While the definition of burnout might not have been adequately explained to the surveyed and thus make me doubt a little of its accuracy , I suspect the percentage of Tech Workers that burnt out is higher than the 57% quoted, considering the possibility of even higher % of the severely burnout left IT for other fields, or worse, suffered ill health (physical of mental) and is now sitting at home broken. The survey seem to only question those still fit enough and produce good enough quality of work output to not get fired.
Not trying lay the sole blame on his parents - I also noticed no mention of in the article of his parents trying to talk to him directly instead of writing notes. Unless the guy has violent tendencies or other mental issues, why wouldn't the parent sit down to have a hard talk with him like any decent parent should, before seeing him in court to serve eviction notice?
They are either not on even talking terms for a long time, or - judging from his lack of self-awareness when interviewed - it's possible that the parents have tendency to kick the can down the road on many, MANY hard life decisions with him all the while (including hard talk and "correcting" him before he turns adult), which contributed to make the guy what he is now.
Then it's the English of the writer and editor that is sub-standard. It's the file size that is equivalent, not the content. (if writer added "which is" before "roughly" in that sentence nobody would comment.
I have my fair share of grammar fails and typos but article writers should write better than an average poster if he/she wants to be respected with any air of authority.
Estimation - It also seems that a rather large percentage of adult population forget (or fail to grasp) that twice as large on both dimensions means 4 times in size, or that a larger pan of pizza measuring 40% longer already have roughly twice the calories.
And for larger heaps of food like of fried rice to double in calories it only needs to "look slightly larger", measuring at 26% extra on each of 3 dimensions (1.26^3=2.000376). All that is before inaccurate "guesstimates" on fat of sugar being considered.
......Did you miss the multiple "racial" riots that happened 2016-17? Hate crimes where large amount of like-minded people coordinated to achieve violence are almost always by non-whites nowadays. (And truck of peace, which is a can of worms which have an even more complex dynamics with illegal immigration disguised as refugees, and many other factors.)
On the other hand, white supremacists have difficulty (comparatively) finding like-minded comrades to lynch a black together. White culture and even White Supremacist culture circa 2018 is simply not violent enough or populous enough to be near the top of social menace ranking. Some other cultures, on the other hand, have large enough numbers and cohesion to have a ghetto kingdom of their own...
Straight from authorized repairer's mouth (here in Singapore). They also tell you to thus backup everything before you even come.
It's so burdensome that I suspect Apple made this policy to minimize repair cost by making people jump through the hoops.
The largest repair they can do here without sending the phone in seems to be screen change. But from what other replies suggest it's also possible they're trying to maximize the incidents where phones are sent to, to maximise profit. (From my post above, the time they wanted me to send phone in, it is already obvious that there's a high chance my issue can be solved by a battery change, yet they somehow insist to send phone in to diagnose what's happening first.)
Speaking as someone who had paid out of pocket for iphone for repairs under warranty:-
(1) Some people value time. There are 2 Apple-authorized Service Provider in my place that is within 1 hour travel if you include walking/waiting time. Long Queue. They'll take your iphone to diagnose and you can come back a few working days later for it. Total time taken is exceeds half a work day when all things are factored. Some people actually value their time (understatement) .
(2) Some people need their phone and cannot part with it for 3 days, maybe?
(3) It's pre-requisite that they wipe your phone for privacy purposes. For people that had any amount of important new data stored unto it since the last backup - even those that back up weekly - Paying yourself may be more viable in order not to lose that. That was also the occasion where I fork out money to change the battery for my less than 1 year old iphone - about 20 paid repair places available within my walking distance, and 20 minutes later my phone is good-to-go again.
Given that 92% of the ICO didn't even follow through far enough to actually make it to public - I'd say even "just get out before it collapses" is wishful thinking.
You'll pretty much has to be the founder and tiny handful of people working around him to have a high success chance. I bet even some of the late-coming employees will get their fingers burned when they got taken by the hype surrounding them, and judgements are easily clouded by sheer time in the office and fatigue of working 15 hour days.
Seconded. To create a rocket of - despite of his obvious flaws in reasoning - from scratch out of sheer determination and with enough quality to launch at 350 mph is a great triumph for the man and also small triumph of the human spirit.
I've thought that 99% probability that he's an attention troll / fraudster when he cancelled previous rocket launch. I'm pleasantly surprised he followed through.
But to be fair "just lost weight" can be tried multiple times and many anecdotal evidence suggest that there are millions of people who managed to lose weight and improve health that didn't succeed the first time.
