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Lowest bidder is exactly how bids are won in my industry. The money is then made by RFIs and ECOs during construction. Petro/chem industry.

We only let our children have screen time on non-school nights, so Friday from about 6 to 8, and Saturday from 4 to 8. They almost always choose computers over tv. Minecraft, digital art, etc. The rest of the time they play or read. The once a week trip to the library as become a core part of our routine. Edit: these restrictions include summer. Same times.

No More Movies 5 years ago

We've stopped as a family watching any movie out of Hollywood. I don't think we're alone.

Sure, anything cloud based is right out, I haven't worked at at single place in 20+ years that allows anything in the cloud. I'm talking about Petro/chem engineering. SharePoint can be on premises, but that is revision/snapshot based, so the whole document is snapshotted, not individual cells. Within a revision a datum / cell might change multiple times, those changes are lost. Each cell change does cascade other changes in many other documents and drawings so being aware of each change is paramount. Missing a change not only would mean incorrect downstream /cross stream documents but it can result in the loss of life. It's a seriously tough problem with serious results.

I've made a ton of online --> irl friends on a particular platform. It was just a matter of meeting up with one in the group and talking about it on the platform, everyone wants to be second and not the first to take a risk.

A time series based database that has an interface fully excel facing, including all excel functionality. I want to see the result value of a cell based output at a certain date, when it changed, and why. I need the interface in excel because all of the engineers already know it and all of their calcs are already in it. Not something excel like or similar, excel.

Time doing things that make you truly happy is not wasted time.

H.r. is not on your side, ever.

Promises of future compensation or promotion are meaningless.

Spend more time outdoors.

Learn a hobby or skill that doesn't involve a screen.

Your health isn't worth what they're paying.

A businesses relationship is just that and nothing more.

I had used puppy for about a year, it's super fast, loaded the entire os into ram at boot. Gave up on it when I started trying to get non-repo software into pups, certain things just wouldn't work, Kodi for example, so I moved on.