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ramble81 ,

My biggest fear is the first targets will be the “mildly well off, but basically top of the working class” because those are people that are visible and are your neighbors or people you know that can actually take a vacation, and the 0.1% will stoke that as a way of keeping the spotlight off of them.

ramble81 ,

Incidentally it can also work at your existing company. I’ve gotten 5 promotions in 6 years and my salary is 120% more than when I started. It’s less the company hopping part and more ensuring you grow in your career. I’ve found that it’s definitely about stating your desires (having a clearly defined “this is where I want to go in my career”), volunteering for the random projects your boss or their boss needs done and showing you want to grow.

ramble81 ,

Gee, could it be forcing people back to work when they don’t want to go back? Nah…. Maybe the crippling inflation with no raise…. Nah…. What could it be? /s

What's with all the "weed" shops popping up?

Driving around town I’ve noticed quite a few places in San Antonio are offering free weed and are now selling it. Did I miss something being passed? I thought only Delta-8 (and variants) were available and that THC was still banned. Was there a loophole discovered or will the city no longer prosecute?

ramble81 ,

When dealing with gravitational systems the gravity of each object has to be taken into account. So even though the sun is 99.999% (hyperbole) of the gravity in the equation, the earth’s gravity contributes that small 0.001% and thus the “center” of where they orbit isn’t truly the center of the sun. Tack on Jupiter, which is much more than a fraction of a percent and that “center” moves even farther away from the middle of the sun.

To look at it further, if you had two objects of perfectly equal mass and no other gravitational interference, they would orbit around a point in the middle of each other since their pull is equal. So it’s basically a sliding scale of sorts.

Hope that explains it!

ramble81 ,

“ A careful reading of official Major League Baseball Rule 6.08(b) suggests that in this situation, the batter would be considered “hit by pitch”, and would be eligible to advance to first base.”

ramble81 ,

I see Starbucks closing 21 stores in the future for “issues”

ramble81 ,

Now what about EUC replacements. That’s the more sticky situation.

ramble81 ,

In our case we have over 1500 employees using it, but only about 500 at a time. It’s an extreme waste of resources to have to provision 3x the hardware rather than use ephemeral systems. Also it’s much easier to patch a “gold” image and recompose entire pools than have to manage all of the systems as if they were full on laptops. Just to name a couple things off the top of my head.

ramble81 ,

Yup. That’s another reason we don’t have individual systems. And most thin clients aren’t designed to connect 1:1 to a VM. They usually need a broker of some sort.

What is the best medium for transmitting sound?

I know that sound doesn’t travel in a vacuum, you can hear it muddled in water, and different temperatures of air transmit better. But which is the “best”. Let’s say you had a speaker and a microphone in an enclosed case filled with whatever you wanted, which would be the best medium to ensure the best sound...

ramble81 ,

Horse is like “be glad you’re bigger than a baby chick”

What part of sunlight causes algae to grow?

I’ve been trying different searches but everything I find just says “sunlight”. Since sunlight consists of multiple parts such as UV, Infrared and the normal visible spectrum, I’m curious which part is actually responsible for photosynthesis to occur? On that note, depending on what part of the light, would it still grow...

ramble81 OP ,

Awesome, so if I’m reading that right UV can contribute to growth, and IR doesn’t contribute much at all. The blue and red end of the visible spectrum encourages growth, however it can pretty much occur at any visible wavelength, just not as efficient as the bands listed on the image.

ramble81 ,

Did not realize that the Intrepid class was that much smaller than a Sovereign class. I though it was maybe slightly smaller.

ramble81 ,

There’s about 246 working days (assuming you take up to 3 weeks a year off for sick/vacation, I know may be high for some people). At $31/day that’s $7,600. Use an average of 32% on taxes and you’d have to give a person at least an $11,200 raise to offset that savings…. And companies are still wondering why people are hesitant to come back?

Microsoft in talks to sign on Amazon as customer in $1 bln cloud tools deal ( www.reuters.com )

Oct 17 (Reuters) - Microsoft (MSFT.O) is preparing to bring Amazon.com (AMZN.O) as a customer for its 365 cloud productivity tools in a deal worth over $1 billion, news site Insider reported on Tuesday, citing an internal document and a person familiar with the matter....

ramble81 ,

If you’re having trouble with sub-100 you’re doing it wrong. I manage a 5,000+ user environment without a lot of overhead. Having AADC and being tied to on-premise AD greatly helps a lot of it. Also utilizing Intune.

ramble81 ,

This may be what you’re looking for. Treat the system like a VDI install when you’re installing things and look for “machine-wide” installers. Also consider getting FSLogix (free from Microsoft) to put user profiles in portable containers.

Are we the only shop with constant login bullshit on Office 365 desktop apps?

We are facing constant problems with the desktop apps in O365, wheter it’s RDS servers that somehow are Azure joined by a user from login 1001 errors to modern authentication Windows that automatically disappear or other generic error 1001 logon bullshit. We have a tome of registry bullshit with shit like EnableADAL to...

ramble81 ,

This is what it was for us too.

ramble81 ,

What is that from? Is that NPH as a German Soldier?

ramble81 ,

Thank you!

ramble81 ,

Fits with the conservative narrative, it doesn’t matter until it affects them personally.

Star Trek and The Orville, which is better/worse?

I asked this question sometime ago on The Orville’s subreddit, and surprisingly got mixed responses. I assume most here however, are going to prefer Star Trek, specifically TNG that its aping from. For the record I do prefer TNG as well, but rewatching The Orville, after you get past its kinda sucky first season, I really...

ramble81 ,

The other way I look at it: TNG was following the premiere ship in the galaxy, with plenty of places to explore, so it was always encountering “new frontiers”.

The Orville on the other hand was more a premise of “what happens when space travel is commoditized and you have more than enough ships and now need competent bodies to staff it?” For that it feels more “real” that you’re getting people who do it as a job, not a calling, which explains the random humor and diversions and a look at new discoveries through fresh eyes rather than “wow, more new as this is normal for us”.

ramble81 ,

Do you have a water softener? Usually that’s the first ingress point into your house, even before the hot water heater (normally). Most of those will have a shutoff value near it. It won’t get your outside faucets but at least it’ll get everything in your house.

ramble81 ,

Depends on where/how it was installed. Code where I was at required a shut off right before it, independent of the bypass (and I almost called out the bypass on my original post to account for that)

ramble81 ,

Please keep forcing people back into the office. My company has embraced WFH and I got over 150 resumes for a senior position that was historically hard for me to fill given where we’re located. I had my pick of who to hire rather than being stuck with whoever was willing to move here.

ramble81 ,

“unknown British Shakespearian actor…” Wow, I never thought I’d hear Patrick Stewart described that way.

ramble81 ,

Are you sure the pipe extending out of the faucet just isn’t stuck on there and can be removed? If so, just take it off and thread it back on to the wall and then you can use any normal faucet from HD. I have one similar to that when I was replacing my shower head and noticed it was getting stuck to the head rather than staying in the wall.

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