This... was the worst part of the outcome of the anti-trust loss... Microsoft had to remove active desktop from the UI, and now 25 years later they are getting a shittier version back. In the day it was fun to throw dilbert on the bottom of the screen, random stock quotes down the side and slashdot on the other side. This would just show you things you would want to see on a daily basis and didn't take opening a window. You just embedded the browser rendering engine into a chunk of your desktop.

Of course the best thing was to grab someone and put hamster dance as their windows desktop - especially if they had sound anywhere. Always fun at the office

I forget what the exact year is, I believe it is 1946.

We have only had one president born since 1946. Yeah - think about that.

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Yup, definitely Sept 26 so time to release it... I love version numbering schemes that aren't quite accurate

I see what you did there...

So let me get this straight. So you use AI to customize your resume, then the company uses AI to reject AI customized resumes? What a waste of electricity is this. Just like the plot of Indiana Jones is not affected at all by the participation of Indiana Jones in the movie

It may not be when either, but where. I started 40 years ago in Texas around this range. I quickly skyrocked up to ~100K moving to the west coast 30 years ago and doubling that moving to Silicon Valley 10 years ago. I would not expect to be making what I make here if I moved back to Texas - but then my housing costs would be half of what they are here.

It isn't firing their best workers it is bleeding them so that there is no reason to stay so it is time to go to a more interesting company. Working for Intel in the 90s there was a bonus that went into your 401k. It wasn't a match it was a serious chunk of change. Depending on profitability it was somewhere in the teens usually. This is retirement money that can get big fast. Big Paul O looked at it and said industry benchmarking is a 6% match, He got rid of it and started paying industry standard. There was a year they gave out raises - but you only got half because they wanted more profitability. Guess what, never showed up. I mean seriously if you are going to hand out raises, just don't say you get half now and half later...

Lets stipulate that if you are a US citizen you are almost always above the median net worth. That said - you are rich. What do you consider your fair share to be - you have plenty after all so how much more of it should you give to me?

I am in california now. Every winter we have atmospheric rivers come over and dump a bunch of rain. The news stations need something to get viewers to tune in so it is "STORM SURGE 202x" coverage every 15 minutes. Yes, it is raining, yes roads wash out, yes, some local flooding - nothing to make me think I need to take action.

I lived in Texas - tornado warning came out. Time to sit on the porch and watch it blow by... Lots of fun had by all. I hear people in Florida won't evacuate until after they determine that a Cat x hurricane is going to hit right where they are. The longer you live there the higher the x is of course.

What do we expect the government to do - force us at gunpoint to evacuate? No, we individually take responsibility to know what is going on around us and act accordingly. You live close to a river that is prone to flash floods - you watch the weather more closely than I do that lives 50 ft higher elevation.

I don't see why this would be formal labor fraud - I mean misrepresentation of history on resumes is bad - but I don't think criminal. Frankly, the IRS doesnt care how many W2s/1099s you submit. The taxes are paid and they get their pound of flesh

Yeah I would love to see an NFC standard that didnt extend the range, but instead specified where in the (*^^*&^#@ the reader was on the POS system, or at least a lit up nfc logo where you want me to tap.... Every POS I go up to has it somewhere else, and finding it is a pain

what do you call a beach with 100 lawyers buried up to their neck in sand?
A sand shortage

What do you mean sloppy - the comma does exactly what is intended.
Lawyers (almost exclusively) write laws
Very vaguely
Then companies pay lawyers a LOT of money to interpret those laws
When two companies interpret the law differently than each party hires VERY expensive lawyers to fight it out in front of a judge - that is another lawyer getting paid a lot of money.
In the end it is the lawyers creating a problem and benefiting from the problem that they create.

Ever hear the joke about a small town having 1 lawyer and the lawyer goes broke - the second the second lawyer moves into town they both get rich

My daughter applied to college in '16 to get in the fall of '17. Well, she ended up applying to 3 schools she was interested in. UC, Oregon State, and Texas A&M. As a pre-vet, those are some of the top schools for her. Each took an essay - the app deadline was Monday for Oregon State, she was early accepted on Wednesday. My comment to her was do you think they even read your essays... Same thing for Texas A&M. She was finally accepted to UC during the spring, as that was her #2 school she wasn't even waiting.

If you aren't going to read the essays as a part of the acceptance process - don't require them.