The Reader suggest that removing 90% of HR will just allow the tumor to regrow. Remove 110% to be sure. No company needs a ‘Human Resources’ department – the one thing they never do is treat employees as useful resource.
Just go back to the “benefits” department (which was often just one person). Employees like benefits, and they at least got along with the person who administered them.
Many years ago, I worked at a Retail company (in Data Processing) and one of the company’s slogans was “Retail is a people’s business and we value our people”.
One of the jokes going around was that we weren’t people, we were Associates. (Our name tags read “Associate” not “Employee”). [Very Big Twisted Grin]
The ice/sleet/donut meme is even better with the context. It was originally posted by a police department, with a disclaimer that they really just chose this example at random, and they had no special knowledge about different types of donuts.
I have many inappropriate jokes to make. Hopefully I will allow the impulses to pass through me, and leave me, and I shall refrain.
The serious thought is that the belief or confidence in peace are a lot of different mental things coming together. Such as methods of dispute resolution, and views on how tightly the circumstances of others are related to your own.
This stuff of x dollars in national debt, or y dollars in fraud in whatever governments budget, or whatever, those are downstream of coupling almost everyone into a common interest in government run business.
I’m mellow on this stuff, for the moment, because I had my very angry phase years ago, and the new estimates of quantity are not a real qualitative change for me. In the circumstances I must navigate from, my own mistakes are the major problem for me.
The idea of peace only really naturally occurs when someone thinks that others can do well for themselves without necessarily being a problem for that one. Endemic warfare shit, of the worst of the third world tier, comes from figuring that if your neighboring village catches a break, they will hurt you in the future.
Lots of things are ‘only ideas’, but ideas do shape how people think, thus act, and actual actions do have consequences.
But those were not committed in the execution region of Poland, those were sparkling lynchings.
(The decision of the Democrats and the communists to join their political causes together was mistake. Politics has capital and it has technical debt. They merged the capital, but they also merged the technical debt. )
You know, that moving a mouse from one computer to another to copy and paste ought to work. Except for the unplugging part, I discovered that feature by accident and it is amazing. I have my CMS/media server next to my main workstation, and one day I thought, boy, it’d be nice if instead of having to switch mice and keyboards every time I switched focus I could just move the mouse from one screen to the other like this… and I flicked the cursor off the right of the screen on my main computer and saw a bulge on the left of the screen on my server. I continued moving the mouse over… and the cursor came out the other side. That also meant the keyboard now worked on the server.
The only good Harambe meme is the one where he’s telling the kid, “I have information that will lead to the arrest and imprisonment of Hillary Clinton…”
I may be inferring wrong things from knowing the artist from other works.
Was maybe some sort of inflection point, or obvious difference in perception. It was famous, and clearly, there were a lot of people who left their brains turned off.
I prefer it when Gorillas are shot, because it would suck so much to be left with using strangulation or conventional melee weapons on problem animals.
Oh dear Lord. i don’t think that’s what it’s suggesting. It’s a joke about the world having gone awry since Harambe was shot. LONG running job, partly fueled by people confusing Harambe and Hamurabe.
Amelia catching fire like she did has been amazing. I hope the Brits are able to turn things around in their country. It would be hilarious if the symbol for a successful voter revolt was a fictional woman created by moron bureaucrats who were trying to suppress males acting independently of the government.
sounds superficially like it would work, and might be easy
Well, it might not work, and if it did it would not be easy.
First, patents were never the most complete form of the recorded recipe. Additionally, the recorded recipes are less available, except for enthusiasts.
Anyway, a truly complete machine recipe from 1940, 1950, 1960, or 1970 is not gunna be ‘crank it out, and get producing’ for most current day would be manufacturers.
Stupid trick example, VT fuses from the 1940s. Those apparently were a serious production quality challenge, back then. These would not be easy to do, but also there is almost no one who would really want to get fresh examples and have them actually work. I mean, yes, if you had a very autistic artillery engineer, he might think the exercise could be educational, but I doubt the existence of one who could persuasively make the budget case for doing it, especially compared to other alternative educational experiments.
