@silverwizard The alerts we issue should always be followed by actions, these aren't automated alerts based on arbitrary metrics level. We check 10 minutes before the top of the hour that the data needed for the next hour is available, and if it's not, someone needs to press a couple buttons possibly hundreds of miles away from me. We definitely factored in alert fatigue but these are business critical.
@schmaker Since I started working remotely, I barely do any physical activity. There's a small gym in my building but I can't get myself to go there. I like physical activity when it's meaningful, like spending time with other people or going to or from somewhere. Physical activity for its own sake never looked good to me.
A couple months ago I abruptly stopped my LEGO activity that was eating at me because I felt that I had to clear my living room of all the set bags I was storing in while awaiting for parts or building. With no end in sight, I ended up burning out until my partner suggested that we could put them away in a closet until I was ready to resume in a better mood.
Ever since, I've had trouble finishing tasks that I wanted to start in the first place:
Unlocking a different ending in Cyberpunk 2077 with a new character.
Writing a review of Cyberpunk 2077 on my blog.
Implementing a moderation system in Friendica.
Designing a board game inspired by the video game Northgard.
Restoring a few big 1980-90s pirate/castle/space LEGO sets that were donated to me by fellow parents in my kid's class.
At the same time, I'm longing to find something else to do that will keep me engaged, locking me in a mixed apathy-restlessness feeling there probably is a German word for.
I don't know what to do to get out of this rut, I feel like it's been long enough that it would have passed on its own if it was just temporary.
@swarming Then I guess Friendica is "The Open BSD of social networks", since people always forget about it and use the name "Linux" to describe all free operating systems, just like they do with Mastodon and the Fediverse ...
@alfred@andy This reminds me of one of my colleagues many, many years ago. He wanted to kill a process on a Novell server that used more and more processor time on the server. And the more other processes he killed, the more that process grew. The name of the process was "idle time" 😀
Combined answers from the Microsoft Community forum to the important question: "What's the maximum number of slides allowed in Microsoft PowerPoint?"
"Every slide is identified numerically by a Long number, meaning that the theoretical maximum is around 2,147,483,648" "Personally, I make it a rule never to include more than 10,000,000 slides in a presentation. One slide a second is about all people can absorb at best, and very few audiences will sit there and absorb information at that rate for half a year."
@Paul@clacke The corporate world also use “business intelligence” for data-based decision-making, so Artificial Intelligence could have a similar meaning to “intelligence agency” which doesn’t claim to be about how the brain works either.
@shom@clacke That's what I thought, but Farside's indirect approach (redirects to one of several Nitter instances) doesn't make it obvious for users like @clacke
@tjradcliffe Your suggestion about my political belief is so far off course that it is amusing, but it doesn't change the truth, for society to change, the behavior of individuals composing it needs to change, there's no way around it.
And in the current case, the onus is mainly on men to improve the overall health of heterosexual relationships in Western society. The people who tend to disagree with this also tend to be on the conservative side of the political spectrum.
And I don't think I have a fruitful way to engage with a conservative.