Reading. Too many people say they hate reading because it’s boring or there is no point. Most cite the books they went over (probably never read) in school. They think everything is going to be like Romeo and Juliet or something. They don’t seem to realize that you study classics in school and that there are troves of modern books that they’d enjoy. I like to find out their favorite movies and get them an audio book in the same genre. It’s easier to get them to listen to one than to read one. I now have a handful of people who come to me asking what they should listen to or read next.

It’s quite dated, and there are some blatent white-suburban-privlage references, but if you can get past that, it’s not bad for business relationships. If anything, the book is an eye opener to disingenuous relationships.

The biggest take away was recognizing when others are using the techniques. You really notice it if you deal with a salesperson. Go buy a car and watch them flick between different items from the book; trying to use your name as much as possible, trying to figure out and relate to your interests, etc.

Dungeon Crawler Carl

Hands down the best audio book series I’ve ever listened to. If you like video games, sci-fi, or fantasy, you will not be disappointed.

As an old person today, I have no clue what these words mean. Assuming cooking has nothing to do with food. I’ve never heard rizz. I’ve at least heard people use based, though I don’t know its use.

If you’re in an HOA, check the bylaws before replacing with clover.

Having said that, depending on where you’re at, clover can work incredibly well. A couple years ago, I changed the layout of my yard - moved flower beds and such. I put down clover in the areas where the beds used to be and it’s taken over a significant portion of my lawn. It’s great. I don’t have to mow as often and my lawn looks nice.

I get a ton of bees in the yard now too; which are fun to watch. I sware my vegetable garden has much better yield since doing it too. I thank the bees, but a friend of mine insists it’s just my imagination.

Regardless, I’m in the midwest and clover has grown well with very little maintenance. Of course, your milage may vary.

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In the Stormlight books by Sanderson, society is split based on eye color; bright eyed vs dark eyed. Bright eyed people are called Brightness or Brightlord. Not exaclty the same as what you said, but it is an interesting society based on eye color.

And that somehow makes it better?

They are a middleman and do take a slight overhead, 1.1% last I saw, though it might have changed since then. The benefit is one of simplicity. Many people want to give to charity and aren’t sure which one. UW let’s them donate one place and it get distributed to many. They also have criteria that charities must meet to qualify. Also, like you mentioned, they do the paycheck deduction. All of what they do is about making it easier and hassle free as possible to donate, making it more likely that people will.

I’d fit in this category. I’m a company executive and I have a voice that carries. I tend to be the quiet person in the room until I need to speak up. When I do, a mix of my position, and the whole quiet-person-speaking-forcefully thing tends to make others listen.

In general, I don’t mind being in front of a room, giving a presentation to 2000 strangers. The faces blur together and it’s like being alone. Because I’m willing to do this, many people think I’m an extrovert. On the other hand, I don’t like being in a room with 4 strangers. I can do it, and I’ll interact with everyone, but it is freaking exhausting.

Anytime I’m with people for a decent length of time, I need time alone to recover. A large part of my job is managing or dealing with people for one thing or another. It’s become a habit that when I get home from work, my family leaves me alone for an hour so that I can decompress and recharge.

No.

I had an intern tell me about some of the computers her dad has kept from “the turn of the century.” My mind went to 1900 before realizing what she meant.

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“The government” is multiple agencies and departments. There is no single computer system, database, mainframe, or file store that the entire US goverment uses. There is no standard programming language used. There is no standard server configuration. Each agency is different. Each software project is different.

When someone says the government doesn’t use sql, they don’t know what they are talking about. It could be refering to the fact that many government systems are ancient mainframe applications that store everything in vsam. But it is patently false that the government doesn’t use sql. I’ve been on a number of government contracts over the years, spanning multiple agencies. MsSQL was used in all but one.

Furthermore, some people share SSNs, they are not unique. It’s a common misconception that they are, but anyone working on a government software learns this pretty quickly. The fact that it seems to be a big shock goes to show that he doesn’t know what he is doing and neither do the people reporting to him.

Not only is he failing to understand the technology, he is failing to understand the underlying data he is looking at.

My guess is that the label is wrong. My water bill has the same chart with about double the usage as yours, but same ranges. On mine, the label is “gal (in hundreds)”. I’m betting that some developer just didn’t put the full label on the screen.

Best audio book I’ve listened to… Dungeon Crawler Carl. Great story. Amazing audio book production.

I agree with what you’re saying. They got the phone from Carrier A with the expectation the phone plan went with it. Once the phone is paid off, they can take the phone to Carrier B. Since they phone is basically bought on an interest free loan, the interest is recouped by the plan, and the collateral for not paying is a loss of the phone plan and use of the phone. To leave the plan, payoff the phone.

That does require that, the moment the phone is paid off, it should be automatically unlocked. There shouldn’t have to be a request or additional waiting. And the customer should be notified that it’s unlocked along with an explanation that they can now use the phone with any other provider.

I had one done recently due to breaking a filling while eating a Jolly Rancher. The whole thing took maybe 2 hours.

The shot of novocaine to numb my jaw was the only pain, and even that wasn’t bad because the dentist used topical numbing before that. It was no different than getting a cavity filled.

My dentist has a cnc machine (CEREC) in the office to make the crown, so I didn’t need a temporary cap. Waiting for that to be milled was the longest part.

I had a bruise on my gums for a couple days from the shot and the retainer clamp, but it wasn’t even bad enough to stop me from eating.

This was occurring for me also since 9/20. I deleted all cookies on chatgpt, reloaded the site, and logged back in. It would work for 20 to 30 minutes then do it again. Each time, the browser console would have a ton of 503 errors.

It seems that some of their nodes are working and some are in failure state. Their load balancer is occasionally directing to failed nodes.

If that were the case, how did you know to post about it?