The general problem in replicating decades old manufacturing processes is materials, labor, equipment, and engineers skilled in applying the methods used on those drawings and documents. Given how engineers age, and the weird personal interests they can have, you might be able to find the small numbers of engineers needed for some of these things, and they may donate their work for free. And somebody somewhere has studied how to repair the equipment and continue to operate it, but not necessarily the specific machines you are interested in. The materials and the skilled labor are the real killers.
Anyway, washing machines, refrigerators, sewing machines, toilets, etc., I really do think I prefer a lot of the older designs, and would like to make more fresh. Of course, survivor bias. (I have been watching forgotten weapons, and, well, I’m a freaking moron on firearms design, and would not have an easy time managing those sorts of manufacturing quality issues. But, design space exploration and manufacturing space exploration are not completely trivial.)
Unfortuneately, I am a stupid lazybro, and my ambitions are routinely exceeding my displayed ability by a wide margin.
re: dragonball Z meme, modern women 19th century
The manga is really weird setting wise. Dragonball was based on Journey to the West.
The Earth that it is set on has literal animal people, and might not specify a lot when it comes to the ‘where’ on earth. Also, it was written in the 1980s. Anyway, the period is also not specified. (Generic space future, at setting start, with the minor exception that there seems to be absolutely no one with an interest in engineering space vehicles. Bulma later gets into spaceships.)
Chichi is basically the Ox King’s daughter, and married Son Goku after a showing at the the big world martial arts tournament when they were sixteen, pretty near the epilogue of dragonball.
Before then, a lot of the series happens when they are ten or so. (Goku was younger than his monk friend (IIRC Krillian), and younger than Bulma (the Sanzo analogue)).
Anyway, there is a huge timeskip between Dragonball and Dragonball Z, and basically Chichi’s new character is established as more or less a stereotypical housewife from Japan of that era. She directs and psychologically dominates her husband, and is very Tiger Mom towards her children.
So the meme is funny on a surface reading, but. This isn’t a feminist in the public sphere being that way towards an unrelated man. This is wife who is a weird mixture of a traditional Chinese wife, and a 1980s Japanese wife, in the private sphere with her husband.
It’s funnier when you know that Chichi basically in universe would not care about gun control, or the second ammendment, or probably feminism, but basically has expectations that are a weird mix of sound and screwed up when it comes to trying to raise her sons. She was a motherless orphan, raised by her father, and a tomboy. Goku is literally an orphan in several ways, grew up pretty wild, and the closest to maternal exposure was Bulma, whose own parents were wildly permissive. Dragonball’s Goku is also a bit of a monomaniac for fighting, and basically did not feel traumatized at the violence he grew up around. So she wants her boys to have a safer environment than she did, or he did, but he absolutely does not fully grok why. And she is responding to her understanding of what women in her culture think is safe, and not so much to the lived reality of her or her husband.
The power scaling in the dragonball setting is wild, notoriously wild, and I literally have no idea whether Chichi is invulnerable to bullets, car wrecks, etc.
I should have an extremely narrow and shallow view of manufacturing. Both for the now case, and for the then cases.
Almost certainly, my ignorance means that I have overlooked and was entirely unaware of many many points of relative stability in manufacturing, points where ease of manufacturing and improvements in production quality are relatively indifferent to when a design was prepared, and how fully it was documented.
also also also
many fairly systemic errors in how I estimate and evaluate stuffs. :D
PPPPS (metal 3d printing may be entering the stage of development where what I learned twenty years ago is absolutely no longer valid. I haven’t kept up enough to tell, and saw some cool details on new stuffs recently. )
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Re: “Fire 90% of HR”:
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The Reader suggest that removing 90% of HR will just allow the tumor to regrow. Remove 110% to be sure. No company needs a ‘Human Resources’ department – the one thing they never do is treat employees as useful resource.
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Just go back to the “benefits” department (which was often just one person). Employees like benefits, and they at least got along with the person who administered them.
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Indeed. Get rid of Human Resources, as I am not a resource. Bring back Personnel , because I am a person.
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I’ve done both benefits and HR. Send payroll to accounting, split off benefits into its own department. Ship disputes and discipline to legal.
Just like so many other things, HR exists because of government regulation, reporting requirements and red tape.
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“Resources”… like COAL, and OIL, and GAS… things that get burned up.
