"It is driven by the false alarm over climate change,"
Oh. My. Word.
Has the author looked out the window recently?
Looked at some world (climate) events?
Compared these things to historic data?
Sorry - all credibility for the rest of this article just went out the door with that sentence...
Yeah, the Tshwane prepaid "Smart" meter decided to go into "tamper" mode and cut mains, after power came back Friday evening 5 November after loadshedding.
Tshwane technicians got the thing working again today, 9 November 2021. Afaik all you actually need is a code to input to the meter remote...
Prove it.
Until you bring the hard statistics that demonstrate statistically significant differences between companies working from home vs not, I call BS.
Just another Old School Boss Man that can't go a day without having his ego stroked.
Real pain aside, this is awesome (from an academic viewpoint).
Real World/life example of asynchronous, distributed systems experiencing partial failure in certain components , with all the knock-on effects that causes.
We got extra latency, cascade failure, sudden spike load, while dealing...
Workday: work work workity work (I sling code for a living, so my workday is mostly unchanged)
Weekend : gardening (hacking at green things with sharp things), netflix (start multiple series that I will probably never finish), cleaning house (2 kids do a lot of damage in 5 days), sleep (as...
"Talking about the POPI act".
This is still a very challenging concept for many bussinesses, so the more discussiom and information sharing, the better.