I'm gonna reduce that. Shareholders don't give a shit about working hours. They just care about revenue and expenses.
This is purely a management issue. Upper management might insist on these metrics as a way to crack down on productivity. In my personal experience as a dev, middle management doesn't give about metrics unless someone (upper management) forces them to. Because at the end of the day, its just a pain in the ass hounding subordinates about trivial shit if theyre actually performing where it matters. So anecdotally, I will say this seems to exclusively come from upper management. But I'm sure people have different experiences.
The problem is that upper management is usually so divorced from the real day to day problems that the easy win they can take to their superiors is stupid shit like apm metrics.
He is correct that the forces are different. The equation for centripetal force is Fc = Mv2/R.
Radius is the distance from the focal point, and each seat will be different distances.
So he is technically correct that seat position could be calculated in perfect conditions with accurate measurements.
But none of the data that reaches this service will be remotely accurate or complete enough to make that determination. It will only have one passengers phone data, and even if it collected everyones phone data, phone sensors have a margin of error well above what the difference would be. GPS data is only even marginally accurate up to something like 6ft, and really not even then. Then cars have a lot of other factors like suspension and compression in seats, etc, that would absorb enough of the forces to muddy the data even if accurate sensors were everywhere.
Tl;dr; another cocky person that took a few physics courses but walked away with a poor understanding of real world applications talking out their ass.
Of course is legal to be drunk at your job as long as it doesn't involve operation of dangerous machinery like automobiles or otherwise put someone in imminent danger.
Whether or not it will get you fired is a completely different thing.
I mean, I'd like guns to be inaccessible (legally) to raging alcoholics too. You're right that a crackhead and alcoholic can both be very destructive. But that doesn't mean I want crackheads to have guns just because an alcoholic without a felony can own one.
Essentially what I've been doing. HD rental truck. But truck availability and requiring multiple round trips to return and pick up my car means I put it off until I'm blocked, and then needlessly stock up on sheet goods that I might need in the future, but ultimately sit around for a year or two before I use them.
But yeah, this is what I'm doing while I bide my time for truck prices to drop. And I've push back a bunch of projects that rely on ply because I just don't want to deal with the hassle.
To your point, I bet the trailers are probably more readily available. The trucks themselves are very hit or miss in my experience. But there always seems to be trailers in the lot.
I think that Hunter was only prosecuted for this crime because of who his father is. A real witch hunt. But at the same time, I'm not losing any sleep over it. He broke the law, and he's someone with a lot of resources at his disposal and should have known better.
As for the law itself, I think the law should exist, but the potential punishment of 25 years is absurd.
I do think that keeping guns out of easy, legal, access of active drug abusers is appropriate. But as you say, without a conviction, the scope of those restrictions should be narrow and appeal-able.
And the punishment for being untruthful on a checkbox of an application should be a slap on the wrist. Confiscation of the firearm(s), and maybe community service. It should be the governments job to do proper screening, not the applicants job to screen themselves out.
But like I said before, I'm not going to lose any sleep over this, even if I do think it's an unfair punishment for an arbitrarily enforced law, on someone targeted by a cult simply because of his family.
Yeah, I used to borrow my parents van on occasion, but they got a newer model of the same van (Odyssey) that could no longer fit sheet goods.
Also was pretty awkward tying the trunk door on the occasions where I needed longer material, which I would be doing more of nowadays. And TBH, despite my best efforts to pad things and load materials gently, I did scrap up the interior a bit, which wouldn't be a factor with a truck.
A work van might do, though. Those seem pretty huge.
Yeah, I've considered that too. Neither of us have a car with a hitch, and we don't have a good place to store a trailer for extended periods of time, but it's an option I'm considering for sure.
The sheer amount of energy people put into hating others who just want to be left along is mind blowing.
I remember a discussion with a friends sister. They were making some anti trans argument/joke or whatever, and I butt in with something like "why do you even care? How does it affect you in the slightest?"
She told me this story about how she asked a Costco employee for assistance. "Excuse me, ma'am... ma'am!" And the employee pointedly ignored her and walked away. Then another employee ran up and quietly told her that the employee identified as a male, but that he'd help her.
That was it. That was the one Trans story that she could bring up on how her life was negatively impacted by a Trans person.
At least she accepted how absurd her complaint was when I laughed in her face and told her "and? So Trans people can be dicks just like anyone else?"
