That's just not how the Feds work. They just draft you into the military, whereupon you can be legally required to keep the secret. Happened to a friend of mine (worked out OK for him, since he managed to keep reserve officers pay for many years - good chunk of change, that).
explain to me why there are three generations of leptons, not two or four or some other number
Heavy point particles are unstable - beyond a certain mass they can't form at all. The math establishing this for most particles is well understood (still some work to do).
Why do the elementary particles have the particular masses they do?
Because of their coupling with the Higgs field, the rate at which they can flip their weak isospin chirality. Their mass without the Higgs field coupling is 0. Yeah, still some work to do to understand the exact values - especially for quarks, where we can't even measure it accurately, but still the mechanism is well understood and tested.
Why does velocity have a limit, and why does the limit have the value it does?
Causality has a speed limit - all other limits flow from that. Why the precise value? Physicists say the value is "1" in "natural units" - what you're really asking is its ratio to other things. Better to ask the mathematically equivalent, but much more clear question: why is the fine structure constant what it is? (Why is the combination on a physicist's briefcase 137?) Now that's an interesting question.
But I don't think any of that was what the OP meant by "general physics" - I think he meant "human-scale physics", which has been more or less solved for about 100 years now with relativity and QM explaining the lingering inexplicable results.
While the "gosh numbers" are a philosophical curiosity, the real interesting questions not at the extreme fringe are: * What is dark matter, exactly? * What is dark energy, even qualitatively? * How can we combine GR and QM?
That's where the exiting physics will be, IMO. Those are areas where theories can be debunked through observation.
That's not a problem with "compiled code". That's the problem that Eclipse blows goats for crack. Switch to IntelliJ (or the other language products by the same guys) - still takes a while to load, but at least it won't corrupt itself.
Of course, Notepad++ is good enough for most simple C/C++ programs, or small bugfixes. Anyone recommend a decent Linux equivalent? And no, if I wanted VIM, I already have VIM, thanks.
Maybe I'm confused, but I thought MPs were directly elected and your elected MPs select the PM? And Lords didn't have binding authority, just a bully pulpit? (But admittedly I don't understand how they amend bills)
I guess It depends on the size of the company, but in any case HR's role is supposed to be just this - to provide a channel when your management chain is fucked. They don't always live up to that, of course, but sometimes they do.
If "upper management" is in an office in a different city, or won't even recognize the name of your boss's boss's boss, it seems far fetched that would bring results. Legal? Maybe, but your much more likely to find only sociopaths there. The board might be interested, though they definitely won't change anything local to you - might do some good though.
Most companies aren't "sociopaths all the way down", or at least have a healthy fear of lawsuits. If no one ever complains to HR the manager keeps getting away with it. If the company has never has a written complaint about a managers behavior, how can you expect them to get rid of him? Once they do have a written complaint, they're at much greater risk of a high-damages lawsuit if someone else sues them down the road. If they have not just a complaint, but a trail of evidence (e.g., if the manager is stupid enough to put things in email), that's even more powerful.
I wouldn't blame anyone for leaving instead of hoping things get fixed one day - leaving seems like the smart move, if you have the option. But don't be a sociopath yourself, either. There's a chance to do some good on the way out, and that's something.
Trump's platform is right-wing authoritarian populism, complete with a personality cult - basically one step away from fascism
Ah, so Trump is Hitler.
Well, given that Reagan is Hitler, and Bush Sr and Jr are both Hitler, I've learned to be OK with Hitler for president.
Or maybe, just maybe, there's a bit of media bias at work in these popular beliefs.
There have been many incidents of mob violence against Trump supporters (in one case while police wathed approvingly), plus the attempted assassination of Trump recently, so the evidence about "due process" etc seems different than the spin, at least to me.
But all of this is very hypothetical to the guy without a job concerned about immigration. I find myself tired of the arrogance of people who dismiss the other side as "idiots" simply because they don't have the same value or priorities.
"has been held to be sufficient cause to quit without notice and without penalty"? Are you talking about quitting contracts or something? I've never has a job where either side had any obligation to continue the relationship.
"any employer who's asked you to do anything illegal is in no position to badmouth you " Regardless of who is in the right, new employers may still call former employers, and they're going to say whatever they say, and you're going to have to live in that world, fair or unfair. The emotionally satisfying choice may not be the optimal choice.
"Sexual harassment" these days means "anything that makes me feel uncomfortable, in my sole opinion. regardless of intent" (as anyone who has taken corporate sexual harassment training knows). Which pretty much happens to everyone every day, so it's hard to know what you're talking about specifically.
