> “I know I’ve heard from a lot of people that this is low-grade work. ‘It’s not what I need to be doing,’” Ziegler said, according to the transcript. “I need you guys to think about this from a different perspective.”
> He said employees should approach their assignments “from a different mindset of, ‘how am I gonna do my job to the best of my abilities, because that’s what I want to do for the agency that I love: the IRS.’”
Ziegler should get his butt into the seat and process returns. Since he makes about 2270x's the salary of these people, he should be able to get through about 2270 returns in the same time it takes them to do one.
Why are you complaining about the half hour of no air? Did you suffer some sort of brain damage? (<-- that's the joke. look up "hypoxia" if you didn't get it. Oh, and try not to get hypoxia.)
This kind of crap is why I stopped buying from NewEgg years ago and don't buy anything expensive on Amazon anymore.
They got bought by that company that decided on quantity over quality and enshittified it by adding "market" sellers.
Order a Power supply. Realize it was from a market seller 2 minutes later. Attempt to cancel the purchase and get denied because "It has already shipped". Contact support to demand cancelling again, and they won't do it. Support the scammer instead. 6 Weeks later. Oh, the tracking number for the package got rerouted to some weird address in a city 500 miles away. Contact NewEgg and seller, because that is the NewEgg rule. Seller says "oopsie" and will fix. Wait 6 more weeks. Get a dropshipped charm bracelet in the mail. Tell NewEgg about it several times over that 3 months and even point to a post on reddit of over a dozen other customers caught up in this scam. Something NE They make me mail them the charm. 2 weeks later, finally get the refund.
Scammy companies helping scammy companies.
I don't buy anything that expensive on Amazon because of their support of things like this. I drive the hour and a half to Microcenter and even there, I pop open the boxes right in front of them at the service counter.
This and Strike Commander are why I used a really weird serial port mouse driver I found on a BBS but used like 1/10th as much memory as the default mouse driver that came with the mouse.
But it got over the last hurdle of not having enough space.
Formatting config.sys and autoexec.bat was an artform.
This came up at pretty much the perfect time for me to try out.
I started learning OpenSCAD over the weekend to try out an idea to 3d print a 70" dome to make my own Star Wars Battlepod after seeing that video on making the replica Space War cabinet.
One guy got an acrylic forming shop to make him one about 10 years ago for $700, but I was calculating in how much it would cost to 3d print and stich a dome screen together. My test sample that I started used a sort of ribbed dome that I was trying to figure out how to split the file and bolt it together - https://www.reddit.com/r/openscad/comments/1i922ed/trying_to...
I started playing around with thickness because at 1/2 inch, it was looking like about $200 in filament. But if I can reduce the thickness because of having the jigsaw edging to make it easier to align, it might get cheaper.
Currently tried running this in Windows and it isn't happy. I'll make a Linux VM and give it a go again.
>>WARNING: Too many unnamed arguments supplied in file in.scad, line 6
Geometries in cache: 20
Geometry cache size in bytes: 3802608
CGAL Polyhedrons in cache: 182
CGAL cache size in bytes: 0
Total rendering time: 0:00:01.063
Top level object is a 3D object (manifold):
Status: NoError
Genus: 1
Vertices: 39078
Facets: 78156
Num. beds: 0
When I was in college in '93 getting my BA is CS, my mother once told me: "You should email Cousin Mark. He does stuff with computers and I bet he has an email address."
I figured he was just any another software developer. Kind of an understatement, mom. Wish I still had those, but it was a school account all those decades ago.
I read the pie menu code and implemented it as a final project in Turbo PASCAL that year.
Yep. This is what is really needed for civil discussion. It is hard to work with otherwise as you get what my local small town FB feed normally is like. We are past the limit of peak assholery that only a system like that can even begin to filter things down.
For example:
Tiny local news source posted about an accident on the highway on a FB feed yesterday afternoon. Top 3 FB comments were about one of the people involved in the accident and blaming them because of the color of their skin, so he probably caused it. Over 50% of the posts were racist and semi racist rants spewing everything ranging from 'he was most likely going to a drug deal' to 'this is why we shouldn't let them out of the nearby city'. 10% were normal 'oh, that is why it was messed up.' 5% were 'wtf, calm down racists' and those posts got major responses about 'get out of my small town if you don't like it'.
I am a fan. But not in the way it is mostly being used.
