As a business, the modern US university system is perpetrating criminal fraud to the greatest extent ever seen in mankind's history. Selling a product for $50-100k on the premise that it will improve your lifetime earnings more than enough to compensate for the debt, but only delivering on that for a few select degrees.
Also, if a university cares about coddling its kids to the extent that they do not become adults ready to face the world, then it has failed at it's primary mission, and should be closed down to stop the damage it is doing to society. "You had one job" etc etc.
Just false. I've tried the cheap brands/models, they tear my face up. There's a great deal of materials science that goes into a modern blade, you know. And, of course, for a given material, the sharper you make it, the less long it's going to last. I'm sure I could double the life of my razor by shaving with cold water, too (corrosion is the major wear factor if you only shave your face).
And there's little difference in price between the stores and online, unless you're getting the knockoffs.
I agree, the words "ignorance" and "ignorant" are used far to often in a negative context. I can see how someone might think it insulting.
Colleges have become obsessed with how students feel about words. That's the first thing to fix. Life doesn't care how you feel, and you can't be an adult without accepting that.
In this specific case "ignorance" is the point. There's so much that humanity just doesn't know, and there always will be. The best thing my high school physics teacher taught me was "the bigger the island of knowledge, the bigger the shore of ignorance".
Every question you answer provokes more questions you can't answer, and that's what science is all about. Heck, sometimes new discoveries reveal quite surprising degrees of ignorance in humanity. "Wow, look at that, 80% of the matter in the universe is something we know nothing at all about. 80%! The best we can say is it's some sort of particle, probably. We can't even call the stuff we're made of 'normal matter', as we're the outlier."
Research only exists because of ignorance. That fact does need to be taught - we have too much unquestioning acceptance of science-as-religion these days (there's just no way to reconcile unquestioning acceptance of authority with critical thinking, regardless of the selected authority).
No, not any more. Sure, they're a step up from WalMart, but they've started to play some of the same games, and selection is quite limited in most stores every since they decided to copy WalMart and be a grocery store too. Plus, brick-and-mortar stores just suck in general.
Tried everything. The disposables are simply better and sharper, for reasons that make good physical sense - or at least they can be, not all brands are.
I really don't like the fact TFA uses "but you can get Gillette razors cheaper on Amazon without the button". Bad example! Amazon has a huge problem with gray-market (or maybe just fake) Gillette razors that 3rd party sellers sell at a discount, but they only last about half as long. The reviews are full of complaints and advice on how to find the real product. I had almost given up on buying razors through Amazon, but now it's much easier to find the real ones, even if you don't use the silly Dash button.
While Amazon has a real problem to fix with the bogus goods in it's store, that's not a problem with the Dash: rather, the opposite.
Personally, I'd be happy to see a store that had basic sorts of staples that wasn't targeting the cheap-over-everything Walmart shopper! Give me reliable high quality and convenience even at 1.5x the price, please! (Though that's not what Dash is about). Not weird hipster alternatives to staples, either, that's a totally different market.
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But as Leelu would say "Not without my permission!"
Leelu would say "seddan akta gamat": never without my permission.
I've always been amused that scene, mostly because he asks the priest "what does akta gamat mean" and gets a translation of the whole line - as if Bruce couldn't remember his line and just fudged it. (Much as early Doctor Who gave us "reverse the polarity of the neutron flow", since it has meter and so the actor could easily remember it - though I can't remember whether that was Hartnell or Pertwee).
You realize its only a matter of time until companies splice ads into the content itself so filtering will be impossible.
It would hardly be new idea. And that's why I like Lucky Strike cigarettes, so round, so firm, so fully packed, so smooth and easy on the draw.(anyone else ever listen to old radio broadcasts?)
My favorite statistic about MOBAs: this year's League of Legends final had more in-person attendees at the stadium than this year's basketball final. I don't see the appeal of either, personally, but there's no arguing that MOBAs are a huge trend in gaming, despite there really only being 2 of them.
Nor do I, but it would surely be a spectacle. With neither side telling pleasing lies, I suspect the political debate would be entertaining at the least.
My assessment of Trump is more reserved.....he comes across as an actor. It's hard for me to figure out what he really thinks, or what parts of what he says are sincere.
He seems to me like Bill Clinton was: quite sincere in what he says, and just as sincere when he says the opposite a few weeks later. (Not an actor but a salesman/pitchman, and the best salesmen always believe what they're saying, but are... flexible in their beliefs).
