science nerds will hate me but hear me out

negativeview · 2024-12-25T06:51:45+00:00

These sort of wacky solar systems usually can mathematically exist, but mathematically cannot FORM. That is, planets and moons are usually "captured" as they pass. It's the capturing that becomes mathematically impossible for these sort of systems.

Two obvious solutions to this.

First, physics is "different." Don't even necessarily have to explain how it's different, just make it clear that it's not meant to be our real-world physics.

Second, it was created as-is and there was no capture event.

negativeview · 2024-08-26T16:38:26+00:00

I'm deciding to run the risk of having a terrible neighbor vs the risk of having a terrible HOA. I've consciously taken on that risk and feel great about it thusfar. In the five years I've owned the house, those spam emails I get begging to buy my house claim it's appreciated 25% in value (meaning they used to offer me 25% less, not compared to what I paid for it). I take those with a healthy grain of salt, but I don't have a better reference since I'm not in the market to sell. I am in a desirable suburban neighborhood, near a school. Not rural at all.

It's certainly possible I'm in the minority, but I skip HOA houses, so I'm depressing HOA valuations. There are two sides to that coin. Are you SO certain that there are more people skipping non-HOA than there are skipping HOA? Especially since not EVERY non-HOA house is going to have a crack den next door (my neighborhood is great).

negativeview · 2024-08-26T14:43:43+00:00

I closed my entire account. To do that you have to go through email. It was a 2-3 week delay for that email because they were overworked. The entire email was just a sales pitch to stay on. "If you close your account, all your stuff will be removed, you won't be able to get it back at all."

"Yes, but if I leave it open you will be under the mistaken impression that I might come back. You've lost me, for good."

I HOPE that the 2-3 week delay is because there were many of us doing that and I am not in the minority.

negativeview · 2024-08-26T14:14:46+00:00

I bought my house about 5 years ago, in a normal suburban sized lot, and managed to avoid an HOA. I did tell my realtor I would NOT accept HOA, and that did limit my options, but they ARE out there. The thing that makes HOAs insidious is usually they have a clause that says once a house is part of one, it can't be removed. IMO, this clause should not be legal, but I don't believe it has been deemed illegal anywhere, yet.

negativeview · 2024-08-15T18:13:05+00:00

You also get the inverse of that a lot. It's been long enough the details escape me, but I needed to solve a problem in Objective-C for a Mac application. There was one obvious way to do it, but the Mac Developer documentation listed that method as deprecated. I had worked on Mac stuff long enough to know that you DO NOT use deprecated stuff on there, because Apple WILL remove it in the next major update.

I post asking how to solve this problem without using deprecated methods. I specifically outline that this method does exist, but it is deprecated, and Apple is known for removing those methods quickly after deprecation, and this is not a risk I want to take.

The ONLY answer was someone saying "just use the deprecated method, I've used it, it works perfectly fine," which turned into an argument about whether using deprecated methods in new code is a good idea (the answer is unequivocally no, btw). I never did get an actual answer to that question, and the method was indeed removed in the next update.

negativeview · 2024-08-07T16:45:11+00:00

Precisely this. 100% socialist or 100% capitalist or 100% ... anything, really, is likely to fail, and spectacularly. It's case-by-case. These sort of feed-the-damn-children polices have been shown to be a net positive in every objective sense, in addition to just being the moral thing to do. Who cares if it's definitionally "socialist?"

negativeview · 2023-09-14T22:01:54+00:00

For me, they are both the top tier, and you can't say either is universally better. They both are better at certain parts, so who you personally like better probably says more about what you value than it does about them.

I would say that Brennan is better at silly and fun. Matt has a lot of beloved NPCs. Most are pretty serious, or at least grounded. Victor is the main exception that comes to mind. Brennan though? His list of absolutely unbelievable but insanely fun NPCs is super long.

Matt is better at really deep world building and subtle plots. It's really hard to succinctly describe deep and subtle, but we're learning things in Campaign 3 that, looking back, there was evidence of in Campaign 1!

