Pete better be the first in line since excessive alcohol consumption can lower testosterone levels.

The labor and materials to design and install an analog elevator control was probably more expensive than an x86 board. Not to mention more failure prone.

Republican Legislature: Kicks poor people off medicaid

Rural Hospitals: Go bankrupt

Republican Voters: Surprised Pikachu Face

“Now the thing that I call livin’ is just bein’ satisfied, with knowin’ I got no one left to blame.” – Gordon Lightfoot, “Carefree Highway”

I think a big part of happiness is rooted in learning what you can control, taking responsibility for it, and accepting what you can’t control.

Easier said than done sometimes. But, I tend to stress a lot less about a situation when I’ve sorted this out for myself.

I’ve worked too many places where “b” is absolutely the answer. Even small companies that you’ve probably never heard of where management is drinking the koolaid. They usually don’t like being asked why someone would actually pay for whatever bullshit they’re selling. The answer, almost without exception, is because one of their CEO buddies told them it was a good idea.

Windows 7 was peak Windows, at least from a usability standpoint.

If Donald Trump had ANYTHING to do with these gas stations, I wouldn’t even consider filling up there. Sounds like a great way to get water in your fuel tank and your credit card info stolen.

Not giving a shit what other people think of you. I think this starts, for most people, earlier than their 40’s but it’s still great. I don’t care about impressing anyone except me.

Large commercial HVAC package units often have an option called an “economizer”. It’s just one or more dampers that allow the unit to exchange inside air with outside air. A typical use case is when the unit gets a call from the thermostat for AC and outside air temp is lower than the room temp.

It’s more for heating and cooling efficiency than air quality. Its also very rare for homes to have this kind of setup due the added cost and the fact that, at least in the US, package units are much rarer in residential installs. Fresh air circulation systems are a custom job which means $$$.

He says whatever he believes will gain him the most money.

There are. They are just not currently traded on any stock exchange. That doesn’t means you can’t buy them.

Absolutely not. I have a septic system and my hopes and dreams would plug up the drainage field. That’s a very expensive repair.

TIL PhotoBucket is still around.

I work for a company you’ve never heard of that just laid off ~13% of their workforce. Not a tech firm. Not even a business that has frequent layoffs. The recession was probably the last time this happened. Later the same day, I wander off to a conference room where I find one my colleagues. I asked him how he was doing and he said, “the thing that bugs me the most is that a whole bunch of people just got fired and we’re supposed to keep going like nothing happened.”

I felt that. Something big happened. Layoffs like that basically destroy any trust that employees have in the organization. Not only do a bunch of people lose their jobs, they’re often abruptly thrown out of the building. The ones who are left are left to wonder if they’ll be next.

Zuck is going to have face the fact that once that bell has been rung, it cannot be un-rung.

You can’t explain that!

I have to use Outlook for work. It’s difficult or impossible to find the features that were actually useful in the new Outlook.

I still use old Outlook because at least it actually works.

“Experts say power plants ‘burn coal to convert water into steam.’”

I mean, does anyone really know how these things operate?

“How green clean was my valley code base then and the code base of them that have gone. Before the technical debt heap rose up, burying everything in its path.”

Research “value investing.” A lot of the stock market is pure speculation but it is very possible to invest in businesses who run a “good business”, meaning they’re more concerned about long term sustainability than maximizing their share price right now.

Trump could have at least given his loyal supporter a meaningless truth social post.