HeyLaughingBoy

It's probably mostly labor cost. An 8x10 shed kit starts at under $US2k but if you pay someone to assemble it, including electrical, the price will go up very quickly.

I know someone who builds horse shelters that are larger than that, but a fraction of the cost, delivered. I've actually been thinking that if I wanted an outside office, I'd ask him to custom build one with the fourth wall closed (horse shelters are 3-sided) and I'd insulate and sheetrock it myself. IIRC he did our 10x30 one for about $2k, including delivery.

Around here, the cutoff for needing a permit for a "permanent structure" is 10'x12' which is a pretty good sized outside office.

I guarantee you that it's always been the case.

I'm sorry, but why is this a surprise?

That "just" is really doing a lot of heavy lifting.

Economics is what makes this country work. If converting to renewables makes more money, that's what will happen and the people making the money will find a way to justify it politically.

I was surprised by this too. From a background in writing code to control precision pumps, I have a good idea of what 50 µL looks like and it seemed like an awfully small amount. But I don't know how concentrated the oil is.

FWIW, I had an Indian co-worker who took peppermint oil frequently and said that it was very good for his upset stomach.

To be clear: the question isn't illegal. What is illegal is using it to discriminate against a protected class, so as a result, no interviewer with half a brain will ask those questions.

Usually not if you already have a day job. But that's completely orthogonal to the original statement.

Dunno about that. I live in the US. I can start a small business today and the only thing I'd have to do differently is file an additional form on my taxes next year. Yes, that's a simplification that doesn't apply to every situation, but it is still completely accurate.

So I can go out and kill my neighbor without having to worry about consequences, then? I mean, just say the word: he's been pissing me off recently.

Do you have an actual use for them? I might have a few tubes of Z80-CTC & SIO in the basement if I haven't given them all away yet.

Jesus, this rant is so eerily similar to one I read 25 years ago when someone explained why they stopped using C and started using C++ that I wouldn't be surprised to find that you are the same one who was complaining back then.

I'm in Medical Devices and while AI is at best a small part of development right now, rest assured that we are actively investigating how to make it an approved part of our process. Then again, coding was only ever a small part of our job.

I don't see that at all. These look like typical decisions that a technical team lead would make and then inform project management of the decision.

I would agree wrt my High School teachers. They were basically competent, but not particularly good.

In college however, my Humanities professors were better than I appreciated at the time. They forced us to think about the material and challenged us to defend our interpretations. As an Engineering student who just wanted the class to be over, I really missed out on a lot of good stuff.

I couldn't find the exact point that I was thinking of (when Hamlet is telling Ophelia that men are basically all just assholes), but I think this modern-day version of Hamlet helps to illustrate your point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdZVR4Ry3jQ

A couple years after I graduated college, I came across the 1972 movie of Macbeth. The experience was so drastically different from reading it in high school that it seemed like a completely different play. Suddenly, it all made sense now that I had a visual context.

I remember one of the characters (Macduff?) covered in blood after a battle and grinning about how he had opened up his opponent "from the knave to the chop" with appropriate gestures. I remembered that specific phrase from high school and now, instead of being an abstract comment, it had actual meaning that I could relate to.

I'm of the opinion that most plays simply shouldn't be taught in high school English class. There just isn't enough context to really understand them.

> Do you know how much it costs to operate a helicopter

Do you know how easy and cheap it is to make gunpowder?

I was making black powder rockets from grocery store ingredients when I was 12.

Reminds me of the movie I saw this weekend with the homeless guy who said he used to be a software developer at Apple, but there were some "disciplinary issues."

Nice winter coat on that pony.

In the US, IIRC, you had to be a member of the Coast Guard. Isn't it the same in Canada?

If you assume that you can't fix something, you're right.

Generating "engagement" by making ridiculously outlandish statements has gotten so common that it's impossible to distinguish them from people who are just hopelessly naive.

> software is robust/rock solid but the code is essentially unreadable

I come across this fairly frequently. I think it's because the code has simply been tested into submission. So it works for that particular set of use cases, but the instant you try to add a feature, it all falls apart.

Wasn't there a period when the insane China tariffs started that the Chinese manufacturers of Western luxury goods threw the veil off and started selling them direct at much lower prices?

Why on earth would anyone be surprised that this market exists? I can understand being surprised that it's possible to deliver those items at the stated price, but the market's always been there.

Let's at least try to compare apples to apples and not stretch the scope.

> The later is nice socialy.

Not if they don't like you.

> The question was "why care?"

And the answer is "wake me up when those things start happening." I can imagine all sorts of even worse things being done with my data, but until they happen, it's just speculation.

Burger King has a promotion going where if they screw up your Whopper, you get an extra one for free.

My wife laughs at me because every time I see that commercial, I point out that if our local BK (now out of business! surprise!) had to do that, they'd have been out of business even faster. Every single time I went there, they screwed up at least one thing. I just finally stopped going.

The App irritates the living f** out of me. I live about 10 miles outside town and it assures me that when I'm two minutes away, they will start making my order. That has never happened. I either have to click the "I'm here now" as I pull into the parking lot, or go into the dining room.

Doesn't matter; the price of McDonald's has gotten to the point where it costs about the same as the local diner whose food is exponentially tastier and they'll give me a free soda as I wait for my food to be made.