Agreed, this situation has none of the aspects that they opposed about the law.

I personally wouldn’t see it as hypocritical. Not sure why it would be embarrassing.

Using this to get rid of a corrupt person is not the same as using it to silence dissent.

Exactly, industry standard is for local stop (HMI stop) to override any and all start commands unless there is a very good reason to not stop that device.

Ok so someone made a mistake and applied an auto-pilot command early…it happens.

It appeared from that point, a crew member had inadvertently hit an execute button, causing the vessel to alter its course in a way it would do around about one nautical mile further along. As this happened early and steered it towards the shore.

As an automation engineer, my first though is why is this even able to happen? Once you are outside the area where you need a local pilot to guide you, shouldn’t the system check the GPS location to ensure that the commands make sense. This should be easy to check!

Some days it’s good to have aphantasia

Last Windows I ran full-time was XP, ran Win7 for a couple of months before switching Ubuntu 10.04; still used Win XP and Win7 in VM’s for years for specific applications.

Win10 is the OS on the work machines, some of it is really nice, but so much feels backward. I don’t get why there is still control panel and the settings app. Why is notepad so shit…

I used Win11 recently, it looks quite nice, more consistent than 10 at least. But everything I have read makes me want to stay away.

Ran Ubuntu LTS’s finishing with 20.04, have since been running Mint. Snap’s made Ubuntu a worse experience for me.

Not sure, but if it was proven and we did nothing about it, what message does that send to others that want to use their position to gain advantage.

While I get what you are trying to say.

There is a big difference between suspected corruption and proven corruption.

There are serious conversations to be had about the “legitimate” forms of corruption such as political donations etc…

There is a minor advantage to the worker, if they accrued the AL at one pay rate and didn’t use it. Then the use/cash it in at a later date after a pay increase, the accrued AL is payed out at the higher rate.

This isn’t much of an advantage, unless you have had a major correction to your pay rate in the intervening period (like 20-30% increase). For a “normalish” pay rise of 5% the increase is small.

e.g. AL = 0.08 * rate, after a pay rise it is 0.08 * (rate * 1.05) or 0.084 * oldRate (for old accumulated leave).

A side note, it would be better for businesses if AL was accumulated in $ rather than hours. It is better for workers if it is accumulated in hours rather than $. To be fair thought, if it was in $ there would have to be adjustments for time value of money, it would be way more complicated and almost impossible to audit correctly.

Make America Grovel Again

This is easy to get around.

Just start any order with “In my capacity as president, I decree that…”

You can…not everybody can.

I also love/hate excel. It is great for a lot of simple jobs where writing code would take to much time, it is terrible because you can’t audit your code* easily or at all. You get these hideously complex sheets referencing who knows what with no documentation…

• By “code” I mean shitty formula hidden in cells.

Sounds like a plan

Yep, there are ways to do this with importing the dataset into pandas and manipulating it right there; then spitting the graphs out.

Well done, the graphs look great.

Did you do the graphs in python?

Because the colours look familiar.

This “rule” only works for a small set of ages from 14 ~ 30ish

If you are 14 then the range for “age” is 14 - 14
If you are 30 then the range for “age” is 22 - 46
If you are 40 then the range for “age” is 27 - 66

At 30 the upper level is 16 years different; while it could work it is a big gap to bridge. It only gets worse the older you get.

This reminds me of something…gaining favor of the ruler is key to your advancement.

I hear those checks and balances are starting to look a little unreliable.