Wince.
Families traveling together might need divergence from optimal, but the successive waves of FFM tiers, active military who are rarely present, etc. are a bit much, especially when most travelers don't really have much of a choice what airline they fly. I've at times had gate agents hassle me about boarding with a special-needs child FFS, but salespeople who've never heard of webex? Please.
Or board sanely. That means getting rid of half a dozen phases of special priority boarding, and instead board from the back and sides first. If facilities and weather permit, board from the back door as well.
This is why I won't rely on them. Or when you get delayed for hours and your battery runs out because either you didn't carry a charger, or someone else is already camped out at all three of the outlets in the entire terminal.
Plus freakishly tall guys win at everything else in our culture. They are paid more, preferentially win jobs and promotions, and women throw themselves at them with wild abandon despite being treated like crap. So they can well afford $70 to upgrade a flight and STFU.
A group I worked with but did not report through (think "embedded") had previously lacked a formal manager, there was an incompetent "architect" who was permitted by the director to de-facto act as one. Then they brought in a manager from a company that had previously been acquired -- a company who had lied to my employer to get them to buy them, then their shitty product was EOL'd. Guy was a QA manager, and was put in charge of an engineering / devops team that he wasn't vaguely qualified to understand.
At one point this jackass remarked of a candidate from HP Helion: "Why hired from a failed company?" Shit you can't make up.
So one day he had traveled to my regional office to commune with the aforementioned "architect". Did the requisite group dinner (which pre-empted my birthday), where he bragged that he had enough $ to be off work for a *year*. And how much he liked living in NJ. Those alone were red flags, plus the fact that the only thing he would eat was raw meat.
Next day (Thursday) afternoon sent email asking me to do something by 8am Monday. I replied back, CCing my own boss, showing why what he asked for wasn't doable in that timeframe, and linked a couple of user stories. Dude stormed over and commanded me to follow him. Led me into a conference room and spent half an hour screaming at me:
- "It thirty minutes work! You no need develop and test!"
- Me working within the management-directed scrum framework was a waste of time and "running around in circles"
- I was not to reply to his email, I was to go to him in person or use voice. Only. # Speculation: no paper trail that way
- Slapped around a laptop, fuming about how an existing Grafana dashboard was useless. Months later he wasted a few weeks of engineer time having someone duplicate it
- "You want report to me? You no report to me then you useless! I hire someone else teach them what you do and you out!"
Fortunately I had just read "The No Assholes Rule" and handled the guy impeccably. Extricated myself from the room, and contacted my [awesome] boss, who ran it up the chain. Three levels of *my* management, up to VP, spoke to me directly to apologize on behalf of the company. They also talked to the perp's director, who eventually spoke to me directly. I knew the guy technically was in a difficult position and had limited expectations of the call, but even so he disappointed me. Refused to admit that the perp had done *anything* wrong. Not the screaming, not the violent actions, not the threats. Claimed the perp was the best of 15 candidates, which if true (it couldn't possibly have been) would REALLY say something about the others, they would have had to have been Trump-class unqualified. I suspect their faults were mostly ethnicity, and that picking the perp earned points for not having to pay severance.
In the end the perp got only a slap on the wrist, and was force to "apologize". Which took the form only of apologizing for the first five minutes of raising his voice. Nothing else. My manager counseled me that I had done ZERO wrong and asked that I keep him informed how the perp acted, with the idea that a single instance wasn't actionable, if you get my drift, but that a repeat would demonstrate a pattern and then our director would have the ability to go nuclear and get the perp removed. Unfortunately the perp was craft and played passive-aggressive, taxing me professionally for the whole thing but never in a way that was actionable. Taking responsibility away from me, ignoring anything I said, went so far as to say that I was no good at engineering but good at ops, etc. Mind you in 3 years I'd received 36 recognition awards, and he'd received 0.
Then about 9 months later the perp's whole org got riffed, and since I didn't report through them I was still around. Last I knew he had somehow landed a senior manager job in {shitty southern state} at a well-known but declining company that is known to be a hostile boys-club, and had to move.
You have most of this today.
Last I checked, like all the other cultured meat efforts, uses calf serum as the growth medium. Until someone succeeds from a growth medium that isn't animal derived, all of these me-too articles are snoozers.
It really should be illegal to ask for year a degree was granted, there's no use for that information other than to derive the applicant's age, and a fair number of applications require it for submittal.
Part of the turnover rate is that -- at least in the Silly Valley -- longevity is viewed as a FLAW. I had been at a non-SV company for >15 years, via two acquisitions, and when looking for a new job EVERYONE harassed me about that. When I recast my rez to make it look like 3 jobs, that stopped and I got hired.
