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Well it depends. If you want quality staff delivering quality service/making quality products then yes it is. You have to spend a ton of money onboarding and training them so burning them out is foolish because you just burn cash

However, if you are fine with delivering a poor or mediocre service/product (the bare minimum), you can slash training and onboarding costs to the bare minimum. Your staff will be even more resentful because now they will struggle.

But as long as you have a huge pool of workers clamoring for jobs you can keep this going and even do so with abusive conditions (demand 100% efficiency, constant overtime, insane quotas, etc). Just burn them out and when they crash pick another resume from the pile

I was talking to someone the other day who works in the tech industry. They had a coworker who died on a Friday and they were replaced on a Monday. There was no fanfare or grieving. It was just “okay, that’s a bummer, here’s his replacement”

More workers than soldiers at this point

I have a friend who studies behavior but applied to employment systems. Tons of research there on getting the most out of your employees. This sounds terrible when you first hear it right? But when you read it it’s about not burning out staff with reasonable quotas and demands, using positive reinforcement, building morale, etc. basically that you might decrease output slightly now but you’ll increase retention of the staff and the staff will overall be much more satisfied

They reject this in basically every industry even though it’s evidence based. It’s easier to burn people out and churn through workers. Meanwhile humanity stays poor and miserable for the most part (aside from a small percentage that makes out like bandits)

If you search for the inserts you’ll find people selling them on etsy for shockingly expensive prices but I was always able to find models free elsewhere

https://www.printables.com/model/494697-1u-ethernet-switches-panel like this

https://www.printables.com/model/590749-raspberry-pi-4-1u-rack-mount

That’s correct, I misspoke, I clarified that with the rest of my post though

I don’t understand what you are arguing?

If you’re arguing that downloading remuxes and only flac is foolish then yeah, 99.8% of the time h264 and 320 mp3 are going to be indistinguishable on most setups with most content. H265 will be the same on like 99.5% of setups with slightly less content and will save tons of space. Sure. But this assumes the lossy encodes were done properly from a lossless master

if you encode lossy to lossy it will result in visible and audible distortion of the image and audio. Sometimes it’s minimal, sometimes it’s quite bad, sometimes it’s masked by your equipment, but it’s always there. Further, you’d spend more money on electricity running your cpu on full blast encoding terabytes of video files when you could simply just redownload your library in whatever format by someone who knows what they’re doing (if you’re so concerned about space and don’t care about quality go av1)

But you do you

Looks nice

I have a big fuck off rack I got cheap off Craigslist and while it looks cool I wish I had something like this sometimes. It’s nice to have the crazy sturdiness and expansion space but it was a nightmare to move around and if I ever move I very well may just leave it in my basement because it’s like 450lbs haha

If you have access to a 3d printer you can print inserts for some of the smaller stuff like that switch and what I assume is an rpi? Helps clean everything up and avoid accidentally unplugging things when you work around in there. I printed one for my modem and it is very nice to have (though I’m lucky to live in a place outside of the reach of AT&T/comcast/verizon where I can still provision my own hardware and just have a normal modem that fits in a 1u space. Downside is no fiber ever though)

Also they make rack mount drawers 1-4u. Like $30-50 on ebay/ali. It seemed silly but it’s soooo handy

Looks like there’s one at the bottom

Don’t encode lossy to lossy. The encoding will take forever and the image quality will suffer. If you want file size savings redownload your media in h265 or whatever. Or temporarily download a lossless copy, encode, and delete.

You’re correct that it will reduce file size but encoding lossy to lossy is foolish. You will introduce compression artifacts and have an objectively worse quality image, the encode will take much longer than if you used a proper lossless source, and if you don’t set your configs right you’ll strip out subtitles, tags, chapters, etc

Additionally if the h264 was already compressed by a lot h265 won’t save all that much space, giving you all the downsides with basically no upside

Only dummies encode lossy>lossy. The debate about lossy>h265 is one thing (h265 is not for archival) but h264>h265 will result in visible distortion

In designing systems for behavioral change you need to plan for the phenomenon of extinction burst - as a behavior becomes irrelevant the learner is likely to more fiercely engage in said behavior before adopting a more functional and socially appropriate behavior. Eg if I have a child who punches their parent for attention and I teach the parent to ignore this behavior while also teaching the child to appropriately request attention and reinforce this new behavior I can expect that the child’s violence will worsen a bit as we make it irrelevant. If the parent truly does a good job of removing the function and ignoring the behavior this is highly likely

This is not perfectly transferable to sociology and group populations but I think there is merit to thinking this way, though I’m not familiar with research on the topic. Metoo was necessary, DEI and affirmative action was necessary, electing a black president was necessary, etc. but the shitheads who resist this social change are possibly going to follow this same phenomenon and rather than adapt they will push even harder to be sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, etc

Hopefully my framework is applicable. If it is the good news is that it’s called an extinction “burst” because if you power through the behavior reduces quite dramatically. You have to hold your ground though. If you don’t you run the risk of making things even worse: essentially teaching the learner to escalate their behavior to access desired function

Edit: to be clear this isn’t my framework but merely one I am presenting. I don’t want people to think I have the hubris of having come up with these concepts, which would be crazy.

Yeah exactly, ground beef or extruded/separated meat texture.

Same problem that companies like impossible and beyond can’t overcome. The structure of muscle tissue (eg a steak or chicken breast) is tremendously difficult to replicate and that texture is what people love

It’s still a great thing for animal welfare

From what I’ve read lab grown meat is mushy, like a chicken nugget, because it’s basically a paste that’s extruded into a steak like shape. Been a few years since I’ve read up on it though so maybe they have a new way of dealing with it