Hahaha it seems anecdotal, because it is. On a plane it smells like someone opened a box of farts.

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At least there wasn’t a screaming baby, a moron kicking your seat, or someone eating steamed broccoli sitting next to you.

I usually test with a multimeter after carefully exposing the endpoint or whatever I’m working on. I had no idea that NCVTs were that untrustworthy, thanks.

A quality hand truck and a couple furniture dollies come in handy much more often than you might think.

If you’re the DIY type, make sure you buy a non-contact voltage tester pen (‘beepstick’). It beeps when it is in proximity to electricity.

Edit: see the mic_check_one_two comment below. Apparently I’m lucky to not be a crispy critter.

What OS will that tablet be running?

I’ve got one better, ask your fish market where their food comes from.

FWIW I’ve never seen a Hampton Inn without at least one waffle maker.

Those drawers pull all the way out if you want to them to. :)

we’ve had luck using kaolin clay

Neat, thanks! I just learned about kaolin clay.

One for the mouse, One for the crow, One to rot, And one to grow.

I like the old rhyme, but do they actually let you have one? I like your sacrificial dill. We did that one year, but with fennel instead (just because we have more luck with that). Ultimately, it was Bacillus Thuringiensis (BT) which worked the best.

I suppose it has more to do with the opportunity for a significant breach. The healthcare provider’s email system is a big target full of exploits. Fax is also HIPPAHIPAA compliant, email is not.

Need a simple end to end encrypted email solution, and for regular users to understand that solution isn’t Gmail for fax to die. The health and financial sectors are keeping fax alive, and it isn’t completely their fault.

Reminds me of Matt Berry as Lazlo in What we do in the Shadows.

The last time I went to an oil change place, I wanted it done because I was leaving town the next day. I usually have my regular mechanic (who is excellent and honest; a rare breed) do it, or I do it myself.

The ten minute oil change took an hour and change. They tried to upsell me on a bunch of bullshit and gave me stink eye when I politely told them I just need a conventional oil change, thanks.

They overfilled it by about .75 of a quart. I had to take care of that myself before the aforementioned road trip. The car only holds about four quarts in total.

They charged twice as much as my mechanic who knows what he’s doing and gives a shit. Never again.

I think OP’s screenshot is tactful and effective. It’s similar to my approach. Which starts:

“Thanks for the invitation, what’s on the agenda?”

Then I decide to accept or politely decline and ask for minutes.

What if you enjoy your work and find value in it; and the meeting is pointless bullshit that just breaks your focus?

Do they ever test anything that’s not on a huge screen before rolling to prod?

I feel this way all the time. I used to have to tell my (often less experienced) coworkers “that’s unusable on a device, which is how 75% of our traffic will consume it.”

It was usually because it looked nice on a huge monitor, and in an emulator.

There’s also that period before you leave when you prepare to be away from home all day, and the period after you return home when you decompress. Most people aren’t magically relaxed after dealing with the commute home.

It used to take three hours of my waking life per day. About 18% of my weekday life. 540 hours per year. At $40/hr that’s 21k of free money to the house. FWIW I’d rather have that time to myself and family, but there’s the number.

It’s right there in the name, but then there’s CFML, which is unpopular, but it definitely features logic, variables, and data manipulation.