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I like CDs. I just don't listen to music on physical media enough to really justify having a dedicated setup anymore.

My boss, on the other hand, collects the damn things. He's got an entire large bookshelf filled with vintage CD players...

To me, vinyl is a collectible, or at least, a way to show "yes I appreciate this music and want to show off that I enjoy it". If I like an artist/album enough, I'll buy the vinyl if I can. But it usually just sits on the shelf looking pretty. I got lucky and my player (nothing special but it works so long as you have a good cartridge) was from my dad. When I actually listen to said album, it's usually on my phone over bluetooth (earbuds or in the car), or even if I'm listening on the "hi fi" it's streaming.

Not to say that I never play albums on the turntable, it's just not that often.

It's been several years but I also had the pleasure of meeting Rusty down at the studio once. My dad has now made it a habit; he's been to SF for work and pleasure four or five times now, and met up with him each time, I believe.

I have been listening to Soma for at least 15 years. Definitely a great place to have bookmarked.

> I'm not sure what this "ton of system administrators that don't understand it" is having difficulty with.

"It's different" is the primary thing I hear. I'm a network guy and I learned rudimentary v6 in college ten years ago. I'll be the first to admit I don't know as much as I should, but give me a day and a good resource and I can easily be back up to speed.

My boss on the other hand....."man, it's just so complicated, I hope we never change".

Most electronics warranties on stuff I've bought have been a year, max. Out of that period? Antenna snipping time!

...if there is one to snip, of course.

On phone support calls I usually can't even get people who know what a URL, URL bar, or even a search bar, is in the first place.

"The box at the top where you type in websites you want to go to."

"What are you talking about? I'm computer illiterate, I can't learn any of this fancy tech stuff. I just click my facebook icon and it comes up!"

These people get all sorts of confused when something happens in their browser and the new tab page's recently visited list gets cleared out...

FWIW, I don't go out to eat that often. I don't cook much either, except for weekend prep as mentioned. When I don't have something prepped, it's usually wraps with tortillas, baby spinach, and some sort of meat and cheese.

(Long story but I live in a complicated environment with a bunch of people who never clean up after themselves, so the kitchen is basically unusable since I refuse to clean their messes.)

Also, "some mixed veggies". Do you use frozen? I like frozen veggies, but they take a lot longer than five minutes to cook unless I'm just microwaving a steamer bag (and they never taste that good prepped that way). I much prefer fresh (and they're normally cheaper, monetarily, though obviously they take much longer to prep).

Cleanup for me definitely doesn't consist only of the dishwasher; my knives, wok, cast iron stuff to start definitely don't get put in there.

I have optimized what I do quite well, or at least I'm much faster than I used to be. But for example this last weekend, I made some stir fry in a large batch for this week's meals. By the time I left my parents' house (long story but I basically can't cook at the house I live in), I had used up three hours. That was prepping four bell peppers, an onion, garlic, cabbage, broccoli, and chicken, cooking them, and cleaning up afterward.

I'm sure I can speed my prep up even more, mostly with knife skills. But at this point, that's how it is.

I factor in eating because I clean up after I eat. Most of the stuff I make is best fresh out of the frying pan with very minimal resting time.

But anyway, I'm not here to argue. If cooking at home works for you in 15 minutes, fantastic! I can't do that, it never works that quickly. I was mostly wondering how the parent poster's drive-thrus were so slow that they could cook faster because where I live, I never spend more than five minutes in one.

> a (relatively) healthy supermarket meal easily cooked on the stovetop in the time it takes to wait in a drive-thru

Don't get me wrong, I don't disagree with your overall point....but what drive-thrus do you use?

A home-cooked meal for me takes at MINIMUM an hour. Prep, cooking, eating, cleanup. If it takes less than that, then it's probably a lot of pre-made/processed stuff that isn't particularly healthy in itself.

The only way I've been able to get around it with my work schedule is to meal-prep on weekends. Making stuff in bulk helps, but it's still 3-5 hours of my precious weekend used up.

My local airport is so small that they don't process security until half an hour before boarding. We have one "gate", and the planes we get can hold 50 people when full.

I have Precheck (always marked on the boarding pass and I assume it shows up on their screen when I scan it), and what happens is the person at the podium notes it and lets his colleagues down the line know. I get a card, and show it to the person handling the body scanner, at which point they send me through the metal detector instead. There isn't much difference when it comes to the bag scanning (if any).

>if you're constantly hard at work on something important, when something else comes up (someone has a question, there's a bug or an outage, whatever), you either have to delay the thing you're already working on, or delay the thing that came up. This tends to have a cascade effect on most kinds of work, locking up all your people resources.

Working in a retail store/break-fix repair/MSP environment, for a small business in a small city, this is absolutely the case. There is nothing more frustrating than having three customer projects on your plate, all of which are important (think "the email server is down"), and then the doorbell or phone rings and you end up spending half an hour walking an old lady through resetting her facebook password. It's an absolutely massive productivity killer, as well as making the day feel longer.

More employees would be the normal solution, but that's not possible here (we've had more in the past, it wasn't financially viable, apparently). Unless of course they started paying commission based on what people actually got done instead of a regular wage, which I'm not a fan of. (Though to be fair, if we did switch to that, the one employee who barely does anything would either get his ass in gear, or leave, so win/win maybe?)

Business hours. I'm at work from 8AM to 6PM five days a week. Near the winter solstice, the sun sets around 4:30-5:30.

Getting up earlier would just make me have to go to bed earlier. It's dark either way.

> Now, why, when and how it works is a complete mystery.

Even when you're dealing with their non-public products!

Every holiday, Google reminds me I need to check the holiday hours for our business on the Google My Business page. So I do.

Every time, despite being the only authorized user on this page and despite the changes I make being nothing strange (things like being closed on christmas, and not to mention their system asked me to check it)......it sits there saying "pending review" for a week or more.

I don't really know what to think about it when they don't trust the business page's actual manager to get the info correct.

Probability-based triggers are one of my favorite things, and something that I thought was pretty lacking here (I only came to Ableton just recently, but nearly every arpeggiator I've used up until now has had a note probability feature and it does wonders for variation in patterns).

So I'm extremely glad to see it being integrated.

> If someone goes faster but never tells anyone, they still went faster.

That's true, and I certainly am not the authority here nor am I knowledgeable enough to pretend to be one....But this reminds me of an argument I had once with someone about Short Takeoff & Landing airplane competitions.

They were bringing up how a group in Alaska was totally incorrect in claiming the competitors at their event were setting world records because (paraphrased) "well I know a guy whose uncle in Idaho took off in a foot less than that on his mountain airstrip, so that video isn't of the world record.".

Did he? Maybe. I can't prove either way. But the difference is, these guys are the, or at least an, authority on STOL world records. If you are serious about setting a record like that, you're going to participate in one of these events. Uncle Jimmy might be a pretty dang good pilot but it really doesn't matter if nobody was there to see it. And the pilots in these all agree that this group is the authority, so why would they recognize a "record" from someone outside it?

Our business has a dash/hyphen in the name.

I say "dash" and I honestly rarely have issues getting folks to our page. The worse part is getting people to understand the letters over the phone (half my customers don't understand what a phonetic alphabet is so I can't just use that every time... "How do you spell Sierra?").

My boss, on the other hand, seems to have the worst time telling people about the dash. He tends to fall back on our second domain (which just redirects to the main one), and even then still has issues (I think he just talks too fast).