...but when I'm not there, they are more afraid of 'wasting my time' because they have no way to judge whether I'm available or not and they don't want to be rude by asking a 'silly question' when I could be overwhelmed with serious stuff.
We are just wired to communicate better face to face sometimes.
Replying to undo moderation mistake. But, I tend to agree with this. I have so many little things I'm curious about, and write little solvers for. The Monty Hall Problem simulator, A program to find the best possible Words with Friends word given certain letters, etc.
I've been looking at Insteon for home automation, but their hubs require talking to the insteon service to do their thing (with no revenue model to pay for it, so it too may go away). Universal Devices makes an "ISY" device that handles all the programming and keeps it on site. I'm also looking at buying a USB "modem", and installing "Mister House", "OpenHab", or "Home Assistant".
I want to echo this, as it's my situation, too. I was a software guy for 5 years, then went off to learn networking and security stuff, because I thought I'd be a better programmer. Got stuck in networking because it was easy, and my eye for detail made me valuable. But, networking, unless you're doing something really complex, gets boring. I'm now taking advantage of my networking/operations skills by automating operations tasks. It's a heck of a lot more fun than daily care-and-feeding of routers and switches (or even network design).
People seem to like to call this "DevOps", but it's really operations automation engineering. If networking interests you, I'd find the networking guys at your company, and get to know where their process is painful, and help them figure out how to get rid of the pain. Working closely with another team should make you less likely to be outsourceable.
As TFS talked about configuring it (load sharing with no monitoring), they would be getting twice the bandwidth, with the same drawbacks as RAID0: If either connection goes down, you have a (mostly) unusable system (because with no monitoring , half your packets are still going out the broken link).
A 'perfect' poker system would need to be able to decide... the right amounts to bid.
The system/article is about LIMIT (heads up) poker, so the options are merely CHECK/FOLD, CALL, BET/RAISE. There's no bet sizing. This is why they can use a lookup table.
Plenty of other imaginary currency exist that do the exact same thing bitcoin does, but better and no electricity waste aka timekoin is a good example.
I don't know. Timekoin looks pretty dodgy. Their "marketplace" has an expired SSL cert.
There are studies showing declining sleep quality with blue light after sunset. I want my lights to cycle into the ambers and reds after dark, but to be bright and white in the middle of the day (the same way my computer does with f.lux). For now, I get around by wearing dorky orange safety glasses after 9pm, but would prefer my home not expose me to the blue parts of the spectrum. I'm still not sure HUE is the solution, because the wall switches are useless. But it at least gives me the possibility of having the spectrum shift with time via IFTT.
With the oil/gas prices going back down from their highs last year, using corn to produce ethanol isn't cost-effective, so the artificial (non-food use) shortage is relieved.
I think he meant "sodder" (or "sah-der"). The point is that the L is silent in American pronunciation, unlike (apparently) those in countries that speak English.
Even if someone consumes zero carbohydrates in the diet, glucose can be manufactured in the body from ketone bodies via gluconeogenesis. So, yes, there is always some amount of glucose in the bloodstream.
I have mod points, but rather than mod parent *un*informative, I thought I'd explain. You're either misremembering the company that you're talking about, or there was some other company called Tellme that went out of business.
1) The Tellme that the article talks about is a phone automation company, not an ISP. 2) Until recently, Tellme has had clients in the Fortune 100, and has not charged individuals to use the service. (Tellme does have a *free* service (1-800-555-TELL) for the general public.) 3) Tellme was founded in 1999, significantly after win3.1 and 2400 bps modems.
Disclaimer: I work for Tellme (a Microsoft subsidiary), but my comments do not reflect any official opinion or policy.
Yes, I really miss the command-double-click. The other thing that annoys me about Terminal is the tab titles are hardwired to process-name, instead of conforming to the preferences pane for window titles. For someone who spends most of the time working on remote machines, it's pretty useless to have a bunch of tabs that all say "ssh" instead of "servername: working-directory" (set by vt100 escape codes in PS1 in.bashrc).
That's exactly the point. Most drug tests are testing for (short term) *historical* use. A positive test result does *not* mean that judgment is impaired at the moment the sample is taken.
I agree that *sobriety* tests are relevant for many jobs, but *drug-use* tests are not.
I can't believe nobody's posted this yet. This would be *really* useful as a *mono*-lingual translator! Build one of these into every cell phone, and suddenly I don't have to hear your inane conversation just because you happen to be sitting next to me in the plane.
This should be *much* easier to do that the version that actually translates, and it would add nearly as much to quality of life of the user and everyone else in his environs.
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...but when I'm not there, they are more afraid of 'wasting my time' because they have no way to judge whether I'm available or not and they don't want to be rude by asking a 'silly question' when I could be overwhelmed with serious stuff.
We are just wired to communicate better face to face sometimes.
*This* is exactly why I'm so productive WfH.
Replying to undo moderation mistake. But, I tend to agree with this. I have so many little things I'm curious about, and write little solvers for. The Monty Hall Problem simulator, A program to find the best possible Words with Friends word given certain letters, etc.
