Oh we realize, but it’s difficult to stop once it’s been ingrained in the culture. Not only that, employers took advantage of that and therefore tipped employees have a much lower minimum wage.

It certainly is a new thing in the US, but i saw plenty of these in Denmark a decade ago

Strider wasn’t the first to come up with balance bikes for kids specifically, they have been around for decades and balance bikes themselves, for a few hundred years.

Had a coworker do it in 2 hours increment, customer asked to have him removed from the project because even emails led to being billed for 2 hours.

The reason corporation are like that is because the responsibility is with the employee the decided to use the open source tool, when there is another company backing a product, there is someone to hold accountable. Also, there is a support number if shit hits the fan, and guarantee of support long term if the supplier is financial healthy.

I grew out my hair instead, looked like shit but now I know.

Memtest on a floppy and superpi or prime95, atitool on the drive, maybe a few games to benchmark? Can’t forget a soldering iron and defroster repair kit. 12 hours is not going to be enough.

Yeah, but then you have to use perl

I once wrote a script from beginning to end that executed correctly the first time I ran, I spent the next 30 minutes troubleshooting.

Oh my sweety, the client has refused to buy a UPS or make any change whatsoever to make the solution viable, because they are dicks.

I’m considering an entire career change so I don’t have to deal with shit like this anymore.

Is that even possible, the movie was fucking awful and I never read the book.