Semi-Hemi-Demigod

Yeah. There’s always a chance that a customer could have an issue on a weekend and then I’ve gotta fix it. Once I was on 27 hours of conference calls over a weekend. But as I’ve gotten better at my job those sorts of things happen less and less.

Honestly the worst part of my job is doing my timesheets and updating weekly status, but when the weather’s good I do that from my hammock with a cold beer in hand which makes it suck less.

I’m salaried so I don’t have a lunch break. I work from home so I basically set my own hours as long as I can be contacted from about 10am to 3pm and go to any meetings I have scheduled.

Which was when Slashdot was like BBS before the Eternal September

Just write a bash script to loop over them.

Yet again I’m asking the Fediverse: What do they think a good economy should look like?

Nation-states were a stupid idea to begin with

I think it has more to do with maintaining a manufacturing base for defense than it is about jobs or the economy.

I’ve worked for a couple startups and you’re absolutely right. If you make a profit you pay taxes on that money, so startups like to spend most of the money they bring in. They also want to show revenue growth, since that’s what investors like to see. You grow revenue by getting more paying customers. And you do that by doing what your customers want.

When you go public, your goal is to increase shareholder value. So you do this by reducing costs and finding ways to wring customers out of revenue. You find ways to nickle and dime customers out of revenue so much you develop an entire branch of law devoted to you suing your customers

I’m not actually sure what they do with the calves but it’s not growing them as normal meat cows.

They raise them for a little bit and then slaughter them and sell it as veal.

His hell is trying on gloves that don’t fit for eternity

So what? It figured out The Answer, big whoop.

Get back to me when it figures out The Question.

This reminds me of the shift in the car market when Japanese cars entered the market after the Oil Crisis. American auto makers, used to building unreliable land yachts, couldn’t adapt fast enough. Now we have American car makers building electric land yachts that people can’t afford, and are threatened by cheaper foreign cars.

There is, but since color printers are the ones that were used in counterfeiting most black and white printers don’t do that sort of thing. Plus I don’t know how you’d encode that much information in black and white without making it visible on the paper.

Only color laser printers put those yellow dots on paper. The black and white ones don’t because they can’t: They don’t have yellow toner.

So get a black and white printer and you’ll be fine.

I used to raise pigs, and I saw bags of coal at the feed store one of the (many) times I was there. Later, I had a small store in town and, as a Christmas gag, I bought one of those bags of coal and some small fabric bags to sell for $5 a pop.

Later I realized that coal can be pretty toxic and I probably shouldn’t have been putting it in a bag that was gonna be next to candy in some kids’ stocking

I didn’t realize I’d meet an expert on Go’auld genomics on the fediverse yet here you are

So what you’re saying is that Go’auld genetic memory could be a thing?

No doubt. But it’s also good to keep in place for too long so people aren’t allowed to protest.

the Moscow mayor canceled all mass gatherings scheduled for the weekend

Things that make you go “hmmm”

A small part of me wants him to try something just so we can unleash the Poles and Finns on Russia.