bmir-alum-007

It's hard to get a balanced nutrition on a bush diet for two main reasons:

0. Lack of nutrition understanding: what are/where to get essential nutrients.

1. Nutrition-balanced foods in the middle of nowhere may be nonexistent or difficult to acquire.

> If humans are being replaced with computers, then there will be need for fewer managers, supervisors etc. This would cause a decline in demand for people with "human skills" also.

Lower demand of workers and over-supply of candidates = employers' market = greater expectations placed on workers for lower pay. This would change nice-to-have attributes of excellent candidates from nice-to-have to compulsory as workers have to be even more perfect just to keep their job against the 100 other people lined up ready to take it from them. Besides, if there are 3 equally-qualified people with people skills and 5 without, it's a no brainer because the non-people-skilled folks are liabilities: they can kill the team dynamic, put people off and waste time & money (finding new coworkers to replace those that left whom will put up with their antics, finding new customers/vendors/partners/etc. that they put off, etc.). I know of a number of first-hand cases where some arrogant developers were passed over for hiring consideration at a successful enterprise startup because it was clear they would be too difficult to work with.

In labor markets with a foreseeable overabundance of talent, the future of work may include a number of people willing to work even longer for free, far longer than internships, simply to showcase their chops, get real experience and edge out other candidates/employees. Let's hope it doesn't come to that, but it certainly seems headed down that path.

FBSD: I was just dealing with circular dependency hell (or misunderstanding of docs/conventions) in some rc.d scripts.

Maybe someone here knows how to do this properly (or better):

    # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/dnscrypt-proxy
    #
    # PROVIDE: dnscrypt_proxy
    # REQUIRE: ldconfig cleanvar NETWORKING
    # BEFORE: SERVERS local_unbound
    # KEYWORD: shutdown

^--- REQUIRE: ... NETWORKING always seems to cause a circular dependency (as per running: rcorder /etc/rc.d/* /usr/local/etc/rc.d/*)

Help appreciated, not required, just showing a real-life example.

Most, but not all, companies generally don't donate any money to server OSes and open source they deploy by the hundreds of thousands. It sucks but it's the current state of affairs. (I think more FOSS should be be less free and monetized more in the context of large-scale enterprise purposes, in order to keep developers' bills paid and support quality up. The honor system doesn't work because most corporate choose to "cheat" where possible.)

If a project releases open source totally for free, it cannot realistically expect sponsorship to magically appear.

If a project needs sponsorship to keep the lights on, the we're closing up shop, unless ... routine works.

If a project prefers to become a commercial product with a freemium option, they should do such.

Otherwise, don't slave away on a project and resent what you cannot afford to give away. Just don't do it, if you can't live with it being exploited by companies for free.

Punishing everyone for the sin of a few rogue companies is the kindergarteners routine and childish. It doesn't work and it just angers people without solving the licensing issue at a core level.

PS: Perhaps grsecurity may want to instead consider a sensible noncommercial license similar to somewhere between AGPL and something like what good ol' evil Oracle would license their DBMS, i.e., companies over X employees or Y revenue need a license; hobbyists, academics and individual developers exempted. Drama resolved.

One risk of using OpenBSD is a lot, but not quite enough, people use it on enough on random hardware and give actionable feedback to make it battle-tested, "Just Work" (TM).

So true.

We would consider OpenBSD if it ran on AWS and stably supported ZFS. (We use FreeBSD with PF and ZFS.)

"NIH syndrome" resulted in signify rather than using normal, proven tools like GPG which Debian-base distros use for package management.

Yup. Business theater is usually stuck in maintaining in-group approval, "industry standards" and historical continuity.

My favorite HR signal which doesn't seem to qualitatively work:

- non-rigorous certifications

The best interview styles are not labeled as such explicitly, whenever possible, because it makes for artificially-awkward pressure, alters expectations and ups the hype and hazing.

There is no debate that a hateful double-standard (lifetime ban) is allowed to stand, the questionnaire can be essentially eliminated right now by more rigorous and comprehensive testing using modern lab processes. If the testing is up to standards, arbitrarily throwing out certain groups is a only shortcut which imposes hate systematically and normalizes it.

The entire blood donation routine lifestyle/behaviors questionnaire of self-reporting is of little value because people can make mistakes or intentionally misrepresent their status. A far better approach is to test all donated blood, all the time for significant communicable, incurable diseases. If it's "too expensive," then newer/cheaper tests need to be developed.

What does killing oneself with excesses and risky habits like drugs, alcohol, food, driving too fast, riding a bike/motorcycle without a helmet, etc. have to do with being gay?

PS: I have a gay roommate, so clearly I must be a Republican, believe in God, conspiracies and lynchings. Stereotyping troll fail.

Sadly, I think the only way for most Americans to maintain a healthy lifestyle would require significant, paternalistic education and intervention. One idea others have proposed would be clearly-and-emphatically warn of future denial of certain healthcare expenses and conditions for people that fail to achieve and maintain reasonable goals to curtail high-risk lifestyle choices, i.e., smoking, poor diet. The key is conditions which arise even with good lifestyle habits should have priority over people that don't take care of themselves and expect everyone else to clean up their mess.

(I'd be first in line because I could lose 20 lbs (9 kg).)