potpie @ potpie @beehaw.org

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Thank you for this explanation.

It's not just about treating current employees well. It's also about offering enough at the hiring stage to attract more good workers. Higher starting pay and a better reputation as a place to work means more people applying, means that Methface Matt can't compete with TypeA Teresa to get hired in the first place.

Stephen's dad, is that you?

My MO is much cheaper. I just throw produce waste into a corner of my back yard and see what starts growing. Right now I've got about 10 pumpkin plants taking off like crazy. A jalapeño plant too!

Coffee salute!

More and more I feel it's best to think of software as existing in a quantum state of all possible feature/bug combinations. Between updates that can occur on any facet of the software's intricacies, algorithm quirks, human interventions, and clandestine beta testing on unsuspecting groups of users, who the fuck knows.

Hey that's cool. I'm late to the party but just in time to wish you a happy lunch. What're you having?

Dammit!

I had amazing luck getting Linux running nicely, way-back-when, with an Acer Aspire One. I've stayed with that product line for all my laptops and so far it's paid off. But then there's also options like System76 for nice machines with Linux pre-installed.

Really? How is this cringe meme of a comment still a thing? Get the wheels off your goalposts.

Ah yes just like the "perjury trap" we heard about so many aeons ago... The kind of trap where you just get called on your bullshit and then.... then that's it. That's the trap.

I'd love to share it. I'm not sure what the best way is. I'm still new to the Fediverse but I feel there must be a way to do it Fediversally.

Last night I grabbed a bunch of audio files for country songs that contain the phrase "ice cold beer," then I edited them together so that all the "ice cold beer"s lined up amidst the cacophony of about 5 songs being played at the same time. I thought that would be funny but it just didn't sound as good as I thought it would. Maybe if each song faded in one by one... I dunno.

Yeah! ^That's ^^the ^^^ticket!

Edit: okay so only one level. That's fine.

Well on Reddit I would have superscripted the text but I can't or don't know how to do that here. So I improvised.

Simpossible! ... (((I'll see myself out, sorry)))

A good suggestion. I'm already trying to post less, comment less, and just focus on making better, more frequently positive contributions.

Okay so, it's common for people to talk about distant stars as appearing one way because the light takes (mi|bi)illions of years to get to us, and that makes perfect sense to me.... But when they go on to say that, for instance, Betelgeuse has already gone supernova but we won't see it until the light gets to us.....

According to the principle of the relativity of simultaneity, since the speed of light is the speed of causality, wouldn't it be a bit more accurate (though definitely more confusing to the public) to say that the stars actually are as we observe them, but that the star is far enough away that traveling to it, even instantly, would basically require significant time travel forward? I guess it would just be a different way to talk about "the present" in relativistic terms, which is only difficult because our languages never evolved to handle the concept.

What you think?

Pay billions for a userbase, then drive away the ones that aren't Nazis or bots.

Back when I started with Reddit I remember sorting by new and thinking, jeez why would anyone sift through all this crap... Cut to me exclusively sorting by new all the time because I looked at ev.ry.thing. So yeah, this is nice. Though in the future it may be just as full. Cross that bridge when we come to it I guess.