You can barely see the line markers in light rain especially as it starts getting dark, I'm surprised it would work in heavy rain at all.
As for first-world problems, I do remember some cars where you actively had to fight the steering wheel because it would randomly jerk left or right by itself.
Well that cruise control confusion has been around a long time. It was a big deal when cruise control was new and some drivers actually believed that they could take their hands off the wheel and do other things. The prevalence of such stories has gone down over time as people got educated but never really went away completely.
Some people will just insist on doing their makeup, looking at the phone, or plucking nose hairs while commuting.
sales involve specialized products also, like medical equipment that sell maybe 1000 a year. The CEOs job is not to design or build things, but to sell the company to the investors, keep the board happy, and schmooze with other CEOs.
And they do this because consumers keep buying them. Maybe the push for repairing should be aimed more at consumers than politicians. Nobody needs an iPhone 10, seriously.
Most CEOs I've worked with started in sales. The few that started in engineering often struggled because their primary job as CEO is not to do engineering. If your talking startups then maybe you're right, but that's a weird and distorted world that doesn't reflect the average company.
Further out on the tail doesn't mean much though. In the computing world the vast majority of those being hired are in the average range. And if we go by the average then we should be seeing similar numbers of men and women with the same aptitudes. And you actually do see more gender balance if you go outside of US and Europe.
Well, if women have multiple sets of skills it may mean that they have more opportunity to avoid the grungy world of IT tech support.
But there is a cultural factor here. When you look at immigrant workers in the US, women are much more represented in computing than with native born workers.
My father was a 6th grade teacher and an ex-marine and no one ever thought of him as weak or effeminate. This was back in the day when teachers had respect from everyone. In fact, all the 6th grade teachers were men. If there was a stereotype it was that younger grades were for female teachers and later grades were for male teachers. 6th grade though was tough work, there were so many new hormones starting to flow that it was difficult to keep children behaved and focused. When my father went to teach 4th grade instead in the last few years before retirement he became much more relaxed and easy going.
That's not really what the study says. The differences are not found in the averages but at the tails of the bell curve. Since most people are average then the extremes on either end don't matter so much.
And this is something that has surprised me. In many STEM fields a woman has to be well above average to make it in the door, and yet morons who are male are hired all the time even by companoes that claim to only hire the best.
In grade school and high school, the top math students were mostly girls. I never even heard of a gender imbalance in math until late in the university (our math and science classes were well balanced, but possibly due to these being prerequisites for everyone). Even when graduating there was good female representation in computer science. When I got my first jobs in computing about a third to one half of programmers and sysadmins were women. Nothing started to feel like a sausage fest until this millenia.
This imbalance in computing seems to be something that happened over time. And believe me, computing was seen as something only for geeks back then and it didn't have the sort of people who today try to pretend its cool.
Well, "half the world" doesn't say in what units or the like. But in terms of number of computers running COBOL it is very small. In terms of the number of transactions processed by COBOL it's massive. It keeps the world spinning. If Google searched vanished tomorrow the world would go on, but if all the COBOL systems vanished then it's likely we'd have a massive economic depression and multiple industries would collapse. This is foundational stuff that so much of modern life is built on top of.
You know ten years ago the advice given to kids used to be "don't trust anyone on the internet" and "don't get into cars with strangers". Today those same kids are now contacting strangers on the internet so they can get into their cars.
In the 90s the company I was at wanted everyone to sign an arbitration agreement to get more options. I turned it down and the CFO thought I was nuts. The company had a history of suing past employees, so going to arbitration wasn't purely hypothetical. The key problem was the agreement that said after an arbitration that if either party were unhappy with the agreement that they could request new arbitration with the cost born equally by both parties. This meant that whoever had the deepest pockets would win, even if the arbitration board was fair.
These things are amazingly expensive, going to court or to an arbitration board. No way is an individual Uber employee going to do this when they barely make enough money to cover the cost of their autos.
Quite a lot of contract jobs are paid by the hour though, especially when the job to do is not clear cut with an ending condition. They will essentially do identical jobs to full employees, fixing bugs, adding features, writing docs, etc. They are hired because they can get around hiring freezes or because you couldn't find anyone else suitable to fill the job reqs.
All those currently corrupt unions started life doing a lot of real good for the workers when they were new. However in the meantime the US has become extremely anti-union, and many of the traditionally pro-union voters have switched over the the Republican side (after all it's not like we have more than two parties to choose from). So unions today have no teeth.
The courts here didn't decide anything of the above in this case, instead they ruled that the Uber "employees" signed away their rights when they applied for the jobs.
So the lesson here is do not sign away your rights when you take a job. Especially don't sell your soul for a low paying job.
Basically the courts have decided that those stupid agreements you sign when taking a job are valid, which is still highy pro-corporate.
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You can barely see the line markers in light rain especially as it starts getting dark, I'm surprised it would work in heavy rain at all.
As for first-world problems, I do remember some cars where you actively had to fight the steering wheel because it would randomly jerk left or right by itself.
