We're about to dump our ancient Hitachi projection TV and when the 8K sets hit the stores--probably just in time for the Super Bowl--we'll be able to get a 4K set for much less.
Remember the black woman who was killed when leaving a Texas college campus after a job interview? Pulled over for not signaling a lane change even though there was nobody around except the cop driving a block behind her.
... tried to explain to him the reason why searching for "Trump" results in so many negative hits showing up. But... since he doesn't like being "lectured to" he wouldn't believe them anyway. Makes you wonder why he bothers to claim to have surrounded himself with "the best people" if he's not going to listen to what they say. [sigh]
You set upper and lower bounds ad the thermostat engages heat or AC if the ambient temperature goes outside the set limits. I fail to see what AI adds to this.
I take it your thermostat doesn't route job orders in a large cluster to avoid sending work to hot cabinets?
No but it wouldn't be rocket science to make the temperature available to whatever software is routing jobs. You have been able to send jobs to lightly loaded hosts, cluster members, what-have-you, for a long time. Adding the cabinet temperature to the logic wouldn't be terribly difficult:
if ( ( load < load_max ) and ( ambient_temp < temp_max ) ) then AcceptJob else print "We're closed. Try next door."
You could add the local cost of electrical power into the mix as well to send the work to a locale where the rates are lower today. Nifty but I hope this isn't what they're calling AI nowadays.
Downside: See the other Slashdot article about how Amazon is gaming the electrical grid to divert the cost of running their data centers onto the poor schlubs who live near them.
I've worked with recruiters that I originally had thought were actual company employees but found out later that they were contractors. I may have been lucky but most of them have been OK. Bad apples exist everywhere, though.
What irks me are the recruiters that call and present an opportunity for a full-time position--well, contract-to-hire--but, after spending time trying to pry information from them about the position, I discover that it's a potentially full-time position with a staffing agency and $DIETY only knows where I could have been working after becoming full-time. These jokers are invariably from a self-proclaimed "industry-leading" company that I've never heard of, could substantially benefit from a year or so of ESL classes, and usually sound like they're working in a boiler room environment. I take great pleasure in adding their IP addresses to my spam filter. I'm conflicted about adding their phone numbers to my call blocker because that would cheat me out of being able to explain when they call that the reason that I didn't receive their email was that I was intentionally blocking it.
I've never skipped a scheduled interview. I have, on the other hand, had:
* companies tell me I'd be interviewing with certain people within the company only to find that they were not available--in one case, had been on travel for at least a week (the techies were aware of that; HR? It was news to them).
* had companies fail to call when they wanted a phone screen.
* had interviewers take other calls during phone screens.
* I've had interviewers carry on conversations with whoever happened to wander into their office during a phone screen.
* had interviewers put their phones on mute during phone screens, ask a simple question requiring a brief answer and then forget they were muted.
No problem for any of these dolts... they weren't the ones who took a half or full day of vacation time for an interview. Now they know how it feels to be treated like dirt during the hiring process. I'd have trouble crying even a thimble-full of tears for them.
> Who is listed as Jesus's dad on his birth certificate?
Well, since He's supposed to be the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, that'd be Himself. (Obviously, some sort of kinky time travel thing took place way back when.)
DevOps became bastardized to mean the tools you use and not the mindset that you use during development and deployment. It takes more time to create secure software and DevOps has come to mean "you will use these tools to deploy applications faster, faster, FASTER!!!" (At least that's the way things worked so-called DevOps environments I've been exposed to recently.)
"...'rock star' programmers and the sophisticated high-powered tools they preferred. As a result the internet age has seen an exponential increase in the complexity of programming, as well as its exclusivity."
Bingo!
