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Exactly. My contact in CalTrans tells me that because public roads are built to handle the big trucks, the wear caused by any vehicle under 10,000 lbs is effectively zero.

> manufactured housing -- aka trailer homes > But if manufactured housing is merely a new term for trailer homes and nothing has really changed, this is not an acceptable answer in my book.

Despite the fact that people often use those terms interchangeably, they are not the same. Things really have changed.

Trailer (or mobile) homes were built to no particular standards, had widely varying (and usually low) quality, and were no longer legal to build after 1976. Manufactured homes, which replaced them, are built to strict HUD standards. (Then there are modular homes, which are also factory-built, but are built to the same building codes as site-built homes.)

Sources: Grew up in a well-built 1980's manufactured home. More recently a family member was a government inspector of manufactured/modular home factories, ensuring code compliance.

Lots of people here venting about percentage inflation and requesting tips for simple counter service. Well, now I've seen a new one...

Placed an order at argon40.com, and at the end of the checkout process they prompted for a 5/10/15% tip. On a website. Just ridiculous!

Or, on a much smaller scale...

http://www.tessellations.org/real-materials-tessellations-16...

In some companies. Then there are others...

I know someone who has been acting as her boss's replacement since her boss left the company. But the company refuses to promote her into that job because she doesn't have a degree. 20 years of employment with the company, plus demonstrated ability by actively doing the boss's job, doesn't count as much as an old piece of paper.

To emphasize: This company has a degree requirement not just for hiring inexperienced candidates (of unknown quality), but also for promoting experienced employees (of known quality). Stupidest thing I've ever seen.

The photo has been released. And unlike this picture of a picture, it has some nice detail of the balloon payload.

https://twitter.com/ZcohenCNN/status/1628497300891791360

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FpmVm_TXgAUrlnm?format=jpg&name=...

"Critically, natural hydrogen may be not only clean, but also renewable. It takes millions of years for buried and compressed organic deposits to turn into oil and gas. By contrast, natural hydrogen is always being made afresh, when underground water reacts with iron minerals at elevated temperatures and pressures. In the decade since boreholes began to tap hydrogen in Mali, flows have not diminished, says Prinzhofer, who has consulted on the project. “Hydrogen appears, almost everywhere, as a renewable source of energy, not a fossil one,” he says. "

Surprisingly, they are talking about actual hydrogen deposits, in one case 98% pure.

The article talks about how they believe natural processes are constantly refilling the reservoirs. So in this context renewable means potentially not a limited source.

So they scored high on whatever version of software was on the specific car tested by government at some point in time. Has any government done any testing at all on the version of software actually in use today?

Two things I appreciate about this:

- He is considering the conflicting needs of different people rather than just hyping his personal vision.

- He is discussing the changes ahead of time, explaining what is changing and why, rather than just silently dropping the new version on everyone and telling us to deal with it.

If only more orgs would do these things.

I haven't looked into the history personally, but heard once that the original term used (by outsiders, of course) was "Latin". But because it doesn't fit well into the gendered Spanish language, it was disliked by native speakers, who went on to organically derive Latino/Latina as replacements.

If true, that makes the English-speaking movement to replace Latino/Latina with Latinx doubly ridiculous.

> ‘Latinx’ has failed to gain buy-in from the people it’s supposed to empower.

The hubris... We have assigned a new name to some other group, whether they want it or not, in order to empower them. Why don't they feel empowered by us imposing a name on them?

I know of a company that had sent most employees to work remote during COVID. While this worked well for most departments, there were a couple of departments where a large percentage of people were not working (not online during required meetings, etc).

In a sane world: The CEO makes it clear to those department heads that their future depends on their teams working, and the department heads come down on the managers. People get written up quickly for not being online working, and maybe the worst few are fired. Both the workers and the managers (who should have been watching this all along) get their heads straight.

In the real world: The CEO ordered 100% of employees back to office (still during COVID), to avoid hurting anyone's feelings by calling them out for not doing their jobs.

Check out DuracellDirect [1]. I had the same concerns as you when I needed new Thinkpad batteries in 2019. Absolutely no complaints. They are still going strong today.

[1] https://www.duracelldirect.com/

You don't need a computer, or even electricity. Thermostatic shower valves are 100% mechanical, and work beautifully. There are models available that will automatically compensate for both temperature and pressure changes, keeping the output temperature constant.

