If there was an option for a Logan's Run affair, I think in my mid 80's I'd be willing to go out in style. Sign up as a Runner and have the Sandmen chase me and with nothing to lose, it could be entertaining for the masses glued to their digital organs they call smartphones.
In your mid-80s, it might not be much of a "chase", just saying. Opting for carousel might be a better option. You get to fly. And there's always the Box option.
I'm all for making it possible for people to choose to leave with dignity.
The biggest problem is how to prevent pressure, where those who stand to inherit deliberately or unconsciously create a pressure on people to end their lives. Even if none is intended, elderly people may feel it's expected of them.
The second biggest problem is disrespect. There are plenty of people, especially among the religious, who are so abhorred by suicide that they will classify anyone contemplating it as mentally unsound, and thus someone who should not be allowed to make the decision. Post hoc ergo propter hoc. But even among non-religious people, the fear of death and cultural taboo of suicide has many - quite possibly a great majority - believe that anyone contemplating suicide needs mental help to prevent it. To me, that view seems severely disrespectful.
For corporate phones, it's sometimes a requirement that the users cannot upgrade, but that all upgrades be tested and approved before company wide roll-outs. Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know.
No one is used to a 0-10 scale because thatÃ(TM)s 11 units which is highly irregular. Same with a 0-5, being a very strange six units to humans since it looks, to the layman, like there are five units.
On the contrary. Your hand can display 0-5 fingers. Two hands can display 0-10. It's the most natural system in the world. You don't have 11 fingers (unless you killed Montoya Senior).
It's the same ratio no matter what bounds you apply
No, it isn't. 3.5/5 where the bounds are 1-5 is not the same as 3.5/5 where the bounds are 0-5.
What people are most used to are arguably 0-10 and 0-100 scales, and 1-5 scales are misleading, and deliberately so. Google has chosen to not allow 0 stars, because, well, they get a portion of the cut on sales, and giving the impression that something is better than it is in their economic interest.
Part of the problem was that iTunes installed QuickTime. I'm not sure whether that's a requirement anymore, but it was a showstopper, especially for people who needed to be at a specific and different version of QuickTime to support other programs or specific hardware.
Another showstopper was how iTunes would full-screen itself no matter how many times you resized it to a manageable size, and steal focus. It seemed made for single-tasking people who can't deal with overlapping windows.
From a music playing point of view, it also lacked gapless playback, so it wasn't very useful for those who like concept albums or classical music. And lack of FLAC support also alienated those who wanted higher quality.
It's been a few years since I've looked at iTunes, so I don't know whether these things have been fixed or not.
Mojave (Windows Vista SP1) fixed a lot of the technical problems with Windows Vista. Was Windows 7 worth the price of the upgrade from Mojave, other than for three more years of patches?
It depends on who you ask. Vista demanded a lot more from the users, with the much stricter access controls. Because users hates having to make decisions, this was severely dialled back in Windows 7. If Vista had received the same additions and bug fixes that Windows 7 did, but without the dumbing down and trading security for convenience of W7, I would have chosen Vista as the superior OS of the two. But support died down quickly.
How in the hell can Linux be considered "more successful" than even Windows Vista for any of those metrics?
Support for "a dozen years or more" is exceedingly rare within the Linux world. You're looking at RHEL Extended Lifecycle Support to get anywhere near that. Ubuntu LTS releases are only really supported for 5 years, as far as I know.
I think you completely missed his point - Linux was more successful precisely because it wasn't tied up in dozen-plus years of support. .
There's no real easy answer here. Its too time-consuming to go through all of the resumes manually.
Some ideas:
- Set aside a couple of hours of a non-HR person to pick through random resumes and put a couple in the "check these" stack.
- Have a computer algorithm compare resumes and bump the score of those outside the norm, and reduce the score of those that have the most similarity. That would likely get rid of a lot of the keyword spamming cookie cutter resumes.