And that complexity makes it nigh upon impossible for any one person to understand everything about how their site works. (Well, I guess, unless you're a rock star.) Even then, though, you see job ads with a laundry list of "must haves", "should haves", etc. as though any one person could have an in-depth understanding of how all those technologies work---and their potential security problems if used improperly. I am still seeing emails from recruiters for what's described as an "entry-level" position that lists more requirements than I can view on my big monitor without scrolling with many of the requirements also wanting several year's worth of experience. (I can only assume that the reason these are still being sent out by recruiters is that a hiring manager hasn't quite figured out the oxymoron that is "entry-level software engineer with years of experience".) And don't think that concentrating on a major vendor's web application environment will make fully understanding how it all works together not a daunting task when the environment is made up of software tools developed by small vendors that the company bought up and cobbled together with little-to-no effort made to have them conform to a consistent look-n-feel. And that's just the crazy quilt knowledge base you need to absorb just to support the resulting web site(s). I can't imagine having to develop in such an environment without wanting to run screaming for the door.
... will make this unfeasible. Most companies I've worked for in recent years have been moving to a work day that starts at 8:30 and only allows 30 minutes for lunch. (Unless it's someone's birthday or a co-worker's last day. Then it's 2 hours.)
... zero notches. Of course, maybe I'm alone in not being not bothered that my phone is 0.25" longer than a "notchy" phone in order to accommodate a camera and speaker. (If phone size were all that important to me, I wouldn't have encased the thing in an Otter box case.)
I'm living near one of those major cities and salaries--and even contracting rates--don't come anywhere near $135K even though I get emails from crap outfits like Glassdoor telling me that's what someone with my background should be making. Try telling a corporate recruiter that your salary needs are in that neighborhood and they'll be hanging up on you in short order.
I notice that, since the MS takeover, LinkedIn uses that same annoying interface. You reach the bottom of the initial "page" of posts, click on "Show more", and you're transported to the top of the feed again. If it weren't for browsers having tabs, you'd never find you way back to to where you were before you followed that link.
Maybe the underpaid MS workers ought to get jobs at Facebook: they're already up to speed on the UI.
Glassdoor's job ads are mostly worthless. I can't remember how times I've gone to a job listing in one of their emails and be informed that the job is no longer available. Just today I got an email for a position that had an application window that closed three days ago. Glassdoor marked it as "New". They may still be somewhat useful for researching a company (even knowing that online reviews are largely only written by the unhappy former employees) but for job leads they're just not very good.
I got into it with one of their tech support people when my Facebook profile picture suddenly appeared in the comments section of a Glassdoor article I had replied to. Their people swore up and down that this could only happen if I also had a Glassdoor account. I didn't--and they verified that I didn't--but they could not be convinced that my photo had appeared in their comment section. I even changed my FB profile photo, commented on another Glassdoor article, and verified that they were grabbing the photo from FB. Sent them screen captures of what was happening to document that they were, indeed, grabbing photos from FB but it was like talking to a brick wall. I just love it when the tech support crew doesn't even know how their application works.
The pisser is that it's not in real time. You will almost certainly have to listen to the spiel several times to get past a thick accent or someone who speaks so fast you'd think they're being charged by the second to leave the message.
And, since it's a voice mail, you won't be able to stop the spiel and ask questions as to whether the job they're hawking is even something you're qualified for (in my experience they rarely are). You get the call because something popped up on a monitor after your resume got a single keyword match. I once got an email about a job as a Surgical Administrator because I was once a systems administrator and countless emails about a job for "Mundane-low-paying-activity-we-want-to-make-sound-impressive Engineer" because of my degree. To clarify these things after listening to a voice mail requires another phone call/interruption. Oy!
Oh how I will enjoy getting voice mails from LinkedIn from every Indian IT recruiter and their cousin wanting to join my LI network. (I predict that 99% of these voice mails will come from phone numbers in New Jersey.)
I look forward with great anticipation to the day when I can leave LinkedIn behind.
``What we want is "text to speech" so we can send a moderately-involved message to someone when we're driving. And we already have it.''
There's nothing more ridiculous that having that "text-to-speech" feature accidentally get turned on and start reciting the contents of an overnight batch job failure's error log. (I used to put those on speakerphone for all to listen to with me.:-) ) I didn't know a single co-worker who used that "feature"---at least not more than once.
