In addition to not wanting any more of my life in Google's hands than they already possess,
Ya know, 10 years ago I'd have agreed with you. But now the details of my daily existence have moved to text messages. The majority of the email I get now are either A) library telling me a book is ready/overdue; B) Marketing I filter and never see; or C) people I haven't heard from in years and typically am glad I haven't heard from them in years.
gmail did not support filtering into categories, instead they wanted me to use tags. Tags flat out do not fit my workflow, so I setup Thunderbird to grab my gmail mail to my laptop and sort the damned mail like $diety(and the spam gods) decreed.
I have no idea what Smart Suggestions are and don't really care, I haven't used the gmail web interface since the last time I got a new laptop and had to set it up.
Doesn't matter if its safe or not, the lawyers can tie things up in court for decades.
When you;re looking at $x for building the plant, and $x * 100, for legal fees, it's kinda hard to keep going. Doesn't matter if you're right or wrong, when you're outspent you lose.
But I've been on 3 projects in the last 40 years (I'm retired now) that had daily meetings. All 3 failed for different reasons (hardware issue, company died before project was done, what I just said except for a chip, not a printer).
What did these 3 have in common? The daily meeting absolutely killed morale. For the first, us software types had a daily meeting where the hardware guys would mumble, the second was at 7 AM daily, even on a Saturday morning (I was in my 20's and still half drunk from the night before, and got sucked into the project when it was failing because "you understand this Unix stuff"), the third was flat out an incompetent manager who could not remember anything day to day.
For the first, no reason for us software types to be there as there was no hardware.
For the second, 7 AM on Saturday morning? You'd have been better off letting me roll in at 9.
For the third? There was no fixing that. The manager was 100% incompetent and could not be fixed.
They're choosing one tech over another. Did the government build gas stations 100 years ago? Hell no. Joe blow had to decide "hmmm, haystacks or gasoline. Wat do?". The successful ones chose gasoline.
Who's to say electric charging stations are better than hydrogen refill stations; or, hell, gas stations.
The government needs to butt out and let the market decide. Putting your thumb on the scale only results in a Hillary vs Trump campaign, when there is a very good chance Bernie could have won the whole enchilada. (Bernie vs HRC? HRC in a landslide. Bernie vs Trump? We'll never know. HRC vs anyone with a 40% disapproval rating? Probably the scumbag).
Coal is outdated and needs to be replaced with natural gas.
Nuclear has issues (most of them caused by lawyers paid by the hour, most of the rest caused by executives paid by the quarterly stock price, and a small handful of technical issues) but they're still a good way to get a lot of energy from a small footprint with a minimum of global warming.
Seems like it wouldn't take much more mechanical engineering know how to pull them out by the roots. I have yet to hear of a weed that can resist being pulled out of the ground and tossed into the compost bin.
Some weeds break at the soil line and the roots regrow, you say? It's a robot, run it again in a month or two. Extra added bonus, this time you get all those young whippersnapper weeds that were but tis a seed last time the robot came by.
1) 90% of the time when browsing I'm plugged into the local nuclear power plant.
2) Last time I tried Edge the only site that worked well was microsoft.com
Trump epitomizes what is wrong with the USA today. Form a company, build a building with all the tax breaks and subsidies you can, suck as much cash out of it as you can, declare bankruptcy, leaving all the other investors holding the bag while you walk away with the money. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Fuck the dems for all eternity for running the one person America hates more than Trump.
I wish I was smart enough to fuck up at my 7 figure job, then quit and make a start up utilizing my fuck ups to get rich.
I feel like this country has been on a downward spiral since the 80s, when MBAs decided firing people when a company didn't meet it's numbers was A Good Thing. (note: they still made money, just didn't meet the numbers). Now we have MBAs fucking up, realizing they fucked up, quitting,, and making a startup capitalizing on their earlier fuckups.
How fucked up have we become that this is the norm?
