not the GP, but if you are willing to do the work... I would like to see "comparative annual deaths rates from cancer, diabetes, general malnutrition, violent crime with deaths directly attributable to lack of ready access to competent medical care, etc"
The consensus in London once was that the doctors who couldn't hack it in the NHS went to Harley Street.
That hasn't been my experience, I would say it is more or less exactly opposite. When I first came over, i had US insurance and was able to go private for care (w/ little cost to mysefl). Generally, the private/Harley st doctors I saw were top class. In the NHS, i have largely seen newer doctors (either younger or immigrants) or less competent and older doctors.
Afaict, when you are starting out, you go w/ the NHS to repay schooling and build a client base. If you are any good, you eventually decide to make real money and start a private practice. So you have the chance of getting a really good younger doctor but the odds are against you. Now, our obstetrician was fantastic and she did work w/ the NHS once per fortnight. (I was never sure if that was out of altruism or an effort to maintain some sort of standing in the NHS). So there is a chance of getting a really good private doc when you go through NHS but the odds are a bit longer on that.
Now this was generally docs for pregnancy/infant care, minor illness and a few minor hospital visits. Maybe intensive/ER care is different, I (thankfully) cannot speak to that.
Don't get me wrong, i think the NHS is actually a great system but the private docs I have seen have been much better than the public ones.
I thought you were supposed to vote for policies and platforms, not people (or parties)
Not so much. We vote for people to represent us and they will have to make decisions across a broad spectrum of potentially unknown (at voting time) issues. You are always voting for a person. Preferably, one that will make the decisions you would (or even better ones).
We do the same, everything is audited and the data is held since the beginning of the system. We manage the size of backups w/ RO sections that are only synced once, etc. keeping things on disk is pretty cheap.. consider it a cost of doing business.
There are lots of people who are healthy and don't see a doctor, nurse, or any other health care provider over the course of a year.
Over a one year period, sure, lots of people probably don't need care but the number of people who will never, over the course of their lives and up to their death, see any sort of healthcare must be vanishingly slim. Between the natural causes and accidents, you are going to need care at some point.
I think of this in somewhat the opposite way. The tighter communication loop is a huge boon in efficiency.
Say meeting somebody in town later today. What we had to do to meet before cell phones was: - pick a time that we were certain everybody could be there. this means leaving plenty of buffer time b/c I don't really know how long my other errands will take and who knows about parking, transportation, etc... - pick a place everybody knows well enough to describe a specific, non repeating spot. Not meet me at Grand Central, but meet me at Grand central, the northern lexington exit just on the street. - wait around if either of those things fall through b/c who knows where they are/what happened.
Now, none of that was particularly hard but it did lead to a lot of wasted time when compared to "lets meet somewhere in midtown in the early afternoon" and keeping each other updated as you progressed towards the time/place.
I can't tell you how many devs I met who are completely ignorant of how the machine works outside their IDE. Not all by any means but that was a real surprise for me as I supported more, varied applications.
Any intelligent and dedicated person can learn either of these fields and perform well. Many could probably retrain themselves between fields but if you really think you could step in and do a better job than a competent admin you must be working on a pretty small scale. There is no magic but there are practices and protocols that are there for a reason. if you don't understand them, you won't know which you can ignore and which matter. Pretty much exactly the quagmire I get into when I start to write something bigger than a few k lines.
Though, your tone and the way you refer to yourself, pretty much syncs w/ the expectations from Rockstars.
Being technical enough to block it, if he ever cares to, i am sure he can get the data (google translate, if nothing else). Other than seeming a bit over the top to me, it is likely a good answer to the problem.
The assumption there is that these methods don't bypass whatever control we have against stopping our own heart. there is no reason that we would have evolved properly gated defense in depth type systems. think how open the early internet was, i would be the brain will be much more like that when we first start connecting them. And evolution isn't quick. we will have to build the security into the interface and hope your interface vendor is legit.
The sports networks know that they will get more revenue from being on the basic package and forcing all subscribers to pay for them. They further know that they are popular enough that they can force the cable company's hand.
and they wonder why more and more people are refusing to pay the tax... bundled content makes sense when you have async comms channel and cannot negotiate what you want in real time. With the full two way communication , i am much more interested in setting up a tv bill more like a water bill. while I am using it, I am paying for it and if the tv isn't on, i am not paying. I will accept premium rates for different channels but to pay 100% of the time for something while I am not consuming it doesn't make any sense, let alone paying for 100s of channels I am not consuming..
This may be splitting hairs but that isn't quite right. There are several 403 subcodes. 403.7 (and several others) have to do w/ an improper client certificate being offered with the request. If you offer the right cert, you can get in.
whoa... does the fire and brimstone smell get you down or are you used to it? B)
Wasn't ESPN just part of the basic cable package? If sports channels are the biggest cost, why aren't there more unbundled packages that don't include them? Or at least get htem out of hte basic cable package. There must be a sizable market that could care less about ESPN et al who would appreciate the lower bill? you don't even ahve to lower it by as much as ESPN is getting.
