Back in the 80s my company director was visiting Switzerland he met the man responsible for the local employment office. My director asked "how many unemployed do you have?" "Two" "Two percent, that's amazing, it's 12% in the UK" "No, two - Herr Schmidt and Herr Mayer!"
Interesting, I would have assumed UK labour laws to be less employee friendly than those in Ireland*, yet my I know people in Ireland who've been expected to train outsourced replacements.
* I don't know why, maybe it's a "grass is greener" thing
I had exactly this - I built some radio controlled pwm-dimmable led light bricks using an Arduino clone. I wanted a hard reset using the fob - long press would charge a capacitor to pull the reset pin low.
It worked fine on some, but not on all. As it turned out some of the clones has a different value pull-up resistor that changed the timing - very frustrating.
“God above is in charge of the weather and we here can’t do anything about it,” he told the Dáil [Ireland's parliament] during a debate on climate change on Wednesday.
We also can get back our blue passports (actually, I don't have a British passport) and fly flags in our garden*
* I listened to a colleague say "now we're leaving the EU I can fly a Union Jack in my garden". I queried why he can't already and apparently he was told by the council in the 90s that he had to take down the flag pole outside his business. The fact that countless homes, businesses and local government buildings currently fly a Union Flag was ignored. I suggested that maybe the reason that it's no longer an issues might be because of EU legislation that prevented a British official from telling him not to fly a flag.
It's pretty easy to start a drive by download without javascript - just use an iframe that requests a file with an attachment content-disposition. If the whole world stopped using javascript tomorrow malware writers would simply find an alternative delivery method. It's a bit like saying "stop people from buying petrol will mean no more road deaths"
There's already a very simple way to stop this being effective. You still actually have to run the apk (which you don't remember downloading), and enable 3rd party apks (which are disabled on every mainstream phone I've had).
Again with the petrol analogy - if you found a full fuel can in front of your house would you put it in your car?
Luckily most of us come from countries where a "bad area" means that somebody *might* try opening your door to steal a bag on the passenger seat, not start firing bullets at you.
Yeah, the AP on an aircraft has never flow the aircraft into the side of a mountain in thick cloud. giving the flight crew no time to react...
As for reactions times, it depends on the flight regime - during a CAT III approach, do you really believe that the PF wouldn't have hands on controls?
I think you'll find that in cases where reaction times are important - such as approaches and landings - the pilots will have hands on the throttle and the yoke (or stick), even when the autopilot and/or autothrottles are engaged. During cruise you have far more time to react so hands off is fine.
There are two reasons for this - one is so that they are ready to react. The second is - certainly with Boeing's design philosophy - that the pilot will have tactile feedback from the automation systems. If for example the autothrottle decides to reduce power on finals you will feel it even before a "Slow" master caution light come on.
But, but, but, that's different, for um... Let me get back you on the reason.
I get the idea that people actaully believe that aircraft pilots are magical pieces of equipment that will fly, land and taxi the aircraft while the pilot shags the stewardess. It's not just that pilots *need* to monitor the aircraft even with the AP on, it's also completely possible to tell the autopilot to descend right into a mountain. As you say, in those case it's called pilot error, however if these muppets were in charge it would be the aircraft manufacturer's fault for allowing them to do something stupid.
So what you're saying is it shouldn't be called an autopilot until it's as perfect as those found on ship and aircraft? The autopilots that will happily sail/fly you into the ground if commanded to - those autopilots?
Ah, that's not what I meant. Our web services are used as a back end for our website (as well as through mobile apps & windows clients). That way the majority of the website is static (and cached) and just the dynamic data is fetched (through the abomination that is javascript!). It also means that bugs (or at least some of them) can be fixed quickly with no need to update clients.
Maybe they've been reading Clancy novels - this was exactly how Japan (in Debt of Honour) tested their secretly developed missile system, by faking 1st stage separation.
Clancy & Dale Brown have a lot to answer for - after giving AQ the concept for 9/11./s
This is coming from a country that struggles to launch two missiles simutaneously without one undergoing RUD.
It's not even like the Rodong is new technology, it's basically a stretched version of the Scud B (SS-1), which itself has been in service since 1964. Not just that, North Korea has had since the mid 1980s to get it to work.
What happens when I use a 404 status in a web service to signal that the requested resource couldn't be found - the front end handles 404 gracefully and informs the user, updates the UI, etc. Will it still return a 404 status, but inject a whole load of unexpected content?
...it has been shown time and again that being a cop is actually one of the safest jobs...
So, because it's not the most dangerous job out there, it has to be one of the safest - that's some insanely stupid reasoning right there. In 2014, being a police/sherrif patrol officer was the 15th most dangerous job.
It depends on your take on the phrase "so the EU is net worse off if it starts implementing tarriffs". From past experience, that phrase is used to support the idea that the EU wouldn't dare to implement IPO tarrifs because they'd worry about losing the UK's business. For some reason people seem to think that if the EU implement tarrifs, the UK wouldn't - I've seen nothing to support that.
