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Yes, this is what I do as well. 5pm hits I shutdown the machine unless I'm just dead in the middle of something that I cannot step away from, which is extremely rare. Then I usually just go play with my kids or talk to the mrs. I found not checking your smartphone helps as well, just put it on the shelf somewhere and leave it on vibrate and don't check it again for 3-4hrs.

We work to live, not live to work. Shutdown the computer and go do something else and engage with your family (if you have one.) If you don't have your own family then I could see how this would be more difficult for some people.

Christian 'revolution'? What nonsense. The missionaries were never interested in revolution (not in the modern sense at least), but converting people to Catholicism. St. Bede's History of the Church in England is a good example. Or the life of St. Boniface. The term "Dark Ages" was coined by anti-Christians to undermine the conversion of Europe to the Catholic faith.

Matrix.

You can run your own private server and private federation. You don't have to federate with Matrix.org, you can make your own company federation, or hobby or whatever and federate with others. It's fully encrypted and has web based, desktop client based and mobile app support from multiple different clients. Riot is the most popular and what we currently use. Has amazing VOIP integration. It'll run easily on a low-tier linode VPS.

It's about the closest thing to Discord we could find that, and it's way, way more secure.

not me :D

Look up Dr. Andrew Kaufman on Youtube. Medicamentum Authenticam.

Still holy people today. St. Hildegarde even made the prophecy that people during our time would long for their days based on the visions she had. I have read a good bit of her writings, they're utterly fascinating. St. Thomas Aquinas is my confirmation saint btw.

No one should contact that terrorist eugenics organization. They're diabolical.

Can't say this is really a bad thing, Yelp has had blackmail and predatory business practices a long time and should be shutdown on that alone. It's amazing to me they haven't been sued into oblivion yet.

Define what you mean by "fair". It is Mozilla's (right) opinion that Facebook is a hugely corrupt corporation and entity, the technology itself doesn't just work on Fedbook, they just use Fedbook as their prime example.

I use it exclusively in my environment. Most people don't understand what exactly it does, but it's not like your traditional SAN/Host configuration.

Not sure what you mean by services included, there is an exclusive simplivity support team. They will have a blade offering at the end of the year based on my meeting with HPE Simplivity back in December.

It's somewhat difficult to explain, but it's essentially deduplicated and compressed bit level server hardware that shares storage in a vSAN like configuration but it replicates blocks.

So say you have 10 RHEL VM's, with only 100mb of unique data varying across the 10 VMs. Since those VM's all match in terms of block data, that storage space is not taken up, only the unique data is. This block level matching means you have a super high efficiency in terms of storage use. So even though all those VM's look like they take up say 10gb of storage each, in reality those 10 VM's combined are only using 11gb of data because that first 10gb is static read blocks that are essentially co-shared by the VM's since it's the same and the other 10x100mb is unique. I hope that makes sense. This also enables super, super fast backup and recovery. It is amazing technology and faster than any traditional backup system I've ever used. I can restore a VM back to say 12AM yesterday in as little as 3 seconds and auto power it back on.

I would really encourage you to speak with a Sales Engineer as they can explain it more detail.

I currently have 6 hosts in my environment and it's amazing if you want tons and tons of VM's that do not host a lot of unique data. If you have large data-sets of unique data it is still really useful, but I would just encourage people who have those large datasets to look into purchasing a traditional SAN. But in terms of efficiency, nothing compares. It is amazing.

If they don't hire you because you decided to take a year off then they're not worth working for. It's easy to be in the corporate mindset when you interview someone that this person must be somehow not a "team-player" or "go-getter" because he actually values life above working like a slave robot. Work for someone who understands the human element of life and doesn't treat another human being like an object or projects the reliability and uptime of computers to the human element.

There is a huge lack of empathy in corporate environments today which is incredibly dangerous, I think that's why work satisfaction is at an all-time low.

DevSecOps

I hadn't heard this term until very recently when SaltStack started pushing their enterprise suite hard in the security direction, and I facepalmed.

