Stupid question here, but if big businesses are having all of their older, experienced programmers retiring and none of their younger programmers have the skills, why aren't they paying to train people that already work for them? Seems like that would be a lot easier and cheaper, plus they have the added bonus of already knowing what your business does/needs and how it works.
It's inevitable that an acquired company cannot maintain it's independence within a larger organization. Eventually the founder/leader of the acquired company will feel constrained, unable to pursue their own vision, or find themselves at odds with the other leadership. As for the leadership of the overarching organization, they will always make sure that their position, their vision takes precedence. They will rein in a subordinate company that is growing to fast/strong and affecting the core business (which was of course founded/led by the current leadership so they have a vested interest in making sure it stays the core).
Ever shot a firearm repeatedly? Sure, modern Olympic style shooting events use.22 that have no recoil and the firearms are built using extremely lightweight materials, but it still gets heavy after a while, and except for the prone position all Olympic style shooting is unsupported. It takes fine muscle and breathing control to keep the firearms steady. Personally though, I think Olympic shooting events need to get away from the air rifles and small calibers. I'd rather see 3 gun shooting or long-range marksmanship with a larger caliber round and iron sights.
Nah, the only thing that's more boring than soccer is baseball. While I can somewhat see the appeal of playing it, it sure as fuck is no spectator sport.
It's a great spectator sport, because it's a social sport. You can interact with other spectators, have conversations with them, and not really miss any of the game. And the noise level is very manageable as well. Although, to be honest I am not a big fan of the heavy analytics push into baseball right now. Running through 4-5 pitchers a game, heavy shifting, shooting for home runs (and the corollary, strikeouts) over small ball and base running makes the game more boring. Give me a sharply hit single, a stolen base, a textbook sacrifice bunt and a sacrifice deep fly for an RBI over a home run and 2 strikeouts any day.
"esports" aren't sports because they require no athletic ability whatsoever. You could maybe argue for dexterity and hand-eye coordination but plenty of other activities require that as well. Hell, even professional golf requires a modicum of strength and conditioning to perform (by rule golfers must be able to walk the course, and hours of whacking balls will wear your muscles down). And I say this as someone who has competed in sports at the collegiate level and a regular gamer (I would say I am better than average when it comes to my game of choice: more hardcore fps like Red Orchestra 2/RS/RS2, not arcadey ones like CoD). If fortnight, DOTA, or LoL are sports, then so are chess and go.
I'd add, I understand if people are having a hard time finding a better job, but that's an entirely different (and valid) issue. Because you are in-between web developer jobs doesn't mean Uber is obligated to pay you more...they aren't a welfare program.
How is that a separate issue when so many companies these days only provide "gig" jobs (or "gigs" make up a significant percentage of their workforce)? Companies are relying on people desperate, naive, or ignorant enough to ignore/not realize that most costs are being externalized to themselves, and being paid a pittance for it. And what happens when all your web development jobs become "gigs" as well? More people bouncing around from low paying gig to low paying gig means more people unable to save, unable to retire, no one qualifying for healthcare-working 40 hours a week for 1 company means mandatory healthcare, but work a combined 45 hours a week for 3 companies and you're SOL-and more people to turn to the government for help whenever the economy inevitably hits the recessionary side of the cycle. All the while companies continue to make record profits or receive astronomical valuations.
Companies want a "gig" economy? Fine, make them pay for it. Any company utilizing gig workers must pay a percentage for each gig worker into a government pool to cover healthcare and retirement/401k/social security. Any gig worker working a combined 38-40 hours a week (or lets make it a 35 hour week average for 140 hours a month so people can take time off, don't have to worry about being sick, etc) in gig jobs is eligible to for healthcare and retirement contributions from that pool. It is illegal for companies to know/ask which other companies you work for or gigs you do and are prohibited from asking your hour total to try to keep people from qualifying for the pool (which even if they didn't qualify the companies are still paying for them anyway). Companies get their gig workers, but the rest of us don't get stuck with the bill.
Your socialist UBI utopia is a farce, because once people stop working, or trying to work, scarcity comes back and right quick.
Why would people stop working? UBI is supposed to be just enough to cover living expenses (housing, food, etc), nothing more. People will always want more (better house, more/better food, vacations, cars, etc), or want to create or produce things, so there will always be people willing to work and goods or services to buy. Not everyone will want to spend their life sitting around eating cheetos and watching porn. Isn't there something you would love to do if money wasn't a concern? I can think of several things that a UBI would enable me to do, all of them doing something that would be considered "work" or producing something of value.
Microsoft is going full on Sauron. One Bing to rule them all and in the darkness bind them. So the question remains, which volcano do we have to throw them into?
