begged two important questions

Nope. It just raised them. That reporter needs to go back to school.

sysadmin work for an public institution or so where people are only bullshitting their jobs.

About half my career and part of my current contract load is to a public organization of one type or another. But I’ve been half and half anyway.

Dotcom is a wasteland of gunners/pluggers and wageslaves, none of them afforded enough time to get anything complete and good. Public orgs with union contracts employ people with a good life balance and the freedom to do a great job about 95% of the time, after the layers of regulations are met.

I found slackers at both types of org: the public slacker is a hapless clod whose tasks all get reassigned and he really doesn’t do much. He’s about 3% of the workforce. The dotcom slacker is a harried guy muddling through something he’s not trained for, with no help since his peers have their own KPIs, hoping like fuck he can get Project Grapefruit done by next Town Hall meeting lest he be voted off the island. Again, 3%.

The public org is great people who’ve done this work effectively their entire career. They’re astoundingly good at it, and are still energized by the work and the educational programmes. Dotcoms have no training and the few people who make it past 2 years are likely PIPped by year 4 because of the “fresh talent” policy

I envy the public org people. I miss my non-work life sometimes.

Do many pockets.

I miss my combat pants. They were comfy by the time I had to give them back, and they had so many pockets.

If he doesn’t start a sentence with “Well, Jesus, fuck, buddy,” then he’s not one of us.

Yeah. I’ll take a soft-no form letter if they ditched me vs the ghosting i got last time around.

A dear friend on the last of her reserves is waiting to hear from one of the last few interviews she’ll get in her house if she doesn’t land something within weeks. And she loves that house. We don’t have the heart to tell her they’ve ghosted her since Friday as it’ll break her.

You missed a slash in there.

That’s what the fanboys use. It’s “slopping” for the rest of us.

Ya choose better or you get worse.

Evolution takes a few iterations, but you have to put in the one day of work every 4 years without getting bored of it.

I couldn’t parse that.

monthslong

That’s a slong a month long. Is it missing a hyphen?

OS’s

I don’t need to read further. If you can’t pluralize OS, I don’t trust you to speak on it.

it looks like that is not gonna happen.

It is if we avoid products and people associated with this. Warn the people.

But I don’t live in California and my people are petty as fuck. Try to buy a coke in Newfoundland for the last 40 years.

It’s okay to just say Combustion Engine or IC Engine. It takes a few seconds more to type but it removes all confusion.

No jack? Send it back.

They don’t deserve that. They joined up as poor people needing to eat or, before, people hoping to do right by a country that deserved it back then.

Right now, though, they’re playing a bit of roulette as, overall, their chance of killing themselves later due to PTSD is far greater than the chance of them getting killed in-country now.

It may come as a surprise to you, but as recently as 18 months ago the US military was in a calm pattern of training and maintenance and wasn’t doing the level of terrible things for terrible people that they are required to do now or face court-martial.

Also, enlistment durations are longer than 18 months. But that’s just math.

Meh. If it was Ai doing the writing, it would have said “firstLY” and “secondLY”. For that matter, so would someone trained as a journalist: they went to school, after all.

I kinda think I want it to try. I make little effort to hide my location or identity, and I think I’d like to see the results.

…just without saying who I am before I get those results. And my desire to stay anonymous-ish and not give it a chance to cheat means I can’t satisfy I have the right to the identify of myself if it finds who I am.

Quite seriously, I cannot prove I have the right to make it search for me, for myself, without giving it too much information or without risking the leak of private info to a so-far unidentified stranger if it finds anything.

Catch-22

If only there was a standard time to stay with. What did the experts say?

More gear into the second market. Nice.

It’s the lidar, my dude. If musk hadn’t demanded those be ripped out then Teslas wouldn’t be such absolute shite at driving with their lame cameras.

It’s

waymo > human > Tesla

When it comes to average driving skill.