I'm working full time while pursuing a PHD. As a result, I'm getting paid significantly more than the cost of attending school but trading off a complete lack of time. I may not survive to graduation but so far the experience alone is worth it.
This just kind of sounds to me like a PID controller tuned for the short term that goes out of control in the long term. Probably just falsely applying what I know to something completely unrelated...
Not talking as large a stink as a lawsuit, don't know anyone in the companies that I work at that went that far. But I know a very specific male engineer who got hired into our company. The first thing he started doing is asking about other people's job titles. When he found out that there were job titles above his, he pushed for a promotion to the highest job title, the first week after he started. Most of the rest of the time he spent doing little work and continuing to push for promotion, up until management go tired of him and informed him there were no contracts available for him to work.
Which is often saying something in an engineering company when the majority of workers are slightly to heavily introverted. I HATE negotiating in yearly reviews but after my pay kept getting crappier I started pushing hard for a bigger raise every time, with some results.
Never said they were brilliant, just quietly competent in appearance with the men ranging both above and below. Of course I could be assuming the competence due to the quiet but where I work, the most vocal idiots are the men. Fortunately I can count that number on one hand in recent memory and the vastly larger number of men where I work means there are almost less women I can count as having actually worked with than the total number of blatantly incompetent people in my company. Maybe I'm too tolerant... shrug.
On the other hand, men I've worked with seem convinced that they should get paid far more for doing minimal work of questionable quality. When they aren't promoted for this work they cause a big stink, complaining about how they are not treated like they deserve.
The women I've worked with are usually quietly competent. For the most part they weren't brilliant but they weren't idiots either. If I want to point out the biggest idiots around my workplace it is usually a man.
I actually use my laptop for parallel programming. That is to say, it is a bit crufty. I have an iPad 2 that I still use. I keep it on the end table by the couch. I use it for checking email (but usually not writing unless it will be very sort), light browsing, and generally killing time with a crossword puzzle or some such. It's essentially replaced the pile of magazines most people used to have there instead. I supposed I could get a netbook or light-duty laptop for the same purpose, but I won't spend the money until the iPad breaks and forces the issue.
What I would like a tablet for is a wireless remote screen. Something I could move reference materials from my laptop screen over to and use the touchscreen or laptop keyboard to interact with. Probably will never happen but just seems like it would be useful.
I would but my laptop does these just fine and takes up just about as little space while doing a lot more at the same time.
I find it interesting that you think 'twice as much' is the same as 'just about as little space'. If I were less lazy, I'd hit you with a joke about the size of your penis.
When compared to my full tower desktop with corner desk and triple monitors, my laptop is only a little larger than my tablet. And by little larger, I mean fits just as comfortably anywhere I need to use it.
Only because you have no imagination. I'm still using mine as a light browser, email client, videophone, occasional gaming time waster, VNC client, as well as acting as the remote for my soundbar, TV and Plex server.
I would but my laptop does these just fine and takes up just about as little space while doing a lot more at the same time.
Greed and efficiency are related, because one is simply a subjective judgement on the other.
If a craftsman can create a nice pretty and highly functional arrowhead in 18 hours, and an journeyman can make one every hour using simpler techniques, he can build 18 arrowheads in the same time as a craftsman can make in an hour, and that has its own advantages. You can call that "greed" all you want, but when trading time comes, the guy with 18 arrowheads is gonna get more in trade than the guy with only one, even if it is better constructed and prettier. Though the nice one will likely end up with the chief / prince / king as a ceremonial piece that is never actually used.
Greed (subjective interpretation) is, for lack of better understanding, how trade actually works. After all, what does Uggah need with 18 semi automatic arrowheads?
The beautiful Howiesons Poort industry with its long, thin blades is replaced at 58,000 years ago by a simple technology that could be rapidly produced.
Skilled craftsmen replaced by cheap labor. Who knew it was a tradition 58,000 years old.
Greed is timeless.
So much so that unless we solve for the disease of Greed, we will be ultimately destroyed by it.
Greed and efficiency can differ depending on the eye of the beholder...
There's nothing wrong with Windows 8, as long as you turn it into Windows 7.
You can also use classic shell on windows 10. There's nothing wrong with Windows 10, as long as you turn it into Windows 7... except the OS spying on us and able to turn on and off any software at will without users stopping it... er, never mind.
Researchers have looked at readers of slashdot and them to be more unhealthy as compared to the greater population. Their typical diet being pizza in their parents basement was dismissed as unrelated to the study.
Entanglement always seems like a bug, to me. If you can coax two particles into having the exact same state at the same time, then they stay that way forever. The fuck? Tell me that isn't a hash collision
Bug or feature? I had never really thought of it that way, a really interesting idea.
Since Verizon stopped making me subsidize a new phone out of every bill? Nope. Heck, I was about to find a different network when my contract ended, but at that time they lowered all bills by what they had been subsidizing phones with. Now I'll use my s5 until it stops turning on (bought a new battery a couple months ago), at that point I'll find the lowest cost smartphone that can make calls and run slitherlink. For computing power, my money goes into my desktop system and it will be a long time before that changes (I hope).
