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Regardless of whether the underpaying allegations are true, Amazon keeping 60-75% of the sales price is absolutely egregious. People were absolutely up in arms about Apple's 30% app store cut a year ago.

What happened there? From the outside I thought it was pretty smooth and successful. Delivered what was promised and only a couple months late.

I think the worst I've seen is people realizing it was never all that good to begin with, and being disappointed a reprint of a 35 year old game doesn't really stack up in the modern era.

There's some really bizarre tribalism that develops in the Kickstarter/preorder realm. I back a fair number of board games and see the same thing there.

Its like the people who get in that early feel like they are part of the development team and make it their mission to support the game at all costs. Any dissension among the ranks (delays, scope changes, cost increases) are violently shouted down as ITS BETTER FOR THE GAME!!!!!. Organized brigading is really common as well, even before there's an alpha release but they go around trying to force it into every "Best Of" type list out there.

I've gotten some great games out of it but avoid the comment sections at all costs.

I recently left a major part supplier for a good portion of the heavy equipment industry and Deere was one of our biggest customers. They were truly despicable to work with.

On every bid we sent them the #1 requirement was Proprietary Fit. There had to be some sort of IP lockout (always disguised as a valuable design feature, but it never was) to prevent end users from procuring replacement parts anywhere else. In many cases it even made the parts significantly worse, as useless bumps or ridges were added to the industry standard to make them physically incompatible.

The old model was we build a part for $8 and sell it to the end user for $10. Under Deere's new model, we build the part for $8, sell it exclusively to Deere for $11, and they sell it to customer for $16.

My former employer was very complicit in this behavior, but Deere was by far the most aggressive about and a big enough player to squeeze all their suppliers.

Edit: They pay all kinds of lip service to how this is better for the customer ("reliable supply chain", "Deere-guaranteed quality", etc) but that's only in their public PR. Behind the scenes it is 100% about securing a long term revenue source - customers pay out the ass for a piece of equipment, then have to keep coming back to Deere for 50 years for replacement parts.

I recently left a job that I was 100% checked out of. It was a fine job before Covid but something about the switch to remote absolutely ruined it.

Things that used to take 2-3 hours to plan started taking 6 weeks as management insisted on being deeply involved. Instead of infrequent project check-ins, 18 hours a week was blocked off to management updates. Shortly before I put in my 2 weeks I had project update meeting where my status was something like Accomplishments: held status update meetings on 11/1, 11/3, 11/8, 11/12, 11/15, and 11/18.

That job broke me and I just stopped caring. The new one is much better.

Previous company went through a fairly disastrous change in management. I was the 5th person out the door on a team of 8. New manager was super "data driven" so productivity plummeted as we were inundated with piles of new processes - a 3 day lab test (no additional cost other than my labor) took me over 6 weeks to get management approval and sign offs for. But, we didn't have any "old data" (because the processes were all new) to prove that things had gotten much worse.

Wife has commented many times on the change in my personality, as I'm not ending most days furious and miserable.

Guess that's "Company Culture" for purposes of the poll.

I kinda thought all 3 of my offers during my recent job change were suspiciously close. Now I know why, as all 3 employers requested it. Fuck everything about this.

A few jobs are missing, but the most recent (and therefore most relevant) is correct.

There's no guarantee of that. Omicron seems to be exceptionally capable of infecting both those who had the current vaccines and/or previous variants.

Maybe Omicron provides immunity to Rho (or whatever is coming), but it may provide no protection to Sigma.

It's a mixed bag and I'm not sure which side wins out.

On one hand, cleaning up plastic pollution is a fantastic thing. On the other, there is a tremendous amount of carbon currently locked up in plastics which is for all practical purposes inert. Releasing that into the atmosphere is yet one more thing that will accelerate climate change.

It also will require a massive shift in our material usage. Bacteria breaking down that plastic bag in the ocean is great. Bacteria setting in on construction, medical devices, or your NES is not so ideal.

In the last few years I feel like we've reached "notification hell". Technology used to be a tool that was used when needed, now it constantly demands our attention.

I feel like something is always beeping at me across countless services and just stresses me out.

Windows beeps every time I click anything now, every app wants to spam notifications every our, Jira, countless chat apps, email, even the credit card machines at Target have gotten more aggressive...

Are there guidelines for how long a given type of media is considered stable?

From experience, hard drives seem safe on the order of years; I've spun drives back up from the early 2000s and they are fully intact. The lifespan of burned optical media is/was counted in minutes. Various flash memory is somewhere in between - I've had all kinda of cheap flash drives die.

Even with the multiple media forms they need to be refreshed at some frequency, and I don't know how often that should be.

Both of those are more shock events - there is a one-time impulse of energy into the system. The main difference here would be damping - the punching bag absorbs and dissipates the energy readily via internal friction of whatever the stuffing material is. A metal bell has orders of magnitude lower internal damping so it sits there and vibrates at its natural frequencies, emitting sound as it pushes against the air which slowly bleeds off energy due air resistance.

Random Vibration is usually characterized by a constant input of energy to the system at a range of frequencies - rocket motors, engine rpm + cylinder firing frequency, road noise, etc.

A somewhat imperfect analogy that I've heard is random vibration is analogous to playing white noise/pink noise/etc through a speaker. Shock is analogous to the horrific crackling and popping you get when you plug a guitar into an amplifier that's already on.

My guess based on the very limited press release and some aerospace experience:

Because it's only a 4 day slip, they'll start with simulations to look for any systems that may have been damaged. If they don't see any issues assembly and launch will continue.

If simulations show that this may have damaged a component, we'll see a longer delay as they begin replacing systems.