There is almost no down side to an overweight person to lose weight, unlike most medicines whose have a % of people with side eddect.
Also, it (should) cost almost nothing, and can be safely used in conjunction with other inteventions, which unlike medicines, would most likely have no negative chemical interactions.
FDC may or may not reject it, but for cost-effectiveness and obvious general improvement of health, it is certainly recommendable for someone of deteriorating health, diabetics being a subset of a larger set of problems.
Since odd no. for Win is usually reputed to be decent quality and even no. versions crap - and we've been stuck in an even-number versions since 5 and a half years ago - Can we assume they'll skip Win 11 altogether, and in a year or two, announce another crappy malware named Windows 12?
While probably no one would work at USD $3 if told beforehand (and now that the $3.37 is largely of suspect...) I wonder if many that dropped out of share-riding earn significantly less because they performed much poorer than they thought they can, probably through misjudging their map reading or driving skills.
Purely an personal anedote : One of the more "memorably horrible" driver that I hailed through Grab (a competitor of Uber around here) was just In later conversations in the car, it's clear that this Chinese immigrant does not speak English at all and is such a poor reading of English road names that she clearly does not read the Map nor take GPS instructions that was fed to her as well. An order that should have taken her 8-12 minutes to fulfill for $5 (around USD $4) eventually took over 50 minutes of driving. I "of course" have to guide her all the way home.
I'd be surprised if she manage to grosses zero dollars a day after deducting basic fees and fuel costs(let alone insurance and wear and tear). And I'd believe there's a large enough subset of such people will quit this gig in no time but they're constantly in large enough numbers as fresh adopters, to pull down averages significantly.
As for drivers of that provided came quickly and serviced without any issue, almost all of them said that the riding money is good when I asked.
**I come from a place where having a car is still deemed to be of status and gives face and thus have many people (esp. man) that obviously shouldn't have a car struggle to keep one, considering our convenient public transport. Many of those are not good drivers, and some also perhaps totally misjudged their driving / map-reading ability and thus their earning potential when they started (Over 80% of drivers think they are better than average on the road, old saying says).
Logically if target is never defined there are no way to for any employee outside of the CxO circle “in the loop” to ever strive to work hard to meet the goal.
Who knows, it might have been a ruse to wriggle out their unspoken obligation to pay bonus. But the whole premise is logically flawed and no one trust the management anymore once they somehow are told they missed the target even though they exceed expectations.
Though I believe too that it is in a bubble I believe bitcoin is too well known to drop to zero value. Instead, it is quite likely that it will become the equivalent of penny stock -
After the largest bubble bursts and a series of plunges causes it to become a really tiny fraction of its highest prices (I'll take a wild guess here of perhaps USD $0.10 to $5 per bitcoin), it will linger for at least a decade or two as a speculative instrument repeatedly hyped by seedy operations (which is more doable since total bitcoin market since would then be tiny, probably 7~9 digtis) , with each wave sucking in groups smaller and smaller groups of laggards who think it is "finally" due for rebound.
Very long term, it may just become a ancient curio like that pet rock numerous decades ago.
I've expected at least 10 people to mention that Mum's Basement Meme, can't believe I'm the first one.
Sitting for long stretches is not good for health, with or without the effect of socializing:- https://science.slashdot.org/story/17/01/19/1149200/sitting-too-much-ages-you-by-8-years
Why many layman observed as people "turning" conservative as they age may just be people becoming pragmatic, and voice concerns about sustainability of plans and government's inability to foot the bill when talking about welfare, or how much immigration is too much, while younger people tend to me more idealistic on how the matter should done. Younger people seen to lean more heavily towards adhering to ideals and showing empathy, while the first question some older people ask is whether this can practically be done (or, "without too much sacrifice which they and society is not willing to bear") and if it is sustainable.
Just because someone opposes a welfare plan in his city to city budget doesn't mean he has less empathy to the poor, down-trodden ones than the activists for the plan. He may be one Darwinistic libertarian, or he may be a humanist, but pragmatically opposing it due to it bringing undue burden on the city, which will bankrupt the city causing even more hardship to larger set of innocent parties. Though people tend to like putting other people into "categorizes" in broad brush and probably would classifying him under "conservative".
I thought about this issue - along with what I've believe is a contributing factor why WWII victims (which is almost everyone I know that's over 60 in my childhood, >25 years ago) all managed to "suck it up" at my side of the world - The observed samples we have geared towards those that survived and thrived.