Of course I don't think the EU would stop trading with the UK - maybe I should have put "hypotheically", but I though it was patently obvious - I used it to highlight that the numbers show the UK is not in such as strong bargaining position - in respect to trade - as people seem to believe.
You've completely missed the point - the fact that even though the UK has a trade deficit with the EU, it's the UK that is likely to be hit hardest because the relative size of their respective economies.
"Exports would go to the next highest marginal buyer."
If that would happen in the UK, so everything is fine and dandy, why would you discount it happening in the EU too?
I agree with the "keep calm and carry on" but - we have no idea what is going to happen, but because of the uncertainty some of us are making sure we'll continue to have funds to get us through any bumps.
For example, we just had the bathrooms in our office redone and the plan was to get the kitchen done next. Right after the referendum (when the bathrooms were completed) a colleague asked "when will the kitchen be done" - he couldn't get his head around the idea that we wanted to keep our cash reserves up for the time being, and that it wasn't scaremongering, just caution.
The problem is that we're not the only ones, and this drop in consumer confidence will have a detremental affedt on the economy - the UK (not our company surprisingly enough) is already seeing this.
Like you I don't actually think Brexit will destroy the country, just that the pain is unlikely to be worth it. And that's speaking as an Irish citizen living and working in the UK.
Trade will continue on as it has - the EU sends more to UK than UK sends to EU, so the EU is net worse off if it starts implementing tarriffs
Only if you completely ignore the relative sizes of the UK & EU GDPs and overall exports. Guess what, absolute numbers need context. A simple way of looking at it is "who would be hit hardest if UK-EU trade stopped overnight".
In 2015, the UK exported 220 billion GBP to the EU, whereas it imported 290 billion GBP. That is 44% of the UK's exports went to the EU, whereas 8-17% of the EU's exports went to the UK, so the UK would be a bigger loser. As a percentage of GDP, the UK's EU exports made up about 10% of its GDP (2 trillion GBP), whereas the EU's UK exports made up a mere 2% of its GDP (12 trillion GBP).
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Back in the 80s my company director was visiting Switzerland he met the man responsible for the local employment office. My director asked "how many unemployed do you have?"
"Two"
"Two percent, that's amazing, it's 12% in the UK"
"No, two - Herr Schmidt and Herr Mayer!"
That's good!
Interesting, I would have assumed UK labour laws to be less employee friendly than those in Ireland*, yet my I know people in Ireland who've been expected to train outsourced replacements.
* I don't know why, maybe it's a "grass is greener" thing
You weren't perchance training them on using the Buk missile system were you?
It's quite impressive that these people have succeeded in getting people to describe their product as open source.
I had exactly this - I built some radio controlled pwm-dimmable led light bricks using an Arduino clone. I wanted a hard reset using the fob - long press would charge a capacitor to pull the reset pin low.
It worked fine on some, but not on all. As it turned out some of the clones has a different value pull-up resistor that changed the timing - very frustrating.
“God above is in charge of the weather and we here can’t do anything about it,” he told the Dáil [Ireland's parliament] during a debate on climate change on Wednesday.
‘Only God controls the weather’, Danny Healy-Rae tells climate change debate
We also can get back our blue passports (actually, I don't have a British passport) and fly flags in our garden*
* I listened to a colleague say "now we're leaving the EU I can fly a Union Jack in my garden". I queried why he can't already and apparently he was told by the council in the 90s that he had to take down the flag pole outside his business. The fact that countless homes, businesses and local government buildings currently fly a Union Flag was ignored. I suggested that maybe the reason that it's no longer an issues might be because of EU legislation that prevented a British official from telling him not to fly a flag.
It's pretty easy to start a drive by download without javascript - just use an iframe that requests a file with an attachment content-disposition. If the whole world stopped using javascript tomorrow malware writers would simply find an alternative delivery method. It's a bit like saying "stop people from buying petrol will mean no more road deaths"
There's already a very simple way to stop this being effective. You still actually have to run the apk (which you don't remember downloading), and enable 3rd party apks (which are disabled on every mainstream phone I've had).
Again with the petrol analogy - if you found a full fuel can in front of your house would you put it in your car?
Luckily most of us come from countries where a "bad area" means that somebody *might* try opening your door to steal a bag on the passenger seat, not start firing bullets at you.
Yeah, the AP on an aircraft has never flow the aircraft into the side of a mountain in thick cloud. giving the flight crew no time to react...
As for reactions times, it depends on the flight regime - during a CAT III approach, do you really believe that the PF wouldn't have hands on controls?
I think you'll find that in cases where reaction times are important - such as approaches and landings - the pilots will have hands on the throttle and the yoke (or stick), even when the autopilot and/or autothrottles are engaged. During cruise you have far more time to react so hands off is fine.
