Carighan

Carighan , 22 hours ago

I worried about this a lot back after uni, too.

I studied 8 years for a diploma that was supposed to be done in 5, and I had done nothing with the extra time. I just wasn't in a good place to be done any faster.

However, it turns out to just not be a problem. Companies generally could not give a flying fuck about what I did at university, and as soon as I had been at one company, they only cared what I had done before in the industry.

Now of course, going for a masters is different, but I wouldn't worry too much about it, it probably matters less than you think it will. If you want to explain gaps, I'd just cite it as "personal reasons". If they ask - which is kinda not-okay - you can always say you had family matters that precluded you from focusing on your studies until now.

Carighan , 1 day ago

Brown Sauce - HP, Daddies etc this sauce is pretty popular in the UK (Where I live) and goes great on chips/fries and prior dish mentioning.

I don't think Germany has this, usually.

For us the three big ones would be Mayo / Ketchup / Mustard I imagine. Of which personally, spiced Mayo always wins out (Miracle Whip). Just too used to it from my childhood. 😅

Carighan , 1 day ago

Hey, hela is normal ketchup, of course. Anything else you might as well just chew a tomato!

Carighan , 2 days ago

OP, make sure that since you'd be collecting personally identifying information, you can comply with GDPR requests.

Carighan , 2 days ago

Usually hugging for saying hi or bye, just like with women.

Beyond that, not really? But then I'm not a very physically affectionate person with anyone, independent of gender. Except Pepper - my cat.

Carighan , 3 days ago

And you will notice that in the vast majority of the world, the joke about the ball game happens/happened. America is very american football centric. Germany is all about football. England has cricket. Etc, etc.

You jest, but yes, since our lives are complicated enough as is, we want our hobbies to be as straightforward and easy to communicate/communalize as possible.

Carighan , 3 days ago

Basically, save a Fediverse account in your browser

Already too complicated unless it comes pre-installed on your phone as part of the setup process when you buy it.

Carighan , 3 days ago

The problem is Mastodon’s shittiness will be spread across the Fediverse regardless of what other forks you make.

Making a good point for Bluesky's rejection of sharing AP federation, incidentally.

Carighan , 3 days ago

Ah, Whitaker is a good example. I mean of snake oil. The guy is snake oil, and probably paid by Better help or something.

Carighan , 5 days ago

It’s a strict and strongly opinionated language by design.

So it's a nice language.

Carighan , 6 days ago

Yep, same here. Willow was my big TV crush back then. She even won against Dana Scully.

Carighan , 7 days ago

Yeah it's a bit suspicious why they felt the need to say there isn't one on board. 😑

Carighan , 7 days ago

Every search you make, email you send, text message, voice chat, location, and most likely the conversations you have in your own home are monitored and stored in a database for whoever knows how long (probably forever).

This is most likely incidental.

As in, to successfully show text messages to people, somewhere at the ISP, someone has to have a database that shows what messages were sent off from which tower and need to be routed where. Maybe they're retained for a while for re-send reasons, too. Yeah.

But the point is, that's not the same reason why your home address is retained at the motor license department.

We humans love to see patterns in things, but we do so even when none exist, as our brains want to desperately simplify information to save space, essentially. But we should not let that fool us into thinking the world is simpler than it actually is: We have a host of reasons to retain data, and this existed long, long, loooong before digital databases. And for good reason. After all, if it cannot be verified that you are you in context X, the state can hardly offer you service Y or protection Z (such as those are in the US in particular, granted).

Your city has to know who you are and where you live. Your motor dep needs to know which license belongs to whom and is attached to which vehicle. Amazon needs to know where to send your parcels. Your phone provider needs to know which phone belongs to which number in their network and where it is right now. Etc, etc, etc. They all do so for individual reasons.

Carighan , 8 days ago

I mean, to be fair, I'd like to know more about the volume lost here.

For example people often struggle to imagine that the sun is losing 4.7 million tons every second. Or that ships constantly take on water they have to pump out. This is part of normal operation, and while the helium leaks here clearly are not, if built with a degree of redundancy in mind, certain loss rates are entirely acceptable.

Or not.

Depends on the volume involved. 😅

Carighan , 9 days ago

Maybe. But feeling bored would be an amazing feeling for a change.

Carighan , 10 days ago

C16. Ugh I'm old.

Carighan , 9 days ago

Vollpfosten!

Carighan , 10 days ago

In modern times it's important to keep in mind that the stiffness can be different independent of the type of filling.

That is, I'd pick filling primarily by allergies, and then by personal preference. They all feel marginally~moderately different, and some you'll just associate with "nicer". For me personally that's memory foam, for example.

Then independent of that, pick a stiffnes and, importantly, a shape that works for you. I sleep worlds better on a very stuff shaped pillow that perfectly matches my neck size and length.

Carighan , 12 days ago

Depending on where you live, therapy can be a prescription. And obviously then it doesn't cost you money to go there.

Carighan , 12 days ago

Not really, but apologies. The USA are just one country, after all, chances would be OP is from elsewhere.

