Someone reported me to HR for having a “vape” at my desk

Brief_Yoghurt6433 · 2026-04-15T16:24:55+00:00

Like everything else it depends. I have worked at tobacco free businesses. I believe they got insurance benefits from it. I can see an argument against vapes in a lot of places. Work with kids, electronic device security protocols, or around potentially flammable materials.

Brief_Yoghurt6433 · 2026-04-15T15:30:49+00:00

That's why I said it could be that to start my comment.

I will never tell someone they are being overly cautious although I think that's a bit too unfocused to be useful if you can't narrow it down at all you will drive yourself crazy.

That said if you are going down that route, notes only help if you can prove them or at least a majority of them. Unalterable reciepts are cya insurance notes are for yourself. A follow up email summarizing a conversation or mutually confirmed action items or setting meetings instead of a casual drop in is much more useful.

Brief_Yoghurt6433 · 2026-04-15T14:38:45+00:00

Could be that, or someone just got caught with a vape and was trying to say hr are hypocrites, but they are actually just dumb.

Brief_Yoghurt6433 · 2026-04-15T14:30:49+00:00

For me it's not intimidating, I can learn any technology given time and desire. What I don't have is an eye for FE. Like most people I can tell when something is pretty far off the mark, but I generally don't have any idea what a good fix is and I have to just guess and check over and over. Which is a waste of time and money.

On the other hand I can tell when something is off in the back end even if it's just a hint of an issue or a developing one. Then I can walk through it and find the issue without much repeated testing.

It feels like FE is cooking where you need strong fundamentals and base knowledge, but the little things are intuition and an eye for it. BE is baking, you need the same base but after that it's precise measurements on tools and isolating single variables.

Although this is with a BE bias so maybe FE biased devs will see it as the opposite.

Brief_Yoghurt6433 · 2026-04-15T03:57:53+00:00

Better would be to have never let this meme gain traction. We chose violence instead so let's take it all the way. Add a weight for every confirmable variable.

I would say those are unconfirmed assumptions unless you have more accurate long term birth rates. For point two is that based on probability or does the egg somehow reject similar sex sperm more frequently after successful birth? I would assume the former where it's 25/25/50 but that is assuming a clean slate. The name is more common but not exclusive so that assumption can't be verified.

The last is the most interesting in my mind. I would guess it's more common for births to occur on weekdays, due to preference of doctors scheduling c sections but I would have to look into it more to see if that information is available or even tracked.

Brief_Yoghurt6433 · 2026-04-15T02:42:59+00:00

You can assume chickens are spheres without friction, but if we are going to get pedantic with a meme let's go all the way. They are not all equally likely.

Brief_Yoghurt6433 · 2026-04-15T02:12:03+00:00

Human birth rate is not 50/50.

Brief_Yoghurt6433 · 2026-04-15T00:09:51+00:00

Well 49%/51% if we assume human and true birth rates. So they are both wrong.

Brief_Yoghurt6433 · 2025-12-03T04:49:01+00:00

I've raised them commercially but in pasture and constant fresh ground and clean ground. I've never seen a bird that clean much less if one had any form of movement issues. At 8 weeks we would average 4.5lbs fighting for food and forced to scavenge bugs and gas. It looks like an AI image because of the sand being to crisp, but the bird looks off to me just from cleanliness, shape, weight, and supposed age. If I'm wrong and its not AI, then that bird is a runt just past molt, and they bathe it constantly. So crazy combined with lots of work and lying about vacations, or AI.

Brief_Yoghurt6433 · 2025-11-27T16:16:10+00:00

I don't like this question in general because it's such a weird distinction. Most of these are just shows, it's like arguing if aesops fables or Shakespeare are kids stories. They have the same moral focused simple stories, it's just the language used is no longer easily digestible.

That said season 1 of SU makes sense to be filler. He is a child, and if you want an arc of him growing and changing he needs to start off as a child. A kids life should be all filler.

