Looked into Blue Apron a while back, the meals are 2x as pricey and limited in how you can modify the recipes (unless you have lots of stuff to modify recipes with, in which case you know how to cook).
Closest I've come is that steak company in the midwest that will send you steaks, mashed potatoes and whatever for a good 3x over the supermarket price. Granted, they were tasty as hell, but the price just meant I upped my game in the cooking department.
Tallest nail gets hammered, keep my mouth shut hoping someone else takes the fall for being late.
True story. Some 20 years ago I worked on Globalstar. The software was a good year late, we all knew it, but management a couple layers up didn't. They were launching a bunch of Globalstar satellites on a Russian rocket. There were 4 teams of us, all knew we were a year behind, sitting in a large conference room with a live link to the launch. Some 90 seconds in the rocket plowed into Russian real estate.
We all looked at each other, breathed a sigh of relief, looked sad to our manager's managers, and went home knowing we were good with our 50 hour work weeks for another year.
This sounds like the crap coming out of the USA's congress nowdays. Yeah, I used a lower case c. When congress decides to be great again I'll capitalize it, but for now they're a bunch of kids arguing over their sippy cups.
Things like your CPU has a memory width of 2^^31 and your chip has a width of 2^^16. So you need to ensure the return from malloc() doesn't suffer from a memory wrap that your chip can't handle..
I fucking hate the assholes who focus on the coding standard or quality of comments. These dipshits can take up 90% of the coding review time with trivial bullshit that means nothing. Funny enough, these dipshits seem to always be the weakest coders in the group.
It took me a couple years after high school to figure out what I wanted to do. Started out EE, then computer science, finally got a degree in Math.
If, at 18, I'd had to lay out my future plans they would have been somewhere along the lines of "smoke a lot of dope. Get laid. Find money to pay for weed and women".
They listened to the greybeards talking about the 50-60 hours weeks they worked when they were young, and now see how the greybeards get kicked to the curb. They smartened up, they know there's no real reward for busting your ass for a company.
Instead of being strapped in your seat while the guy next you is bouncing off the ceiling, y'all can do the two step tango all throughout the fuselage.
Seriously, let them decide "fuck the USA, we still have the rest of the world". Downside? Sales in the US fall. Upside? As the great lady sings "Are EE Ess Pee Ee See Tee".
Give em the source. Downside? NSA says "damn, never thought of that.". Or "damn, they just found $NSA_Hack_Tool". Upside? Nothing I can think of, outside of sales in the US.
Let me remove apps I never use. Facebook, snapchat, dropbox et all, I'm looking at you. I don't have infinite storage on my phone, and as Android now encrypts SDCC cards it's not easy to upgrade said card.
20 years ago we called this crap shovelware, and when we bought a new PC we spent a few hours looking at everything pre-installed, trying to figure out if we needed/wanted it (pre google), and deleting the ones we didn't want. Had a vendor back then been stupid enough to disallow you to remove this crap the outcry would have been amazing, and the vendor would be out of business in 6 months.
No matter where you are on the news page, be it halfway down the News section or halfway down finance, click to read an article, click back to go back, and you're at the top of the main news page.
Not a fan of the new format either, but I usually give myself a week or so to get used to it before voicing an opinion on these things.
Private companies upgrade regularly, realizing it improves security/productivity. Government agencies never upgrade, then bitch that their anti-terrorism agencies are using 10 year old HW/SW cuz they can't afford to upgrade.
It's called managing your resources. Or maybe "scare the government into giving us more money than we need cuz look how outdated we are". Either way, the folks in charge need to be fired and the entire culture changed.
/ I used to get a new desktop every 3 years, whether I needed one or not // Got memory upgrades in between desktop upgrades /// Not so much nowdays, we seem to have hit "good enough": I'm not complaining, my work PC is plenty fast for what I do.