No... you're not alone. I use the RSS feature to watch for updates to newsletters and podcasts. And here I was considering making a move back to Firefox. Now it'll likely be relegated to an add-on that will break every other time Mozilla releases another update and then will eventually be abandoned. (sigh)
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We're about to dump our ancient Hitachi projection TV and when the 8K sets hit the stores--probably just in time for the Super Bowl--we'll be able to get a 4K set for much less.
Remember the black woman who was killed when leaving a Texas college campus after a job interview? Pulled over for not signaling a lane change even though there was nobody around except the cop driving a block behind her.
That was Hatch when he was running against his predecessor.
Time to go home Orrin.
... tried to explain to him the reason why searching for "Trump" results in so many negative hits showing up. But... since he doesn't like being "lectured to" he wouldn't believe them anyway. Makes you wonder why he bothers to claim to have surrounded himself with "the best people" if he's not going to listen to what they say. [sigh]
... their electrical costs. It'd be too bad if their insane power use forced an increase of the cost of Amazon Prime.
Oh... wait...
No but it wouldn't be rocket science to make the temperature available to whatever software is routing jobs. You have been able to send jobs to lightly loaded hosts, cluster members, what-have-you, for a long time. Adding the cabinet temperature to the logic wouldn't be terribly difficult:
if ( ( load < load_max ) and ( ambient_temp < temp_max ) ) then AcceptJob else print "We're closed. Try next door."
You could add the local cost of electrical power into the mix as well to send the work to a locale where the rates are lower today. Nifty but I hope this isn't what they're calling AI nowadays.
Downside: See the other Slashdot article about how Amazon is gaming the electrical grid to divert the cost of running their data centers onto the poor schlubs who live near them.
I've worked with recruiters that I originally had thought were actual company employees but found out later that they were contractors. I may have been lucky but most of them have been OK. Bad apples exist everywhere, though.
What irks me are the recruiters that call and present an opportunity for a full-time position--well, contract-to-hire--but, after spending time trying to pry information from them about the position, I discover that it's a potentially full-time position with a staffing agency and $DIETY only knows where I could have been working after becoming full-time. These jokers are invariably from a self-proclaimed "industry-leading" company that I've never heard of, could substantially benefit from a year or so of ESL classes, and usually sound like they're working in a boiler room environment. I take great pleasure in adding their IP addresses to my spam filter. I'm conflicted about adding their phone numbers to my call blocker because that would cheat me out of being able to explain when they call that the reason that I didn't receive their email was that I was intentionally blocking it.
I've never skipped a scheduled interview. I have, on the other hand, had:
No problem for any of these dolts... they weren't the ones who took a half or full day of vacation time for an interview. Now they know how it feels to be treated like dirt during the hiring process. I'd have trouble crying even a thimble-full of tears for them.
> Who is listed as Jesus's dad on his birth certificate?
Well, since He's supposed to be the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, that'd be Himself. (Obviously, some sort of kinky time travel thing took place way back when.)
The leaches at FB should be the ones in a hospice.
It is refreshing to see a product brag about being dense. All this Smartphone, SmartTV, Smart Home, etc., stuff is getting old.
DevOps became bastardized to mean the tools you use and not the mindset that you use during development and deployment. It takes more time to create secure software and DevOps has come to mean "you will use these tools to deploy applications faster, faster, FASTER!!!" (At least that's the way things worked so-called DevOps environments I've been exposed to recently.)
... another programming language. [smh]
Bingo!
And that complexity makes it nigh upon impossible for any one person to understand everything about how their site works. (Well, I guess, unless you're a rock star.) Even then, though, you see job ads with a laundry list of "must haves", "should haves", etc. as though any one person could have an in-depth understanding of how all those technologies work---and their potential security problems if used improperly. I am still seeing emails from recruiters for what's described as an "entry-level" position that lists more requirements than I can view on my big monitor without scrolling with many of the requirements also wanting several year's worth of experience. (I can only assume that the reason these are still being sent out by recruiters is that a hiring manager hasn't quite figured out the oxymoron that is "entry-level software engineer with years of experience".) And don't think that concentrating on a major vendor's web application environment will make fully understanding how it all works together not a daunting task when the environment is made up of software tools developed by small vendors that the company bought up and cobbled together with little-to-no effort made to have them conform to a consistent look-n-feel. And that's just the crazy quilt knowledge base you need to absorb just to support the resulting web site(s). I can't imagine having to develop in such an environment without wanting to run screaming for the door.