Yeah, we'll forget the fact that the Dems, specifically the DNC and Wasserman-Shit, did everything in their power to ensure their candidate would be the only person Trump could beat in an election.
First, force the TLAs to reveal every goddamn hole they know about so the vendors can fix them and we'll all be safer.
Second, if a site gets hacked via a known vulnerability the entire CXX suite goes to jail and, when released, are barred from an executive position for 10 years. If people are killed (power plant "accidents", etc) they go to jail for life. This will change the "it's too expensive to fix" calculus.
The victims were neither harmed (unless every robocall is harmful),
I don't answer numbers I don't recognize due to these assholes. If a friend or family member has an emergency and calls me on a borrowed phone, which I don't pickup as I don't recognize the number, then you damned well better believe I've been harmed.
Fuck this guy. IMHO a lifetime in prison is too good for him. Make an example out of him. Then extradite a couple of the fuckers from other countries and do the same to them.
Jeez, this diverges into rantings about various DUI laws when IMHO the real issue is "Can we prove it's accurate without looking at the source?". IMHO, yeah. You specify the list of requirements, neither knowing nor caring how the magic box does it's magic, and if it passes the tests it's good to go.
If you have half a brain you automate these tests and retest the things every once in a while, like maybe while your taking the blood/urine sample and booking your suspect into jail.
And yes, I've written a few fully automated and some semi-automated test suites.
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In addition to not wanting any more of my life in Google's hands than they already possess,
Ya know, 10 years ago I'd have agreed with you. But now the details of my daily existence have moved to text messages. The majority of the email I get now are either A) library telling me a book is ready/overdue; B) Marketing I filter and never see; or C) people I haven't heard from in years and typically am glad I haven't heard from them in years.
gmail did not support filtering into categories, instead they wanted me to use tags. Tags flat out do not fit my workflow, so I setup Thunderbird to grab my gmail mail to my laptop and sort the damned mail like $diety(and the spam gods) decreed.
I have no idea what Smart Suggestions are and don't really care, I haven't used the gmail web interface since the last time I got a new laptop and had to set it up.
Doesn't matter if its safe or not, the lawyers can tie things up in court for decades. When you;re looking at $x for building the plant, and $x * 100, for legal fees, it's kinda hard to keep going. Doesn't matter if you're right or wrong, when you're outspent you lose.
If any of you would like to join me.
Go home amateurs, the pros can not only clean your clock, they can make it look as dirty as they want.
Realized the sources to the diet were few and not 100% credible, ignored it, grabbed the recipes that sounded tasty, and continued living my life.
// I'm a good cook, I eat a lot
/// See also: Dom Delouise
/ still fat
How fast can you instal Plex on a Pi and learn how to use bittorrent?
IHOP is cooking their hamburgers on Intel chips.
But I've been on 3 projects in the last 40 years (I'm retired now) that had daily meetings. All 3 failed for different reasons (hardware issue, company died before project was done, what I just said except for a chip, not a printer).
What did these 3 have in common? The daily meeting absolutely killed morale. For the first, us software types had a daily meeting where the hardware guys would mumble, the second was at 7 AM daily, even on a Saturday morning (I was in my 20's and still half drunk from the night before, and got sucked into the project when it was failing because "you understand this Unix stuff"), the third was flat out an incompetent manager who could not remember anything day to day.
For the first, no reason for us software types to be there as there was no hardware.
For the second, 7 AM on Saturday morning? You'd have been better off letting me roll in at 9.
For the third? There was no fixing that. The manager was 100% incompetent and could not be fixed.
On my tiny violin.
They're choosing one tech over another. Did the government build gas stations 100 years ago? Hell no. Joe blow had to decide "hmmm, haystacks or gasoline. Wat do?". The successful ones chose gasoline.
Who's to say electric charging stations are better than hydrogen refill stations; or, hell, gas stations.
The government needs to butt out and let the market decide. Putting your thumb on the scale only results in a Hillary vs Trump campaign, when there is a very good chance Bernie could have won the whole enchilada. (Bernie vs HRC? HRC in a landslide. Bernie vs Trump? We'll never know. HRC vs anyone with a 40% disapproval rating? Probably the scumbag).
