The vapers I run across seem to have the attitude of "it ain't tobacco, nobody has proved it hurts anyone, lets see how much of this shit I can put into the air".
None of my friends vape, and I'll never be friends with a vaper.
Then again, I'm 58 and have yet to run into a vaper over 30. Don't trust anyone under 30 someone famous almost said 40 years ago.
Last program I wrote solved Sudoku puzzles, written in Java (unemployed at the time). Before that it was a test suite for Qualcomm chips to ensure all the various subsystems kinda worked.. Before that was an 802.11 driver for a chip for a startup. Memory is fading, think before that I was testing BREW games on various handsets (pre-iPhone).
Not seeing anything resembling a gender bias going back some 15-20 years here.
Nor do I care. I switched to Chrome years ago because FF flat out got slow, so much so I decided "hmmm, FF, IE, or Chrome. Let's try Chrome".
Chrome was much faster. 2.5 years ago I got a new laptop with a much faster processor and a lot more RAM. I kept Chrome. It works, usually.
I fire up FF once a week. My supermarket website (Vons) doesn't work with Chrome (could be the add ons, don't really care). But until Chrome starts to suck I don't feel any need to return to FF as my daily browser.
TLDR; piss off your long term users, they turn into long term users of something else
If I'm a researcher entering a PIN multiple times I'm in a chair hunched over the phone. Me? I'm in my La-Z-Boy. I'm on the toilet. I'm in bed. I'm in the kitchen cooking. I'm at a red light getting a message. I'm in the grocery store unlocking my shopping list.
You really wanna tell me my gyroscope is in the same position in all these scenarios?
Yeah, I remember the first one I bought, something about pyramids. Options were N E S W, so I kept entering NE thinking who knows what. I won't mention how long I spent NE into that game before realizing it wasn't getting me anywhere.
Early 80's, Scott Adam's Adventures for the TRS-80. A co-workers wife was as addicted to these as I was. We not only traded tips on how to solve a puzzle, we made sure we bought different games and traded them as we bought em.
Also miss "debugging" games. I don't know how many hours I "wasted" stepping through Z-80 assembly to find out where a game stored "something that took a while to generate". Learned a lot of Z-80 assembly that way, as well as how to use a debugger. This was a good year before engineering found out I could program and made a lowly electronics tech a software engineer writing 8086 assembler.
I have a PhD in CS and have coded in many many languages.
In other words, "I have worked a lot in fake environments in many languages".
You got a PhD in part because of a language that is controversial, and you consider that a win? The value of a CS PhD just dropped a few points.
I too have coded in many different languages. Tcl/Tk was painful, but doable. Javascript was painful and not doable. Sed, awk, bash,various assembler, C,, C++, Java, Perl, Python is a subset of languages I've coded in.
Never used Scalia, probably never will. I'm old, odds are both against having the option, and me saying "not saying this is bullshit, but I'm pretty sure I saw it come out of the bull and hit the ground".
First, I want a desk I can use every day, not some shared thing. Second, desk needs a lockable drawer so I can stuff my collection of MP3s in to it, whatever format they may be in. Third, I want a computer that I can install the software I find useful on itl, and can count on it will be in the same state monday morning as it was friday evening.
You fail any of these, you just lost a good developer for whatever you thought you were saving money on. Keep in mind, these are my minimums. I'll take a lot of shit, but if I don't have a dedicated desk with a dedicated computer and a lockable drawer, then fuck you.
This kind of footage should be stored in police evidence lockers under lock and key.
Yep, but doing that correctly and legally is gonna be expensive to get right. So Axon pays the development costs, hires enough lawyers to ensure they're doing it right, (hopefully) hires enough computer security folks to make it as secure as possible, then selling the service to the nations police departments.
Funny coincidence, I work in embedded in my spare time and am a security researcher by trade, so I think I can say with some confidence that they don't mix well. For many reasons.
I beg to differ. I've been an embedded software engineer since the early 80s. In 2000 I got a contract from the guy who owned the George Foreman Grill. He wanted an appliance that would mount to the underside of kitchen cabinets, have internet, CD/DVD playback, HiFi quality sound, and connect to a recipe database via 802.11. One of the first things we worried about was security. 802.11 was new back then, nobody really knew how it would work out. The screen would fold down so the user could watch the videos.
Security came up in every meeting. We knew about it, understood the risks, and didn't know what the hell to do but knew we needed to try.
Project crashed and burned because he wanted to sell it for $999.95, and we couldn't get the BOM under $1k.
Every project I've worked on since has had security as a high priority. Lessee, what have I done since then? Um, cellphone base station, cellphone games, electronic ticketing system (take a ticket, now serving #32, you have #38), automated IC testing, muxing MPEG2 streams from multiple satellites into a custom stream, cellphones. Every one of these security has been a top issue.