The kind of quality and efficiency that the summary seems to be talking about is expensive. The buying market wants cheap. Creating cheap solutions means grabbing third-party libraries and gluing them together....as much as possible. Once it basically works you just move on. That keeps development costs low and time to market low, which is exactly what the market wants.
To use the Apple example in the summary, Apple could create lean and efficient software for their phones without raising costs to consumers. But then they would go from making a metric shit ton of profit to only making a standard shit ton of profit and we can't have that, can we? It's not that the people have decided what they want, corporations have told people what they want and the people lapped it up, even when it is quite clearly not in their best interest.
Like that episode on Black Mirror where their scores affected the price of rent and credit worthiness. In the end people 5 starred everything including the kid pouring your coffee at starbucks. Do people not get the concept of grade inflation?
The Orville had a better exploration, where anyone could "like" or "dislike" a person or their actions and that created a social score that stuck with a person forever. Too many "dislikes" and a person couldn't even get served at a store or coffee shop and eventually dislikes could become high enough that you could be sentenced to having your personality wiped. If it got close to that stage people would literally have to go on an apology tour to try to get enough likes to counterbalance it. I don't think society will ever (hopefully) get that far, but it is a good warning for how "social scores" are a really bad idea.
If you lookup low carb high fat (LCHF), ketogenic, and carnivore proponents and experimenters, they're the ones getting the long lasting results.
I call myself "semi-keto". Greatly reduced carbs (was eating rice probably 3-4 times a week and potatoes 2-3 times a week), but also trying to stay away from really high fat (cook mostly with olive oil, not butter). Pretty sure I haven't gone into ketosis but still down about 15 lbs since Aug 1 and it's still a pretty filling diet.
"Eating less" seems to be the answer, but results in hunger pangs, leading to the person not being able to think about anything else than food, and thus stress himself out. And guess what that tends to lead to...
If you are gaining weight, in most cases it is because you are eating too much (or at least too much of the wrong things). With so many meals in the US having a calorie count in the 4 digits, simply reducing the size of meals and eating until "not hungry" instead of "feeling full" will allow you to lose weight without getting hunger pangs. If you are getting hunger pangs then you are starving yourself. And never cut out a food completely unless directed to by a doctor: doing so only causes cravings that lead you to break your diet (have that donut every now and then, eat some pizza). Following this philosophy let me lose 30 lbs in 3 months back in college (10 years ago) and I am down about 15 since the beginning of August. Of course this does include regular exercise as well as any effective diet should.
I love that local spoof. Makes it incredibly easy to id scam calls. Literally the only other person I have ever spoken to over the phone with my same first 3 numbers is my sister. So unless it is her number I know it is a scam and immediately reject the call and block the number
Everybody who engineers or manages engineers needs to read this book every few years.
"The Mythical Man Month" by Fred Brooks.
I was going to have all my subordinates read it but the book was too long, so I assigned them all a chapter to read so they would finish reading the book quicker.
One thing is for sure is you're never going to get idiots stop confusing weather with climate.
Weather - Snow, Hurricane, Rain, etc
Climate - Arid, Tropical, etc
Would you not agree though that, as climate shifts (or changes), weather will inevitably change as a result? So therefore significant, unusual, or unprecedented changes in weather could very well indicate shifts in climate?
Weatherbug was pretty careful not to make the leap that Florence is a result of climate change. They had an article speculating that the reason Florence became so strong is the result of a Bermuda high which is in an unusual position for the year.
I recall watching a BBC documentary about a large town, in Africa IIRC, and people just slung their garbage in the river. Just dumped it all in. Human waste, glass, plastic, metal, everything. And the factories dumped pollutants like dyes and other assorted toxic materials in there too. Consequently the river downstream to this craphole was completely dead and covered floating garbage.
al-Jazeera has an article up about a landfill in India. Originally designed to be no more than 20 meters high it is currently 65 meters high and has already killed people in an Idiocracy-style trash landslide. It's really rather mind blowing how things can get into a state like that so quickly.
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Stupid question here, but if big businesses are having all of their older, experienced programmers retiring and none of their younger programmers have the skills, why aren't they paying to train people that already work for them? Seems like that would be a lot easier and cheaper, plus they have the added bonus of already knowing what your business does/needs and how it works.
It's inevitable that an acquired company cannot maintain it's independence within a larger organization. Eventually the founder/leader of the acquired company will feel constrained, unable to pursue their own vision, or find themselves at odds with the other leadership. As for the leadership of the overarching organization, they will always make sure that their position, their vision takes precedence. They will rein in a subordinate company that is growing to fast/strong and affecting the core business (which was of course founded/led by the current leadership so they have a vested interest in making sure it stays the core).
