Nice. There's lots of areas I've lived where the locals drop specific consonants from the names of places. So anyone who actually pronounces the place name "correctly" is immediately recognized as new to town.
I haven't tried to run DOS on Win10, but I haven't been able to get my old DOS programs to run on anything Windows XP or newer, myself. XP at least had some compatibility options to try. I don't think I've seen those options in Win7 or newer.
It will vary by program, but I've needed DosBox on Windows, as well as on Linux, for anything DOS based that I have run anytime recently.
If you can get the organization to switch to Debian, you could do it all with free software and manage the whole thing with Ansible.
I mention this because if the org is running Windows software that old, then current generation FOSS software is going to be a breathe of fresh air, by comparison.
It might not work if someone with a C title has a specific magical Windows package they want.
But even then, I would manage one or two Windows PCs (for a couple of C suite execs) by hand, than a full organization full. And you would save the organization a boatload of money.
Instead he waited until was almost out of room then started honking at me.
People who haven't learned the physics of large trucks spend a surprising portion of their driving time competing for Darwin awards.
I want to will this not to be a problem anymore, but still see it all the time. I'm thankful that I've seen a lot of truckers react in surprisingly aware ways that save lives.
But every time I see it, I can't help but think that driver's luck isn't too likely to hold through too many more times making that move.
So is there a way to prevent someone from selling your stocks if the economy tanks?
You can read the prospectus that comes with each of your investments. It will describe how it is managed pretty early in the text.
Almost any low fee index fund isn’t going to be active enough to lock in losses. To my knowledge, it hasn’t happened to any of the algorithm run ones. It could happen, but it’s quite unlikely, and it would likely result in immediate legal action requiring the algorithm owner to provide some remedy to those hurt. An index should rebalance, but should never exit the market.
And while a “target retirement age” fund could technically sell early and lock in losses, that would be an actual prosecutable crime. So as long as your provider isn’t running an outright scam, with a plan to flee from the law, you’ll be fine with a target retirement fund.
I will add that, as a manager, when my team had on-call, I did not mind if my team member wanted to “work” the next day to min/max their compensation; but I sure as hell made sure they didn’t have any production access if they report in sleep deprived.
That’s sort of part of the joke. ACM is the “Association for Computing Machinery” one of the biggest and oldest and nerdiest computer clubs.
ACM hosts all kinds of SIGs (special interest groups) - clubs dedicated to interest in (sometimes deeply esoteric) aspects of computer science. For a few of them, hand-coding a new specialized fast floating point calculation code during a contest could easily come up.
So there’s technically a situation where lying to a peer, on purpose, in a particularly mean context (such as a competition) about a floating point number computation - could actually get someone kicked out of ACM.
Edit: Additonal context that helps the joke - my experiences with ACM have all been super chill , relaxed and friendly. So “I got kicked out of ACM” is also a “you did what?!” setup for the joke.