So uhhhh no one else read Stephen King’s work or the Child Called It series as a kid huh?

Only reason I keep a Windows install on an SSD for my laptop: my schools remote test proctoring service only works with Windows and Mac. I normally run pop_os on it but switch to the windows when I have to take a test.

This tells me that you know very little about how in control of designs engineering teams are. 99/100 times it’s not up to the engineers on what the specifications or limitations are for any given design.

Typically, sales says they’ll have something that fits whatever crazy need no matter if a perfectly suitable design already exists if they consulted the engineers or shop, typically to get the sale. Engineering is then forced to adjust the design because nothing existing will fit.

Funny enough, it’s not the engineers that are doing it. Left to their own devices without ridiculous constraints like “someone else is doing it this way so we need you to do something that sets us apart” or “you can’t look at what everyone else is doing”, engineers will do it the laziest way they can… By copying what others are doing and essentially making it standard.

I see your point but I counter with Neil Gaiman.

That’s messed up. Where?

This is exactly why they’re attacking. Humans fucking up their environment.

I’m not one to actively encourage increases in military spending but if it’s to outfit the orcas, I’m all for it

Oh for sure on all points.

I was just saying that the intensive folding process wasn’t nearly as necessary for the euro smiths. Especially, as you said, they had more than enough carbon sources to make up for any deficits in their iron sources.

Once the smith turns the raw material into steel, there was very little difference beyond what the final product needed in hardness/flexibility.

I was under the impression the folding technique of Japanese blades was due to the low carbon content and the process of folding included adding carbon to the iron as well as incorporating it throughout the metal.

European iron ore already had larger amounts of carbon which meant the folding and adding carbon process wasn’t required to create a serviceable edge.

In many parts of the US, lunch and breaks are not guaranteed. Companies can also fire someone for any or no reason as long as it’s not a very narrow and specific set of reasons without any legal repercussions. They can fire a person for those reasons as well and, if the person fired can’t find a lawyer or afford a lengthy case, get away with it.

The US is very much pro-employer.

Except for almost every device I want to put custom firmware on, apparently.

Hi. I grew up in a city with named streets. One street can have four names depending on where you’re at on it. You’ve never had to deal with directing someone down a city full of that, apparently.

On the other hand, we have an area with lettered streets. L comes before M, N, O, P, etc. If you’re on F and need to get to C Street, you know you need to go up 3 blocks. Meanwhile, if you’re on Johnson and need to get to North York, you have to know that it’s the same street and changes names in 7 blocks.

As someone who just had a one shot with three couples and one guy who murderhoboed until he had to leave to take care of his pregnant wife, I find this stereotype funny as hell.

I flipped between dark tower and cheater mccheater face on the bottom right.

I love the tree shadow ones. So trippy.

Damn. I hope that place paid enough to deal with that nonsense. My place doesn’t care if I’m completely naked as long as I take calls, respond to tickets, and get the work done. Then again we’re also permanent wfh minus the odd onsite here and there

I don’t use the drive through because I’m lazy. I use it so I can have the most minimal amount of human contact possible

The dead man switch at one of my last places was the companies incompetence and lack of forethought.

When I left, I told them that the files for their system that I designed, built, and maintained was on the laptop I was returning to them.

They wiped it.

They also had zero clue how to use the programs I had nor any other aspect of that system so they really shot themselves in the foot then shot their other one to test of the first one hurt

Assuming you don’t live in a food desert… Or have a baby that requires more milk than you can produce… Or have a pet that requires a particular diet…