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Ok, maybe it's possible that things have changed in the less than one year since I last worked retail (unlikely, especially considering how many people I know who still work at various retailers and the fact I am currently back in the field interviewing for such positions at this moment and it...

Ok, very late to come back to this discussion but some points here. I have over a decade in retail management experience across two states (Maryland and Virginia). It is only at one company (no need to be coy, anyone looking through my posting history will see it's PetSmart), but I made it a...

I would agree, in that it's much less than I would have thought intuitively. And in the grand scheme of things, it's maybe not a huge contributor when launches are relatively infrequent. But when there exist some who are eagerly striving for a launch every day or even more... well, even if that...

I was recently eating at a cafe with my daughter (she's 4) and there was a Cybertruck parked outside. She spent some time looking at it and asked what it was. Trying to be a little neutral, I told her it's a car. She gave me a look of puzzled consternation, and hand to heart I swear she said 'It...

Genuinely, thanks for the explainer!

Is this actually true? I'm not trying to be a auto-skeptical jerk, I'm genuinely curious and there doesn't seem to be reliable info on this. I found one or two articles saying yes, sort of, but there are only like 70 software engineers on the registry, not all of whom are active. And a casual...

I don't know where you looked it up, but this is just not correct. The Experience Manager is absolutely management, it's in fact fairly high up management within the store. Everything I can find is it's equivalent to Ops Manager/Assistant Store Manager. Edited to add: The obvious follow up...

I mean, alternatively the experience manager is the manager in charge of customer-facing staff (Edit: because I was suspicious of another poster's lookup, I checked myself and they're equivalent to assistant store manager; the rest of my post's point stands), maybe has 10+ direct reports, and is...

As far as I know, this is actually not correct vis-a-vis what Dyson was suggesting. My understanding is that Dyson himself never actually suggested anything about a realistic megastructure, solid sphere or not; he wrote a satirical paper arguing that it made sense to search for such structures...

That's very interesting, actually. Like you said, not enough to salvage it but it does explain it a little; that game has some of the laziest but also somehow most overwrought metaphors I've encountered (Bottle ship? Really?) and maybe a bit of Texas sharpshooter fallacy but they do have the...

FWIW, I thought Prime 4 was good, but not great. Though to be fair before you take my recommendation, I'm a weirdo superfan who has liked every single Metroid game I've played (including Other M, though strictly from a gameplay experience before I get pilloried; I'm never going to defend the...

Vyvanse shortages got me, too, back when the generic came out. Ooh you mean my options are call every pharmacy in a 50-mile radius, many of which refuse to give stock info over the phone or pay $200 a month for the name brand (golly I wonder why that one is so easy to find)? That's definitely...

I'm very skeptical the 'AI' here is going to work, really, but it's worth noting that when they call out ADHD (amphetamines) and pain meds (probably specifically opiates) they are talking about a different process than for other prescription drugs. My experience is with ADHD meds in particular...

It's definitely probable this is an outdated concern (my Prius is over 10 years old and a C at that). I did some very cursory research a long time ago when my wife's car needed a jump, but the extent of my knowledge with both cars and electricity is that I'm merely adequate, so I was content to...

For what it's worth, I don't think most hybrids are supposed to give or receive jumps. At least my (non plug-in) Prius's manual is pretty adamant about that, not that it would be easy anyways, as accessing the battery requires removing a significant amount of plastic from the rear seats. There's...

Dealer licenses are not that complicated. They are licensed the same reason literally any business is (and yes, basically any retail location is going to have a license to operate; look around the office doors, and it might even be on display). It shows they have complied with the necessary...

Google: I really want to like your products and services. I'm on Google Fi, I have a Pixel phone, and they are by and large the best and easiest phone service and devices I have ever used. Basically every core service you offer, I use and for the most part like (exception being fucking search...

For what it's worth, my criticism is not from a standpoint of 'coffee is coffee.' I'm particular about my coffee and love using different brewing methods to try different flavors and mouth feel from the same beans. I've got no problems with the underlying machine; it's not for me but I don't...

The immediate question, as someone skeptical of both LLMs and overly expensive coffee brewing gadgets, is whether doing completely random settings with high quality beans (or rather, beans you like) would also result in a flavor profile you like. It could be that ultimately hot water poured over...

Eh, they have pretty firmly official no-child-predation doctrine and yet many high-up in the Vatican were complicit in cover ups at the very least. We can talk about the tautologies involved with an organization with such a centralized source of doctrine, but I'm going to allow that even the...