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>There are occasional ticket checks with big fines for non-compliance.

I'll likely mangle the explanation but this sort of policy does not fair well when there is a large divide between have/have-not and little/no social safety net.

If you are poverty level you will be forever stuck in this cycle: Ticket/fine, court, loss of income, etc. What might work is simply granting free access below a certain income threshold.

>And how could you get any work done?

Drink (hopefully cold) water and cover up from the sun. I grew up doing manual labor in a climate like this. People adapt, but there are of course limits.

Children die sometimes being pushed too hard in athletics, etc. The majority of people however simply put up with it.

I'd like to know too but it reads as if they meant knowing the rules.

>Yes most adults are extremely lazy and undisciplined.

If you do not believe this statement, ask the opinion of any medical provider you know.

Life is a series of endless choices.

I recently ran a 24hr relay. There were absolutely those who drank/partied while they participated. They posted slower times and probably slept less. I didn't sleep as much as usual (because I was waking up to run every 6hrs), but I slept more, didn't party, ran faster than them.

Neither of us was right/wrong in our choices. I would have felt like crap if I had their habits, but maybe it doesn't affect them.

I've read this many times on HN, Reddit, etc. Last week I just used a VPN. Took 30 seconds to click-click unsubscribe.

PS - During the process I was offered like 60% off if I kept the subscription.

>Some of the smartest and most effective people work in consulting. The kind of people who can swoop in to a random company, size up their operations in a few weeks and spit out an actionable plan that really works.

This is a seriously underrated comment. While having sometimes dismal reputations, IT MSPs and (SWE, DevOps) staffing firms often having legitimate rockstars. Some of the best, most efficient engineers I have worked with were employed by these types of companies. This involves delivering solutions on time to the customer while retaining soft skills, often while being the enemy of the incumbent engineers.

I worked in Datacenter Ops for a decade+, running 3-6 private datacenters as an HPC/Nix admin wearing many hats. The amount of work involved with physical plant, circuit management, staff coverage, weather events, regulation, travel, hardware upgrades, replacement...the list was seemingly endless.

That's also not to mention hopefully you never have to staff augment for junior-level tasks. Try hiring someone to correctly rack and stack an entire rack. You just end up re-doing it yourself or paying CDW to ship you an entire pre-assembled rack the next time.

>I used to work at a hardware store. As in literal bolts and nuts type of tech, not software related

As an SWE, this sounds way more fun.

I have family members who consider themselves "real engineers" compared to me, an SWE. They have backgrounds in Mechanical and other "traditional" engineering fields.

About once a quarter I am subject to conversations where they remark condescendingly about how flabbergasted they are at SWE salaries. I stopped engaging beyond "Mmm if you're interested you should learn more about the field".

This interaction is beyond grating and is detrimental to our relationships.

You do not deserve the shower, you must earn the shower.

Motivation taps discipline on the shower.

>Florida used to be swamps now it’s growing like crazy.

Florida native. Every person on the Internet loves to poo-poo Florida.

1000 people move to Florida a day. Every. Day.

Most of my native-born friends hate it.

Don't move to Florida, we're begging you.

I did terraform apply from some rather remote places in 2021...I'd highly recommend leaving your apartment for some better locales.

It is an automatic shutoff. You can always swap the spout/nozzle.