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Graal seems to be continually almost ready to use, but never quite there.

The Antikythera mechanism is shockingly precise for how old it is. (100-200BC)

Unfortunately people are only seeing the bad in this article. I do similar things with my family but not so extreme. I've really found that restaurants/food are the keys to understanding the local culture. I will never forget in Pureto Rico we found a back street lechonera, when we were getting food I asked the woman behind us what was good to eat. She helped us then we sta with her for lunch. My family ended up spending almost 2 hours talking to her over lunch and got deep in to PR politics and such. An amazing experience.

What I've found helps the most is asking questions. Any time you can ask someone a question they open up and you end up making connections and learning so much. Usually it's simple stuff like sitting at a full bar and asking the person next to you how the sandwich is, or what is on their pizza. Next thing you know you're making a friend and you're actually having real conversations with locals.

And I removed C++ from my resume. Programmers should remove languages they hate working in. That said I'm gonna have Java front in center in my resume as I think it's pretty neat.

Has this dude never heard of hobbies?

This article has no details on causes. Minnesota has had a dry summer, and the driest September on record. Most streams/rivers in central/south MN are low. https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/river_levels/index.html

Riiiiight..... just let me know when I can easily find good devs.

It's been a HUGE impact - https://steamcharts.com/app/1091500#3m

This isn't exactly what I read but this helped me. It's good to encourage your children to think.

Remember that… sticks are sharp, your sister is standing right next to you, rocks are heavy.

Notice how… these rocks are slippery, the glass is filled up to the top, that branch is strong.

What’s your plan… with that big stick, if you climb up that tree?

Do you feel… stable on that rock, balanced on that step, the heat from the fire?

How will you… get down, go up, get across?

Can you see… the toys on the floor, the end of the path, that big rock over there?

Can you hear… the rushing water, the wind, the other kids playing?

Try using your… hands, feet, arms, legs.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/stop-telling-kids-careful-in...

My only advice is to get out one way or another. I'd try to convince your boss to lay you off (yay severance) and keep the subordinates. Either way if you were looking and they were doing lay offs sounds like a depressing place to work. Get out as soon as you can.

In northern MN often times they use helicopters for transport for major emergencies.

If you compare the losses to what is claimed as active you can rule out whole categories as being "active".

2000 is not at all accurate for most Americans sedentary lifestyle.

That is the most slanted site I have read in quite some time. Should not be trusted.

Ha, I got that table, we had to stalk Ikea's store every day to catch it in stock and drive there immediately.

This is a tangential anecdote for inflation though, it's supply and demand here. They have a limited number so they are going to charge as much as they can for the limited stock they have.

I had several people with darker skin tones.

Similarly Mankato MN being on the list is wierd. Very small town, a college town actually. I would imagine 50% + of stackoverflow traffic to come from college kids.

Please be aware of the second system effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect

Are you me? o_0. Shockingly similar situation.

You should consider stepping back and spending 25 or 50% time mentoring instead of coding. But what I've found is that it's REALLY hard to do something 20% without doing it 100%, so perhaps a few weeks (months) of NO coding, then starting to code again.

Same experience I had constantly misrepresented, especially internet/quality of A/C which are not minor things.

This is exactly my daughter, she thrived online when her teachers posted a weeks material at a time she'd be done by wednesday. She was so happy she could work at her own pace and didn't have to wait for other kids.

I'll never forget having a negatively productive programmer on my team. If he spent an hour on a PR it would take 1.5+ hours of work to get the PR into shape to merge by other people because it took so much explaining for this guy. It was usually better to just scrap his code and start over. If code of his did slip through reviews often times there would be production defects that would then take more time to solve (tracking down the issue, figuring out where the code was, overhead of service tickets etc) than the original implementation. Just totally wild, he had somehow survived years in the org being shipped from team to team and being a nice pleasant guy to be around. How does one calculate the productiveness of someone on a team compared to that?

Same experience as me, went in nobody was there. Spent day doing the exact same thing as at home with a different view and extra 50 minutes of driving. Did not go in again.

I found an oven that had all the features I wanted... and internet. After verifying it did not require internet I bought it and it will never be connected. Who connects something that could burn your house down to the internet?!

This is crazy how much this hits home. I created a slack channel 1.5 years ago with a similar title and purpose - stop DMing me directly, there are many people that know. I got a promotion 1.5 years ago and finally was able to do the job 3 months ago. It took that long to disentangle, as soon as I would start some fire would occur or someone would quit and I'd be dragged back in.

Barely into it and I find this nugget "His expensive weaponry is being held back" the SU-34's being shot down would disagree, and the tens of million dollar MRLSs being towed by farmers as well...

My mother in law got it from agro chemicals as well.

Was he asking to get paid the same for the PM position? I highly doubt they pay that much for PMs.

Small sample size, but still very interesting. I was shocked that some people think text should be removed from the UI for them. I would hope the goal would be for them to learn to read and I have to imaging after seeing certain words like "close" or "save" over and over they would get some basic understanding of the shape of the word to help them in new applications or other areas of their life.