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- Comment on Stuck 2 days ago:
- Comment on Always a fan of simple instructions on how to do everyday things 3 days ago:
Have you tried the grapefruit technique?
- Comment on LPT: always be an asshole so you don't miss great opportunities in life 3 days ago:
It would be an interesting experiment to hand out a lot of money to random people and then track how they behave statistically. Everyone has the potential to be an asshole, but it requires a lot of money to prove that one is not.
- Comment on LPT: always be an asshole so you don't miss great opportunities in life 3 days ago:
This got me thinking. What about people who get rich by luck, winning a lottery or something?
They aren’t corrupt, but they’ll surely turn into assholes anyway, when they justify their luck to themselves and start doing asshole actions to guard their precious money. It’s the same thing with inheritance or getting lucky in business. They’ll talk about “self-made” success, even if they just bought a lottery ticket.
In my opinion, money does corrupt people. It’s just through ordinary greed. Litteral corruption or cheating isn’t even necessary to see this effect that money has.
- Comment on Trømp 4 days ago:
A classic.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
It’s absolutely a thing. Don’t you know anyone who went nuts from it? Maybe it’s just me, but I’ve met plenty of them.
My father also used to work in an institution for psychotic patients. He always brought home the artwork that they made and gave him. He had entire box of it, and could basically go through it and say which drug the artist had used just by looking at it.
- Comment on Trømp 1 week ago:
Not sure if serious, but anyway it means “you damn smart”.
In Danish it has become a commonly known allegory used for threatening to initiate a fight over someone being provokingly clever. It started with a viral video in which two guys argue over a pocket bike.
- Comment on Trømp 1 week ago:
Du’ dælme smart.
- Comment on Ok, some nerd please explain the switches on this IRL calculator app 1 week ago:
It’s supposedly used for gross profit margin calculations, which is an equation for business stuff rather than an ordinary math function. It adds a profit of a margin calculated from the gross price. The gross price is unknown, so you’d input the net price and the desired margin of the result.
Ordinary percentages would be used for “net margin”: net price + percentage of net price = gross price. This can be done by simple multiplication, such as: 100 x 1.2 = 120
This does “gross margin”: net price + percentage of gross price = gross price. This would require solving an equation in several steps to do: 100 / ( 1 - 0.20) = 125
It might seem like a rather random function to add to a calculator, but it has to be seen in the context of being prior to computer spread sheets, where accountants would make price lists of hundreds of products manually, so a short cut like this could save a lot of time.
- Comment on Ok, some nerd please explain the switches on this IRL calculator app 1 week ago:
Hmm. I guess different brands do this stuff differently. In real life I’d definitely prefer to break the equation into separate operations, just to ensure that I understand and can document the process.
- Comment on Ok, some nerd please explain the switches on this IRL calculator app 1 week ago:
It think you should try:
100 > + > MU > 20 > % > +=
It should show 125.
- Comment on Enemies 1 week ago:
Cow manure is also too expensive for that.
- Comment on Ok, some nerd please explain the switches on this IRL calculator app 1 week ago:
According to that site, it also has an item counter. Normally this also on the print, but without a printer I guess it needs a button for that. Perhaps the IC button?
Remember that on desktop calculators the operations are entered reverse of ordinary pocket calculators. First you press the number and then you press the operation. So to do 100 - 50 you need to press “100 + 50 -”
Same for the MU. First you need a number to be added. Then MU some number as percentage and +=.
- Comment on Ok, some nerd please explain the switches on this IRL calculator app 1 week ago:
Most of the other buttons appears to be for the internal carrier (aka memory). Lets say that the main display is one column in Excel. The memory is then a second column, where you can pull or push the displayed result in a variety of ways. This allows you to do some calculation, throw the result into memory, clear he entry and do another calculation and add that to the previously stored result and such. The slider labeled with the sum sign is a grand total. It’ll cause all your results to be summarized. I’m not sure how to display it. Maybe it’s only shown on the print.
The MU button doesn’t “do” anything by itself. You’ll need to press 100. Press MU. press 20. Press %. Or maybe the sequence is different. It would be nice with a manual.
- Comment on Ok, some nerd please explain the switches on this IRL calculator app 1 week ago:
I see a lot of wrong info on the the decimal slider. This is how it works:
A is for “Add-mode”. This means that 2 decimals are always assumed. It’s used for adding a lot of 2 decimal numbers, because you’ll never have to press the decimal key. If you’ve ever worked a credit card terminal and having to enter 200 to get 2.00$, that’s how this setting works.
0-6 are fixed and rounded according to the rounding setting.