Before quitting, it's good to at least talk to HR on the way out. Maybe you at least help someone else with the misfortune to work there, and maybe they don't brush you off. Similarly for illegal behavior. The company might actually do something about the problem manager - I've seen it happen.
I would caveat "harassment" to add "and HR didn't fix it".
Overall, as much as they may deserve it, leaving without notice risks hurting yourself. The one question future employers may ask former employers is "is he eligible for re-hire", and a "no" there can hurt you. Sometimes it's worth it even so, but don't cut off your nose to spiderface.
And your understanding of Trump, and of his supporters, is informed by something other than the mainstream media, social media, and liberal blogs?
People who have lost their job, and would like to see less immigration that directly competes with them, are idiots? I hear that story quite often by non-Trumpkins here on Slashdot on every H1-B story.
Reality has a liberal bias, so the conservatives fled Facebook because they are unhappy with reality.
This is what confirmation bias looks like. When you're part of the "community-based reality", everything your read or hear shows how smart you are, and what idiots the fools on the other side must be - after all, you never see evidence to the contrary!
The phrase is "film at eleven" - you're hearing this on the news, so the news is now".
But yes, we've already seen Facebook uses their platform to support their political objectives. That's been obvious for a while really, and most conservatives have left Facebook/Twitter/etc to avoid supporting them in any way. No doubt that was the goal of progressives all along, or anyway delights them.
But an echo chamber that feeds directly into your selection bias is harmful to everyone. Sadly, that's all we seem to have these days, in both new media and old - it's on you to read both conservative and liberal blogs (or, for the elderly, both listen to talk radio and read the paper). Just realize that social media is a progressive echo chamber these days, so you're not going to find perspective if all you consume is social media, MSNBC, and liberal blogs.
(I mentioned the bit about the Logo upthread.) The problem with that reasoning about the spec is the customer. If it's true that most high-end vid cards are already cheating, and someone naively makes a consumer motherboard to spec, instead of to that reality, their product will fail in common use. They'll get terrible reviews on Amazon and Newegg, and enthusiasts who buy that part will have a terrible customer experience.
It's too bad the 3.0 spec didn't adjust for this, but of course that would have cast a shadow on the "backwards compatibility" of the spec, so I suspect the 4.0 spec won't either.
BTW, on logo abuse, that's nothing new. Last time I built a PC, it was nearly impossible to find a consumer motherboard where a 4x card (e.g., a SAS HBA) would actually work in a 16x slot. I don't know how they screw up something so basic, but no one cared about non-graphics cards in the "graphics card slots".
And that is how specs work.
I suspect just one of us has actually worked on a standards committee. Successful specs document what the dominant players in the field are actually doing, ideally before they ship, at least for the "draft standard" (which is what matters, tech standards tend not to be ABSI/ISO ratified until after they're obsolete), so that smaller players can interoperate.
E.g., the SCSI standard in the early years was the "Apple procurement standard", but later became the "Dell procurement standard". Now of course it's just the command set you use to talk to a SATA device, oddly enough. The fibre channel standard never had a dominant player, and so never really got to the point where interoperability could be safely assumed. The HTML standard was a horror show for years because the w3c and Microsoft weren't talking to each other (and it wasn't only Microsoft being dicks about that), so you had a "Spec" that writing against meant 90% of users had browsers that wouldn't work with your web page.
More likely "Avast Accumulation of Bureaucracy". Still, I doubt they can become so large and awkward that their products reach the quality level of Norton AV. I think quantum physics protects us from having two adjacent products at absolute zero.
They said there were no cases where failing to follow handling rules for a small amount of classified information (without additional intent to pass it on to spies or similar) had been considered worthy of criminal prosecution as opposed to administrative sanction / employee disciplinary action.
Blatantly untrue - last year a sailor (Machinist Mate 1st Class Kristian Saucier) was recently prosecuted for taking a picture of his buddies on his submarine. Storing classified information (pictures showing interior of the sub) on an insecure device (the camera). They also prosecuted him for obstruction for the same sort of destruction of information (plus some pile-on charges). He took a plea bargain just 2 weeks ago.
Happens all the time - the laws about handling of classified information do have teeth, unless you're a Clinton with dirt on half the Congress and heir presumptive for determining the FBI budget.
Useful standards describe what the industry actually does. That way, implementing to the spec gives you actual interoperability. Standards committees have no sort of moral authority to tell implementors what they should do, instead they describe what an interoperable system looks like.
In this case, it's clear that providing more power through the PCI slot is a useful, helpful thing to do. There's no magic about 75W - it's just a number, far below what the circuit traces allow.
She mishandled classified information, which is a felony (no intent required). The FBI said as much, and said that they'd go after the next person who did this, just not Hillary. Seriously.