Not to mention why limit yourself to a standard CPU architecture where one CPU is simulating frames for many objects? Instead you could do a massively parallel system where a single processor could simulate a single atom or even subatomic particle. Then with a flexible network it would communicate only with the other particles it directly communicates with (even have "particles" representing parts of space for EM radiation).
You could possibly do this with something like a 3 dimensional FPGA where x number of gates are used to simulate the particle and are connected through gates to other "particles" in the simulation. Reprogramming those gates on the fly based on state changes could let the simulation effectively move through the FPGA. This is something we could almost do on a small 2d scale now.
Sure a lot of this is prevented on a large scale by physics but if we are in a simulation, that doesn't necessarily tell us anything about the real universe we are living in. The parent universe could have more than 3 dimensions, possibly a lot more. Now it could be almost trivial to simulate a 3d universe of very large scale. It doesn't even have to be able to simulate it quickly, who says we would notice that a second of our time takes a century in the "real" universe, or whatever time they might have?
Many of the projects I work on would do great with extra people. Work where we have thousands of hours needed to develop sufficient testing for certification of the software. A vast majority of these tests are independent enough that you could throw a separate expert at each test and get them done in no time at all.
The problem that management fails to grasp is a smart person who has worked on similar projects is not an expert at this particular project. When we throw a bunch of new people at it, the bottlenecks are inevitably a) the hardware required to run the tests and more importantly b) the systems people who actually understand what the software should be doing (not what it is doing) and were never given enough time to actually document this thoroughly enough to make it easily understandable enough for testers.
This all seems to fall into another software discussion on/. just a bit ago where people were lamenting software projects did not spend enough money in the short term to make a project successful in the long term. A few extra dollars in defining the system can save 100x that over the life of the project.
Not only do they fail to train up replacements, they fire or let go of their area experts. Then they expect to hire a replacement for this expert or contract out work that they were previously responsible for. Most of my contracts over the past few years seem to start out with, here is your work, the last person who worked on this quit/was let go 5+ years ago. This is one of the reasons why I've not fought to get out of contracting and back to full time employment with a software company.
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I'm working full time while pursuing a PHD. As a result, I'm getting paid significantly more than the cost of attending school but trading off a complete lack of time. I may not survive to graduation but so far the experience alone is worth it.
This just kind of sounds to me like a PID controller tuned for the short term that goes out of control in the long term. Probably just falsely applying what I know to something completely unrelated...
So you are saying they should just include their 175k some peers in the lawsuit?
https://www.seattletimes.com/b...
Not talking as large a stink as a lawsuit, don't know anyone in the companies that I work at that went that far. But I know a very specific male engineer who got hired into our company. The first thing he started doing is asking about other people's job titles. When he found out that there were job titles above his, he pushed for a promotion to the highest job title, the first week after he started. Most of the rest of the time he spent doing little work and continuing to push for promotion, up until management go tired of him and informed him there were no contracts available for him to work.
Which is often saying something in an engineering company when the majority of workers are slightly to heavily introverted. I HATE negotiating in yearly reviews but after my pay kept getting crappier I started pushing hard for a bigger raise every time, with some results.
Never said they were brilliant, just quietly competent in appearance with the men ranging both above and below. Of course I could be assuming the competence due to the quiet but where I work, the most vocal idiots are the men. Fortunately I can count that number on one hand in recent memory and the vastly larger number of men where I work means there are almost less women I can count as having actually worked with than the total number of blatantly incompetent people in my company. Maybe I'm too tolerant... shrug.
On the other hand, men I've worked with seem convinced that they should get paid far more for doing minimal work of questionable quality. When they aren't promoted for this work they cause a big stink, complaining about how they are not treated like they deserve.
The women I've worked with are usually quietly competent. For the most part they weren't brilliant but they weren't idiots either. If I want to point out the biggest idiots around my workplace it is usually a man.
Aircraft for one. My laptop doesn't usually have room to open fully.
Last time I flew, six years ago, I had no trouble with my laptop. Has it gotten that much worse?
Still on Windows these days but the reasons to switch keep mounting...
I actually use my laptop for parallel programming. That is to say, it is a bit crufty. I have an iPad 2 that I still use. I keep it on the end table by the couch. I use it for checking email (but usually not writing unless it will be very sort), light browsing, and generally killing time with a crossword puzzle or some such. It's essentially replaced the pile of magazines most people used to have there instead. I supposed I could get a netbook or light-duty laptop for the same purpose, but I won't spend the money until the iPad breaks and forces the issue.
What I would like a tablet for is a wireless remote screen. Something I could move reference materials from my laptop screen over to and use the touchscreen or laptop keyboard to interact with. Probably will never happen but just seems like it would be useful.
Yeesh! That was dire. But I get your point: I'll definitely make the joke next time to save us from your attempt.
Hey, you threatened twice before I went for it! :p
When compared to my full tower desktop with corner desk and triple monitors, my laptop is only a little larger than my tablet.
Yeah, I should have gone with a joke about the size of your penis.
Well when it's this big, everything else looks small in comparison...
I would but my laptop does these just fine and takes up just about as little space while doing a lot more at the same time.