I've been looking at Insteon for home automation, but their hubs require talking to the insteon service to do their thing (with no revenue model to pay for it, so it too may go away). Universal Devices makes an "ISY" device that handles all the programming and keeps it on site. I'm also looking at buying a USB "modem", and installing "Mister House", "OpenHab", or "Home Assistant".
I want to echo this, as it's my situation, too. I was a software guy for 5 years, then went off to learn networking and security stuff, because I thought I'd be a better programmer. Got stuck in networking because it was easy, and my eye for detail made me valuable. But, networking, unless you're doing something really complex, gets boring. I'm now taking advantage of my networking/operations skills by automating operations tasks. It's a heck of a lot more fun than daily care-and-feeding of routers and switches (or even network design).
People seem to like to call this "DevOps", but it's really operations automation engineering. If networking interests you, I'd find the networking guys at your company, and get to know where their process is painful, and help them figure out how to get rid of the pain. Working closely with another team should make you less likely to be outsourceable.
Actually, the analogy is quite apt.
As TFS talked about configuring it (load sharing with no monitoring), they would be getting twice the bandwidth, with the same drawbacks as RAID0: If either connection goes down, you have a (mostly) unusable system (because with no monitoring , half your packets are still going out the broken link).
A 'perfect' poker system would need to be able to decide ... the right amounts to bid.
The system/article is about LIMIT (heads up) poker, so the options are merely CHECK/FOLD, CALL, BET/RAISE. There's no bet sizing. This is why they can use a lookup table.
Specifically, she didn't want to "start from scratch with my followers".
Plenty of other imaginary currency exist that do the exact same thing bitcoin does, but better and no electricity waste aka timekoin is a good example.
I don't know. Timekoin looks pretty dodgy. Their "marketplace" has an expired SSL cert.
There are studies showing declining sleep quality with blue light after sunset. I want my lights to cycle into the ambers and reds after dark, but to be bright and white in the middle of the day (the same way my computer does with f.lux). For now, I get around by wearing dorky orange safety glasses after 9pm, but would prefer my home not expose me to the blue parts of the spectrum. I'm still not sure HUE is the solution, because the wall switches are useless. But it at least gives me the possibility of having the spectrum shift with time via IFTT.
Bad form to reply to self, but just realized this is probably an April Fool's prank. Whee! <grumble>
Yeah, me too! Really?!? Nothing in the prefs to disable it? No cookie even to set the volume to zero once I've silenced 3 of them. Grr.
Electric motors operate at max torque at all RPMs.
RPMs - is that Revolutions Per Minutes?
Actually, yes. (Revolutions Per Minute)s.
If you're talking about a single angular velocity, use RPM. (The tach reads 'RPM', not 'RPMs'.)
But the GP used the phrase "at *all* RPMs", so he was clearly talking about multiple angular velocities.
...dollars can be used anywhere...
Dollars *can't* be used everywhere (online gambling, for example). Thus, interest in bitcoin.
That youtube link provides a great explanation!
Heh, I read that link as "instant trim shot", and was worried about clicking it at work.
With the oil/gas prices going back down from their highs last year, using corn to produce ethanol isn't cost-effective, so the artificial (non-food use) shortage is relieved.
I think he meant "sodder" (or "sah-der"). The point is that the L is silent in American pronunciation, unlike (apparently) those in countries that speak English.
Even if someone consumes zero carbohydrates in the diet, glucose can be manufactured in the body from ketone bodies via gluconeogenesis. So, yes, there is always some amount of glucose in the bloodstream.
Now I'm wondering if my mod points are an April Fool's joke, too...
I have mod points, but rather than mod parent *un*informative, I thought I'd explain. You're either misremembering the company that you're talking about, or there was some other company called Tellme that went out of business.
1) The Tellme that the article talks about is a phone automation company, not an ISP.
2) Until recently, Tellme has had clients in the Fortune 100, and has not charged individuals to use the service. (Tellme does have a *free* service (1-800-555-TELL) for the general public.)
3) Tellme was founded in 1999, significantly after win3.1 and 2400 bps modems.
Disclaimer: I work for Tellme (a Microsoft subsidiary), but my comments do not reflect any official opinion or policy.
Yes, I really miss the command-double-click. The other thing that annoys me about Terminal is the tab titles are hardwired to process-name, instead of conforming to the preferences pane for window titles. For someone who spends most of the time working on remote machines, it's pretty useless to have a bunch of tabs that all say "ssh" instead of "servername: working-directory" (set by vt100 escape codes in PS1 in .bashrc).
impaired judgment is NOT okay in all situations.
That's exactly the point. Most drug tests are testing for (short term) *historical* use. A positive test result does *not* mean that judgment is impaired at the moment the sample is taken.
I agree that *sobriety* tests are relevant for many jobs, but *drug-use* tests are not.
I can't believe nobody's posted this yet. This would be *really* useful as a *mono*-lingual translator! Build one of these into every cell phone, and suddenly I don't have to hear your inane conversation just because you happen to be sitting next to me in the plane.
This should be *much* easier to do that the version that actually translates, and it would add nearly as much to quality of life of the user and everyone else in his environs.
John Carmack ...get[ting] his "hover" craft back in shape...
What happened? Was it full of eels?