Well that cruise control confusion has been around a long time. It was a big deal when cruise control was new and some drivers actually believed that they could take their hands off the wheel and do other things. The prevalence of such stories has gone down over time as people got educated but never really went away completely.
Some people will just insist on doing their makeup, looking at the phone, or plucking nose hairs while commuting.
If you're driving offroad you're probably not going to be confused about blind spot monitoring features.
We didn't have a computer lab, so I don't know what that would have been like.
Well, there are some bunny ranches in Nevada that are singularly about people and monetizing them.
"We're about people! The people who own companies who want to monetize their customer. Those are the people we're passionate about monetizing!"
It's very similar to "I bought you dinner so now I expect something from you!"
In my experience this wasn't true. In my high school most girls did their homework and most guys goofed off.
sales involve specialized products also, like medical equipment that sell maybe 1000 a year. The CEOs job is not to design or build things, but to sell the company to the investors, keep the board happy, and schmooze with other CEOs.
And they do this because consumers keep buying them. Maybe the push for repairing should be aimed more at consumers than politicians. Nobody needs an iPhone 10, seriously.
Most CEOs I've worked with started in sales. The few that started in engineering often struggled because their primary job as CEO is not to do engineering. If your talking startups then maybe you're right, but that's a weird and distorted world that doesn't reflect the average company.
Further out on the tail doesn't mean much though. In the computing world the vast majority of those being hired are in the average range. And if we go by the average then we should be seeing similar numbers of men and women with the same aptitudes. And you actually do see more gender balance if you go outside of US and Europe.
Well, if women have multiple sets of skills it may mean that they have more opportunity to avoid the grungy world of IT tech support.
But there is a cultural factor here. When you look at immigrant workers in the US, women are much more represented in computing than with native born workers.
My father was a 6th grade teacher and an ex-marine and no one ever thought of him as weak or effeminate. This was back in the day when teachers had respect from everyone. In fact, all the 6th grade teachers were men. If there was a stereotype it was that younger grades were for female teachers and later grades were for male teachers. 6th grade though was tough work, there were so many new hormones starting to flow that it was difficult to keep children behaved and focused. When my father went to teach 4th grade instead in the last few years before retirement he became much more relaxed and easy going.
That's not really what the study says. The differences are not found in the averages but at the tails of the bell curve. Since most people are average then the extremes on either end don't matter so much.
And this is something that has surprised me. In many STEM fields a woman has to be well above average to make it in the door, and yet morons who are male are hired all the time even by companoes that claim to only hire the best.
In grade school and high school, the top math students were mostly girls. I never even heard of a gender imbalance in math until late in the university (our math and science classes were well balanced, but possibly due to these being prerequisites for everyone). Even when graduating there was good female representation in computer science. When I got my first jobs in computing about a third to one half of programmers and sysadmins were women. Nothing started to feel like a sausage fest until this millenia.
This imbalance in computing seems to be something that happened over time. And believe me, computing was seen as something only for geeks back then and it didn't have the sort of people who today try to pretend its cool.
Well, "half the world" doesn't say in what units or the like. But in terms of number of computers running COBOL it is very small. In terms of the number of transactions processed by COBOL it's massive. It keeps the world spinning. If Google searched vanished tomorrow the world would go on, but if all the COBOL systems vanished then it's likely we'd have a massive economic depression and multiple industries would collapse. This is foundational stuff that so much of modern life is built on top of.
You know ten years ago the advice given to kids used to be "don't trust anyone on the internet" and "don't get into cars with strangers". Today those same kids are now contacting strangers on the internet so they can get into their cars.
Many employees work their own schedules.
In the 90s the company I was at wanted everyone to sign an arbitration agreement to get more options. I turned it down and the CFO thought I was nuts. The company had a history of suing past employees, so going to arbitration wasn't purely hypothetical. The key problem was the agreement that said after an arbitration that if either party were unhappy with the agreement that they could request new arbitration with the cost born equally by both parties. This meant that whoever had the deepest pockets would win, even if the arbitration board was fair.
These things are amazingly expensive, going to court or to an arbitration board. No way is an individual Uber employee going to do this when they barely make enough money to cover the cost of their autos.
Quite a lot of contract jobs are paid by the hour though, especially when the job to do is not clear cut with an ending condition. They will essentially do identical jobs to full employees, fixing bugs, adding features, writing docs, etc. They are hired because they can get around hiring freezes or because you couldn't find anyone else suitable to fill the job reqs.
If you start harassing one of the strippers then Brune will take you out back and have a good long talk until you understand the rules.
All those currently corrupt unions started life doing a lot of real good for the workers when they were new.
However in the meantime the US has become extremely anti-union, and many of the traditionally pro-union voters have switched over the the Republican side (after all it's not like we have more than two parties to choose from). So unions today have no teeth.
The courts here didn't decide anything of the above in this case, instead they ruled that the Uber "employees" signed away their rights when they applied for the jobs.
So the lesson here is do not sign away your rights when you take a job. Especially don't sell your soul for a low paying job.
Basically the courts have decided that those stupid agreements you sign when taking a job are valid, which is still highy pro-corporate.
What is FFB?