Among extensive debates with a young-ish Japanese Senpai about WWII, we last concluded that even though I did not know a single person that suffers serious injury (mental and physical) that's supposed to have been ravaged by Japanese Army, sample of our experiences are inaccurate, as broken people are not likely to get married, reproduce, and generally savagely maimed victims don't survive for 4 decades for me to meet in my 1980s childhood. (He acknowledged that he himself had an uncle that was broken after returning from WII, and only faintly remembered said uncle as a NEET that was propped up by rich family, drink himself silly and do nothing but laze around in his home and lived just a little past 60 years.)
And that also sums up most people's experiences with their WWII veteran Dad and Granddad - people that's well adjusted enough to go back to live a happy/productive life or at least raise a family of course are not a fair sample to gauge PTSD. I don't know much about homeless vet situation in 1950s, but real broken ones probably landed up in a mental institution by 1950 or succumb to alchoholism and most probably die childless at their 50s/ 60s.
Talk to WWII veteran that still maintained vitality to talk about his experience at 93, Year 2017? Of course youngsters will have an impression that every single one of them WWII is tough as rock.
And also because of the over-the-top copyright infringement punishments for the unfortunate people that got sued to make an example out of, it does seem that in the USA that to steal movie DVDs from your local chain probably brings less repercussions than if you torrented it............
A wise person once told me that the most environmentally friendly building is one that's already built, at least in most instances.
Seconded. Many a times even very well insulated, energy efficient building replacing the energy guzzlers will not bring the benefits on paper if the said owner are one with a character that chases fads (and it sounds like so here), or for "yet another lower impact building design" in, perhaps, every 17 years.
And they haven't even think about all the human disruptions and carcinogens that will happen in their Campus. The place can't be as good as it reads on paper if tonnes of building are pulled down every 15 years and major renovation seems to happen to a building every 3-5 years, and employees seems to need to spend 10% of their working / learning life in "temporary desks / makeshift rooms".
Wouldn't it be more environmentally and employee-friendly if the place is more like a good old library where building is available >98% of the time (one reno every 12-15 years, minor 1 week tweaks every 3-5)?
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While the definition of burnout might not have been adequately explained to the surveyed and thus make me doubt a little of its accuracy , I suspect the percentage of Tech Workers that burnt out is higher than the 57% quoted, considering the possibility of even higher % of the severely burnout left IT for other fields, or worse, suffered ill health (physical of mental) and is now sitting at home broken. The survey seem to only question those still fit enough and produce good enough quality of work output to not get fired.
Never assume the government of a non-democratic country to be an accurate representation of a country's populace.
Not trying lay the sole blame on his parents - I also noticed no mention of in the article of his parents trying to talk to him directly instead of writing notes. Unless the guy has violent tendencies or other mental issues, why wouldn't the parent sit down to have a hard talk with him like any decent parent should, before seeing him in court to serve eviction notice?
They are either not on even talking terms for a long time, or - judging from his lack of self-awareness when interviewed - it's possible that the parents have tendency to kick the can down the road on many, MANY hard life decisions with him all the while (including hard talk and "correcting" him before he turns adult), which contributed to make the guy what he is now.
Then it's the English of the writer and editor that is sub-standard. It's the file size that is equivalent, not the content. (if writer added "which is" before "roughly" in that sentence nobody would comment.
I have my fair share of grammar fails and typos but article writers should write better than an average poster if he/she wants to be respected with any air of authority.
Estimation - It also seems that a rather large percentage of adult population forget (or fail to grasp) that twice as large on both dimensions means 4 times in size, or that a larger pan of pizza measuring 40% longer already have roughly twice the calories.
And for larger heaps of food like of fried rice to double in calories it only needs to "look slightly larger", measuring at 26% extra on each of 3 dimensions (1.26^3=2.000376). All that is before inaccurate "guesstimates" on fat of sugar being considered.
On the other hand, white supremacists have difficulty (comparatively) finding like-minded comrades to lynch a black together. White culture and even White Supremacist culture circa 2018 is simply not violent enough or populous enough to be near the top of social menace ranking. Some other cultures, on the other hand, have large enough numbers and cohesion to have a ghetto kingdom of their own ...
Grooming gangs of Muslim men failed to integrate into British society
It's so burdensome that I suspect Apple made this policy to minimize repair cost by making people jump through the hoops.
