I don't care much about the flight, just about getting over the jetlag at the destination.
What worked for me: power through the first day on the ground.
Go to sleep when the clock says you should, NOT when your body does -- you'll get tired at some weird time, but don't nap. Run around, do caffeine, or whatever, but just power through it.
I got over jetlag from USA/Australia in about 30 hours this way.
Technologies: 33 years experience as Unix/Linux system administrator -- Solaris up thru 11, RHEL/Centos Linux, FreeBSD v6-11, sh/ksh scripting, lots of Perl experience (munging, ETL, web), some Postgres experience but very average SQL skills, comfortable building from source.
Not Cliff, but I remember BLISS from early '80s Air Force work. It's the only thing I know that could beat compiled Fortran for things like signal processing. That code absolutely flew.
Written in 1971, and still completely relevant. Topics include egoless
programming, intelligence, psychological measurement, personality factors,
motivation, training, social problems on large projects, problem-solving
ability, programming language design, team formation, the programming
environment, etc.
> What in particular have you found success with that helps?
* I bought two bathroom mats from Krogers, wrapped them around the arms of my office chair, and duct-taped them in place. Looks like hell, feels soft and cushy.
* I bought a bunch of those practice tennis balls (the wimpy kind that don't bounce worth a damn) and have one at home, one at work for squeezing when I take a break or watch TV.
* I wear one of those Ace bandage thingies around my right forearm.
* I have one of those ergonomic keyboards from Microsoft.
Huge improvement.
* THE MOST HELPFUL: I do curls and range-of-motion exercises with 10-lb dumbbells when watching TV. Nothing dramatic, a few sets of 30-40 curls plus rotating my wrists, and then some leaning-over pushups against the couch. You wouldn't believe how much better I started feeling.
The testimony from the experts was great, and the questions and responses from our senators was embarrassing. Just search 'terror' for some of them like the ones I paraphrased.
The transcript mentions a couple of times interference in the process by Peter Dutton and Scott Morrison, the PM, does anyone know what this is referring to?
> Why doesn't the federal government just have a big database?
Because that tends to end very badly. I've been in Fed MIS systems since I joined the USAF in 1981, and it's the same just about everywhere except for a few of the research labs.
Remember the OPM data breach, where the background check info for over 20 million people went walkabout? I was one of the lucky winners, and it's a result of the management-by-spreadsheet mentality that's everywhere in the government.
On paper, they were fine. In actual fact, not so much.
If the security checklist says "you must have an audit system in place", and you have the system installed and running, you pass. Nothing is said about ever looking through the logs for atypical behavior that might indicate a breach.
You want to buy new software? If it's not Oracle or Microsoft, good luck. If there's not a contractual vehicle in place to use for the purchase, forget it. Whether or not the software is fit for purpose has no bearing on the matter.
Surprisingly good signal-to-noise ratios for all of them.