I have worked for similar consulting companies, though not AWS. We had to always book an initial ticket that was policy compliant (economy, or higher only if it was similarly priced), and then optionally upgrade the seat. That causes the upgrade to come through as a separate charge.
Later, when submitting expenses, the upgrade had to be marked as a personal expense, to be netted against per diem or paid back directly.
Early in my career managers did a very poor job of explaining that this was allowed.
Of course, I overlooked the scenario that the parent mentioned about paying for themselves.
I frequently took my wife with me on work trips and we would stay a few extra days. I would buy her ticket separately, have separate receipts when we ate out so I could have mine reimbursed and put the extra days as personal in Concur.
Our favorite chain hotel is Embassy Suites where you got a good free breakfast and an afternoon happy hour with free alcoholic drinks so she would benefit without it costing the company.
Funny enough, since expenses reimbursement approval was done by a department outside of the US, they consistently disallowed my hotel expenses because it showed two people in the room even though it didn’t cost more and was within policy. I just had to tell the hotel only to put 1 guest.
I know the hotel check in thought I was having an affair with someone even though my wife was standing right there with me.
What is your recovery plan in the event of a hurricane?
I'm not fond of high electric rates, but in addition to generation those rates amortize and distribute the cost of storm recovery. A home or business with grid-tied solar pays interconnect fees for the option to get paid back a little for excess generation, and the option to decide to switch back to 100% grid power if a storm damages the on-site panels.
> those rates amortize and distribute the cost of storm recovery
Not exactly when it is a farm out there away from a town.
My experience is from a different era (90s) and a different kind of farm, but I spent a bunch of summers in one, which had power outages whenever the monsoons picked up.
The trouble was that there was a single line feeding the farm from about 6km away, so if that went down a single farmowner complained - the rate payers who were in a denser urban area always got priority, because there were 600+ people who shared a transformer.
The generator ran a lot when winds knocked power out, but the generator only ran when there was a big power need like running the well pumps or one of the winnowing mills. Even the winnower had pedals, because work doesn't stop.
Every bathroom had a light with a 30 minute battery in it, which came on when the power went out - I guess if they had LEDs those same batteries would be 6 hour lights.
They would have killed for solar + storage, because shipping fuel in for the generator was one of those annoying things you had to keep doing over and over again.
>The trouble was that there was a single line feeding the farm from about 6km away, so if that went down a single farmowner complained - the rate payers who were in a denser urban area always got priority, because there were 600+ people who shared a transformer.
The urban rate payers also subsidize the rural ones, so it makes sense that they'd be front of the line.
I would have thought an isolated farm would have had propane on site - likely more than one tank.
I don’t worry about outages much in my current home because the main line to ~1000 houses goes right past me, and I’m fed straight from it. If I’m out, it’s a very high priority line. Worst ever was about two days. It helps that our worst storms are usually in spring, so weather is mild.
After a hurricane, the plan might be to help neighbors charge their phones, or sell electricity to telcos to power their networks switches and cell towers.
I think I am much less remote than the poster, and I can easily lose power for a week or more after a winter storm. Considering that they already have generators on site that can manage the full load, they probably have much better up time than the utility electricity provider.
All underground infrastructure or in concrete utility huts. Powerplant is concrete, no flooding issues due to excellent drainage of the area.
We can run on generator to charge the batteries for about 2 weeks on the fuel we keep. Other than that, we rebuild what isn’t broken and later buy more panels. Most of our mounts should be good to about 150mph, but trees also fly so?
Good news is we can buy panels here about $120 for a 500 watt panel.
Also we have some geographic protection from the full brunt of a storm , as we are in a mountainous eddy zone that typically sees about 30 percent of the coastal and mountaintop wind speed when a cyclone passes nearby as they frequently do.
Watch the Integza video (linked above): The lab interviewed starts the process using a very small pulse detonation engine, which injects a new explosion into the ring.
> [...] how we can restructure our approach to education so that students would actually feel encouraged to participate and ignore their smartphones.
Is there any precedent for this that we can model / reproduce? Any country or region where students are considered academically successful, while having unrestricted access to the internet in their pocket?
If it exists, it would be very worthwhile to understand what gives those students such strong self control. Do they do it on their own? Are they somehow admonished/shunned publicly for that behavior?
Do teachers and parents now actively encourage students to read aloud? I'd love to see a study showing this helps.
When I did this in middle school I was repeated told to stop, and that doing so or talking myself through math problems were "signs of mental illness," and I needed to keep it in my head.
There have been recent studies on the impact of fasting during pregnancy. Here's two:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8377932/
> A total of 215 women were included in the study, 123 women fasted, and 92 women did not fast. Only 2.8% of women knew that fasting is forbidden in pregnancy. Sixty five percent of women reported weakness as the main reason for not fasting. The rate of gestational diabetes, pregnancy induced hypertension and preterm delivery was higher among women who fasted (17% vs 14%, 7% vs 2%, 9% vs 9%) respectively, compared to non-fasting women, but were not found statistically significant. There was no difference in anthropometric measurements of newborn, among both groups.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9931121/
> Fasting during pregnancy was associated with reduced birthweight, in particular for fasting during the first trimester (-352ˑ92g, 95% CI: -537ˑ38; -168ˑ46). Neither dietary composition nor altered sleep were directly associated with birthweight. However, dietary composition during Ramadan outside of fasting hours seems to moderate the fasting-birthweight association, which disappeared for women switching to high-fat diets.
rclone strongly recommends users create their own individual API key:
> It is strongly recommended to use your own client ID as the default rclone ID is heavily used. If you have multiple services running, it is recommended to use an API key for each service. The default Google quota is 10 transactions per second so it is recommended to stay under that number as if you use more than that, it will cause rclone to rate limit and make things slower.
I'm worried that such API keys won't be usable anymore because even API keys for personal use with a single account require that application security review.
Furthermore, the Google Cloud console is not included in the typical Workspace subscription (for obvious reasons).