The rule of law means the same low applies to the powerful as to the common man. That's been fading in America, and it's not a good thing (drug laws haven't applied equally to celebrities for quite some time, this is just another brick in the wall).
Yeah, Lufthansa has a P/E that's pretty nuts, must be a lot of risk priced in. They also have 6B in debt, so that's priced in. Snapchat of course has no risk priced in, just infinite growth - I can see no flaw in that plan.
If no one follows it, it's not a spec that matters. Specs have no moral authority - the standard is what people do, not what's on paper. The Logo on the other hand, that's about the spec. If the mobo vendors were designing only to the spec, that would make for real issues, but fortunately they aren't.
Perhaps the right answer here is to move the spec to match reality. Smart standards groups do this. When everyone is cheating, it's no longer cheating, it's the new standard.
Yes, but only the first makes any kind of sense. The other connectors have nothing to do with PCIe - they can be on any sort of card, the PCIe part is irrelevant.
Be honest about the spec too. If it takes more power cables, build more sockets for them on the card, for goodness sake. Plenty of video cards have a pair of 6-pin (8-pin?) cables running to them.
I have a 1 kW PSU in my gaming rig for goodness sake, take all the power you need AMD but follow the damn specs!
the amount I've lost due to depreciation over the second six years is a fraction of what it was over the first six years
Compare the total depreciation costs over the lifetime of the car, annualized.
Total cost of ownership is a thing.
You're really reaching, here, to claim it's only 10%... and that you include things like
If it costs to $3000/year to commute no matter what car you drive, then getting your annual costs below $3000 is the land of diminishing returns. Sure, if you're pinching every penny, savings is savings, and percentages don't matter. If, OTOH, you're trying to get the nicest car (by whatever standard) for a given budget, those tradeoffs mater.
It costs me over $6000/year no matter what car I drive (Seattle) so the percentage is lower still, depends on circumstance.
BTW, you're still "paying" for comprehensive, you're just self-insured. The risk is still there. Does it get cheaper as your car ages? Depends if you'd buy a new car one if the old one was stolen. Oh, and you're deducting that ad-valorem tax on your federal income tax, right?
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That's just not how the Feds work. They just draft you into the military, whereupon you can be legally required to keep the secret. Happened to a friend of mine (worked out OK for him, since he managed to keep reserve officers pay for many years - good chunk of change, that).
explain to me why there are three generations of leptons, not two or four or some other number
Heavy point particles are unstable - beyond a certain mass they can't form at all. The math establishing this for most particles is well understood (still some work to do).
Why do the elementary particles have the particular masses they do?
Because of their coupling with the Higgs field, the rate at which they can flip their weak isospin chirality. Their mass without the Higgs field coupling is 0. Yeah, still some work to do to understand the exact values - especially for quarks, where we can't even measure it accurately, but still the mechanism is well understood and tested.
Why does velocity have a limit, and why does the limit have the value it does?
Causality has a speed limit - all other limits flow from that. Why the precise value? Physicists say the value is "1" in "natural units" - what you're really asking is its ratio to other things. Better to ask the mathematically equivalent, but much more clear question: why is the fine structure constant what it is? (Why is the combination on a physicist's briefcase 137?) Now that's an interesting question.
But I don't think any of that was what the OP meant by "general physics" - I think he meant "human-scale physics", which has been more or less solved for about 100 years now with relativity and QM explaining the lingering inexplicable results.
While the "gosh numbers" are a philosophical curiosity, the real interesting questions not at the extreme fringe are:
* What is dark matter, exactly?
* What is dark energy, even qualitatively?
* How can we combine GR and QM?
That's where the exiting physics will be, IMO. Those are areas where theories can be debunked through observation.
That's not a problem with "compiled code". That's the problem that Eclipse blows goats for crack. Switch to IntelliJ (or the other language products by the same guys) - still takes a while to load, but at least it won't corrupt itself.
Of course, Notepad++ is good enough for most simple C/C++ programs, or small bugfixes. Anyone recommend a decent Linux equivalent? And no, if I wanted VIM, I already have VIM, thanks.
Maybe I'm confused, but I thought MPs were directly elected and your elected MPs select the PM? And Lords didn't have binding authority, just a bully pulpit? (But admittedly I don't understand how they amend bills)
Wait, what? You voted for Jean-Claude Juncker? Donald Tusk?
Or do you believe, some "remainers" do, that "the problem with democracy is voting"?
I guess It depends on the size of the company, but in any case HR's role is supposed to be just this - to provide a channel when your management chain is fucked. They don't always live up to that, of course, but sometimes they do.
