Posts by A K Stiles 814 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jul 2010
On the successful launch of another Falcon Heavy, the return of the two side-boosters to the landing site, and the successful capture of one of the payload fairing sections, with the other recoverable from the ocean nearby. Just a shame the central first stage didn't make it on to the drone-ship, though it looked like it was pretty close.
The one with the satellite crossing the field of view - that has a date of 2018 so is nothing to do with the recent SpaceX constellation? Although it does demonstrate the kind of issue it could cause.
It's early, I've not had any tea yet, maybe I've missed something?
I suspect the guy by whom I was being checked hadn't read the online description and it didn't say TSA approved anywhere on it. I certainly wasn't in a place and time to argue with him!
Looking at the Q&A on that amazon link it appears I'm nowhere near the only one who has forgotten they even have one and eventually had it confiscated by airport security somewhere in the world.
I flew from UK to Brisbane, Australia in 2017, with an unexpected 6 hour stint in a hotel in Dubai. It was only at Brisbane airport, on the flight home, that my Wallet Ninja was confiscated, having been into both BHX and DXB in my wallet without a blink from security...
I have frequently attempted to take this approach with whingey / shouty people (men and women), unfortunately I've only once had the support from the management where the shouty / whingey got directed at them. Most of the time the response is "just do what they want to make MY life easier". That one occasion, when I was straight out of Uni and working an admin role, someone fairly senior wanted to get me a bollocking for cocking up some commission payments (which they'd insisted I do). We all trouped into their boss's office, where I explained exactly what had happened. Intermediate boss looked sheepish, top boss looked frustrated, said "thanks, at least somebody knows what's going on - don't do it again, no matter who asks for it.".
The moment the switch wasn't in the required cabinet the favour should have been done. "Sorry, I've spent the requested 5 minutes looking and the docs and the request don't match to reality - I can't interfere without risking bigger problems I can't immediately see, you'll have to go through the proper channels."
I thought the default unit of volume was Bulgarian "safety equipment", though it appears that volume is based on grapefruit and weight is more related to the former unit. Though shouldn't that be mass rather than weight, and what % of the MVS(v) is this thing travelling at anyway?
In my experience, general office folks were no better at loading tractor feed paper correctly.
I still check the wrapping of the paper reams for the arrow indicating print side, though I haven't seen one for 20+ years.
You can really ruin my productivity with videos like that!
I was going to suggest that you clearly work in my office, except we don't get the fruit basket, or the yoga balls and the whole water toot isn't on posters but merely spills from the mouths of the slack jaws flapping away in the middle of the large open plan space.
If they really cared about my wellness (or my productivity) they'd give me some walls of my very own (or at least our team) to block out the extremes of idiocy that shower us constantly.
Obviously a stock photo, but I wonder where from? The sockets are British standard style, but the switches are certainly not common here, and the plug is completely the wrong shape, wouldn't accomodate the fuse etc.
The switch shape is similar to Australia, though the sockets are wrong. Perhaps Singapore?
Interesting that (at least on my screen) the reddit, twitter and linkedin icons are all anchor links to a sharing url but the facebook one is 'just' an image, not a link, although the cursor reacts to it so presumably (cba to look) some scripting to do 'stuff' with it when clicked.
Reg at least gets a thumb up for them not being evil tracking things, assuming the above mentioned script isn't doing that...
A simple sticker pointing out how the jam detection had been disabled could have saved the poor lad from the massive tear-down/rebuild, but obviously everyone 'knew' about it so it wasn't necessary, until someone didn't.
But also, how did it get to the point of having the printer stripped to components (i.e. who authorised it?) before having someone point out the work around?
Now all we have to do is be able to identify the calling organisation. On the odd occasion that I answer a spam call and ask for which organisation they are calling from, that's usually the point they hang up.
I do look forward to the first rounds of directors getting caught with it though!
We only have one wheelie bin (for garden / compostable waste) so I have to just carefully line it up with the kerb edge. The other rubbish goes in bags next to it, where the cats / foxes / corvids can have their way, assuming the waste collection operatives don't achieve the same thing in their attempts to gather all the street's waste into one big heap for when the lorry arrives.
And then they always leave the wheelie bin at some obscure angle in the middle of the drive... or someone else's drive... or the road...
And of course you have to allow for staff members who may not have the requisite appendage into which the chip is specified to be implanted, so do you make all implants be located somewhere like the back of the neck, which makes swiping near the scanner tricky! Never mind the fact that it also gets difficult to double check someone's allowed to be in an area when their id card is embedded under their skin and the picture would be really small!
" those with which I believe a one Alistair Dabbs dabbles (SWIDT?) with"
If only you had left off the last "with", you would have crafted a sentence of excellent structure. (Well, that and the errant "a" between "believe" and "one Alistair Dabbs" )
I have to agree though, FoTW can provide some wonderful entertainment.
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In Blighty, not filling your own car is really the exception to the standard. What we don't have though, is the clip on the pump handle that allows you to walk away whilst the fuel flows. You have to stand there for the 2 minutes holding that lever up, all nicely grounded through the pump. So we're free to wear as many nylon stockings and polyester underpants as we could wish too...
Yes, the one with the 20 denier lace-tops in the pocket, thanks!
Would you not consider many of those things to be 'other package benefits' then?
Obviously not including the shrewish secretary part!
Sadly never been in a place to have a private bath provided - occasional use of a shared shower perhaps.
Both orgs had several 100+ staff, one a scale of magnitude larger than the other, and both in open plan office spaces of 30-80 people, a bit too much overbearing admin / HR but neither enough to make them hellish experiences.
It isn't clear whether they've included simple pre-tax money earnings or other package benefits like holidays, health-care, vehicles, travel passes...
I've worked in 2 (UK) jobs several years apart for the same salary number, but one of them had effectively 22 days annual leave (including any compulsory shut-down days, bank holidays extra) whilst the other had effectively 36 days in like for like comparison.
Which of those is better remunerated?
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