That’s known as PEBCAK: Problem Exists Between Cart And Kiosk

I think she’s Ariana Minuta now.

This relates to the thing I am most confused by in today’s business climate. Companies face brutal competition, and tremendous pressure to “innovate” (screw the customer more), and yet every ounce of research on the question suggests that rather than pushing people to work longer and longer hours, they can get the most out of their workforce by mandating proper sleep, time walking/in nature/exercise, non-continuous working periods, and comfort items like faster computers, better chairs, higher quality food, etc.

Why isn’t any company ruthlessly pursuing efficiency by giving bonuses for sleeping well? It would be super creepy and authoritarian to mandate sleep monitoring, but I don’t see why that stops them, when it doesn’t appear to in any other direction. Or even simpler, requiring shorter working hours, but expecting the same/more output?

Is it this exact attitude, that somehow happy workers with free time will get up to no good, or become depressed, or feel less committed or something?

No one knows why some CEOs succeed so much, and others fail so hard. Rather than admit that they are guessing, executive suites and boards of directors both engage in mystical thinking, and then shed as much blame/yank as much credit as they can get away with. CEOs are where they are because of a social club, and not because they have any specific demonstrable skills, high intelligence, overwhelming empathy, insight into the future of business, unmatched creativity, etc.

Hallucinating that CEOs know what they should be doing, and the “more hours worked means more things got done” thinking are the largest and most damaging mental viruses of the corporate world.

Laugh it off, then send it in, I think.

It depends. It looks like the orange portal is being moved by a hydraulic cylinder (aka laminar flow), which means the relative positions and velocities of things moving through the orange portal are conserved, and A is correct.

If instead that’s (yuck) an air fired cylinder… Then it’s going to be B.

If the movement is handled by a threaded rod, then the box will emerge from the blue portal spinning, and (perhaps contrary to expectations) if the orange portal is moving because of gravity, then the bouyant force of the box progressing through the portal will stop it from falling further, and the box will end up just less than halfway (because of the angle) through the blue portal.

I wrote in, and they gave me a 100% refund, and said I could keep the software. They must know how badly they fucked up.

Yeah, what were they thinking, using Ubuntu in 2011?

80% of the time, they’re wrong every time.

Disclaimer: I have only seen the trailers. Multiple things were from substantially incorrect regions or time periods. They could have at least tried.

Also, I bought a Nolan movie to watch at home once, and the sound balancing was complete garbage. It was disappointing that he let his pretentiousness make his movie unwatchable. Maybe someday he’ll understand what art is for.

Unless the people in my life that watch more movies than I do say it’s really good, I won’t see it, but also won’t be reviewing it for Rotten Tomatoes.

I used to eat at my desk, until I read research that showed you are more productive when you take a real break, time away from the work context, etc. Now I’m in a position to exploit a team of people by making them take a real break, too. Same with vacation, I’ve had to chew people out for checking in on work when they’re meant to be optimizing their brains.

Research also shows that walking breaks, and 7 hour work days help total productivity, so I’m trying to make those happen… But corporate culture is strongly indoctrinated into the “I spent more time on it, there must be more accomplished” cult… Even though what we produce is code. Sigh.

Did you tell it to not make any mistakes, and double check its work, and write valid, comprehensive integration tests and stand up a development environment, and make a team of QA agents to verify that the development environment is running correctly?

Not doing that is a recipe for disaster. Oh, and tell it to make backups.

We can all tell, but most of us are too polite to say anything.

I thought the whole thing with the algae started when they switched from using clean drinking water to pulling water from a drainage pond to save money. As I remember it, there was always fertilizer in that water because of upstream polluters, so we’d have to either stop them from polluting, or filter the water to clean it up to a suitable standard to prevent algae growth.

$15 million isn’t a lot to steal, and there was massive potential for an unironic “This was Obama’s fault” if he just switched back to (expensive) drinking water, filtered/sanitized the pool, and called it a day. The incompetence is staggering.

Birds that can migrate thousands of kilometers without so much as a Netflix break or a quick scroll through a memes community presumably have a good attention span. Better than mine, anyways

There’s not yet any commands run in the current SQL session

If you can’t sleep 8 hours within a 30 day period, you should seek medical help. I can sleep 8+ hours in just a week, and I’m not even that good at sleeping.

My opinion is that posting anything publicly enough that I hear about it is at the very least a de facto invitation for my opinion on it. That would be different if it were e.g. paparazzi reporting on the potentially private affairs of the wealthy and famous.

I think you are misreading this rule. This allows an exemption to the time and a half pay minimum for overtime for highly paid people in a computer related field whose job duties are sufficiently executive or administrative in nature. If they are very highly paid (~$150,000 per year) the exemption is easier to qualify for.

The referenced section of the FLSA exclusively reduces the wage protections of people exempted under its rules.

I unroll mine (eating as I go), and enjoy it flat. At first that was what I expected…

When my nephew was 3, he would eat the center of a croissant, and ignore the rest, that’s similar.