Target shooting is already an Olympic event, and that's as much a sport as video games. https://www.olympic.org/shooti...
Ever shot a firearm repeatedly? Sure, modern Olympic style shooting events use .22 that have no recoil and the firearms are built using extremely lightweight materials, but it still gets heavy after a while, and except for the prone position all Olympic style shooting is unsupported. It takes fine muscle and breathing control to keep the firearms steady. Personally though, I think Olympic shooting events need to get away from the air rifles and small calibers. I'd rather see 3 gun shooting or long-range marksmanship with a larger caliber round and iron sights.
Nah, the only thing that's more boring than soccer is baseball. While I can somewhat see the appeal of playing it, it sure as fuck is no spectator sport.
It's a great spectator sport, because it's a social sport. You can interact with other spectators, have conversations with them, and not really miss any of the game. And the noise level is very manageable as well. Although, to be honest I am not a big fan of the heavy analytics push into baseball right now. Running through 4-5 pitchers a game, heavy shifting, shooting for home runs (and the corollary, strikeouts) over small ball and base running makes the game more boring. Give me a sharply hit single, a stolen base, a textbook sacrifice bunt and a sacrifice deep fly for an RBI over a home run and 2 strikeouts any day.
"esports" aren't sports because they require no athletic ability whatsoever. You could maybe argue for dexterity and hand-eye coordination but plenty of other activities require that as well. Hell, even professional golf requires a modicum of strength and conditioning to perform (by rule golfers must be able to walk the course, and hours of whacking balls will wear your muscles down). And I say this as someone who has competed in sports at the collegiate level and a regular gamer (I would say I am better than average when it comes to my game of choice: more hardcore fps like Red Orchestra 2/RS/RS2, not arcadey ones like CoD). If fortnight, DOTA, or LoL are sports, then so are chess and go.
I'd add, I understand if people are having a hard time finding a better job, but that's an entirely different (and valid) issue. Because you are in-between web developer jobs doesn't mean Uber is obligated to pay you more...they aren't a welfare program.
How is that a separate issue when so many companies these days only provide "gig" jobs (or "gigs" make up a significant percentage of their workforce)? Companies are relying on people desperate, naive, or ignorant enough to ignore/not realize that most costs are being externalized to themselves, and being paid a pittance for it. And what happens when all your web development jobs become "gigs" as well? More people bouncing around from low paying gig to low paying gig means more people unable to save, unable to retire, no one qualifying for healthcare-working 40 hours a week for 1 company means mandatory healthcare, but work a combined 45 hours a week for 3 companies and you're SOL-and more people to turn to the government for help whenever the economy inevitably hits the recessionary side of the cycle. All the while companies continue to make record profits or receive astronomical valuations.
Companies want a "gig" economy? Fine, make them pay for it. Any company utilizing gig workers must pay a percentage for each gig worker into a government pool to cover healthcare and retirement/401k/social security. Any gig worker working a combined 38-40 hours a week (or lets make it a 35 hour week average for 140 hours a month so people can take time off, don't have to worry about being sick, etc) in gig jobs is eligible to for healthcare and retirement contributions from that pool. It is illegal for companies to know/ask which other companies you work for or gigs you do and are prohibited from asking your hour total to try to keep people from qualifying for the pool (which even if they didn't qualify the companies are still paying for them anyway). Companies get their gig workers, but the rest of us don't get stuck with the bill.
Your socialist UBI utopia is a farce, because once people stop working, or trying to work, scarcity comes back and right quick.
Why would people stop working? UBI is supposed to be just enough to cover living expenses (housing, food, etc), nothing more. People will always want more (better house, more/better food, vacations, cars, etc), or want to create or produce things, so there will always be people willing to work and goods or services to buy. Not everyone will want to spend their life sitting around eating cheetos and watching porn. Isn't there something you would love to do if money wasn't a concern? I can think of several things that a UBI would enable me to do, all of them doing something that would be considered "work" or producing something of value.
Microsoft is going full on Sauron. One Bing to rule them all and in the darkness bind them. So the question remains, which volcano do we have to throw them into?
Alcohol is responsible for more than 5% of all deaths worldwide, or around 3 million a year, new figures have revealed
I think I speak for everyone when I say "WHO cares?".
Don't worry, I'll see myself out
The kind of quality and efficiency that the summary seems to be talking about is expensive. The buying market wants cheap. Creating cheap solutions means grabbing third-party libraries and gluing them together....as much as possible. Once it basically works you just move on. That keeps development costs low and time to market low, which is exactly what the market wants.
