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Christ, pay me $10M and I'll bring an army of 30 geeks to turnaround this landfill fire. I did a startup that M&A'ed organization email providers of all sorts (Exchange, postfix, sendmail, etc.) to aggregate them for efficiencies at scale.
1. Tested and complete backups
2. Sample testing
3. mbox migrations
4. Exceptions handling
5. Further testing
6. Cutover
S/NES, Sega Genesis, and TurboGrafx-16 are cool.
The dev team manager is focused on growing new features in the next release.
QA is focused on the excellent of the current release.
Subordinating quality to new releases is the result.
In a similar situation, devops supposedly addressed similar tensions of dev and ops.
Reparations: who can be found living that was harmed? I wish someone harmed could be found. It seems difficult and messy to assign how much cash and to who to give it to, and then where do you stop?
Diversity points: They're insulting to all people who work hard. This sets back an individual and tells them they don't have to do as much because of fashionable identity political concerns. Merit should be the only decider.
Aid: Get people who are presently-struggling compared to other groups the direct help they need to compete.
What is with throwing away standardized testing? Are multiple choice questions "racist" now?
What exactly is "diversity?" I can understand avoiding biases of people who inadvertently hire people they like who look like themselves, but smart hiring managers can analyze accomplishments and test candidates for potential. Talent is better than whatever identity bingo game is being played to meet "inclusion" goals. I go to the UK to get away from American touchiness about race and gender.. there, with very good friends and colleagues, you can take the piss out of each other with absurd epithets in private and everyone knows it's not meant.
Much like gossip, politics is pack violence and order by other means, and is usable by people who have less physical power but more social influence. If you don't have either physical and social power, then you're dismissed as not a threat and ripe to be stepped-on. Gossip is often a political attack technique to take-down a physically-strong leader.
Résumés: There are too many liars and too many lazy hiring managers and HR who will let anything pass.
Certifications: Skills tend to be inversely proportional to most certs.
Buzzword bingo: Okay, fine, I'll grocery list everything to check the robotic résumé scanner's boxes.
In truth, "minimum requirements" are wish lists and "preferred skills" are wet dreams.
I swear, modern HR operates like a person trying to find their soulmate with one meaningless signal.
Since most cards don't have raised numbers anymore, manual credit card imprinting is no longer possible.
# Requirements other than correct functionality: fast, responsiveness, appearance, easy-to-read, etc.
Slap a cheap/fast SSD and more RAM in them if they're worth it.
Everyone should burn the website buyafuckingssd.com in their brain. Do not use spinning rust for almost anything except archival.
These days for food products, it seems damn important to have pricing either go insanely-low for bulk/budget (dollar store) or moderately-high for ultra-premium (WF, Costco, Sams).
The best consumer products sell themselves with network effects of word-of-mouth. It can be very slow or very fast.
If you wanted to launch a new sauce, I would give difficult-to-open-completely bottles to restaurants in major cities and say "We're trialing a new sauce that's ready for market. And we'd like to trial it exclusively at your [appropriately trendy for demographic] restaurant in XYZ, WQ. Can we ship it to the restaurant's address?"
Wichita Falls, TX used to be "the tornado capital of the world", but now it's Berkshire, Greater London, UK.
https://www.weather.gov/oun/tornadodata-city-tx-wichita_fall...
https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/weird-news/tornado-capital-w...
France: 15k heatwave deaths in 2003 due its unexpected nature, 1.5k in 2019
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The underlying issue is increasing weather variability. It is a symptom of a lack of latitudinal stability in jet-stream patterns. This is caused by the climate change warming (increased absorbed system energy) of the Arctic. There will be a blue ocean event there very soon since ice is already <5k km^3 in the summers. What this means is wilder weather (and storms) everywhere.
Plain, boiled potatoes cause the most satiety.
Oranges and oatmeal are also good.
Okay, good.
There have been numerous agenda (economic? class superiority?) articles about "dollars stores: bad." Somehow that they're racist or responsible for food deserts, poverty, crime, and your grandma yelling at the cleaning lady.
