I’m more fond of “String that is too…” being displayed in the UI and then a tooltip with the full string being displayed when you mouse over the string in the UI.
Or winamp had a marquee that you could click and scroll manually, I liked that method too.
The example was intended to show that a business can recover from losing an employee entirely, I’m sure it can manage with one being late. Hell, if it’s chronic, then it should be more predictable and even easier to handle.
And if you have a chronic issue with employees chronically being late (like this meme suggesting it’s a generational thing), that’s an even bigger sign that it might be time to adapt instead of blame. Stagger shifts so multiple people arriving late on the same day doesn’t result in being that many people short at once. Offer flex shifts with more flexible start/end times and have people do less time critical tasks during this time like stocking shelves and tidying up. Schedule in more than minimum employee capacity, using workers who like being let off early. Schedule shifts to deliberately overlap so a timely handoff isn’t dependent on everyone perfectly following the schedule (plus it gives time for support tasks like cashing out and tidying up).
And understood that the pressure can come from above and your hands might be tied, I just also understand that morality doesn’t also get dictated from above. The person who has to cover for the late person is made to do so by the system set up by those with organizational power, not anything else.
I’m talking specifically about the “if you’re late it’s because you don’t care about the person you’re relieving” part.
It would be like telling your staff “sorry but we had to cut everyone’s pay a bit because one of you were caught taking money from the register”.
These people are already working for pennies on the dollar of the value the work they do makes the corp. Even with the lates and almost all of the other screwups.
And who is it that decides whether someone needs to stay behind and be late for their other responsibilities just because someone else was late? If that someone else is late because they got run over by a car, do you say sorry, single parent, but you can’t ever go home now because your relief is dead, otherwise the business will collapse?
You’re the one, as the manager, who has no concern for the ones you make cover shifts. You just fake the concern to maintain your illusion that you’re one of the good bosses that actually cares and to deflect the blame because if you really cared about those employees, you wouldn’t put the burden of others being late on them.
An example of which would be a manager who pressures an employee to keep working because the employee who is taking over their job isn’t there yet and then acts as if they aren’t the one making it the other employee’s problem and it’s entirely the fault of the late one.
The world won’t end if that cash register is idle for a few mins. Hell, a manager should know how to run that register if it really is such a such a huge deal to have slower throughput for a bit.
I really like the theme song for Dan-Da-Dan.
Naruto/Boruto had some good ones over their runs, too.
You. You have. You have me.
You. You hate. You hate me.
The song is a German pun, a delightful example of German humour.
Then you come in with basically an expertly placed, “what if medical science has no solution to their uncontrollable stench?”
You think a quarter of people are suidical or contemplating it to the point of talking about it with an AI?
Yeah, when I got my most recent GPU, my plan had been to also get a 4k monitor and step up from 1440p to 4k. But when I was sorting through the options to find the few with decent specs all around, I realized that there was nothing about 1440p that left me dissapointed and the 4k monitor I had used at work already indicated that I’d just be zooming the UI anyways.
Plus even with the new GPU, 4k numbers weren’t as good as 1440p numbers, and stutters/frame drops are still annoying… So I ended up just getting an ultra-wide 1440p monitor that was much easier to find good specs for and won’t bother with 4k for a monitor until maybe one day if it becomes the minimum, kinda like how analog displays have become much less available than digital displays, even if some people still prefer the old ones for some purposes. I won’t dig my heels in and refuse to move on to 4k, but I don’t see any value added over 1440p. Same goes for 8k TVs.
You’ve gotta either interest someone with the knowledge to pursue it or actually go to the college and gain the knowledge yourself. Because the truth is, unless you can motivate someone to do your thing, your thing isn’t going to be as interesting to others as it is to you, even if it would be revolutionary. There’s a good chance the idea relies on phenomena that only exist because of a lack of understanding (if you aren’t able to go from idea to proof of concept), or maybe require a solution to a very hard problem just hiding below the surface.
Plus, even with the motivation, if you don’t know enough to do the thing and aren’t in a financial position to control the operation’s finances, there’s a good chance you’ll be discarded once you are no longer needed, which in this case is once they understand your idea. That “sorry, not interested” might actually be a “go away, this is interesting but I don’t think you’ll add anything more to this, so I’ll do it alone”.
So instead of thinking “this is cool but I have no idea how”, think, “what do I need to learn to better understand my idea and its execution?” Hell, even being able to break it up into discrete and complete steps would be a great start because then you can start hiring out those different steps if you can’t do them, without having to give away the whole thing.
So what? I’m tired of shit aimed at the lowest common denominator and won’t comment as if I need to appeal to or be understood by those who can’t be bothered to learn a bit about things that play a major role in society.
They are tired of hearing about linux? Well I’m tired of hearing about whining about windows, plus I blame their inattention for enablong the enshitification in the first place because windows would be much better if more people were willing to look at alternative options. A lot of shit would be better if that were the case.
Though usually I don’t bother engaging at all and only really engage when there’s pushback saying it’s hard (I found it less effort overall than installing windows and getting it to a state where I don’t hate interacting with it so much), or these kind of arguments that imply because it’s not as accessible a lot of people, it shouldn’t be brought up or something?
Yeah, “just use Linux” is equivalent to “I’m tired of hearing about windows shit” and a bit more polite than, “HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA”.
Yeah, those were CDs. I don’t think I got to the DVDs, since my sense of urgency faded after I saw the older ones seemed ok. I’ll have to check them out after you said that, though lol.
Yeah, it’s probably best you maintain some distance from winamp, especially if it’s been drinking.
I recently learned of MDisc (there’s a CD and DVD version, too, iirc) and decided to get a burner and convert my old data CDs.
While I haven’t verified every single bit, I did check that the files copied off of it were still functional and didn’t see any issues. Also didn’t get any errors. I was surprised because I’ve had some of them for over 20 years now and didn’t do more than put them in CD binders to protect them (during the days when I didn’t even consider the longevity of the media, other then obvious things like scratches.
Only disc I wasn’t able to get the data from was a packet CD, which was a special format that facilitated treating the disc more like diskettes, where you could read or write at will via the filesystem rather than writing the disc as a special package from the start (or having multiple sessions if there’s still room on the disc after one such write). I was able to find references to the tech, though not if it was a standard or just a name a few different companies used for different implementations, but I wasn’t able to find Linux drivers that could do anything other than rip the ISO and a few strings or tell me it can’t find anything. Though it’s possible that corruption is really what happened here because I’d expect RW CDs to last a shorter time than the write once ones.
Though I suppose I could try it on my old windows machine and see if drivers are more readily available there.
Is that last bit a dig at German humour?
Winamp! (Winamp!) Winamp! It really whips the lamma’s ass!
One time I rented a uhaul van and it had a backup camera that would show up in the rear view mirror. Not the whole thing mirror, but it had a little screen embedded in it.
I think one big difference is that many people now recognize it as propaganda, whereas I remember a time when that stuff was just taken as wisdom and the dairy industry seemed to be a part of the health industry (that was also assumed to be in it for society’s good rather than profit). Losing that trust was pretty big.