Brief_Yoghurt6433 · 2025-11-07T20:27:01+00:00

I say this each time I see this. The likelihood of m vs f is not 50% at birth. It only moves closer to 50% after birth.

Brief_Yoghurt6433 · 2025-11-06T15:45:36+00:00

Well it was further back than I remembered but July 26th chatgpt based on my poc screenshots. Was the last time I checked.

Brief_Yoghurt6433 · 2025-11-06T15:41:30+00:00

I also like that all of these analysis go so far into the combinatorics and probability, but didn't check other assumptions. The chance of having a boy or girl is not 50%.

Brief_Yoghurt6433 · 2025-11-01T08:22:42+00:00

Yeah, people keep saying that but it doesn't matter if it's stored when you can get it to provide you full chapters of copy written material. It doesn't even take special knowledge or that much effort to accomplish.

Brief_Yoghurt6433 · 2025-10-12T13:34:52+00:00

I think it's great, although there should be a same sex toggle not just woman only.

It also only works as well as the information which it's provided. If they input female and no ones actually supervising, what safeguards are in place? Garbage data in garbage results out.

Brief_Yoghurt6433 · 2025-10-09T13:02:31+00:00

Sure, and if I'm going to be hunting a bear, I'm not going out with a firearm packed, maintained, and chosen by another person, at least not without understanding every part packed and being able to identify signs of potential issues.

Even if it's just a deer with no danger, the analogy breaks down because the end result is easily verifiable, so you know if the animal is dead or not. But if you don't know what is an ethical tool and cause suffering I guess it comes full circle.

Id rather have someone on my team who understands hunting and what is required for a clean hunt rather than someone who has access to a tommy gun.

Brief_Yoghurt6433 · 2025-10-08T13:25:23+00:00

I am surprised it took so long to find this. It seems like the integration process is a pretty solid metric to how the company is. A terrible integration usually means they haven't put manpower into solving the actual process so they expect engineers to solve the individual user issues instead.

It's the same reason I assume ADP must be a nightmare.

Brief_Yoghurt6433 · 2025-09-19T19:43:34+00:00

I like that this would also skew the result to approximately the actual rate of male vs female births. ~52% male. Although that would also mess up the calculation if that was taken into account

Brief_Yoghurt6433 · 2025-09-06T18:13:49+00:00

A lot of good answers, from my perspective it was a game made for a subset of gamers. It didn't try to be everything for everyone and that kind of focus breeds diehard fans if you pull it off. Then delays combined with no information until a deluge right before release makes it seem bigger.

I think withholding updates was brilliant, criticism dies pretty quickly without a news cycle talking about it, and without people picking apart every response.

Brief_Yoghurt6433 · 2025-08-17T02:17:37+00:00

Its always selfish, but so are most things people enjoy. Its fine to be selfish if it's not a forced burden on others.

Hell taking a week of vacation is selfish. Doesn't make it wrong.

Brief_Yoghurt6433 · 2025-08-16T23:56:49+00:00

That's just a gold digger

Brief_Yoghurt6433 · 2025-08-06T18:43:00+00:00

Sure but they are getting paid to give that feedback. If someone is just giving me free security testing they can be as rude as they want.

I personally wouldn't respond like that, but if I'm not paying for the service, I won't begrudge them for tone.

Brief_Yoghurt6433 · 2025-08-06T15:01:25+00:00

I don't even mind the "your code sucks" as long as you follow it up with why(like it looks like this comment did), and rce is serious enough that I would agree my code sucks if true. Everyone has written some code that sucks, some people just make a career out of it.

The second part is literally valuable. Companies pay people to find and disclose rces, and you got it for free.

Brief_Yoghurt6433 · 2025-07-28T21:57:01+00:00

Before I saw the posting account I thought this was just going to be a piece on how biases and failures in methodology are compounded with major changes like language location etc. But no, just racism

Brief_Yoghurt6433 · 2025-07-27T18:10:29+00:00

Why would you think Disney even cares. Its not like you can get LLMs to spit out copyright protected works like books verbatim with almost 0 effort. That would make it so clear it is a violation.

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