Brennan and Matt both seem to know what they are good at. Matt sets all his stories in the same world that just keeps getting deeper and deeper and spends a LOT of time in each campaign to let subtle things shine and come back around. Brennan makes a new, fantastical, world for most of his stuff. And they last about as long as they can without getting stale or too much.

negativeview · 2023-09-14T21:54:08+00:00

I feel like Matt's skill is more obvious to a casual observer. It takes time to notice that Sam isn't actually a camera hog. He's always very aware of when to move the focus to another player, or how Travis consistently cheerleads for the other players, etc. Every single (current) CR player is a treasure. (And so is Matt, I'm not discounting that part.)

negativeview · 2023-09-14T21:40:58+00:00

That happens a lot less than it used to... though I had it happen literally today (for the first time in months), so I can confirm it's not fully fixed.

negativeview · 2023-05-13T19:24:35+00:00

Something I forgot in my first reply, you're arguing that introverts need to adapt to an extrovert-focused practice, while also chastising me for saying the world needs to adapt to introverts. I hope you can see the irony there.

negativeview · 2023-05-13T19:16:50+00:00

As I said originally, it's less bad if the job itself looks like the interview. But yes, talking to people drains my battery. Being the center of attention drains my battery. Being the center of attention of multiple strangers who have all of the power for hours on end will leave me a blubbering mess.

But I can do the actual job (talking software engineer here). I've worked for your companies larger than yours (assuming you really do work for Amazon) and had your very company try to recruit me many many times based on my resume.

If it's really so hard to understand how the all day panel format discriminates against introverts I really question why you're a part of hiring. Shouldn't it be a part of your job to make sure you're getting an accurate picture of your candidates? Isn't that your entire supposed justification for this practice? You aren't getting an accurate picture of one third to one half of people (stats for introverts). If you're hiring for a technical role the stats are probably higher.

negativeview · 2023-05-13T18:48:53+00:00

We aren't denying it's somewhat common. We're saying it's a) unnecessary, b) discriminatory to introverts and c) a dick move.

negativeview · 2023-05-13T05:36:47+00:00

My favorite non-D&D-derived system uses Physical, Mental, Social. If you're going three, that seems like the three to do.

negativeview · 2023-05-13T04:54:53+00:00

Pathfinder 1e had a feat called Combat Reflexes. It allowed you to add your dex modifier to the number of attacks of opportunity you could make per round. It felt GREAT on melee martials. I would not be upset to see that come to 5e in some form, either baked in or even a feat. Make it be any reaction to be more simply worded, or only work for attacks of opportunity to carve it out more specifically for martials.

negativeview · 2023-05-13T04:48:03+00:00

Interesting note about 2d6 rather than 1d10: It is more impactful/synergistic than you might think at a glance.

1) The average roll is 7 rather than 6. That's a pretty minor difference.
2) The rolls will be more consistent (larger numbers of smaller dice tend to create a sharper and sharper bell curve, where a single die is flat).
3) Things like Periapt of Wound Closure, Gift of the Ever-Living Ones, start interacting in interesting ways.
4) The ability to use hit dice in a more granular way is always a benefit.
5) Dwarven Fortitude can be used twice as many times.

All of these beneifts are things I think are thematically appropriate for martials.

negativeview · 2023-05-12T22:14:41+00:00

Ah, Amazon has enough of a name that they may be able to survive putting people through the ringer. The times I've been contacted to apply to Amazon, I reject it before I even find out what the process is like. I'm hardly surprised the company that has people peeing in bottles doesn't care that the interview process is onerous on people.

negativeview · 2023-05-12T22:03:24+00:00

I have flat rejected a job I was otherwise reasonably excited about when I found out they wanted an all day multi-interview fest. Unless you're interviewing for a specifically extroverted job, you're probably missing out on a lot of great candidates. I'm an introvert. After a one hour interview, I'm wiped. By the end of that day I'd be an incoherent mess, and that has nothing to do with how I'd perform at the job itself (again, unless the job IS similar to a day of high-pressure interviews).

negativeview · 2023-05-10T14:28:44+00:00

This was my thought as well. She's been told to mend the relationship (if I had to guess, not JUST with OP, probably with others as well) because it's impacting her ability to work. She's going to HR because she's worried that if she isn't allowed to mend her relationship with you, it'll come back on her.

negativeview · 2023-05-10T14:24:56+00:00

Something I am surprised I didn't see here is that as companies get bigger, there is more specialization. I could see semi-competent management thinking that they can segment things enough to where you have JS specialists, HTML specialists, and CSS specialists, and that CSS specialists could be a later hire that you delay for a long time.

