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@BernieTheBernie
SURPRISE!
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
Give your kids a wonderful surprise: Salmonella.
There truly is no happiness left in the world.
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@BernieTheBernie Just make sure to cook your Kinder eggs such that the internal temperature reaches at least 80Ā°C or whatever.
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
If you feel that you need some time away from family and friends, this might be the job for you:
Deal breaker:
Workers will be living in conditions that include limited power, no running water or internet access.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
I'll wait for the article telling me that constant gps use for the last decade and not leaving the house for two years has killed my sense of direction. This doesn't even deserve a no shit Sherlock award.
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Guess whoās got a bridge to sell you!
You gotta admire the gumption.
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@DogsB A Bollywood remake. Bigger, better and crazier.
https://theworld.org/stories/2012-05-03/czech-republic-thieves-steal-10-ton-steel-bridge-scrap-metal.
Thieves in the Czech Republic stole a 10-ton steel bridge for scrap metal.
They even showed police officers conducting a routine patrol forged documents saying they were working on a new bicycle path.How does one go about stealing an entire bridge? We'll never know, as the thieves who made off with the 22-ton 82-ft. long bridge in the Golcuk district of Turkey have gone and pulled a Houdini just like the bridge.
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-48517926.
Local prosecutors say the unknown perpetrators removed a metal structure 23m long and weighing 56 tonnes from the bridge - its main central span.
In 2017, a 10m-long Soviet-era anti-aircraft missile exploded at a recycling centre, apparently after being sold for scrap.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@cvi said in In other news today...:
80,433 +/- 9 MeV/c2
That's.... Mega electron-Volts per speed-of-light-squared?
E = mc^2, so...
m = E / c^2And eV is a unit of energy. OK, it checks out.
So glad my university physics classes weren't totally wasted.It's probably the first time I see the
/cĀ²
spelled out. Particle physicists usually don't bother and if they want to make it formal, they just switch to measuring distance in seconds which makesc = 1
(dimensionless) and then mass and energy become the same thing. They get mixed up in relativistic domain anyway.
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I don't want to live on this world any more.
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
I don't want to live on this world any more.
People just watch it because they want something to do.
Friends asked me to go see Sonic yesterday, and I almost said yes because I haven't met any friends since 6 weeks. In the end I declined, because I guess I learned from Green Lantern and Captain Marvel, which I knew would suck massive donkey balls before going, but I was tempted.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
Friends asked me to go see Sonic yesterday, and I almost said yes because I haven't met any friends since 6 weeks. In the end I declined, because I guess I learned from Green Lantern and Captain Marvel, which I knew would suck massive donkey balls before going, but I was tempted.
On the other hand, you probably expected Ant Man and Aquaman to have the same donkey connection, but they turned out way better than anyone predicted.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
Friends asked me to go see Sonic yesterday, and I almost said yes because I haven't met any friends since 6 weeks.
If they invited you to go see Sonic, are they really your friends?
(I say this as someone intending to see the movie. But not willing to go out of my way for it. It will stream eventually. If not, )
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
I don't want to live on this world any more.
I liked the first one. I'll watch the second one too, but probably not at the cinema.
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The anecdata I have so far on Sonic 2 suggests it is better than the first and is otherwise a couple of hours of relative nonsense that is just fun.
Itās nice to consider the world not being grimdark and on fire and omg everyone is screaming the whole time.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
Itās nice to consider the world not being grimdark and on fire and omg everyone is screaming the whole time.
I'm not sure I can stretch my suspension of disbelieve that far.
Edit: Eh, if any of my friends interested in watching it were in the same country, I might have gone. Not because I want to see it, but as others have pointed out, just a different reason to hang out. Probably go for some food & beers afterwards too. (Well, I guess we could just skip the movie, but whatever.)
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@cvi not even for like two hours while youāre in the movie theatre?
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@Arantor Probably smells of old popcorn. Difficult to imagine a wholesome world when you have to smell old popcorn.
