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[–] [email protected] 4 points 45 minutes ago* (last edited 44 minutes ago) (1 children)

Isn't that standard procedure though?

No. After the first 24 hours, the chances of live rescues plummet. After 72 hours, the chances are basically 0. SOP is to deploy ASAP to rescue as many people as possible.

Katrina hit August 29th, 2005. Bush signed the relief package 9/2, 4 days later. And that was just approving the money to be spent, not actually spending it.

You say this as if it’s supposed to be a good thing. I’m going to assume you’re either too young to remember it happening, or old enough that you were already in the conservative bubble. Katrina was one of the largest fuckups in Bush’s political career. He waited four days to deploy because he thought the death and damage reports were being exaggerated. He saw the official reports on his desk, and basically went “fake news! It can’t be that bad, can it?” His aides had to compile live aerial news footage for him to even begin to comprehend the level of damage that Katrina had caused. And they only had easy access to aerial footage because the 20’ deep floods prevented ground footage. Bush’s delayed response to Katrina is widely cited as one of the single worst emergency responses in American history. Basically second only to Trump digging his heels in and denying the pandemic.

I mean, if the area is actively being destroyed, how do you even get people in to help?

Logistics takes time, and that’s why rapid response is crucial. If it takes 8 hours to get boots on the ground, and rescue ops are most successful within the first 24, you can do the math on how rapidly the deployment would need to begin.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Slap a ferrite bead on the cable. It will likely solve the interference issue, and they’re super cheap. You can get a variety pack for like $10 on amazon. They’re handy to have on hand, because an unbelievable amount of consumer-grade electronics are just fucking rawdogging the EM spectrum with unshielded cables and hoping for the best.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

You can also try a quick and dirty fix, by slapping a ferrite bead on the HDMI cable. That’s an old trick from the analog world. Depending on how it is picking up interference, this may easily fix it without needing to rebuild your entire setup. Worst case scenario, you’re only out like 10 cents for the bead.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Good ol’ rentry coming in clutch again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

Cloud saves are still broken for OneDrive users, eh? Seems like it would be a simple fix, (in fact, you can even work around it relatively easily with a simple symlink) but I guess it’s not a priority.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

One of the hardest parts of a veterinarian’s job is the fact that your patients can’t tell you what’s wrong. They may try to communicate in their own way, but oftentimes they’ll actually go out of their way to mask discomfort or hide pain. This is especially true for pack animals (like dogs) where standing out too far from the norm can mean being excluded; From a natural selection standpoint, downplaying discomfort means you still fit in with the pack and can continue to benefit from them. Luckily, the vet immediately knew something was wrong in this case because the patient kept exploding into piles of gold rings.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I own the same car, and it does tell you the car will turn off after an hour. As soon as the door is opened, you get a “car will automatically turn off after one hour. Do you want to disable this” type of message. It also pings you with the same message in the app.

Also, she left a one year old and a two year old completely unsupervised for two and a half hours. I wouldn’t even trust a four year old with that much unsupervised time; little kids are personified suicide attempts.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

The truly diabolical way is to add an image to your resume somewhere. Something discrete that fits the theme, like your signature or a QR code to your website. Then hide the white text behind that. A bot will still scan the text just fine… But a human reader won’t even see it when they highlight the document, because the highlighted text will be behind the image.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Trump is a master of the Dead Cat Maneuver. Basically, if you’re losing an argument and can’t recover, just throw a dead cat on the table. Now everyone is talking about the dead cat, instead of the argument you were just losing. And you can deflect any kinds of “why did you do that” types of accusations back around to the fact that a dead cat is laying on the table, and someone should do something about it.

Trump always has a dead cat in his coat pocket, ready to flop onto the table at a moment’s notice.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I wasn’t in IT, so my hands were tied. If I tried running a network scan, I’d have been able to hear the screeching all the way from city hall.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

You microwave the water with the tea bag already in it? At least drop the bag in after microwaving… The superheated instant boiling thing can be mitigated with basically anything in the water. Hell, my local water is hard enough to avoid it straight from the tap.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Source: Former IT guy here, who had to ensure that updates ran at the most convenient times possible for thousands of users.

I used to work at a theater owned by a city. So we used the city’s IT department, and their network. During COVID, live-streaming took off. The city wanted us to install a streaming video package. After a month or two of installing a full video system, we finally get around to testing the stream. Boot up AWS, and it runs fine. We’re streaming in full 4K. Great!

So the show rolls around. It’s Saturday, 7:30pm start time. We start the show… And the stream instantly shits the bed. Like we go from full gigabit upload speed, to less than a single megabit. We’re lucky to get 56kbps speeds. We’re getting one or two frames per second if we’re lucky.

Sunday, we test the stream ahead of time, and it works flawlessly. Show starts, and the upload speed drops to fucking dial up.

Monday morning rolls around, and IT strolls in to check their tickets. Sees a hundred from us, and gives us a call. They run a test on their end. No issues. They run a test on AWS. No issues. They run a test on the fiber backbone between the theater and city hall. No issues. They call the ISP. ISP said they didn’t have any issues over the weekend. IT shrugs, and marks the tickets as solved.

Next weekend, same thing. We’re wondering if IT is automatically throttling us, or if we have a malicious user on the network. We’re asking about QoS, or maybe automatic port control kicking in when the stream starts. Monday rolls around, and IT marks it as solved again.

Third weekend, same thing. This time, the city manager’s office is getting calls from angry patrons who paid for streaming and can’t watch their streams. Monday morning, IT rolls up. They run some more tests, and still can’t find anything wrong. They swear up and down that it’s nothing on their end, and it must be something on ours.

After four months of this back and forth, IT finally admits that they have all of their maintenance tasks to run at 7:30 over the weekend. Every single computer, server, and fucking toaster connected to the city network begins their updates at exactly 7:30. Thousands of city devices, all singularly focused on devouring our upload speeds. Servers run off-site backups. Those backups consume all of the upload speeds for the entire city network. IT refuses to change the time, because “this is what works for us. It’s after city hall closes, so we don’t have any users who are affected. It hasn’t been a problem in the past.”

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