Better hope that in his entire life they never goes anywhere vaccination isn't routinely practiced. Given the folks who are anti-vaccination, its going to be rare for them to get out of your rotorwash; but it really sucks rocks to get a childhood disease (in my case chickenpox) as an adult. From (I believe) a non-english speaking checkout dude at Target (he was showing bumps, coulda been acne, started a few days later tho, I worked from home so little interaction with the greater unwashed...).
You really are exposed to more of the uncontrolled world than you think, and will be more so in the future. The game theory that says avoiding the vaccination risk in an otherwise totally vaccinated population is a win fails to account for the risk of being unvaccinated in a population of marginally vaccinated. Then your risk skyrockets.
Scary that this would have elicited tinfoil hat jokes just six months ago. Now its probably true or on its way to being true. Except for the editorializing. UK was complicit in all of this, bugged everyone they had access to. Its global man, stop looking for scapegoats.
You shouldn't bother with AC anymore, if they want to know who you are they can find out.
Engineering internships are usually different; companies use them as well paid extended interviews to find people they want to hire. Both of mine wanted me to quit school and stay. I was doing real work after about a week. They are awesome if you are a poor college student and need the money to keep going to school.
Crazy. You could come to the US, they are scrambling for entry level engineering talent at every company I have friends at.... Especially if you're not bound to a particular area.
Engineers gain value from experience; if you are still doing the same thing in the same time then yes, but with experience comes order of magnitude speed up and cost avoidance; this should come with more money. Not below cost-of-living increases in perpetuity....
Awesome link, thanks for this. I feel for the Russians, sucks to lose one like that.
Wonder where range safety was, but don't know what their protocol is; it might cause less damage if it goes off on the ground as long as its unpopulated versus an air burst. Someone in the know can weigh in here?
Maybe people will stop h8n on SpaceX now? Naw, h8rs gonna h8....
Israel is one of the worlds least popular countries because most people are anti-semitic. Europeans randomly killed jews for thousands of years. The arab/persian countries preach death to jews, even us Americans were overt about it until our recent enlightenment(s).
As to spying, every country spies on every other country. This one is ridiculous, and should stop, but the death of privacy is a fact we should be getting used to. Hopefully we will evolve and realize that everyone looks at a little pr0n, we all say things in private that shouldn't be said in public, and we should get better about it. Really, the only way to deal with this is no more secrets, live your life in brutal honesty. As the roadblocks to doing that fade away (homosexual, who cares? Fapp, not gonna die, everyone cheats, etc) the value of this database becomes just what it was intended for, and loses its _incredible_ potential for corruption.
Its really because we can't live anywhere else. I tried, failed. If you're from here, the rest of the country has seasons/bugs/religion/closedmindedness. If you grew up without those things, its really hard to live somewhere they are endemic. Look, if you grew up in the frozen wasteland, the weather _anywhere_ is great. If you're used to thunderstorms, you can handle hurricanes. Humidity is the same everywhere, and if you grew up with it, its no big deal. "Worshiped on Sunday, forgotten all week?" You know the system, you can adapt to the new god(s).
If you were cursed to grow up without this stuff, you are forced to stay in the only place in the country without them. If all the people not so cursed could find it in their hearts to take pity on us, and stay away, we could live out our pitiful existence without the astronomical cost of housing you all bring with you. It would really be helping us out.
Fscking hilarious, when I got business cards at my last job the Administrative Assistant (secretary with title creep) who I was forced to use misspelled it that way. I caught it as soon as I looked at them, thank dog. Then again, almost no one at that place paid any attention at all to what they were doing.
and there are no majors for that in college, either. Quality has always been assumed in engineering. CS, if its associated with the College of Engineering, has simply adopted this blind eye to Quality. I dunno why.
The wage gap comes from women working in lower paying jobs than men. Women dont go into science and engineering so they miss out on the higher paying science and engineering jobs. Women go home to have children and let their husbands work. Woment take jobs that dont require their full effort or pay the time and attention to their jobs when they are expecting a family and a husband to be the bread winner.
If women treat ther careers like its their life, and skew their work life balance to work, they succeed at the same rate as men. Its as simple as that. Most men do this because its expected of them. Men dont generally get the out of raising children if work isn't what they expected or wanted.
This. The most uncomfortable sexual discussions ever held in my presence, in the workplace, were from women. I have been subject to sexual harassment at work, and it was from a woman. Shit goes both ways, the real kicker is that some women think they are doing men a favor by being hypersexual in the workplace. How retarded is that?
Mirrors the engineering departments in college. Seriously. Lucky to have 10% women in class. Add to that the tech immigration, which is all men, and 97% probably mirrors their hiring pool. Want to help fix it? Make the feds only accept 50/50 men/women H1-B applications. That would get the ratio back in a hurry. Plus it would get some women in technical fields, a step I would applaud. Sucks to go to work everyday, all dudes. Science and engineering companies are the biggest sausage parties on the planet.