I find it interesting that you think 'twice as much' is the same as 'just about as little space'. If I were less lazy, I'd hit you with a joke about the size of your penis.
When compared to my full tower desktop with corner desk and triple monitors, my laptop is only a little larger than my tablet. And by little larger, I mean fits just as comfortably anywhere I need to use it.
https://www3.lenovo.com/us/en/...|se|google|All_Products|NX_Lenovo_All_Products_DSA&ef_id=WcAn_gAAAoLExYOZ:20171024181007:s
Only because you have no imagination. I'm still using mine as a light browser, email client, videophone, occasional gaming time waster, VNC client, as well as acting as the remote for my soundbar, TV and Plex server.
I would but my laptop does these just fine and takes up just about as little space while doing a lot more at the same time.
Greed and efficiency are related, because one is simply a subjective judgement on the other.
If a craftsman can create a nice pretty and highly functional arrowhead in 18 hours, and an journeyman can make one every hour using simpler techniques, he can build 18 arrowheads in the same time as a craftsman can make in an hour, and that has its own advantages. You can call that "greed" all you want, but when trading time comes, the guy with 18 arrowheads is gonna get more in trade than the guy with only one, even if it is better constructed and prettier. Though the nice one will likely end up with the chief / prince / king as a ceremonial piece that is never actually used.
Greed (subjective interpretation) is, for lack of better understanding, how trade actually works. After all, what does Uggah need with 18 semi automatic arrowheads?
Well stated.
Skilled craftsmen replaced by cheap labor. Who knew it was a tradition 58,000 years old.
Greed is timeless.
So much so that unless we solve for the disease of Greed, we will be ultimately destroyed by it.
Greed and efficiency can differ depending on the eye of the beholder...
There's nothing wrong with Windows 8, as long as you turn it into Windows 7.
You can also use classic shell on windows 10. There's nothing wrong with Windows 10, as long as you turn it into Windows 7... except the OS spying on us and able to turn on and off any software at will without users stopping it... er, never mind.
And still one of the top news for nerds sites out there
Which probably says more about the general amount and quality of "news for nerds" than about /....
I'd like to deny that comment but in spite of periodic searching, many other options seem to be much worse crap.
And still one of the top news for nerds sites out there, even if some other crap sneaks in at times. Happy birthday!
Researchers have looked at readers of slashdot and them to be more unhealthy as compared to the greater population. Their typical diet being pizza in their parents basement was dismissed as unrelated to the study.
Entanglement always seems like a bug, to me. If you can coax two particles into having the exact same state at the same time, then they stay that way forever. The fuck? Tell me that isn't a hash collision
Bug or feature? I had never really thought of it that way, a really interesting idea.
Since Verizon stopped making me subsidize a new phone out of every bill? Nope. Heck, I was about to find a different network when my contract ended, but at that time they lowered all bills by what they had been subsidizing phones with. Now I'll use my s5 until it stops turning on (bought a new battery a couple months ago), at that point I'll find the lowest cost smartphone that can make calls and run slitherlink. For computing power, my money goes into my desktop system and it will be a long time before that changes (I hope).
Not to mention why limit yourself to a standard CPU architecture where one CPU is simulating frames for many objects? Instead you could do a massively parallel system where a single processor could simulate a single atom or even subatomic particle. Then with a flexible network it would communicate only with the other particles it directly communicates with (even have "particles" representing parts of space for EM radiation).
You could possibly do this with something like a 3 dimensional FPGA where x number of gates are used to simulate the particle and are connected through gates to other "particles" in the simulation. Reprogramming those gates on the fly based on state changes could let the simulation effectively move through the FPGA. This is something we could almost do on a small 2d scale now.
Sure a lot of this is prevented on a large scale by physics but if we are in a simulation, that doesn't necessarily tell us anything about the real universe we are living in. The parent universe could have more than 3 dimensions, possibly a lot more. Now it could be almost trivial to simulate a 3d universe of very large scale. It doesn't even have to be able to simulate it quickly, who says we would notice that a second of our time takes a century in the "real" universe, or whatever time they might have?
Many of the projects I work on would do great with extra people. Work where we have thousands of hours needed to develop sufficient testing for certification of the software. A vast majority of these tests are independent enough that you could throw a separate expert at each test and get them done in no time at all.
The problem that management fails to grasp is a smart person who has worked on similar projects is not an expert at this particular project. When we throw a bunch of new people at it, the bottlenecks are inevitably a) the hardware required to run the tests and more importantly b) the systems people who actually understand what the software should be doing (not what it is doing) and were never given enough time to actually document this thoroughly enough to make it easily understandable enough for testers.
This all seems to fall into another software discussion on /. just a bit ago where people were lamenting software projects did not spend enough money in the short term to make a project successful in the long term. A few extra dollars in defining the system can save 100x that over the life of the project.
Not only do they fail to train up replacements, they fire or let go of their area experts. Then they expect to hire a replacement for this expert or contract out work that they were previously responsible for. Most of my contracts over the past few years seem to start out with, here is your work, the last person who worked on this quit/was let go 5+ years ago. This is one of the reasons why I've not fought to get out of contracting and back to full time employment with a software company.