By that, they they mean that they are adding responsibilities and reducing pay.

I’d say that I probably “work” more hours from home. At work if I get so tired I zone out and am fighting to stay conscious, that cycle of trying to stay awake, trying to focus, going for a walk, getting coffee, can all put a 2 or 3 hr whole in my day. At home, I will set a 15min timer on my phone and then go crash on the couch (just comfortable enough for a nap, but not for a long sleep). Even on rare days when I am really wrecked, after 45 min I am ready to focus and get back to work. Additionally, since I don’t have a deadline to beat traffic, and I take naps whenever I need, if I am focused and in the flow, I don’t just stop working at the end of the day. I ride that focus and flow to its natural fall off. Whereas if I am commuting, when my alarm goes off, I am done and out of the building like a god damn ninja.

Ya, that is what I thought, but skipped because I couldn’t remember for sure. GetVersion didn’t even exist until win2k, so everyone already had their code that checked version numbers written and squared away. They never needed to go back and change it or read the new documentation.

Microsoft’s version function didn’t return what you think it returned. They would deliver massive changes to OS functionality and call it “second edition” or just some service pack number. The version function gave you the same value for all of it. Literally, the only way to know what version you were working with was to parse the name. Microsoft’s own documentation on new functionality told you that was the way to do it. MS even gave you example code to copy and paste.
It wasn’t until much later, well after the dumpster fire they had created was blazing away, that they took the time to revise the way any of it worked.

Ah the good old days… Back when they gave you a full 20 seconds before shooting you for being unarmed.

This is entirely true for certain types of development. There are plenty of coding jobs where you are constantly writing and rewriting the same type of thing over and over again. UI development, web page development, ect. Any place we you have multiple “customers” wanting a similar thing done, but with a different look or aesthetic. Or maybe you work for a company that makes stuff that needs to be refreshed every so often to avoid looking antiquated.

But then there’s also lots of people who are constantly doing things that they have never done before. I am not even talking about the poor suckers out there right now have having to “add AI” to random shit right now without even having a clue wtf that even means. You have plenty of people doing what is essentially “we want you to do this thing we have never done before”. How do you estimate time on a ticket that essentially says, take this 30 year old pile of code that has been hacked and rehacked by dozens of people (all who have either retired or left the company to escape this dumpster fire you are being handed) and “fix this bug” that has been around for a decade. It’s been there for a fucking decade. When the first version of this ticket was originally generated it was done in a ticketing system that has been replaced by 2 generations of ticketing systems since then. Whatever the issue is, it’s a big enough issue that it can’t be answered with “can’t do/won’t do”, but at the same time everyone who has been assigned it in the last decade has at best created half ass work arounds. Good luck with pulling a number for how long it is going to take you to figure out what the bug even is, much less how to fix it.

It’s not like Gary is the worst place in the world… Even though I can’t think of any place right at this moment… but statistically… Well how about that town right at tip of the Great Lake’s cock where the sp called “Demon House” was? That place has to be much… What?.. It’s the same place? It is? Ohh…

Turning off your GPS will not turn off location sharing to Google or other people, it will just fall back to using cell towers and wifi. Admittedly, it will be much more inaccurate, but it will still try it’s best. You can also turn off wifi and even data service itself to save energy. Although at that point you might as well just turn off the phone.
But I wasn’t talking about system level shutdowns. I want talking about in comparison to your standard level of activity. If you have your GPS on for anything like maps or anything else, you aren’t going to see a noticeable difference with personal location sharing on.

Why even make a fucking lamp in the first place? Weren’t regular lamps good enough as they were?

You kids these days… back in my day, before leds, you would never even consider using a lamp for any kind of sexual act. Between the bulb melting your flesh, the risks of broken glass, and the risks of electrocution… Well it just wasn’t worth it.

Not really. Your phone is already doing location checks every few minutes for a variety of reasons, so it doesn’t really affect it unless you have rooted your phone and hunted down all the little bullshit things that trigger location checks.

Ya, but your life experiences change you and the way you think. If you’re software developer it becomes really difficult to watch any show with “hacking” in it. Firefighters and other first responders find it really difficult to watch anything that involves “rescue”. There’s a YouTuber with over 5 million subs who got his start on YouTube by being a firefighter who made fun of firefighting shows.
Now magnify that be a couple hundred years. Your experiences, the things you would have lived through, the basic changes in technology, the world and just the way people live… Your way of thinking would be so radically different from someone who’s only experiences have been in school, parents, and modern life that it would be insanity try to pretend to be one.
I have enough trouble finding common ground and stuff to talk about with those old friends of mine that decided to never have kids or buy a house. I can’t even conceive of how I would go about “blending” in with high schoolers for the rest of eternity.

Often the word unsubscribe itself is a good word to filter on.

I’m glad they started putting up No Helicopter signs at the entrance to the tunnel near me. I think the local henchmen got so used to chasing people through them that they would sometimes get distracted and absent mindedly take the tunnel on their commute to work.

My mom wasn’t quite that bad, but we do have heirloom cardboard boxes and tissue paper for wrapping clothing. You always knew if you saw that shape under the tree that someone was getting clothes. My sister inherited the boxes and they still make the occasional appearance at family get togethers. Meanwhile I inherited the need to flatten, fold, and store tissue paper that is still whole.

It turns out that the witch who turned the prince into a frog was actually curing his cancer not cursing him.

Only if you are super poor enough to qualify, and have time and the capacity to jump through all the hoops to get one, and you live somewhere that there is a provider that has coverage, and ect, ect., then you can get a discount on your cell plan. For some people who are “lucky enough” to be super poor enough, the discount can actually be enough to make the phone essentially $0.

“Hunting without intent to terminate” is an amazingly good description.

I’m just looking for one not run by fascists. So far .world is the only one where I haven’t been perma-banned for disagreeing with Nazis and their propaganda.

The really fucked up part is that a 6 year old shot his teacher and I never even fucking heard about it. School shootings have become so commonplace here that the only thing that made this “newsworthy” was the $10 million.

So, it’s an average job, but I get a late morning start and the entire work day is only 8 hours…
Stop being a dick and tell me where to send my resume already.