For business use, the last time I deployed an inkjet was maybe around 2005. For a light user who wanted a small form factor multipurpose. Including faxing. The fact they didn't regularly have print jobs coming out meant a routine of cleaning the clogged nozzles. While that was awhile ago, I'm not sure if newer inkjets offer better on-demand printing for that scenario, or if they can print a full color page without worrying about the damp paper and risk of a spill making the page run. Lasers have dropped in price point over the years, and while they aren't the most compact solution, I prefer their more responsive, on-demand printing and not having to worry about a dribble of someone's drink ruining the hardcopy. The longest in-service HP laser I've had at work lasted around 15 years and had a duty cycle of hundreds of thousands of pages. Other than installing a maintenance kit of replacement parts a couple of times it was a beast. Can't say I've had that experience with inkjets. Even in the early 2000's with higher-end inkjets for marketing/advertising folks.

As I followed-up, I didn't intend to say that a flat 6% layoff amount was a good thing or would be any sort of morale/productivity booster. I was postulating that it isn't absurd to think that 6% of a large-scale operation such as Google couldn't be considered as top-notch performers. I've been employed at three places over the years that had significant layoffs. I'd say the majority of them weren't properly planned or executed. And some really good, competent, productive staff were let go. Sometimes that was based on how much they were making, sometimes it was affected by politics and lack of kissing up, etc.

...all of that above being said, I don't believe that a pre-determined termination percentage, stacking, ranking, etc. should come into play.

At scale the numbers might seem staggering. But taking a 6% figure and looking at most places I've worked it sounds reasonable. A small 100-person company likely has 6 people who aren't as proficient or productive compared to the others. What extrapolates this and makes it turn into corporate bloat is when you have thousands of employees who aren't really holding up their end of the bargain. I've worked for both large corporate entities as well as smaller mom and pops. It's much easier to hide a slacker in a big workplace, since oftentimes lack of production by one gets mixed into the general productiveness of the overall department.

I can't believe this is legit...but it appears to be --> https://www.nytimes.com/events.... For some reason I bet that SBF won't be able to make it. As for Zelenskyy, this is on a whole other level. lol.

Not to mention that 5G really isn't a standard as much as a catchphrase. Just one example is that I own and operate a couple of Helium hotspots --> https://www.helium.com/. One of these provides IoT coverage, while the other provides both IoT as well as indoor small cell coverage. The latter is touted as a 5G hotspot in all of the promotional materials. When it fact it's just 4G LTE under the hood.

Reading Is Fundamental.

You know this is public record, that anyone can look up, right? https://thehill.com/business-a...

Agreed. My comment was more pointing out how Wray looked when being asked about that scenario. Didn't come off as too strong, too in control, or too in charge.

One of my coworkers has a sister who works for the US DHS. She couldn't obviously divulge details, but if they are orders and reasonable enough suspicion then their group has backdoor access to plenty. Definitely including social media accounts.

What does this exactly mean? It reads like _if_ the U.S. data was stored in China then the Chinese government is allowed by law to force TikTok's internal data to be handed over. But if the U.S. data isn't being stored in China, why is Wray concerned? Director Wray should be more concerned about how he looked when being questioned by Congress about there being undercover FBI agents present within the crazy mob. Before and during the January 6th shitstorm --> https://www.themainewire.com/2....

Touche! My second variation made sense, as does your reply. My first variation sounds like Earth is within a lab...lol.

I was just thinking that. Two of my boys worked at a local Amazon EFC, and their only interaction with anything HR related involved a smartphone app's automation. Very hard to speak or see a real live human. Figure they don't seem to be too top-heavy or overly staffed in that regard based on what I've heard.

These opinions and debates sometime remind me of a Les Paul versus a Strat. Depends on what you're doing and what seems right for it. For me, internal quickie scripting projects I typically use Ruby. Tried Python for a few years, but overall Ruby just made more sense, in terms of less gotchas and more intuitiveness. For larger production-level project I use C# nowadays. I came from the world of Java, so I found C# easy to learn, and over the years it has matured pretty well. Just one example was I've found that for mobile app development Xamarin sitting atop it was a Godsend. Visual Studio Code has allowed me to do a fair amount of work across platforms and languages in a convenient way. Hell, from Arduino to Node to Ruby to you name it. Back when speed and performance were a must for me I did use C/C++. But nowadays most of my projects aren't that stringent in that regard. In a pinch if they did I'd probably have to dig back into those areas.

Even then, the correct ordering should be..."Scientists Manufacture Material That Doesn't Exist on Earth in a Lab." Or "In a Lab Scientists Manufacture Material That Doesn't Exist on Earth."