There are two reasons for this - one is so that they are ready to react. The second is - certainly with Boeing's design philosophy - that the pilot will have tactile feedback from the automation systems. If for example the autothrottle decides to reduce power on finals you will feel it even before a "Slow" master caution light come on.
But, but, but, that's different, for um... Let me get back you on the reason.
I get the idea that people actaully believe that aircraft pilots are magical pieces of equipment that will fly, land and taxi the aircraft while the pilot shags the stewardess. It's not just that pilots *need* to monitor the aircraft even with the AP on, it's also completely possible to tell the autopilot to descend right into a mountain. As you say, in those case it's called pilot error, however if these muppets were in charge it would be the aircraft manufacturer's fault for allowing them to do something stupid.
So what you're saying is it shouldn't be called an autopilot until it's as perfect as those found on ship and aircraft? The autopilots that will happily sail/fly you into the ground if commanded to - those autopilots?
Ah, that's not what I meant. Our web services are used as a back end for our website (as well as through mobile apps & windows clients). That way the majority of the website is static (and cached) and just the dynamic data is fetched (through the abomination that is javascript!). It also means that bugs (or at least some of them) can be fixed quickly with no need to update clients.
Maybe they've been reading Clancy novels - this was exactly how Japan (in Debt of Honour) tested their secretly developed missile system, by faking 1st stage separation.
Clancy & Dale Brown have a lot to answer for - after giving AQ the concept for 9/11. /s
This is coming from a country that struggles to launch two missiles simutaneously without one undergoing RUD.
It's not even like the Rodong is new technology, it's basically a stretched version of the Scud B (SS-1), which itself has been in service since 1964. Not just that, North Korea has had since the mid 1980s to get it to work.
What happens when I use a 404 status in a web service to signal that the requested resource couldn't be found - the front end handles 404 gracefully and informs the user, updates the UI, etc. Will it still return a 404 status, but inject a whole load of unexpected content?
...it has been shown time and again that being a cop is actually one of the safest jobs...
So, because it's not the most dangerous job out there, it has to be one of the safest - that's some insanely stupid reasoning right there.
In 2014, being a police/sherrif patrol officer was the 15th most dangerous job.
Who walks around with a shotgun?
Um, Americans...
Maryland has licensed open carry, but she [apparently] would have been fine:
Licenses are rarely issued to ordinary citizens. However, no permit is required to openly carry a rifle or shotgun.
It depends on your take on the phrase "so the EU is net worse off if it starts implementing tarriffs". From past experience, that phrase is used to support the idea that the EU wouldn't dare to implement IPO tarrifs because they'd worry about losing the UK's business. For some reason people seem to think that if the EU implement tarrifs, the UK wouldn't - I've seen nothing to support that.
Of course I don't think the EU would stop trading with the UK - maybe I should have put "hypotheically", but I though it was patently obvious - I used it to highlight that the numbers show the UK is not in such as strong bargaining position - in respect to trade - as people seem to believe.
You've completely missed the point - the fact that even though the UK has a trade deficit with the EU, it's the UK that is likely to be hit hardest because the relative size of their respective economies.
"Exports would go to the next highest marginal buyer."
If that would happen in the UK, so everything is fine and dandy, why would you discount it happening in the EU too?
I agree with the "keep calm and carry on" but - we have no idea what is going to happen, but because of the uncertainty some of us are making sure we'll continue to have funds to get us through any bumps.
For example, we just had the bathrooms in our office redone and the plan was to get the kitchen done next. Right after the referendum (when the bathrooms were completed) a colleague asked "when will the kitchen be done" - he couldn't get his head around the idea that we wanted to keep our cash reserves up for the time being, and that it wasn't scaremongering, just caution.
The problem is that we're not the only ones, and this drop in consumer confidence will have a detremental affedt on the economy - the UK (not our company surprisingly enough) is already seeing this.
Like you I don't actually think Brexit will destroy the country, just that the pain is unlikely to be worth it. And that's speaking as an Irish citizen living and working in the UK.
Trade will continue on as it has - the EU sends more to UK than UK sends to EU, so the EU is net worse off if it starts implementing tarriffs
Only if you completely ignore the relative sizes of the UK & EU GDPs and overall exports. Guess what, absolute numbers need context. A simple way of looking at it is "who would be hit hardest if UK-EU trade stopped overnight".
In 2015, the UK exported 220 billion GBP to the EU, whereas it imported 290 billion GBP. That is 44% of the UK's exports went to the EU, whereas 8-17% of the EU's exports went to the UK, so the UK would be a bigger loser.
As a percentage of GDP, the UK's EU exports made up about 10% of its GDP (2 trillion GBP), whereas the EU's UK exports made up a mere 2% of its GDP (12 trillion GBP).
Source: https://fullfact.org/europe/uk...