- Allow negative keywords. If I want to hire someone who can write an embedded database inside 64k, it might we worth searching for "database" and then score down those who also say "access" or "mssql". And If I want a good Linux sysadmin, I would like to score down anyone who says "Ubuntu" but not any EL flavor, because chances are higher that they only have user experience and would waste my time. Even if it excludes some good matches, it will likely exclude more bad matches. Common spelling mistakes would also be good for negative keywords. Someone who writes "pearl" or "kernal" and can't be bothered to proof-read their CV is probably not someone worth interviewing.
HR and recruiters work hand in hand to ensure that companies get the worst possible candidates. The problem is keyword matching. Recruiters spam them, and HR filters on them. That directly penalizes someone who either has a very strong or narrow skillset, or someone who has a very high adaptability.
As someone who hires, I either want someone who can bring expertise to the table, or can quickly understand and adapt to what we do, without training. What the combination of HR and recruiters come up with is rarely any of those. A keyword match won't tell whether you've merely been exposed to something or have real expertise, and a missing keyword does not mean you can't do that.
Working with HR and recruiters to better convey what you need is important, but it's near impossible to get them to not put so much faith in keyword matching.
No, they don't. In an unregulated market, the end result is monopolies. Bigger fish eat the smaller fish, and you'll be left with a single company. It's the natural conclusion to free markets.
Regulation is needed to ensure that the small guys can enter the playing field and not be eaten, not have their market poisoned by those who can afford it, and that monopolies and oligopolies don't form.
"more truck drivers, not less" -> "more truck drivers, not fewer"
They might be talking about volume, not numbers, i.e. that truck drivers will get fatter, not leaner. This seems plausible if they still have to sit standby in the cabin, but won't have to use a steering wheel and pedals and burn a mild amount of calories that way, but now have both hands free to eat and drink.
I got news, life is cruel and really bad things happen to people or they do it to themselves. I witnessed someone die next to me not too long ago. Get a grip.
The problem wasn't pointing out that life was cruel, it was the total lack of respect. For an individual, for a culture, and for a country. But from the rest of your post, I would guess that you have little understanding of that word.
The programmer is definitely not a moron, he just does what he is paid to do.
Isn't that the definition of a moron? A smart person will question what he does when it does not make sense. That's why a smart person on average gets paid more.
I am a strong believer that blockchain technology has a future. Cryptocurrencies as we know them are one simple possible use case for a blockchain technology. Whether passing around ethereal pure fiat "money" around is a really important use case is unproven.
I think blockchains have a value, but not for currency transactions. The reason is that the validation relies on third parties not present where and when the transaction takes place. The value of what is purchased with any currency will fluctuate, and adding transaction latency increases risks for the trading parties.
Any refurbished iPhone model comes with Apple's standard one-year warranty effective on the date the device is delivered.
Except that the minimum warranty is two years many places, also for refurbished goods, with up to five years redress rights for phones. Depending on your location, the one year warranty is only valid if it offers something above and beyond that.
Imagine the fun when an ambulance is on the way to a heart attack and an AV is going smack at the speed limit blocking the lane and won't pull over for the flashing lights. That will be one of the many laws that will have to be programmed in, and some method of reliably detecting when it is necessary to obey.
Not to mention that pulling over is different in different countries. In some countries (like the US), you pull over to the right, but in others, you pull over to the left if in a left lane.
LibreOffice has better compatibility so it's a good choice for those who need that, but as a Linux user, Gnumeric and AbiWord are much leaner, and still work with most (unfortunately not all) MS Office documents. Anyhow, choice is great!
Of course you can disable the text messages. Just give your provider a call and say you want to disable it. Or disable the messaging app you use in the phone.
