At the rate we're going, thanks to our political "leadership," we're back to rocks launched by slingshots. It's not hard to catch up to that.

I thought running emacs was the standard.

I'll respond, now and then, but if they say, "We need 5 minutes of your time!" then nope. If it's like 3 or 4 questions, that's not onerous.

Well, yeah, but I'm sure you've realized that not all managers are equal; some absolutely suck. So, for them, as mentioned above ( https://it.slashdot.org/commen... ), it's easier for managers to consider "butts in seats" as "productivity," instead of actually measuring the items you mentioned.

Familiarity breeds contempt. Live near someone - anyone - long enough, and you'll probably come to dislike them.

It depends on intensity. "Interval" doesn't require maximum effort, as Deadpool would say. I tend to go for 95% or better, and, sure, it hurts - running, or cycling - and I'm about dead afterwards, but I look forward to those sessions. I usually do one a week.

Some things never change, huh? Someone will ask: Do we have policies this kind of fk up? No - create one. Yes - why weren't they followed? And they'll follow the policy until some cowboy once again thinks he knows better, and they engage in this little do-si-do all over.

And, since we're not that smart, we'll just keep voting for the worst possible candidate - as long as they piss off half of the country - and make things worse. Yay.

The next city over has replaced at least 6 of their intersections with roundabouts within the last 18 months, and while there was considerable grumbling at first, the locals seem to have adapted well enough. And traffic flows pretty nicely. There's my anecdote to counter yours.

You don't know the whole situation. Some years past, I worked in Tarrytown, and lived in Rockland Lake, which is maybe 10 miles apart, probably less, but separated by the Tappan Zee Bridge (screw Cuomo; it'll always be the TZ). One day, there was something going on in Tarrytown that had the exit from the TZ backed up to almost the other side of the TZ; I never found out what it was. So a 10 mile drive, which was usually less than 45 minutes, took close to three hours. It literally would've been faster for me to walk the distance, but back then there were no provisions to cross the bridge on foot, or bike. The guy's point was: sometimes cars are a bad idea for the journey, regardless of the distance.

Car analogies are required. Zune references are given bonus points. Hot grits are smeared against bare chests.

A dollar says Tan got a phone call from an address in DC that said, "Ditch the woman."

It's a phone, man. And they do these new models every year. What do you really expect to see from an annual phone announcement? Wild-ass pie-in-the-sky LSD freebasing here: what would you add to a phone? Let's hear it.

When I first read about D - oh, 20+ years ago maybe? - I thought it sounded really cool, but had already been slapped down by an otherwise really good manager for using ksh over sh (it was like pulling teeth to get staff to understand sh; using ksh would be asking for trouble, and I kind of get his point, but it still sucked), so I didn't even bother asking about D. Out of curiosity, what do you use D for?

Emails aside, Republicans threaten American freedoms. We didn't have military troops patrolling DC, previously, nor were they threatened to enter any of our cities. Republicans are fundamentally anti-freedom.