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@cvi having no sense of smell (as I donāt) appears to be a convenient blessing in aiding the suspension of disbelief.
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@cvi Back when I was in university and still had physical local friends, we gathered a few times to watch Jackie Chan movies. The old classics.
It need not be a new movie. Just pick something that's sufficiently old to be "a classic" for the snobs while still being sufficiently funny that normal people consider it a good time to watch it with friends and drinks.
It helps if one of your circle has a big TV or, better yet, an overhead projector.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
better yet, an overhead projector.
As long as they can change the transparencies quickly enough for the framerate to be smooth.
(I know what you meant but )
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
better yet, an overhead projector.
As long as they can change the transparencies quickly enough for the framerate to be smooth.
(I know what you meant but )
One of my friends for one of those for free from a school and used a monitor with a broken backlight to make a cheap projector for himself. He brought it to a few Lan parties.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
Well, you could always replace the transparencies by a transparent screen connected to your computer.
Yes, that was a thing (though I can't remember the name, if I ever knew it). Also, yes, there's an onion around there.
Filed under: who here broke a laser printer by feeding it the wrong type of transparencies?
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@remi said in In other news today...:
who here broke a laser printer by feeding it the wrong type of transparencies?
One of the few things where inkjet printers work better. When they work at allā¦
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@remi said in In other news today...:
Filed under: who here broke a laser printer by feeding it the wrong type of transparencies?
Don't think I've ever fully broken one, but I've definitively spent several hours disassembling a laser printer and pulling out semi-molten pieces of transparencies out of it.
The other amusing thing happened at the end of a day. Most people had left. Colleague had waited so he could print out a pile of transparencies on the shared local printer. However, I managed to sneak in a print job just before him. Double sided and with auto-stapling. Long story short: reading a 15 page research
papertransparency on double-sided printed transparencies is kinda difficult. I was somewhat surprised that the printer managed to put a staple through that, though.
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@dcon The "You suck at economics" thread is .
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@dcon The "You suck at economics" thread is .
I loved this part:
Garcia said the idea was prompted in part by the exodus of employees
Soon to be followed by the exodus of companies.
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@dcon except the trials in New Zealand and Iceland didn't find that to be the case.
The same workload got done by people who were less tired and more motivated. If you're not making people work 50+ hours, they're not doing 35+ hours of work slower and slower.
Yes, there are edge cases, but all in all the studies show that it's not nearly the death strangle that people think.
Then again this opinion is coming to you from someone who has 4 weeks PTO a year and a 38-and-change hour work week so...
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@Arantor I wonder how typical the companies picked for these trials were.
All I imagine when hearing about this is 5 days worth of meetings, calls and general non-work compressed into 4 days and a reduction in actual work. Plus only getting paid for 4 days work.
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@loopback0 That's not what I'm given to understand.
The theory goes that with the advances in technology, we don't really have 40 hours of work per week, we have less, but we pad the time to fit the 40 hours a week.
In theory if you knew you only had to work 32 hours, you would be less inclined to sit around padding things to make it fit - and if you're not working a fifth day you're also better rested.
This week in the UK is the week before Easter, next week the week after (obviously) - they're both 4 day weeks for many people. The reality for me personally is that I'm likely to fit in at least what would normally be 9 days' worth of productivity into those 8 days, if nothing else because I'll feel slightly less mental in the middle of it. (But only slightly.)
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
This week in the UK is the week before Easter, next week the week after (obviously) - they're both 4 day weeks for many people. The reality for me personally is that I'm likely to fit in at least what would normally be 9 days' worth of productivity into those 8 days
Whereas I will be fitting in 7.5 days of work into those 8 days because I also had this afternoon off.
More seriously though I get the theory but like a lot of things I can't see it working in practice.