A lot of the songs that Suno generates are "good enough". I've been using it recently to do two things. First is to make a set of instrumental songs I call "Canoe Camping in Canada". Basically: Instrumental Americana Folk Accoustic. It is doing really good and generating ambient soundscape songs. I've spent about a week of free credits working and reworking parts of songs it generates.
The second is to make some 15 second showcard jingle music. I create short ads (15-30 seconds) for local companies and events that show at our independent one screen theater in-town before the movie starts. I just needs some audio to slap in while I show an image and some text about something. It works great for that too.
I was kind of curious about if what I was generating would be flagged as copyrighted, like if bits of the songs or melodies were directly out of something else. So, I upload them to Youtube to let their AI see if it can figure that out and haven't been flagged yet. I know that isn't a definitive answer, but to me it is "good enough".
We have the same fight going on where I moved to. Plop a huge subdivision or a Meglomart with a 50 acre parking lot down and no one bats an eye. If you want to put up some solar panels and the Redhat FREEDOM Screamers come flying out of the woodwork to tell you how this is stealing food because all the farmland will be gone, how cleanup from solar panels will be problems with using the farm for planting for years, and how the solar is destroying animal habitats.
What? Doesn't farmland already destroy animal habitats? And doesn't the subdivision or stripmall cause the same problems and worse for returning the land to farmland.
I'm not making these up. There are hundreds of those plastic signs all over here with a link to a website that has those as their top arguements against solar.
Kentucky Cons are currently blitzing local channels with anti solar ads and how it is killing the livelihood of the 23 remaining coal miners in the state.
This is due to contracts. When we get a movie booked for our 1 screen theater, we are stuck with that movie and only that movie for the time we run it. 1 screen = 1 movie. We aren't allowed to show anything else during that usual 2 to 3 week timeframe. With one sort of gotcha being the inbetween week going from a release to a release, since we aren't technically showing any movies from the Monday to Thursday. Advertising for special events in those times are even more trickier as we aren't allowed to post some of them on our website or facebook because of these terms.
The movie producers and distributors are very much at fault for this set up.
It would be super great to be able to run a kids/family movie on Fri + Sat Morning then do a more adult movie on Sat night/ Sunday, but it just isn't allowed.
The people killing movies in a theater is the movie companies, not the theaters.
I work at keeping our small town single screen theater going. So, my experience is from a viewpoint of that, not from some mega 24 screen behemoth that some of his rules could apply to better.
01 - We enforce. Mostly. During kids movies, having a kids being noisy is going to happen.
02 - Lol. We have 0 leverage on this. Though, we charge $7 adult, $5 kid/senior, $5 matinee.
03 - We run about 20 minutes of ads. Which end at the time the movie starts. If the marquee says we start the movie at 7 pm, we start the movie at 7 pm. We get a lot of people showing up at 10 after and being like "when does the movie start" and when you say "10 minutes ago" get frumpled.
04 - We do this as much as we can. But he is talking to producers once again, not theaters, for most of his suggestions.
05/06 - Our booker contract says since we have 1 screen, we may only have 1 movie each week. Most big movies, we have to keep in screen for 2 to 3 weeks. He does talk about this in 02 a little. This destroys us. It would be great to do a kids movie matinee on Sat morning/afternoon and an adult one in the evening. But this is totally out of our control.
For this specifically, Disney is the absolute draconian worst at enforcing all of this. We have had to drop getting some big blockbusters because of stupid ass crap like "You need to show this movie no less than 12 times opening week and 8 times a week for the next 3 weeks after that." What movie was that.. crud, it was a big one from this summer. That would basically be 2 showings for about 120 people and then 10 showings for like 10 people at most or 0 at expected.
07 - Not a theater problem, talk to distribution.
08 - WE FREAKING WISH WE COULD DO THIS. Not theater problem, talk to the NFL.
09 - I thought theaters did this. There are automatic curtain adjust systems.
This is giving me CompUSA flashbacks of going in to get a new Processor/GPU/MB and having the one salesman with the key stuck in a never-ending conversation with a customer who ends the whole thing with "Thanks for the info, I will think about it for a few weeks before buying."
And since the salesman with the key was thinking they were going to score a big bounty would usually just ask me to wait my turn.
> He said employees should approach their assignments “from a different mindset of, ‘how am I gonna do my job to the best of my abilities, because that’s what I want to do for the agency that I love: the IRS.’”
Ziegler should get his butt into the seat and process returns. Since he makes about 2270x's the salary of these people, he should be able to get through about 2270 returns in the same time it takes them to do one.