I got a "only 0.9% of users reach this achievement" message on Duolingo the other day. I was sick, bumming around the house bored and feeling icky, so I did a ton of lessons and hit a xp-earned-in-a-day milestone.
Yeah, I had media literacy sprinkled in starting as early as I could read.
I remember an early exercise. There were a bunch of statements I had to identify as either fact or opinion. I incorrectly said "Going to the beach is fun" is a fact.
Fast forward to high school where I had a teacher who took more points off for writing statements without robust sources. And in university where they were on a plagiarism rampage to make sure every word was properly attributed.
I have guests coming this weekend and I can't wait to be done with the work week to have some fun. It's monday morning and my motivation is already down to Friday afternoon levels... it is not going to be a good week.
Paying money for a behavior is an incentive for that behavior.
Does that mean every employee would choose to live far away to maximize their commuter mileage benefit? No.
Does that mean some barriers to living far away would be reduced, thus increasing odds that some employees would live further away, or that some prospective employees that live at distance would consider applying to this company over a company that doesn't offer a commuter mileage benefit? Yes.
Companies also aren't worried employees "would spend most of their weeks driving". Most companies don't include drive time as hours worked.
Across everyone in the house, we have Hulu, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Disney/ESPN. Sailing the high seas means all the shows and movies available from those servicea can be accessed via one media server interface.
Every once in a while I log into Amazon Video to see if their interface is as hot trash as I remember. It always is.
Quality engineer. Eventually someone would get around to the work I do. But there would be a lot of avoidable slowdowns and stoppages as parts and processes breakdown without the function that intentionally searches out and fixes problems.
Eventually problems would get painful enough, a person would get assigned to fix them.
And then another problem and eventually another person assigned to fix.
And then hey, wouldn't it more efficient if we assign a person to go after all these problems? And what if they could even be proactive enough to fix problems before they got out the door? And what if we called that person's function Quality?
I barely used it to begin with. I closed my account entirely once Musk bought it. Sad chuckle when I see someone just now discover what a racist dirtbag he is.
I found sailing to be terrifically boring. It's expensive. It's slow compared to powered. The mechanics aren't that interesting once you have the basics down.
Maybe someday I'll try a type of sailboat intended more for speed/racing. Big boats are just a step above sitting on the beach getting sunburned and drunk.
I actually like going into the office ~2x per week. But tell me I have to and bump it to 4 days, I'm out. I also do not want my colleagues forced on site. My current ~2x/week is as productive as it is because the other people going on site now are there voluntarily and for specific reasons.
Disaster. It's not just personal communication that uses the internet, it's banking, research, security, all sorts of infrastructure things that you don't necessarily interact with directly.
No. I should not have to ask grown adults not to call me these names. These are co-workers, acquaintances, strangers, not people who should be assuming any level of familiarity with me. The default should be basic respect.
"Just this. Just that." Stop telling the people getting shit on to make excuses and accomodations for the behavior of people with power.
Looks like they're coming over from reddit. Obligatory "women, not girls you incel. Go outside and touch grass".
Reading an OS manual cover to cover is a collosal waste of time. There are more efficient ways to level up skills. But what do I know with my gIrLy LoGiC.
I got a "only 0.9% of users reach this achievement" message on Duolingo the other day. I was sick, bumming around the house bored and feeling icky, so I did a ton of lessons and hit a xp-earned-in-a-day milestone.