Your friend had better have SERIOUSLY GREAT MEDICAL INSURANCE (such that doesn't exist..) OR be really wealthy as those drugs you see ENDLESSLY advertised on tv are SERIOUSLY expensive.

It depends on their definition of "large". EDC in May in May isn't exactly tiny... The cost to get in to Burning Man is high enough already without the tax bozos hitting them with a large tax bite.

Yeah.. there probably is a way to modifiy this bullshit behavior, BUT once modifed, I almost GUARANTEE you that the next major windows/msoffice "update" will turn this shit back on again.. The ONLY way to win with Windows is TO NOT USE WINDOWS or ANY MS product...

Honestly, it was the tone of the message, which is admittedly difficult to derive from a forum. IMHO, the proper response would have been one that questioned whether the 'upscale grocer' selling spareribs at $6.99/lb vs $1.49/lb were at different ends of the subjective or objective quality spectrum. In my case, they are literally the same brand: Smithfield. The only difference is that Aldi is $5+/lb less expensive.

That said, IMO, unless we're talking about a butcher that sources heritage-breed Berkshire (or the like) pork from a local farmer, I don't really give a flying fuck where the previously cheap cut of meat I'm going to put on my smoker for 6h is sourced from.

Why would I pay $6.99/lb at one of the 'upscale grocers' in town for spareribs when I can get them at Aldi for $1.49? I, too, drive a Mercedes, but it doesn't mean I'm a fucking moron w/my money.

Speaking of Louis, I haven't seen anything from him in months. Hope he's ok and hasn't been shit upon by the powers-that-be.

A 50MT thermonuclear bomb dropped on their HQ ought to do the trick..

The average employee lasts well less than a year at a fast casual; this had little to do w/her background.

https://www.fastcasual.com/blo...

I am absolutely certain many of those kids are great at writing code; what I have found in the last ~3y of hiring candidates out of undergrad and/or masters programs is that they DO NOT interview well.

They can answer esoteric technical questions about software dev (I *assume* this is because they study for coding interview questions) but they cannot possibly answer more general questions about themselves, how they would operate in a real-world business setting, and/or how they might build something from soup to nuts.

I'm not asking them to give me real-world experience; but, I expect a college graduate to be able to think about questions asked critically and provide a coherent and thoughtful reply to that question. Even if it's technically 'wrong', the conversational nature is INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT for any work I have done in my 25+ year career.

Anyone can have AI solve most esoteric technical coding problems now; interfacing ability w/others on the dev teams and the rest of the business is what is important in getting shit done.

Colleges need to start investing HEAVILY in leveling up their students in how to interview well.

"Ms. Mishra, the Purdue graduate, did not get the burrito-making gig at Chipotle."

I think this single sentence says more about it than anything else in the article.

No kidding... The term "trusted" sure the hell isn't the system's owners' "trust"... I'm constantly so damn glad I flushed all MS crap down the commode and stick with Linux.. F--k TPM and "Secure Boot"...

Just another reason why I'd NEVER EVER buy a current model car.. Even if I was a millionaire, I'd keep driving my 10 year old car and keep fixing it when necessary. I suspect theres a growing number of people like me out there in fly-over land....

I watch dogs (primarily overnight--most for 3-7 days but some 1 day and some >7d) via Rover. I make around $1500/month (pre-1099) and after their ~20% cut (of which most people give back to me in tips).

I WFH so the largely passive income is nice. I wouldn't have found as many people w/o a platform to do the heavy lifting for me in finding new dogs.

I am not advocating that we need to have these sorts of things in the market, but it does make for nice extra cash. YMMV.

I have a better name for that useful tool... F**K_YOU_MS.. Just sort of falls off the tongue...

Calculus doesn't intersect CS too much. Better to have linear algebra and discrete math.