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

Usually, even with salaried positions, you’re taking about a 40 hour week-ish. If it gets a lot more than that, it’s bad management, though there will be spikes and lulls.

Most companies with unlimited PTO have some guidelines. Like at mine, once you hit 160 hours (4 weeks) there’s another level of approval. So you can guess that four weeks is easy, more gets more scrutiny, but certainly isn’t impossible.

Every company is different. These are very reasonable questions to ask your manager. “Hey, I just wanted to make sure I understand expectations about…”

Thanks for that. Glad they got one of them.

Very luck not to be squashed between truck and wall

Must have been terrifying

I’m fairness, a calculator wouldn’t explain how to get there. An LLM might not explain it correctly, but it will explain it.

Yeah, of course abortion isn’t pregnancy related - who would think that?

/s

My coworker who was on that flight was really anxious about it. I was pretty confident that it was just a matter of balancing the load.

In those days I was getting to take the helicopter for a meeting with every other week, and it was always the highlight of the week. Those things are just so damned fun. They can clearly haul a lot more weight than a cab full of people.

Each party has the goal of getting the other side to say something that will be a useful campaign sound bite. Maybe that will cause then to tone things down.

Who am I kidding, Trump will go over the top as usual trying to rile Biden.

I’m with you. Trump disgusts me more than any human being alive, but I wish we could keep the complaints to the things that actually matter. I don’t care about his odd use of bronzer, his hair, the size of his hands, what he eats, how much profanity he uses in private meetings, or any of that crap. I care that he will 100% put making a buck over the good of the country, doesn’t think laws apply to him, is a racist and a misogynist, and stuff that actually matters for the head of a world power.

I honestly didn’t mind when stores sell Christmas stuff early. Some people like to plan things out. What bugs me is when they put up their own decorations early or start playing Christmas music.

I used to fly on the company helicopter pretty regularly. It would go around to the different sites in the broader area, picking up and dropping off. One time, we stopped at a site and a very, very large man got in and sat in back on one side. He was about as heavy as you can imagine a person being and still walking around on his own power. The pilot went straight up from the pad a couple hundred feet, played with settings on the stick, dropped maybe twenty feet, played some more, up and down a couple more times, then flew away like normal. I’d never seen them do that before or after. I assume he must have been getting the settings right for the unusually unbalanced load.

I’m an atheist, but I was raised Catholic and went to a Catholic high school. People like this honestly amaze me. If there’s one message that’s repeated over and over in the new testament, it’s “love everyone, regardless of anything about them, and treat them with kindness.” People like this are somehow unashamed to say “Loving everyone is wrong because it condones sinful behavior.” And so many will nod their heads with that.

I’m happy to see that when they use a person like Dolly, who actually lives the values, as an example of what they mean, people will say “Hey, wait a minute…”

Not sure why you got the downvotes. Cute.

The concept predate that though.

I still think, when people today talk about the multiverse, they usually mean not just parallel universes, but parallel timelines. Like in the MCU where there are all sorts of different versions of earth, but most are pretty recognizable. I realize the definition doesn’t depend on that, but it seems to be the common usage.

Plato did talk about other universes, but it was more like planes of existence. Sort of like the concepts of heaven and hell in a way. A key element, to me, of the multiverse is that it’s variant timelines, not just another realm.

There was a novel in the early 30s called “Sideways in Time” that talked about not just going forward and backward in time, but also sideways.

You could make an argument that the early 20s HG Wells story “Men Like Gods” did it earlier. It has a branch in time with the two paths existing simultaneously.

Seems pretty reasonable to me. It’s not 5 comments, it’s 5 posts. I’m guessing they’re trying to limit spammers and people with an agenda. As I recall, some Lemmy instances either implemented or considered limits on total posts across communities because of spamming.