AFKBRBChocolate

joined 2 years ago
[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 hours ago

How did they get you into it?

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 7 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Haven't seen one in many years, but used to find them on the car in the 70s and 80s.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 5 points 13 hours ago

Made for it in what way? I'm not seeing a slot for it to sit in or anything to hold it in place. Regardless of whether it's the intended place or not, a flat panel TV just resting on its edge with nothing holding it in place is asking for trouble.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 days ago

Oh! Was it the Liberian guy that Trump complimented on his good English when that's an English speaking country? Okay, I'm slow. Funny!

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What does Liberia have against Trump?

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago

That probably would have been a good design feature because it turns out potatoes grow well in space, but we opted to go with solar power.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago

Our Aussie for comparison

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago (4 children)

We actually had a very cool laser program for many years. One of the times that the company changed hands, the parent company kept the lasers part.

But we did a lot of very neat electrical power systems, including the whole electrical power management system for the space station.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Looks like a dachshund/Australian shepherd mix. Or is it some particular breed?

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 days ago (6 children)

I worked for 40 years at a company that made most of NASA's rocket engines, and a host of other impressive technology. There were many, many geniuses there - lots of literal rocket scientists, and leaders in fields like materials science and chemical engineering. One thing I learned early on was that most of the true geniuses looked down on people who mentioned being members of Mensa. It was like a red flag that the person cares too much about being perceived as smart. People who care so much about that put more energy into fostering the image than actually contributing.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago

I was a manager at an aerospace company for a bunch of years, just recently retired. One of my takeaways was that, like so many facets of managing people, there's no single right way to do WFH. I had employees who could WFH 100% of the time, with increased productivity and increased morale. I had employees that fit OP's description and were super lonely during the pandemic because their whole social life revolved around work. I had employees who preferred WFH, but were much more productive when they could collaborate in person.

I was frustrated that my company insisted on implementing one-size-fits-all solutions, which eventually became 100% RTO. I thought it would have been most effective to let managers decide what worked best for individuals and teams. For many of my employees, I would have asked for a hybrid arrangement, where they came into the office two days a week, with one of those days being common to the team and one being flexible, and the ability for anyone to come in more than that if desired. But I also had employees who either didn't have a collaborative job, or they collaborated with people at different sites (so had to do virtual meetings anyway), and those people I would have said could 100% WFH.

 
 

I've mostly been a .world user, but have this alt account on .ca as a backup. I logged into it to make sure I didn't have anything in my inbox, and noticed that everything loads so much faster. In both cases I'm using the browser interface from my tablet, sorting by all. On .world, there's a pause before the text comes up, then the thumbnails and graphics slowly populate. On .ca, it all pretty much loads instantly.

Is it just the number of users being a lot bigger? More community activity? Hardware differences? Running different software versions? A combination of these? I'm curious.

 

It seems like most times I go to my .world account, I get the bad gateway error. Is there a fix for this?

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