Two factors here:
1) Fewer (yet enough) tech employers in the Seattle region
but more importantly
2) Employers in the Silly Valley seem to be allergic to any raise at all, even at the COLA level, and one can easily be stuck at the same compensation for 10 years. One [admittedly a jackass who elects to live in Oakland] said "Job hopping is the only way to get ahead in computers".
Years ago I worked for a company that offered SIMD hardware. A *technical writer* one day complained that his [Sun 68020] workstation wouldn't run programs. I found that he was trying to run NFS-mounted binaries for the SIMD system on SunOS 4. He fundamentally could not fathom the idea of differing architectures and OS, and was *incensed* at this situation and demanded that I fix it.
I pheared for our documents.
What about an application of, say, running 100 VM's per socket instead of 40?
Plenty of other applications that can take advantage of cores to scale horizontally with more processes.
Not everything is a desktop.
This is why I use Lyft exclusively. Most of the drivers do both. Lyft's app lets one tip; Ãoeber's doesn't and is vague about it. I think the Lyft app doesnt estimate a fare, but really it's not like that would affect my usage anyway. I either need a ride or I don't.
While the USPS does have its problems, this is a bit misleading. It is very simple to print a paid shipping label and either have it picked up when the carrier makes a regular dropoff, or specifically request a pickup if there's at least one piece at Priority or higher rate.
Lots of times I've also taken in pre-paid packages and skipped line to just leave them on the counter. Many PO's also have automated machines and drop boxes in their 24 hour lobbies.
I've had UPS by comparison completely lose a package that I handed them at their counter. So thoroughly that they claimed to not have ever received it at all.
... or a container that's shaped in a way that lets one use a utensil to scrape it clean. Narrow-neck salad dressing bottles are horrid this way as well.
"Intact" can mean a variety of very different things. In the linked article, was it really blood, or a mix of fluids including who knows what?
Consider how animal tissues can freezer-burn at home in just a couple of months, then extrapolate that to thousands of years. Think of DNA as floppy from decades ago -- bits can degrade at random and it *looks* intact but when you try to use it there may be enough degradation that you just read out gibberish.
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Wince. Families traveling together might need divergence from optimal, but the successive waves of FFM tiers, active military who are rarely present, etc. are a bit much, especially when most travelers don't really have much of a choice what airline they fly. I've at times had gate agents hassle me about boarding with a special-needs child FFS, but salespeople who've never heard of webex? Please.
Or board sanely. That means getting rid of half a dozen phases of special priority boarding, and instead board from the back and sides first. If facilities and weather permit, board from the back door as well.
This is why I won't rely on them. Or when you get delayed for hours and your battery runs out because either you didn't carry a charger, or someone else is already camped out at all three of the outlets in the entire terminal.
Given the cheeto administration, I suspect that suspicious activity means a black person using a phone.
Have you paid attention to D.C. lately? If the FAA even exists next year, any standard they will set will be even smaller than we currently suffer.
Plus freakishly tall guys win at everything else in our culture. They are paid more, preferentially win jobs and promotions, and women throw themselves at them with wild abandon despite being treated like crap. So they can well afford $70 to upgrade a flight and STFU.
A group I worked with but did not report through (think "embedded") had previously lacked a formal manager, there was an incompetent "architect" who was permitted by the director to de-facto act as one. Then they brought in a manager from a company that had previously been acquired -- a company who had lied to my employer to get them to buy them, then their shitty product was EOL'd. Guy was a QA manager, and was put in charge of an engineering / devops team that he wasn't vaguely qualified to understand. At one point this jackass remarked of a candidate from HP Helion: "Why hired from a failed company?" Shit you can't make up. So one day he had traveled to my regional office to commune with the aforementioned "architect". Did the requisite group dinner (which pre-empted my birthday), where he bragged that he had enough $ to be off work for a *year*. And how much he liked living in NJ. Those alone were red flags, plus the fact that the only thing he would eat was raw meat. Next day (Thursday) afternoon sent email asking me to do something by 8am Monday. I replied back, CCing my own boss, showing why what he asked for wasn't doable in that timeframe, and linked a couple of user stories. Dude stormed over and commanded me to follow him. Led me into a conference room and spent half an hour screaming at me: - "It thirty minutes work! You no need develop and test!" - Me working within the management-directed scrum framework was a waste of time and "running around in circles" - I was not to reply to his email, I was to go to him in person or use voice. Only. # Speculation: no paper trail that way - Slapped around a laptop, fuming about how an existing Grafana dashboard was useless. Months later he wasted a few weeks of engineer time having someone duplicate it - "You want report to me? You no report to me then you useless! I hire someone else teach them what you do and you out!" Fortunately I had just read "The No Assholes Rule" and