Okay so I originally assumed this was probably due to some union rule or something like that. But I didn’t find any reference to it in the NALC guidelines, anything in the USPS resources center (which is hard to use), anything in google searches, and the original employee documentation or spec.

I did find the USPS History section and it turns out they have someone whose job title is “Postal Historian”, Stephen Kochersperger.

But, anyways, I found the address (not email of course haha) for the USPS history office so I have wrote up an letter and put it in the mailbox. I will eventually update yall

I don’t really know. Nobody seems to really be in jail, and their agenda keeps happening so enlighten me please.

the North American colonies

Come on bro, it was like 4 of the first 10 words in his comment…

they are serving up major Ls for trump.

Are they tho? Cause to me it seems like trump is floundering and the DNC has spent the last 9 years doing fuck all about it

Haha I’m actually from an IT background! I started doing it because I was tired of paying like $1000/month for 7361618 little programs.

There is a difference between “I’m frustrated with work so I will be short with people” and “I am going to systematically create a rumor that one of the IT guys is actually bi” or “10 of us are going to gang up on a new nurse and bully her until she leaves crying”.

Those are some of the worst examples but little petty stuff happened all the time. But it was even little things like every time a nurse would walk away the other nurses would talk about how they’re putting on weight or being a bad mom or some other nonsense.

I don’t know, like I said this is anecdotal stories. But I’ve worked a lot of places in a lot of industries and nurses aren’t the only ones who are overworked, underpaid, and burnt out. But they are overwhelmingly the ones who act the meanest.

making the most randomized bespoke solutions to every little business niche

Hey that’s my cubicle job! Last week I made a program because one of the locations at my company wanted to be able to view tolls (were a trucking company) for their drivers only. So I threw that together.

This week I’m making a program which will replace a spreadsheet to track tablets (drivers get one for electronic logs). It won’t do anything crazy but it will be color coded! (Color coding was the single most important feature they requested)

But today I didn’t work on that because they wanted a little tool to convert various file types into TIFF files because they work the best with our management software.

So yeah, lots of random little automations and tools for like 1 or 2 people to do their niche little responsibilities.

I’ve also seen some hats that were very expensive because they were made out of fancy materials or by a proper craftsman.

Think about sneakers vs dress shoes.

Ive always been the “photographer friend” of my friend group. But up until recently it was either just on my phone or my little point and shoot (Olympus Infinity II).

But i really prefer to shoot on my SLR (Canon AE-1) so I’ve started carrying that around with me. Sometimes I still think about how I’m the “weirdo with a camera” but to be honest with you everyone loves it and it’s a really great conversation starter. I’ve gotten pretty confident now but every once and a while it gets me again.

Being burned out doesn’t mean being catty, intentionally spreading false rumors, forming impenetrable cliques, and just being rude and talking behind each others backs.

I get it, nurses are over worked and under paid. But so are a ton of other professions and they dont have this same problem.

Honestly a reasonable reaction from Bubblegum. Why go to a Globetrotters game and then complain about them doing Globetrotters stuff?

Would you watch a documentary and then complain about a silky British voiceover? Or a soap opera and complain about the hazy look of it? Or a musical when you can see the actor scurrying away after “dying” (hint, they don’t actually die)

For my anecdotal story, I’ve never been treated worse than when I was doing IT for a hospital and working around nurses, who were almost exclusively women. God it felt like I was in a mean girls movie or some campy coming of age story about bullying.

The former is also kinda cheating because Doom was actually running on an external controller just using the display on the pregnancy test to display the game.

why is XBOX live services running on windows server

You reminded me of when i was at an MSP and we had this dental client. And they had some actually pretty cool software that processed 3d X-rays and generated a 3d model and would point out various types of potential issues. Now this was like ~2014 so before photometry or AI was really a thing so it was really impressive.

But to compute that stuff in real-ish time (like under 30 seconds, so by the time the patient walked back to the exam room) you had to offload the processing to a Windows server, but that worked fine.

But like everything, Windows updates continue ever “”“forward”"’ and eventually they added the Xbox game bar. I didn’t think anything of it and just left it running. About a year later and a few updates to the dental software later I am looking at their server and figure “hey, I should disable this. Its a server after all”.

Bad mistake. Their software stops working so now they can’t take any type of scans. I’m trying to figure it out, I’ve got a team of engineers looking at this with me. We can’t figure it out. Everything looks fine except the process just won’t start. No error message, no wrong looking logs. The executable just never starts.

Well turns out at some point along the line they picked up a dependency relying on Xbox game bar for this program to run. So the solution was to just leave the service running lmao.

This is honestly more of a story about bad programming than windows server nonsense but you made me think about it. I wish I figured out what was actually depending on game bar but I left shortly after that. Actually before the patch was pushed out haha

“convenient” ≠ “best option” or even “easiest option”.

Linux is inconvenient because they would have to go out of their way to switch to it. Windows is convenient because it’s right there and ready to go on essentially any computer.

And people dont care about “best” or “easiest” options because to most people a computer is just a means to an end.

I like how the tabs save when I close notepad. Its super helpful when I just need to jot down some quick notes or a serial number or something.

And I’m really dumb so I often close my notepad window before I’m done and this feature has saved me numerous times.

I don’t have copilot in my notepad tho. Which is good.

Sure but this comment chain is specifically talking about rural people. And none of that changes that whats considered “rural” in Japan, would barely be considered “suburbs” in the US.

Yes, the US should absolutely be investing in mass transit and inter-city rail. But using Japan or other European countries as “an example of how it should be done!” is just dismissive of the actual size of the US and shows me that you haven’t thought about it any more than just “trains = good; cars = bad”, and is outright disrespectful of the population that you will need to serve.

Something like 10% of the population lives in towns under 10k. That’s not what I would consider “a rounding error”.

Its honestly blown my mind that it’s taken this long to get something that’s even somewhat competitive with the Tesla’s.

Like a Model 3 is $35k, has a near perfect safety score, can go like ~360 miles on a charge, and is a 4 door sedan.

Let’s look at some competitors why don’t we?

• BMW i3 has a 4 star rating, gets like ~300 miles range, and costs $60k
• Honda Prologue does have a 5 star rating, but it only gets ~300 miles range, and is a SUV, it also starts at $50k
• BYD HAN (the only one i could see on their website in the states) only gets “300+ miles” on a charge, but it supposedly only costs around $30k. I also couldn’t find any safety information that didn’t come from the Chinese government so I wont comment on that.

Obviously Musk is a bad guy and you shouldn’t give him money and all that. But it seems like the legacy manufacturers are like 3-4 years behind, and that’s the smallest the gap has ever been.

Aren’t you worried about losing them? I keep my photos backed up to a local storage server and Google drive because I’m terrified about that. I lost my iPhone 5 back when it was new and that maybe is why I’m so nervous about it.

But “electronics” don’t mean “impossible to repair yourself”. And to be clear, I’m not expecting someone to become a shade tree mechanic. Remember, “right to repair” also includes the ability to go to a 3rd party repair service.

But requiring your mechanic to buy $15k+ in licensing per year, making specialized (and proprietary) fasteners, taking months to get replacement parts to the mechanic, or not honoring warranty because you went out of network are not things that are intrinsic with an electronic system.