And not only parents either. I call my grandparents once a week, mainly because their weeks are filled with trips to the store or doctors appointments. But I've grown a lot closer to them and have learned a lot from their experiences and stories.
My grandfather loves talking about cars and he enjoys his weekly phone call. He can't wait to tell me all about new technologies he reads about. He tells me how his car is doing and asks how my car handles. He has 5 grandchildren and I believe that I am the only one who calls every week.
I have the ability to completely switch off after work. I put my 8 hours in and come home. I don't generally have any thoughts about programming when I am home. I switch to "relaxation mode."
I guess I adapted after working a stressful job at a gas station with lazy coworkers and bosses. I was also going to college and working at the same time. So I guess I needed to be able to leave work at work and do homework at home.
When I come home from work and I do some programming, the next day at work I am generally burnt out and don't do as well as a job if I had spent my time relaxing and resting.
He went into the forest purposely looking for a dead body. He didn't feel remorse for the person who had committed suicide. He showed no empathy for the now deceased person.
There's a huge difference in bringing awareness to "Suicide Forest" versus going there just to find a dead body to taunt.
Thankfully I am not the only one who thinks this! I had an argument with my brother over IoT devices with Echos vs Google Home products.
Google Home still requires you to use 3rd party apps but you are forced to set up the device in a location in your home/apartment. I can walk into my apartment and say "Ok Google, turn on all lights" and not have to worry about which brand of lights turn on.
When I used my Echo Dot my brother got me last Christmas, I had so many issues with the same command.
This is the big difference. The GH supports natural language for most things and the Echo requires more rigid or basically commands you have to memorize to use.
I think of our Echo as a command line and our Google homes as using a GUI.
BTW, GH is also a lot easier for old people has been my experience.
You can create “Routines” on the Echo (like IFTTT procedures). You could easily create one for “Alexa turn on all lights” that triggers all of your smart home lights regardless of brand.
And then another one for "dim all lights" and another one for "brighten all lights" and another one for "set all lights to warm white" and another one for...
I can confirm this. I used to work at a gas station and my bosses would regularly steal gas and write it off as a "business expense" when going to and from home.
Also, customers were the worst. Either from wanting free stuff because they came in so often to wanting preferential treatment because they were older, the vast majority of customers seem to want everything handed to them on a silver platter.
The FCC is required to be split with the Executive Office filling in the gap for the Commissioner. 2 R, 2 D, and 1 whichever party wins the Presidency.
In my experience, Windows 10 seemed to have issues with the "Wake on USB" setting about 6-8 months ago. No matter if I let my computer hibernate or forcibly sleep my computer, it would turn on within 20-30 minutes of me being away. No matter what settings I set, this would happen constantly.
The story about the girl in the bathtub was filled with a lot of rumors. In the end, the girl may have touched a frayed electrical cord after she dropped the phone in the tub. Electroboom has a video of him explaining this likely cause on his Youtube. I would link it but Youtube is blocked at work.
I don't understand why you are being downvoted. I just started working as a software developer 10 months ago and my supervisor had told me the work culture has changed so much since upper management has transitioned to MBAs and previous military over promoting workers from within who have worked on projects.
I doubt that the government will allow any remote work any time soon because most of the people here have never heard of a VPN or even know what a secure password is.
I doubt it's just "Stupid MBA's and military 'intelligence'"...
We live in a post Snowden world. It only takes one mistake to have all your data out in the wild.
I think attributing changes away from trusting employees to simply "bad management" and ignoring issues like employee malfeasance... is overly simplistic and dilutes complicated issue conversations.
There needs to be a balance between trust and security. It's easy to take it too far in either direction.
People are taught about this in Driver's Ed now. It's called Highway Hypnosis. I've experienced it a few times now and it is a bit scary when you try to figure out how you drove somewhere without really realizing it.
Wow, I thought this was normal. Didn't consider it disturbing until now that you and the other comments mentioned it, and reflecting on how little I think about driving.
My grandfather loves talking about cars and he enjoys his weekly phone call. He can't wait to tell me all about new technologies he reads about. He tells me how his car is doing and asks how my car handles. He has 5 grandchildren and I believe that I am the only one who calls every week.