Sometimes it goes the opposite direction: We'll offer you X if you resign, but that offer is only open for Y days, after which you may be lad off with no severance.
So then you have to decide whether the severance for resigning is a better deal than unemployment, which you'll only be eligible for if you are laid off.
Dell XPS8700 from Costco (they sell XPS8900s now). Two actually; my son saved his money and bought one too. I found that I could only save about $100 doing my own build with the same components, and it was worth that to me to have a warranty and place to take it back to in case it broke.
i7-3770; not a 3770K, but this is an appliance, not a gaming rig, so no overclocking needed. 12GB RAM, 250GB SSD main drive, three 1TB secondary drives, one for Windows, one for Linux (Mint 18 Cinnamon under VMware), and one for backups.
Two-port KVM for this and my work computer, since I work from home. ("I got yer open plan RIGHT HERE, pal!")
Watch the prices in your Costco ads, and when the machines go on sale, which they do a few times a year, grab one.
Tournament Scrabble players memorize lots of words, often without knowing their meanings (I don't know the meanings of the four seven-letter acceptable words above). Makes for cool passphrases for LastPass et al.
So for those who understand the maths, is the above passphrase harder to crack than the 20-random-printable-character passwords I have LastPass generate for me?
My daily driver runs Linux Mint 17.3 Cinnamon under VMware 12 under Windows 10. All of those have been stable enough that the only unplanned reboots are due to power failures longer than what the UPS can handle, or me attaching flakey hardware (i.e., my own damn fault). That's way more stable than Windows 95 ever was. Not to mention Win95's propensity for forced reboots ("You have moved your mouse. Windows 95 must be restarted for this to take effect. Would you like to reboot your computer now?").
Depends. They may only go through a reseller channel, meaning that you'd have to do the PITA quote/invoice/purchase order thing instead of clicking "add to cart". But eventually, someone like Newegg will become an authorized reseller, making the parts as easy to get as any other.
Mine was for an AT&T 7300, aka "Unix PC". I worked at AT&T during those years; there were 6300s everywhere. If you knew the right people and were on good terms with your boss, you could get a 7300 on your desk (until they discontinued them, at which point all the employees snapped them up at a deep discount). I remember that the biggest 6300 full-towers practically needed a pallet jack to lift.
Windows itself tends to run pretty well on older hardware, but most apps keep getting more and more bloated, and it's often cosmetic bling that causes the bloat, not added features.
Moore's law: The number of transistors on a chip doubles every 18 months. Gates's Law: Software size is doubled and software speed is halved every 18 months.
Unfortunately, there's something to that. Over the last 35 years I've done just about every job there is in software development, and the vast majority of it more strongly resembles a skilled trade than a scientific pursuit. Since I have no desire to be a researcher or a manager, I prefer it that way.
Chalkboard-based computer science that starts with phrases like "let sigma represent..." has been a very small part of the work I and my peers have done, usually around conversations about it deadlocking, running in quadratic time, and whatnot. We build things, and we use a pretty well-defined set of skills to do that, skills that do not have to be taught as part of a baccalaureate degree. (OTOH, things like political science and psychology, which you wouldn't get in a trade school, have direct application to working in large organizations.)
I married a chemist, and our best friends are a mathematician and a biologist with PhDs. I am NO scientist.
That's not the way it works. You get hired to do the job you're going to do, at full salary, and you do it initially under a provisional clearance, while your full clearance is being processed. If the work is sensitive enough that provisionally clearing people is too dangerous, then already having the appropriate clearance is made a prerequisite for the job.
And yet, most companies' "careers" pages will say in one place, "We strive to hire and retain top talent," while in another place it describes their pay as "market competitive".
Translation: We want 80th percentile people for 50th percentile salaries.
I'd purchase a large number of rare and vintage musical instruments and related gear, see that it's all taken care of properly, and build a recording studio where people could record using those instruments.
if you want to be a professional game/sport player, Scrabble is not the way to go. One year, the top prize at the US National Scrabble Championship, attended by about 700 players, was $25,000, the highest it ever was. Someone pointed out that year that $50,000 was the top prize of the national championship of Tiddlywinks.
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Sometimes it goes the opposite direction: We'll offer you X if you resign, but that offer is only open for Y days, after which you may be lad off with no severance.
So then you have to decide whether the severance for resigning is a better deal than unemployment, which you'll only be eligible for if you are laid off.