Yup, that caught me off guard, too. Perhaps a solution would be to have a gap where the old pizzas finish but no new ones are added, then change the prompt and start new pizzas when the screen is empty.

Another problem I saw in that game: At one point the prompt was 50 45 __ 35 but it wanted me to click on 30. That was in the Skip Counting By 5 game.

Thanks for trying to help clear that up a little. Of course they are wrong about it not being confusing.

Any guesses what changes between the first 2 years and the next 3? What are these "Hardware Updates" they seem to stop doing?

Regarding the different flavors, as far as I know they fetch updates from the main Ubuntu repos, so any Ubuntu updates should be available to them. What does it mean to say they are only supported for 3 years?

Yes. Amazon is returning to office stalls. Which I interpret as workplaces that look like this:

https://i1.wp.com/stablestyle.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/04...

Edit: On second thought, that pic is way too nice. It'd be an upgrade from my current cube. I was really imagining something more like this:

https://i.pinimg.com/1200x/24/64/1b/24641b4dbede7e32232ebdab...

There seems to be a lot of confusion about the length of support for 22.04 LTS. In the past it's always been safe to assume LTS is 5 years. But I've seen conflicting info about 22.04. For example:

https://kubuntu.org/getkubuntu/ "Kubuntu 22.04 supported with security and maintenance updates, until April 2025".

https://endoflife.date/ubuntu "Hardware and Maintenance Updates" "Ends in 1 year and 8 months (30 Sep 2024)" But the graphic you have right above that shows 22.04 "Hardware and maintenance updates" going into 2027.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases "End of Standard Support" "April 2027" At least the wiki still has the expected date, but it's hard to find anything specific on the main ubuntu.com site.

Anyone know what's going on with these dates?

I know someone who was just told the range for a position is $100-130K. I happen to know that the actual salary range for that position is $100-160K. So why was he told 100-130? Company policy that they only hire in the bottom half of the range. So he was given the hiring range.

It's possible the company you mention has a similar policy, but posted the full range for the position, not the hiring range.

When required to post a range, there are pros/cons to both approaches. One tells you what you can expect for hiring. The other tells you what you can expect going forward. Probably companies that decide they want policies like this really ought to post both ranges, for full transparency. But some literal-minded HR drone who is told to post a range will probably just grab one or the other.

Apparently he can be, as he reliably informed sampo that pre-Clovis people existed, as demonstrated by the multiple links that sampo provided above.

Hiring managers: Don't fall for the parent's game. Their leetcode skills prove that they are just trying to trick you into hiring them, after which they will become a valuable member of your team, making your next firing more difficult. If you really want a puffer person, hire me. I'll take the position with no interview, demonstrating my commitment to putting zero effort into your project.

Edit: And don't worry about any bidding war with other managers. I'll just put you in my queue and rotate through you all as needed.

> the drafting and design of the banners is much softer this year than the last

Doubtful. But even if true, they are still ridiculous. I load a page and start reading. Suddenly the text I am reading is replaced by that huge begging message that takes up basically my entire screen. So I scroll down (sorry, Jimmy "Please don't scroll past this" Wales) and find my place again. As I scroll down, hey presto, the beg screen is replaced with a beg footer.

As for all those other projects... Give people a choice between donating "for Wikipedia operating expenses only" or "for all Foundation projects". Let people decide which they personally value more. I bet Wikipedia gets so much money you can set up a trust and never beg again, while those other projects stay budget-limited. But you don't do that, instead using misleading language like "reflect on the number of times you visited Wikipedia this year, the value you got from it, and whether you're able to give $2 back" to fund non-Wikipedia projects. Just stop it.

"Wikipedia is not for sale."

No, but Jimmy Wales clearly is.

Why isn't there a "shut up and go away and never bother me again" button?

Because it's gotten to the point that I have just started avoiding Wikipedia.

the legal framework is eminent domain

Yup, gets pretty complicated. Seems like it'd be easier to forget about corporate tax, and charge income tax on every dollar going from the company to an individual.

That would instantly bankrupt every single company in the many industries with single-digit profit margins.

It's not an oversight, it's a deliberate removal. I guess they don't want their customers to be able to receive safety broadcasts.