The only "Scotsmen" here are in DC (or their lobbyists are) - the big money donors and the politicians they own.
There's a huge gap right now between the conservative base and GOP politicians in DC. Trump get his entertaining time in the spotlight purely because of his anger: the conservative base is really angry with the GOP establishment right now, to the point where they don't even care that Trump is not conservative! He's angry, and that emotional connection is enough for now.
Jeb is the establishment candidate. I've never seen him praised in the comments of any of the conservative blogs I read. He's seen as a horrifying combination of RINO and "could even lose to Hillary". But he has all the money, as he has the love of the exact people the base is angry with.
My strongest hope in the primaries is that we get no candidates names "Bush" or "Clinton". Enough with the legacies already! Bernie seems honest (for all I think he's a fool), I like Walker, Carson seems unobjectionable. Lets have an election where there's a difference between the candidates, for once!
The NSA doesn't intercept all exported routers to a given country, either
We've certainly done that sort of thing in the past (though I don't know if it was the NSA). Every large printer sold to Iraq in the 80s and up to the first Gulf War had a radio transponder - we knew where every datacenter in the country was when the bombing started. I've heard mixed reports about Xerox machines sold to Russia during the cold war - certainly many of them had cameras that the service tech could harvest, not sure how broadly that was done.
A slide leaked by Wikileaks shows Cisco being counted by the NSA as a "strategic partnership".
Yep, wouldn't surprise me at all if Cisco has a formal Political Officer (just like China!) along with key hires who could do the NSA's work without Cisco officially knowing.
UPS and Fed Ex's silence on the NSA's involvement doesn't give me much confidence that they're not participating in domestic interdiction
I'm sure they are, but how widespread? It's one thing if there's a warrant (pause for laughter).
Social media and such would be useful to programmers JUST STARTING THEIR CAREERS.
The only "social media" you need to be active on as a senior dev is LinkedIn. Github seems irrelevant unless your career is built on open source development.
BUT! If you are an older programmer you DO need to keep expanding your knowledge. Learn newer languages / systems.
Yep: it is important, to keep your skills and problem domain modern, unless you want to be constrained to an ever-shrinking niche. I started as a mainframe dev, and while a lot of the concepts are still useful (since the Cloud is just the new mainframe), none of the specific skills are. Even C++ is starting to become a bit niche, with new projects that fit in the gap between C and managed languages becoming rare (but as long as Google does a lot of C++, it's not really a worry, as enough people copy Google). Thank goodness jobs requiring COM or CORBA experience are mostly gone.
Bit by bit, specific technical pieces become irrelevant, so it's important to keep up. Can you write a horizontally scalable application in the cloud? Bit by bit, the new stuff becomes more important (once time enough has passed to weed out the fads). There's lots of money to be made as a senior dev with a deep understanding of all the new stuff, as that's a high-demand, low-supply job.
Yeah, 300-400 amps is pretty normal for the connection between battery and starter in a normal car - wouldn't seem like a problem. But how long does a supercharger actually take? Longer than the 2-minute gas fill-up it's being compared against? I'm wondering how many peak amps it would take to get a 2-minute charge.
They are bombing the right targets, and their PR is great. Your mistake is thinking any of it is about you (or about America, or whoever the target is). Terrorism is almost never about the target - the target is just a convenient excuse - it's about showing locally to the terrorists who has power and faith. You kill the guy way over there to show your neighbor who's boss. It's never about trying to change that guy way over there, he's not the important part; it's about local dominance and posturing.
This really seems like something straight from the Ministry of Truth. Throw anything that discredits the ruling party right down the memory hole, along with any future references to it and any references to the fact that something was censored. I guess "Information Commissioner's Office" is the new MiniTrue?
Two answers: "they don't" and "logistical convenience".
For export to certain countries of interest, there are convenient (for the NSA) shipping bottlenecks that allow them to root all the devices they care to moving from the US to that country. But that's not generally true.
OTOH, we know the NSA has done more targeted stuff, like inserting an exploit in every PC sold in a small area, as a way to get that exploit to their target who lives in that area. Presumably that's labor intensive.
There's no evidence (so far) of someone like Cisco knowingly putting an NSA exploit in everything they sell. I'm guessing that's because the NSA knows how quickly that would leak, rather than any qualms about putting legal pressure on companies. It wouldn't surprise me if Cisco was effectively forced by the NSA to hire certain specific people for roles that would make it easy to insert backdoors, except AFAIK we didn't see anything like that in the Snowden leaks, and I'd think we would have.
