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Re: Eschaton: Covid Denialism

Ari Turetzky — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 19:30:40 -0000

I'm glad this didn't happen but... If Trump had walked out into the Rose Garden in late March and said we have to lock down and mask for the next month and called on congress to send a bill to cover payroll and income until we were in the clear we would have a Trump in the white house for the next 20 years.

Re: Eschaton: Doomsday Cult

Ari Turetzky — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 16:36:32 -0000

wont spoil but the books the Silo show is based on are very close to this. Also really good books

Re: Eschaton: You Have Tea And No Tea

Ari Turetzky — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 12:11:40 -0000

Broadcom game! Lost a lot of hours to that one

Re: Are you busy?

Ari Turetzky — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 10:08:24 -0000

Through three different jobs, a small private company, a university, and a Really Big Corporation, I have seen the definition of busy morph quite a bit. Busy at one point meant having a stack of things to get done. This was calls to make, code to write, people to train, etc. Now it means how many meetings and how much process can I pile on top of the actual work so as to make it unlikely that anything will actually get done.

Busy at one point seemed to mean being well utilized and productive. In my current situation it would mean having a full 6-7 hours of meetings that get half of everyone's attention while they deal with emails. All so they can go home at night and actually try to produce some sort of "work output". I regularly see more value put on the appearance of being busy than actually doing something useful. In fact in meetings with my direct management I am often encouraged to make sure I am keeping my calendar full and attending plenty of meetings.

I think in most situations having less things to do, fewer people to meet with, and controlled communication would allow for more productive use of time and result in a higher quality result from most people.

Re: Scripting News: Who would play Steve Jobs?

Ari Turetzky — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 08:41:49 -0000

John Malkovich
John Cusack
Ewan MacGregor

oh! also William Hurt

Re: Scripting News: Who cares if the stock market crashes?

Ari Turetzky — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 18:20:25 -0000

Actually, one of the things krugman has drawn attention to is that Japan has not done a real stimulus package and thus wound up with their lost decade. One of his repeated statements is that even though we have the real world example of what happened in their economy we chose to go ahead and do thesame thing expecting different results.

Re: Scripting News: Who cares if the stock market crashes?

Ari Turetzky — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 12:02:49 -0000

A second part from the liquidity trap I think is also the deleveraging by banks and corporations. Basically the big business version of sitting on you savings.

In the run up a bubble days people took on a lot of debt because their assets kept appreciating. Now they have lots of debt to pay down. Businesses and banks did the same and now are attempting to repair balance sheets.

In my limited understanding thats the trap, lots of liquid assets that aren't being invested in expansion and hiring.

I should point out I'm not an economist, although it is fun to play one on the Internet at times.

Re: Scripting News: Sharing lists of friends

Ari Turetzky — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 22:05:44 -0000

Sounds like this could also pair with your personal server idea. Having that would give people the ability to have that central place that everyone could connect too. Oauth/OpenID could one day provide a good way of conrtrolling who and what would have access to that as well.

Re: Scripting News: A call for Frontier jocks

Ari Turetzky — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 20:24:18 -0000

I've done a little playing around with node.js but have not had anything real to sink my teeth into. Anything I can look at to help out?

Re: Scripting News: My OAuth code stopped working

Ari Turetzky — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 09:57:44 -0000

thought it was unlikely but I have to deal with a corporate firewall and the autodeploy is the only way I can make updates to the rube goldberg set up that gets me to twitter durning the day.

Re: Scripting News: My OAuth code stopped working

Ari Turetzky — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 09:50:04 -0000

Do you have anything in the background that pushes updates to code? In my case I got burned by and autodeploy after a check in to source control that pushed the config file with the typo. The only help I found online for the "incorrect signature" error as a post that suggested checking the key and secret.

Re: Future cars to decide if driver is drunk

Ari Turetzky — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 17:19:54 -0000

I wouldn't mind if it could detect stupid. Hell I'd even donate to that effort

Re: Scripting News: What are you learning about Dropbox?

Ari Turetzky — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 15:13:24 -0000

There is Puppet www.puppetlabs.com that might help with the configuration and maintenance piece. I believe they have recently added Windows support. We have been using it with some linux servers at work and it's been great. There is also a ruby based system called chef that is quite popular

Re: Scripting News: How to blow up a server in one mouse click

Ari Turetzky — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 10:03:37 -0000

is it through amazon? Do their support people still have access to disable the fw or at least allow the RDC client through?

