Works for a small company. If everyone in a large company is allowed the same leeway nothing could ever ship

Oh for sure. I’ve been lucky enough that I’ve only ever worked for places with at most a few hundred employees, so my experiences of larger companies have been at best second-hand — but it was enough to know that I’d never want to work somewhere like that.

This is something I really love about my job. It’s a small company, and we don’t have any of these kinds of process overheads.

It’s accepted that people fuck up (and in most cases that’re relevant to me, I’m the people in question) but if I can reproduce the problem, I can often get the fix in the users’ hands the next day. Generally the positive effects of a quick turnaround and feeling like they matter outweigh the negatives of the problem being there in the first place.

Not to say I don’t have stuff in the “tech debt” bucket, but having the autonomy to just fix the low-hanging fruit makes for a satisfying work environment.

I watched Watchmen (2009) last night, thereby answering the question and the meta-question.

It’s almost like the entire thing is performative bullshit

I just wish there were a legal way to stream BBC content (i.e. iPlayer) outside the UK. I’d gladly pay the licence fee (as a non-resident) or more, to be able to watch all their content without having to grub around on a million different services.

Whether there’d be enough people in the same boat to be able to make up a $200M shortfall, I don’t know, but it seems like it could be a pretty big untapped market.

Years ago — late 90s — I used to travel to Vermont from the UK on business. Because of the time difference I’d often wake up at ~3:30 in the morning and since there was very little to do in a hotel room in Burlington, I’d put The Weather Channel on.

Quite often they’d report on “snow coming down from Canada”, or “frigid air coming down from Canada”, and I always thought it was weird how they seemed to be subtly blaming another country for weather phenomena.

Dunno why I thought of that.

Anyway, electric vans. Cool.

First time I ever went there (1997) I landed at Boston Logan Airport, and a guy in plain clothes, but with a gun, stopped everyone who was departing the plane and repeatedly yelled out “American citizens this way, foreigners line up against the wall!”.

I never once felt safe going there, and was always relieved when I got out alive. Decided a few years ago that I’ll never set foot in the US again.

foreword FYI :)

I dread to think how much energy and effort is wasted shipping these items back and forth when someone buys something online and then returns it.

It’s worse than that — a lot of returned stuff ends up in landfill because it’s not worth the cost of re-stocking it.

Agreed!

Not the first time I’ve read through one of these scam-baiting articles and I’m sure it won’t be the last. It’s quite fascinating how they work.