they also (in my limited experience) treated sales as an afterthought. Its the only time I've contacted a company to inquire about a product, and had them actively dissuade me from buying the product (IAM).
I need to separate work from home and home from work. My home is filled with distractions and the first couple of months of the pandemic were horrible becuase I couldn't get anything done. I started going back in to work in the summer (2-3 minute commute depending on the single traffic light along the route) and my productivity went back to normal. It was actually better than normal because work was mostly empty, so I had a big office building designed for 600 workers mostly to myself. Now, unfortunately starting today we are all back in the office, so I'm having the same transition issues as all the WFH people, but because my nice empty office building is now filled with people.
I'm an American, but I don't smile by showing my teeth, though I will sometimes do a closed lip smile. For me I don't think it is cultural, but rather that smiling always feels to me like baring my teeth, i.e. aggressive and threatening. I don't honestly know why I feel that way, I don't have any history or experiences that would seem to cause that, but it just feels wrong to do. I've always wondered if there are other people have the same reaction?
Note: I don't see other people's smiles as threatening, it just feels that way when I do it.
I don't ever want to go back to the "Kai's Power Tools" era of UI design. Computers don't excite me, they are a tool to get things done, and consistancy makes every application easier to learn. Granted, I know I'm probably in the minority, because custom UI widgets are commonplace in mobile app design.
The headline is misleading, it is unlicensed _concealed carry_ that is being legalized, from what I can tell. I don't know Texas gun laws but I suspect its already to open carry without a licenses. Also the article mentioned that Texas already has unlicensed carry of rifles. Again, while this is true, it doesn't strike me as uncommon in the US. I line in New Mexico, and yes, we're less restrictive of costal states but we also have unlincesed open carry, and unlincensed rifle carry. Concealed carry in NM does require a permit, but its pretty easy to get.
The article gave me the feeling on non-americans writing about america--they focus on what is unusual to them, without necessarily realizing that some of it is pretty common in the US, with our lax gun laws.
I did this for a bit during the pandemic (because my productivity approaches zero at home) unfortunately, it gets hot in the summer here, so working on a park bench in 110F heat isn't a year round option. I suspect there are few plaes in the US where this could work year round. I ended up just going back to the office--everyone else was gone, at home due to quarantine--and I could be very productive.
My pet parrot definitly laughs. It sounds like a staccato clucking sound. He usually does it when he's lying on my belly playing with me. He lays on his back, both feet grabbing my finger (or fingers) and play-biting my finger with his beak. I've gotten to where I can do a pretty good imitation which I do when he's clearly playing. (he does sometimes get too agressive in his play, and I usually stop clucking when he pushes too far, but I doubt that registers with him.)
EDIT: Just for completeness, he's a Mitered Conure. Conure's are probably the most gregarious parrots I've encountered.
I really hope this happens (well the blood glucose thing), but this rumor has come around more than once. Admittedly this is the first time I've seen it name a company that is actually working on the tech. I wonder if including this will require FDA approval in the US as a medical device? And will I be able to get my health insurance to pay for it?
unfortunately, the real, invasive blood glucose meeters are already pretty inaccurate. The current requirement in the US is +-15%, before 2016 it was +-20%.
100% agree. After 3 month of WFH, I started coming in to the empty building. I was the only one here, but it is so much easier to get work done when I'm not at home.
Most of my co-workers feel the opposite from me, but my home is a sea of distractions that I'd rather be doing than sitting at a computer working (and I live alone, so no kids or spouse at home). Instead I could be playing piano, practicing violin, writing music, taking photos, developing film, or 100 other things. When I'm at work, I work (mostly).
Fuel injected motorcycles don’t have reserve (at least, none that I’ve seen.) instead they have low fuel lights or full fuel gauges. I’m guessing it’s because the fuel pumps are in the tank and the fuel injection system needs high pressure.
Up until 5 years ago, my employer's primary system (government, property tax assessment, billing, and collection) was from a company that had gone belly-up in the early 90's. We fortunately had the source, but it ran on a VERY legacy database called Unidata because it had originally be developed on the Pick operating system. Unidata was/is a Multivalue Database with a built in BASIC programming language. By the time 2014 rolled around there was one programmer in the organization that understood the system, and he was responsible for all code changes. I half-joked with management that we needed an insurance policy on his life/ability to work, because if we lost him, it would put us in a very difficult position, and that software accounted for 90% of our revenue (as well as a lot of the revenue that went to all the local towns and school districts for their operations.) That employee was also nearing retirement (he is retired now.) Fortunately we were able to successfully migrate off of that application, though we keep a minimal license pool to the old system so people can validate pre-migration data against post migration data.
it doesn't sound like modern software. At my current employer (to remain unnamed) when I started there were a bunch of MS-SQL servers with an SA password of <blank> (i.e. no password). It took a long time to fix that because we had hundreds of local installs of the client app that had SA/<blank> in the app config file (yes, they were setup to access as system administrator), so fixing it meant reconfiguring hundreds of local installs. (at the time we didn't have a mechanism for automating it.) We still have "enterprise" software that does no password rules, and would happily allow a blank password.
This is very interesting to me. On of my (perhaps irrational) fears with solar and wind is how much land it potentially could take to supply power. I live in a very sparsely populated state because my greatest joy in life is being as far as possible from "civilization." I spend a lot of my free time traveling through craggy jeep trails to visit obscure locations (and photograph them.)
If nuclear takes, hypothetically, 200 acres to build a power plant, containment, and all the supporting services necessary to generate enough power to feed a city, and solar takes 600 acres to generate an equal amount (and be much safer as well) I'm ok with that compromise, but I would have expected that the ratio would be much higher. Can you tell me where the ratios you have quoted come from?
