Yeah, but they should have gone with a 486DX, or SX at least. HUGE difference. The 386 was just too damned frustrating, but it was the first work PC I ever laid hands on. For a personal computer, I upgraded from a 286 to a Pentium 200.

Industrial applications might be a thing!

I’ve got a 486SX industrial PC that I refurbed. Much fun!

But you can hardly expand this thing at all. And there’s a hella dividing line between a 386 and any given 486. I got mine loaded with 128MB, USB floppy emulator (a MUST have) and an SSD (through adapters). You just can’t do that with this animal, can’t even add a math coprocessor.

I’d give $20 to have one to play with, that’s it.

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My take on the most recent conservative LGBT propaganda:

https://old.lemmy.world/comment/5119958

Relevant bit:

And those people are grooming your kids into changing into something else, just like they did to themselves! Think of the children! LOL, it’s some Invasion of the Body Snatchers kinda paranoia.

One thing I hadn’t talked about was the “forcing” of LGBT issues.

When we were seniors ('89), saw a high-school buddy in a 50/50 gay/straight bar. About shit himself when he saw me.

“Please don’t tell anyone Shalafi. 😬”

“I don’t give a shit Sheldon. Let me get some of whatever you’re hitting in that bag!”

Same bar watching my gf dance. Dude pulls up a stool and offers me a drink.

“That’s cool and all, but you should know I’m not gay.”

That man knocked over his barstool jumping backwards. From a 5’8", 120lb., 18-yo twerp.

“Oh shit! I’m SO sorry. I didn’t mean…!”

“We’re all cool! It’s good! I’ll still take that drink though.”

All that to say, if any young folk think gays have it bad now? Let’s hop in the Delorean and take a ride back to the late 80’s. They were deep in the closet. Closeted as in, being out front with your homosexuality meant an ass beating. Hell, no one would even acknowledge Freddie Mercury, Liberace or Elton John as gay. There were “confirmed bachelors” or “light in the loafers”. Delivered meaningfully, “gay” was a deadly insult.

Back on topic; Gays kept that shit on the down-low. And that’s how GenX grew up, even more so our parents, less so the Millennials. They see LGBT folks celebrating themselves, rainbow flags in stores, whatever, as having other people’s lifestyles, “shoved down their throat” or “forced on them”.

Weird take, but I can understand it. Moved to the Deep South and all the religious shit feels like they’re cramming their bullshit into my life. And they’re trying to using legislation! And to circle back, these people think gay rights, or even existence, is being thrust on them via legislation.

tl;dr: I get it. It sucks. Society is quickly growing out of it, but it’s a nice wedge issue for conservatives.

As usual, “Who the fuck is GenX?!”

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Nah, you’re talking about drilling platforms that are pretty much set in place. These are giant ships that explore and lay pipe.

Not sure which one this is, but it’s what I’m talking about.

We get oil exploration rigs docking in our little port downtown. Mind bending is right.

Sat in the park and watched one roll in one day. Went from:

There it is!

Damn, looks pretty big.

My. God.

LOL, my car is a 2002 and my truck a 2004. I have no idea what’s going on with these failed car tech posts.

Came here to ask what’s different. Does BMW not use the Qi standard?

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The job I was talking about was IT at a payroll company. Running payroll can be surprisingly complex, so most small businesses farm it out to a employee leasing place, let them hassle with the regulations. Lot’s more to it than multiplying hours by pay rate.

But it sounds like they were farming it out? Sending hours and pay rates to an accountant?

We’re a software dev, and despite the low turnover, we’re constantly growing and hiring. Not easy to pull in solid devs because it’s such a competitive field. HR earns their money in my outfit. We’ve needed a new security person in DevOps for 2-months, haven’t heard a peep from the boss about candidates.

But yeah, I feel you on the useless HR people. When I say our director was so dumb and useless, I really meant we thought she had blackmail on the owner. We were not joking, it was the only explanation that made sense.

But OP was experience hiring both sorts of candidates and found non-FAANG employees to work out better.

And no, one shouldn’t judge completely on a former company’s culture, but some people do indeed drag that shit with them. My old boss would be great for some roles in my new company, but she has absolutely poisonous management skills stemming from her environment.

20% of the company!? My last company had useless HR like that. Only 3 of them for 35 of us, but they did nothing and that was 2 too many. The “Director”, with all of two people under her, was so wildly incompetent we all thought she had something on the owner.

They couldn’t even handle their core job of bringing us solid candidates. Had no one under me but was still treated a management (IT) and finally put my foot down. Made it crystal clear, with many examples, that the people HR was bringing in didn’t have the most basic office related PC skills, and that I could tell on day-1 who was and wasn’t going to make it. Changes were made, success was had.

So ask yourself, how the hell is the IT guy a better judge of candidates than a “professional” HR team?!

I should add, my current company’s HR is rock and roll. It’s really nice working with them and I’m still good friends with one that left last year.