If "upper management" is in an office in a different city, or won't even recognize the name of your boss's boss's boss, it seems far fetched that would bring results. Legal? Maybe, but your much more likely to find only sociopaths there. The board might be interested, though they definitely won't change anything local to you - might do some good though.
Most companies aren't "sociopaths all the way down", or at least have a healthy fear of lawsuits. If no one ever complains to HR the manager keeps getting away with it. If the company has never has a written complaint about a managers behavior, how can you expect them to get rid of him? Once they do have a written complaint, they're at much greater risk of a high-damages lawsuit if someone else sues them down the road. If they have not just a complaint, but a trail of evidence (e.g., if the manager is stupid enough to put things in email), that's even more powerful.
I wouldn't blame anyone for leaving instead of hoping things get fixed one day - leaving seems like the smart move, if you have the option. But don't be a sociopath yourself, either. There's a chance to do some good on the way out, and that's something.
Not new, but definitely my current favorite.
Trump's platform is right-wing authoritarian populism, complete with a personality cult - basically one step away from fascism
Ah, so Trump is Hitler.
Well, given that Reagan is Hitler, and Bush Sr and Jr are both Hitler, I've learned to be OK with Hitler for president.
Or maybe, just maybe, there's a bit of media bias at work in these popular beliefs.
There have been many incidents of mob violence against Trump supporters (in one case while police wathed approvingly), plus the attempted assassination of Trump recently, so the evidence about "due process" etc seems different than the spin, at least to me.
But all of this is very hypothetical to the guy without a job concerned about immigration. I find myself tired of the arrogance of people who dismiss the other side as "idiots" simply because they don't have the same value or priorities.
"has been held to be sufficient cause to quit without notice and without penalty"? Are you talking about quitting contracts or something? I've never has a job where either side had any obligation to continue the relationship.
"any employer who's asked you to do anything illegal is in no position to badmouth you " Regardless of who is in the right, new employers may still call former employers, and they're going to say whatever they say, and you're going to have to live in that world, fair or unfair. The emotionally satisfying choice may not be the optimal choice.
"Sexual harassment" these days means "anything that makes me feel uncomfortable, in my sole opinion. regardless of intent" (as anyone who has taken corporate sexual harassment training knows). Which pretty much happens to everyone every day, so it's hard to know what you're talking about specifically.
Before quitting, it's good to at least talk to HR on the way out. Maybe you at least help someone else with the misfortune to work there, and maybe they don't brush you off. Similarly for illegal behavior. The company might actually do something about the problem manager - I've seen it happen.
I would caveat "harassment" to add "and HR didn't fix it".
Overall, as much as they may deserve it, leaving without notice risks hurting yourself. The one question future employers may ask former employers is "is he eligible for re-hire", and a "no" there can hurt you. Sometimes it's worth it even so, but don't cut off your nose to spiderface.
And your understanding of Trump, and of his supporters, is informed by something other than the mainstream media, social media, and liberal blogs?
People who have lost their job, and would like to see less immigration that directly competes with them, are idiots? I hear that story quite often by non-Trumpkins here on Slashdot on every H1-B story.
Reality has a liberal bias, so the conservatives fled Facebook because they are unhappy with reality.
This is what confirmation bias looks like. When you're part of the "community-based reality", everything your read or hear shows how smart you are, and what idiots the fools on the other side must be - after all, you never see evidence to the contrary!
Companies back biased reporting. News at 11
The phrase is "film at eleven" - you're hearing this on the news, so the news is now".
But yes, we've already seen Facebook uses their platform to support their political objectives. That's been obvious for a while really, and most conservatives have left Facebook/Twitter/etc to avoid supporting them in any way. No doubt that was the goal of progressives all along, or anyway delights them.
But an echo chamber that feeds directly into your selection bias is harmful to everyone. Sadly, that's all we seem to have these days, in both new media and old - it's on you to read both conservative and liberal blogs (or, for the elderly, both listen to talk radio and read the paper). Just realize that social media is a progressive echo chamber these days, so you're not going to find perspective if all you consume is social media, MSNBC, and liberal blogs.
(I mentioned the bit about the Logo upthread.) The problem with that reasoning about the spec is the customer. If it's true that most high-end vid cards are already cheating, and someone naively makes a consumer motherboard to spec, instead of to that reality, their product will fail in common use. They'll get terrible reviews on Amazon and Newegg, and enthusiasts who buy that part will have a terrible customer experience.
It's too bad the 3.0 spec didn't adjust for this, but of course that would have cast a shadow on the "backwards compatibility" of the spec, so I suspect the 4.0 spec won't either.