That said, I don't get the thinking here. WinXP is old, outdated, and insecure. If you don't want Win10 or whatever you've got linux, along with several modern RTOS's. Hell, rolling your own is probably better than WinXP.
If you've got a CNC machine, or bioassay device, or whatever, it's fine. As long as the internet can't find it. Soon as the $bad_guys find it, game over.
Using cameras like this, and to find stolen cars is A Good Thing (TM) IMHO. But only if the data isn't retained. Read a plate, go/no go, if no-go the data is thrown away.
Any plan where a no-go means they still keep the data for however long though, drill a hole in their skull and fuck them through it.
What if we had a TLA that searched for ways the Bad Guys could Fuck Us Up. Now imagine we had a TLA that searched for ways the Bad Guys could Fuck Us Up, but it turns out our TLA are The Bad Guys.
This shit needs to stop. Hopefully the NSA and whomever have figured out they aren't the smartest kids in the room and decide to make us all more secure.
Damn, meds are wearing off and I'm back to reality. Shit, real life really sucks ass.
I check texts when at a red light. I do not check them barrelling 80 MPH down the freeway.
Yet California treats both cases equally. Oddly enough, I have a magazine in my car that I read while stopped at a red light. This is fine and dandy. So, um, What's This Feature?
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Looked into Blue Apron a while back, the meals are 2x as pricey and limited in how you can modify the recipes (unless you have lots of stuff to modify recipes with, in which case you know how to cook).
Closest I've come is that steak company in the midwest that will send you steaks, mashed potatoes and whatever for a good 3x over the supermarket price. Granted, they were tasty as hell, but the price just meant I upped my game in the cooking department.
Tallest nail gets hammered, keep my mouth shut hoping someone else takes the fall for being late. True story. Some 20 years ago I worked on Globalstar. The software was a good year late, we all knew it, but management a couple layers up didn't. They were launching a bunch of Globalstar satellites on a Russian rocket. There were 4 teams of us, all knew we were a year behind, sitting in a large conference room with a live link to the launch. Some 90 seconds in the rocket plowed into Russian real estate. We all looked at each other, breathed a sigh of relief, looked sad to our manager's managers, and went home knowing we were good with our 50 hour work weeks for another year.
This sounds like the crap coming out of the USA's congress nowdays. Yeah, I used a lower case c. When congress decides to be great again I'll capitalize it, but for now they're a bunch of kids arguing over their sippy cups.
If they had money they'd carry cash. Me? I've got between $100 and $200 on me most of the time. When I'm down to $100 I hit the ATM.
Things like your CPU has a memory width of 2^^31 and your chip has a width of 2^^16. So you need to ensure the return from malloc() doesn't suffer from a memory wrap that your chip can't handle..
I fucking hate the assholes who focus on the coding standard or quality of comments. These dipshits can take up 90% of the coding review time with trivial bullshit that means nothing. Funny enough, these dipshits seem to always be the weakest coders in the group.
I'll admit my sample size is small, but it seems like a lot of the stuff on pornhub stars Russian citizens. I'm gonna guess second only to Americans.
/ sample size, not unit size
This isn't a new thing, all my life I've found some people bail often. We call them "flakes".
I don't bail unless it's for a really good reason (car trouble, or I can give plenty of lead time (24 hours).
Youtube stars? phfft.
How much money did you give $representative in the last 3 months? If that value is less than 6 figures your opinion doesn't matter.
3-4 days ago I posted a comment to the same effect. Got modded down to -1 Troll, Offtopic, and a couple other things you don't want to be modded for.
It took me a couple years after high school to figure out what I wanted to do. Started out EE, then computer science, finally got a degree in Math.
If, at 18, I'd had to lay out my future plans they would have been somewhere along the lines of "smoke a lot of dope. Get laid. Find money to pay for weed and women".
They listened to the greybeards talking about the 50-60 hours weeks they worked when they were young, and now see how the greybeards get kicked to the curb. They smartened up, they know there's no real reward for busting your ass for a company.
