“The North Sea”.
I actually painted this back in 2016, but I’ve never posted it. So I thought I’d share 😁
You ever wonder if Google has one real datacenter where they take all the press pictures and the rest are all just huge cube farms full of underpaid people?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardnieva/2023/01/11/google-search-quality-rater-raise/
@pluralistic pointed to a wonderful post by Jo Walton, which included the following (re how SF fans read SF):
"There are lots of forms of what I call incluing, scattering pieces of information seamlessly through the text to add up to a big picture. The reader has to remember them and connect them together. This is one of the things some people complain about as “too much hard work” and which I think is a high form of fun."
(https://www.tor.com/2010/01/18/sf-reading-protocols/).
Yes. Yesyesyes. A perfect encapsulation.
why does everything always fall on ops?
projects half-asses their end and ops has to unfuck everything to make sure the process gets restarted on time.
someone cons money out of corporate for some initiative and the onus falls on ops to execute all aspects of the initiative so the con man can get his recognition.
meanwhile, ops still has to keep the wheels from falling off.
This site lets you search toots from nearly the entire fediverse, very cool. Helpful to find interesting conversations and get your timeline populated. https://cler.ical.ist/
This site lets you view the timelines of other instances, helpful for new people to find folks to follow:
http://www.unmung.com/mastoview?url=mastodon.social&view=local
#RedHat launches #OpenShift , an online IDE for building container-based applications https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/02/red-hat-launches-openshift-io-an-online-ide-for-building-container-based-applications/ #container #freesw