Yep, you get it. And it’s really hard to get people to understand the value in learning to do that stuff without the tools.

We do a lot of real-time control software, and just yesterday we were taking about how the newer folks are really good at using available tools and libraries, but they have less understanding of what’s happening underneath and they have problems when those tools don’t/can’t do what we need.

Apparently he wants everything written in COBOL

It’s amazing that so many people will vote for someone who proved to be worse than useless.

Oh, for sure - “career politician” has a stink to it, but those folks get stuff done

Harris doesn’t elicit the strong negative emotions as Hilary. People might not like her, but few viscerally hate her.

I honestly think Clinton would have been a decent president, and that she was consistently smeared, but this is a terrible idea. There are lots of people who have bought into her being the antichrist and who could never vote for a ticket she’s on.

I’m old - there’s just so much that has and hasn’t happened…

I didn’t know what they were and had to look it up

The Bell Riots were an event that took place in San Francisco on Earth in September 2024. They led to the end of the Sanctuary Districts and marked the real beginning of Humans working to find a lasting solution that would resolve social problems. This would set humanity on the path to founding the United Federation of Planets.

Hey, the date is coming up.

I’m not an expert, but it’s a very complex global system with moisture in the atmosphere sometimes falling as rain/snow, collecting in rivers and lakes, going into ground water/aquifers, flowing into the oceans, and sometimes just staying as moist air. If one area isn’t getting it’s usual rainfall, quite often another area is getting more, but it can also be that the moisture is just in other parts of that complex system. A lot is driven by high- and low-pressure systems, air temperature, water temperature, etc.

In my area of southern California, we’ve had some major, extended droughts. But the rising temperature of the Pacific has caused the air to hold more moisture, and we’ve also had some “atmospheric river” storms that drop insane amounts of rain. So even though we get an average of 13 inches of rain a year, we got more than 13 inches in just February, and we’re up to almost 31 inches for the season. It wouldn’t be surprising if we didn’t get anymore until late in the year though.

Some of that rain went into snowpack, some into reservoirs, some into ground water, but we’re close to the coast and all of it will go back to the ocean. Did we get rain that would normally have gone elsewhere, or was it rain that wouldn’t normally have formed? I think it’s likely hard to say, but maybe there are meteorologists or others who know more reading this.

Not the first time they’ve done this, but good to see the results replicated. It sure looks like genetics plays more of a part than diet.

One of the things I look for in employees is the ability to distill complex topics into the important elements and explain it to someone unfamiliar. Some people are just naturally good at it, and it’s a really important skill for moving up a leadership chain.

Not exactly part of the ISS - it was part of a pallet that they loaded the old batteries on before deorbiting them, not part of the batteries themselves. Not that that makes a difference to the homeowner.

They didn’t say it was true 100% of the time, they said there was a correlation and it and seems to be predictive.

Hmmm, people producing it deserve blame, but it’s not like you or me sharing a pic, this is a candidate for president of the United States posting it about his political rival. I think that’s a worse offense, no matter how common they might be.

It tells you where you are, and it blinks so you can find it easily, and know it’s not a character.

Imagine editing a document without it: you’d have to start typing to find out where your text is going to go. How many times have you clicked your mouse pointer at the beginning of a word, but then realized your cursor was after the first character of that word? You knew that because the cursor was blinking at you.

Yeah, I think it’s this. Scat porn, for comparison, turns off most people so having a bunch of it up on a main page is going to hurt traffic. I’m guessing there must have been some legal issue that turned all the incest porn into step incest porn, but regardless most people probably don’t care if a scene starts with someone calling the other person “step brother” or something. Some people probably actually prefer that. So the benefits outweigh the negatives for the sites.

My 2023 sonata has up for back and down for forward, which I don’t hate. It also has a separate up/down switch for the volume though, not right and left like OP’s.

My understanding is that it’s still with us, but it’s evolved over time to be much less deadly, and that that’s the biggest reason it’s not much of a problem for us. We probably have some more immunity to the original strain because of our exposure to the evolved version, so I doubt the original would be as much of a problem as it was in 1918 (and because medicine has drastically improved), but it might not be a walk in the park.

Seems like a shitty weapon of you can’t control it and it’s going to end up impacting your own people as much as anyone else, but maybe the terrorists in the show didn’t care.

I usually try to approach questions like this as if one of my kids was asking (I’m older, and have been working for 38+ years). This one is hard because I can’t tell if you’re being realistic - and I don’t mean that as an insult; you seem to be unsure if you’re being realistic, too.

You’re right that there’s drama everywhere. It’s also pretty hard to find a sizable group of people anywhere without having a few you don’t really care for. My personal approach to this kind of situation is to try really hard to be respectful and professional to all of my coworkers, whether I like them or not, but to also be aware that I’m not obligated to socialize with anyone if I don’t want to. It’s 100% fine to be a loaner. If someone gives you shit about it, think of how you’d feel if they gave you shit because your shirt was blue or your height was average: there’s zero to be ashamed of about those things, so it just makes them look dumb or weird.

But at the end of the day, you spend a huge hunk of your life at work, and if you’re miserable you should find another place, whether your misery is reasonable or not. The key to being happy with it is to decide if the place is okay, and so you’re going to make it work, or it’s not tenable for you and so you’re going to find someplace else and then make it happen. The worst part is having one foot on each side of that line and feeling stuck.

Good luck and let us know what you decide!