"...the dinky fast food places coming back to the Uber building usually have a pretty healthy crowd..."
Are those fast food customers really healthy?
... will make this unfeasible. Most companies I've worked for in recent years have been moving to a work day that starts at 8:30 and only allows 30 minutes for lunch. (Unless it's someone's birthday or a co-worker's last day. Then it's 2 hours.)
... zero notches. Of course, maybe I'm alone in not being not bothered that my phone is 0.25" longer than a "notchy" phone in order to accommodate a camera and speaker. (If phone size were all that important to me, I wouldn't have encased the thing in an Otter box case.)
^^^^^^^^ This.
I'm living near one of those major cities and salaries--and even contracting rates--don't come anywhere near $135K even though I get emails from crap outfits like Glassdoor telling me that's what someone with my background should be making. Try telling a corporate recruiter that your salary needs are in that neighborhood and they'll be hanging up on you in short order.
I notice that, since the MS takeover, LinkedIn uses that same annoying interface. You reach the bottom of the initial "page" of posts, click on "Show more", and you're transported to the top of the feed again. If it weren't for browsers having tabs, you'd never find you way back to to where you were before you followed that link.
Maybe the underpaid MS workers ought to get jobs at Facebook: they're already up to speed on the UI.
... but it is "a humiliating kick in the crotch". I can think of a few other cable companies that deserve one.
Glassdoor's job ads are mostly worthless. I can't remember how times I've gone to a job listing in one of their emails and be informed that the job is no longer available. Just today I got an email for a position that had an application window that closed three days ago. Glassdoor marked it as "New". They may still be somewhat useful for researching a company (even knowing that online reviews are largely only written by the unhappy former employees) but for job leads they're just not very good.
I got into it with one of their tech support people when my Facebook profile picture suddenly appeared in the comments section of a Glassdoor article I had replied to. Their people swore up and down that this could only happen if I also had a Glassdoor account. I didn't--and they verified that I didn't--but they could not be convinced that my photo had appeared in their comment section. I even changed my FB profile photo, commented on another Glassdoor article, and verified that they were grabbing the photo from FB. Sent them screen captures of what was happening to document that they were, indeed, grabbing photos from FB but it was like talking to a brick wall. I just love it when the tech support crew doesn't even know how their application works.
The pisser is that it's not in real time. You will almost certainly have to listen to the spiel several times to get past a thick accent or someone who speaks so fast you'd think they're being charged by the second to leave the message.
And, since it's a voice mail, you won't be able to stop the spiel and ask questions as to whether the job they're hawking is even something you're qualified for (in my experience they rarely are). You get the call because something popped up on a monitor after your resume got a single keyword match. I once got an email about a job as a Surgical Administrator because I was once a systems administrator and countless emails about a job for "Mundane-low-paying-activity-we-want-to-make-sound-impressive Engineer" because of my degree. To clarify these things after listening to a voice mail requires another phone call/interruption. Oy!
Oh how I will enjoy getting voice mails from LinkedIn from every Indian IT recruiter and their cousin wanting to join my LI network. (I predict that 99% of these voice mails will come from phone numbers in New Jersey.)
I look forward with great anticipation to the day when I can leave LinkedIn behind.
There's nothing more ridiculous that having that "text-to-speech" feature accidentally get turned on and start reciting the contents of an overnight batch job failure's error log. (I used to put those on speakerphone for all to listen to with me. :-) ) I didn't know a single co-worker who used that "feature"---at least not more than once.
No... you're not alone. I use the RSS feature to watch for updates to newsletters and podcasts. And here I was considering making a move back to Firefox. Now it'll likely be relegated to an add-on that will break every other time Mozilla releases another update and then will eventually be abandoned. (sigh)