Crazy I know, but I trust statements like yours more than the hype. I am in the middle of migrating all my personal computers to SSDs, and haven't seen any issues, so its nice to hear that I am going to be fine. Its also nice they use an order of magnitude less electricity.
Back when I was a sysadmin the biggest hardware fail was spinning drives, at least 1 a week (there were lots of them). So yeah, they fail all the time with a large enough data set. I expect SSDs to end up being more reliable since there are no moving parts, heat, or vibration worries, whatever the theoretical fail modes are....
I second this, I couldn't hear above 16kHz by my early 30s (using a frequency generator and oscope to verify). I think folks get caught up in the theoretical, not the reality.
I can't tell the difference between 128kbit mp3s and CD most of the time. Fiona Apple or other strong vocal artists are degraded at 128, but at 256kbit I can't tell the difference. I would still rip at FLAC now, since storage is cheap, but I haven't gone back and re-ripped my 256kbit rips....
I loved my old T20, it was a primary workstation, for work, that took three years of 40-120 hr weeks without a fault. The keyboard was the main selling point, and the shugging off of abuse. I spilled both Dr. Pepper and Dr. Thunder into the keyboard, and it was fixed with a keyboard removal, rinse, dry, and reinstall. Thinkpads were the gold standard of the business world, and the T-series was the pinnacle. Fast, light (including the power brick!, fer gds sake), I could go on. Traveled well, worked well, a breeze to take apart and fix (see keyboard wetting above), pounded on that keyboard, frequently in frustration. I was a sysadmin (for IBM no less), so, there was a lot, of frustration....
I have a T420 now, bought new with my own money, it will be my last IBM^H^H^HLenovo laptop. I guess I will have to buy a macbook to get something decent from a hardware perspective. I run Linux primarily so don't care about the installed OS. Maybe the google laptops will be better when this one dies. It is sad to see a great line of hardware destroyed.
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Better hope that in his entire life they never goes anywhere vaccination isn't routinely practiced. Given the folks who are anti-vaccination, its going to be rare for them to get out of your rotorwash; but it really sucks rocks to get a childhood disease (in my case chickenpox) as an adult. From (I believe) a non-english speaking checkout dude at Target (he was showing bumps, coulda been acne, started a few days later tho, I worked from home so little interaction with the greater unwashed...).
You really are exposed to more of the uncontrolled world than you think, and will be more so in the future. The game theory that says avoiding the vaccination risk in an otherwise totally vaccinated population is a win fails to account for the risk of being unvaccinated in a population of marginally vaccinated. Then your risk skyrockets.
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Scary that this would have elicited tinfoil hat jokes just six months ago. Now its probably true or on its way to being true. Except for the editorializing. UK was complicit in all of this, bugged everyone they had access to. Its global man, stop looking for scapegoats.
You shouldn't bother with AC anymore, if they want to know who you are they can find out.
andy
Engineering internships are usually different; companies use them as well paid extended interviews to find people they want to hire. Both of mine wanted me to quit school and stay. I was doing real work after about a week. They are awesome if you are a poor college student and need the money to keep going to school.
andy
Crazy. You could come to the US, they are scrambling for entry level engineering talent at every company I have friends at.... Especially if you're not bound to a particular area.
andy
Engineers gain value from experience; if you are still doing the same thing in the same time then yes, but with experience comes order of magnitude speed up and cost avoidance; this should come with more money. Not below cost-of-living increases in perpetuity....
andy
Awesome link, thanks for this. I feel for the Russians, sucks to lose one like that.
Wonder where range safety was, but don't know what their protocol is; it might cause less damage if it goes off on the ground as long as its unpopulated versus an air burst. Someone in the know can weigh in here?
Maybe people will stop h8n on SpaceX now? Naw, h8rs gonna h8....
andy
Israel is one of the worlds least popular countries because most people are anti-semitic. Europeans randomly killed jews for thousands of years. The arab/persian countries preach death to jews, even us Americans were overt about it until our recent enlightenment(s).
As to spying, every country spies on every other country. This one is ridiculous, and should stop, but the death of privacy is a fact we should be getting used to. Hopefully we will evolve and realize that everyone looks at a little pr0n, we all say things in private that shouldn't be said in public, and we should get better about it. Really, the only way to deal with this is no more secrets, live your life in brutal honesty. As the roadblocks to doing that fade away (homosexual, who cares? Fapp, not gonna die, everyone cheats, etc) the value of this database becomes just what it was intended for, and loses its _incredible_ potential for corruption.
andy
Fucking floppies for the win!
