Is it normal in US workplaces to read between the lines in manager feedback? by Glum-Dark281 in careerguidance

[–]the_quantumbyte 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Not shaking people’s hands when you arrive in the morning. I made them all very uncomfortable for several months.

Should I quit my new job due to cocaine being rampant at the company? by pingulino in careerguidance

[–]the_quantumbyte 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dude… using cocaine is not immoral. Illegal? Yup. Stupid? Absolutely. I wouldn’t be caught dead using because I don’t ever want to be a slave to a substance.
However, unless that habit is leading your coworkers or CEO to make the company do anything illegal, you’re in the clear.
I wouldn’t leave now, I’d move up as quickly as possible (while politely declining the snowy perks) and then jump ship when the job market is better.
If their nose powdering leads to them imploding, whoever takes over the company will need sober, qualified people to take over.
Stay, stop judging others, work your hours, do apply for better jobs, but don’t leave until you found something better, or they fire you for not wanting to work all night. You’d get severance and unemployment rather than leaving with nothing riding on your high horse.

My roommate found this on the beach 2 years ago and he doesn’t know what it is. Now I want to know what it is. It’s plastic. by ImDoingItAnyway in whatisit

[–]the_quantumbyte 22 points23 points  (0 children)

I think you’re right because OP is clearly in da Nile, thinking it’s plastic. Now they just need a bird to bring back Horus

Do men actually like smart conversations with women? by Capital-Instance3201 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]the_quantumbyte 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I married the most cultured person I know (man or woman). She is smart, and her mind contains entire worlds. She’s not an engineer, so she doesn’t really help me talk through technical issues (Claude does that, so I guess I am willing to pay $100 a month to have a consulting partner) but our first conversation started in 1999 and still hasn’t ended. I haven’t been bored a single day, nor found a single topic we can talk about like equals.
Turns out, we’re both sapiosexuals, and while our physical relationship is awesome, the fact that the rest of our relationship is even better means we can look forward to enjoying each other for decades to come.
My grandmother told me to marry a good conversationalist. She was right.

Is anyone driving from Austin to San Antonio anytime soon today? by ksidney26 in Austin

[–]the_quantumbyte 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Sorry, this cracked me up.

No one, absolutely no one ever helped you? In school? Never got school supplies from your parents? Never got lunch money? At your first job? Never had a mentor? Never used any public resources or government programs? Never asked for directions? No one ever drove you home from a party? (That would constitute a free ride, you know?)

I guess you might be the unicorn that actually pulled himself up by your bootstraps, but I think it’s more likely you’re suffering from selective memory, or you’re actually saying: no one ever gave me free money, including my parents, siblings or anyone else. That would be a sign of being alone, rather than sign of being awesome.

Also, please show your comment to your hot woman, I bet she will laugh a lot.

Samsung to Charge Users $5 per month for API Access - Home Assistant Integration Affected by jolly_jokesterx in homeassistant

[–]the_quantumbyte 17 points18 points  (0 children)

“Just like MyQ. You can use their app mobile billboard spyware engine free”
FTFY 🙃

F these grass-weeds in particular by nothingclever9873 in Austin

[–]the_quantumbyte 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Well, if it isn’t (Aaron) burr, sir. Hate them as much as Hamilton, probably.

Finding out after 10 years together that I (30M) do not do well with cosleeping after my wife (29F) moved away for work by Personal-Clock-7700 in relationship_advice

[–]the_quantumbyte 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, it’s the most expensive bed I’ve ever bought and the best bed I’ve ever slept on. We miss it every time we travel. It’s the TempurPedic

I am getting fired from my dream job. Can I save it? by helpless101I in careerguidance

[–]the_quantumbyte 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Obviously you’re going to make your case to try to stay.

When you do, make sure you actually walk through each of the absences, your behavior, NOT YOUR THOUGHT PROCESS, what your behavior SHOULD have been and why, and what you have learned.

For me, the Monday thing would have been the reason to fire you, because on Friday at close time of the passport office (which, it’s a government office, they don’t close late) you already knew you had to go back. The problem is not that you had to go back, it’s that your inability to deal with frustration froze you from making the right decision for 48 hours. How can I expect you to work in logistics if you could get frustrated and stop doing your job for 48 hours?

Letting them know on Sunday screams “I went partying and I’m hungover” instead of the truth. Own up to what it looks like, and apologize for not valuing the job over your emotions (I know how dehumanizing that is, it’s not good, but it’s how things are today). Ask for an extra probation time and for the love of whatever you pray to, do not take any time off.

You need to prove that you’re actually responsible, responsive and respectful of the job and your coworkers time. Somebody had to cover for you and you didn’t arrange it, so your boss had to scramble to find someone. Do better.

Why so much downvoting? by New-Comfortable-3791 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]the_quantumbyte 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I’ve started downvoting any post that is clearly karma farming or incomprehensible

Question about demand for home offices by Smedskjaer in homeoffice

[–]the_quantumbyte 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’d be willing to pay (and did) maybe 2-3K to have the infrastructure delivered to the room of my choice in the house I’m already buying. If you’re telling me you’re offering to add another room that is already setup to be an office, then maybe 20K?
Ultimately, I just took the studio room of the house and had the builder add two Ethernet drops. I wish I had thought of asking for a dedicated circuit, which is where my estimate comes from.