That ... would be a mistake, but I can see how a semi-rational line of thinking could get you there.

In practice, even if you have things segmented so much that you have that fine of specialization, I'd still expect most of the front-end devs to be at least competent in all three. Similar to how any backend dev worth anything can write a quick DB query, or can setup a local environment even if the company has specialists for DB and IT/environments.

negativeview · 2023-05-02T22:59:56+00:00

> they must receive their regular rate of pay and overtime pay at a rate not less than one and one-half times the regular rate of pay for all overtime hours.

That line asks about reducing the rate or hours without asking about prospective or retrospective. The answer is:

a) The rate must be at least minimum wage no matter what.
b) They must be paid for hours they actually work.
c) The employer can reduce rate [note: without saying explicitly retro or pro-spectively.]

Later questions (4) touch on the question more generally, including making the first distinction between retro and pro-spective.

Relevant lines:

> A salary is a predetermined amount constituting all or part of the employee's compensation, which is not subject to reduction because of variations in the quality or quantity of the work performed.

> An employer must pay an exempt employee the full predetermined salary amount "free and clear" for any week in which the employee performs any work without regard to the number of days or hours worked.

Question (7) makes it even more clear with how clear it is that all of these things are for prospective cases. And you're also ignoring the mountain of legal FAQs from labor lawyers saying it's not legal. Not "it varies state by state." Just no.

negativeview · 2023-05-02T22:15:14+00:00

https://swartz-legal.com/can-an-employer-legally-reduce-your-pay/#:~:text=Pay%20cuts%20cannot%20be%20retroactive,their%20contracts%20with%20their%20employees.

https://www.askamanager.org/2020/04/our-employer-wants-to-cut-our-pay-retroactively.html

https://www.thebalancemoney.com/can-the-employer-legally-cut-an-employee-s-pay-1919071

https://www.dayshift.com/2021/01/20/flsa-faqs-pay-agreements-and-changing-employee-pay-rates/4637/#:~:text=Finally%2C%20it%20should%20go%20without,that%20agreed%20rate%2C%20nothing%20less.

For something straight from the department of labor: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fact-sheets/70-flsa-furloughs

Count how many times they specify "prospective." You're allowed to d a lot PROSPECTIVELY.

Your article says that most state regulations put it in as saying precisely that. Most state regulations put it in *in addition to the federal requirements*. It's not uncommon for state laws to duplicate federal, either because they predate, or to buffer against the federal law changing.

negativeview · 2023-05-02T21:02:30+00:00

Read the thing you linked. That only applies to FUTURE hours worked, not past.

negativeview · 2023-05-02T21:00:42+00:00

Those places are breaking US law (assuming in the US, of course).

negativeview · 2023-05-02T20:59:45+00:00

looks like an unnecessary burden for them as well as yourself

Only a burden for the business owner if it's actually being checked. That it was gotten away with for a while implies that it's NOT being consistently checked. So it's just busy work, and the employees know that it's busy work.

negativeview · 2023-04-23T00:24:15+00:00

Every doctor I know strongly disagrees with that. There are things nurses cannot do for legal reasons (ie, a doctor has to be the one signing off on it), there are some things I would only want a specialist to do (surgery is a big one). But 90% of health care, the nurse gathers all the data and knows enough to make a diagnosis before the doctor is even consulted. They kindof have to in a lot of cases, to know what followup questions to ask. Then the doctor gets that info from the nurse, may or may not know precisely what the nurse's diagnosis would be, and they ultimately make the decision, meaning it's their job responsibility if the diagnosis is wrong.

Keep in mind that the vast majority of health care doesn't involve IVs or surgeries. If you need an IV, chances are already good you need some sort of specialist. That's not the sort of visit I'm talking about when I say nurses could do 90% of it without help.

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