It's been decades since I wrote a letter and mailed it.
Which makes taking the time to send a letter have a lot of importance. I wrote a note to my mother and it meant a lot to her to get a hand written correspondence.
Readit Newspetra303 commented on Danish postal service to stop delivering letters theguardian.com/world/202... · Posted by u/hackerbeat
petra303 commented on Are Apple gift cards safe to redeem? daringfireball.net/linked... · Posted by u/tosh
So never buy a gift card at a retail location, unless it’s digital. Preferably buy directly from the website of the company where th credit will be used.
But why would apple punish the secondary user of the card? That seems like the wrong person to punish.
petra303 commented on Bring Back the Blue-Book Exam chronicle.com/article/bri... · Posted by u/diodorus
There are many subskills that you must be proficient in without tools, before you can learn more interesting skills. You need to know how to do multiplication by hand before you rely on a calculator. If you can't do multiplication with a calculator, you're not going to be able to make sense of the concepts in Algebra.
I doubt they’re talking about entry level maths.
Why get out of a 3-4% loan just to get into a 7-8% loan?
petra303 commented on Why does a fire truck cost $2m thehustle.co/originals/wh... · Posted by u/Guid_NewGuid
I would think it’s more about economy of scale. If you tried to build a car without any of the standard parts being available, it would be expensive.
When I used to ride, getting rear ended at a stop was one of my biggest fears other than people blowing stop signs. I always left more space in front of me that would give me room to maneuver as I watched for the car behind me to make the stop.
Lane filtering solves this fear. Should be legal nation wide.
There has been a lot of Bluesky shilling on social and legacy media over the last week. It almost seems intentional.
It is not the panacea they expect it to be. Most of these people don't even know what they're running from. Case in point, the histrionics in the very first sentence.
It's reminiscent of the Jonestown cult exiling themselves to Guyana.
A quick trip to the Bluesky homepage showed its feed promoting some of the very same political 'influencer' accounts that spew some of the most toxic and divisive content on X.
Folks packing up and running from X because their 'friends' are, unknowingly are bringing the cockroaches with them in their luggage.
If Reddit has taught me anything it’s that the huge number of new subscribers is probably a large amount of bot owner accounts trying to make accounts to age for later use. They just like to say “x million accounts created” with no due diligence behind the accounts.
I think the goal is to shed some resources organically.
With full RTO they should guarantee no work after office hours.
I leave my computer at my desk. Anyone contacting me gets the reply of “i don’t have my computer, I will look at it in the Morning”. When I worked from home I had no problem jumping on a call for 10 mins after hours.
petra303 commented on Wells Fargo employee found dead at desk after 4 days 12news.com/article/news/l... · Posted by u/carabiner
I can see my employer now. “See, this is why we have short wall cubes! So we can find your body quicker!”