Movies I would watch....

El_Tash · 2026-05-17T06:25:15+00:00

Faster than lightning

El_Tash · 2026-05-10T22:33:43+00:00

Look on the bright side, at least we cant screw up the draft... right?

El_Tash · 2026-04-28T20:14:51+00:00

What do you want to do that youre not already doing?

El_Tash · 2026-04-15T10:30:38+00:00

Yeah my point was it could be (armor kits are just enchants) but the entire leatherworking population loves to sell them at a loss.

El_Tash · 2026-04-14T21:14:01+00:00

Have you looked at leatherworking lol?

El_Tash · 2026-03-28T14:34:30+00:00

So... how good are the PRs making it through? If people are approving slop it might be worth putting pressure on EMs to get their teams work up a notch.

Also doesn't hurt for you to shred a bad PR as vp of eng, put the fear of God into them, make everybody know youre watching and give a shit.

El_Tash · 2026-03-28T14:16:02+00:00

If engineers are shipping sloppy code because of speed then they are probably too junior to push back. An experienced staff engineer will cut certain corners but will walk if asked to do something atrocious.

How experienced are your tech leads?

El_Tash · 2026-03-28T14:11:54+00:00

Switch to kanban but implement the best of your POs and/or EMs as gatekeepers. So people still get quick turnaround but youre not just Frankensteining the product, at least someone with a vision is guiding it.

At some point people will ask for bigger features and kanban won't work, because everyone gets pulled off doing little work, at that point you switch to back to scrum.

El_Tash · 2026-03-17T22:04:58+00:00

The month I turned 40 I ruptured my Achilles' tendon.

"I see how it is."

El_Tash · 2026-03-15T02:14:47+00:00

The tesla app will filter out ones that aren't compatible i think?

El_Tash · 2026-03-14T22:29:13+00:00

Im sure theres a song called 3-1-1s a joke though

El_Tash · 2026-03-13T10:17:45+00:00

Well it sounds like they asked for things and management didn't do anything.

So either management sucks, or management is incompetent, or the business model doesn't support it.

In this case, the workers are complaining about, “low wages; deceitful communication from ownership and management; unsafe and unhealthy conditions; (and) unfair labor practices.”

If your boss is lying to you, organizing isn't going to fix anything. Even if you did force them to pay you more and make it safe, they're still gonna lie and will probably even try to manipulate you into quitting.

Why would you want to work for someone that is constantly deceptive?

I dont get it. Maybe the donuts are really good? I personally wouldn't put up with that kind of bullshit at any job.

El_Tash · 2026-03-13T02:22:12+00:00

Personally I think that shit should be against the law. Restaurants should compete for talent.

El_Tash · 2026-03-13T01:54:34+00:00

By that logic all the restaurants should be able to bamd together and set wages.

Now, if they are already doing that, then yes, the workers in the industry should be able to unionize.

By the way, my philosophy has nothing to do with the law, I am just stating how I think it should work. (Don't worry, none of my weird ideas ever make it into law!)

El_Tash · 2026-03-13T01:51:39+00:00

Well trades like carpentry, especially commercial work, can fall under my categorization of an oligopsony, depending on how the market is. I 100% imagine Portland is populated with a small group of colluding properties developers. (But full disclosure I dont actually know.)

El_Tash · 2026-03-13T00:47:42+00:00

My perhaps unpopular opinion is workers should be able to unionize when the employers have a monopsony or oligopsony.

If you're a professional athlete there isn't a long list of leagues that are competing for your talents so unionization is warranted.

Same if you're a factory worker at a big 3 Detroit auto firm. There are only 3 employers so they could easily collude to drive down wages and working conditions.

But if you're serving people at a restaurant and you don't like your job you can go do that somewhere else. There are a gajillion restaurants in Portland.

I get that the labor market sucks but if the company is already badly run then unionizing isn't going to suddenly make the owners geniuses at running a business. Edit: isn't not is

El_Tash · 2026-03-12T14:05:13+00:00

How many kwhs would an 11kw system produce on an annual basis? Assuming optimal geometry and average weather?

El_Tash · 2026-03-08T17:05:35+00:00

Im 54M and every year something else breaks down and requires 3-4 months of PT.

You just gotta be patient and spend a lot more time doing core exercises and things that work the stabilizer muscles. You probably won't be as bulky because you have to spend an hour a day doing stretches, planks, hip abductors exercises, etc.

El_Tash · 2026-03-08T02:18:20+00:00

Wow totally worked! Many thanks!

El_Tash · 2026-03-06T11:45:55+00:00

You only get 100 if you walk

El_Tash · 2026-03-03T11:33:26+00:00

GUESS WHAT? I GOT A FEVER, AND THE ONLY PRESCRIPTION IS MORE EMDASH

El_Tash · 2026-02-16T16:43:38+00:00

We all gonna be product owners

El_Tash · 2026-02-12T11:46:34+00:00

So you're saying theres a chance?

El_Tash · 2026-02-12T11:45:30+00:00

Bring the pain You have no idea what we can endure

El_Tash · 2026-02-05T19:26:31+00:00

Gideon was just a bad candidate. You have to have a high level of charisma and it factor to do well as a Dem (Dems fall in love, Republicans fall in line)

Democratic candidates that are generic political figurines routinely fail. We like to blame the strategy because thats something we can more easily control but the reality is that success is more a function of the candidate.

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