We invoked our force majeure clause with our contractors. We’re an airline, and revenue is pretty much gone, so it’s unavoidable, which is sad. That’s one of the down sides of contracting. What really sucks is that some of the contracting companies are laying off their workers, many of whom are H1B, which means they are stuck outside their home country without income. We’re doing a lot of things to cut costs in order to avoid lay-offs of employees. Workloads have increased, needless to say.

I early voted for him in the Texas primary last Friday. He’s on the ballot. Looking forward to his “exciting” announcement after Super Tuesday.

@C0D4 you can read up on his platform on Wikipedia. He has two good books out, The War on Normal People (about AI, automation, and the solution to increasing unemployment resulting from from them) and Smart People Should Build Things (about entrepreneurship).

@SortOfTested he’s on the primary ballot in most states. He gets technology, and he gets what technology is capable of. He has great ideas.

3 1/2 years later. The port on my iPhone X is getting wonky after over two years of use, but the rest of the phone works well. BT technology has improved, and only the most sensitive audiophiles would notice any difference in quality. I’ve decided on the Lypertek Tevi, because it has good user ratings, and is lightweight, with graphene drivers. Need to be able to listen to my music on my hikes without it cutting out because the socket is no longer snug, with too much wiggle.

Depending on location and what’s going on, that would be great.

The real problem here is that the wrong people set the deadlines. It's usually a marketing person, or a manager who when asked, "can your team deliver this by x date?" says yes without really understanding the problem or what it will take to get it done.

@dudeking I speak 1.75 languages, only because noone here speaks German. It was actually my first language, but as a small child. It did give me an advantage however as an adult, in that all the Germans thought I was from the Netherlands or Denmark, and had no clue that I was an American service member. I learned my English in British crown schools, so when you mix in the Florida Cracker and Texan, noone has a clue as to where I'm from. 😁

This is the place...

Yes, I shut it down unless I need to remote into it. So, my desktop at home gets shut down at the end of each day, and my work computer stays up for a week or more between restarts.

@karma donuts. They require donuts.

@eeee it has nothing to do with a bad, broken, non-robust system. Flying is one of the safest forms of transportation. One simply does not fly a plane-load of passengers into severe weather; that's asking for trouble. More people are killed in auto crashes by far, than in air disasters.

@dastackman no other explanation for my number spreading so quickly among the Teams I support. As one of my co-workers put it so inelegantly, "your their little b***h."

I refuse to install Slack or Jabber on my phone for that very reason. Unfortunately, someone wrote my number on a bathroom stall, so they all have my number anyway...

Because you never know when you'll be using a VT that is limited to 80 char width. Also, many CLI are limited to 80 chars, because they were designed for VT's. When I say VT, I'm taking about the old yellow or green text CRT's of the last. That is why that rule exists.

One of the most disappointing days was when I was told that as a supervisor I was not to code, but to supervise those who do.

WX, mechanical, or strike?

Only the Scrum should be assigning the PRs. I think at a minimum you need to clear it with the Scrum and the person who is already assigned. It's a courtesy thing.

Laptop? Just wondering.

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@FuckJava searched all of Beeb for Apple. Nothing on socks.

@zotigapo no, it's not.

You can now launch VSC from the Windows Linux Subsystem. That is slick. And it integrates nicely with git.

This is mine. It's a little old, and the cover fell off and got lost many years ago, but there are still good tobacco shops around here. I enjoy it most when the weather is cooler and I can sit outside. The material is well seasoned meerschaum, and the stem is an actual hollowed out branch. I often wonder about the life the original owner must have lived.

@darksideofyay money doesn't make anything easier. If it did, then someone else would be marketing Tesla. There plenty of extremely wealthy individuals in the world, none of who have the vision that Musk had. I look out in the parking lot and I see eight Teslas. I drive on my commute, and I see Teslas. I drove from Dallas, TX to Richmond, VA, and some person with Texas plates is half way across Tennessee in a Tesla. Lots of people have the money to market the Tesla, but only one guy did. They are beautiful cars, completely electric, and outsell Mercedes. That is genius.

@rutee07 I prefer light blue with red font... I love how the characters seem to dance on the screen...

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@RantSomeWhere no. In the scheme of eternity soon can be decades away.

Send the errors to the DBAs... they'll figure it out...

And experienced ones, too.