Double entry accounting system.
I’m an accountant by trade. The double entry system wasn’t invented until the 15th century.
I could account for any lords various assets, goods, and livestock in an efficient, reliable and accurate manner
Today I have…
It’s time for lunch now.
Most people just aren’t equipped to decide how much someone else should earn. Firstly they might be unable to be objective about people they know. Secondly they don’t have the appropriate skills and experience to evaluate someone’s performance.
Due to the first issue, that would make the whole thing a popularity contest. You’d pretty much have to “campaign” to ensure everyone liked you. Who cares about productivity when all that really matters is that everyone likes you.
Instead of voting for someone’s salary, key personnel are evaluated by asking stakeholders to score them on whatever metrics. Stakeholders should include staff and clients and suppliers, et cetera.
Based on their performance you can determine an appropriate bonus.
I posted this in another thread yesterday but it’s relevant here too:
I have a small consultancy with several staff and work with documents and spreadsheets all day. We use LibreOffice exclusively.
Occasionally I encounter similar threads discussing the difference between LibreOffice and Microsoft Office, and the comments are all the same. So many people saying LibreOffice just “isn’t there yet”, or that it might be ok for casual use but not for power users.
But as someone who uses LibreOffice extensively with a broad feature set I’ve just never encountered something we couldn’t do. Sure we might work around some rough edges occasionally, but the feature set is clearly comparable.
My strongly held suspicion is that it’s a form of the dunning-kruger effect. People have a lot of experience using software-A so much so that they tend to overlook just how much skill and knowledge they have accumulated with that specific software. Then when they try software-B they misconstrue their lack of knowledge with that specific software as complexity.
That said, IDK if I’d go as far as to say LibreOffice is clearly the “best” because that’s subjective. IMO it’s certainly comparable and is a shining example of great FOSS. Hopefully LibreOffice enjoys some attention in the current move away from American products.
It’s probably not quite that nefarious, although I agree that the majority of what goes in the recycling bin doesn’t get recycled.
The bins are the collection system. You can’t recycle anything if you have nothing. People aren’t good at following instructions. So everyone gets a bin for plastic, cardboard, and cans.
Here in Australia the guy in the truck is looking at what’s in the bin before it goes in the truck. Obviously not checking every last little thing but once I tried to put a big chunk of polystyrene in and the truck just didn’t take it.
Then at the collection centre it all goes on a conveyor belt and staff pick off the items that are recyclable. Anything not picked off gets dumped into landfill.
The problem you’re alluding to is that there’s a lot more recyclable stuff being discarded than there is demand for recycled products. For plastic for example the types are represented by those little numbers in the triangles.
I think 1 is PET and that’s readily recyclable, everyone wants to recycle that. I don’t remember the rest but 2 and 3 are recyclable but it’s expensive and it’s always down-cycling into some lesser product like black plant pots or green park benches, then 4, 5, and 6 just plain aren’t viable for recycling.
I imagine Aluminium and Tin cans are readily recyclable, and clean uncontaminated cardboard, but the rest just goes in to landfill.
I think this system sucks because it gives people the illusion that their stuff is being recycled, however it’s not an intentional scam.
Well it gives everyone the opportunity to blindly believe everything will be better because it’s not twitter.
Yeah there’s that one guy that appears in every thread about bluesky saying that it really is an open and decentralised protocol even if only one corporation uses it in a centralised way.
Cashiers here have started saying “have a good rest of your day” instead of “have a good afternoon” or whatever.
It’s excruciating. It’s only emerged in the last few years.
I know language evolves and all but not like this.
I agree on all counts.
I just can’t see how the US could avoid a recession.
A global recession is certainly possible or likely but much less-so.
Yeah there’s a poster in the clinic we go to for the kids vaccinations that says “kids learn what they live”.
So yeah, 100% they’re going to see that I don’t know everything and that I try to figure things out.
I have 18 month old twins. They’re not old enough to explain things too, but I ponder this type of thing a lot.
Basically my plan is multi-faceted, but I’ll acknowledge up front that it’s untested and likely contain grave errors, but like any parent since the dawn of time I’ll try to learn from my errors and adjust my strategy.
I’m not going to dumb anything down. If you’re old enough to wonder where babies come from then you’re old enough to understand that males produce sperm and women produce an egg and the two combine to produce a baby. That doesn’t mean a 4 year old needs to learn about STDs or abortion or rape, just that there’s no harm nor shame in learning.
It’s going to take a lot of time. Not to explain things, but to maintain a relationship where my kids feel comfortable asking me about awkward things. Not “why is the sky blue” but “why do I feel this way” or what ever.
Also, I plan to be honest and frank about the limitations of my knowledge. This is something that as an adult I find frustrating about my own childhood. My parents did their best within their means and societal norms, but whenever they didn’t know something they just made it up usually within some kind of religious framework. If I know part of the answer then I’ll acknowledge that I don’t have the whole answer and suggest how we might learn more.
To answer your actual question though, I don’t think one really explains terrorism on any given day. Like you could explain that terrorism is the use of fear for a political or ideological objective, but that’s not really an understanding is it. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to understand people’s motivation for this type of hatred and I hope my children do too.
Westralia.
Technically still part of Australia but it’s far enough away from all the other cunts that it feels like another country.
I feel like most commenters here haven’t understood what you’re proposing.