Its really because we can't live anywhere else. I tried, failed. If you're from here, the rest of the country has seasons/bugs/religion/closedmindedness. If you grew up without those things, its really hard to live somewhere they are endemic. Look, if you grew up in the frozen wasteland, the weather _anywhere_ is great. If you're used to thunderstorms, you can handle hurricanes. Humidity is the same everywhere, and if you grew up with it, its no big deal. "Worshiped on Sunday, forgotten all week?" You know the system, you can adapt to the new god(s).
If you were cursed to grow up without this stuff, you are forced to stay in the only place in the country without them. If all the people not so cursed could find it in their hearts to take pity on us, and stay away, we could live out our pitiful existence without the astronomical cost of housing you all bring with you. It would really be helping us out.
andy
I still haz the tshirt.
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Oh yes you can be arrested and jailed for theft of trade secrets.
andy
Fscking hilarious, when I got business cards at my last job the Administrative Assistant (secretary with title creep) who I was forced to use misspelled it that way. I caught it as soon as I looked at them, thank dog. Then again, almost no one at that place paid any attention at all to what they were doing.
andy
in a movie, like Superman III?
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Dilbert-esqe. Change the details and its the last two "insert Big Co Name Here" jobs I spent a decade and a half at.
andy
and there are no majors for that in college, either. Quality has always been assumed in engineering. CS, if its associated with the College of Engineering, has simply adopted this blind eye to Quality. I dunno why.
andy
The wage gap comes from women working in lower paying jobs than men. Women dont go into science and engineering so they miss out on the higher paying science and engineering jobs. Women go home to have children and let their husbands work. Woment take jobs that dont require their full effort or pay the time and attention to their jobs when they are expecting a family and a husband to be the bread winner.
If women treat ther careers like its their life, and skew their work life balance to work, they succeed at the same rate as men. Its as simple as that. Most men do this because its expected of them. Men dont generally get the out of raising children if work isn't what they expected or wanted.
andy
This. The most uncomfortable sexual discussions ever held in my presence, in the workplace, were from women. I have been subject to sexual harassment at work, and it was from a woman. Shit goes both ways, the real kicker is that some women think they are doing men a favor by being hypersexual in the workplace. How retarded is that?
andy
Mirrors the engineering departments in college. Seriously. Lucky to have 10% women in class. Add to that the tech immigration, which is all men, and 97% probably mirrors their hiring pool. Want to help fix it? Make the feds only accept 50/50 men/women H1-B applications. That would get the ratio back in a hurry. Plus it would get some women in technical fields, a step I would applaud. Sucks to go to work everyday, all dudes. Science and engineering companies are the biggest sausage parties on the planet.
andy
Crazy I know, but I trust statements like yours more than the hype. I am in the middle of migrating all my personal computers to SSDs, and haven't seen any issues, so its nice to hear that I am going to be fine. Its also nice they use an order of magnitude less electricity.
Back when I was a sysadmin the biggest hardware fail was spinning drives, at least 1 a week (there were lots of them). So yeah, they fail all the time with a large enough data set. I expect SSDs to end up being more reliable since there are no moving parts, heat, or vibration worries, whatever the theoretical fail modes are....
andy
I second this, I couldn't hear above 16kHz by my early 30s (using a frequency generator and oscope to verify). I think folks get caught up in the theoretical, not the reality.
andy
I can't tell the difference between 128kbit mp3s and CD most of the time. Fiona Apple or other strong vocal artists are degraded at 128, but at 256kbit I can't tell the difference. I would still rip at FLAC now, since storage is cheap, but I haven't gone back and re-ripped my 256kbit rips....
andy
I saw them in 91, it was my first death metal show. I think I wore that shirt for the whole first week of high school that year. Awesome....
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I think that's the point.
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You would have to translate it to Chinese.
I loved my old T20, it was a primary workstation, for work, that took three years of 40-120 hr weeks without a fault. The keyboard was the main selling point, and the shugging off of abuse. I spilled both Dr. Pepper and Dr. Thunder into the keyboard, and it was fixed with a keyboard removal, rinse, dry, and reinstall. Thinkpads were the gold standard of the business world, and the T-series was the pinnacle. Fast, light (including the power brick!, fer gds sake), I could go on. Traveled well, worked well, a breeze to take apart and fix (see keyboard wetting above), pounded on that keyboard, frequently in frustration. I was a sysadmin (for IBM no less), so, there was a lot, of frustration....
I have a T420 now, bought new with my own money, it will be my last IBM^H^H^HLenovo laptop. I guess I will have to buy a macbook to get something decent from a hardware perspective. I run Linux primarily so don't care about the installed OS. Maybe the google laptops will be better when this one dies. It is sad to see a great line of hardware destroyed.
andy
FTFW
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