Notices by Florian Haas (xahteiwi@mastodon.social)

There's a specific reason I am intensely grateful for the podcast editions of radio shows funded with public money: no advertising. God damn it's nice to be able to listen at length to someone saying something intelligent and not be interrupted by some fuckhead trying to sell you something you don't need, all the fucking time.

Fun facts:

The most sustainable commute comes with working from home.

The most fuel and power efficient commute comes with working from home.

The fastest commute comes with working from home.

@Sweetshark Ja, "Stellenbesetzung" vielleicht, aber das klingt mir zu bürokratisch — deswegen bin ich noch auf der Suche nach einer Alternative.

Frage in die deutschsprachige Runde:

Für mich heißt auf englisch "Hiring" das Einstellen von Menschen, deren direkte/r oder indirekte/r Vorgesetzte/r man sein wird. "Recruiting" ist hingegen das Anwerben von Menschen, zu denen man keinerlei Vorgesetztenverhältnis haben wird.

"Recruiting" nach dieser Definitition kann ich auf deutsch als "Anwerbung" bezeichnen. Fällt euch eine gute Übersetzung von "Hiring" in diesem Kontext ein?

@bmacDonald94 No worries at all, the paraglider is an equally interesting story! 🙂

@bmacDonald94 I do know about that story, but it doesn't answer the question: the paraglider doesn't ever need to float upward to descend from the top; the kite does need to gain some altitude in order to fly from the summit.

Also, Pierre Carter flew from the South Col, at 8,000m. That's "only" 90% of the height of the summit.

What kiddo asks before falling asleep:

”Could you fly a kite on the summit of Everest?”

That's… not a bad question, even if you disregard the practicalities of needing firm ground to stand on. Sure the summit of Everest is usually windy, but is the air pressure great enough for wind resistance to fly a kite designed for roughly sea level?

Anyone done the math?

(Boosts and comments welcome!)

@ryanhoulihan I've done this. With "guys", too. When "fucked" was too harsh for the context, I used "kissed" and "dated".

They always look they just got a cluebat smack.

@chris I'm curious, is coffee aversion some new trend or fad where you live/work, or is this pure coincidence?

In etwa einem Monat bin ich in Deutschland und halte dort einen Vortrag über Technologie, die in Deutschland nicht funktionieren kann.

https://programm.froscon.org/2024/events/3086.html

Writing efficiency protip: always write so that you can read things out loud using the smallest number of syllables.

As an example, "radical right wing" is three syllables too long. The correct word is "fascist".

In early June I pre-ordered an Audible audiobook that was set to be released on June 20. Then shortly after I got a notification saying the release was postponed to September. Scarcely 3 weeks later I get another, saying it's now coming out in late January. (The hardcover and Kindle editions are already out.)

I find this puzzling, but I also know next to nothing about the moving parts of audiobook publishing; would someone be kind enough to suggest a likely explanation?

Ich möchte drauf hinweisen, dass die Ausflüsse von Gartner für viele Manager so etwa den Stellenwert von Bibel plus Koran plus Verfassung plus Thora plus Bhagavad Gita plus gesamte Wikipedia plus neuester dämlicher Motivationsspruch aus ihrem LinkedIn-Feed haben.

Also zeigt ihnen das.
https://www.gartner.com/en/articles/the-data-is-in-return-to-office-mandates-aren-t-worth-the-talent-risks

@lovinurbanism

“Wenn unsere Gegner sagen: Ja, wir haben Euch doch früher die […] Freiheit der Meinung zugebilligt – –, ja, Ihr uns, das ist doch kein Beweis, daß wir das Euch auch tuen sollen! […] Daß Ihr das uns gegeben habt, – das ist ja ein Beweis dafür, wie dumm Ihr seid!”

— Joseph Goebbels, 1935.

https://de.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels

Opinion: people who staunchly prefer working with Gerrit, and consider anything else inferior, *really* love working with git-review. And if git-review were not Gerrit specific they would be just as happy with, say, GitLab.

The process that the git-review/Gerrit combo automates/enforces (one commit per change, automatically generated topic branches, change IDs with cross-project uniqueness) could also work just fine by hooking up git-review with the GitLab API.

Discuss.

#Gerrit #Git #GitLab

Wer von euch lebt in einem Wasser-Versorgungsbereich mit großer Wasserhärte, hat eine Entkalkungsanlage im Haus und kann möchte dazu ein paar Erfahrungen mit mir teilen?

(Gerne weitertröten)

#haustodon

Good morning English speakers native and foreign! Just like yesterday, "ask" is still a verb and "action" is a noun. The forecast suggests that this state of affairs will persist tomorrow.

Tapping the sign:

You don't take meeting notes for the people in the meeting. You take them for people who aren't in the meeting.

That includes three-months-from-now-you, who also isn't in the meeting.

It's LWN, so of course the original discoverer of the vulnerability casually slides into the comments.
https://lwn.net/Articles/967194/

@hannaengelmeier

— "Sag mir 4 Körperteile!"
— "Hals Maul Arsch Gesicht"