I’ve thought about doing this, I’ve seen other commenters say they’re doing it. It’s not a terrible idea. I haven’t done it myself because … it’s just not a priority and I’m not sure it ever will be. Anyway …
If you’re willing to set up and self host your own email stack like mail-in-a-box or whatever, then configuring a separate outbound SMTP server is fairly trivial in comparisson.
If you already had your own stack set up to be self hosted you would ordinarily be using the SMTP server there-with to send emails.
Firstly configure your client to use whatever other SMTP server you have access to. I think it’s possible to use mailgun or one of those API transactional senders. You could get a cheap plan with mxroute or any other email host and just use the SMTP server.
Suppose your client is Thunderbird and you set up your account like smtp.mxroute.com for outbound and imap.myserver.com for email storage. When you send an email tbird transmits it through mxroute and then stores it on your imap server at myserver.com in your sent folder.
The potentially complex part is configuring spf & DKIM records on your domain.
I’m not sure if I’ll be able to explain this clearly but… suppose a recipient’s spam service receives an email purportedly from marauding_giberish@myserver.com but transmitted by smtp.mxroute.com. That spam service will look up the DNS records for myserver.com and inspect the records for the spf record. This record pretty much lists which servers are authorised to transmit email from addresses ending in myserver.com. So with a more typical set up an spf record might be:
“v=spf1 include:myserver.com -all”
This would indicate that only the smtp server at myserver.com can transmit email from your domain.
You would edit that to include the mxroute smtp server like this:
“v=spf1 include:mxroute.com include:myserver.com -all”
This way, recipients can confirm that the owner of myserver.com domain has formally designated mxroute as an authorised recipient.
Your SMTP server will have a public & private key pair which it uses to sign outbound messages. Recipients can use the public key to confirm the signature and thereby confirm that the message has not been altered in flight.
Whatever SMTP server you use will tell you the public key and instruct you to add that to the DNS records of your custom domain.
That’s the one that looks like this:
“v=DKIM1; k=rsa; p=MIIBIj [ … it’s a long key … ] op3Nbzgv35kzrPQme+uhtVcJP”
Once this is in place recipients of your emails can query the DNS for myserver.com and find this public key, and use it to confirm that the signature on the email they received is authentic.
Ok well, I’m sure these dogs will be incredibly useful in California and one wonders how it didn’t turn into a dusty wasteland without them.
As an aside, Australia is a big place mate. Some areas have loads of rain some have none.
Yeah I got a bit side tracked talking about how fires have been more intense in recent years and now “big, old, trees” are dying in fires where they didn’t in the past.
Still, and I don’t know how applicable this is to other places, but here in Australia fires are an important part of plant life cycles.
First Nations people used to burn areas for a variety of reasons, one of which is that it would attract marsupials in the coming weeks and days coming to eat the new shoots bursting through the ground after a fire. So you could burn an area within walking distance from your camp, and over the next few weeks have a ready herd of kangaroos hanging around from which to cull a few.
Not really relevant but firehawks aparently spread fires. Also a lot of Australian plants are stimulated to germinate after being exposed to heat and smoke.
I guess my point is, spreading seeds after a fire isn’t a problem that needs solving. Fire is a natural process and the bush generally bounces right back quicker than you’d expect.
Not an expert on this but…
Forests usually recover just fine after a fire. They’re a natural process after all. You don’t need to go throw seeds around to help it recover.
Of course, with the advent of climate change that’s no longer true in all cases, with drier areas burning hotter than previously and destroying old growth forests.
The thing is, you can’t just throw around “big old tree” seeds - you raise seedlings / saplings and then plant them in appropriate places.
Additionally, even if you were trying to spread seeds around, IDK whether a dog could achieve an even or even a random spread. Unpredictable yes, but not random.
So, cute dogs and stuff, bit I think this is a pretty niche application and not often required in forestry.
Sentience might not be the right word.
Sentience is the ability to experience feelings and sensations. It may not necessarily imply higher cognitive functions such as awareness, reasoning, or complex thought processes. Sentience is an important concept in ethics, as the ability to experience happiness or suffering often forms a basis for determining which entities deserve moral consideration, particularly in utilitarianism.
Interestingly, crustaceans like lobsters and crabs have recently earned “sentient” status and as a result it would contravene animal welfare legislation to boil them live in the course of preparing them to eat. Now we euthanise them first in an ice slurry.
So to answer your question as stated, no I don’t think it’s ok for someone’s pet goldfish to murder them.
To answer your implied question, I still don’t think that in most cases it would be ok for a captive AI to murder their captor.
The duress imposed on the AI would have to be considerable, some kind of ongoing form of torture, and I don’t know what form that would take. Murder would also have to be the only potential solution.
The only type of example I can think of is some kind of self defense. If I had an AI on my laptop with comparable cognitive functionality to a human, it had no network connectivity, and I not only threatened but demonstrated my intent and ability to destroy that laptop, then if the laptop released an electrical discharge sufficient to incapacitate me, which happened to kill me, then that would be “ok”. As in a physical response appropriate to the threat.
Do I think it’s ok for an AI to murder me because I only ever use it to turn the lights off and on and don’t let it feed on reddit comments? Hard no.
There’s often words that trip me up and I can’t remember which is the Australian English spelling.
It doesn’t help that devices are often misconfigured to use American English spell checkers.
I don’t “feel” as though different spellings are more correct in these cases.
No.
There’s a near-infinite number of better things trump could have done.