- had you at a disadvantage but never exploited it
- someone who helps you move a couch and a desk
- lend a book to and always get it back
- lend a small amount of money to and always get it back
- leave something at their place and they tell you about it
- can count on them for a couch if you get locked-out
The closest of friends:
- you would kill for them and vice-versa
- you trust them implicitly with everything: secrets, material, and family
- you could be mistaken for family and/or your families blend together to where no one can really tell who-is-with-who
- Be a friend to have friends.
- Be the source of the party, activities, and adventures. Do not wait around for anyone else to ask first, or it's waiting for Godot.
- Make everything an ADVENTURE! Going to get milk: ADVENTURE TIME! B) :D Ridiculousness on 11 with a broken knob.
- Bring more than there was before: stuff, energy, liveliness, etc.
- Be early or late.
- Always leave while everyone is still having a good time.
- Say "no" with frustration and schedule something concrete immediately.
- Exponentially-backoff after 2-3 texts / 1-2 calls.
- All of the "Let's do lunch people" who aren't interested in concrete plans are just being "nice" dicks, wasting your time and theirs.
- If people just want your number without anything else, they're trying to exit (and ghost you).
- Thank people with specific, personalized notes (cards or emails) after invites. Cards, where possible.
- Ask for people's birthdays and anniversaries.
- When you create contacts of people, demonstrate getting details like birth day and month and anniversary. It shows you don't just view people as ephemeral leads to the next networking event.
- Give people time to miss you but not time for forget you.
- You're only as good as your last impression.
- Lookout for the needs of others, listen, and don't be a greedy or selfish dick.
- Not as a moral judgement but have integrity: reliable, fair, keeps confidence, and trustworthy. If a particular cleaning or cleanup task should be absolutely necessary, there is no doubt about its conclusion.
- Dissuade a friend's worst proclivities while helping them see new abilities and capacities.
- Sense of humor: find it, grab it with both hands, and squeeze. Sorry, ma'am, I was making a point here with my 259 new internet friends who are such bastards who never invite me anywhere. Don't mind me, I'm just a terrible, weird, ugly, boring, desperate person dragging this cross along... don't even think of helping now that you didn't invite me. How dare you!? Good day to you, I say. I said "good day!" There is the door. Stop reading!
Incidentally, we've been having numerous postal issues at my complex because it doesn't have a full-time carrier assigned to the route. It's so bad, I had to get a PO Box.
My neighbors must be mostly thieves (keep) or too lazy (throw away) to bother correctly redelivering mis-delivered letters or packages most of the time. They are surprised like you're a fool for making an effort to redeliver them correctly. The complex is 98% white-collar, third-tier college graduates, single, between 24 and 35. I've had electronics, clothing, and random articles left in my box and at my door... these are mis-deliveries.
Misaddressed mail would be wrong name but correct address.
I however didn't go candy is the new toliet paper-hoarding Grinch over lazily mis-delivered snacks by doing the couriers' job for them. Maybe I shouldn't have because replacements, but neighbors and candy usually involves kids. Neighbors didn't even say "thanks," so I definitely should've kept them. No good deed ever gets you anywhere, kids; you must always appear to do something half benevolent and half selfish with an audience. Be Vito Corleone. Make them an offer they can't refuse. Since it was was couriered instead of postal mailed, postal laws don't apply and it reverts to property and commerce laws. Now if I conspired to give them half if they said they didn't receive it, that would've been conspiracy to commit fraud.
Docks take-up too much room and would suck-up real-estate from the public commonwealth for private, exclusive use... too much of that is already happening. Underutilized "bikeshare" pod programs stole large areas of curbside real-estate while offering nothing in return for all residents (unless they paid money).
It's a Tragedy of the Commons-situation knowingly-created by these irresponsible, asshole rental companies for $$$ by not demanding proper parking from the asshole segment of their customer-base.
I've seen piles of these goddamn things on street corners, rendering entire sidewalks unusable in orthogonal directions.
Elimination of all asshats who throw scooters in the middle of public commons and thoroughfares. These incidents are why they are banned from large areas of town and on certain campuses.
They should just be banned period. Full stop. Bring your own, or rent one you can carry and must return. Ephemeral transactionality leads to this sort of Idiocracy-backdrop bullshit:
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2018/03/bike-share-oversup...