All the others (haven't run into them all, but...) I dealt with just fine. But the person who interrupts me all day long, to the point where I just get into the problem and am pulled out of it for trivia? Never figured out how to deal with them.
/ Typical example, Quit bugging me, send me email, // boss sends email /// boss pokes head in as I'm reading email, "have you read my email yet?" //// should be a stand your ground type law for bosses like this
I remember when a season was 39 episodes. Then it dropped to, I dunno, 13. Now it's 6-7.
Sucks as a viewer, I guess it sucks as a writer, but to be clear, it sucks to be a viewer paying $180/month cable to watch this shit crumble into pieces.
I'd do my testing on prison inmates or drug addicts. See how long they can concentrate on making a shank, or not scoring. See what the initial results are, and check out the long term effects.
SEALs are the best of the best, odds are dicking with their brains will give bad results more often than good.
I've had rechargeable batteries for 20-25 years, laptops for 10-15 years, and phones for about 20 years. The battery is always the first to go, typically at half to 2/3 of what was promised.
It sux when you replace a phone/laptop not because it's too slow, but because the battery life went to hell. I quit buying rechargeable batteries some 10 years ago, seems each manufacturer has it's own charging system that is incompatible with everyone else's, and when you take the charger and battery cost into consideration it's cheaper to just buy batteries.
FFS, how did we ever get to this point? How fucked up as a society are we to decide we can prevent the poors from having internet access, and the !poors get every mouse click and website visit get sold to who knows who?
I can't think of a single tool I've wanted to install in the past 30 some odd years that required admin access. Then again, I grew up in a Unix environment and learned to deal with not being able to fark with/bin.
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The vapers I run across seem to have the attitude of "it ain't tobacco, nobody has proved it hurts anyone, lets see how much of this shit I can put into the air".
None of my friends vape, and I'll never be friends with a vaper.
Then again, I'm 58 and have yet to run into a vaper over 30. Don't trust anyone under 30 someone famous almost said 40 years ago.
No, black people are 17 times less likely to solve a complex problem, hence won't get hired for a high tech job.
It's not even 8 PM yet and I'm drunk enough to post the truth. I am so gonna get nailed for this.
Maybe because the AI's are modeled on what works, not on what some people wish would work.
One beer ago I wouldn't have had the nerve to say that, says a lot for where social discourse is nowdays.
I missed the AI part in the summary, but I still call bullshit.
Last program I wrote solved Sudoku puzzles, written in Java (unemployed at the time). Before that it was a test suite for Qualcomm chips to ensure all the various subsystems kinda worked.. Before that was an 802.11 driver for a chip for a startup. Memory is fading, think before that I was testing BREW games on various handsets (pre-iPhone).
Not seeing anything resembling a gender bias going back some 15-20 years here.
You really think in all these scenarios relative movement will be the same?
HA HA HA HA
dumass
Nor do I care. I switched to Chrome years ago because FF flat out got slow, so much so I decided "hmmm, FF, IE, or Chrome. Let's try Chrome".
Chrome was much faster. 2.5 years ago I got a new laptop with a much faster processor and a lot more RAM. I kept Chrome. It works, usually.
I fire up FF once a week. My supermarket website (Vons) doesn't work with Chrome (could be the add ons, don't really care). But until Chrome starts to suck I don't feel any need to return to FF as my daily browser.
TLDR; piss off your long term users, they turn into long term users of something else
If I'm a researcher entering a PIN multiple times I'm in a chair hunched over the phone. Me? I'm in my La-Z-Boy. I'm on the toilet. I'm in bed. I'm in the kitchen cooking. I'm at a red light getting a message. I'm in the grocery store unlocking my shopping list.
You really wanna tell me my gyroscope is in the same position in all these scenarios?
If you're over 20, not hot, not female, don't bother applying.
Yeah, I remember the first one I bought, something about pyramids. Options were N E S W, so I kept entering NE thinking who knows what. I won't mention how long I spent NE into that game before realizing it wasn't getting me anywhere.
I was 18, cut me a break.
Early 80's, Scott Adam's Adventures for the TRS-80. A co-workers wife was as addicted to these as I was. We not only traded tips on how to solve a puzzle, we made sure we bought different games and traded them as we bought em.
Also miss "debugging" games. I don't know how many hours I "wasted" stepping through Z-80 assembly to find out where a game stored "something that took a while to generate". Learned a lot of Z-80 assembly that way, as well as how to use a debugger. This was a good year before engineering found out I could program and made a lowly electronics tech a software engineer writing 8086 assembler.
I have a PhD in CS and have coded in many many languages.