The decimal F is for floating. It’ll use the most relevant amount of decimals.
Another funny button is MU which is Mark Up. It’s used with the percentage button. It’s a backward ass way to do percentages. You’ll enter a value and then MU the percentage that you want from the result, instead of the input. Say you have product that costs 100 and you’ll want to mark it up, so you’ll get 20% of your new sales price as profit. Press 100 MU 20% and it should show 125, which is your sales price, because 25 is the 20% of 125. It doesn’t make sense to me why anyone ever needed that button.
- Comment on JeSUS 1 week ago:
I was just hoping he’d explain more about the actual words and their translations.
- Comment on JeSUS 1 week ago:
He didn’t really break it down much, did he? Basically just spent 4 minutes saying that people who study the bible don’t agree on it.
- Comment on JeSUS 1 week ago:
There are claims that the translation of the bible is wrong on this though.
bycommonconsent.com/…/weird-ot-euphemisms-uncover….)
In short, feet might mean genitalia. I really have no opinion on it, but it makes a lot of sense. The purpose of even describing the submissive act of washing feet aligns well with the old Greek teacher and pupil relationships to present Jesus as a stand up guy who will go down on anybody, men or women, regardless of their status. He took your sins and such.
The message is the same anyway, so I suppose it has been whitewashed a bit throughout the years.
The reason why I want to believe it is that it would also explain why he was so popular that contemporary writers would bother writing anything about him.
- Comment on how do I show a coworker that I care about her after her mother died? 2 weeks ago:
This is a topic that my union recently addressed, because it turns out that most companies do not have a policy on how to handle sorrow, and this often results in a less than ideal situation for both the employee, employer and coworkers.
Sorrow is comparable to and often leads to stress. Having all the coworkers individually send flowers, showing secondhand sympathy, acting weird about it and themselves having to tell the story over and over does not help on the stress. It might even affect other coworkers too, who might have experienced losses too, triggering their issues over and over again. The result is that the entire work place is in a state of sorrow where they either tip toe around the topic or constantly brings it up. This is very unlikely to be what the person needs. It’s very different what kind of attention each person wants. Some people like to keep working as usual, using the work as a distraction or safe space from the mourning process all together. In a situation like this, it is nice to know that they are needed. Removing their workload could be a bears favour. Nobody wants get told that someone else did your job. It’s basically giving them either an existential threat or a burden of bad consciousness, because then who has to do those tasks and for how long.
All of this shows that even the best intentions can easily lead to more sick days or resignations throughout the entire company if the sorrow of one person is mismanaged. The right way is for the company to have a guideline or politic on who does what. The management must take the dialogue of which tasks can or should be handed over in what time frame, who informs the other employees of the death, the distribution of work, and on behalf of the individual: how they want to be treated on their work place.
Leaving it up to everyone is a recipe for disaster.
In your case, in short: At least make an effort to coordinate any gifts with the rest of your coworkers.
- Comment on I believe him on a factual level, but not on an emotional level. 2 weeks ago:
The entire coast? All 50 km?
- Comment on Go into debt if you have to 2 weeks ago:
I’ll take one, when it gets cheaper than a house.
- Comment on Water 2 weeks ago:
Ringo
- Comment on New social experiment 2 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Everyone look! I got a picture of the Rosetta Stone 2 weeks ago:
It wasn’t in a glass montre when I saw it.
- Comment on Some people just want to see the world burn 3 weeks ago:
Mustard sauce (brown and rémoulade (grainy yellow).
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
What is actually needed is the flexibility to do it.
It really doesn’t matter for the task if I’m physically present between 8:15-16:15 instead of 8:00-16:00.
If I have to be at my desk at 8 sharp, I will hit the rush hour both ways, having to leave my home at least 20 minutes earlier and waste that time in congestion for no good reason. I’ll be home about the same time, because the only difference is how long I get to stare at the steering wheel.
I don’t care if the one option that saves me 1-2 hours of unpaid time every week is considered “tardy” by boomers. In my gen-x point of view, a lot of their lifestyle is wasteful for no other reason than selfmade “traditions”.
- Comment on This app requires access to your contacts 5 weeks ago:
Don’t worry. I’m on a streak. If I keep it going for 30 days I will unlock the flushing feature without having to pay for premium.
- Comment on Anon tries to be attractive 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Just meet an 86 year old Vietnam veteran with 2 People Hearts, and he said "Platoon" 1986 was the movie that best portrayed his Vietnam experience. 5 weeks ago:
Well, the movie was made by a veteran.
- Comment on How do I win a fight with a lion? 5 weeks ago:
Catnip and hakuna matata
