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- Comment on Sweet pic 2 days ago:
According to the source, he didn’t saturate it.
I drive by something like that daily. Some days it does look like that, but it mostly looks like a regular manure field. Capturing it on camera is a matter of timing.
- Comment on Hopping out of the shower, realizing I forgot to bring a towel 2 days ago:
Not a hoopy frood.
- Comment on Anon missed /pol/ 1 week ago:
At some point, not far away, the people who have guns will run out of food before they run out of ammo. The morons will work with the tools they have.
- Comment on "Can I Make Guitar Hero From Scratch Using Only A Guitar?" | Code Bullet 1 week ago:
The title is sort of misleading.
He’s coding the game by playing guitar.
- Comment on What do office workers actually do? 2 weeks ago:
An office is usually divided in different departments that have different functions.
In no particular order, not exhaustive, and skipping management and IT, typical functions could be:
Customer service. Pick up the main phone line and check the official mail box, talk to customers, redirect calls to other departments.
Sales coordinators. Receive orders from customers, through sales representatives or by web etc. They basically ensure that all incoming orders have the proper data to be processed. Keeps track of order confirmations and maybe send data back to the customers.
Logistics. Arrange shipments from suppliers, to customers and between stock locations. Files all documents for toll and tariffs.
Debtor controllers. Keeps track of customer payments, outgoing invoices, payment plans, sending reminders and debt collection.
Creditor controllers. Register incoming invoices. Get approvals from whoever ordered it and pays the bills on time or whenever it makes most sense for discounts and such.
Finance controllers. Keeps track of the entire balance sheet. Bank reconciliations, cash flow, investments, files and pays taxes. General bookkeeping that doesn’t fit in the other departments. Does the financial statements, reporting, monthly, quarterly or annually.
HR/Payroll and PR/marketing are self-explanatory I think.
All of these administrative functions are necessary in most companies, but in smaller companies it all could very well be done by a single person, while in large companies they might have several people in each department.
Many companies have several subsidiaries or other constructions, so tasks or functions can also be spread out like that. For instance, I can be the creditor department in one company while also doing finance in another or payroll in a third. So while the functions are somewhat strictly defined by the tasks, it’s only in very large companies that someone does just one function.
All office functions are constantly being made more efficient. A lot of it is truly boring, so it’s in everyone’s interest to automate as much as possible. I don’t feel sorry for someone losing their office job to an algorithm, no, I’m happy for them not having to do it anymore.
- Comment on Who can I ask or where can I find help in moving to a new country? 2 weeks ago:
Something that people often forget: Contact the embassy in the country.
They know all the stuff, have networks and can send you in the right direction. It might cost something if they need to do any kind paperwork, but in my experience they’ll gladly give you contact info for free to someone who can help you.
- Comment on woag 3 weeks ago:
!lemmysilver
- Comment on America is fucked 3 weeks ago:
There’s congestion in German cities too. The point isn’t to drive away. During rettungsgasse, nobody goes anywhere. They just make way by stopping to the sides.
The problem in NY is that the cars are too big for the lanes to do that.
- Comment on Anon doesn't understand mirrors 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Why didn't *I* think of that? 4 weeks ago:
Give your nickel to Wikipedia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_tax
Tl;dr: 6000 BCE in ancient Iraq. It predates money, so they’d pay in whatever they used the land for.
- Comment on Nice try 4 weeks ago:
If you have kids, try cutting sticks of cucumber and carrots. Serve them in a bowl next to a bowl of candy. See which gets eaten first.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Unpredictable things happens at that speed.
Forget about braking distance. The reaction time is the difference between life and dying before you even know it.
I know of one example where a motorcyclist killed himself that way. Nobody knows how fast he was going but it’s assumed above 250 km/h, on a regular highway. Down the road is a cross section. A lorry was fully stopped at the crossing and preparing to turn right onto the highway in the same direction as the motorcycle. The lorry driver checked both directions and saw that the road was completely clear as far as the eye could see, hundreds of meters.
A split second later he heard a bump and pulled over to check if he had hit an animal or something. He found a massive hole in the back and the debris from a motorcycle. There was no brake marks or anything indicating that the motorcycle had even attempted to brake or steer around. The theory is that the motorcyclist might have glimpsed at the speedometer or something for long enough that he drove the entire visible distance before being able to even react.
Obviously he was a fault himself, but the point is that at speeds like this, you no longer have any capability to predict what happens next.
If your friend thinks that cool, he might as well play Russian roulette. At least that doesn’t put innocent people in danger.
- Comment on Motorcycle knowledge 5 weeks ago:
!lemmysilver
- Comment on How do you pronounce "centaur" and why? 5 weeks ago:
Hard C and noticeable U: Ken-tower.
- Comment on Anon appreciates Chris Sawyer 1 month ago:
I’ve read a lot of stories about it, because I’m a fan of the game and also used to dabble in assembly myself. His motivation isn’t as crazy as it’s often presented.
He used assembly because he had always programmed in assembly on a variety of hardware. He basically had every typical function documented or memorized from other projects. Just as any programmer can remember the statements in a language, he had blocks of assembly code that he could put together to do the same things. Like functions, right? If it’s made right and you know what it does, then you don’t even need to look at what’s between the brackets.
At the time he wrote RCT, he simply couldn’t be bothered to start a new collection of scripts in a different language.
- Comment on Cathy, do the math. 1 month ago:
The idea that you’re suggesting is called union busting. It only works in USA and very few sectors in Europe where sector agreements are not mandatory by law.
I’d argue that it also doesn’t work in USA, since the companies end up spending more money on avoiding an agreement than what they’d save on salaries. They also waste a lot of time and resources on the individual bargaining, which provides no value for neither the company or the employee.