Re: Scripting News: What's produced at hackathons?

Ari Turetzky — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:07:07 -0000

We've done some internal hack-days at work. There are 3 benefits that I have seen. first is it gives a set space and time to push out a proof of concept app that you can then make a decision on. Second it provides a place where there are a bunch of people around who have different experience and skills to draw off of. Finally, and this is mostly for the internal corporate type, you get a chance to present ideas you have that you might not have the opportunity to present otherwise. I don't have the exact numbers but over the last two years we have implemented 4 or 5 of the ideas.

Re: Cruise ships still find a Haitian berth

Ari Turetzky — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:26:42 -0000

exactly. We "liberated" them from the Duvalier's then let Aristide rape the land. The situation is so terrible down there that people add dirt to their water and eat "burgers" of dirt and clay to make themsleves feel full. suddenly we care?

This is just people spending money to feel better about whatever it is they feel sorry for doing.

Wasn't it in the late 90's we forced about 150 haitians to sit on their sinking raft off the coast of florida while congress found away to let them come ashore without being called refugee's. That way we didn't have to spend money, and were able to but them back on a boat to haiti the next day.

Re: Cruise ships still find a Haitian berth

Ari Turetzky — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 12:28:20 -0000

of course before the earth quake a trip things were so much better in haiti ;)

or is the guardian just being selective and the one that was sickened was referring to the smell?

Re: I'll build the refugee camps. (Scripting News)

Ari Turetzky — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:29:13 -0000

I also think the idea of "X being dead" gives a sense of not having to support something or no longer having to deal with it. Which really never is the case.

Re: SF to Denver by train. (Scripting News)

Ari Turetzky — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:27:55 -0000

Looking forward to hearing about this. It's something we've thought about doing with the kids for a while!

Re: The Tools I Use - Larry Wright - The Curiousity Project

Ari Turetzky — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:21:36 -0000

for multiple terminal syndrome you should really look at screen. It will allow a sort of multiplexing so you can have a screen session that is actually 2,3,4...X terminals. I still owe you for introducing me to emacs as well.

also not to quibble, but I know of two kids that are more adorable.

Great post!

Re: Dumb XML question (Scripting News)

Ari Turetzky — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:46:12 -0000

I'm stuck at work without firefox right now. (gasp! i know) but I think you can do about:config and I think there is a default stylesheet for xml that you can null out. It's been awhile since I looked into it. I am assuming you mean the page that says "there is no stylesheet associated with this document....." message.

Re: Before the storm (Scripting News)

Ari Turetzky — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 10:16:35 -0000

Originally got a EEE 900 just after you got the 901. Liked it quite a bit but wanted a keyboard that was just a tad bigger. Just last month I picked up a Lenovo S10e. It's a fantastic machine. light, quiet, and very solidly constructed.
I've never been much of an OSX person, more of a linux guy here, I have wanted an apple netbook for the sole reason that apple's hardware is generally the best out there. I have an iBook that my wife still uses after 8 years. I would love to see that kind of quality in netbook hardware. Honestly though the lenovo seems to be just about there. If one of the ASUS books fails on you I really recommend the ideapads

Re: The Programmable Government - Larry Wright - The Curiousity Project

Ari Turetzky — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 08:32:10 -0000

Nice post I really like some of these. A friend and I saw the GOP API the other day. I think it's really quite new and there are still some hiccups there. But overall the transparency this will bring about is pretty nifty. Hopefully it can serve to cut through the BS on the campaign trail and during debat on capitol hill.

Re: Palm Pre a possibility? (Scripting News)

Ari Turetzky — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:14:41 -0000

I have a sony W300i from AT&T that I use for tethering with my EEE via usb cable and a cheap $5 bluetooth dongle. AT&T seems to only prohibit that on the iPhone. for most of the other phones they offer including some with 3G they list it as available. there are a few phones that have close enough features to the iphone/pre that should keep you happy. of course if your tethering a netbook some of those features get less important. Mostly I'm just waiting for a netbook + 3G bundle. Asus offers one in england I believe

Re: Palm Pre a possibility? (Scripting News)

Ari Turetzky — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:06:13 -0000

I have Sony Ericsson W300i through AT&T that I tether my EEE 900 to. AT&T seems to allow tethering on everything but the iPhone. in fact due to firewalls this tethering is how I keep up with twitter/friendfeed all day. I don't know what your needs are for a cell phone, but dropping the iphone for something else from AT&T could get you the tethering.