I learned it working telecom. For example, if you wish to offer 911 service, your service has to be operational 99.999% of the time.

It’s more casually used to mean a service or operation is insanely reliable.

Experimenting with spreading mine on a cookie sheet to dry in the sun. Chop it up and you got handy fire starters.

EDIT: It works perfectly!

Or shotgun shell sizes and loads.

“It all started in 1840 when the dram was a common unit of measurement…”

Saving this one for next time I’m on call for weekend monitoring.

Nope, it’s the government’s mileage standards. If you make a truck with a shorter wheelbase and track, it has to hit higher gas mileage standards. Easier to make a big truck that’s allowed worse mileage.

https://youtu.be/azI3nqrHEXM

Also, I did a brief stint selling cars in the 90s. One of the salesmen explained it like this, "What’s the real difference in a big truck and a small truck? Same engineering effort, same production work, all that. Hell, same parts for most systems.

More steel on the big one, and steel is cheap. We can charge a premium for the larger truck."

Where there’s a will there’s a way! Don’t give up.

For example: Use a small and VERY hot nail to melt a sideways hole. Patiently. Use the same nail as a tab. (Probably have to shorten in before the final push.)

Feeling it. Starting to look myself.

Moved to a new team, former boss was frustrating, to say the least. Great company on the whole. Maybe I’m an idiot?

Pinged tonight by my new manager, who is on PTO but kinda half-ass working anyway. Some shit, “When I get back.” Other shit, “Do this now.”

“Updated user account per his manager.”

“Told you not to touch that till I get back.”

“You updated the tracking sheet saying do this thing.”

Fuck me. I can’t keep up with conflicting verbal orders, ticket orders, Slack orders, and Jira orders. Am I supposed to provide a fucking timeline as to what was ordered at what date and time?!

“Also the list in that email, go ahead and make all of the users except $X and $Y as regular users.”

“Uh, no warning?”

“No need to update the sheet at this moment. I will deal with the people on the list when I am back.”

Done. And still working on it. Now I have no idea whether to continue.

EDIT!: Boss was wrong a fully apologized! He’s gotta stop half-assing being on PTO and trying to work anyway.

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Tell me you know nothing about front or backend webdev…

My wife refused the dishwasher for months after moving in. Hand wash only.

“It is not clean.”

Fuck I know. Maybe they don’t have good ones in the Philippines? Still trying to deprogram the “tradwife” out of her. 😂 But now she uses it! And sometimes allows me to do our dishes!

I disagree, and maybe my tastes are niche. I’m a very amateur gunsmith and look up how-to’s on weird shit I can’t figure out. Often the answer is in the comments.

“This guy has mostly got it, but do step B before A.”

Or:

“I had this issue and fixed it with $X.”

I’d guess a lot of technical/mechanical/niche stuff works like that? I don’t look at the comments on popular stuff.

2000 or so for me. I have no idea how people are seeing ads in their inbox.

Shit like that blew my mind first time I really travelled outside of Tulsa, OK. If you’re not too bright, it might take me 20-minutes to explain the whole grid. ONE page of instructions will land you anywhere you want to go. Numbers crossed by names. Even the numbers crossed by numbers make sense.

Clearly marked signs, everywhere. A quick glance will tell you which direction you’re travelling. On a side street 1 block west of Harvard? Yeah, Marion runs all the way through town, and it’s always 1 block west of Harvard.

Travelling doing Y2K updates, “Fuck you mean the corner of Green and Grass?! How the hell am I supposed to know where that it?”

Mom died of breast cancer. On my bd last month.

She felt a lump, didn’t get it checked, figured it was a bit of fake titty that broke loose. Would have cost too much to get looked at.

Found she had breast cancer. Her chemo stent got infected, wanted to wait until Monday to have it seen. Would have cost too much.

Husband drove her 2-hours through 14° weather, snow and mountains and all, to the ER. Dead within 24 hours.

But hey! Another dead conservative Boomer! Win?

I’ve driven all over the South and not had issue. Google’s walked me down some truly weird back highways and byways, always got me there. And if I wanted to take a different route, I’d go my own way for a bit, let Google reroute.

Like OP though, once it run me in circles trying to get to the SSA office downtown. My wife started to turn according to directions, “No. Keep going, it’s not back there.”

Had to turn it off because it was driving me nuts, “Make a U turn.” No. “Fuck you blind and deaf?! Make a U turn.” Once I got past the glitch, no issue.

I’m mainly baggin’ on you for blaming Google when there was so much more you could have done. Tell you a story that changed my life.

Parents used to read a Guideposts entry every morning at breakfast. It’s a non-denominational, “We believe in a god and that’s all we’re saying about that.”, sort of magazine. All of the stories were written by readers.

So this guy is talking to his buddy about being an aircraft pilot and how everything is his responsibility. Every. Thing.

“Yeah, but what if an engine fails?”

“That’s on me. I’m responsible for inspection, maintenance and reviewing maintenance logs.”

“OK, ground crew gives you bad gas?”

“That’s me. I’m responsible for checking.”

“Fine! What if terrorists take over the plane?!”

“It’s my plane. I’m the captain. I should have seen the threat coming and acted accordingly.”

You see where I’m going with this. I can’t think of a single bad thing that has happened to me where I could not have done something differently. Blaming externalities shifts the responsibility for your life away from you. And that makes you feel helpless, not in control, leads to depression. And that fucking sucks.

I suppose one could take that attitude too far, but again, I’ve always found that I could have done better. Maybe a bad thing that hit me is 98.435% someone else’s fault, or even totally random? Well, I’ve always found a way I could have avoided it. And that sort of thinking has served me well in life.

LOL, sorry to go all “dad” on you. And FFS, always travel with more cloth than you think you’ll need. This kinda weather could Darwin Award a person.

Jesus.

• Phone is obviously giving bad directions, blindly follows them anyway.
• Travels wearing a jumper in lethally cold weather.
• Too socially broken to ask a stranger for directions.
• Can’t figure out how to call the shop or warehouse. Or anyone?
• Took the wrong bus, because “they” forgot which one he needed?
• All of this is Google’s fault. (And the warehouse for having a tiny sign.)

And if I got any of that wrong, it may be because OP can’t relate a simple story in proper English.

Yes, our system is all fucked up. Yes, the IRS gives instructions to follow. Can’t follow directions?

Also, I heard the IRS has just released new software to make it even easier? Anyone know more?

“…it’s illegal,” the attorney general said in a statement.”

So why is no one in jail? If I break the law, the state must sue me to enforce?

It’s a reference to smoking weed. Reread it with that in mind and it’ll be clear.