BearOfaTime

Hurr durr, 'Muricans Stoopid

People like you crack me up, all butthurt cause Americans don't give a fuck about where you're from.

Just shows you want attention from Americans, like you're mad your crush doesn't know you exist.

Only New Yorkers think this way.

How do you know someone's from New York?

Don't worry, they'll tell you.

Yep, an OS would need to be monolithic for a given device.

Something the computer world decided was a Bad Thing in about 1978.

My experience with C:

It's not as robust as claimed. I've had 4x as many C connectors fail as even Micro USB (and I've had 10x as many micro devices/cables as C).

Which is really disappointing, as C is just nicer in general - not having to try 3 or 4 times is such a better design. I'm still confused as to why A, Mini, Micro didn't have a dot to indicate "this way up" on both cable and device as part of the standard. I added one to everything with either a sharpie or a paint pen.

So yea, robustness - A/B are just more robust in my experience.

Plastics may degrade, but (as others have mentioned) if a plastic one lasts 10+ years, so far, where's the value in a glass one?

Plus you could buy 4 plastic ones for the cost of 1 glass that could far more easily break.

I'm all for glass in a LOT of stuff. I even kind of like it here (for the reasons you've stated), I just can't get behind the cost.

I tend to go for better/best quality in most things, I hate buying stuff twice. But there's value in being able to replace a less robust device for 1/4 the cost of the "higher quality" version.

Agreed.

Delonghi does some magic to make a cheap espresso machine actually produce sufficient pressure for a fast brew.

Their old machine, circa 2005 worked, but not well.

The newer ones have been tested numerous times and produce the pressure they're labeled to, and maintain it across the brew. Mine is always done in just under 20 seconds, and when I've (intentionally) over-pressed the coffee into the portafilter it may take 30. The old one couldn't even handle a we'll-pressed puck.

The new steamer works far better too. I never did like their old "steam assist" trickery. The new one uses an actual wand inside the "assist tube" . If you take off the assist, it works just like an actual wand. I'm not even sure why the assist tube is there.

Everyone I've made an espresso for has been surprised I didn't pay $500+ for a machine.

For the typical home user, you really can't beat a Delonghi, given it's at most $150.

That's not a typo - they were looking for people with a skill set in a non-existent software, because HR are lazy bureaucrats who can't be bothered to understand what their company is actually looking for.

Details, specificity matter, and too many people in the world can't be bothered to put the effort into understanding the details.

In almost every interview I've ever been on for IT, I've had to educate the first interviewer on what they're actually looking for, because their listed requirements found me, but after interrogating them about the position I found the requirements to be very different.

Glad to see these asshats getting called out.

Now let's see 80-90% of HR get canned around the world. They're mostly useless.

That being said, this isn't a new issue - the hiring process has been broken for a long time, as in decades. I ran into similar issues in the mid/late 90's - submit resume after resume, exactly matching the job description to get no response. At a time when IT was so desperate they'd take almost any warm body.

Harvard published a study in the 90's demonstrating that the current process of hiring (then) is no better than picking names out of a hat.

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Right? I was gonna say, I didn't realize the USB-C to HDMI cable I've been using for, oh a year or two didn't exist and I've just been imagining the connection.

Omg, stop whining. Do or do not, there is no try. If you don't want to drive, then why are you doing this?

Driving is one of the easiest things you'll ever do in life (wspeckally with cars built after about 1990).

If learning how to drive is this difficult for you, what are you going to do when something truly difficult comes along?

Being car free is totally possible.

Lol, OK, you do you.

But to experiment with a system we still don't understand all that well?

Oh yea, that's a great idea.