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Sometimes it's hard to play this game if you have family to worry about.


Totally. But like I say in the article, figuring out how to get closer to whatever your ideal career is can be achieved in your free time through hobbies, books, classes, and other experiences. I think it comes down to just trying to be more aware of you feel when doing certain things. For example, I tutored in college and didn't think much of it, but when I looked back I realize how satisfying and fulfilling it was to help other students learn something. What I took from what was, I should focus on careers where I have the ability to mentor people who are less experienced at some point.


4$ VPS will be fine intil they ban you as such load(as in the test) will violate their "good neighbor" policy


I can think of at least two that wouldn't.

Hetzner Cloud allocates you 20TB per VPS (yes, even the cheap ones) and lets you use that however you see fit. There have been about 2 known instances of Hetzner kicking off dedicated (not VPS) customers for traffic abuse, and those customers were saturating the link 24/7 and were offered dedicated lines ahead of time. (their actual pain limit seems to be averaging over 750Mbit/s for 2-3 months). Their network team gets very upset if you scan from the instances, but not usually to keep a single limited interface from being saturated.

Netcup will throttle you 100 Mbit if you exceed 80 TB a month. Even on their 3,25 EUR VPS product.


Maybe an overkill, but i use cryptomator, which encrypts the files, the files are synchronized with nextcloud of remote location, but i suppose you can use whatever software you want. Inside that there is a https://keepassxc.org/ It works on a phone too, cryptomator open vault with finger, open keepassxc with finger, well not the quickest way but it will do. I still have some useless passwors in chrome but for not important stuff.


I use KeepassXC too, and Dropbox for database sync. Probably not very secure, but I store root password only in my head, and secret key offline. Never used mobile client though, not sure if they can be trusted.


I would add that the most expensive are the areas with biggest density, naturally with this kind of traffic a city council would create as many means of transportation as possible.


6'0 can confirm


I had a team of 10, two of them are remote, we recruted a third person, we work 40 hours a week, usually more or less flexible. We have recruted another person, after 6 month of work with him i have noticed some strange delays, like take too much time to respond etc, we work in pretty much relaxed environement so it was not visible very much. After a quick search i have found his freelance account and proposed him to do some job, he agreed and did so during his active working hours, double pay, how do i suppose counter that ?


Fire him, obviously.

But that's an interesting example. The guy is doing a poor job, so if you want to be impartial, you should fire him for not meeting your expectations.

But it is natural to understand why he is doing a poor job. I mean, maybe it is just a temporary personal issue (ex: sick kids), or maybe just not his fault (ex: task more complex than expected, broken IT, etc...). Or maybe he needs training. It is fair to fire him without trying to understand?

Unfortunately, one possibility is dishonesty, as it is the case for your employee. And that's when surveillance comes in. You can flip the argument of "accept monitoring or get fired" around in favor of the employee as in "you are doing a poor job, normally we would fire you for that, but it may not be your fault, so if you allow us to make sure of that (by monitoring), we will try to find another solution".

Of course, it can and is often abused, but it is not black and white.


> You can flip the argument of "accept monitoring or get fired" around in favor of the employee as in "you are doing a poor job, normally we would fire you for that, but it may not be your fault, so if you allow us to make sure of that (by monitoring), we will try to find another solution".

An interesting parallel to ankle bracelets (also mentioned in the article). As a form of punishment, it's the justice system's way of saying, "you're doing a very poor job as a citizen, but we don't think it would be fair to put you in prison for it, so if you allow us, we'll impose some lesser restrictions and monitor your adherence, to make it easier for you to improve your behavior".

No country on the planet forces everyone to wear ankle bracelets by default.


He’s not performing well at work and you found out without any extra surveillance. I mean you didn’t even need to find his freelance gig, it seems irrelevant to what you should do.


Does he still get his work done? Not far behind others?

Maybe you pay him too little.

Maybe you should offer him additional contract pay. More he does, more he gets paid.


We do not underpay anyone and have really transparent salary policy, at the end i talked to him and he just wanted to have double pay, but not able to fit two job into the schedule. I can find a solution which satisfy everyone in most cases, but i need to know in advance all the information, i have discovered in the worst possible way here.


Exactly how you already did that. IANAL (although I studied law), but my take is you have proof for a case here.


Does he get his work done? Is he providing value? If yes, don’t worry about it.


Or the employee does this work in its own time. Assuming he is employed full time.


Fire him? :P


I see it as a fail at both sides, i mean we could find a solution before that last measure


The other side of the story when it breaks it's really hard to find a specialist ;(


I am involved in this, what i want to say is that openaps are not the best option anymore, and pumps of metronic are not required anymore, android app & other pumps what we use right now.


With the poor state of Android security at the moment (in a nutshell, Android 9 Pie was just released while the previous Oreo release is installed on only 12% of devices), i cannot imagine anyone would want to connect a device that "can easily kill you" to an Android phone.

Most non-technical people using this DIY solution are probably not even aware of this...


The way it works make in sort that it can't kill you easy at all, the system does not regulate bolus insulin which is without a limit, but a basal rate which is basically a rate of insulin distribution from slow to fast, even the fastest mode will not kill you, and if the system disconects for some reason pump uses a default average speed.


> the system does not regulate bolus insulin which is without a limit

I understand that but the issue remains;

all a hacker would have to do is set basal rate to 100000% and then you have a "bolus that kills you".

Call it basal or bolus, it doesn't matter. The pump just pushes out insulin, and the amount can be controlled if you can hack the system.


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