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SUV. Rivian makes more than a pickup. (:

Principles, as the other poster mentioned. But I was in the market for a vehicle with certain properties, including being an EV. The Model Y checked a lot of boxes but couldn’t pull the trigger after Elon’s slide. It’s not as if I went and purchased an SUV because of tweets.

Yeah, when your GitHub profile looks like _that_! I would take that into account as well as a hiring manager. I do regularly click through candidates’ GH profiles and they’re usually not noteworthy so don’t count them for or against them. If they looked like yours though I would definitely read more deeply.

For better or worse, Elon seems to be an extremely smart person. Notably I’m not a fan and purchased a Rivian over a Tesla due to his antics, in addition to signing out of Twitter and not using it for months.

This is a very conservative and limiting definition of “artist.” I was always told that anyone can be an artist, even if their work isn’t classically “good.” Now the ladder has been pulled up by formerly inclusive artists. That’s too bad.

It will be a while. There is a large group of people who don’t willingly uses new tools when those tools enable all comers to make better, “competing” work product.

That will progress a funeral at a time until the stigma is gone and you have critical masses of people really pushing the art of the possible. Lots of the SAF-AGRA protest is based on this reasoning.

There are many things in the middle of the false dichotomy you’ve presented. Such as “people don’t really think about it deeply and it sounds superficially good so they like it” or “people laugh because he’s a comedian but don’t take it seriously because of same.”

That seems like a whole different problem than the language used. Would it have been acceptable to keep using the original language and still not do anything about it? Probably not.

I understand the reasons (i.e. toilets probably evoke more subtle grossness than bathrooms or washrooms do), and I haven’t heard some of those you mention, but still unclear why it’s a bad thing vis a vis an observation of changing language.

Softening them, like “crippled” to “disabled,” makes it seem like the manipulation or agenda is to make affected people feel more included by making them feel less bad. Maybe that’s an agenda, but my sense is the complainants are of the “kids these days” variety.

What’s the effect here? I don’t think I like soft language, but can’t really pinpoint why I don’t like it. Is it bad that some company came up with toilet paper and now it’s bathroom tissue? Shell shock is now PTSD?

Who cares?

I’ve seen this situation play out, where the PIP was termination with X days notice. Because the manager knew, and employee should have known, the manager didn’t really work with the employee or review their work because why bother, nothing will change (outside of something exceptional happening).

Somewhat similar thing happened on the final review, but without pointing to hard data of the fact. The decision of course remained final, the manager got a light, informal water cooler “hey be more careful of optics” chat, and that was it.

Notably when the former employee tried to go a competitor, former company killed that.

Interestingly the change was largely to prevent cronyism where the newly elected leader simply installed their supporters, friends, donors from top to bottom across government. That is a suboptimal way of doing things, and having continuity in staffing and operations are critical.

You can read more about this if you look up Tammany Hall.

Whatever your ideology it seems a little craven to not want guns that happen to be out in circulation to be as safe as possible from incidents like misfires from accidental dropping.

Finding the first one is the challenge. After that just click through the webring for equally good blogs and content.

“Hey sorry hiring manager but your instance isn’t peered with my instance so you can’t see my job history.”

No. And neither is Twitter, Facebook, or Threads. Anyone can replicate all of these apps in a weekend.

If you’re talking about the difficulty of attracting a bunch of paying users, building trust in your platform, working through payments and fraud, then yeah it’s monumentally hard and takes a long time.

Well, first of all, it’s transactional. I have no particular affinity for any given service I use. If another service comes along that has enough upside to overcome the momentum of switching, I’ll definitely do it, and I’m sure you would too, and maybe that will annoy the company. That goes the same for the company; if they have a chance to cash out, I’m sure they’d take it. And maybe that will annoy me.

But the bigger point is that you conflate selling to a bigger company with more resources with “f[ing] their users,” which is just naive.

What’s a good use for them? I have been on the cusp of buying or building one for many years, but outside of the occasional desire to 3D print a random replacement or enhancement part for something, such as a new back for my minidisc player, which I can do via mail order 3D printing, all the examples at say Microcenter are just admittedly neat-looking but ultimately useless chintzy plastic goods.

I wouldn’t trust a site called BrainFacts to be unbiased given the source.

Sounds like you’re gatekeeping to be honest. People don’t need to know irrelevant concepts or hear stump the chump questions. If that’s how you approached it, great! There are lots of successful approaches and people shouldn’t be chastised because they took a different path or are interested in a different facet of the topic.

They discontinued Garage Sales during Covid. I enjoyed those as well, usually meant waiting in line early in the morning with a bunch of other die hards to rush in and hope they had the item we wanted! The new sections aren’t as good, but I think that’s because things trickle in and so you have to get lucky to happen to be there when something particularly good for you gets put out, which is less reliable than hanging out for a few hours on a particular day before the store opened.

I’m a long time REI customer/member, maybe 20 years, and I was pretty happy about the move to a shorter return period. I always considered it my responsibility as a good citizen to be as honest and forthright as possible in return transactions. If something didn’t work out I didn’t feel bad returning it within reason, but if I had used it too long (like 2-3 years or put serious wear on it) I would not return it out of principle. I didn’t want to take advantage of such a good policy, and I knew they’d have my back if I ever did have a long term return.

But then I had a person who worked there in my friend group at one point and they told me the same stories you did. Just people absolutely abusing the heck out of it, taking maximum advantage for personal gain. Doing things like buying kids shoes then returning them when the kid outgrew them.

This behavior is highly unethical in my opinion, even though it was technically legal and within policy. So I was happy when they made the change to 1 year returns. I had rarely, rarely had long term returns like that and took them very seriously. In one case, for example, I had a tent for the summer that I never got around to using. Used it about 1.5 years later for the first time and quickly realized it didn’t work for my needs so reluctantly returned it after one use.

Anyways, people are awful.

TikTok is backed by complex algorithms to ensure reliability of data transfer and yet I bet you don’t chastise people recording the latest TikTik dance trend for not knowing the fundamentals of TCP/IP.

When they talk about sending a video they’re referring to TCP/IP. I bet they can’t even talk about elliptic curve cryptography!

These concepts are orthogonal so that’s probably expected.

I’m partial to US parks as well, having visited many of them across the country. But Canada has some truly amazing parks like Banff or places like Lake Louise that are world beating.

I have the Phillips Wiz and they work fine without internet, just need to be on the same wifi network.

They also work with no network at all, directly with the switch, but lack ability to make new changes to things like brightness or color, and instead only work with the details user-set settings or the secondary user-set settings, which are accessed by flipping the switch twice.

I think this is fair. It’s not as if nothing works, they basically revert to dumb bulbs in the absence of wifi, or dumbish bulbs that only remember the two defaults the user had set.

Love mine! Recently resurrected my Sony player by adding Bluetooth functionality following this guide. I now use it with my AirPods!

https://github.com/formatc1702/bluetooth-minidisc

The first one is kinda interesting. I don’t get the humor in the phrasing of the second though. Can you explain?

They’re talking about the two groups approaching the raked wall from the inside versus the outside.