Solid write up! You’ve changed my opinion. I had thought terms like “octoroon” were merely archaic descriptors, had never thought of the “one drop” angle and what that implied.

Holy shit! There’s even a word for all this!

such terminology is a characteristic of hypodescent, which is the practice within a society of assigning children of mixed unions to the ethnic group which the dominant group perceives as being subordinate

1/64th: Sang-mêlé. My god, that’s a laugh-out-loud racist word if I ever heard one. How far back did they want to go?!

For anyone else finding this interesting, this might be the opening of a rabbit hole:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadroon

pay for google one

LOL, that’s the idea all right! I pay $99 year for 2TB of storage, so I’m a happy camper. My Windows libraries, movie storage and such is backed up offsite in addition to local backups.

Reminds me of when Malwarebytes changed the interface to look like a straight up virus. LOL, we were all shitting bricks.

I second this, but OP says they have special lens needs. That’s what stacks the price.

I learned it working telecom. For example, if you wish to offer 911 service, your service has to be operational 99.999% of the time.

It’s more casually used to mean a service or operation is insanely reliable.

Or shotgun shell sizes and loads.

“It all started in 1840 when the dram was a common unit of measurement…”

Where there’s a will there’s a way! Don’t give up.

For example: Use a small and VERY hot nail to melt a sideways hole. Patiently. Use the same nail as a tab. (Probably have to shorten in before the final push.)

I want to believe. But there are questions.

If the price tanks too hard, China will dial back production. The article talks about this. Seems to already be happening.

Also, why am I not seeing a penny drop in price at the hardware store in my corner of America? Anyone know of deals I can take advantage of?

I have many uses for solar cells, mainly personal stuff. Charging 12V lead and lithium batteries (mostly have this covered) and powering my camp for a start. Love to get my home going as well, but prices aren’t there yet and I’m kinda broke.

Feeling it. Starting to look myself.

Moved to a new team, former boss was frustrating, to say the least. Great company on the whole. Maybe I’m an idiot?

Pinged tonight by my new manager, who is on PTO but kinda half-ass working anyway. Some shit, “When I get back.” Other shit, “Do this now.”

“Updated user account per his manager.”

“Told you not to touch that till I get back.”

“You updated the tracking sheet saying do this thing.”

Fuck me. I can’t keep up with conflicting verbal orders, ticket orders, Slack orders, and Jira orders. Am I supposed to provide a fucking timeline as to what was ordered at what date and time?!

“Also the list in that email, go ahead and make all of the users except $X and $Y as regular users.”

“Uh, no warning?”

“No need to update the sheet at this moment. I will deal with the people on the list when I am back.”

Done. And still working on it. Now I have no idea whether to continue.

EDIT!: Boss was wrong a fully apologized! He’s gotta stop half-assing being on PTO and trying to work anyway.

Wondered if it was something exactly like that. Way to put the spotlight on their gender issues.

LOL, I feel that one. That novel is where I learned the word.

Tell me you know nothing about front or backend webdev…

I want to know how many people believe that’s real.

Proof-of-concept? No use planning much if you don’t have a solid power supply waiting. OTOH, seems like solar would be a no-brainer.

1999, “Did you just order a $5 shake?”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNoEbmLm0iw

Disrupting trade is punishable by death.

At this scale? Yes. Fucking up global trade at this level hurts people all over the planet. The downstream pain reaches into millions of households.

And if that hurt isn’t enough for you, it’s clearly terrorism. And your plan is to let it stand because there haven’t been any deaths?

My wife refused the dishwasher for months after moving in. Hand wash only.

“It is not clean.”

Fuck I know. Maybe they don’t have good ones in the Philippines? Still trying to deprogram the “tradwife” out of her. 😂 But now she uses it! And sometimes allows me to do our dishes!

I disagree, and maybe my tastes are niche. I’m a very amateur gunsmith and look up how-to’s on weird shit I can’t figure out. Often the answer is in the comments.

“This guy has mostly got it, but do step B before A.”

Or:

“I had this issue and fixed it with $X.”

I’d guess a lot of technical/mechanical/niche stuff works like that? I don’t look at the comments on popular stuff.

And they should not have that legal obligation. Jesus, imagine how that would play. We can make up scenarios all night long.

News Flash!

“Linux is still a pain in the ass, even for experienced IT professionals.” More at 11…

I’ve run Linux for a great many things over the years. Running 2 AWS LightSail instances for my own use. Running dozens of Ubuntu Server instances at work. Shit just works.

But Linux is a hard fail for a daily driver. Maybe not for you, but for most of us it sucks.

I’ve tried and tried and tried, for 20+ years. Of course I can make it work, but it’s a pain in the ass. I got work to do on my daily driver, and fucking around as well. I need a desktop that just works. With everything.