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Many years ago, I worked at a Retail company (in Data Processing) and one of the company’s slogans was “Retail is a people’s business and we value our people”.
One of the jokes going around was that we weren’t people, we were Associates. (Our name tags read “Associate” not “Employee”). [Very Big Twisted Grin]
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The ice/sleet/donut meme is even better with the context. It was originally posted by a police department, with a disclaimer that they really just chose this example at random, and they had no special knowledge about different types of donuts.
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ROFL.
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Elsewhere a Liberal said that the Democratic Party is too wimpy to execute political enemies.
That’s isn’t a joke and made me wonder if he wanted to execute political enemies. ☹️
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they’ve wanted it for a while.
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They have been openly lusting for it for a while. Witness the celebrations when Charlie Kirk was assassinated.
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Which is maybe grounds for optimism, but my view maybe must necessarily be wacky.
Lots of stuff gets priced into my priors, and so I see a failure to source more shooters for follow on strikes.
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I have many inappropriate jokes to make. Hopefully I will allow the impulses to pass through me, and leave me, and I shall refrain.
The serious thought is that the belief or confidence in peace are a lot of different mental things coming together. Such as methods of dispute resolution, and views on how tightly the circumstances of others are related to your own.
This stuff of x dollars in national debt, or y dollars in fraud in whatever governments budget, or whatever, those are downstream of coupling almost everyone into a common interest in government run business.
I’m mellow on this stuff, for the moment, because I had my very angry phase years ago, and the new estimates of quantity are not a real qualitative change for me. In the circumstances I must navigate from, my own mistakes are the major problem for me.
The idea of peace only really naturally occurs when someone thinks that others can do well for themselves without necessarily being a problem for that one. Endemic warfare shit, of the worst of the third world tier, comes from figuring that if your neighboring village catches a break, they will hurt you in the future.
Lots of things are ‘only ideas’, but ideas do shape how people think, thus act, and actual actions do have consequences.
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It’s not accurate either, not unless you only look at the past 50 years or so. After all, the KKK was the terrorist arm of the Democratic party.
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But those were not committed in the execution region of Poland, those were sparkling lynchings.
(The decision of the Democrats and the communists to join their political causes together was mistake. Politics has capital and it has technical debt. They merged the capital, but they also merged the technical debt. )
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You know, that moving a mouse from one computer to another to copy and paste ought to work. Except for the unplugging part, I discovered that feature by accident and it is amazing. I have my CMS/media server next to my main workstation, and one day I thought, boy, it’d be nice if instead of having to switch mice and keyboards every time I switched focus I could just move the mouse from one screen to the other like this… and I flicked the cursor off the right of the screen on my main computer and saw a bulge on the left of the screen on my server. I continued moving the mouse over… and the cursor came out the other side. That also meant the keyboard now worked on the server.
This is apparently a feature in modern computers.
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You know, I hate, hate, hate, with a purple passion, memes that suggest that the life of a gorilla was worth more than the life of a black kid.
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Hear, hear.
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The only good Harambe meme is the one where he’s telling the kid, “I have information that will lead to the arrest and imprisonment of Hillary Clinton…”
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I don’t necessarily infer that from the meme.
I may be inferring wrong things from knowing the artist from other works.
Was maybe some sort of inflection point, or obvious difference in perception. It was famous, and clearly, there were a lot of people who left their brains turned off.
I prefer it when Gorillas are shot, because it would suck so much to be left with using strangulation or conventional melee weapons on problem animals.
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Oh dear Lord. i don’t think that’s what it’s suggesting. It’s a joke about the world having gone awry since Harambe was shot. LONG running job, partly fueled by people confusing Harambe and Hamurabe.
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this, to be frank
also
hammurabi?
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Amelia catching fire like she did has been amazing. I hope the Brits are able to turn things around in their country. It would be hilarious if the symbol for a successful voter revolt was a fictional woman created by moron bureaucrats who were trying to suppress males acting independently of the government.
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SFBS!
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sounds superficially like it would work, and might be easy
Well, it might not work, and if it did it would not be easy.
First, patents were never the most complete form of the recorded recipe. Additionally, the recorded recipes are less available, except for enthusiasts.
