🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞

You know Gboard uses all your typing history to make suggestions, right?

(just teasing you)

the fuck word.

Oh? And which word is that, exactly? hehehe

Yeah, I don’t have patience to type if it’s not a real keyboard. Swiping is what I’ve done for years on my Android phones.

The last job I had was nearly five years at Colonial Williamsburg as a scheduler. My work directly impacted the happiness of about fifty people working at the museum. Scheduling them well meant hopefully nobody had too much to do and nobody had too little. It was a constant dance trying to make it all not only work, but work well.

I also derived personal satisfaction from a job well done.

I also like the mission of Colonial Williamsburg. They are the largrest outdoor museum in the Americas, about a mile wide and half a mile tall, with historic and recreated houses and buildings from the colonial era. But not only can you talk to people portraying Nation Builders like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson et cetera, in the 1980s they started a focus on the less savory aspects of our nation’s founding by including people portraying enslaved people, with programming educating about those experiences. And about 25 years ago, the American Indian Initiative brought Native Americans into the mix as well.

There’s a lot of struggles - as a nonprofit, funding is always a difficult task. And people are people, and people in organizations act like you think they do.

But I absolutely put effort into that job, not only for the sake of the mission of Colonial Williamburg, but also in the hopes of making the lives of the folks I scheduled easier.

But I’ve always tended to want to do a good job wherever I’ve worked. Sure, some of the places I’ve worked I really haven’t cared much about, but I still had personal pride.

Now, as I’ve gotten older, I think I’ve gotten wiser in general about balancing how much I care to somewhat match how much my employer cares. Were I to find myself in a corporate job today doing stupid corporate things in an environment where nobody ask the employees what changes might make employee lives better while also making the company more efficient… sure, I’ll put in less effort and care.

But your comment was about putting any committment to one’s job, and I’d definitely say it absolutely quite depends.

The article includes numbers that show remote workers are more engaged than onsite.

Between my dad and I, we’d accumulated several hundred floppies with software, pictures, data, whatever stuff we’d accumulated over the years. I embarked on a big project somewhere around 1998 or so to copy all the contents of the floppies onto my hard drive and sort through it all, and… I just… petered out after a while.

Whatever it seemed like worth saving just really wasn’t.

I discovered that’s largely true of my Downloads folder. Every so often I go move all the contents to an archive folder, and anything that was in the archive folder gets deleted. I always think “I should keep this around in case I need it!” and whenever I do need it (like a new computer or reinstalling the OS or whatever), I just go grab what I need or install using choco or winget or of course apt for Linux or whatever… Docs/pics/vids I keep elsewhere, of course, but all that download stuff just adds up to wasted drive space. heh

It doesn’t matter, and frankly you should know that.

Ah, okay, yes, that makes a HUGE difference to the context. XD. Quite agreed then. Thank you :)

I love accurate renderings in text like that, very very nice.

Like if you know Galaxy Quest, I love to write a particular quote as:

By Grabthar’s Hammer… wh… What a savings.

:)

it’ll have sold only slightly less than the F150,

What? I must be completely misunderstanding you, because in just 2025, Ford sold 828,842 F-series trucks. The Cybertruck has sold in the tens of thousands. Period. Over its lifetime.

500m of range

Half a kilometer really isn’t that much ;-)

The Edsel is probably the benchmark failure. It cost Ford about $2.5B in today’s money and they sold it for two whole years. It was promised to be a technological marvel, but was overpriced (sound familiar) and mechnically delicate (sound… familiar? lol).

The Pontiac Aztek should get a notable mention. It was probably mostly just ahead of its time, and owners liked them, but it was so widely panned that it died after four years.

The Delorean is, of course, so well known. Seeing it in Back to the Future, many kids (and probably adults) surely wanted one. But they were mechanically terrible and fewer than 9,000 were built. Didn’t help that John Delorean was terrible at running the company and then was investigated by the FBI.

In 1974, New Brunswick heavily subsidized development of the Bricklin SV-1, supposed to be a very safe sports car that couldn’t crash. It featured an integrated roll cage, massive 5-mph impact bumpers, gullwing doors, and acrylic-bonded body panels. Alas, the car was prone to overheating, and if crashed and flipped, the gull wing doors would clamp shut, which is not great for survivability.

There’s plenty more, but those are probably the most notable. The Cybertruck is probably the most notable failure that involves association with Nazis ever since Volkswagen, though.

Are you suggesting he did not see that sales drop coming?

wut u meen, i am dum an porud!

I mean, all you have to do is go read the Onion to see. They do a pretty damn good job. heh.

I think in part because they tend to only push the crazy slightly farther than reality. Reading some of the stuff from a decade or two ago, it’s so much less crazy… lol

uh, no

It is a completely toxic and stupid culture, and those who fight for even LESS education on the matter just make it worse. Ignorance isn’t even bliss. lol

In case you have any doubts who is behind the fascism in the US:

“A lot of these technologists hoped that the centrist path was a viable one, because it would permit them in theory to change the culture without having to expose themselves to the risk of becoming partisans,” he said. “By 2021, the smartest people in tech understood that these people were a dead end — so the group chats exploded and reformulated on more explicitly political lines.”

Stop wasting your time on wedge issues and start trying to help spread the word: The oligarchs are the true enemie of Democracy. They empower all the others. We must take away the power from the oligarchs or we will lose our democracy.

In addition to all that, I find it highly ironic that women are expected to be beautiful and sexy and present themselves to men for our gaze, meaning that we men are expected to try to take advantage while the women are expected to stop us.

Probably, except I had realized that if I did lose a case, my house was on the line. So Randazza had the brilliant idea of giving him the domain as a show. I did keep the question version (and gb1990.com) but let them expire. I’d wanted to keep something going, but the momentum was gone since it has a resolution. heh

Probably not