I'd honestly love one of these, depending in if it's powerful enough to haul a decently heavy load up a hill.
I woodwork as a hobby, and have been wanting an old truck for a while, but the used truck market is pretty insane right now. All I want is an old beater with a reliable engine and a standard sized bed that's capable of hauling sheet goods (4ft wide) without hassle.
This would check those marks. If the price was right, I'd happily drive this little guy around.
Instead, the market is full of ridiculously sized pickups with tiny truck beds because either the cab is huge, or they waste so much space making the truck look "tough" that the beds shrink narrower than 4ft.
As long as I can get a small truck in a V6 so that I don't stall out hauling something heavy like cement bags, I'm in.
You can see the syncing happen in real time when something big and unexpected happens, and it takes about 24h for them to get the narrative straight.
When the Pelosi attack happened, I was curious and monitored r/conservative.
For the first 12h or so, they were for the most part human. Most highly rated comments were along the lines of "I don't agree with her politics, but this is wrong."
There were still a few comments celebrating the attack with mixed votes.
Then about 12 hrs in, conspiracy theories started trickling in with mixed reactions ranging from gleeful excitement to disgust.
24h in, all of the respectful comments were buried to oblivion, and the conspiracy theories and comments celebrating violence had fully taken over.
It was both enlightening and absolutely repulsive to watch how their propaganda worked in real time.
I don't see any problem with modders charging for their mods. They are doing work, and deserve to be compensated.
If they're creating additional deep content, I can see that being worth paying. If it's just some skins or configuration edits like wonky gravity, that would not be worth money to me. But I think it's a good thing to be able to add micro transactions for.
Take the original DOTA for example. A warcraft 3 custom map. It eventually dominated the custom game lobby, at least 3:1. I would have no problem with the creator(s) making money off their creation that contributed a ton of replayability the game.
When it comes down to it, it should be the modder's choice on if they want to charge for their work, and the consumers choice if they want to pay for it.
Also why I didn't have problems with microtransactions for skins, particularly when it was community driven like DOTA 2. Artists can make money creating non-game altering content, and fans get to personalize their characters.
I'm guessing he was told to mention that lithium batteries can explode if water gets in as a talking point against EVs, and his brain went to boats and sharks.
On a related note, I suspect all of his rants against using teleprompters (and his own lashing out at venues because his teleprompter was broken) is because his eyes have degraded to the point he can't read them anymore. So these rants are him trying to hit his talking points from memory because he physically can't follow a script any more.
Ahh. One of the few users I blocked. I try to leave bad actors unblocked to refute their bullshit, lest impressionable readers think their opinions are valid. But if they're visibly foaming at the mouth, they do that work for me.
The classification of Ukrainians being Nazis as their pretext for the invasion (branded as liberation from Nazis) is categorically propaganda with zero merit.
You can whatabout all you want about western left/right propaganda, but it doesn't change that basic fact.
And the fact that you're still spouting that propaganda certainly makes the other user's counter accusation that you're a Russian apologist (orc) to be an obviously accurate statement.
And enforcement of Rule 3 against someone responding in kind, while you're off the hook for accusing them of being a Nazi sympathizer, is absolute bullshit.
Alright Mods. Explain this and the other deleted comment that call @anticolonialist@lemmy.world out for parroting Russian propaganda.
He literally accused OP of being a nazi supporter for supporting Ukraine.
Yet, that comment stays up, while the comments calling that out as Russian propaganda are removed.
I've seen this a lot on politics/worldnews/news.
I'm guessing either these frequent agitators like @anticolonialist@lemmy.world are weaponizing the report button and others aren't responding in kind, or the moderators in these subs are orcs / zionists.
I'm gonna reduce that. Shareholders don't give a shit about working hours. They just care about revenue and expenses.
This is purely a management issue. Upper management might insist on these metrics as a way to crack down on productivity. In my personal experience as a dev, middle management doesn't give about metrics unless someone (upper management) forces them to. Because at the end of the day, its just a pain in the ass hounding subordinates about trivial shit if theyre actually performing where it matters. So anecdotally, I will say this seems to exclusively come from upper management. But I'm sure people have different experiences.
The problem is that upper management is usually so divorced from the real day to day problems that the easy win they can take to their superiors is stupid shit like apm metrics.