The final line of the article is pretty dismissive of the whole project:
> While the /e/ Foundation does have an ambitious goal of protecting people's privacy, we live in an age where nothing is really private, so a phone that caters to those concerned about their privacy makes very little sense.
the northeast of the state is actually pretty far from WSMR, and no launches from WSMR leave the range that I'm aware of (or at least haven't for a long time. They did launch a V2 after WWII, and it went the wrong direction and hit the outskirts of Ciudad Juarez.)
I'm completely the opposite. 50 years old and I have never once in my life remembered a dream. Never. I see things about dreams, such as this like, as interesting, but can relate to them at all, because they are things that happen to other people. I assume I have dreams, but when I wake up, I never have any recall of them.
This makes me wonder about a lot of "how will this work" questions. For example will it legally require 100% of taxation be used to provide services, or will taxation become profit center for the owning company?
Another is will they be required to follow certain laws that municipalities are required to operate under? For instance, here in NM it is illegal for a quorum of the governing body to meet without 72 hour advance public notification and agenda and no item may be considered if it is not in that agenda.
And of course the whole statement that the company will have significant say in the makeup of the 3-person board. What exactly does that mean? Can only company approved people run for office? Is this watering down representative democracy? I don't know because for stuff like this, the devil is in the details. (and what happens when the company becomes insolvent?)
I suspect in this case that you are getting downvoted /because/ you didn't provide specifics. It's certainly possible that some Obama pardons were self serving, I didn't hear much about his pardons at the time, but I'm open to the idea that some are morally dubious, but I would need names and why it is dubious, rather than innuendo. Many people on both sides felt Clinton's pardon of Mark Rich was pretty iffy.
after an accident ~15 years ago, I was discharged after 6 months on 120mg of Oxycontin daily (40mg 3x a day) After being frustrated being tethered to the oxy bottle, I went cold turkey. The first thing that happened after the withdrawal symptoms subsided was I found I had chronic diarrhea. After years with my doctor trying different things, I found that the symptoms could be managed with about 16mg of loperamide. That was great for a while, until the FDA restricted the bottle size. At that point I could no longer buy enough over the counter, so I now have my doctor prescribing it for me. Unfortunately 16mg a day is the largest amount they can prescribe (IFAIK) so if it gets worse, I'll have to figure out another solution.
I'm not sure why this happened, but my suspicion is that while hospitalized I was infected by MRSA, and to try to get rid of it they were dumping some of the more toxic anti-bacterials into me to get rid of the MRSA (which took a year and a half to get rid of.)
you comment on "non-consensual porn" may be what the GP meant, but s/he used the term "stolen porn" which I took to mean simply a copy that the user was unauthorized to upload, i.e. I download a movie then share it, not so-called revenge porn. I'd say in the first case, they are roughly equivalent wrongs, but in the case of revenge porn, I'd say distributing that publicly is an much higher moral wrong.
heck, POTS line phones can even function with a power loss since they derive their power from the phone line (unless you have a POTS line phone like a cordless where it has to charge a battery and operate a 900mhz connection to the handset.)
the one thing I dislike about the movie is the "Christmas party". Its not from the novel, and is there primarily to elucidate some of the relationships in the novel like Bill Hayden and Jim Pridoux, but it seems very out of place in the story.
its surprising how many le Carré novels have been filmed, and I'm with you especially the Alec Guinness Tinker Tailor. It is such a great antidote to all the James Bond inspired spy stories. To use a line from the book “Good intelligence work, Control had always preached, was gradual and rested on a kind of gentleness.”
This genuinely surprises me. When I moved into enterprise 15 years ago, I was more inclined to use free things and piece everything together myself. This quickly overwhelmed me, and I learned the golden rule of enterprise--nothing without a support contract.
thats why well run forums split off tangent conversations into different threads. I find this much more useful than the reddit/HN approach of barely organized chaos. I enjoy HN for the content, not the format of the discussion threads. I don't enjoy, and therefore don't use any of reddit.
I can completely read Vonnegut's 'Cat's Cradle' in about 3-4 hours--just a nice afternoon. When I read Rushdie's 'Satanic Verses' or Pynchon's 'Gravity's Rainbow' it can easily take me 3-4 months (though if binged, it would probably take a month), not just due to length differences prose style. Vonnegut is conversational (Pynchon's 'Crying of Lot 49' is almost as easy as Vonnegut's books) Rushdie and Pynchon are (usually) dense and complex. So some books will take most people a lot more time than just binging GoT end to end. But some aren't much more than a long movie.
honestly, my 5 year old laptop is still plenty fast for what I need. If it weren't for dropped support and websites that force me to upgrade to the latest browser, I'd be happy with 10 year old computers. I honestly want to get off the upgrade roller coaster. (I have in the phone world--happy with my 1st gen iPhone SE)
yeah, but in the end, choice of OS is secondary to choice of application. I'm staying on Mojave for the foreseeable future, but I'll stay with Mac because Logic Pro is not available on any other platform. Sometimes applications are fungible, or you're lucky and your critical application is available on multiple platforms, but sometimes there are only certain applications that can do what you want. I run a MacOS System 7 for software to edit my Yamaha VL-1. I run MacOS 9.2.8 due to hardware drivers for a Korg OasysPCI. I run MacOS 10.6.8 Snow Leopard because is is the last OS that runs rosetta and keeps numerous PowerPC apps that never made the jump to Intel. I'll keep Mojave running when eventually I have to jump to Arm because I'm sure a lot of the software I run won't make the jump to Arm. I'd LOVE to drop any of those systems, but each exists because there are applications that do not have replacement on modern OS'es.