… Is it possible the office is in Southeast London but the actual work is North and West?

“Five Nines” typically refers to something that works 99.999% of the time, which still allows for 1 screw-up out of 100,000.

Now I’m eagerly awaiting the “Doom Loop” level in the next Mario Kart

My password is hunter2

Same here! The totality was still cool to experience, though. This might be the only time in my life I can say that I would have rather been in Cleveland.

I agree with you. I am fortunate enough to have insurance now which covers the things I need without much of a hassle. But at my last job, they had an insurance provider who was very fond of losing paperwork, making up bullshit, and not really delivering on what it was supposed to do.

I recall complaining about this to a co-worker, who was incredulous that I would be so lazy. You see, he had a whole system of who to call and where to file what paper to get the results he wanted… sometimes. But I was amazed at how much effort he put in to work around a system that was totally artificial, inserted between patients and doctors for no other reason than to skim money. And he was proud of it! He was convinced that putting in all this effort showed that the system was working as intended. (I should add that he is the stereotypical “small government” conservative, or at least was until Donald Trump convinced him that the best use of Government was to be a tool to beat up Liberals and Immigrants with.)

It’s like these people are convinced that if something doesn’t require a huge amount of effort, it must be worthless. Meanwhile, their boss’s boss’s boss merits their large salary and stock compensation specifically because they are enough of a psychopath to make monumental decisions on as little data as possible. I am starting to feel bad for most ordinary people who vote for conservatives. Not only are they getting gaslit, but they prefer it that way!

I think Obamacare has gone about as far as we can go in reforming Healthcare while half the country is so masochistic.

You took “Hot Stove” a bit too literally

I see your confusion. The ad copy gives you the impression that it is selling the display, but what I really want is that amazing AI-enabled hover-mouse that doesn’t need to be on a table to be used.

Doesn’t matter if it was a threat to them or not, it’s still a threat. I’m sure it’s been reported. Sorry.

If anything, a single isolated threat meant in jest may fuck your life up more than being a legit asshole. If you have a pattern of threats like this, the authorities will be forced to charge you with something, and you will at least know they are paying attention. But a single threat probably just places you on some list, and you’ll never know you were placed on it. Who knows where being on that list will fuck you over.

I’d like to respectfully suggest that sending a chat to a customer service representative with a physical threat to a building (with your real name attached, no less) might not have been the best tactic to get your concerns addressed. Yes, we all know you are frustrated and were joking about it, but I don’t think the FBI will be as amused as we are. At least you’ll get your meds on time while in custody.

I can’t really tell from the picture, but from the looks of it there is a large solder pad with four smaller pads beside it. It’s possible that it is a voltage regulator or other similar IC that has a large ground pad (for a heatsink) and four smaller pins. All of the pads probably have solder on them, but the large pad is the most obvious.

There are all sorts of reasons why a manufacturer would leafe space for a part, and then not use it. It’s possible that regulator is providing power to a part that is also not populated , or that the part that it powers has been redesigned to not need that separate power rail anymore. Designing a board like that is expensive, so if some parts are no longer necessary, they will just remove them from the build, and save actually taking the part off the board for the point in the future when they need to redesign it.

It’s not unusual for a board manufacturer to design a single board with a few different configurations of components, and simply not populate the ones that aren’t needed. Margins are super slim, after all, and they would not hesitate to omit a part that might only cost a fraction of a cent.

I can’t see from the picture what it is, but it could be some power related thing, and if the feature is not the board you wouldn’t need it’s power generator either.

I think it means that if you have 10 years of experience you are welcome to apply, but they are only willing to pay commensurate to experience up to 10 years.

Hey, let’s test it out: I will immediately downvote this comment. Everyone else should down vote it, too. Let’s see how far we can push the counter down…

What’s so civil about war, anyway?

It’s just a simple fact, when I want something I don’t wanna pay for it

I’m no manga expert but wouldn’t a one piece One Piece be a lot bigger than that?

It amuses me that One Piece comes in so many pieces

She doesn’t have the humility to admit she made a mistake, blames everyone else but herself, and then expects to talk it out with the guy she did this to? He has no reason to accommodate her.

And employers see though this too. She’s not having trouble finding a job because of cancel culture, she’s having trouble because employers realize how little self awareness she has, and she doesn’t realize that her actions since the incident are making it all even worse.