handled the guy impeccably. Extricated myself from the room, and contacted my [awesome] boss, who ran it up the chain. Three levels of *my* management, up to VP, spoke to me directly to apologize on behalf of the company. They also talked to the perp's director, who eventually spoke to me directly. I knew the guy technically was in a difficult position and had limited expectations of the call, but even so he disappointed me. Refused to admit that the perp had done *anything* wrong. Not the screaming, not the violent actions, not the threats. Claimed the perp was the best of 15 candidates, which if true (it couldn't possibly have been) would REALLY say something about the others, they would have had to have been Trump-class unqualified. I suspect their faults were mostly ethnicity, and that picking the perp earned points for not having to pay severance. In the end the perp got only a slap on the wrist, and was force to "apologize". Which took the form only of apologizing for the first five minutes of raising his voice. Nothing else. My manager counseled me that I had done ZERO wrong and asked that I keep him informed how the perp acted, with the idea that a single instance wasn't actionable, if you get my drift, but that a repeat would demonstrate a pattern and then our director would have the ability to go nuclear and get the perp removed. Unfortunately the perp was craft and played passive-aggressive, taxing me professionally for the whole thing but never in a way that was actionable. Taking responsibility away from me, ignoring anything I said, went so far as to say that I was no good at engineering but good at ops, etc. Mind you in 3 years I'd received 36 recognition awards, and he'd received 0. Then about 9 months later the perp's whole org got riffed, and since I didn't report through them I was still around. Last I knew he had somehow landed a senior manager job in {shitty southern state} at a well-known but declining company that is known to be a hostile boys-club, and had to move.
You have most of this today. Last I checked, like all the other cultured meat efforts, uses calf serum as the growth medium. Until someone succeeds from a growth medium that isn't animal derived, all of these me-too articles are snoozers.
This.
It really should be illegal to ask for year a degree was granted, there's no use for that information other than to derive the applicant's age, and a fair number of applications require it for submittal.
You forgot not obsessing over a new language every three years just for the sake of trendiness.
Reaganomics trickle-down by any other name is still bullshit.
One reason is that they want to hire contractors instead, so that they can abuse and fire them at will, not pay benefits, and skirt employment laws.
Part of the turnover rate is that -- at least in the Silly Valley -- longevity is viewed as a FLAW. I had been at a non-SV company for >15 years, via two acquisitions, and when looking for a new job EVERYONE harassed me about that. When I recast my rez to make it look like 3 jobs, that stopped and I got hired.
Two factors here: 1) Fewer (yet enough) tech employers in the Seattle region but more importantly 2) Employers in the Silly Valley seem to be allergic to any raise at all, even at the COLA level, and one can easily be stuck at the same compensation for 10 years. One [admittedly a jackass who elects to live in Oakland] said "Job hopping is the only way to get ahead in computers".
Years ago I worked for a company that offered SIMD hardware. A *technical writer* one day complained that his [Sun 68020] workstation wouldn't run programs. I found that he was trying to run NFS-mounted binaries for the SIMD system on SunOS 4. He fundamentally could not fathom the idea of differing architectures and OS, and was *incensed* at this situation and demanded that I fix it. I pheared for our documents.
My first thought was I'm no more interested than when it was called "iBeacon"
Liability. "Disputed" is an observation. "Fake" is a value judgement and far more ripe for litigation, no matter that it would mostly be accurate.
What about an application of, say, running 100 VM's per socket instead of 40? Plenty of other applications that can take advantage of cores to scale horizontally with more processes. Not everything is a desktop.
This is why I use Lyft exclusively. Most of the drivers do both. Lyft's app lets one tip; Ãoeber's doesn't and is vague about it. I think the Lyft app doesnt estimate a fare, but really it's not like that would affect my usage anyway. I either need a ride or I don't.
What do you mean by "gratuity"?
While the USPS does have its problems, this is a bit misleading. It is very simple to print a paid shipping label and either have it picked up when the carrier makes a regular dropoff, or specifically request a pickup if there's at least one piece at Priority or higher rate. Lots of times I've also taken in pre-paid packages and skipped line to just leave them on the counter. Many PO's also have automated machines and drop boxes in their 24 hour lobbies. I've had UPS by comparison completely lose a package that I handed them at their counter. So thoroughly that they claimed to not have ever received it at all.
... or a container that's shaped in a way that lets one use a utensil to scrape it clean. Narrow-neck salad dressing bottles are horrid this way as well.
There's no other possibility.
"Intact" can mean a variety of very different things. In the linked article, was it really blood, or a mix of fluids including who knows what? Consider how animal tissues can freezer-burn at home in just a couple of months, then extrapolate that to thousands of years. Think of DNA as floppy from decades ago -- bits can degrade at random and it *looks* intact but when you try to use it there may be enough degradation that you just read out gibberish.