I had an interesting conversation with a colleague about guys in security department in one of our clients. I ranted that I don’t really understand why the department is almost completely non-functional, despite having about 6 people more than needed (they are 8, currently). What baffled me the most is that I actually hold many of them in quite high respect and I know they are intelligent and hard-working people. But despite this, it is actually almost impossible to get statement on anything from the security department.

Colleague thinks that the problem is that they are afraid to step out of their comfort zones and actually do some thinking - and here’s the catch - unlike for example me, who has very big comfort zone, so we can discuss almost anything with an open mind.

But I think that is wrong. I actually have VERY NARROW comfort zone and my immediate reaction to almost anything is OH SHIT HERE WE GO AGAIN. But as a consultant, I am so used to being out of my comfort zone, that I don’t really care any more.

And maybe that’s the issue? If someone is quite comfortable in their work, I can see why they don’t want to do anything that upsets that comfort. But when I am not comfortable, I constantly look for solutions that makes things less painful for me.

So maybe I am looking at that wrong. I thought that being better at something expands my comfort zone, but what if it’s actually the other way round? The more I know about something, the more I see what I don’t know yet, and the less comfortable I am in that particular topic. Like - I know my Socrates, but up until now I haven’t really understood. It actually makes a lot of sense to me that being in the comfort zone of anything actively blocks the improvement of that thing.

What do you think?

https://www.novinky.cz/clanek/krimi-na-dalnici-d4-se-prohanela-cervena-formule-40534912

A pak do diskuze - zabavit, pokutovat, zabít… Přitom na tom videu je vidět ohleduplná jízda, nebo tam někdo vidíte nějaký problém? Kromě toho teda, že pOruŠiL PřEDpiSy 🤷‍♀️

I’ve been reading and listening about “recent” discoveries about the Moon. So many fascinating things, but one is sticking in my head in particular. It turns out that Moon is quite porous, full of caverns. It is also quite of low density.

Now we’ve been laughing at our ancestors, because they’ve been so silly to ever compare the Moon to the cheese…

It turns out that it IS actually a very good comparison. I wonder, and I know it’s a heretic thought, what if our ancestors weren’t so silly after all? 🤔

Actually win… like in WW1, for example?

nostr:note1mnqhzp60ekclnmx8zp6wlw9nnl0vw5ggakluaj4z69qnq9jz42cs7kkemp

So true.

Cheques were very unusual here.

To je pravda.

Protože to působí autoritativně. Myšlenka je taková, že projev státní správy má být odosobněný.

Podle mě se tohle prostě učí v těch policejních líhních.

Hele, mně přijde zajímavá jedna věc. Mám ve svém okolí relativně vysoký počet žen z různých prostředí, kterým tenhle břídil imponuje. Že je velmi hezkej a působí upřímným dojmem a tak. Na mě ten člověk působí jako tupá fetka, ale zajímalo by mě, jestli to kolem sebe pozoroval ještě někdo jinej.

But the cataclysms are purely internal things with no external inputs whatsoever?

You mean we float through the vast nothingness and the gigantic fission reactor that gives us literally all the power is infinitely stable? It just seems not very likely to me…

😂😂😂

Yes, but one good aimed moderately sized asteroid could put a quick end to it. For a long-term preservation of humanity, it would be probably beneficial to colonise other celestial bodies. More baskets for eggs.

I still have three cheques from UK IRS. I don’t know what to do with them 🙄

24. Next level - how many of these things your kids understand?

Každý rok řeším nějaké plošné zavlažování, a protože se mi do toho samozřejmě nechce moc investovat, kupuju takové ty levné zavlažovače, dejme tomu do tří stovek. Už jsem jich vystřídal třeba osm, tak si říkám, že za ty peníze bych mohl mít jeden pořádný.

Tak jsem tady v místním supermarketu objevil Rain Bird s desetiletou zárukou, tak jsem ho vzal. A víte co? Zavlažuje to úplně fantasticky. Nenechá to snad jediné místo suché. Tak jsem zvědav, jak dlouho to vydrží.

Jo a stál 99 korun 😂

I agree with you, but I also think you describe only a small part of the picture. Young girls are primed to see sex as a pleasure tool. It is deemed perfectly normal to have tens of sexual partners by the 20s - that’s body count that I don’t have in my 40s and I believe I still won’t have when I die. Sex is intentionally stripped of intimacy and converted to currency. And because supply of women is endless, the value of that currency rapidly falls. Prostitution was always an option for low-income women, but now it thrives among all classes. Sex workers are almost idolised, while their customers are vilified. This society intentionally manufactures girls who see sex as a path to easy, almost risk-free money. And when they are caught in the net, they find out that it is extremely difficult to get out.

And parents are also to blame for some non-trivial part. For last few decades, we try to give our children very open sex education. We try to demystify sex, we are teaching about consent, we try to do the best for our children. But it sure seems like injecting back some modesty to the upbringing would be beneficial to the society.

And yes, I have a daughter rapidly coming into that age and it starts to give me sleepless nights.

Now that is a very big truth. And not only in America. Details differ, but the point stays.

nostr:note1gnm4df7w9ckwugrhr48zq4lls77y7t68ltks6g0r03lmk7k8uc2sxs4yeg

Break the rules.

Bohužel tam chybí ten hlavní argument, tedy že státu do tohohle vůbec nic není.

You can let go.

Exactly. Would it or wouldn’t it?

Yes, it is. But just out of curiosity, I have ordered RAM upgrade for my homeserver to see if it’s usable. And because I guess it is, the next step would be dedicated hardware and there we go…

This tool does not exist and its existence in the future is very unlikely. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

I just don’t get why everyone is so surprised about this. Symptom driven diagnostic is fantastic case for AI application and very poor case for humans. Let AI do all the “debugging” tasks like symptom collection and encyclopaedic knowledge application and make doctors relevant again by finding them useful jobs.

nostr:note1wnq8yaulz7yne3zupjatzj7zd786yp430n4lqmuutez9d6wj3fgsyyu4tu

I have Campers and Vivo barefoot for daily walking and bare foot for everything else. I have found out that driving barefoot is better and from that everything barefoot is better. I only wear shoes to work and hot asphalt roads.

Jako třikrát jsem rozepsal třeskutě vtipný a sarkastický komentář, ale tvl tohle je prostě moc.

„Obecné soudy srozumitelně vysvětlily, že k nabytí dědictví dochází až na základě rozhodnutí soudu, a to ve prospěch osoby, jejíž dědické právo bylo prokázáno. K nabytí dědictví naopak nedochází - vzdor přesvědčení stěžovatele - jen na základě smrti zůstavitele, ale je naopak nutný úřední zásah státu,“ stojí v rozhodnutí Ústavního soudu, které bylo v těchto dnech zveřejněno v jeho databázi.

https://www.novinky.cz/clanek/krimi-po-smrti-manzelky-si-z-jejiho-uctu-poslal-300-tisic-dostal-za-to-tri-roky-vezeni-nepomohl-ani-ustavni-soud-40525686