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I was told that I gave one of our young engineers a “crisis of conscience” for telling him about how a product we were developing needed some more work and testing because we didn’t have enough data on it to release it for use.

Somehow management decided that I was poisoning the company and was toxic for not releasing a partially tested product that could either get people sick or set things on fire and then get people sick.

I was told to get on board and apologize to the young engineer for being a bad example or leave. I started polishing my resume, then turned in my resignation.

I spoke to the young engineer in a friendly and non-acusatory manner and he denied staying any of that to management, he claimed he understood what I was telling him and he agreed with my statements. We still keep in touch.

Ride until you break stuff, then upgrade what broke or what’s limiting you. Logical increments is a great way to live imo.

Yeah if my wife’s family wasn’t here and unwilling to move, I would be somewhere less hostile and more functional too.

To run a heater or ac, you need a significant generator. I have been looking at battery systems and to run an existing residential ac, its like 10k and you need two inverters. Where I am, the power failures have been minimal and manageable (30 minute intervals every couple months) The exception was Hurricane Beryl and we were out of power for 3 days. I intermittently ran a generator for our fridge and the neighbors to charge stuff but even running a window unit was not an option on our 5000w generator. It burned maybe 2 gallons of gas?

Running an electric central air heater is also essentially out of the question. With a gas heater, you just need to run the fan and not heat the elements.

Despite the health risks, that is why we still use. Gas water heaters, gas furnaces, gas dryers, and a gas stove in our house. I want the fallback of running stuff without power. The grid is also shitty to the point (in some areas) that it fried my uncles induction stove, fridge, and ovens even living in a major city.

That also wouldn’t have helped during the winter storm in Austin because the gas supply basically froze and lost pressure so those folks were really hurting.

I think the big built in generators run 15k plus and run off natural gas. I did learn that they also require a maintenance subscription (because of course they do) and thats like 2k a year iirc.

Check your homeowners insurance cost and property taxes before you start talking about how cheap houses are in Texas. It can run $18k/year in insurance and another 10k in property taxes for a $400k house… If you put 80k down on a $400k house, the mortgage is roughly $2100/month in principle and interest, plus another $933ish per month for Property taxes($5000/year), insurance($5000/year), and hoa fees($1200/year). Your housing cost is ~$3k/month. Property taxes go up every year on top of that. They are limited to a 10%/year increase but historically, that translates to basically a guaranteed 10%/year increase, especially in the last 10 years. Insurance premiums have more than doubled in the last 10 years as well.

Welp, you have me soundly beat. My longest is 85 hrs and 6 minutes.

Weather Underground is just a distributed/crowd sourced weather app now full of individual weather stations. I love it both in function and name.

Yup, Java has been goving me fits, I caved and just spun up a standard fedora vm and dumped it there.

When the plans come back, they all just need to say article 25 on them or ask for him to get congress to sign a permission slip to go on that field trip.

It also doesn’t really matter, those gas stations still exist in Colorado and they still have the big fiberglass dinosaurs hanging out. That picture could have been taken recently and still been roughly the same.

Its a bit tricky if you have never used an immutable distro and are adding packages but otherwise its rock solid. I have been very happy with it.

Great, that will show him not to do that again to Venuzuela… They need to vote to preemptively stop him from doing it elsewhere too. Buuuuut the president also has to sign the order if it even passes for it to take effect which is probably a realistic scenario.

The only FIFA peace price in history. It’s a very exclusive club.

I hereby grant you the rank of Jody.

Which version of the slim do you have? I’m fine with a hardmod of it means I can just leave it alone. I just want to run games off the hdd. I don’t really care about anything else.

Even when these companies exceed the limits or have accidents like the itc fire. They face insignificant fines if at all. This state is outright hostile to anything that is not a corporation.

What did you use on your 360? I am about to install project stellar on my og xbox and was looking for something similar for the 360.

The Goat from Goat Simulator is an interesting crossover that I’d love to try.

Sedgwick is a seriously shitty company. I’m disappointed it didn’t also include their consumer side. Those bastards cost me $5k because they denied my claim when ATT drilled a fat fiber conduit through my main sewer line.