Carighan , 13 days ago

Just like we're all boeing to die!

Carighan , 14 days ago

Rather restart a lot of them, or do rolling restarts of the pods. Would absolutely not surprise me if they got a memory leak and decided daily restarts are cheaper than hiring people to fix it.

Carighan , 15 days ago

You know what has it in them to accept a whole lot of a homophobes?

The ocean.

Carighan , 15 days ago

I mean that still makes it a Killdozer. Plus it got the one truly important target you could argue.

Carighan , 15 days ago

Yeah that YouTube channel needs some reporting to the authorities

Carighan , 16 days ago

So did they find any helium 3? Or space Nazis?

Carighan , 16 days ago (edited 16 days ago)

Never heard of the name. Or I guess I might have read it in credits, but never associated brain space to it and also never noticed a commonality between movies based on him. 🤷

So to quote from Futurama: I have no strong opinion one way or the other.

Carighan , 17 days ago

Not really, it's been a while since laptops don't offer a choice for OS. Apple's overpriced crap excluded of course. You'll have to swap the OS after receiving that one.

Carighan , 21 days ago

Yeah and that wouldn't work, as they would not be able to generate a valid 2FA code.

Carighan , 21 days ago

I mean the only real issue I see with this is that they require people to use their personal phones for this. Should not mix work and private data, and this should be in the interest of the corp, too. As in, issue work phones!

Carighan , 21 days ago

Yeah but legally it's a bit more iffy once something gets breached and then it turns out that no, private phones are not covered by the stuff you signed for work security (because they usually cannot be, rather most written stuff explicitly forbids people from using their private phones for stuff like this, even in company who expect workers to do it).

Carighan , 21 days ago

Yeah but that's a wholly different attack, and oodles more complex to pull off. Doable, sure. But it's absolutely not the same thing as phishing for a valid 2FA code that is generated user-side.

And don't get me wrong, both are overall very security. But there is a case to be made for push auth.

Carighan , 22 days ago

Yes.

Carighan , 26 days ago

Then I demanded my data every month until they started ignoring me - just to be annoying, of course

Wow, you're the kind of person that makes every worker in IT hate the GDPR. It's good for consumers. Until the consumer is you. Think of the fact that a person has to actually fulfill that request, and you know that management never paid for tooling for that, they have to fuck around manually in the database every time.

Carighan , 25 days ago

To me there's a huge difference between being angry at a company and its leadership, and taking out the anger on the workers that are probably just as angry at their own management. It's like someone yelling at a level 1 phone support, as if that magically makes them able to help you, which is usually something they would be fired for even if they had the system access to fix the problem. They're paid to handle standard questions with a standard answer catalogue and nothing more.

You're not making life for the management difficult by repeatedly asking for a GDPR readout. Just for the workers who are already being paid fuck all to do shitty work in too long hours.

Carighan , 26 days ago

What I was about to post, too. It's ridiculous how much better something as simple as taking a shit can be.

Carighan , 26 days ago

I think Airbus is too busy swimming in money.

I heard from my neighbors - who work there - that the biggest struggle internally now is to keep their quality standards up despite everyone and their mother ordering dozens of planes as they're cancelling as many Boeing orders as they can. So it takes constant and organized pushbacks against management to not commit the same normalization of deviance that is bringing Boeing down. You'd think it'd be easy! Because that's exacty why their main competitor is flailing. Nope, management wants their bonuses. 😑

At least from what they can tell me, it's actually working though and upper management had to shut it and accept the current speed of work and enjoy the decades of backlog and paid-already contracts instead. Only 4 yachts per person or something...

Carighan , 26 days ago

What about the two alternatives that were forwarded after the accident, either a rescue mission or in-orbit repairs?

Sure, both were far from a guaranteed success. Far from. Still better than nothing. As in: They were another option than just letting it explode.

Carighan , 26 days ago

Atlantis was already scheduled to fly not too long after, and the CAIB discussed that there was a possibility of moving the launch up as Columbia could have stayed an extraordinary long time in orbit due to their specific mission loadout.

Repairs with harvested tiles were also discussed but yeah , chance of success rated as low. Still, better than deorbiting with nothing done.

Carighan , 27 days ago

Hey, nobody is stopping your country from enforcing things like the EU.

Carighan , 28 days ago

I just can’t believe how poor it’s results are

Interesting, as the incredibly poor results are why I am still not using DDG. It's like a worse Bing, and Bing is already terrible.

You are btw correct that Google results have gotten worse. There were studies run that confirmed this. The very same studies found that Bing (and by extension ~all third-party engines) have also gotten worse, and faster so than Google. In other words, search as a whole has gone to shit, which anecdotally matches up with my repeated attempts to swap to DDG every 6-12 months that just result in learning to add !g to every single search, so I might as well skip doing that.

Carighan , 28 days ago

"We're totally not just rewrapping Bing results!!!"

Carighan , 28 days ago

That just links to the URL, too. Weird bot. All it does is format the link.

Carighan , 28 days ago

Aaaaah. TYVM. That's something to know. 😄