If you're in any of the software development hotspots, this just isn't an issue. Companies understand the rush, and in general use "fast response" as a recruiting tactic. Microsoft being the champion here, with next-day offers (and same-day offers for college hiring events).
The last time I needed to leave a job in a hurry, I interviewed with a startup on Thursday, had a verbal on Friday, and signed the paperwork Monday morning. Getting the interview can take some time, so you can end up in a less-that-ideal job if you're rushed, but getting the offer shouldn't take more than a week if you're in Silly Valley, Seattle, or one of the East Coast centers.
I know several people who've been laid off as H1-Bs, and while it's stressful, none of them ran out of time.
Well, and the wiring inside the car. Needing functional active cooling of wiring inside the car to avoid a safety hazard seems like a bad plan, to me. But for all I know, the existing Tesla charging cables can handle the needed amperage to charge the car in 2 minutes - I don't know whether that's hundreds or thousands of amps. I do know that hundreds of amps is enough to spotweld a live connector to the sheetmetal body of a car (when that's a short) in a fraction of a second, and it's all downhill from there, so the safety hazard is a key consideration.
some of which can't be described in terms of other languages
You fail to understand Turing completeness. Anything that can be written in any real language can be written in any other. It's just a matter of how awkward that would be.
Yep: my gaming rig has 6 GB of memory (it's old - my vid card has nearly as much now), and no page file. I've never had a problem with any game due to memory limits. A 32-bit game in Windows is, for all practical purposes, limited to ~3 GB, as both the kernel and a "memory window" to send data up to the video card need a range of addresses.
Game AIs that are both CPU and memory hogs are starting to emerge, however, as game developers grow into using multiple threads. I wouldn't expect the current situation to last forever, so I'll go to 16 GB or so when I build my next gaming rig; though I'm not in any hurry there, as my current still benchmarks in the top 10% (of people enthusiast-enough to run the benchmark). Amazing how much life a new video card adds to a gaming system.
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As a business, the modern US university system is perpetrating criminal fraud to the greatest extent ever seen in mankind's history. Selling a product for $50-100k on the premise that it will improve your lifetime earnings more than enough to compensate for the debt, but only delivering on that for a few select degrees.
Also, if a university cares about coddling its kids to the extent that they do not become adults ready to face the world, then it has failed at it's primary mission, and should be closed down to stop the damage it is doing to society. "You had one job" etc etc.
Just false. I've tried the cheap brands/models, they tear my face up. There's a great deal of materials science that goes into a modern blade, you know. And, of course, for a given material, the sharper you make it, the less long it's going to last. I'm sure I could double the life of my razor by shaving with cold water, too (corrosion is the major wear factor if you only shave your face).
And there's little difference in price between the stores and online, unless you're getting the knockoffs.
I agree, the words "ignorance" and "ignorant" are used far to often in a negative context. I can see how someone might think it insulting.
Colleges have become obsessed with how students feel about words. That's the first thing to fix. Life doesn't care how you feel, and you can't be an adult without accepting that.
In this specific case "ignorance" is the point. There's so much that humanity just doesn't know, and there always will be. The best thing my high school physics teacher taught me was "the bigger the island of knowledge, the bigger the shore of ignorance".
Every question you answer provokes more questions you can't answer, and that's what science is all about. Heck, sometimes new discoveries reveal quite surprising degrees of ignorance in humanity. "Wow, look at that, 80% of the matter in the universe is something we know nothing at all about. 80%! The best we can say is it's some sort of particle, probably. We can't even call the stuff we're made of 'normal matter', as we're the outlier."
Research only exists because of ignorance. That fact does need to be taught - we have too much unquestioning acceptance of science-as-religion these days (there's just no way to reconcile unquestioning acceptance of authority with critical thinking, regardless of the selected authority).
No, not any more. Sure, they're a step up from WalMart, but they've started to play some of the same games, and selection is quite limited in most stores every since they decided to copy WalMart and be a grocery store too. Plus, brick-and-mortar stores just suck in general.
Tried everything. The disposables are simply better and sharper, for reasons that make good physical sense - or at least they can be, not all brands are.
I really don't like the fact TFA uses "but you can get Gillette razors cheaper on Amazon without the button". Bad example! Amazon has a huge problem with gray-market (or maybe just fake) Gillette razors that 3rd party sellers sell at a discount, but they only last about half as long. The reviews are full of complaints and advice on how to find the real product. I had almost given up on buying razors through Amazon, but now it's much easier to find the real ones, even if you don't use the silly Dash button.
