It's worth going through a tutorial just to see what the fuss is about. It's more like SQL than a real programming language.

"That's a nice antenna, but why would you stick it up your ass?"

"Well, why would you *not* stick it up your ass?"

In a very very general sense, a corporation is actually made up of a group of people working toward the same end. Some work for the company and some are customers of the company, but as a gross generalization, they all want the same thing. Thus any communication from a corporation actually represents the will of many people, while a tweet from yourself represents the will of a single person.

Now the validity of the corporate will is certainly arguable, but that's basically why corporate messages are judged so important.

No it's a replacement for notices, "coaching", and suspension. Your task is to get as much money as you can, and their task is to get as much production as they can. Gamification is for the latter, the former is a completely separate issue.

Quite alot of them have little ramps inside so they can completely unload the heads when switched off. They also have little magnets to hold the heads in the parked position. HD guts are so cute, I got a bunch of them stuck to my fridge! :) Anywise, HDD failure modes are weird and mysterious so one can never be sure whether any given drive will work, but using HDDs for long-term storage can be considered reasonably safe.

I can't find a straight answer on whether SSDs can be used for long-term storage. The tiny data cells are specifically designed to hold their charge for a long time, so here too you should be safe. Now you might think you should plug the drive in every year to refresh the cells, but I can't find evidence that any drives actually do that.

It might be as simple as wealth disparity. When people see no path to "build up" themselves, they look to "tear down" everyone else. And politicians, being lazy as any other human, will take advantage of this when they can.

That seems to be the nature of our current Republican party -- constantly looking to blame and tear down someone else (Mexico, China, "the blacks" under the guise of voting fraud, etc.) We are (hopefully) approaching the end game where a party focused solely on hate and violence against other groups has found itself empty of all other principles. And equally hopefully, the conservative public will recognize this and demand a reset.

But this is a difficult battle, as "conservatism" in general has a strong drive to obey its authority figures. So getting any of them to break free of that even for a moment to reconsider their core principles is a tough ask.

It's also possible that "tear down all the outsiders" is a core principle, in which case we just plain need to outlaw conservatism.

Because this is all stuff the Republicans actually want. The insurrection, the racism, the collusion with Russia, all of it. They want power, and they'll destroy America to get it.

Forget Trump, the Republican party as a whole is the real enemy.

Ironically, you just made their point. Mechanics think, if the customers are going to be jerks, I might as well make as much money as I can. And when the customers discover they were ripped off, they start being jerks.

I just went through something similar -- The mechanic recommended a replacement, I asked questions, he got upset and kicked me out. The recommendation was in fact correct, but I wanted to be sure so I asked all the questions I could. But since I don't know how these things work, my questions were weird and vague. The mechanic probably saw my weird questions as distrustful and disrespectful, so he refused my business.

The mechanic doesn't respect the customer, the customer doesn't respect the mechanic. It's a loop that's hard to get out of.

Yup, Amazon made that movie.

I heard a rumor that TV stations tend to show commercials at the same time to stop people from changing away from a show when it breaks for commercial.

She can't refuse until you ask.

Apple's stock symbol is AAPL (two A's). But yeah, they totally should have changed their symbol to just APP years ago.

It is not 22.25T bytes. We don't know what the number is as we don't know the coding overhead, but that number is definitely the wrong one.

You're on a technology site, pedantry is never pedant enough. :p

Not sure why you'd need that many hot grits.

The fusion machine is already working, these guys are trying to harvest the energy from it.