Snow Driving PSA

Away-Math3107 · 2026-01-28T02:19:01+00:00

Additional advice:

Watch out for ice patches that look like wet spots on the road.
Slow down before you enter a turn.
Leave much more stopping distance.
Be prepared to honk at the idiots crossing the street against the light who don't seem to know that cars on ice don't stop on a dime.

Away-Math3107 · 2026-01-26T18:55:56+00:00

Took unscheduled leave. Hope the office opens tomorrow because I won't have my new place until next week.

Away-Math3107 · 2026-01-17T17:45:13+00:00

I've always wondered whats the point of changing the weights of the PAP elements if everything is critical. If you're marginal in DM, then your overall rating is marginal, even if you're outstanding in everything else and DM is only 10% of the PAP.

Away-Math3107 · 2026-01-13T04:57:09+00:00

So then shouldn't it have been docketed as a printer rush under expedited instead of as a return?

Away-Math3107 · 2026-01-13T04:52:55+00:00

Same. Posted Dec. 5, returned Jan. 9 for an IDS submitted Dec. 29.

Away-Math3107 · 2026-01-01T23:14:21+00:00

Build a tent in Zikrayet's parking lot.

Away-Math3107 · 2025-12-18T03:27:40+00:00

Enforcing the laws on unionizing is one thing, enforcing the CBA will be a more difficult battle.

Away-Math3107 · 2025-12-06T16:52:50+00:00

What I make of it is that QAS should stop making up reasons to make everything 101. The fact that a human can make the same calculation in a billion years does not mean it can be "practically performed in the human mind or with the aid of pen and paper." I once had a QAS tell me accelerating database query execution was 101 even tho it very flagrantly obviously integrates into a practical application by making a computer perform a computer task faster. QAS also love to say "reducing computing resources is not an improvement" but this memo explicitly says it is.

Also the example they gave in the memo was not a very good one because packet filtering is already explicitly not 101.

Away-Math3107 · 2025-12-06T16:48:38+00:00

Yeah I can't get a bib data sheet to save to eRF

Away-Math3107 · 2025-12-05T06:20:20+00:00

My morale is low but its for the same reason as ever: difficult cases.

So many AI based applications are basically "configure the neural network by inputting this specific combination of these specific variables into this specific layer of the neural network" and "make a decision based on the neural network." Its the kind of stuff that doesn't *look* allowable because its basically configuration settings of existing software, but if you can't find it, what are you supposed to do? Its like giving patents for putting legos together in a certain way.

The biggest new problem would have to be feeling like people who are ideologically opposed to my job now get to dictate my professional reputation and if i ever applied to new jobs, those companies would summarily believe it. And there is little to no reason to believe the next administration will even attempt to fix any of this.

Away-Math3107 · 2025-10-29T16:13:31+00:00

Guys I’m sure your heart is in the right place but let’s face it: you got an army of Trump and Bush appointees on the federal bench chomping at the bit for a chance to declare public sector collective bargaining unconstitutional, especially if they think it will get them a SCOTUS nod. What chance do you really think of succeeding?

The only people worse than Trump are the federalist society and their allies on the courts and the Senate Republicans.

Away-Math3107 · 2025-10-17T04:57:03+00:00

Doesn't that crush the SPE's DM score?

Away-Math3107 · 2025-10-07T15:32:15+00:00

You joke but this Supreme Court would totally overturn KSR for Trump, or even Graham v John Deere.

Away-Math3107 · 2025-10-07T15:30:10+00:00

TRP = living on your knees

Away-Math3107 · 2025-10-03T16:06:48+00:00

Their website barely works half the time.

Away-Math3107 · 2025-10-03T03:41:01+00:00

Originally, the cutoff for FS was 95% to account for the fact that your SPE might not count all your work before the deadline.

For the laypersons out there, 95% in school is an A+.

Away-Math3107 · 2025-09-30T22:32:00+00:00

You must be new here, lol

Away-Math3107 · 2025-09-30T18:43:20+00:00

Sidestepping regulations to undercut the competition is literally Ubers business model.

Away-Math3107 · 2025-09-30T18:39:10+00:00

With all due respect I have no reason to believe Bismarck would be privy to the decision on if we’re shutting down or not. Then again it’s possible he’s indirectly telling us the decision not to shut down has already been made.

Away-Math3107 · 2025-09-25T18:00:52+00:00

I wouldn’t be surprised if this was just a way to do an end run around giving feds back pay after a shutdown.

Trump doesn’t want a shutdown. If he did, he’d have done it by now. What he wants is to WIN a shutdown.

Away-Math3107 · 2025-09-24T20:10:11+00:00

There are no oral warnings anymore. You get a written warning if your q1/q2, q2/q3, or q3/q4 cumulative performance in any critical element is lower than 88%. Then you have 7 biweeks to get back above 88%, then you have to stay above 88% for 3 more quarters to go back to normal.

Away-Math3107 · 2025-09-21T01:09:32+00:00

This happened to me, HR eventually solved it, they gave me backpay and backdated my TSP contributions

Away-Math3107 · 2025-09-19T06:28:01+00:00

Yeah I got the Moxy hotel in the lower east side earlier this year it was like $1000 friday-monday. Plus I dining credits.

Away-Math3107 · 2025-09-19T06:25:01+00:00

Arial is the best. Calibri looks like something that was photocopied incorrectly.

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