sorry I still only hear Hermione

it’s a few other things, too

but overwhelmingly, yep, crutch for dumb and/or lazy people

would it, though? what’s she still getting in return for pushing this kind of shit? probably not nothing

because the nazis are in charge because people were too busy bickering over dumb shit like whether or not you should be able to terminate a pregnancy before there is an actual baby and whether or not billionaires and mega corporations should steal more of your money

*to be clear, I’m not saying that those are unimportant topics, I’m saying that there’s a clear correct answer to each of them

red light ones are not great due to increased rear endings from some idiot slamming the brakes on when they should have gone through / people rushing and assuming the person in front will go through the yellow.

speed ones work great, when placed appropriately (i.e. on a street with an appropriate speed limit for the road design and in areas of higher pedestrian activity). I hate that Ontario just banned speed enforcement cameras, because that means a loss of revenue to pay for the road network maintenance, more police activity enforcing speed (which a camera does automatically all day long) which means police aren’t doing more important stuff and also it’s a waste of my tax dollars, and they will have to spend more of my tax dollars putting shittier speed reduction methods in place like speed bumps (annoying as fuck, bad for fuel economy, loud because people race from speed bump to speed bump, ineffective because people pay attention racing from speed bump to speed bump instead of to what’s going on around them, annoying for bicycles and people with towing trailers, loud when people telling trailers go over them, loud when regular cars go over them, bad for snow plows…)

now, this is just for speed enforcement, not coordinating traffic flow. although in a properly designed network, there are times that this can actually be achieved, unlike those light cycles on arterial roads that let you go through if you speed just a little bit but if you go the speed limit you hit every single red light

yeah they’re an option in my area and I’ve made the decision several times to not look at any positions they have

I have never heard about Google desktop before

you know I’m starting to think that maybe they should just deal with the people giving the orders

Everything is what I use for files

Windows search is what I use for applications

if you’re searching for files on windows, Everything is the tool you need

those are special gifts from when my neighbour across the street parks on the street on an obvious multiple-times-a-day plow day, and the plow repeatedly has to go around them and in doing so leaves extra crap on my driveway because it all slides off the plow as they turn around the parked car

poor lil guy

maybe he should get a real job

yeah, whatever. doesn’t affect me too much.

I will continue fixing up my piece of shit old cars until I literally cannot get parts for them, and by then there will probably be an actual viable alternative for me that isn’t a 2018 shitty-tech infested nightmare with poor visibility, bloated size, and headlights that will get people killed

there’s always the old walk into the store

but yeah the convenience of pickup is nice

I want to throttle every microsoft employee. I have enough issues with the CAD program itself, I don’t need fucking office365 and explorer freezing and crashing nonstop

I think my friends (the ones that aren’t in the same field anyways) would be surprised by how much of my time is sitting around doing shit that a junior should be doing instead of more important engineering-type stuff

“so you just got paid $100 to sit around and watch an intermittently frozen software program for a couple hours and clicking a button every now and then, while answering questions you’ve answered two or three times before in your message history with this person, and sat in on three meetings that you didn’t even need to speak during, and you have absolutely no work product to show for the past two hours of your time yet?”

“yep. I’m gonna blow my brains out if this continues”

ofc, the other side of this is “so you spent 6+ hours working nonstop going straight from task to task while being constantly available to multiple other departments and context switching nonstop, and you finished up three models and documented some project stuff and verified a few applications with calculations and whatnot”, to which the answer is the same “yep. I’m gonna blow my brains out if this continues”

anything that’s worth saying, is worth saying twice

no business license? extra taxes! also, limits on how many you can own, because why not? get ahead of that dual-massive-car family nonsense

I’m not a fan of stuff that disproportionately limits the average person and allows the rich to do something, but in this case, it’s better than nothing

I’m aware of that, and it’s still a huge detractor for me. clearly they’re focusing on non-value-added fluff

yes, FBI? this guy right here

jokes aside, this is good protesting