Take the hardware into equation too. LibreOffice is not a lightweighter, and requires far newer/faster/bigger hardware than what they claim on the system-requirements web page. Especially if you can't build your own LibreOffice from source and have to take pre-packaged binaries, it's going to be severely bloated, including java. Even though Office is heavy, it's lighter than that. I actually can use Word on a PIII laptop, but LibreOffice, nope. If the choice is between buying a minimal version of Office for $50 or replacing a working computer to run a free LibreOffice, well...
This is strawman argumentation. I never said that I never trust my gut feelings based on scant evidence. But sticking to your gut feelings when you are presented with new evidence is a whole different ball game.
To use your own example, it's like if you jumped to the conclusion that something that looked like a wooden chair was a wooden chair. And then, when someone sat on it and it collapsed like rubber, and then sprang back into shape again, you still insisted that it's a wooden chair, and that this is your decision to make.
To play devil's advocate a bit, pretty much everyone just uses their gut to decide what's true based on feelings. For many things you literally cannot do the research.
For example, you probably make fun of flat earth people. But have you done the research? Have you flown high enough to see the curvature of the earth (almost certainly not), have you examined the moon rocks or have you seen a satellite separate from a rocket (unlikely).
You confuse science with experiments. You don't have to collect the data yourself; you just have to logically be able to reach conclusions.
But yes, I have also seen the curvature of the earth. Pretty much any commercial flight will let you see that, unless you're bad at detecting whether lines are straight or not. But you don't even need to enter a plane. If you live on the coast, you can see how distant objects, whether they are ships or islands, disappear so you only see the top, and the more so, the greater the distance. Other daily life indications include the length of shadows at any time, which differ between different latitudes. Something as simple as a sundial has to be angled depending on your location. A flat earth does not explain how the sun rises much higher in the sky in some places than others, to the point of not rising at all during winter at high latitudes, and not setting at all during summer.
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If there was an option for a Logan's Run affair, I think in my mid 80's I'd be willing to go out in style. Sign up as a Runner and have the Sandmen chase me and with nothing to lose, it could be entertaining for the masses glued to their digital organs they call smartphones.
In your mid-80s, it might not be much of a "chase", just saying.
Opting for carousel might be a better option. You get to fly.
And there's always the Box option.
I'm all for making it possible for people to choose to leave with dignity.
The biggest problem is how to prevent pressure, where those who stand to inherit deliberately or unconsciously create a pressure on people to end their lives. Even if none is intended, elderly people may feel it's expected of them.
The second biggest problem is disrespect. There are plenty of people, especially among the religious, who are so abhorred by suicide that they will classify anyone contemplating it as mentally unsound, and thus someone who should not be allowed to make the decision. Post hoc ergo propter hoc.
But even among non-religious people, the fear of death and cultural taboo of suicide has many - quite possibly a great majority - believe that anyone contemplating suicide needs mental help to prevent it. To me, that view seems severely disrespectful.
As someone who is just under 6' and just around 260lbs, I need a little extra room
With a BMI of 36+, you meet the classification for Severely Obese, and need a big extra room.
For corporate phones, it's sometimes a requirement that the users cannot upgrade, but that all upgrades be tested and approved before company wide roll-outs.
Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know.
No one is used to a 0-10 scale because thatÃ(TM)s 11 units which is highly irregular. Same with a 0-5, being a very strange six units to humans since it looks, to the layman, like there are five units.
On the contrary. Your hand can display 0-5 fingers. Two hands can display 0-10. It's the most natural system in the world. You don't have 11 fingers (unless you killed Montoya Senior).
It's the same ratio no matter what bounds you apply
No, it isn't. 3.5/5 where the bounds are 1-5 is not the same as 3.5/5 where the bounds are 0-5.
What people are most used to are arguably 0-10 and 0-100 scales, and 1-5 scales are misleading, and deliberately so. Google has chosen to not allow 0 stars, because, well, they get a portion of the cut on sales, and giving the impression that something is better than it is in their economic interest.
Part of the problem was that iTunes installed QuickTime. I'm not sure whether that's a requirement anymore, but it was a showstopper, especially for people who needed to be at a specific and different version of QuickTime to support other programs or specific hardware.
