CompactFlax

I know too many people who do the same thing despite having smartphones.

It’s only weird if you keep shaving them for him. Open conversations like that are a sign of great communication and trust!

I know that removing pubes can have a health impact for vagina owners. I don’t know if that holds true for penis owners. That may be something to investigate and advise.

Beat those drums, hawks.

Also can’t report on how dreadfully ineffective the strikes are, because that would look bad for those who called them in.

Burying the lede via a linked article is that this is a $100m 2k footpath. Over a year late too. That’s international grade incompetence.

That’s a lot of spray foam.

direct-to-cell services

xkcd 927 in action right there.

Zigbee works just fine, but needs a hub to share out devices eg internet access or HomeKit. But it is quick. How thread compares remains to be seen.

Hitting particularly cold water makes it even worse.

You can improve a skill by visualizing your performance of the skill.

But you need to have the experience beforehand to be able to understand what you’re visualizing.

So - absolutely not.

There’s enough people locally who die that it seems reasonable for me to project that thousands die globally each year because they have no clue how to swim, but other people are there having fun in the water and how hard could it be?

When everything is high viz with flashing lights and alerts, nothing is high-viz.

Agreed.

The way I think it should be is:

• mandatory 25 days of vacation, plus statutory holidays
• mandatory vacation is subtracted from any performance targets (i.e. it is accounted for in business planning and not offloaded to the employee)
• vacation beyond that is unlimited, but may impact your performance
• major anniversary events within the company grant paid leave of absences

To the last point - I don’t recall which company it was - I have seen one where after a certain period of service your granted a 3 or 6 month leave of absence to go do something else. Travel the world, get really deep into Japanese joinery, or build a new version of DNS. I think that’s something that is healthy for humans.

Unlimited PTO is an accounting dodge because PTO shows up as a liability on the books if it is defined, because if they liquidate the business they need to pay it out in lieu. And number doesn’t go up.

Which is why they also don’t allow carry-over in most cases.