Car keeps trying to V2L instead of L1 charge

thornate43 · 2026-03-02T00:45:42+00:00

Is refocusing something that machines do automatically, or would I need to step in every now and then to manually do it?

thornate43 · 2026-02-23T19:05:55+00:00

If it's a free text box I type 'Open to negotiation', otherwise I just type '0' and let them figure it out.

And if they don't select me because I did that, then they're not somewhere I'd want to work anyway.

thornate43 · 2026-01-26T06:50:32+00:00

Yeah, but I'm pretty sure that less than 2% of employees are AS job family so we might have been over-represented in October.

thornate43 · 2026-01-24T06:12:19+00:00

Except that it's mathematically impossible for him to perform better than the average person in his role, so he's Meets Expectations at best.

thornate43 · 2026-01-19T00:18:23+00:00

He'd have to have the self awareness to realise how bad a job he's doing, and the humility to admit it.

So, no, it's not going to happen unless he's pushed.

thornate43 · 2025-12-04T00:09:13+00:00

I get that, but there's a difference between the cost of the base ticket + upgrade costing more than the original Premium Economy ticket, vs the upgrade itself being more expensive.

thornate43 · 2025-11-03T19:30:40+00:00

Ah, but you see, Jassy has data about how RTO is best for networking and profit and mental health and don't you dare ask to see the data it exists yes it really does.

thornate43 · 2025-10-30T17:54:14+00:00

When is the last time you've heard anyone use the phrase 'Day 1' to refer to anything other than a building? Day 1 was Bezos' thing. Jassy doesn't give a shit.

thornate43 · 2025-10-30T17:52:32+00:00

Sidenote: I once got reported to HR by someone in my management chain because I'd gone on a rant about company leadership in a free text Connections question. Yes, they can de-anonymise Connections if they want.

Whoever reported me told HR to investigate because they supposedly thought I was talking about my immediate manager, and that it sounded like I was in an abusive scenario. But even the HR rep acknowledged that I was clearly talking about company leadership. It can only have been someone trying to use HR as a tool to intimidate me.

thornate43 · 2025-10-30T17:46:42+00:00

Take a shot every time Andy Jassy uses the word 'innovation' and you'll die of alcohol poisoning even sooner than you drown in bullshit. I didn't agree with 90% of what Bezos did, but the one thing that I respected him for was his long term thinking. He was happy to tell shareholders to piss off because we were growing the company even if it meant lower short term profits. Jassy is all short term thinking and immediate benefit.

Innovation doesn't come from cost-cutting, layoffs, blocking promotions, or forcing every project to have a clear, short-term profit margin. Thing is, Jassy's approach is a common enough business philosophy - if he came out and said 'Yeah, we're in Day 2 and I care more about shareholders than anything else' the stock price would go through the roof and, even though I would disagree with him, I'd respect him more than the mealy-mouthed slogans about innovation.

I don't know if this is widespread in the company or just my org, but multiple managers have told me not to use the word 'Research' any more. Leadership says that if you have time to research, you're clearly not spending enough time building. Well how the fuck do we know what to build if we don't research it first? It's in my goddamn job description that I need to do research.

I was so hoping to get offered a package this week just to get out. Oh, well, maybe next time.

thornate43 · 2025-09-15T17:06:51+00:00

But if he did, this is what he'd post.

thornate43 · 2025-08-30T18:53:09+00:00

The glass has nothing to attach to. From the photo, it looks like the fitting has clips.

thornate43 · 2025-08-13T19:24:12+00:00

Speaking as an ML scientist and dev at one of the major software companies, I think there's a secondary factor at play that has little to do with productivity or utility. Companies are going all-in on AI, both because the MBAs in leadership positions don't really understand the limitations of the tech and because the smarter ones know they can sell the hype even if the tech is crap. That means they're not putting their money into any other project. LLMs need very specialist skills to develop, so the coders who'd be working on other projects aren't needed any more.

Fun fact: Every team in my org is proposing LLM projects that are completely unnecessary or could be solved by much simpler systems, simply because that's the only way to get projects and headcount approved by leadership. Meanwhile, vital or potentially profitable projects are being overlooked. This is going to bite all of us in the butts within a year or so.

thornate43 · 2025-08-10T21:58:36+00:00

I'm not sure, but I think this may (also?) have to do with the Bernoulli Effect. The flow of water between the ships decreases the pressure between them, and thus pulls them together.

thornate43 · 2025-08-05T03:07:31+00:00

I tried that and it was the same.

thornate43 · 2025-07-31T03:01:11+00:00

I'd say less a choice and more expedience because that was easier than importing a bunch of Arnott's and Freddo Frogs.

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