Instead of being strapped in your seat while the guy next you is bouncing off the ceiling, y'all can do the two step tango all throughout the fuselage.
Seriously, let them decide "fuck the USA, we still have the rest of the world". Downside? Sales in the US fall. Upside? As the great lady sings "Are EE Ess Pee Ee See Tee".
Give em the source. Downside? NSA says "damn, never thought of that.". Or "damn, they just found $NSA_Hack_Tool". Upside? Nothing I can think of, outside of sales in the US.
That tells you competition is vital, otherwise companies raise prices as high as they can.
In other words, the EU is correct, the US is wrong (again).
Let me remove apps I never use. Facebook, snapchat, dropbox et all, I'm looking at you. I don't have infinite storage on my phone, and as Android now encrypts SDCC cards it's not easy to upgrade said card.
20 years ago we called this crap shovelware, and when we bought a new PC we spent a few hours looking at everything pre-installed, trying to figure out if we needed/wanted it (pre google), and deleting the ones we didn't want. Had a vendor back then been stupid enough to disallow you to remove this crap the outcry would have been amazing, and the vendor would be out of business in 6 months.
China, India, Japan. The more countries trying to get us off this rock the better. Too bad the USA isn't in that list.
No matter where you are on the news page, be it halfway down the News section or halfway down finance, click to read an article, click back to go back, and you're at the top of the main news page.
Not a fan of the new format either, but I usually give myself a week or so to get used to it before voicing an opinion on these things.
Private companies upgrade regularly, realizing it improves security/productivity. Government agencies never upgrade, then bitch that their anti-terrorism agencies are using 10 year old HW/SW cuz they can't afford to upgrade.
// Got memory upgrades in between desktop upgrades
/// Not so much nowdays, we seem to have hit "good enough": I'm not complaining, my work PC is plenty fast for what I do.
It's called managing your resources. Or maybe "scare the government into giving us more money than we need cuz look how outdated we are". Either way, the folks in charge need to be fired and the entire culture changed.
/ I used to get a new desktop every 3 years, whether I needed one or not
this hit fark a good 12 hours ago.
That said, I don't get the thinking here. WinXP is old, outdated, and insecure. If you don't want Win10 or whatever you've got linux, along with several modern RTOS's. Hell, rolling your own is probably better than WinXP.
If you've got a CNC machine, or bioassay device, or whatever, it's fine. As long as the internet can't find it. Soon as the $bad_guys find it, game over.
Let them be forced to use weakened encryption, then see how their tune changes when their banks accounts get raided.
They ain't gonna learn on their own, let them pay a heavy price for ignoring what people who know what they're taking about are saying.
Using cameras like this, and to find stolen cars is A Good Thing (TM) IMHO. But only if the data isn't retained. Read a plate, go/no go, if no-go the data is thrown away.
Any plan where a no-go means they still keep the data for however long though, drill a hole in their skull and fuck them through it.
Dear AC. The piles of money they pay you will be nothing compared to the lost profits due to China stealing your secrets.
Elon would post under his name, hence you must be Chinese.
What if we had a TLA that searched for ways the Bad Guys could Fuck Us Up. Now imagine we had a TLA that searched for ways the Bad Guys could Fuck Us Up, but it turns out our TLA are The Bad Guys.
This shit needs to stop. Hopefully the NSA and whomever have figured out they aren't the smartest kids in the room and decide to make us all more secure.
Damn, meds are wearing off and I'm back to reality. Shit, real life really sucks ass.
I check texts when at a red light. I do not check them barrelling 80 MPH down the freeway.
Yet California treats both cases equally. Oddly enough, I have a magazine in my car that I read while stopped at a red light. This is fine and dandy. So, um, What's This Feature?
Bad Idea. They will build a factory, steal your secrets, then build several more factories using your secrets.
Honestly, after the last 20 years how can anyone think China won't steal your secrets and sell them on the cheap?