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exactly my point. Although I agree wit not issuing everyone a stapler, the fact that senior management rants about it was my point 
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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It disappears in someone's desk drawer in 0.001 ns.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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First job out of college (Univac) I needed a stapler a couple weeks after I started. Went to the office supply room and there were none. The supply person said they'd been on back order for months, no idea when they'd be in. I went to a colleague to borrow his. He opens a drawer and hands me one of his ~6. "Why do you have 6 staplers?" Because last year they couldn't get staples, but all the staplers were fully loaded. Run out of staples, go get a new stapler. Apparently lots of people did just that. There were probably 3 staplers per person in the building, just hidden in people's desks. 
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My stapler does more than 2 sheets.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Or printed business cards for that matter. It's all digital these days...
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i do not work in an office so this stapler business is beyond me but i am confused as i assumed paper is a thing of the past . why would any modern office not utilize electronics instead . i assume paper is wasteful cost-wise environment-wise perhaps other-wise as well . by coincidence last nights' "The Good Doctor" had our hero print 100s of pages on his wifes' printer . made no sense to me . -Best
modified 5-Apr-23 12:56pm.
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Sketching designs, printing pinouts and error tables... when working in an engineering context paper is definitely helpful as it doesn't require to switch between multiple windows or having multiple monitors (often we need to move in labs with only our laptop), reading from an instruments (like digital oscilloscopes or other specialized equipemnt) and having right there the decoding cheatsheet, having the wiring on hand while soldering at the solder station and so on.
Even while debugging it's useful since you can have some special values or a blank space to decode from hex to binary while having your eyes glued to the watch window - consider that IDEs for embedded systems are usually comparable to VisualStudio 6 or earlier in terms of features, and many embedded platforms can support only 2 active breakpoints at any given time. Having something to jot down while using the horrible debugger and the oscilloscope without constantly switching window or requiring a 42" monitor to have all the windows to a human readable size is golden.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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I use tools to document designs. Often the designs are fairly easy. But when they are complex insuring that the boxes get to the right place on the virtual paper does nothing to help the primary problem of figuring out what boxes I need in the first place.
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charlieg wrote: Where is that dilbert cartoon when you need it?
Closed and moved to a private (and presumably pro-racist) site behind a paywall.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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seriously? SA is about as non-racist as you can get. Humanity gives him an unending amount of material to work with.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Yep, reverse the skin color of the people involved and if it's not racist afterwords it wasn't racist before. Pure, simple, and easy test. If this test changes the answer between racist and non-racist in either direction then the answer is racist in both directions. For programmers, this is a logical OR where Racist = 1 and non-Racist = 0.
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In this case DiAngelo and Adams are both white. The difference is in political ideology.
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truth there, but more the point, here in the us, we change the meaning of words. We're all bigoted/opinionated/have our own personality to a certain extent, but racism is a completely different issue. SA took a moment to point out the lunacy / hypocrisy and liberal heads exploded.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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charlieg wrote: and liberal heads exploded.
Except of course what actually happened was that an entertainment company made a free market decision not to deal with an issue that had nothing to do with entertainment.
Which is the actual basis of how free markets are supposed to be allowed to work.
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which is fine. Most of the time, Dilbert or the comics are about the only thing worthwhile to read. All SA did was point out the pink elephant in the corner. Anyway, it's all good.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Did you just assume their race?!?
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DelHatch wrote: Did you just assume their race?!?
Ummm... no. I've seen photos of both and have read quotes from both where they state their own race.
Why do you ask?
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Their lips move?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Came here to comment this
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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What about cutting on the "fitness classes"? They should enforce those! This lady is not the brightest light in the harbor.
Quote: Google employees who are not in engineering roles but require a new laptop will receive a Chromebook by default.
Like a middle school kids.  I wonder if this person (the CFO behind all this) who is definitely nor in engineering is getting a chromebook next.
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modified 4-Apr-23 8:59am.
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How does one know when middle and senior management have no clue?
When they arrive at the office.
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A VP at a former employer was shocked to learn that there was an average of more than one workstation/terminal per developer, so an edict was issued that the ratio had to be reduced to 1. Never mind that different components of our system had to be developed on different workstations/terminals and that quite a few developers worked on more than one component.
Someone with a brass pair then circulated a similar edict that there were far too many chairs, and that the ratio had to be reduced to 1. It anticipated and answered various questions, such as "What about conference rooms?" Here, the answer was that chairs without wheels would be retrofitted.
The workstation/terminal edict was quietly forgotten.
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