eInk could be updated every minute for a (wait for it) 60x power savings over updating every second, but even running an LCD all the time is possible with only solar, there are watches that do that right now.

As this one hasn't panned out as you had hoped, you might want to consider evaluating how you approach your next contract. Rather than cross your fingers and sign up for 6 months, you might suggest to the company that they bring you on for 12-40 hours of evaluation work. Offer a reduced rate or even to do that work for free, if needed. At the end of that contract, you will provide them with your professional opinion of what it would take to complete the work they are expecting for the full contract. Break it down into schedule and price, present it to them so they can see what you're offering and how you'll be worth it. Price that contract accordingly. If you want the work, emphasize how you are now the most familiar candidtate with the work to be completed. If you don't want the work, finish your presentation explaining how you feel that as a professional, you can't in good conscience accept their contract because they would be throwing good money after bad, but would be more than happy to help them find someone who can.

This approach will tell you several things:

• The health of the code you're about to become responsible for.
• If the company balks at the idea of paying for you to evaluate their code, let that be a warning as to how willing they'll be to pay for "real" work. If their management can't get this straight, expect that they will also jerk you around with their specifications and last-minute changes.
• If their code is an unholy mess, you can decline to bid for the followup work, or at least bid at a rate that makes it worth it to you to slog through it. Declining the work in a professional way, like "I think you will be better served by finding someone else to complete the work; can I refer someone to you?" is miles above taking on the work and then quitting or doing a piss-poor job of it.,

Don't worry about them never hiring you again. If the relationship is going to sour, it's better for both parties to know that up front rather than invest 6 months of time into it.

Fizzbuzz for the win. Depressing, but it is an accurate test.

A wise friend once told me, "You can never overpay a salesman on commission."

Apparently it's very easy to look at a high-performing salesman and think they're overpaid, forgetting the large buckets of money they brought in to lead to their commissions...

I understand that "Oracle" didn't try to low-ball him, it was someone with that particular mental defect who thinks that winning a negotiation means they are powerful. If you're a manager with fiscal authority (in a company of any size) and you give up a talented employee for $10k, you are a doofus. Doing it while discriminating is strike #2, and getting caught is #3.

The last time I moved for a new position, my new employer spent over $20k just in my relocation expenses, and I only moved about 300 miles.

If this guy is so good, why would Oracle try to low-ball him like this? His boss wants to offer him a position with a $60,000 salary that would require him to relocate half-way around the world, and his bosses come back wanting to low-ball the guy by $10k? Assuming the employee has a spouse and maybe a kid or two, they would spend more than this on plane tickets and immigration paperwork, for crying out loud! Oracle, are you really that stupid? This is penny ante thinking!

I've never met anyone with side effects from the polio vaccine that I'm aware of, but I have met people who had polio as children before vaccination became widespread.

Not to downplay the problems that you've had from the vaccine, but do you really think the world on whole was better off before the vaccine? Mortality rates are very high, and those that survive are affected for life.

As a father of 3 (soon to be 5), I'll roll the dice with the vaccine.

If your summary is correct, I hope someone at the school also got a fine for the frivolous call to 911.

Sounds like it wasn't about the theft, it was about being able to charge him with something to show him who's in charge...

Do you have an electrical outlet on the outside wall of your home? A water faucet? Please let us all know where we can come and charge and wash our EVs at your expense.

When you go into a restroom in a park, do you take a couple of rolls of toilet paper home? It's there for the public, after all.

No company would produce a 110V 40A dryer, since no one would buy it. No home is wired for such a beast.

I don't think there is any such limit, as you state. It is perfectly fine to sell a vacuum cleaner, treadmill, or power drill labeled "15A" that draws 15 amps from the wall.

Another possible reason that this dryer started tripping a 30A breaker is that as it aged, the motor started to draw more power. If it was working with a maximum draw of 28A, but started to draw more juice as the bearings in the drum motor dried out, it could very well start bumping up against 30A. Replacing the breaker that was doing its job with one with a looser tolerance would make it appear that the breaker was "wearing out". Circuit breakers just don't degrade in that way; there's nothing in the circuit inside them except a piece of wire.

According to the summary, the poster's boss agrees that they are understaffed, but here he is asking on /. how to convince the higher-ups of that. There are three possibilities:

1. 1. The OP's boss is not really convinced. If he were, he would be working on convincing upper management himself.
2. 2. The OP's boss is convinced, but is unable to convince his superiors. Whether ineffective or simply being ignored, this is a dangerous place to be: the brass do not view the poster's department as important. Expect sadness when the budget gets tight.
3. 3. The OP's boss is hiding the problem from upper management. Attempting to go above this boss's head by approaching the CEO directly will not be viewed positively. To do so will be career suicide.

Short answer: STFU and do your job as best you can, or leave. You have said your peace to your manager, now it's time to leave it alone until approached by management for your ideas on fixing the problem. Either your manager will take up the cause and make things happen, or your manager will see it as tilting at windmills and drop it too. You do not want to be seen as the office malcontent who is always complaining about why things are not getting done. No good will come of it.

Quitting may be the right answer, but it's always a softer landing to have a new gig lined up before quitting.

It's usually easier to find a new job if you already have one, to boot. In a prospective employer's eyes, "Employed"=="At least a decent worker" and "Unemployed"=="Not able to keep a job". I'm not saying it's fair or accurate, but if you're out of work it's sometimes hard to convince a hiring manager that it was of your own choice.

"Spend your money on experiences, not things." A wise man once told me.

My grandfather dropped out of high school to work his entire adult life in a phosphorus mine while farming on the side to make ends meet. He never traveled more than 1,000 miles from the place he was born, and died before 60 due to lung disease.

I work in a climate controlled office. My wife and I are taking our kids on vacation next week, we thought it would be fun for them to ride on an airplane for the first time, and Disneyland seemed like a good place.

I feel like a lazy shit whenever I think about how my grandfather (or even my father, who was 6 when they got indoor plumbing in their home in the 1950s) worked to provide for their families.

The fact that your nephews are college graduates with 3 square meals a day counts for something towards "standard of living", I think.