The largest repair they can do here without sending the phone in seems to be screen change. But from what other replies suggest it's also possible they're trying to maximize the incidents where phones are sent to, to maximise profit. (From my post above, the time they wanted me to send phone in, it is already obvious that there's a high chance my issue can be solved by a battery change, yet they somehow insist to send phone in to diagnose what's happening first.)
Speaking as someone who had paid out of pocket for iphone for repairs under warranty:-
(1) Some people value time. There are 2 Apple-authorized Service Provider in my place that is within 1 hour travel if you include walking/waiting time. Long Queue. They'll take your iphone to diagnose and you can come back a few working days later for it. Total time taken is exceeds half a work day when all things are factored. Some people actually value their time (understatement) .
(2) Some people need their phone and cannot part with it for 3 days, maybe?
(3) It's pre-requisite that they wipe your phone for privacy purposes. For people that had any amount of important new data stored unto it since the last backup - even those that back up weekly - Paying yourself may be more viable in order not to lose that. That was also the occasion where I fork out money to change the battery for my less than 1 year old iphone - about 20 paid repair places available within my walking distance, and 20 minutes later my phone is good-to-go again.
For this quarter perhaps, until a somewhat convenient replacement come to market and customers switch by droves, since they set the bar low.
Given that 92% of the ICO didn't even follow through far enough to actually make it to public - I'd say even "just get out before it collapses" is wishful thinking.
You'll pretty much has to be the founder and tiny handful of people working around him to have a high success chance. I bet even some of the late-coming employees will get their fingers burned when they got taken by the hype surrounding them, and judgements are easily clouded by sheer time in the office and fatigue of working 15 hour days.
Supposedly "classy" celebrities outfit versus stars from actual Adult Video News (AVN) Awards: (safe for workplace :) )
Some Met Gala Guests Wore Less Than Porn Stars Wore To The AVN Awards, from Elite Daily
https://imgur.com/evSy8FL
Pr0n stars are classier than many celebs today.
Seconded. To create a rocket of - despite of his obvious flaws in reasoning - from scratch out of sheer determination and with enough quality to launch at 350 mph is a great triumph for the man and also small triumph of the human spirit.
I've thought that 99% probability that he's an attention troll / fraudster when he cancelled previous rocket launch. I'm pleasantly surprised he followed through.
But to be fair "just lost weight" can be tried multiple times and many anecdotal evidence suggest that there are millions of people who managed to lose weight and improve health that didn't succeed the first time.
There is almost no down side to an overweight person to lose weight, unlike most medicines whose have a % of people with side eddect.
Also, it (should) cost almost nothing, and can be safely used in conjunction with other inteventions, which unlike medicines, would most likely have no negative chemical interactions.
FDC may or may not reject it, but for cost-effectiveness and obvious general improvement of health, it is certainly recommendable for someone of deteriorating health, diabetics being a subset of a larger set of problems.
Since odd no. for Win is usually reputed to be decent quality and even no. versions crap - and we've been stuck in an even-number versions since 5 and a half years ago - Can we assume they'll skip Win 11 altogether, and in a year or two, announce another crappy malware named Windows 12?
While probably no one would work at USD $3 if told beforehand (and now that the $3.37 is largely of suspect...) I wonder if many that dropped out of share-riding earn significantly less because they performed much poorer than they thought they can, probably through misjudging their map reading or driving skills.
Purely an personal anedote : One of the more "memorably horrible" driver that I hailed through Grab (a competitor of Uber around here) was just In later conversations in the car, it's clear that this Chinese immigrant does not speak English at all and is such a poor reading of English road names that she clearly does not read the Map nor take GPS instructions that was fed to her as well. An order that should have taken her 8-12 minutes to fulfill for $5 (around USD $4) eventually took over 50 minutes of driving. I "of course" have to guide her all the way home.
I'd be surprised if she manage to grosses zero dollars a day after deducting basic fees and fuel costs(let alone insurance and wear and tear). And I'd believe there's a large enough subset of such people will quit this gig in no time but they're constantly in large enough numbers as fresh adopters, to pull down averages significantly.
As for drivers of that provided came quickly and serviced without any issue, almost all of them said that the riding money is good when I asked.
**I come from a place where having a car is still deemed to be of status and gives face and thus have many people (esp. man) that obviously shouldn't have a car struggle to keep one, considering our convenient public transport. Many of those are not good drivers, and some also perhaps totally misjudged their driving / map-reading ability and thus their earning potential when they started (Over 80% of drivers think they are better than average on the road, old saying says).
