One of the questions was how to mount a smartphone. I use a car mount, specifically the iOttie one touch... But any extendable car mount would work. Just suction cup it to the back of your monitor and you're set
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But it's the only option because leadership makes it that way. And saying it's not going to happen is a good way to make sure it never does. Airplanes ain't gunna fly, you can't never land a rocket standing up, and there's no way you can fit a mobile phone in something smaller than a brief case.
I'm not saying it's easy but if you think it's a problem, you can work to change it. I personally think it's a problem, and now that I'm a Manager I'm doing what I can to try to change. Will I be successful? Maybe not perfectly but already the company is better than it was.
That being said, I agree that many corporate mindsets make it seem like this is impossible. A lot of us here at HN are likely going to end up in leadership positions, so a thought for everyone is, if you don't like the idea of "the MBA's" outsourcing everything, or contracting, push back against it.
Even small things like pushing to train someone on your team instead of hiring externally can start to snowball when everyone does it, and you've got more power than you realize to change your company culture.
Now to design a helicopter to do the same thing on Venus and Mercury!
Primarily, most of my interactions with clients are on a blue collar level, although an affluent blue collar level. Not sure if that changes the circle a number of HN readers might be in?
I also might notice it more because I specifically try to avoid religion in any conversation, it's a topic that really has no upside to talk about with clients.
Religion enters almost every conversation I have in the US in some way. Whereas in Canada, religion almost never comes up. If it does, it's generally a discussion on the merits where I'm talking more about history and culture. It's fascinating how two places, so geographically close can be so culturally different in this one topic.
At my school, we have ~10 aircraft flying every day, 8-12 hours a day depending on the weather. Most of these flights happen over prime, in production farmland, or on the edges of the nearby town which has 8 schools at a minimum.
Now we're one of probably 5 aviation schools within a 50 mile radius, all of whom are operating at similar or greater profiles.
I'm sure the individual impact is small, but for every jumbo jet there's something like 3-5 piston aircraft in operation.
This is awesome. I'm hopeful I can do a project like this someday with a Palm Vx!
When we travelled to the in-laws over the most recent holidays, the news was always on, and always talked about and my wife and I both commented afterwards it felt like an oppressive blanket of stress was laid over everything while we were there.
However Excel Online breaks down quickly with large file sizes, loses formatting and struggles mightily with complex macros.
Can this be done on Linux? Frequently. Can it be done in a web browser? Rarely effectively and often not at all.
My new strategy is calorie counting and a hard rule that at a restaurant where you don't know what's in the food, small portions, eat half or a third of the meal and then immediately get it taken or boxed up so you don't pick on it while the social aspect of the meal is happening.
Yeah it sucks, but the more we try to take the accountability out of the humans and put it into the software, the worse both the accountability and the software gets.
That being said, were it shut off I'd just use one of the other five messaging services on my phone...
You can build rules too so the more you use it, the more automated it becomes.
I mean, even the specific resume example above simply translates to "Worked as a Product Manager on moderately successful project, worked as a Project Manager on random project, consulted with highly successful marketing firm and extremely successfully and profitable co-operative consulting firm on business development. Likes to trade high-risk stocks, puts money into high-risk interest bearing accounts and likes to give random unsecured loans to strangers"
I understand there's a ton of bashing of crypto, but I think that looking at a unknown sub-cultures language and assuming that they are purposely using jargon antagonistic to outsiders is rather closed minded. As someone who dipped their toe in, but still doesn't understand, they have been extremely helpful in explaining the concepts even when I argue against them.
"Did you verify that the RVSM system was talking to the FMS after completing the JIC during the RON?" - Aviation "Are you sure the packets are flowing on UDP? Can someone check the CAT6?" - Simple networking
Etc. So I wouldn't say the jargon is constructed solely to keep outsiders out.