SapientLasagna

joined 1 year ago
[–] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 week ago

Guy tried to enlist the boss's brother in law to falsify work. "We don't have to walk all the way up the mountainside to do the work, the client will never check it". Then he went home, leaving said brother in law to do all the work by himself.

A week after getting fired, he called the boss about the performance bonus that was promised at the start of the contract.

[–] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

My first vehicle was a 1971 Ford 3/4 ton. It was extremely reliable and tough. Having sat for most of the previous 30 years in a barn, it even looked good.

But it had all of the safety features of 1971. Power brakes the would lock up and throw you off the road if you more than thought about braking. Lap belts and a solid steel steering wheel to smash your teeth on. If you somehow hit the steering wheel hard enough to break it, you'd be impaled on the steel pipe steering column. Speaking of the steering, it didn't have power steering, so if you hit a rut on a rough road, the steering wheel would spin out of control. You had to just let go of it until it stopped spinning lest it break your thumbs. Also, the gas tank was inside the cab behind the seat for extra car crash fun.

It was a beautiful death trap. I kinda wish I could have put it back into a barn for another 30 years instead of selling it.

[–] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Or maybe 13,500 miles. But what's a few zeros between friends?

[–] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago

Also, unless you're one of those people who legitimately doesn't care if food tastes good or not, learn to cook. You don't have to be good a cooking everything, but develop a repertoire of food that is healthy and you like to eat.

The age where you could depend on a wife to be a good cook for you are long past.

[–] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 months ago

It's not a hard real time OS though. Real Time Linux would be appropriate for some subsystems in a car, but not for things that are safety critical with hard timing constraints, e.g. ABS controllers.

[–] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 0 points 5 months ago

At least some of the app developers have realized that if they develop for Postgres they get to keep the Sql Server licensing costs for themselves. Windows server licensing costs too, if they're clever.

Unfortunately the old janky enterprise shit will probably never get updated. You know the ones. The ones that think they're new and hip because they support SSO (Radius only)

[–] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 0 points 5 months ago

Most games work well; some don't yet, and a few probably never will (CoD, PUBG). The easiest way to check is to go here: https://protondb.com and either look up the games you actually play, or just give it your steam profile URL on the profile page and have it scan your library.

[–] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago

Furries, to be sure, but atheists?

[–] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago

Depending on where you live, the environment hasn't been this clean in decades. The '70s and '80s were nasty.

[–] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago

Believe it or not, also United States.

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