qjkxbmwvz

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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Talk to your manager.

Shortly after I was hired, my manager told me I should feel free to decline any meeting that didn't seem useful, or that if it was preventing me from getting "real" work done.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Not parent, but when a minute isn't quite enough, 77 seconds might do the trick. Multiples of eleven are quick to enter, and with a simple nuker with no "minute" button, 66s is easier than 1:00.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think a lot of companies view their free plan as recruiting/advertising


if you use TailScale personally and have a great experience then you'll bring in business by advocating for it at work.

Of course it could go either way, and I don't rely on TailScale (it's my "backup" VPN to my home network)... we'll see, I guess.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Let's see Stephan Miller's card...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 6 points 4 months ago

...are Turing Complete, so what you can do with them is exactly equal.

But they're only equal in the Turing complete sense, which (iirc) says nothing about performance or timing.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/237395681

That claims ~$420k compensation with ~$25k "other." If he is playing any substantial role in bringing in $100M+ funds for a good cause, I'd say this person's compensation isn't something I'm going to get worked up about. For VHCOL areas this is middle class household income (looks like they're based in NY NY, so...VHCOL).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 28 points 4 months ago (8 children)

I'm too lazy to verify my hunch, but I'm guessing Texas is largely oil (exploiting natural resources), whereas California is largely intellectual output (tech, with some Hollywood and other sundry stuff), though California certainly does exploit its natural resources too (good farming conditions, some oil...).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 28 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It's a pretty standard bandwidth/latency tradeoff in my view: email is high bandwidth (it's in writing, you can re-read, etc.), whereas phone is low latency (several back-and-forth explanations can happen in seconds). Each has its place.

If social anxiety is a factor, that's a perfectly valid, but separate, issue.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 8 points 5 months ago

Well, yeah


dude's brake cables are missing!

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 5 months ago

Awesome, thanks for the detailed answer!

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Can we please not do this on Lemmy? Pun comment threads are just the wurst.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I remember when phones used to be good.

Telemarketers have been around for a long, long time (Wikipedia claim "...the practice of contacting potential customers by telephone originated in the late 19th century.").

I personally recall a lot more telemarketing in the 90s, though I was a kid and just passed the phone to mom or dad. But that was also a time when caller ID was a luxury, and not everyone had answering machines.

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