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This seems like something that was pre-programmed, in particular if they had five robots all doing a choreographed routine.

How is this AI related?

With a built in game pad. And saying a game is SteamDeck supported means it supports SteamInput which means it supports the gamepad natively.

Friend recently asked me something similar as he's finalizing a divorce and has started dating again, though he's a bit younger than you (and the girl is a bit younger than your example).

I forget exact ages but the half your age plus 7 rule was met. Say 42 and 29?

She worked in our industry and specifically the same role he did, but at a more junior level I have to assume.

Distilled down a but I essentially said if they like each other and they are together because of that, then it's fine. They are both adults and can have fun together as much as they want. They need to keep that balance though. If it becomes a mentorship kind of situation then they probably both need to take a step back and reflect on what that means.

Actually yes. Only Poland is higher than many parts of Canada per this site, and Czech, Finland, and Romania are roughly the same depending on where in Canada you look:

https://evictradon.org/radon/radon-in-canada/

That is crazy, wow.

Software engineering in Canada in the 2000s. Most of the labs in my university ran Linux, at least in the engineering, math, and science areas of campus.

Personally I ran, depending on the year, LFS (Linux from Scratch), Slackware, or Gentoo (which still lives on that laptop today but also it hasn't been booted or connected to a network in like 10 years).

I think there was only one lab with Windows. We also had a lab of Solaris machines but I bet those are gone now.

No idea what Law, Nursing, and other faculties in the other side of campus used.

From the company that put root kits on music CDs...

Not sure if typo or honest mistake in your title but just in case:

Cookies crumble (break into smaller pieces).

Sheet metal and/or aluminum foil crumples (crushes / becomes creased).

My friends mom died from the (or one of the few) lung cancer you can get even if you were never a smoker. Her sewing room was in the basement and they think it may have been due to above average radon levels.

1 in a million chance or something, but apparently more likely with exposure to some things, including radon.

This is just going to be Berlin all over again isn't it?

Since no one really answered you, there are generally two routes.

If you use newsgroups you can run sabnzbd, which is a service that downloads from newsgroups. I've been out of the loop for a while but there used to be something like CouchPotato for movies or SickBeard for TV (which migrated to SickChill, though you shouldn't use that anymore as it installed a crypto miner last I heard). Lastly you sign up with a news indexer (look up Nzb.su or nzbgeek.info). CouchPotato could be linked to your imdb watch list.

Plug all of those together with API keys, and now movies on your imdb watch list just show up in your plex library as they become available.

Now if you use Torrents instead of newsgroups, there are similar things that all exist, I'm just less familiar with them.

Oh absolutely having an aggressive manager and skip will help you with bonuses and promotions. But they don't force managers to give people low scores anymore.

While the management tool had a weird slider and score system (you could give a number between 0 and 1000 IIRC), the general terminology was you could get between 0 and 200, indicative of how you compared to the average person at your level. 100 meaning you did average per-say or completed about 100% of the work an average person could complete.

While not unheard of it was basically impossible to get 200% (required at least your skip/M2 and maybe your M3 to agree).

Last I heard (keep in mind this was 2023 or so) managers got around 105% or 110% of their bonus allocated for their team. Generally that meant you could give everyone "100" if you wanted, but practically it never worked out that way.

Also there were strict rules you couldn't take from a more junior budget to give a more senior person a higher bonus. You could however take from a more senior budget and give it to a junior.

I. E. I couldn't give two SWE1s 80 to give a SWE2 a 120. The reverse was allowed though.

Layoffs are generally done algorithmically. I'm not kidding. They don't want to be sued. They follow all the legal rules otherwise (can't layoff a US citizen without laying off a Visa employee first, etc).

Source: I worked there for 11 years, I was an IC but have many friends who are managers who would tell me how the system works, and have been laid off twice. The first time I found another position within MSFT but the most recent time, in December, I opted to take some time off and find something else.

Edit/addendum: when the managers get in the room for people discussions a lot of that is around promotions. Very little is bonuses. Bonuses are determined by your manager, then go up the chain. So your manager sets and signs off on your score. Then your M2 checks it and either sends it back if they don't agree or signs off and sends it up. Then your M3. At the M3 and higher levels I suspect they don't look too close but just make sure everything makes sense and the budgets balance.

Microsoft got rid of that in 2014 or so, when Nadella took over.