spectra72

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by spectra72 12d ago
I was an Oracle employee that was laid off in the March wave. That’s exactly how it worked. 6am email. You were an employee through any notification/WARN period. But no access. No work. Garden leave euphemistically. WARN varies by stat
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by spectra72 4mo ago
Walking into my office, you definitely see the backside of my dual monitor + audio interfaces + studio monitor speakers (I dabble in music production as well as tech) from the doorway. I just live with it. I'm on the good side. The few
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by spectra72 5mo ago
I've been working from home for almost a decade. My wife has long referred to me as her house manager. I handle coordinating the various outside contractors needed for things like plumbing, electrical. I coordinate the house cleaning s
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by spectra72 2y ago
As has the US with all of their aid. Yet, the US is the one that is forever chided for being negligent to the terms of the agreement.
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by spectra72 2y ago
The UK, France and China also signed that same agreement.
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by spectra72 2y ago
And another good thing about the Vasa museum? The ABBA museum is only a 5 minute walk away. And easy two-fer.
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by spectra72 2y ago
-45F is pretty cold. Last weekend in southwestern North Dakota windchill temps were down in the -70F range. It's -51F in my hometown in northern ND right now. An interesting tidbit was that with the -70F in ND and it being 92F in Miami
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by spectra72 2y ago
Because we aren't bombarded with "Why don't we do things like they do in Italy" messages on every online forum like we are with Japan.
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by spectra72 2y ago
Even in highly liberal/socialistic countries with low levels of religion women are opting out. It all boils down to choice. And women are choosing "No thanks" in high numbers even in countries where you'd think most of t
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by spectra72 2y ago
Turns out, actually having to give birth is kind of a drag, even in the best of conditions, and women who realize they have a choice in the matter are more and more likely to nope right out of it. Or at least nope out at levels less than th
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by spectra72 2y ago
In my family, the difference would have been that the good food was from my German relations, who were Lutheran. (as were my Norwegian relations, but they didn't cook as good for funerals). My wife's family is also German, but the
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by spectra72 5y ago
I had to read that multiple times to prove to myself that the text didn't literall call out "Unix Wizards". After 10+ years of doing qa on the ZFS appliance I completely ignored the warning and you could have slipped anything
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by spectra72 6y ago
Desire to kill may be a bit strong but I distinctly remember sitting with my WWII veteran grandfather in November 1989 (US Thankgiving to be exact) and watching the stories of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the obvious prospect of a united
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by spectra72 8y ago
I was working for UPS during that strike. We didn't lose a lot of drivers from what I recall because they had relatively nice hourly wages to come back to and could weather the storm a bit. We lost almost the entire load/unload st
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by spectra72 8y ago
They tried something like that. The Kazoo Helmet. It had the unfortunate propensity to briefly stick to an opposing helmet during a collision rather than slide off the other helmet's hard surface causing a wrenching of the neck.
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by spectra72 9y ago
If the recent book is to be believed at all, we now know that the person that Trump outsmarted most of all was himself. He never intended to actually win.
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by spectra72 9y ago
Interesting. I used to work in a UPS hub in Colorado as a unload manager. As I was in "management" I was explicitly not in the union. Actually, having been a manager, even though 20 years has passed I can still never rejoin the un