however, we don't know the reasons the Polynesians expanded. It is highly doubtful a lone couple of polynesians set sail on the high seas to find new islands. The amount of provisioning and boat building required would indicate at least local levels of cooperation and contribution that would most likely be analogous to modern government sponsorship of exploration and colonization. These aren't the brave, rugged capitalist individualists you are looking for, either.
Constant threat of being out-sourced, overseen by the same idiots who gave you shit all through high school, meant to feel worthless even though you just created products that will carry the company through the next 50 years, blah blah blah.
I mean, I'd just bury my depression in a tub of ice cream, but I guess some folks wanna kill themselves the easy way.
There's a new found disdain for DBAs, because they "slow things down" by pointing out issues before they become issues. Instead, every half-assed "web developer" also thinks they're a DBA because "web scale" or some bullshit. I've always found it ironic that businesses who depend upon the integrity of their data are the first to eschew the services of a good DBA because "slow" or because "nosql". Then again, I've generally always worked with competent DBAs would who ask questions about my queries and help me build new queries that followed better practices (as well as lightening the load on the db itself).
This is exactly how we did it. I would call out my numbers one at a time, wait for confirmation (checking their copy), and continue. ", 1685" "check", etc. And yes, we would catch transposition errors t his way. Short-cutting this only saved less than a minute and the consequences were too "dire" to ignore. And then we'd do the same with fuel numbers, etc. Once our paperwork was double and triple checked, we'd sign off and hand to the crew to sign off on the numbers they needed to verify (fuel load, for example), they'd sign, and we'd be on our way. I always assumed the crew would also do a similar check with the numbers.
I used to be a Ramp Agent at a major international shipping firm. We did weight and balance for the flights. We had several layers of redundancy for our numbers: Every container number and weight was rechecked by another Ramp Agent, and then once again at the gate to match with the load sheets. We realized if we put the numbers in wrong, that could result in loss of life (not to mention aircraft assets and cargo). We took this job very seriously. Once we turned that paperwork (now done via ACARS, supposedly), I would hate to think that the cockpit just fat fingered the numbers in on their end without having a secondary check. "Hey Captain, can we check the numbers real quick?" Probably take them 15-30 seconds at most since they'd be concerned with big picture numbers and not individual positions.
I'm okay with this, but I would also say get rid of H1B altogether and give them green cards. College Educated technically inclined immigrants are EXACTLY the sort we should be encouraging to come, live, and stay in the US.
Be careful. Your "basic human dignity" is another person's "you're being an asshole." We all have our thresholds, but I've been astounded at the sensitivity many of my co-workers for what I would consider benign things.
It's probably not a sexy topic, but I'd love to see one of the few remaining investigative journalists go deep and get into the business of journal publishing.
Interestingly, I don't see an International version of the Introduction by Strang on eBay, but the "full" book is about $20 from India. I'm totally all about the international versions.
Mount a small camera, pair with a viewing device, remote pilot "drone" with a kg or so of plastic explosive attached to it and detonate at target. Don't worry about "dropping" the munition. If it gets shot down, remote trigger detonation anyway.
Unless things have drastically changed in the past decade, not really. FedEx had to deal with the contractor issue when they picked up RPS and Viking, I believe, as a good number of their drivers were independent drivers (in that these drivers could then subcontract their "routes" to other folks). I don't think this applied to actual delivery drivers, only route drivers (from station to station not station to business), but I could be wrong about that. Anyway, when RPS was rolled into FedEx (and turned into FedEx Ground), there was much gnashing of teeth and wringing of hands and FedEx decided to keep the independent contractor portion intact and I think it's done well for them. I do not believe it's been rolled out to the Express or other businesses, however.
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Feds.. invite you to use their shiny new data center?
however, we don't know the reasons the Polynesians expanded. It is highly doubtful a lone couple of polynesians set sail on the high seas to find new islands. The amount of provisioning and boat building required would indicate at least local levels of cooperation and contribution that would most likely be analogous to modern government sponsorship of exploration and colonization. These aren't the brave, rugged capitalist individualists you are looking for, either.