In other words, "I have worked a lot in fake environments in many languages".
You got a PhD in part because of a language that is controversial, and you consider that a win? The value of a CS PhD just dropped a few points.
I too have coded in many different languages. Tcl/Tk was painful, but doable. Javascript was painful and not doable. Sed, awk, bash,various assembler, C,, C++, Java, Perl, Python is a subset of languages I've coded in.
Never used Scalia, probably never will. I'm old, odds are both against having the option, and me saying "not saying this is bullshit, but I'm pretty sure I saw it come out of the bull and hit the ground".
First, I want a desk I can use every day, not some shared thing. Second, desk needs a lockable drawer so I can stuff my collection of MP3s in to it, whatever format they may be in. Third, I want a computer that I can install the software I find useful on itl, and can count on it will be in the same state monday morning as it was friday evening.
You fail any of these, you just lost a good developer for whatever you thought you were saving money on. Keep in mind, these are my minimums. I'll take a lot of shit, but if I don't have a dedicated desk with a dedicated computer and a lockable drawer, then fuck you.
Yeah, came here to say this. Surprised I'm in the majority on this.
If you can't figure out how to secure your device, or you are unable to do so, then so sad too bad. Hope a bunch of IoT vendors go tits up.
This kind of footage should be stored in police evidence lockers under lock and key.
Yep, but doing that correctly and legally is gonna be expensive to get right. So Axon pays the development costs, hires enough lawyers to ensure they're doing it right, (hopefully) hires enough computer security folks to make it as secure as possible, then selling the service to the nations police departments.
That's why I bought the stock a year or so ago when it was $20. Wish I'd sold last month at $28 so I could but it again but oh well.
Funny coincidence, I work in embedded in my spare time and am a security researcher by trade, so I think I can say with some confidence that they don't mix well. For many reasons.
I beg to differ. I've been an embedded software engineer since the early 80s. In 2000 I got a contract from the guy who owned the George Foreman Grill. He wanted an appliance that would mount to the underside of kitchen cabinets, have internet, CD/DVD playback, HiFi quality sound, and connect to a recipe database via 802.11. One of the first things we worried about was security. 802.11 was new back then, nobody really knew how it would work out. The screen would fold down so the user could watch the videos.
Security came up in every meeting. We knew about it, understood the risks, and didn't know what the hell to do but knew we needed to try.
Project crashed and burned because he wanted to sell it for $999.95, and we couldn't get the BOM under $1k.
Every project I've worked on since has had security as a high priority. Lessee, what have I done since then? Um, cellphone base station, cellphone games, electronic ticketing system (take a ticket, now serving #32, you have #38), automated IC testing, muxing MPEG2 streams from multiple satellites into a custom stream, cellphones. Every one of these security has been a top issue.
All the others (haven't run into them all, but...) I dealt with just fine. But the person who interrupts me all day long, to the point where I just get into the problem and am pulled out of it for trivia? Never figured out how to deal with them.
// boss sends email
/// boss pokes head in as I'm reading email, "have you read my email yet?"
//// should be a stand your ground type law for bosses like this
/ Typical example, Quit bugging me, send me email,
I remember when a season was 39 episodes. Then it dropped to, I dunno, 13. Now it's 6-7.
Sucks as a viewer, I guess it sucks as a writer, but to be clear, it sucks to be a viewer paying $180/month cable to watch this shit crumble into pieces.
I'd do my testing on prison inmates or drug addicts. See how long they can concentrate on making a shank, or not scoring. See what the initial results are, and check out the long term effects.
SEALs are the best of the best, odds are dicking with their brains will give bad results more often than good.
Dammit dude, came here to say NSS!
I've had rechargeable batteries for 20-25 years, laptops for 10-15 years, and phones for about 20 years. The battery is always the first to go, typically at half to 2/3 of what was promised.
It sux when you replace a phone/laptop not because it's too slow, but because the battery life went to hell. I quit buying rechargeable batteries some 10 years ago, seems each manufacturer has it's own charging system that is incompatible with everyone else's, and when you take the charger and battery cost into consideration it's cheaper to just buy batteries.
News at 11.
FFS, how did we ever get to this point? How fucked up as a society are we to decide we can prevent the poors from having internet access, and the !poors get every mouse click and website visit get sold to who knows who?
Seriously, dafuq?
Along with "I never start a compile because I wanna surf the web".
sigh
1: with a door I can close
2: clear tasks
3: an office with a door I can close
4: reasonable deadlines
5: an office with a door I can close
6: time to finish the job without working 60+ hours a week
7: an office with a door I can close
I can't think of a single tool I've wanted to install in the past 30 some odd years that required admin access. Then again, I grew up in a Unix environment and learned to deal with not being able to fark with /bin.