(I moved out of country several years ago so maybe things have changed)
I 'grew up' on Linux/Solaris before job opportunities took me mostly MS around Win2k timeframe. I definitely thought the toolset was limited compared to what I was used to at the time. I think a lot of that changed as I got more comfortable with windows scripting, especially powershell.
That said, as I got more formal in my approach (less, get on there and try to make something work, more, this is the goal, what configuration of tools will meet that requirement), i started to realize that any competent engineer should be able to make either linux or windows as stable and secure as the other. The question then becomes what makes sense for the problem at hand. What are the requirements from business/mgmt, what do my junior admins know, what does dev work best with? Often those will choose your base toolset. I think of it similar to deciding whether to build in brick vs concrete vs wood vs steel. You are the engineer and should be comfortable that you can build something that will meet the client requirements, is maintainable and meets the security and availability goals, the material is only one consideration in meeting those goals and all have tradeoffs.
This does seem an appropriate place for a question i have. I haven't worked with larger (100 server+) farms on *nix so I don't really know what tools are available that ease in administration/configuration. When I was last doing it we were still scripting individual tool sets and copying text files individually. What are the preferred analogous tools to AD for both users (LDAP) and GPO type capabilities? Configuration auditing, still tripwire?
whoa,... relax there buddy. I was just mentioning that I really don't get what the fuss is about. My workflow hasn't changed moving from 7 to 8, i actually have them side by side and find them very similar. Not saying everybody works like me, or should. Just throwing it out as a counterpoint to the 'sky is falling' rhetoric that seems to surround this issue.
Perhaps they didn't think people were _still_ using the start button, because they all know how to use windows. the MS key is ubiquitous on keyboards now, click it and type a few letters to search a program. it really is far better than finding the mouse to hunt through some menus. If that is the way you are using the machine, then the jump from 7 to 8 was really of very little consequence. The metro tiles thing shows up until i launch a program and then it is just a slightly improved desktop.
Now, I don't think it was a good idea to take it away (for shutdown if nothing else). The real disconnect is for people who never changed their habits or are just coming from xp.
You are speaking only about the consumer/retaion banking side. There is some competition in rates on the retail banking side but we still have problems with exorbitant fees that seem pretty collusive. The commercial and investment banking are more problematic.
One question i have had for some time that seems appropriate here is how there are such margins in banking? Why don't the competitive pressure in the banking industry drive down the margins? We have banking bonuses in teh billions of dollars going out and they are still making record profits. Doesn't economic logic dictate that in a competitive market place, another player would work for slimmer margins and drive the cost of the product (and therefore the margins) down?
another anecdote here but I essentially have the same story. One of my first jobs out of college was configuring some mail servers for a well known publishing company. I build and tested the machines off site and shipped them to the datacenter in downtown NYC. That is where I ran into the union... Got on site the day after the box arrived, it was sitting next to the rack still sealed. I started to break the seal thinking to unpack, rack, ip the box, test and be done early. I was told I couldn't unbox and rack it b/c the union guy had to do that. Sat around for 7(!) days waiting for them to get around to it.
By this point I was willing to pay the guy to do the work anyway, just let me do it myself. I was admonished that if I did something like that all the unions in the building (highrise in NYC) would walk off the job.
So we wait the 7 days. But that guy only racked it, he didn't cable it. Had to wait another 3 days for the cable guy to come around. He finally came around and cabled it incorrectly (used the wrong NICs on a multi nic box). Was admonished that the mailguys will stop delivering mail if I recable it. But at least I have power now so I start some non network testing. I got annoyed and when no one was around, I swapped the cables, configured the network, tested and then 're-broke' it by returning the cables.
At least i knew that when the union guy finally got there a few days later, things would just work.
So I held that anti union message to heart for years. but here is the problem, we are seeing an ever widening gap between the top and bottom, an erosion of the middle class. For all of their faults, unions are/were a bulwark against these abuses. Hoping the top 1% decide to play fair (or even in their own long term interests) has proven to be too much to ask. Not ready to join the union yet but we have to find something to balance the power.
Too bad we have strayed so far from those points our selves.
Thanks for the link, i find it very interesting. I also think there is a longer view of history in Europe that allows/forces people to think longer term. So while we may have put a lot of good ideas into law, the societal values are not all our doing.
for the most part I agree w/ your statement but I don't agree with this part:
On a different note; I don't think this German IT firm is seeking autistic workers because they're better. They're seeking them because they're vulnerable adults without the capacity to protect themselves from exploitative labor practices.