If the employers pay people more to not join a union, the union might even say: “Mission achieved without a fight. See ya’ll next time inflation catches up.”
- Comment on Cathy, do the math. 1 month ago:
because of pay incentives to leave the union
I believe you missed the part about how the employers negotiate. They don’t. Their union does. A single employer can pay all the money it wants to its own employees to make them quit the union, but the employer is still bound by the agreement that is made on their behalf by all the other companies in the same employer union. They will never be able to agree to pay off an entire sector to do what you suggest, because these companies are competitors. Unlike the businesses that are competing in a race to the bottom by lowering wages, the companies that have union agreements are competing in a race to attract the best employees. It’s not uncommon for businesses to pay more or give better terms than the union agreement describes. That is their edge against their competitors. The only businesses interested in “escaping” the minimum pay are the unsuccesful bottom feeders.
- Comment on Cathy, do the math. 1 month ago:
Technically, yes, on paper, they do expire, gets cancelled and renewed every 2-3 years.
In practice, no. They can’t not be renewed. If the employees don’t accept the agreement there will be a strike, and if the employers don’t accept the agreement they can make a lock-out. If the strike or lock-out leads nowhere, and society comes to a halt, the government can sign a law to require the work to resume on previous terms.
The individual employer has no more say in the negotiations than an individual employee. The negotiations happen between the employer union and the employee union.
Keep in mind that some companies actually want to have a union agreement. It’s really only the most unprofessionally run and privately owned companies who believe they can somehow save money from not having an proper agreement with their employees.
Professionel companies focus on making money instead.of wasting resources fighting their own employees.
- Comment on Cathy, do the math. 1 month ago:
In my case, even that wouldn’t matter. The only way for an employer to get out of a union agreement is to shut down the business completely.
- Comment on Cathy, do the math. 1 month ago:
They can’t cut union rates.
- Comment on The Kermit Cycle 1 month ago:
This meme is what happens when rodents eat beans after midnight.
- Comment on Fucking hell 1 month ago:
Easy. We often use idioms for comparisons.
One old way would be: “Trump and Hitler are both 2/3 yards from one piece” which means “They’re cut from the same (bad) fabric”.
Fabric was cut in an old measurement"alen" which was 2 foot or 2/3 yards, so simply stating the length would be understood as fabric, similar to how everyone knows that a 2x4s is a piece of wood and such.
- Comment on AI will replace us all... trust me 1 month ago:
First one was technically correct. The red ball balances on top of the “white ball with a blue ball on top”.
- Comment on TIL there's appliances to help with waffle stomping, Thanks Google 1 month ago:
The real issue is that the drain trap is much smaller for a shower than that in a toilet even if the pipes are the same diameter.
The waffle grid is for the exact purpose of stopping things that are too large for the drain trap, so theoretically it should be fine. If it passes the grid, it can pass the trap. However, the drain trap doesn’t clean out entirely every time. If you stomp shit into the drain, then the trap will contain shit until it is cleaned out. It will also smell like shit, which defeats the purpose of having the trap in the first place.
Drain traps are disgusting enough without the addition of shit. Even in best case, it will accumulate hair mixed with shampoo and conditioner. I doubt that mixing it with shit will generate any kind of water savings, because it will require a thorough cleaning more often. Also, the main pipes actually needs a lot of water to drain. If by saving on water you eventually have to call a plumber to blast out the fat-bergs it will require a whole lot of more water.
- Comment on You guys have to end it 1 month ago:
Grand staff drifting
- Comment on modern psychiatry be like 2 months ago:
If its not the default it’s considered disabled.
Vision is the outlier on this. More people wear glasses than not. This of course goes both ways and in various degrees, but I think the average is slightly nearsighted. It’s easily correctable, so nothing is done to make anything more easily accessible for vision impaired people.
However, neurodiversity is not easily correctable, so perhaps we ought to accept that with the rise in diagnosises that perhaps it’s actually rather normal and adjust our expectations for what people can actually do, instead of calling a majority of people “sick”.
I mean, look at attention disorders like ADHD. They’re perfectly healthy and can do all kinds of stuff. They just can’t do it for 8 hours straight between 9-17… its the expectations that need to change. It’s sick.
- Comment on How much did it cost to create a 10 foot long bike lane 2 months ago:
I got an offer for a similar sized area, which was about €500.
It appears to be a safety measure, so it’s well spent.
- Comment on Why does it seem like many Americans have an arrogant personality trait? 2 months ago:
I think a lot of their culture revolves around adolescence. Sports, music, movies, fashion etc. are based on juvenile traits, where talking, actions and getting attention are more important than more mature things like listening and compromising.
They’re not all like that, but there certainly are many who get through life in an American cultural bubble. When you reach your early twenties you probably think you’ve got everything figured out. That will last until you encounter other cultures that can challenge your views. A lot of Americans don’t encounter other cultures.
I know plenty of Europeans who are similar, but they don’t appear as one group. A German ignorant appears and speaks different than a Swedish ignorant, and both countries are known for having a similar superiority complex based on their own domestic successes. The Americans are in a disadvantage here, since everyone can hear and understand them, and there’s quite a lot of them, so their presence is just a lot more obvious.
- Comment on nets 2 months ago:
Excellent point.
- Comment on nets 2 months ago:
Hmm. Perhaps the beaches shouldn’t be the prioritized focus for developing alternatives to plastic.
If it’s on the beach, it can be picked up. Today, tomorrow or eventually.
I think the plastic that can’t be as easily be collected ought to be replaced by alternatives first.