While Amazon has a real problem to fix with the bogus goods in it's store, that's not a problem with the Dash: rather, the opposite.
Personally, I'd be happy to see a store that had basic sorts of staples that wasn't targeting the cheap-over-everything Walmart shopper! Give me reliable high quality and convenience even at 1.5x the price, please! (Though that's not what Dash is about). Not weird hipster alternatives to staples, either, that's a totally different market.
But as Leelu would say "Not without my permission!"
Leelu would say "seddan akta gamat": never without my permission.
I've always been amused that scene, mostly because he asks the priest "what does akta gamat mean" and gets a translation of the whole line - as if Bruce couldn't remember his line and just fudged it. (Much as early Doctor Who gave us "reverse the polarity of the neutron flow", since it has meter and so the actor could easily remember it - though I can't remember whether that was Hartnell or Pertwee).
You realize its only a matter of time until companies splice ads into the content itself so filtering will be impossible.
It would hardly be new idea. And that's why I like Lucky Strike cigarettes, so round, so firm, so fully packed, so smooth and easy on the draw.(anyone else ever listen to old radio broadcasts?)
Jackie Chan's Uncle reportedly very upset by this news. (Screw Jobs, I'll always hear one more thing in Uncle's voice)
My favorite statistic about MOBAs: this year's League of Legends final had more in-person attendees at the stadium than this year's basketball final. I don't see the appeal of either, personally, but there's no arguing that MOBAs are a huge trend in gaming, despite there really only being 2 of them.
I have no idea how that would turn out.
Nor do I, but it would surely be a spectacle. With neither side telling pleasing lies, I suspect the political debate would be entertaining at the least.
My assessment of Trump is more reserved.....he comes across as an actor. It's hard for me to figure out what he really thinks, or what parts of what he says are sincere.
He seems to me like Bill Clinton was: quite sincere in what he says, and just as sincere when he says the opposite a few weeks later. (Not an actor but a salesman/pitchman, and the best salesmen always believe what they're saying, but are ... flexible in their beliefs).
A race between Bernie and Trump would be spectacular.
The only "Scotsmen" here are in DC (or their lobbyists are) - the big money donors and the politicians they own.
There's a huge gap right now between the conservative base and GOP politicians in DC. Trump get his entertaining time in the spotlight purely because of his anger: the conservative base is really angry with the GOP establishment right now, to the point where they don't even care that Trump is not conservative! He's angry, and that emotional connection is enough for now.
Jeb is the establishment candidate. I've never seen him praised in the comments of any of the conservative blogs I read. He's seen as a horrifying combination of RINO and "could even lose to Hillary". But he has all the money, as he has the love of the exact people the base is angry with.
My strongest hope in the primaries is that we get no candidates names "Bush" or "Clinton". Enough with the legacies already! Bernie seems honest (for all I think he's a fool), I like Walker, Carson seems unobjectionable. Lets have an election where there's a difference between the candidates, for once!
The NSA doesn't intercept all exported routers to a given country, either
We've certainly done that sort of thing in the past (though I don't know if it was the NSA). Every large printer sold to Iraq in the 80s and up to the first Gulf War had a radio transponder - we knew where every datacenter in the country was when the bombing started. I've heard mixed reports about Xerox machines sold to Russia during the cold war - certainly many of them had cameras that the service tech could harvest, not sure how broadly that was done.
A slide leaked by Wikileaks shows Cisco being counted by the NSA as a "strategic partnership".
Yep, wouldn't surprise me at all if Cisco has a formal Political Officer (just like China!) along with key hires who could do the NSA's work without Cisco officially knowing.
UPS and Fed Ex's silence on the NSA's involvement doesn't give me much confidence that they're not participating in domestic interdiction
I'm sure they are, but how widespread? It's one thing if there's a warrant (pause for laughter).
Social media and such would be useful to programmers JUST STARTING THEIR CAREERS.
The only "social media" you need to be active on as a senior dev is LinkedIn. Github seems irrelevant unless your career is built on open source development.
BUT! If you are an older programmer you DO need to keep expanding your knowledge. Learn newer languages / systems.
