Physics and Free Software

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  • ‘Departments’ such as the Department of Energy, the Department of Transportation, the State Department etc. are under the umbrella of the Executive Branch. Each Department has a Secretary. Secretary of Health and Human Services, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Urban Development etc. The Secretaries act as liasons for their respective department and report directly to the Chief Executive (president). Given the president is Chief Executive he can give orders to the Departments which “they have to follow” provided they are not illegal or are beyond the department’s budget. These issues, in principle, would be handled by the Judicial and Legislative branches respectively.

    All that said, since the president is “in charge” of the Departments he can order them to do whatever he wants in addition. Typically, the president “tells” the Departments what he “wants” done and they will address that issue. An Executive Order is more forceful.

    From a constitutional perspective, the problem with Executive Orders and Departments is that they aren’t addressed at all. Constitution establishes the existance of the branches of goverment and lays out general rules, but it doesn’t have anything to say about the structure of the executive branch or even how many judges are on the Supreme Court.

    The only way executive orders can be addressed is by law. The legislative branch would need to write amd pass it with 2/3 majority vote to bypass a certain presidential veto.
















  • Colors you can differentiate from one another by type (power vs hand vs misc) and see from a distance so they hard to misplace. I use dewalt for powertools, kobalt for hand tools, and bright, but different colors for everything else e.g. pony clamps, neon craftsman levels. This makes it easy to put everything away, and spot when you are looking for them in the middle of working and you don’t know where you put something. Several thumbs up for a random, but interesting question!



  • wuphysics87@lemmy.mltoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlComputer related pet peeves
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    Thousands of unread emails in an inbox.

    Using a downloads folder as your entire filesystem.

    Anything that has a popup telling me about a new feature that 1) has existed for a long time and 2) I already knew about (basically office 365)

    Features and button I can’t remove (basically office 365 and copilot)

    When something changes its name to become less descriptive. (Basically microsoft office to office 365 to windows 365 to 365 to 3)

    Basically office 365

    Bonus: How do onedrive? With local file system? Where is my even? Fuck

    Oh also those assholes who “hAvE aN aPp IdEa”. Less so when it’s a shittier version of something that already exists and you can ruin their dreams of become the next zuck or gates. (But also, if it was actually a good idea, why wouldn’t I just steal it?)

    When people learn you can program and they think you can program everything. (See previous comment)

    People who call it “coding” instead of “programming”. I am writing a program as in what you read to know what is occuring at an event? Like a play? Something with scenes and acts. There is progression from beginning to end. What I am doing is creating a routine for an actor. I’m not writing hieroglyphics, and if you are too stupid to realize that, you shouldn’t get to name the fucking thing.

    People who ask for help and are upset when you tell them you fixed the problem before, taught them how to do it themselves, and procede to tell them they are wasting your time, don’t listen, or are an imbicile.

    Using other people’s keyboards. At all.

    When IT treats you like the rest of the unwashed masses. When IT gets in your way or confiscates something. When people think you are literal IT (Why the fuck would I be able to reset your workday password?)

    I’m going to stop before the vein in my forehead explodes. Again. But I’ll probably add more later.