Let’s call it an even 200 employees. That amounts to, rounded up, .003% of Meta’s staff of 74,067. Do with that info what you will

I so miss the Radio Shack of my youth. Back in the 70s and 80s they had real salesmen, in ties and everything. Those guys knew everything! Or, at least they did to my young mind. It was a real job for people who loved electronics and knew the space. Now it’s bored teenagers trying to sell you a phone and overpriced RC crap.

They had a huge catalog I’d wear out every year, literally in taped-up tatters, lusting over all the goodies, even the parts I was clueless about. (Fuck is an RF choke?! I want one.) I’d count and roll pennies, constantly referencing prices and dad to buy me a switch, LED, lamp, circuit board, anything at all. My first big purchase was a Realistic CD player. You could drop kick that thing and if it skipped at all, it would resume perfectly.

When I was a kid you saw it on the big screen or you waited several years for a truncated version to hit one of the three networks. Saw Star Wars in 1977 at 6-yo, didn’t hit broadcast TV until 1984.

had to get picked up

Not sure what you mean. Just deliver the finished product?

For those that want Photoshop functionality and controls for free:

https://www.photopea.com/

No idea why that site isn’t more well known.

Beast Master FTW.

The Way of the Gun is fantastic.

Solid answer! Guess I’m a cow patty for even asking, but you came to the rescue.

Figured everyone read between the lines here? No, the dire wolf isn’t back, but it’s closer, and they seem to have made some serious science.

Anyone?

Why was the US funding FOSS projects? That strikes me as weird, inappropriate and suspicious.

Florida? NW here.

Gillian Anderson may get my view, but in any case I’m not going to the theater.

This is how my tech interview went this week. For every question the panel had I returned a battle story. They were laughing and serious at the same time. Bagged it!

But… HR stuck their nose in and wants their guy interviewed. So now I have to wait a week for them to (hopefully) say, “Thanks but we’re going with Shalafi71.”

Calculators crippled our ability to do simple math in our heads. I’ve had to work for years to get off that reliance.

Our Current Affairs teacher pulled this move, spring of '89 for context:

Paper boy drops off a stack of the afternoon edition, teacher picks one up and seriously peruses it for a minute.

Reading from the paper: “Please pay attention. ‘President George Bush has announced that an offensive action has begin against Iraq. US Air Force tactical bombers led the assault on Baghdad at 4AM this morning while grounds troops have taken positions on the outskirts.’” And so forth. “Discuss.”

We excitedly kicked this around for 20 minutes. First time GenX was at war! He then showed us the headline: Local Man Wins Regional Bike Race.

“Every one of you believed what I said because you thought it was written in the newspaper.” Stunned silence. “Discuss.”

He was county or state teacher of the year for '88 and promised an automatic A to anyone who could make him smile, even once. We had no clue if he was a Democrat or Republican, no clue as to his opinion on anything.

And just look around lemmy. Hundreds of upvotes because people thought Vance made a serious comment about Greenland being cold. (It was an obvious joke to the troops if one had taken a moment and thought, “Surely fucking not.” and watched 25-seconds of video.)

That’s a picture of me. Quit IT to do labor at Lowe’s. It’s fucking brutal in the outside garden area. Got an interview next week for a network admin role, can’t turn down the money. Wish I could.

So did the Discworld books!

You still have to apply and get accepted. This is what kills me about people thinking government-paid college is a degree mill. No, you have to get in in the first place, and you must work hard to stay in.

I’ve never seen “poor” as included under DEI.

Pratchett’s Discworld deserves the Marvel treatment. If I had a few billion, I’d be all in.

Reading selected novels for the 3rd pass. I get that much wouldn’t translate to screen, but plenty enough would. We have an abundance of genius in Hollywood to pull this off. Take LOTR and Harry Potter for fantasy examples.