too hard in athletics, etc. The majority of people however simply put up with it.

sysadmindotfail commented on Building a defence startup medium.com/@ErikKannike/b... · Posted by u/possiblelion

obblekk · 2 years ago

Knowing the people or knowing the rules?

sysadmindotfail · 2 years ago

I'd like to know too but it reads as if they meant knowing the rules.

sysadmindotfail commented on Exercise increases number of immune cells in cancer patients utu.fi/en/news/press-rele... · Posted by u/_xerces_

fsdjkflsjfsoij · 3 years ago

> Is your argument that most people are lazy

Yes most adults are extremely lazy and undisciplined.

sysadmindotfail · 3 years ago

>Yes most adults are extremely lazy and undisciplined.

If you do not believe this statement, ask the opinion of any medical provider you know.

sysadmindotfail commented on Exercise increases number of immune cells in cancer patients utu.fi/en/news/press-rele... · Posted by u/_xerces_

pengaru · 3 years ago

"Social support structure" is often at odds with diet, exercise, and enough sleep.

sysadmindotfail · 3 years ago

Life is a series of endless choices.

I recently ran a 24hr relay. There were absolutely those who drank/partied while they participated. They posted slower times and probably slept less. I didn't sleep as much as usual (because I was waking up to run every 6hrs), but I slept more, didn't party, ran faster than them.

Neither of us was right/wrong in our choices. I would have felt like crap if I had their habits, but maybe it doesn't affect them.

sysadmindotfail commented on The FTC wants to ban tough-to-cancel subscriptions theverge.com/2023/3/23/23... · Posted by u/bluish29

Clubber · 3 years ago

I subscribed to the NYT a few years ago and it took a phone call and a retention pitch to finally unsubscribe. I vowed to never subscribe again as long as this was in place.

sysadmindotfail · 3 years ago

I've read this many times on HN, Reddit, etc. Last week I just used a VPN. Took 30 seconds to click-click unsubscribe.

PS - During the process I was offered like 60% off if I kept the subscription.

sysadmindotfail commented on Accenture would cut 19,000 jobs reuters.com/technology/ac... · Posted by u/koolhead17

tootie · 3 years ago

I worked in boutique tech services for a long time and have overlapped with Accenture a few times. You are correct. Some of the smartest and most effective people work in consulting. The kind of people who can swoop in to a random company, size up their operations in a few weeks and spit out an actionable plan that really works. None of those kind of people work at Accenture. They employ the "1000 monkeys at a 1000 typewriters" approach to problem solving. Even before their big push offshore they used to land hundreds of liberal arts grads into a tech enterprise and ask them to just figure stuff out and bill as many hours as possible.

sysadmindotfail · 3 years ago

>Some of the smartest and most effective people work in consulting. The kind of people who can swoop in to a random company, size up their operations in a few weeks and spit out an actionable plan that really works.

This is a seriously underrated comment. While having sometimes dismal reputations, IT MSPs and (SWE, DevOps) staffing firms often having legitimate rockstars. Some of the best, most efficient engineers I have worked with were employed by these types of companies. This involves delivering solutions on time to the customer while retaining soft skills, often while being the enemy of the incumbent engineers.

sysadmindotfail commented on Singapore software vendor says own hardware in colo costs $400M less than cloud theregister.com/2023/03/1... · Posted by u/branko_d

rippercushions · 3 years ago

From the caveat at the end of the original article:

> This article doesn’t take into account other aspects that would make the comparison even more complicated. These include people skills, financial controls, cash flow, capacity planning depending on the load type, etc.

You can't handwave all this away in real life though. If you're rolling your own data center, the engineering time you need to put into managing servers, upgrades, hardware replacements, 24/7 oncall rotations etc etc is considerable and will often dwarf the costs of the hardware itself, particularly at startup scale. With a cloud provider, it's (almost) all abstracted away.

sysadmindotfail · 3 years ago

I worked in Datacenter Ops for a decade+, running 3-6 private datacenters as an HPC/Nix admin wearing many hats. The amount of work involved with physical plant, circuit management, staff coverage, weather events, regulation, travel, hardware upgrades, replacement...the list was seemingly endless.

That's also not to mention hopefully you never have to staff augment for junior-level tasks. Try hiring someone to correctly rack and stack an entire rack. You just end up re-doing it yourself or paying CDW to ship you an entire pre-assembled rack the next time.

sysadmindotfail commented on Ask HN: How is the job search coming along for people who got laid off? · Posted by u/taauji

chlmtt · 3 years ago

I used to work at a hardware store. As in literal bolts and nuts type of tech, not software related:) Recently lost my job. Originally from Kazakhstan. Thinking of going back if I can't find anything else.

No credentials to speak of other than the fact that I could probably think my way out of an undergrad level abstract algebra or real analysis problem if cornered. Maybe topology, too. Native speaker of both Kazakh and Russian. Speak rudimentary Turkish, but could easily pick it up to a decent level if necessary. Currently studying CLRS to finally learn how to design algos. Also, trying to pick up Mandarin. Maybe I'll be able to immigrate to China in the coming years. Shenzhen or Hong Kong area.

I'll just leave this here in case anyone has a remote work for me :)

sysadmindotfail · 3 years ago

>I used to work at a hardware store. As in literal bolts and nuts type of tech, not software related

As an SWE, this sounds way more fun.