According to St. Thomas Aquinas, no you cannot, because the immortal soul presupposes a participation in the infinite and eternal. Aristotle made this clear, which St. Thomas then expounds on:

"Man’s ultimate happiness consists in the contemplation of truth, for this operation is specific to man and is shared with no other animals. Also it is not directed to any other end since the contemplation of truth is sought for its own sake. In addition, in this operation man is united to higher beings (substances) since this is the only human operation that is carried out both by God and by the separate substances (angels). (Summa Contra Gentiles, book 3, chapter 37)

and

It is impossible for any created good to constitute man’s happiness. For happiness is that perfect good which entirely satisfies one’s desire; otherwise it would not be the ultimate end, if something yet remained to be desired. Now the object of the will, i.e., of man’s desire, is what is universally good; just as the object of the intellect is what is universally true. Hence it is evident that nothing can satisfy man’s will, except what is universally good. This is to be found, not in any creature, but in God alone, because every creature has only participated goodness. Therefore, God alone can satisfy the will of man, according to the words of the Psalms (102:5): “Who alone satisfies your desire with good things.” Therefore, God alone constitutes man’s happiness.” (Summa Theologica Part 2. Q.1. Article 8)

Same. I have AT&T gig fiber after switching from Comcast. 3 Years in, no complaints. My 2yr old son ripped the fiber line out of the house, and they came the next day and fixed it in like an hour, no charge. Been very satisfied with AT&T.

I got hit in the eye with a nerf dart once in an open office environment. Thank God I work remotely now. Open-offices are horrid.

Pipe Tobacco and a Book, or praying.

God bless him. He wrote extensively and very concisely on the topic. He was struck by a car last year and killed. He left behind a wife and many children.

Every minute spent not fighting climate apocalypse is a bleep waste of time.

Are you being serious? I genuinely can't tell.

Imagine not being satisfied with 120 million dollars. Unreal to think about, but greed is never satisfied.

No. People just have no concept of objective morality today because everyone is hyper-sensitive to everything and can't take criticism at all.

I think it's best to not assume my ethics are somehow more or less valid than anyone else's.

That violates the law of non-contradiction. Either one is wrong and one is right, or both people are wrong and they haven't realized what is right yet. Moral subjectivism as a principle makes absolutely no sense, and Aristotle destroyed that argument in Nichomachean Ethics.

Indeed. I was doxxed over a religious position I hold and underwent a 3 month investigation at work for it. It was absolutely horrible and very stressful. I have a family and small children. Some psycho who just couldn't handle that someone diaagrees with them spent the actual time to call my employer with the malicious intent to get me fired. That this type of behavior is tolerated by corporations is a gross injustice and it should be illegal.

Yeah I meant Linux/Unix. The asterisk turned everything italic so I just left it out.

100% agree.

Being 35 and having worked in IT for 15 years now and seeing the rapid acceleration into DevOps/Cloud/nix/Programming/Stacks I fear for my future. I want to learn a ton of stuff, but the vast amount of stuff needed to learn in order for me to move up in my salary bracket is stifling. AWS/Azure/+ the former I mentioned, then Python, YAML, Cloud networking. I'm good at some stuff, but the industry is just moving so ultra fast now it's hard to keep up.

I've been contemplating getting out of IT altogether because I'm not fully confident in career growth at this point unless I murder myself with study and ignore my family.

I've been a MS SysAdmin for 15 years, moving into nix devops (the new way of sysadminning) isn't easy.

Phillip Campbell (aka Boniface) of http://unamsanctamcatholicam.blogspot.com/ should be able to point you in the right direction, he is a medieval scholar.

Edit: Sorry I don't have any exact citations, he said it in an interview wit Ryan Grant, so I'm sure he has a source he read somewhere.

Yes, I have noticed the same. I try to put my phone away when I am in public. Kids really pick up on it if you're ignoring them and they have heightened senses of emotion, so it's important for their psychological well-being to know that not everyone is sucked into the machine and actually cares about them. I've always been friendly to children, but after having a few it really makes you appreciate their innocence that much more.

The Complete Moral Theology of St. Alphonsus Liguori in Latin. :)

A thought you could add to your article. In the medieval period in Europe, advertising outside your shop was strictly forbidden because it was considered an assault on your senses. I totally agree with this sentiment.

That's the biggest crock I've ever read on HN. Where did this "science" come from? A bunch of self-obsessed journalists I'm sure or maybe /r/childfree?

The people who are unhappy with kids are the people who are unhappy, depressed and bitter to begin with, lacking all empathy. You have to be a pretty self-absorbed individual to not love the innocence and charm of children.

Every person I know with a family loves their children to death and are very content and happy. Happiness consists in pursuing the ultimate unchanging good and increasing in virtue, nothing passing in this life can give you ultimate everlasting happiness. It is a philosophical, metaphysical and theological question, not a question of children, free-time or money. Children are a good thing, but they're not the ultimate object whereby one becomes happy.

I agree, there are tons of good options out there, such as ProtonMail or others. As a sysadmin, who no longer works in the MSP world, managing Exchange was such a huge time-sink. There is reason basically every MSP who is worth their salt will migrate their clients to O365 or some other solution. It works. There is relatively little down time. And you barely have to manage it. It's a win-win for everyone.