Another showstopper was how iTunes would full-screen itself no matter how many times you resized it to a manageable size, and steal focus. It seemed made for single-tasking people who can't deal with overlapping windows.
From a music playing point of view, it also lacked gapless playback, so it wasn't very useful for those who like concept albums or classical music. And lack of FLAC support also alienated those who wanted higher quality.
It's been a few years since I've looked at iTunes, so I don't know whether these things have been fixed or not.
Over 10mil installs on Android, with a 3.5 rating, having 211k ratings.
3.5 is fairly bad. Given that there isn't a 0 star rating, it equates to a 6.25 rating on a 0-10 scale.
Mojave (Windows Vista SP1) fixed a lot of the technical problems with Windows Vista. Was Windows 7 worth the price of the upgrade from Mojave, other than for three more years of patches?
It depends on who you ask. Vista demanded a lot more from the users, with the much stricter access controls. Because users hates having to make decisions, this was severely dialled back in Windows 7.
If Vista had received the same additions and bug fixes that Windows 7 did, but without the dumbing down and trading security for convenience of W7, I would have chosen Vista as the superior OS of the two. But support died down quickly.
How in the hell can Linux be considered "more successful" than even Windows Vista for any of those metrics?
Support for "a dozen years or more" is exceedingly rare within the Linux world. You're looking at RHEL Extended Lifecycle Support to get anywhere near that. Ubuntu LTS releases are only really supported for 5 years, as far as I know.
I think you completely missed his point - Linux was more successful precisely because it wasn't tied up in dozen-plus years of support.
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There's no real easy answer here. Its too time-consuming to go through all of the resumes manually.
Some ideas:
- Set aside a couple of hours of a non-HR person to pick through random resumes and put a couple in the "check these" stack.
- Have a computer algorithm compare resumes and bump the score of those outside the norm, and reduce the score of those that have the most similarity. That would likely get rid of a lot of the keyword spamming cookie cutter resumes.
- Allow negative keywords. If I want to hire someone who can write an embedded database inside 64k, it might we worth searching for "database" and then score down those who also say "access" or "mssql". And If I want a good Linux sysadmin, I would like to score down anyone who says "Ubuntu" but not any EL flavor, because chances are higher that they only have user experience and would waste my time. Even if it excludes some good matches, it will likely exclude more bad matches.
Common spelling mistakes would also be good for negative keywords. Someone who writes "pearl" or "kernal" and can't be bothered to proof-read their CV is probably not someone worth interviewing.
HR and recruiters work hand in hand to ensure that companies get the worst possible candidates. The problem is keyword matching. Recruiters spam them, and HR filters on them. That directly penalizes someone who either has a very strong or narrow skillset, or someone who has a very high adaptability.
As someone who hires, I either want someone who can bring expertise to the table, or can quickly understand and adapt to what we do, without training. What the combination of HR and recruiters come up with is rarely any of those. A keyword match won't tell whether you've merely been exposed to something or have real expertise, and a missing keyword does not mean you can't do that.
Working with HR and recruiters to better convey what you need is important, but it's near impossible to get them to not put so much faith in keyword matching.
Markets work just fine when left alone.
No, they don't. In an unregulated market, the end result is monopolies. Bigger fish eat the smaller fish, and you'll be left with a single company. It's the natural conclusion to free markets.
Regulation is needed to ensure that the small guys can enter the playing field and not be eaten, not have their market poisoned by those who can afford it, and that monopolies and oligopolies don't form.
"more truck drivers, not less" -> "more truck drivers, not fewer"
They might be talking about volume, not numbers, i.e. that truck drivers will get fatter, not leaner.
This seems plausible if they still have to sit standby in the cabin, but won't have to use a steering wheel and pedals and burn a mild amount of calories that way, but now have both hands free to eat and drink.
