geocrasher

Indeed. A workplace is not a family. It's a Team. If it's a family, then expect family-like drama. If it's a team, then you know there are actual leaders, coaches, and players, and if a team member isn't pulling their weight, they get "traded" to to speak. It's a much healthier analogy.

haha. I'm pushing 50. If somebody asked me "Do you still have it in you" I'd say "What, to disconnect Zoom calls with smug 20 somethings? You bet." [End Call]

Any idgit who couldn't recognize a great hack when they see one is worthless. Glad you moved on.

Where did I say to do this every time you travel? I described the setup of such a phone. In fact if you had a second phone just for travel, who'd care? Not that big of a deal. Y'all are being pedantic.

Use whatever word you like better. Straightforward, Simple, uncomplicated not difficult.

Seriously, set up a new phone, new number, new Gmail account, new IG/FB accounts, use them a week before you leave- tell your friends "Follow me here for my trip!" and have your phone number forwawrded. Put a few contacts in it. Done. Not a big deal at all for most technically competent people. That's us, right?

Easy solution: Travel with a burner phone.

You have good points, but I really feel like most of those things could be said about any successful company in the aerospace business.

Or a different battery chemistry with a lower self discharge rate. No need to be rechargable in most of the use cases, I'd imagine.

Check out CHDK for Canon PowerShot cameras.

I was explaining to a coworker that my Contigo brand coffee travel mug was a great mug except that it was just impossible to clean properly. I explained to him that as a result, I had forcefully removed the guts to my mug lid.

In the midst of explaining this, I showed him which mug it was on the manufacturers website (we were remote- this was all via Slack) and as I did so, I saw the animation that explains how to disassemble it for cleaning.

oof.

I was disappointed that there wasn't a picture of the repair, but an insulated wire would have been plenty indeed.

I've let the magic smoke out of several MOSFET devices in a QRP SSB Transceiver kit, and had jumper wires all over the place. The electrons are too dumb to know if it's an insulated wire, or a PCB trace, as long as the layout is good.

One thing this does enlighten me about is why physical air gaps are built into so many PSU PCB's between the high and low voltage sides, with often only a transformer crossing the gap.

Uh oh!

I have to agree. Bash works fine in its environment, and while there are times when another language might be more appropriate for whatever reason, Bash works. I can run it on any box I have access to and if I stay away from utils that aren't preinstalled, I don't need to worry about dependencies. I've found that python is far more version and dependency driven.

Horrified and Impressed.

What I loved about this is that all of their prototypes were with a stock leaf blower with *3D Printed* attachments. This really shows the value of the rapid prototyping that 3D Printing has allowed.

It also shows that any of us could have done this with enough time and effort. And I don't mean literally any person- but there are a LOT of YouTube engineering channels that could likely have tackled this, had they been asked to.

The headline has been updated:

OpenAI revs up plans for web search, but denies report of an imminent launch

Suggestion: Anything that says math "problem", turn it into a math puzzle instead. A much more interesting way to look at math.

Ah, this brought a lot of memories back. I remember meeting the sysop of "Alternate Reality" because I needed an ISA IDE interface board, and he had one "somewhere" he said. I was a teen, 15 or 16, and when I went to his house I met a slovenly man in his 20's or 30's ("old" to then me) and he had the goods, and I paid him.

Later on I got into a 'l33t' BBS through a guy at work and I got the first 28.8k modem of anybody I knew, from him. In retrospect, I'm pretty sure it fell off a truck at some point before I got it.

And then there was the time I started my own BBS. The local paper (1995ish) published a technology column every Monday, and I wrote in about my BBS. I got one call from that, from somebody who figured out that they'd mixed up the last two numbers. sigh.

I never BBS'd after that, but the early days of Prodigy, AOL, and BBS's set me up for much of who I am and what I still do to this day.

Are you implying that deaf people only give birth to deaf children?

Indeed, the call screening feature is one reason that when my pixel 4a 5G gives up, I'll be getting another pixel.

Zoho's biggest asset is that it's generally Good Enough. I was an early adopter of their remote desktop software, and it went from being Good Enough to Good. They're responsive to feedback and generally good folks. We recommend them at work for their email on a regular basis (context: managed WordPress hosting)

I choose to agree. To close ones mind to a conclusion (that there is a creator) is as illogical as blindly assuming there is a creator just because somebody said there was.

One of the things that's always baffled me, and I say this completely honestly, is that if somebody looked at something like a Boeing 747, any high rise building, or well constructed, artistic looking bridge, and said "wow, evolution is amazing!" we would think them insane. But do that with something as intricate as a feather, or the brain (of any animal) and it's immediately acceptable.

Then there's the second law of thermodynamics, which seems to be ignored by evolution, where it seems to be accepted that entropy decreases over huge amounts of time.

To whoever downvoted me... you clearly never played Descent or looked up the cheat codes.

I dusted off D1-D3 a few years ago and played them in DOS Box and man, what a trip! Going from playing it in my teens to playing it in my 40's was something else. It was a lot harder than I remembered, but also a lot BETTER than I remembered.

I'd kill to see a modern reboot in 4k. Keep the gameplay largely the same, but get the graphics and physics up to snuff.

Back in the day, I played for hours and hours on my 486DX2-66 on Windows 95, with something like 64MB memory, and a 120MB and 40MB drive compressed with DriveSpace. Those were the days. I played mostly with keyboard. I tried switching to mouse, but it didn't feel as good as the keyboard.

I thought I was good at the game, and fast, until I joined an Internet game one day and kept getting pwned by some dude with a pile driver who was camped out at spawn. I realized I'd never be that fast, and never played the online version again :D

gabbagabahey ... <cheater!>

Flying Toasters are great and everything, but can somebody recreate the Opus 'n Bill screensaver?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP26kghndkE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DywBp3U2hQ

Volume warning...

I knew it was badly managed, but I didn't realize how badly I was being treated until it was over. The experience didn't have any immediate effect. Rather, it took me years to unravel the damage that was done in that short time. Time to understand what the people around me were going through (such as drug addiction coupled with severe ignorance) and to understand why I let myself be treated like that in the first place.

I came to realize after it was all over that the shop had been selling used parts as new, overcharging customers for billable time, and who knows what else that I've forgotten by now.

The point of me sharing my experience was to corroborate the article. A bad environment can turn a good employee bad by eroding their self confidence and making them feel small. I experienced that to an extreme degree. I survived it, not unscathed. And I'm proud to have not propagated the atrocious way I was treated.

Indeed to be well respected by the incredible team of people that I work with means the world to me. But, my desire to help others has always extended to my coworkers, and then the people I managed either as a supervisor or a manager. Customer service is priority one, and my first customers are the people I work with. If I'm not giving them the best customer service possible, how can I expect them to reciprocate that to others, nevermind our paying customers.

No ego, friend. Just being straightforward about it.

Sorry, no, it wasn't effective at anything except making me miserable. I didn't become a good manager because of that experience. I became despite it. I have had great mentors along the way and I've learned the right way to treat people even when they aren't at their best. I've never reflected on that experience in any kind of positive light. I appreciate what you're trying to say, but you are wrong.

not at all! Hit me up , username at gmail if you wanna chat about it any time. Can talk on the phone etc.