Dell XPS8700 from Costco (they sell XPS8900s now). Two actually; my son saved his money and bought one too. I found that I could only save about $100 doing my own build with the same components, and it was worth that to me to have a warranty and place to take it back to in case it broke.
i7-3770; not a 3770K, but this is an appliance, not a gaming rig, so no overclocking needed. 12GB RAM, 250GB SSD main drive, three 1TB secondary drives, one for Windows, one for Linux (Mint 18 Cinnamon under VMware), and one for backups.
Two-port KVM for this and my work computer, since I work from home. ("I got yer open plan RIGHT HERE, pal!")
Watch the prices in your Costco ads, and when the machines go on sale, which they do a few times a year, grab one.
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Tournament Scrabble players memorize lots of words, often without knowing their meanings (I don't know the meanings of the four seven-letter acceptable words above). Makes for cool passphrases for LastPass et al.
So for those who understand the maths, is the above passphrase harder to crack than the 20-random-printable-character passwords I have LastPass generate for me?
Don't you mean Flxible?
State of NJ? I've gotten them from every hole-in-the-wall contract house in seven states.
Also Ethan Allen furniture. Saw it last weekend.
My daily driver runs Linux Mint 17.3 Cinnamon under VMware 12 under Windows 10. All of those have been stable enough that the only unplanned reboots are due to power failures longer than what the UPS can handle, or me attaching flakey hardware (i.e., my own damn fault). That's way more stable than Windows 95 ever was. Not to mention Win95's propensity for forced reboots ("You have moved your mouse. Windows 95 must be restarted for this to take effect. Would you like to reboot your computer now?").
Depends. They may only go through a reseller channel, meaning that you'd have to do the PITA quote/invoice/purchase order thing instead of clicking "add to cart". But eventually, someone like Newegg will become an authorized reseller, making the parts as easy to get as any other.
Mine was for an AT&T 7300, aka "Unix PC". I worked at AT&T during those years; there were 6300s everywhere. If you knew the right people and were on good terms with your boss, you could get a 7300 on your desk (until they discontinued them, at which point all the employees snapped them up at a deep discount). I remember that the biggest 6300 full-towers practically needed a pallet jack to lift.
Windows itself tends to run pretty well on older hardware, but most apps keep getting more and more bloated, and it's often cosmetic bling that causes the bloat, not added features.
Moore's law: The number of transistors on a chip doubles every 18 months.
Gates's Law: Software size is doubled and software speed is halved every 18 months.
Might have been 1987. Hazy memory. Of course, the drive and the machine it was attached to are long gone.
The mind still boggles at that phrase. The first disk drive I ever bought was in 1986, when prices first broke the $10 per *megabyte* barrier.
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And me without mod points. :(
Probably needs a 20ma current loop to drive the ASR-33 Teletype.
Unfortunately, there's something to that. Over the last 35 years I've done just about every job there is in software development, and the vast majority of it more strongly resembles a skilled trade than a scientific pursuit. Since I have no desire to be a researcher or a manager, I prefer it that way.
Chalkboard-based computer science that starts with phrases like "let sigma represent..." has been a very small part of the work I and my peers have done, usually around conversations about it deadlocking, running in quadratic time, and whatnot. We build things, and we use a pretty well-defined set of skills to do that, skills that do not have to be taught as part of a baccalaureate degree. (OTOH, things like political science and psychology, which you wouldn't get in a trade school, have direct application to working in large organizations.)
I married a chemist, and our best friends are a mathematician and a biologist with PhDs. I am NO scientist.
"Flesh"?
That's not the way it works. You get hired to do the job you're going to do, at full salary, and you do it initially under a provisional clearance, while your full clearance is being processed. If the work is sensitive enough that provisionally clearing people is too dangerous, then already having the appropriate clearance is made a prerequisite for the job.
Zetsche, is that you?
And yet, most companies' "careers" pages will say in one place, "We strive to hire and retain top talent," while in another place it describes their pay as "market competitive".
Translation: We want 80th percentile people for 50th percentile salaries.
They're called "Democrats".
I'd purchase a large number of rare and vintage musical instruments and related gear, see that it's all taken care of properly, and build a recording studio where people could record using those instruments.
@!#?@!ing -INGS list.
After 11 years of tournaments, it's the only list that still pisses me off in its arbitrariness (although FEEDINGS is finally good in TWL).
That's the trap of thinking of Scrabble as a word game. It's not. It's a maths and probability game, with words as the playing pieces.
if you want to be a professional game/sport player, Scrabble is not the way to go. One year, the top prize at the US National Scrabble Championship, attended by about 700 players, was $25,000, the highest it ever was. Someone pointed out that year that $50,000 was the top prize of the national championship of Tiddlywinks.