MirthfulAlembic

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

According to Pantone 19-0912 it is. You were just very savvy to printing industry standards as a child.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Do we have the technology to do that considering the increasing heat, gravity, and magnetic force as one goes deeper? I feel like anything we could do would involve lots of nukes that would basically destroy the planet in the process.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

The shareholders in question suing are a public employee retirement fund. I wouldn't exactly consider retired sanitation workers and bureaucrats societal leeches, but to each their own I guess.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

Exactly. If it's a regulated industry, they're not just paying for Teams. They're paying for someone else to worry about meeting certain compliance requirements and take the heat if things go wrong. I'm not sure how many companies besides Microsoft can offer that. At most it's a fraction of the available options.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

The year before last we achieved 1% test error rate in an area, and the bosses were seriously considering having the following year's goal be 0%. Someone had to point out that if anyone had 1 error on Jan 1, we literally couldn't do anything to achieve the goal the rest of the year and may as well give up entirely.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 6 months ago (3 children)

It's even better when these metrics explicitly become your yearly goals. Or department-wide metrics you have very little influence over. I sure hope all these people I don't manage happen to achieve a specific error rate this year so I get a good bonus.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

Check out their controversies section on Wikipedia. This doesn't seem out of character for this publication. It's more likely incompetence than malice.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Especially with certain accents. You really want your voice commands to be quite distinct. There's virtually no extra labor is saying two or three extra syllables.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

It's my pleasure!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (3 children)

It really depends on your taste. If you enjoy pop, 1989 is a good entree. If you enjoy moodier stuff, folklore is not a bad choice. If you enjoy country, try Fearless. You could also just sample some hits and, when you find one that's ok, try the album it's on. If you really want to run the gamut, going in chronological order is a good way to see the evolution of her sound and songwriting. The Taylor's Version albums are worth listening to instead of the originals, though you can skip the bonus tracks if you're not a huge fan.

That being said, you could justifiably come out on the other side still not liking her stuff. But I hope you'd at least have an appreciation for the artistry.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (5 children)

She may not be your cup of tea, which is totally fine. No music is for everyone. But to say her music is not creative or good like Michael Jackson and Madonna is silly. It definitely reveals an unfamiliarity with her catalog. While I like Madonna, she has not competently covered as much ground as Taylor Swift has been able to.

I used to not really like Taylor Swift until I actually sat down and gave her music a real listen, then I got what all the hubbub was about. She has a lot of albums for her age, and there's relatively little filler on them (some have none in my opinion).

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (11 children)

One of the regional grocery stores in my part of the US has these (if you have an account). Before I did online ordering with curbside pickup, this was how I shopped. I didn't understand why it wasn't more popular. It made checking out so quick. Every twenty or so trips I'd be randomly "audited," where some poor employee had to rifle through my bags to double check I wasn't stealing anything.

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