Iâ(TM)ve done enough presales to realize that unless they find a way to keep the scalpers and bots out it will be largely useless.

I know itâ(TM)s nobodyâ(TM)s âoejobâ but Iâ(TM)ve walked over with a shovel during a storm and cleaned the drains on a flooding intersection on my street before. The water was already up over my work boots when I got there and I didnâ(TM)t want the flooding to become my problem so I handled it before it became one. It was amazing how fast the intersection cleared that much water once the 4 drains were open.

I really hope that the companies fighting this are asked to demonstrate the process an average California citizen has to go through for a random selection of labeled products to be recycled, as well as following that process. Someone is San Jose throws a number 2 bottle in the recycle bin, where does it go and how is it recycled today. Not theoretical examples, actual ones taken from within the state.

I've used AI agents to assist with troubleshooting some IT issues. And while it did eventually get me there, there were two glaring problems I've found: * On issues where I was familiar with the system, it would make wacky suggestions or tie things together as being the same root cause even when it was an impossibility. You could waste a lot of time going down these rabbit holes if you didn't know what you were doing. * On issues where I was less familiar, I found that after spending hours troubleshooting the system, I arrived at the answer but had not gained any knowledge on the methodology of how the system worked or how the troubleshooting plan was determined. You never get to be a senior level contributor without this kind of knowledge. So it worked, but it would really depend on the goals of the organization as to whether this was a direction they really want to go.

There was a time when it was a useful social tool, not the conglomerate cesspool you see today.

Youâ(TM)re thinking too close to the current regime. The focus is always about the other team and trying to shut them out or undo their accomplishments no matter which party is in power. That is the problem being referred to.

It was changed for marketing. Marketing 101 is having to keep your offering fresh and in a market where weâ(TM)ve already achieved peak smartphone that means youâ(TM)re making changes just to make changes. The hardware differences between the flagship Apple, Samsung, Google, and whatever other brand offerings are basically rounding errors. They are all great products and do the same things give or take. Itâ(TM)s either I e if those fringe features that makes someone go with a certain phone or itâ(TM)s marketing.

Isnâ(TM)t that what we have now? Iâ(TM)ve seen OpenStreetMaps mentioned a few times in the Apple Maps app and it does have a local download option.

When was the last time you saw an airline ticket scalped? What do they do thatâ(TM)s magic? Require the person named on the ticket when it was bought be the one that shows up. You can absolutely stop ticket scalping if you want to.

Just start restricting resale. Can only get refund minus some sort of fee and only if the vendor can resell the ticket. Or go the route of airline tickets the named buyer has to be the one who attends.

I have that argument with my boss. He wants me to do things to assure that flaky systems donâ(TM)t flake out when the upper managers have eyes on them. I ask what better time to point out the struggles that CAN be fixed with money than when the uppers are feeling the same pain points everyone else does. I donâ(TM)t want to be a hero. Iâ(TM)ll do it if I have to. But really I want stuff to work the way it was intended so I donâ(TM)t have to save the day.

Places are catching onto this scheme though. Weâ(TM)re comparing quotes for ERP system integrations and one quote was like 1/3 of the other, the very first thing was âoemake sure these are apples to apples, I bet the cheaper one floods us with ECPs and cost just as much as the more expensive one.â

Maybe, but I'm not sure that's a very good reason. The only times that have a different word for them are "noon" and "midnight". Every other hour is identified strictly by its numerical value with the am/pm (or in 24 hour time, simply its numerical value). 12:00 am or pm can still be identified by that value whether or not the word "noon" exists. "Noon" is redundant at best.

Consistency is an interesting point, but without too much effort I can think of words that have different meanings today than they did when I was growing up or even 10 years ago, so the idea that communication does not change does not have merit. Noon could easily fall into that category.

Agreed that someone has to be GMT. But that doesn't mean anything as again it's just numbers. Different places would still be offset. There is nothing that ties daylight hours to the hands pointing to a specific position on the clock. My sunrise could 1pm, I start work at 3pm, leave work at 11pm, and still have a few hours of daylight until I go to bed at 4am. Right now when I work with someone on the other side of the globe I have to think "what time is it there". If we were all just GMT I would be thinking "what are that person's work hours". Not a huge change IMO.

âoeCan theyâ and âoewill theyâ are two very different concepts. Until they start actually taking action, this doesnâ(TM)t mean much. Also, they already had that ability. At least in the US, it is a criminal offense to disobey airline crew instructions. So if the flight attendant told you to stop the noise, you pretty much had to at the risk of having the police waiting for you when you land. Are there any cases of this actually happening? If not, Iâ(TM)m not so sure that United will actually go through the process of removing someone from an in-process flight over this.

If they are walking to school, they are old enough to have some agency. Why do the parents work schedule have to change because of the child's school schedule? And more so, let's say that the parents work schedule does change. It changes once and then is done. Not twice per year like it does not. Why is the parents work schedule changing once considered a bad thing?