Constant threat of being out-sourced, overseen by the same idiots who gave you shit all through high school, meant to feel worthless even though you just created products that will carry the company through the next 50 years, blah blah blah.
I mean, I'd just bury my depression in a tub of ice cream, but I guess some folks wanna kill themselves the easy way.
There's a new found disdain for DBAs, because they "slow things down" by pointing out issues before they become issues. Instead, every half-assed "web developer" also thinks they're a DBA because "web scale" or some bullshit. I've always found it ironic that businesses who depend upon the integrity of their data are the first to eschew the services of a good DBA because "slow" or because "nosql". Then again, I've generally always worked with competent DBAs would who ask questions about my queries and help me build new queries that followed better practices (as well as lightening the load on the db itself).
And all I want is a pre-lenovo Thinkpad and a 7 day battery life flip phone with maps.
And emacs.
I listen to powernoise, industrial, and witchhouse that use unpronouncable characters in both the artist and track fields you insensitive clod!
I think they've done this project before.
Because cash usually works.
Anonymous is on the job now. Man, they really showed us.
Lobster and Shrimp...
This is exactly how we did it. I would call out my numbers one at a time, wait for confirmation (checking their copy), and continue. ", 1685" "check", etc. And yes, we would catch transposition errors t his way. Short-cutting this only saved less than a minute and the consequences were too "dire" to ignore. And then we'd do the same with fuel numbers, etc. Once our paperwork was double and triple checked, we'd sign off and hand to the crew to sign off on the numbers they needed to verify (fuel load, for example), they'd sign, and we'd be on our way. I always assumed the crew would also do a similar check with the numbers.
I really miss that job.
"What do you want to eat?"
"I dunno, what do you want to eat?"
Sounds like a perfect fit!
I used to be a Ramp Agent at a major international shipping firm. We did weight and balance for the flights. We had several layers of redundancy for our numbers: Every container number and weight was rechecked by another Ramp Agent, and then once again at the gate to match with the load sheets. We realized if we put the numbers in wrong, that could result in loss of life (not to mention aircraft assets and cargo). We took this job very seriously. Once we turned that paperwork (now done via ACARS, supposedly), I would hate to think that the cockpit just fat fingered the numbers in on their end without having a secondary check. "Hey Captain, can we check the numbers real quick?" Probably take them 15-30 seconds at most since they'd be concerned with big picture numbers and not individual positions.
I'm okay with this, but I would also say get rid of H1B altogether and give them green cards. College Educated technically inclined immigrants are EXACTLY the sort we should be encouraging to come, live, and stay in the US.
Be careful. Your "basic human dignity" is another person's "you're being an asshole." We all have our thresholds, but I've been astounded at the sensitivity many of my co-workers for what I would consider benign things.
Jesus christ, my studio apartment is 350 sqft with kitchen & bath. This isn't new, this is called "living within your means" in an expensive city.
And other closed gardens.
Then again, that might not be a bad idea for some things.
yep. nothing to see here.
I don't give a fuck what you think.
Fuck em.
It's probably not a sexy topic, but I'd love to see one of the few remaining investigative journalists go deep and get into the business of journal publishing.
Interestingly, I don't see an International version of the Introduction by Strang on eBay, but the "full" book is about $20 from India. I'm totally all about the international versions.
Fishing line nets, launched or hung between obstacles.. might not stop them all but could muck up the first few waves.
Mount a small camera, pair with a viewing device, remote pilot "drone" with a kg or so of plastic explosive attached to it and detonate at target. Don't worry about "dropping" the munition. If it gets shot down, remote trigger detonation anyway.
Unless things have drastically changed in the past decade, not really. FedEx had to deal with the contractor issue when they picked up RPS and Viking, I believe, as a good number of their drivers were independent drivers (in that these drivers could then subcontract their "routes" to other folks). I don't think this applied to actual delivery drivers, only route drivers (from station to station not station to business), but I could be wrong about that. Anyway, when RPS was rolled into FedEx (and turned into FedEx Ground), there was much gnashing of teeth and wringing of hands and FedEx decided to keep the independent contractor portion intact and I think it's done well for them. I do not believe it's been rolled out to the Express or other businesses, however.
How much kinetic energy is in a drop of water at 19k mph?