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Breaking Point – Dox

November 24th, 2017 | by Trae Dorn
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  1. John Trauger
    John Trauger
    November 25, 2017 at 2:10 pm | # | Reply

    Got to ask here: Why was Terrence added to Bork Con staff if he was this incompetent?

    Forgetting his ego issues, someone made a big mistake recommending Terrence and approving his addition. The weird thing is it doesn’t seem like anybody has any prior experience with him and someone just about had to.

    • Trae Dorn
      Trae Dorn
      November 25, 2017 at 5:25 pm | # | Reply

      Bork Con has open meetings where anyone can join general staff. It’s not an uncommon thing

    • KORfan
      KORfan
      November 25, 2017 at 9:47 pm | # | Reply

      Sometimes the con’s parent organization insists that you let someone be on staff even though you already have a list of ways he’s already screwed things up and caused problems and they’re going “But he means well and he’s so energetic!” so you go along with it because you’re trying to get them to agree to a bunch of cool things they have to approve like having the talking elevators speak Japanese for the weekend and you’re trying to choose your battles wisely and you have to hold your tongue when they throw him out two years later for all of the new problems he’s caused and you don’t show up at their meeting yelling “I TOLD YOU SO!” when they complain that he copied the entire organization mailing list and started using it.

    • Viktor
      Viktor
      November 26, 2017 at 2:29 pm | # | Reply

      It happens a lot in the business world, too. There’s the obvious cases of someone who is just borderline competent enough and just good enough at staying on the good side of the right people to remain employed for years despite being worse than having no one in the position at all. But there’s also random new hires who can make it through an interview just fine, and seem to do okay in training, but then turn out to be utterly incompetent whenever no one is actively watching them to make sure they don’t screw up. It’s actually really hard to tell who is going to work out and who isn’t until you see them work, which is why the death of the middle-manager position is so bad long-term for companies, even if they don’t realize it.

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  • Every Time I Say My Desk is 'Peak' Cyberpunk, I End Up Topping It ( November 30th 2020 )


    My current desk

    So every few years I've felt the need to make an update about my ever evolving workspace, and how I (more and more) seem to be cultivating an aesthetic that screams "secondary side character in a cyberpunk story who probably gets killed off in the third act." It's an aesthetic I've been working on on purpose (well, not the getting killed off bit), but every time I declare it's reached "peak cyberpunk" I end up outdoing it soon after anyway.

    Like that 2017 update? I exceeded it in mere months.

    Anyway, since I made some significant changes recently, I thought I'd post an update about my weird hole of many screens where I run The Nerd & Tie Podcast Network from. I'm not going to run through everything, but I will map out the biggest differences from 2017. The first is (obviously) the 32" display up top, which I now use to stream media on instead of the Kindle Fire (though the Kindle Fire is still used for audio bumpers on podcasts). An Apple TV runs that, though I also have a spare Switch dock hooked up sometimes. The Linux laptop is gone (I mean I still have it though), replaced by the late-2011 13" MacBook Pro which used to be my main personal machine. That MacBook Pro is tucked away, but displays on the relocated black monitor in the lower left.

    Of course, my new main personal machine is a brand spankin' new M1 Mac mini, which is controlled by the keyboard and trackpad that sit where my laptop used to be. I've expanded the physical desk (and retired the mini fridge) to support the monitor for the Mac mini. And don't worry, Linux isn't gone from my desk (and I mean I still use the laptop) -- as you will notice one last monitor on the lower right which is hooked up to a Raspberry Pi 400. This is notably used from a different chair, as that's my "goof around" computer, and would literally be a distraction if I was trying to use it while getting work done.

    It's funny, I bought two computers in 2020, both of which are ARM based. With a good chunk of my desk now on RISC architecture, I'm happy I can just dig out this image without context as I sign off for today...

    RISC is good


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