bryndos

I don’t get how this is any sort of "constant’ - surely it’s multi-modal with loads of variance. I don’t like averaging over such distributions. I’d think a distributional analysis or cluster analysis would be more interesting than averages. And I just don’t think “constant” is anywhere near the right word for whatever phenomenon this is describing.

The wiki doesn’t give much detail on their sampling frame for proving this “constant”. I suspect it might be a weak and biassed dataset.

I WFH 4 days a week normally, so i have quite a variance over the week [<00:05, <00:05, <00:05, 01:30, <00:05].

• more extreme variance if you count stopping off in the pub as “commute” time. So not “constant”.

People like farmers typically/traditionally have quite short ‘commutes’ - but then they move around a lot from task to task. But office/factory workers will probably have longer commutes. Lots of other peripatetic or locum workers, taxis and deliveroos will inherently vary depending on the first customer/job of the day.

Mostly it’s just cheaper due to lower staff and rent costs, and maybe more efficient logistics, and less travel time / search cost for customer.

I still like in person shopping though, when i can, just pay the premium to be able to see what I’m buying and poke it a few times to check the quality.

Agree about large car park based shopping centres though, they’re shite.

It’d be nice to have town centre back and real markets. Drive out the infestation of fucking hipster food stalls charging over a tenner for lunch. But there just isn’t the trade to support more than a few real market stalls in my town.

AI seems like it will help the already bad bosses do more - which seems like a bad thing. It’s better if the bad ones just wank off in the toilet all day.

I think how much difference it will make in the long run will depend on who gets sacked and who survives.

Business doors are often sprung to close automatically - possibly a fire regulation thing. So they don’t need a latch to stay shut. A knob or handle is often the way to release the latch.

Flat plates vs say, a bar to pull can also naturally communicate push vs pull if it only opens one way.

Why would another country let you in the first place?

It’s rarely about literal monopoly. It’s more often about market power. Choice is one tool that consumers, and small scale producers have to ameliorate some of the consequences of market power.

Of course having market power, is not the same as abusing it to harm consumers - but if the profit margins are ‘abnormal’ and persistent and or uneven throughout the supply chain that’s sometimes a good indicator. If choice/competition isn’t whittling down excess profits in the long run, then there might be some distorted power relationships somewhere in the market or supply chain.

Proving/ disproving the alleged ‘unwritten rule’ might be quite interesting though. But competition investigations need to be quite wide ranging and it is notoriously difficult to prove anything.

If there is only one basin - and it’s a multi user facility - then I’d rather not queue whilst some vain cunt is preening itsself in the mirror for minutes after washing its hands.

I’m not sure there’s quite enough space to squeeze in, but probably doable. They should budge the mirror left and the basin right.

tree

He’s probably still upset after getting relegated. Maybe looking for a transfer to m.l.s.

https://www.alamy.com/leicester-city-mascot-filbert-fox-leicester-city-v-west-ham-united-premier-league-king-power-stadium-leicester-uk-28th-may-2023-editorial-use-only-dataco-restrictions-apply-image561437394.html

Looks like WordPerfect before the wizzywig crap.

fuck these climate change deniers

Thanks! That’s very useful to know - I’d have assumed it can only see it’s own files within the wineprefix folder.

It looks like trying Steam within flatpak, and limiting the flatpak’s access might offer some protection. Or maybe getting stem to run as a different user.

roulette

I’m glad this still exists. https://progressquest.com/

jenga towers?

It’s an amphibious exploring vehicle

yes, it’s when you tell boss, “I can’t do that in 3 hours, it’ll take two weeks”, and probably still have some unknown aspects of quality, that we might not want to sign off on. Maybe we can rush it in 1 week, if you’re ok with want want maybe’ 20% unverified.

Boss fucks off to coprolite - gets it “done” in 3 hours. Gives it to someone else to QR. They comes back to me for advice on turd polishing (apparently that’s my SME). So I then waste time helping that person tactfully create a quality report that says it’s seriously defective and will take weeks to rectify to get it up to an acceptable standard - because it tells us nothing about how it got to it’s erroneous output.

Now, we’ve wasted about a day between us, on dog-shite - and we’ve not learned anything useful.

I don’t know what a “gen Z” is though, but whoever they are they should stand up to shite bosses.

Yeah, I think that says something about them - crazy people. Better off out of it.

How do you get to know you get blocked?

Do they send you a message like they’re police or a judge or something - that’s weird. When i block someone, i just click block - i assume they never know.

Blocking people is good though, I do it regularly when i feel I’ve wasted time reading some shit. Maybe you should block a few more just to get perspective on their side.

I assume I’ve been blocked by loads of people, but I don’t really know how or why I’d know ?

I think my eyeballs technically have sphincters in them too.

It’s a really good chat-up line to comment on someones beautiful eye-anuses.