Anyway, a truly complete machine recipe from 1940, 1950, 1960, or 1970 is not gunna be ‘crank it out, and get producing’ for most current day would be manufacturers.
Stupid trick example, VT fuses from the 1940s. Those apparently were a serious production quality challenge, back then. These would not be easy to do, but also there is almost no one who would really want to get fresh examples and have them actually work. I mean, yes, if you had a very autistic artillery engineer, he might think the exercise could be educational, but I doubt the existence of one who could persuasively make the budget case for doing it, especially compared to other alternative educational experiments.
The general problem in replicating decades old manufacturing processes is materials, labor, equipment, and engineers skilled in applying the methods used on those drawings and documents. Given how engineers age, and the weird personal interests they can have, you might be able to find the small numbers of engineers needed for some of these things, and they may donate their work for free. And somebody somewhere has studied how to repair the equipment and continue to operate it, but not necessarily the specific machines you are interested in. The materials and the skilled labor are the real killers.
Anyway, washing machines, refrigerators, sewing machines, toilets, etc., I really do think I prefer a lot of the older designs, and would like to make more fresh. Of course, survivor bias. (I have been watching forgotten weapons, and, well, I’m a freaking moron on firearms design, and would not have an easy time managing those sorts of manufacturing quality issues. But, design space exploration and manufacturing space exploration are not completely trivial.)
Unfortuneately, I am a stupid lazybro, and my ambitions are routinely exceeding my displayed ability by a wide margin.
re: dragonball Z meme, modern women 19th century
The manga is really weird setting wise. Dragonball was based on Journey to the West.
The Earth that it is set on has literal animal people, and might not specify a lot when it comes to the ‘where’ on earth. Also, it was written in the 1980s. Anyway, the period is also not specified. (Generic space future, at setting start, with the minor exception that there seems to be absolutely no one with an interest in engineering space vehicles. Bulma later gets into spaceships.)
Chichi is basically the Ox King’s daughter, and married Son Goku after a showing at the the big world martial arts tournament when they were sixteen, pretty near the epilogue of dragonball.
Before then, a lot of the series happens when they are ten or so. (Goku was younger than his monk friend (IIRC Krillian), and younger than Bulma (the Sanzo analogue)).
Anyway, there is a huge timeskip between Dragonball and Dragonball Z, and basically Chichi’s new character is established as more or less a stereotypical housewife from Japan of that era. She directs and psychologically dominates her husband, and is very Tiger Mom towards her children.
So the meme is funny on a surface reading, but. This isn’t a feminist in the public sphere being that way towards an unrelated man. This is wife who is a weird mixture of a traditional Chinese wife, and a 1980s Japanese wife, in the private sphere with her husband.
It’s funnier when you know that Chichi basically in universe would not care about gun control, or the second ammendment, or probably feminism, but basically has expectations that are a weird mix of sound and screwed up when it comes to trying to raise her sons. She was a motherless orphan, raised by her father, and a tomboy. Goku is literally an orphan in several ways, grew up pretty wild, and the closest to maternal exposure was Bulma, whose own parents were wildly permissive. Dragonball’s Goku is also a bit of a monomaniac for fighting, and basically did not feel traumatized at the violence he grew up around. So she wants her boys to have a safer environment than she did, or he did, but he absolutely does not fully grok why. And she is responding to her understanding of what women in her culture think is safe, and not so much to the lived reality of her or her husband.
The power scaling in the dragonball setting is wild, notoriously wild, and I literally have no idea whether Chichi is invulnerable to bullets, car wrecks, etc.
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also also
I should have an extremely narrow and shallow view of manufacturing. Both for the now case, and for the then cases.
Almost certainly, my ignorance means that I have overlooked and was entirely unaware of many many points of relative stability in manufacturing, points where ease of manufacturing and improvements in production quality are relatively indifferent to when a design was prepared, and how fully it was documented.
also also also
many fairly systemic errors in how I estimate and evaluate stuffs. :D
PPPPS (metal 3d printing may be entering the stage of development where what I learned twenty years ago is absolutely no longer valid. I haven’t kept up enough to tell, and saw some cool details on new stuffs recently. )
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