BTW, on logo abuse, that's nothing new. Last time I built a PC, it was nearly impossible to find a consumer motherboard where a 4x card (e.g., a SAS HBA) would actually work in a 16x slot. I don't know how they screw up something so basic, but no one cared about non-graphics cards in the "graphics card slots".
And that is how specs work.
I suspect just one of us has actually worked on a standards committee. Successful specs document what the dominant players in the field are actually doing, ideally before they ship, at least for the "draft standard" (which is what matters, tech standards tend not to be ABSI/ISO ratified until after they're obsolete), so that smaller players can interoperate.
E.g., the SCSI standard in the early years was the "Apple procurement standard", but later became the "Dell procurement standard". Now of course it's just the command set you use to talk to a SATA device, oddly enough. The fibre channel standard never had a dominant player, and so never really got to the point where interoperability could be safely assumed. The HTML standard was a horror show for years because the w3c and Microsoft weren't talking to each other (and it wasn't only Microsoft being dicks about that), so you had a "Spec" that writing against meant 90% of users had browsers that wouldn't work with your web page.
More likely "Avast Accumulation of Bureaucracy". Still, I doubt they can become so large and awkward that their products reach the quality level of Norton AV. I think quantum physics protects us from having two adjacent products at absolute zero.
They said there were no cases where failing to follow handling rules for a small amount of classified information (without additional intent to pass it on to spies or similar) had been considered worthy of criminal prosecution as opposed to administrative sanction / employee disciplinary action.
Blatantly untrue - last year a sailor (Machinist Mate 1st Class Kristian Saucier) was recently prosecuted for taking a picture of his buddies on his submarine. Storing classified information (pictures showing interior of the sub) on an insecure device (the camera). They also prosecuted him for obstruction for the same sort of destruction of information (plus some pile-on charges). He took a plea bargain just 2 weeks ago.
Happens all the time - the laws about handling of classified information do have teeth, unless you're a Clinton with dirt on half the Congress and heir presumptive for determining the FBI budget.
Useful standards describe what the industry actually does. That way, implementing to the spec gives you actual interoperability. Standards committees have no sort of moral authority to tell implementors what they should do, instead they describe what an interoperable system looks like.
In this case, it's clear that providing more power through the PCI slot is a useful, helpful thing to do. There's no magic about 75W - it's just a number, far below what the circuit traces allow.
She mishandled classified information, which is a felony (no intent required). The FBI said as much, and said that they'd go after the next person who did this, just not Hillary. Seriously.
The rule of law means the same low applies to the powerful as to the common man. That's been fading in America, and it's not a good thing (drug laws haven't applied equally to celebrities for quite some time, this is just another brick in the wall).
Yeah, Lufthansa has a P/E that's pretty nuts, must be a lot of risk priced in. They also have 6B in debt, so that's priced in. Snapchat of course has no risk priced in, just infinite growth - I can see no flaw in that plan.
If no one follows it, it's not a spec that matters. Specs have no moral authority - the standard is what people do, not what's on paper. The Logo on the other hand, that's about the spec. If the mobo vendors were designing only to the spec, that would make for real issues, but fortunately they aren't.
Perhaps the right answer here is to move the spec to match reality. Smart standards groups do this. When everyone is cheating, it's no longer cheating, it's the new standard.
Yes, but only the first makes any kind of sense. The other connectors have nothing to do with PCIe - they can be on any sort of card, the PCIe part is irrelevant.
I'm sure he meant the 6-pin aux power cable running to the card, but he could have just said that.
Be honest about the spec too. If it takes more power cables, build more sockets for them on the card, for goodness sake. Plenty of video cards have a pair of 6-pin (8-pin?) cables running to them.
I have a 1 kW PSU in my gaming rig for goodness sake, take all the power you need AMD but follow the damn specs!
the amount I've lost due to depreciation over the second six years is a fraction of what it was over the first six years
Compare the total depreciation costs over the lifetime of the car, annualized.
Total cost of ownership is a thing.
You're really reaching, here, to claim it's only 10%... and that you include things like
If it costs to $3000/year to commute no matter what car you drive, then getting your annual costs below $3000 is the land of diminishing returns. Sure, if you're pinching every penny, savings is savings, and percentages don't matter. If, OTOH, you're trying to get the nicest car (by whatever standard) for a given budget, those tradeoffs mater.
It costs me over $6000/year no matter what car I drive (Seattle) so the percentage is lower still, depends on circumstance.
BTW, you're still "paying" for comprehensive, you're just self-insured. The risk is still there. Does it get cheaper as your car ages? Depends if you'd buy a new car one if the old one was stolen. Oh, and you're deducting that ad-valorem tax on your federal income tax, right?