To use the Apple example in the summary, Apple could create lean and efficient software for their phones without raising costs to consumers. But then they would go from making a metric shit ton of profit to only making a standard shit ton of profit and we can't have that, can we? It's not that the people have decided what they want, corporations have told people what they want and the people lapped it up, even when it is quite clearly not in their best interest.
Like that episode on Black Mirror where their scores affected the price of rent and credit worthiness. In the end people 5 starred everything including the kid pouring your coffee at starbucks. Do people not get the concept of grade inflation?
The Orville had a better exploration, where anyone could "like" or "dislike" a person or their actions and that created a social score that stuck with a person forever. Too many "dislikes" and a person couldn't even get served at a store or coffee shop and eventually dislikes could become high enough that you could be sentenced to having your personality wiped. If it got close to that stage people would literally have to go on an apology tour to try to get enough likes to counterbalance it. I don't think society will ever (hopefully) get that far, but it is a good warning for how "social scores" are a really bad idea.
If you lookup low carb high fat (LCHF), ketogenic, and carnivore proponents and experimenters, they're the ones getting the long lasting results.
I call myself "semi-keto". Greatly reduced carbs (was eating rice probably 3-4 times a week and potatoes 2-3 times a week), but also trying to stay away from really high fat (cook mostly with olive oil, not butter). Pretty sure I haven't gone into ketosis but still down about 15 lbs since Aug 1 and it's still a pretty filling diet.
"Eating less" seems to be the answer, but results in hunger pangs, leading to the person not being able to think about anything else than food, and thus stress himself out. And guess what that tends to lead to ...
If you are gaining weight, in most cases it is because you are eating too much (or at least too much of the wrong things). With so many meals in the US having a calorie count in the 4 digits, simply reducing the size of meals and eating until "not hungry" instead of "feeling full" will allow you to lose weight without getting hunger pangs. If you are getting hunger pangs then you are starving yourself. And never cut out a food completely unless directed to by a doctor: doing so only causes cravings that lead you to break your diet (have that donut every now and then, eat some pizza). Following this philosophy let me lose 30 lbs in 3 months back in college (10 years ago) and I am down about 15 since the beginning of August. Of course this does include regular exercise as well as any effective diet should.
I love that local spoof. Makes it incredibly easy to id scam calls. Literally the only other person I have ever spoken to over the phone with my same first 3 numbers is my sister. So unless it is her number I know it is a scam and immediately reject the call and block the number
I remember that site around the turn of this century. How did they get around this ban?
BRB, going to register comcastfucked.us and thefccfucked.us real quick.
Everybody who engineers or manages engineers needs to read this book every few years.
"The Mythical Man Month" by Fred Brooks.
I was going to have all my subordinates read it but the book was too long, so I assigned them all a chapter to read so they would finish reading the book quicker.
Black Mesa
Well, the place is technically full of G Men now
So the guy that pulls a morning shift at McDonalds and stocks shelves at night at Walmart isn't an employee of both companies?
Well, the general consensus in history books is that air power alone doesn't win wars. Clearly that can be extended to the smartphone war as well.
Hurricanes are neither unusual, nor unprecedented.
Hurricanes are not, but the GP even states that this current hurricane is being affected by conditions that are.
One thing is for sure is you're never going to get idiots stop confusing weather with climate. Weather - Snow, Hurricane, Rain, etc Climate - Arid, Tropical, etc
Would you not agree though that, as climate shifts (or changes), weather will inevitably change as a result? So therefore significant, unusual, or unprecedented changes in weather could very well indicate shifts in climate?
Weatherbug was pretty careful not to make the leap that Florence is a result of climate change. They had an article speculating that the reason Florence became so strong is the result of a Bermuda high which is in an unusual position for the year.
How do they/you square that belief with the report from Accuweather about Climate Change Impacting the Bermuda High, causing it "intensify"?
A short play with a metaphor for how climate discussions will look for the near future:
Person A: "The house is flooding because of the rain pouring in".
Person B:"Think it's because of the hole in the roof?"
Person A:"I can't speculate on that."
I recall watching a BBC documentary about a large town, in Africa IIRC, and people just slung their garbage in the river. Just dumped it all in. Human waste, glass, plastic, metal, everything. And the factories dumped pollutants like dyes and other assorted toxic materials in there too. Consequently the river downstream to this craphole was completely dead and covered floating garbage.
al-Jazeera has an article up about a landfill in India. Originally designed to be no more than 20 meters high it is currently 65 meters high and has already killed people in an Idiocracy-style trash landslide. It's really rather mind blowing how things can get into a state like that so quickly.
Naproxen works better than aspirin for nerve/back pain anyway
Well, that's a good thing. You want to promote the arts, and making sure people dont charge too much rent to the ballet is a good way to do that.