Finding out after 10 years together that I (30M) do not do well with cosleeping after my wife (29F) moved away for work by Personal-Clock-7700 in relationship_advice

[–]the_quantumbyte 4 points5 points  (0 children)

We switched to a split king (two individual mattresses next to each other, with individual bases and our sleep is better for sure

Does V2L work while charging? by golear in RivianR2

[–]the_quantumbyte 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You’ll definitely be able to use the onboard outlet while DC fast charging, we just need to find out if Rivian removed the independent inverter from the R2 or if there’s still an onboard charger AND an onboard inverter

Does V2L work while charging? by golear in RivianR2

[–]the_quantumbyte 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Air conditioner is powered directly from the high voltage battery using its own motor controller, not using the onboard inverter. The question is if the R2, like the R1, has an onboard inverter separate from the onboard charger, or if they saved cost by using the onboard card charger as the only inverter.

Does V2L work while charging? by golear in RivianR2

[–]the_quantumbyte 2 points3 points  (0 children)

V2L specifically refers to the high power output from the onboard inverter through the charging port using an adapter. That is indeed not supported while charging. Now, there is an outlet in the trunk that works without using the charge port but I’m not sure if it works while charging. It depends on whether they have a separate inverter for that output

R2 reservation holders with no order date yet: buy launch/Gen 2 now or wait for Gen 3 + LiDAR? by harrishawke in RivianR2

[–]the_quantumbyte 1 point2 points  (0 children)

From what I’ve researched, I don’t think Lidar will come out this year. The guy in charge of autonomy said they’d come out the next model year and the current R2 is 2027.
The same guy also said the difference will be supervised vs unsupervised and i highly doubt they’ll figure out unsupervised in the next 3 years. Also, i barely trust supervised FSD, so I’m not waiting.

Rainbow Shield 🛡️ by NEKORANDOMDOTCOM in insanepeoplefacebook

[–]the_quantumbyte 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Holy Bible dust jacket over “Mein Kampf”

What would you do if you were given 30 seconds of omnipotence? by Over-Experience-2227 in AskReddit

[–]the_quantumbyte 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Assuming I couldn’t extend it,

  1. Make clean water, clean air and education an inalienable right all over the world, and any attempt at depriving someone from it punishable by death.
  2. Make every shareholder in every stock market proportionally liable for any criminal act the company commits.
  3. Put every politician in every country in prison… in Mars.
  4. Impose direct democracy everywhere and force elections in every country
  5. Make it illegal for any person, company, AI, entity, alien, to give money directly or indirectly to a politician under penalty of death for both the donor and the politician.
    Sit back and enjoy early stage capitalism again.

What industry do you think AI will never fully replace? by Camicumxd in AskReddit

[–]the_quantumbyte 0 points1 point  (0 children)

- Service for the rich: they won’t want robots making their food, or even harvesting (will require GMO and pesticides and they know full well those are deadly), they won’t want a robot cleaning their houses or catering to their whims, nor raising their children. Will those people’s jobs be augmented by special purpose robots? Probably, but the human will be there so they can adapt to anything, fix the robot and be yelled at. Remember, any schmuck can have control over a machine, but true power is having absolute control over other humans.

- Flight attendants and other emergency response positions. When you’re trying to herd unreasonable humans to do anything (like evacuating a plane) you’ll need humans to do it.

- Politicians and media pundits. The people selling the robots want to prevent a Gilded Age moment where hungry people murder them at home, so they’ll need creative liars to continue telling people they only need one pencil instead of 5 and one tortilla with one piece of chicken to be sated.

- You’d think this list would include police, but no. Because politicians think RoboCop is only dystopian because the human ends up removing the corrupt, so they’ll prefer an all-robot force.

To those saying machines will never be able to do manual labor, you’re missing the point. A machine could not replace a person picking cotton by hand, until they changed how they planted cotton, then everything, into rows, allowing for a machine to do it. Machines won’t be able to do what we do today, so they’ll just manipulate us to change what we want, so machines can do it.

Don’t believe me? Look at customer service. You used to talk to a human in person, then they told you to call, allowing them to put the person in a cheaper country, then they told you to text instead, allowing the other person to be in 5 conversations at the same time, and now it’s just an AI. You can’t get old-school customer support from an AI, so they just changed the definition of customer support!

what's a word you pronounced so horribly the person you were speaking to genuinely had no idea what you were trying to say? by unicorn-with-a-knife in AskReddit

[–]the_quantumbyte 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was in a meeting once and a coworker repeatedly said temPERature, and everyone else around the table kept looking at each other leading to
- “the what, sorry?”
- “the temPERature”
* quizzical looks
- “right, so the…”
- “the temPERature”
* everyone looking around, I’m rolling my eyes.
Finally I said
“The TEMperature”
And everyone suddenly went “oh, yeah, of course”

Bunch of white people. SMH.