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Comment Re: Impossible! (Score 1) 240

So, you donâ€(TM)t have an outlet in your garage/car port? Thereâ€(TM)s this cool invention called an â€oeextension cordâ€. Check it out sometime! Youâ€(TM)ll love it!

A friend of mine bought an electric BMW recently to replace his aged-out ICE BMW. He absolutely loves it. It performs better and he never has to go to a gas station anymore. And he didnâ€(TM)t even install a special charging outlet in his house. He just plugs into a regular 120V, 15A outlet in his garage. He lives in suburbia and commutes 5 days a week.

Comment Re: Decision making that has little to do with log (Score 1) 233

Personally, I prefer to work in-person most of the time, but sometimes prefer remote, depending on what the job needs at the time. If someone is not putting in the time at home, any competent teammate or manager will notice the lack of output. The excuses will pile up. In this case, the real problem is one of fit and motivation, neither of which is going to be fixed by forcing them into an oppressive surveillance situation with a commute that eats hours of their day. Learn how to lead.

Comment Populists are a problem. (Score 0) 174

Populists are generally more interested in gaining and keeping power by means of disinformation than they are in doing the right things for the health and wellbeing of everyone else. Politicians should serve the people, and a big part of that is providing the people with truthful information and fair assessments upon which to base their voting decisions.

Comment This reminds me of MS Word (Score 1) 22

I always hated Word because it would proactively guess how I wanted to format things and I would have to spend ages fixing document formatting f-ups, and then hunting down and fixing what broke somewhere else when I fixed those. It is still only marginally better decades later, and only because now I know where to find the toggles to turn those bugs off. Now my house will be doing the same thing? No thank you.

Even ignoring the whole privacy snafu, everything about the smart home market today is stupid. Even phone-controlled power switches do not always work. They literally have one job and they cannot do it reliably. It really is the Internet of Shit. It actually isnâ€(TM)t hard to do a phone-controlled power switch that just works, fast and reliably. But all the vendors are blinded by the dollar signs in their eyes when they think about harvesting data, and there is a mass delusion that somehow cloud needs to be at the core of everything and ML/AI is a robust, user friendly technology.  Wake up, sheeple! Use that frontal cortex of yours. (Itâ€(TM)s there for a reason. ;) )

Comment Re: Young people are screwed (Score 1) 223

> Do you know what happens when damn near every dumb-ass job requires a degree? You end up with a much more educated population, which is a very good thing. The problem arises when the degree saddles them with a large amount of debt before theyâ(TM)ve even started earning, or the cost of education keeps poorer people locked into poverty. Education needs to be affordable for everyone. Mind you, itâ(TM)s also important to have jobs for those who just canâ(TM)t do school (due to things such as learning disabilities or mental health issues).

Comment Re: The managers fear for themselves (Score 1) 289

^^^ this The daily stand up is for the developers. The manager shouldnâ(TM)t be there, unless they are also doing development work. The focus should be on the teamâ(TM)s progress toward the sprint goals and any roadblocks people have run into, NOT on the âoestatusâ of individuals. Trusting your developers to be capable and not require micro-management is a key value of the process that too many forget. I think many managers have control issues because they have to rely on others to do the âoerealâ work, while their organization holds the manager âoeaccountableâ for the work of others, and heaps-on stupid yearly âoemanagement business objectivesâ to create further financial penalties for failure (when failure should instead be treated as an opportunity to learn). If your org claims to be agile, look at the agile manifesto and ask yourself if your orgâ(TM)s claim is truth or lie.

Comment Re: That's what you get for being poor (Score 1) 307

In Canada, the poorer you are the less tax you pay. The first chunk of income you earn has no tax. The next chunk gets taxed a little. The next chunk gets taxed more. Etc. The top tax rate doesnâ(TM)t kick in until well over $100000. So, the middle class pays for the poor to have health care. Who knows what tricks the rich may be playing to avoid paying tax, but I hope theyâ(TM)re paying too.

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