Coal is outdated and needs to be replaced with natural gas.
Nuclear has issues (most of them caused by lawyers paid by the hour, most of the rest caused by executives paid by the quarterly stock price, and a small handful of technical issues) but they're still a good way to get a lot of energy from a small footprint with a minimum of global warming.
Hard to inherit when the old biddy keeps coming back, but with her it just seems like 30,000 years.
:(
Just kidding Lillian was a great MiL
Didn't leave us much either
We spent her money making her comfortable in her final years.
Seems like it wouldn't take much more mechanical engineering know how to pull them out by the roots. I have yet to hear of a weed that can resist being pulled out of the ground and tossed into the compost bin.
Some weeds break at the soil line and the roots regrow, you say? It's a robot, run it again in a month or two. Extra added bonus, this time you get all those young whippersnapper weeds that were but tis a seed last time the robot came by.
1) 90% of the time when browsing I'm plugged into the local nuclear power plant.
2) Last time I tried Edge the only site that worked well was microsoft.com
My identity gets stolen, or account hacked, or whatever and it's "meh, use better passwords dumass".
One of the rulers gets their identity stolen and it's suddenly a big deal.
Too bad Trump is turbocharging the swamp, instead of draining it like he promised.
Trump epitomizes what is wrong with the USA today. Form a company, build a building with all the tax breaks and subsidies you can, suck as much cash out of it as you can, declare bankruptcy, leaving all the other investors holding the bag while you walk away with the money. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Fuck the dems for all eternity for running the one person America hates more than Trump.
I wish I was smart enough to fuck up at my 7 figure job, then quit and make a start up utilizing my fuck ups to get rich.
I feel like this country has been on a downward spiral since the 80s, when MBAs decided firing people when a company didn't meet it's numbers was A Good Thing. (note: they still made money, just didn't meet the numbers). Now we have MBAs fucking up, realizing they fucked up, quitting,, and making a startup capitalizing on their earlier fuckups.
How fucked up have we become that this is the norm?
Yeah, we'll forget the fact that the Dems, specifically the DNC and Wasserman-Shit, did everything in their power to ensure their candidate would be the only person Trump could beat in an election.
fuckwits. Brainless fuckwits.
First, force the TLAs to reveal every goddamn hole they know about so the vendors can fix them and we'll all be safer.
Second, if a site gets hacked via a known vulnerability the entire CXX suite goes to jail and, when released, are barred from an executive position for 10 years. If people are killed (power plant "accidents", etc) they go to jail for life. This will change the "it's too expensive to fix" calculus.
Too bad neither of these will ever happen.
is spent in traffic, breathing that oh so healthy air found in the middle of your typical freeway converted to a parking lot.
Linus blew his chance for lasting immortality.
The victims were neither harmed (unless every robocall is harmful),
I don't answer numbers I don't recognize due to these assholes. If a friend or family member has an emergency and calls me on a borrowed phone, which I don't pickup as I don't recognize the number, then you damned well better believe I've been harmed.
Fuck this guy. IMHO a lifetime in prison is too good for him. Make an example out of him. Then extradite a couple of the fuckers from other countries and do the same to them.
Jeez, this diverges into rantings about various DUI laws when IMHO the real issue is "Can we prove it's accurate without looking at the source?". IMHO, yeah. You specify the list of requirements, neither knowing nor caring how the magic box does it's magic, and if it passes the tests it's good to go.
If you have half a brain you automate these tests and retest the things every once in a while, like maybe while your taking the blood/urine sample and booking your suspect into jail.
And yes, I've written a few fully automated and some semi-automated test suites.
I did a manual update on my laptop last tuesday in the hopes of no unexpected reboots. Last night it rebooted.
Fuck you Microsoft. If you can't be bothered to ask before rebooting, I can't be bothered to run your software next time I buy a laptop.