I got news, life is cruel and really bad things happen to people or they do it to themselves. I witnessed someone die next to me not too long ago. Get a grip.
The problem wasn't pointing out that life was cruel, it was the total lack of respect. For an individual, for a culture, and for a country. But from the rest of your post, I would guess that you have little understanding of that word.
The programmer is definitely not a moron, he just does what he is paid to do.
Isn't that the definition of a moron? A smart person will question what he does when it does not make sense. That's why a smart person on average gets paid more.
I am a strong believer that blockchain technology has a future. Cryptocurrencies as we know them are one simple possible use case for a blockchain technology. Whether passing around ethereal pure fiat "money" around is a really important use case is unproven.
I think blockchains have a value, but not for currency transactions. The reason is that the validation relies on third parties not present where and when the transaction takes place. The value of what is purchased with any currency will fluctuate, and adding transaction latency increases risks for the trading parties.
Any refurbished iPhone model comes with Apple's standard one-year warranty effective on the date the device is delivered.
Except that the minimum warranty is two years many places, also for refurbished goods, with up to five years redress rights for phones. Depending on your location, the one year warranty is only valid if it offers something above and beyond that.
Imagine the fun when an ambulance is on the way to a heart attack and an AV is going smack at the speed limit blocking the lane and won't pull over for the flashing lights. That will be one of the many laws that will have to be programmed in, and some method of reliably detecting when it is necessary to obey.
Not to mention that pulling over is different in different countries. In some countries (like the US), you pull over to the right, but in others, you pull over to the left if in a left lane.
LibreOffice has better compatibility so it's a good choice for those who need that, but as a Linux user, Gnumeric and AbiWord are much leaner, and still work with most (unfortunately not all) MS Office documents.
Anyhow, choice is great!
I'm foreseeing a future where driverless cop cars pursue and stop driverless vehicles...
Of course you can disable the text messages. Just give your provider a call and say you want to disable it. Or disable the messaging app you use in the phone.
Let's see, free vs. several hundred dollars....
Take the hardware into equation too. LibreOffice is not a lightweighter, and requires far newer/faster/bigger hardware than what they claim on the system-requirements web page. Especially if you can't build your own LibreOffice from source and have to take pre-packaged binaries, it's going to be severely bloated, including java. Even though Office is heavy, it's lighter than that. I actually can use Word on a PIII laptop, but LibreOffice, nope.
If the choice is between buying a minimal version of Office for $50 or replacing a working computer to run a free LibreOffice, well...
This is strawman argumentation. I never said that I never trust my gut feelings based on scant evidence. But sticking to your gut feelings when you are presented with new evidence is a whole different ball game.
To use your own example, it's like if you jumped to the conclusion that something that looked like a wooden chair was a wooden chair. And then, when someone sat on it and it collapsed like rubber, and then sprang back into shape again, you still insisted that it's a wooden chair, and that this is your decision to make.
To play devil's advocate a bit, pretty much everyone just uses their gut to decide what's true based on feelings. For many things you literally cannot do the research.
For example, you probably make fun of flat earth people. But have you done the research? Have you flown high enough to see the curvature of the earth (almost certainly not), have you examined the moon rocks or have you seen a satellite separate from a rocket (unlikely).
You confuse science with experiments. You don't have to collect the data yourself; you just have to logically be able to reach conclusions.
But yes, I have also seen the curvature of the earth. Pretty much any commercial flight will let you see that, unless you're bad at detecting whether lines are straight or not. But you don't even need to enter a plane. If you live on the coast, you can see how distant objects, whether they are ships or islands, disappear so you only see the top, and the more so, the greater the distance.
Other daily life indications include the length of shadows at any time, which differ between different latitudes. Something as simple as a sundial has to be angled depending on your location. A flat earth does not explain how the sun rises much higher in the sky in some places than others, to the point of not rising at all during winter at high latitudes, and not setting at all during summer.