Haywire

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They aren't. Light ircraft now use touchscreens that you are supposed to use while bouncing around. They had a knob for a while but then it seemed touchscreens took over. With the knob you still had to look, it at least you didn't have to aim at a bouncing spot on the screen.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (9 children)

Also make them illegal in aircraft! And spacecraft! Seriously stupid.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I like location based games, like Niantic has done, but with much less backstory.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That is not exactly true. My dad was a geology professor. About half his students ended up in oil and gas. The other half were employed as city planners, teachers, consulting geologists, and in , civil engineering firms, environmental services firms, mining and others.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think you are correct. My first bad boss was a contractor for Comcast. Layers and layers of metrics and KPIs. My best CEO was a "my door is always open, come in and talk" guy.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Bosses have gotten really bad for some reason. A manager used to mentor people and deal with communicating issues upwards. Now it seems to be entirely abusive supervision.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I did 3 on 4 off. The 3rd 12hr shift was rough, but otherwise it was pretty great.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Sorry. I wish you would have explained it to me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

"remote workers never leave the office"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I'm using Google's VPN now. They promised they won't look. Honestly I think a lot.more is leaked via the GBoard keyboard, but what do I know.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are some bitter people here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Cooking oil decomposes into carcinogens. Especially low smoke point oils.

(Admittedly the increased risk from either is pretty low)

view more: ‹ prev next ›