Logically if target is never defined there are no way to for any employee outside of the CxO circle “in the loop” to ever strive to work hard to meet the goal.
Who knows, it might have been a ruse to wriggle out their unspoken obligation to pay bonus. But the whole premise is logically flawed and no one trust the management anymore once they somehow are told they missed the target even though they exceed expectations.
If they "owned" and forced excessive control on all the hardware and software and it worked out badly, they have to "own" the problem.
Though I believe too that it is in a bubble I believe bitcoin is too well known to drop to zero value. Instead, it is quite likely that it will become the equivalent of penny stock -
After the largest bubble bursts and a series of plunges causes it to become a really tiny fraction of its highest prices (I'll take a wild guess here of perhaps USD $0.10 to $5 per bitcoin), it will linger for at least a decade or two as a speculative instrument repeatedly hyped by seedy operations (which is more doable since total bitcoin market since would then be tiny, probably 7~9 digtis) , with each wave sucking in groups smaller and smaller groups of laggards who think it is "finally" due for rebound.
Very long term, it may just become a ancient curio like that pet rock numerous decades ago.
.....Usually not to the extent of over 1000% a year.
Replying to undo mod.
I've expected at least 10 people to mention that Mum's Basement Meme, can't believe I'm the first one.
Sitting for long stretches is not good for health, with or without the effect of socializing:-
https://science.slashdot.org/story/17/01/19/1149200/sitting-too-much-ages-you-by-8-years
Another thing may also come into play:
Why many layman observed as people "turning" conservative as they age may just be people becoming pragmatic, and voice concerns about sustainability of plans and government's inability to foot the bill when talking about welfare, or how much immigration is too much, while younger people tend to me more idealistic on how the matter should done. Younger people seen to lean more heavily towards adhering to ideals and showing empathy, while the first question some older people ask is whether this can practically be done (or, "without too much sacrifice which they and society is not willing to bear") and if it is sustainable.
Just because someone opposes a welfare plan in his city to city budget doesn't mean he has less empathy to the poor, down-trodden ones than the activists for the plan. He may be one Darwinistic libertarian, or he may be a humanist, but pragmatically opposing it due to it bringing undue burden on the city, which will bankrupt the city causing even more hardship to larger set of innocent parties. Though people tend to like putting other people into "categorizes" in broad brush and probably would classifying him under "conservative".
Among extensive debates with a young-ish Japanese Senpai about WWII, we last concluded that even though I did not know a single person that suffers serious injury (mental and physical) that's supposed to have been ravaged by Japanese Army, sample of our experiences are inaccurate, as broken people are not likely to get married, reproduce, and generally savagely maimed victims don't survive for 4 decades for me to meet in my 1980s childhood. (He acknowledged that he himself had an uncle that was broken after returning from WII, and only faintly remembered said uncle as a NEET that was propped up by rich family, drink himself silly and do nothing but laze around in his home and lived just a little past 60 years.)
And that also sums up most people's experiences with their WWII veteran Dad and Granddad - people that's well adjusted enough to go back to live a happy/productive life or at least raise a family of course are not a fair sample to gauge PTSD. I don't know much about homeless vet situation in 1950s, but real broken ones probably landed up in a mental institution by 1950 or succumb to alchoholism and most probably die childless at their 50s/ 60s.
Talk to WWII veteran that still maintained vitality to talk about his experience at 93, Year 2017? Of course youngsters will have an impression that every single one of them WWII is tough as rock.
And also because of the over-the-top copyright infringement punishments for the unfortunate people that got sued to make an example out of, it does seem that in the USA that to steal movie DVDs from your local chain probably brings less repercussions than if you torrented it............
A wise person once told me that the most environmentally friendly building is one that's already built, at least in most instances.
Seconded. Many a times even very well insulated, energy efficient building replacing the energy guzzlers will not bring the benefits on paper if the said owner are one with a character that chases fads (and it sounds like so here), or for "yet another lower impact building design" in, perhaps, every 17 years.
And they haven't even think about all the human disruptions and carcinogens that will happen in their Campus. The place can't be as good as it reads on paper if tonnes of building are pulled down every 15 years and major renovation seems to happen to a building every 3-5 years, and employees seems to need to spend 10% of their working / learning life in "temporary desks / makeshift rooms".
Wouldn't it be more environmentally and employee-friendly if the place is more like a good old library where building is available >98% of the time (one reno every 12-15 years, minor 1 week tweaks every 3-5)?