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.

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.

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.

Also: Country?

Or "Canada is the only one of the G7 countries… "

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

Oh neat my Total Wine and More has this. I’ll have to get some next time I go.

Depending on what I needed I remember using AltaVista, AskJeeves, Dogpile, and I feel like later on MetaCrawler or something like that (would search multiple search engines for you and ordered them scored based on platform and relevancy iirc?)

Boss had estimated 40% chance to drop an item, 60% chance to drop gold.

Super rare mount had 0.01% to 0.02% chance, estimated, to drop if you got loot. (1 in 7500 or so they think, which I think factors in the first 40% chance to drop loot). Otherwise you got a piece of armor for your class.

New class (or race?) added in most recent expansion had a broken loot table, so if the 40% loot drop chance hit, the only thing you could win was the super rare mount, making it about a 40% chance to drop.

Blizzard patches / fixes the issue within a few hours. Aka its back to 0.01%.

The next day or so Blizzard announces they’ve increased the drop chance for the super rare mount and other mounts. Players determine new drop rate is about 1%

The real question is what resolution. My 6900 XT with no FSR and no raytracing, at 1440p, could do 63fps average but sadly stuttered at times. I forget the exact graphics settings but generally high / ultra because I was pushing it to see if it would do it.

At 4k I’d probably get half that.

Capcom specifically does two releases of Monster Hunter by two different studios, sort of alternating, for this reason.

MH World and Icebreak were the “fancy PC / Console games”

Then MH Rise and Sunbreak were the “mobile” releases.

Now MH Wilds is another “fancy PC / Consoles” release.

So Capcom does actually account for this.

Pretty sure that’s the internet archive which takes snapshots of websites.

You’re looking at the website x.com waaaay back in 1997, where they said they aren’t nearly the worst website on the internet. As opposed to now, where it is a cesspool of toxicity.

I’m by no means a huge VR user but I find the PSVR2 rendering based on your focus point to be a really neat feature for that reason.

Wherever you’re looking gets full resolution. Things in your perifory get downscaled. This helps the headset maintain max FPS at the full Hz.

Note: I don’t own one, I just think the tech for that is near.

No no they’re just milking them…

Oh yeah okay. Fuck Nestlé.

Pretty sure assassin roughly means person who you hire to kill people.

The difference is effectively one of motive and contract.

If I’m personally wronged by the victim and I personally plan to kill them myself, that’s first degree murder.

If I don’t leave the house intending to kill someone, but end up in a fight or situation where I end up intending to cause harm to someone (even if it’s protecting myself), and end up killing someone, that’s generally second degree murder.

Now if I’m wronged by someone, plan to have them killed, but don’t want to do it myself, so I set up a contract with a hit man and pay money to have a target killed. That’s assassination.

This is possibly regarding the updated OS that’s on SteamDeck, which is not built on the same distro of Linux as the older SteamOS from back in the day.