Yep: it is important, to keep your skills and problem domain modern, unless you want to be constrained to an ever-shrinking niche. I started as a mainframe dev, and while a lot of the concepts are still useful (since the Cloud is just the new mainframe), none of the specific skills are. Even C++ is starting to become a bit niche, with new projects that fit in the gap between C and managed languages becoming rare (but as long as Google does a lot of C++, it's not really a worry, as enough people copy Google). Thank goodness jobs requiring COM or CORBA experience are mostly gone.
Bit by bit, specific technical pieces become irrelevant, so it's important to keep up. Can you write a horizontally scalable application in the cloud? Bit by bit, the new stuff becomes more important (once time enough has passed to weed out the fads). There's lots of money to be made as a senior dev with a deep understanding of all the new stuff, as that's a high-demand, low-supply job.
Yeah, 300-400 amps is pretty normal for the connection between battery and starter in a normal car - wouldn't seem like a problem. But how long does a supercharger actually take? Longer than the 2-minute gas fill-up it's being compared against? I'm wondering how many peak amps it would take to get a 2-minute charge.
They are bombing the right targets, and their PR is great. Your mistake is thinking any of it is about you (or about America, or whoever the target is). Terrorism is almost never about the target - the target is just a convenient excuse - it's about showing locally to the terrorists who has power and faith. You kill the guy way over there to show your neighbor who's boss. It's never about trying to change that guy way over there, he's not the important part; it's about local dominance and posturing.
This really seems like something straight from the Ministry of Truth. Throw anything that discredits the ruling party right down the memory hole, along with any future references to it and any references to the fact that something was censored. I guess "Information Commissioner's Office" is the new MiniTrue?
Two answers: "they don't" and "logistical convenience".
For export to certain countries of interest, there are convenient (for the NSA) shipping bottlenecks that allow them to root all the devices they care to moving from the US to that country. But that's not generally true.
OTOH, we know the NSA has done more targeted stuff, like inserting an exploit in every PC sold in a small area, as a way to get that exploit to their target who lives in that area. Presumably that's labor intensive.
There's no evidence (so far) of someone like Cisco knowingly putting an NSA exploit in everything they sell. I'm guessing that's because the NSA knows how quickly that would leak, rather than any qualms about putting legal pressure on companies. It wouldn't surprise me if Cisco was effectively forced by the NSA to hire certain specific people for roles that would make it easy to insert backdoors, except AFAIK we didn't see anything like that in the Snowden leaks, and I'd think we would have.
If you're in any of the software development hotspots, this just isn't an issue. Companies understand the rush, and in general use "fast response" as a recruiting tactic. Microsoft being the champion here, with next-day offers (and same-day offers for college hiring events).
The last time I needed to leave a job in a hurry, I interviewed with a startup on Thursday, had a verbal on Friday, and signed the paperwork Monday morning. Getting the interview can take some time, so you can end up in a less-that-ideal job if you're rushed, but getting the offer shouldn't take more than a week if you're in Silly Valley, Seattle, or one of the East Coast centers.
I know several people who've been laid off as H1-Bs, and while it's stressful, none of them ran out of time.
Well, and the wiring inside the car. Needing functional active cooling of wiring inside the car to avoid a safety hazard seems like a bad plan, to me. But for all I know, the existing Tesla charging cables can handle the needed amperage to charge the car in 2 minutes - I don't know whether that's hundreds or thousands of amps. I do know that hundreds of amps is enough to spotweld a live connector to the sheetmetal body of a car (when that's a short) in a fraction of a second, and it's all downhill from there, so the safety hazard is a key consideration.
You still need a cable that won't overheat at the amperage. A 4" solid copper busbar would be a bit awkward to connect.
some of which can't be described in terms of other languages
You fail to understand Turing completeness. Anything that can be written in any real language can be written in any other. It's just a matter of how awkward that would be.
We did it on our mainframe platform, but that was mid-90s, so others were first.
Yep: my gaming rig has 6 GB of memory (it's old - my vid card has nearly as much now), and no page file. I've never had a problem with any game due to memory limits. A 32-bit game in Windows is, for all practical purposes, limited to ~3 GB, as both the kernel and a "memory window" to send data up to the video card need a range of addresses.
Game AIs that are both CPU and memory hogs are starting to emerge, however, as game developers grow into using multiple threads. I wouldn't expect the current situation to last forever, so I'll go to 16 GB or so when I build my next gaming rig; though I'm not in any hurry there, as my current still benchmarks in the top 10% (of people enthusiast-enough to run the benchmark). Amazing how much life a new video card adds to a gaming system.