Maybe its that if someone is at the helm, it’s not going to be accidentally knocked. Ships helms (traditionally, I’ve not been in a large modern ship) aren’t in confined spaces specifically designated for operating the ship. They’re just a wheel on the bridge.
If it’s on autopilot, nobody is at the helm, and someone walks past, gets bumped or whatever into the helm. You don’t want the boat yeeting itself into land.
I had an appointment booked at my GO. Get there 10 mins early. Everything’s normal, one other person in the waiting room.
Other person gets called in. Still normal.
Receptionist walks through the waiting room, locks the front door, then shuts the shutter to the reception desk. “Uh what”
20mins pass, haven’t seen another soul. Not tooo unusual to wait 20mins.
40mins, sunk cost fallacy sets in. Can’t leave anyway as the front door is locked.
50 mins later, receptionist comes in “the doctor will see you now, sorry for the wait we had our weekly staff meeting”
You fucking what. You booked me in at the time you have your fucking weekly staff meeting?!
Generally, you avoid frying your offspring.
But WRT the OPs concerns of flying; People move, get jobs in other cities and countries, have kids, want to visit families, grandparents get sick, etc.
There’s a whole range of reasons why. Going “whelp, you had kids, sorry we’re going to ostracise you from society until your crotchspawn can keep quiet” isn’t exactly an inclusive attitude.
Like the article mentions, PSO was released on the Dreamcast, and had an MMO component.
Not sure what this would have done different?
I used to love ‘the cloud’. Rather, a specific slice of it.
I worked almost exclusively on AppEngine, it was simple. You uploaded a zip of your code to appengine and it ran it at near infinite scale. They gave you a queue, a database, a volatile cache, and some other gizmos. It was so simple you’d struggle to fuck it up really.
It was easy, it was simple, and it worked for my clients who had 10 DAU, and my clients who had 5 million DAU. Costs scaled nearly linearly, and for my hobby projects that had 0 DAU, the costs were comparable.
Then something happened and it slowly became complicated. The rest of the GCP cloud crept in and after spending a term with a client who didn’t use “the cloud” I came back to it and had to relearn nearly everything.
Pretty much all of the companies I’ve worked for could be run on early AppEngine. Nobody has needed anything more than it, and I’m confident the only reason they had more was because tech is like water. You need to put it in a bucket or it goes everywhere.
Give me my AppEngine back. It allowed me to focus on my (or my clients) problems. Not the ones that come with the platform.
Wouldn’t dressing up the warewolf reinforce the argument that it’s a seasonal decoration?
What kind of bizarre trinket cabinet did your teacher have.
“And today kids I brought in Howard. His job is to measure tolerances on every B22 lightbulb to come out of the local GE lightbulb factory”
This is one of the reasons I emigrated. To get away from standardised testing when it doesn’t matter.
Sigh. Sorry kiddo, tried to do the right thing.
You guys are getting push notifications?
Preschool PPE
I doubt it’s /just/ smoke ventilation. Sure, it’s primarily there for fire safety.
But it probably provides ambient ventilation for the tunnel too. Tunnels with trains get hot. Most things, living or inanimate don’t like heat.
And if it’s always ventilating, it’s also might be expelling brake and metal dust from passing trains.
But all speculation. I’m not a train engineer, so I’m probably wrong.
Not entirely true.
In some countries (UK, NZ) Uber has to give you the price of the journey up front. Whereas taxis are metered and do not.
Uber UK has competition in thin regard with Minicabs, but the minicab apps are still shit.
Capped costs for consumers is a competitive advantage over taxis, and Uber has managed to find the sweet spot between hailing a taxi, and booking a minicab.
He was a shareholder and board member too. He 100% was an instigator.
I worked for a tech company that went through an acquisition. The GM for my department knew what was up and insulated everyone from it.
6 months later, redundencies for every department but ours.
He also just told us what he wanted, and not how he wanted things done. Probably one of my best bosses tbh.
If you still do the sizing (it’s not entirely wasted as it’s a reasonably effective tool to gauge understanding across the team), This can still be done without the artificial time boxing.
“How much work have we done in the last two weeks?” Just look at all the stories closed in the last two weeks. Easy.
“When will X be delivered?” Look at X and all its dependencies, add up all the points, and guesstimate the time equivalence.
Kanban isn’t a free for all, you still need structure and some planning. But you take most of that away from the do-ers and let them do what they do best… do.
Is “lux touch marble” really a material? It’s a designer tile made from a number of other materials sold with an extravagant markup to part rich idiots with their money.
They’re just regular diamonds, but with flaws in the carbon lattice that just so happens to make them appear red.
I should probably be doing it anyway, but back to wearing masks in store.
It’ll most likely mean the people running stuff in the background. payroll, asset management and purchasing, IT staff, etc.
These people will have an impact on ‘crime fighting’, but marginally. Eg. If there’s a problem with payroll it might mean the police officers are paid a day or two late. Or maybe office supplies aren’t kept well stocked in station.
But it might also be anyone who’s not an “officer”. So police station support/maintenance, mechanics, analysts (people who help the police analyse gathered intelligence), 111 operators, etc.
This would probably have significant impacts on ‘crime fighting’. 500 extra police isn’t going to be as effective if police cars are broken, intelligence isn’t accurate, or there’s a wait time on 111.
Go do a trade. Computers are dumb.