Posts by A.P. Veening 4218 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Aug 2018
Management decided shortly after to forbid anyone from working before 09:00 and after 21:00, and with 11 hours minimum between 2 working slots.
That latter is completely superfluous as the period between 21:00 and 09:00 is 12 hours (except at the start of DST when it is 11 hours but which is on a non-working day anyway).
I can't tell you how much of my past 65 years have been spent gazing at code that quite clearly SHOULD do one thing, but in practice, does something else entirely.
I spend considerable time and effort on simplifying convoluted code so it is easier to understand. And the number of times I've found misplaced terminators to various conditions is probably comparable to how much time you've spent gazing at code.
where the parent is the person who controls the child's access to the internet as the bill payer, and presumably controls their access to the devices they're using to access the web too.
What bill? Internet at home is a fixed amount per month, shared among all devices at home. And the mobile phone of the child has Wi-Fi access at home to the internet.
Frankly, my control consists of a combination of nurture and "Please don't disappoint me". It seems to be working in both cases.
One was a cranky old geezer who never left his small ranch except to go to church. So no danger to anyone who wasn't trespassing and annoying his livestock (although he'd be much more likely to just set his dogs on them than reach for his old 12-gauge)..
That is one I would trust with a gun.
I have no problems with guns for hunting and protection from dangerous wildlife. But the USA isn't unique in that regard and the situation is even a bit more extreme in Canada but reports about gun violence in Canada are about as rare as hen's teeth while they are daily from the USA and often multiple per day, so I just don't buy it.
One minor detail: delta V is only a change in velocity, it doesn't specify the timeframe/acceleration for that change. Using a force necessary for a 0.01 G acceleration is unlikely to make it fall apart and will take 1,200 to 1,400 seconds. Even at that slow acceleration and over that timeframe the atmospheric resistance drag is negligible. Besides that, long, slow accelerations are more efficient.
Damn thing even gets confused and starts showing e-mails in the wrong order from time to time. It's the only client I've experienced this with.
That is you messing with the sorting by clicking on the headers. In over 20 years of using Thunderbird I never experienced the problem you are describing, at least not without user error (and it is easily correctable).
Thunderbird may not be a good e-mail client, but it is the least bad I've found so far.
So that "manager" managed to seriously inconvenience somebody but couldn't be bothered to request somebody else to read the message over the phone? Being illiterate can happen and is unfortunate (and people are understandably sensitive about it), but this takes incompetence to a whole new level.
The problem isn't really in the level of taxes (though there is something as a too high level) but in the complexity of the tax legislation. A lot of international companies like to have their HQ in the Netherlands because the tax legislation is relatively uncomplicated and the tax authorities are open to agreements, not because the taxes are especially low.
I've heard it said that some manufacturers (reportedly) voluntarily add best before dates because it shortens the shelf-life and increases sales.
As far as I know, it is mandatory as even packaged salt has a use by date. Everybody with a basic understanding of things like this considers it bureaucratic madness gone wild and manufacturers really wouldn't go to the expensive of putting it on if it weren't mandatory.