That's why I'm curious how typical those companies in the trial were.For example the company I work for has network engineers that go out installing services to business customers. Those teams are out doing jobs that take as long as they take without padding or pointless calls and meetings. Losing a working day is a 20% reduction in installation capacity that we can't magic back. So we'd need more engineers to maintain the same level of productivity.
edit: I'm not saying that's a typical example either, but I'd imagine "business providing other services to other businesses" probably is a typical scenario that this doesn't work for
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@remi said in In other news today...:
who here broke a laser printer by feeding it the wrong type of transparencies?
One of the few things where inkjet printers work better. When they work at allā¦
E_VACUOUS_TRUTH
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
Plus only getting paid for 4 days work.
According to TFA, it will be illegal to reduce workers' wages for the reduced hours; i.e., hourly rates will be forced upward to match the same weekly total. Because Kommiefornia sucks at economics. But this is definitely getting into economics.
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@loopback0 that certainly depends on the specific job. Youāre not getting 5 days worth of flipping burgers done in 4 days. However, I spend half a day fucking around on WTDWTF every day, unless itās Friday and I can compress a weekās worth of coding into a day because nobody is pissing me off with meetings and administrative shit anymore.
Basically, by time, I get paid 50% to take my mind off bullshit so I donāt go insane, 40% to do shit I donāt care about, and 10% to balance all that with being productive in things I do care about.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
that certainly depends on the specific job
Yes, exactly. But the California bill doesn't seem to have accounted for that, nor do the studies on the 4 day working week AFAICT.
@topspin said in In other news today...:
unless itās Friday and I can compress a weekās worth of coding into a day because nobody is pissing me off with meetings and administrative shit anymore.
I have regular calls on Fridays. Not many (and none in the afternoon) but some. If Friday was no longer a working day then all but one would just move to another day.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
However, I spend half a day fucking around on WTDWTF every day,
On a related note I'm struggling to remember how I wasted time back when I was in the office 4 days a week. It wasn't here as I don't browse here on my work computer or on mobile.
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@loopback0 Minesweeper?
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
how I wasted time ... It wasn't here
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
It wasn't here as I don't browse here on my work computer
Peasant.
or on mobile.
You miss out on all the ļs. Like how the post editor is more fucking broken than CSās WHY DOES IT DELETE TWO CHARACTERS WHEN I PRESS BACKSPACE ONCE.
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@loopback0 Where's your sense of adventure?
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 Where's your sense of adventure?
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
from the article:
āThe fact of the matter is many other companies are already doing this, and other countries too, so I think this is the direction weāre going,ā said Low, the billās co-author, noting that many companies that have tried similar strategies have also reported better customer engagement and lower utility costs.
So why does the legislature need to get involved at all? If this is really so good, companies will adapt it on their own and as companies switch and attract the best talent (one of the listed pros of the plan is bringing employees back to the state and the workforce) their competitors will adopt it as well.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
So why does the legislature need to get involved at all?
That is a question that can only be addressed (I hesitate to say "answered", because that basically boils down to politicians are stupid and/or corrupt) in , because a legislature's reason for doing anything is inherently political.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
So why does the legislature need to get involved at all? If this is really so good, companies will adapt it on their own and as companies switch and attract the best talent (one of the listed pros of the plan is bringing employees back to the state and the workforce) their competitors will adopt it as well.
So why did the legislature get involved at all in setting the 40-hour week in the first place?
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@Watson said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
So why does the legislature need to get involved at all? If this is really so good, companies will adapt it on their own and as companies switch and attract the best talent (one of the listed pros of the plan is bringing employees back to the state and the workforce) their competitors will adopt it as well.
So why did the legislature get involved at all in setting the 40-hour week in the first place?
Unions and the politicians they buy.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@Watson said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
So why does the legislature need to get involved at all? If this is really so good, companies will adapt it on their own and as companies switch and attract the best talent (one of the listed pros of the plan is bringing employees back to the state and the workforce) their competitors will adopt it as well.
So why did the legislature get involved at all in setting the 40-hour week in the first place?
Unions and the politicians they buy.
I'd've thought the companies would have deeper pockets and be able to outbid unions in the politician market.