bryndos

Why would another country let you in the first place?

It’s rarely about literal monopoly. It’s more often about market power. Choice is one tool that consumers, and small scale producers have to ameliorate some of the consequences of market power.

Of course having market power, is not the same as abusing it to harm consumers - but if the profit margins are ‘abnormal’ and persistent and or uneven throughout the supply chain that’s sometimes a good indicator. If choice/competition isn’t whittling down excess profits in the long run, then there might be some distorted power relationships somewhere in the market or supply chain.

Proving/ disproving the alleged ‘unwritten rule’ might be quite interesting though. But competition investigations need to be quite wide ranging and it is notoriously difficult to prove anything.

If there is only one basin - and it’s a multi user facility - then I’d rather not queue whilst some vain cunt is preening itsself in the mirror for minutes after washing its hands.

I’m not sure there’s quite enough space to squeeze in, but probably doable. They should budge the mirror left and the basin right.

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Looks like WordPerfect before the wizzywig crap.

fuck these climate change deniers

Thanks! That’s very useful to know - I’d have assumed it can only see it’s own files within the wineprefix folder.

It looks like trying Steam within flatpak, and limiting the flatpak’s access might offer some protection. Or maybe getting stem to run as a different user.

jenga towers?

It’s an amphibious exploring vehicle

yes, it’s when you tell boss, “I can’t do that in 3 hours, it’ll take two weeks”, and probably still have some unknown aspects of quality, that we might not want to sign off on. Maybe we can rush it in 1 week, if you’re ok with want want maybe’ 20% unverified.

Boss fucks off to coprolite - gets it “done” in 3 hours. Gives it to someone else to QR. They comes back to me for advice on turd polishing (apparently that’s my SME). So I then waste time helping that person tactfully create a quality report that says it’s seriously defective and will take weeks to rectify to get it up to an acceptable standard - because it tells us nothing about how it got to it’s erroneous output.

Now, we’ve wasted about a day between us, on dog-shite - and we’ve not learned anything useful.

I don’t know what a “gen Z” is though, but whoever they are they should stand up to shite bosses.

How do you get to know you get blocked?

Do they send you a message like they’re police or a judge or something - that’s weird. When i block someone, i just click block - i assume they never know.

Blocking people is good though, I do it regularly when i feel I’ve wasted time reading some shit. Maybe you should block a few more just to get perspective on their side.

I assume I’ve been blocked by loads of people, but I don’t really know how or why I’d know ?

I think my eyeballs technically have sphincters in them too.

It’s a really good chat-up line to comment on someones beautiful eye-anuses.

Same reason we can’t have it in the UK. We won’t just pass a bill to CPO the land off (or take something else off) all the tory cunts at a nominal /cost price instead of market price.

Or even if we do we’ll elect tories back in before it can be built, and give them the land back, probably for less than they were already compensated.

I think almost all of our railway routes were set out in 1800s when parliament and financiers went nuts for trains. We’re just lucky enough that some low speed rail survived the 50s-90s when they tried to wipe them out totally. Even the carpilled couldn’t fly that hard in the face of facts.

Dedicated buslanes are great, but they can cause lumpy tarmac if you run a high frequency, high maintenance costs that could detract from other highway repairs…

Maybe add some long rows of steel reinforcement into the buslane (just to reduce maintenance costs of course), a protective barrier / embankment to stop cars encroaching.

Use E-busses of course, but maybe overhead wires, purely to reduce weight and fire risk.

/jk

I know in reality the curves and grades on a highway are too tight and steep, so you need a new easement.

Haha. Better or worse than, ‘jira tickets’ or ‘story points’?

They’re doing a f-ing reporting database migration just now, just measure tables created that match the old DB. And standard user queries that output the same.

“Oh hang on, does the new database have to have the same data as the old one?” "We’ve reviewed all of our non existing requirements gathering notes and the “business " never wrote that as a requirement. we can squeeze it in later on the roadmap, when some dev resources have been freed up. Can you tell us more about these ‘queries’; is that a power bi thing? - i think another team does that?”

Sack 3 or more layers of “management/director/head of/architect/strategy”, that have a lot more impact on productivity than letting people wank from home.

Almost every obvious stupid joke is taken way too literally, or offensively by someone or other, so I always do a double check, and delete half of my drafted replies. And that’s even after i (try to) block most politics/Dump/Skum channels.

Unless I’m really in the mood for downvote farming by trolling linux nerds (drunk).

Almost 1 in 11-12 is way more than i thought for fediverse - feels smaller.

Maybe reddit is smaller than i remember, or has more occasional users.

Do you know if those stats remove bots?

Either way it’s back yard fishpond vs great lakes and that’s the answer.

Individual worker / team / prod line. Sure you can measure those. That’s great for those at thst level… But I don’t know how you add them up across the whole of “America” without some very dubious economic statistics bullshit.

Empirically , economy wide measures are generally useless i reckon. And often manipulated. It’s very hard to add up output of different production lines (or different goods or services) in a single meaningful measure and account for all the variables like quality, product mix, availability and if you’re using price-weights all stuff that distorts market power. Econo-statisticians will calculate it, because they get paid to, but the honest/aware ones should fess up it’s got serious weaknesses however you calculate it.

I hope they found a good way to measure productivity, because I never came across a convincing one.

TLDR; kali linux - 1337 h4x0r

IIRC a lot of them involved hacking the user to get to the system which seems legit.

Get the user on their personal compy though, then find something to blackmail more info out of them. I think they do that too.

This was a long time ago for me.