The germans (and europeans) seem to have a stronger societal ethic than you are giving them credit for. Where in the states we have abandoned everything that doesn't directly contribute to the short term bottom line, imho, the germans are able to take a longer view. This is a way these people can make a useful contribution and the society as a whole is stronger for finding some way for everybody to contribute. This seems similar to the strong push for apprenticeships that the germans also champion. Give people a way to do meaningful work rather than living off the gov't. We could take a lesson here.
I also think it makes perfect sense. QA (and various other areas of computing) dovetail nicely with the different outlook of some mildly autistic people. Where they wouldn't be successful in relationship management, they can be a valued contributor in finding things that don't look right.
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so wouldn't it just be dd instead?
not the GP, but if you are willing to do the work... I would like to see "comparative annual deaths rates from cancer, diabetes, general malnutrition, violent crime with deaths directly attributable to lack of ready access to competent medical care, etc"
The consensus in London once was that the doctors who couldn't hack it in the NHS went to Harley Street.
That hasn't been my experience, I would say it is more or less exactly opposite. When I first came over, i had US insurance and was able to go private for care (w/ little cost to mysefl). Generally, the private/Harley st doctors I saw were top class. In the NHS, i have largely seen newer doctors (either younger or immigrants) or less competent and older doctors.
Afaict, when you are starting out, you go w/ the NHS to repay schooling and build a client base. If you are any good, you eventually decide to make real money and start a private practice. So you have the chance of getting a really good younger doctor but the odds are against you. Now, our obstetrician was fantastic and she did work w/ the NHS once per fortnight. (I was never sure if that was out of altruism or an effort to maintain some sort of standing in the NHS). So there is a chance of getting a really good private doc when you go through NHS but the odds are a bit longer on that.
Now this was generally docs for pregnancy/infant care, minor illness and a few minor hospital visits. Maybe intensive/ER care is different, I (thankfully) cannot speak to that.
Don't get me wrong, i think the NHS is actually a great system but the private docs I have seen have been much better than the public ones.
I thought you were supposed to vote for policies and platforms, not people (or parties)
Not so much. We vote for people to represent us and they will have to make decisions across a broad spectrum of potentially unknown (at voting time) issues. You are always voting for a person. Preferably, one that will make the decisions you would (or even better ones).
We do the same, everything is audited and the data is held since the beginning of the system. We manage the size of backups w/ RO sections that are only synced once, etc. keeping things on disk is pretty cheap.. consider it a cost of doing business.
There are lots of people who are healthy and don't see a doctor, nurse, or any other health care provider over the course of a year.
Over a one year period, sure, lots of people probably don't need care but the number of people who will never, over the course of their lives and up to their death, see any sort of healthcare must be vanishingly slim. Between the natural causes and accidents, you are going to need care at some point.
I think of this in somewhat the opposite way. The tighter communication loop is a huge boon in efficiency.
Say meeting somebody in town later today. What we had to do to meet before cell phones was:
- pick a time that we were certain everybody could be there. this means leaving plenty of buffer time b/c I don't really know how long my other errands will take and who knows about parking, transportation, etc...
- pick a place everybody knows well enough to describe a specific, non repeating spot. Not meet me at Grand Central, but meet me at Grand central, the northern lexington exit just on the street.
- wait around if either of those things fall through b/c who knows where they are/what happened.
Now, none of that was particularly hard but it did lead to a lot of wasted time when compared to "lets meet somewhere in midtown in the early afternoon" and keeping each other updated as you progressed towards the time/place.
I can't tell you how many devs I met who are completely ignorant of how the machine works outside their IDE. Not all by any means but that was a real surprise for me as I supported more, varied applications.
Any intelligent and dedicated person can learn either of these fields and perform well. Many could probably retrain themselves between fields but if you really think you could step in and do a better job than a competent admin you must be working on a pretty small scale. There is no magic but there are practices and protocols that are there for a reason. if you don't understand them, you won't know which you can ignore and which matter. Pretty much exactly the quagmire I get into when I start to write something bigger than a few k lines.
Though, your tone and the way you refer to yourself, pretty much syncs w/ the expectations from Rockstars.
Part of the hiring process at my company involves finding out
if a prospective new hire uses Facebook. If they do use Facebook, they are not hired.
Says the guy posting on /.... wtf?
reminds me of people bitching about the evils of science by posting on the internet.
Being technical enough to block it, if he ever cares to, i am sure he can get the data (google translate, if nothing else). Other than seeming a bit over the top to me, it is likely a good answer to the problem.
The assumption there is that these methods don't bypass whatever control we have against stopping our own heart. there is no reason that we would have evolved properly gated defense in depth type systems. think how open the early internet was, i would be the brain will be much more like that when we first start connecting them. And evolution isn't quick. we will have to build the security into the interface and hope your interface vendor is legit.
The sports networks know that they will get more revenue from being on the basic package and forcing all subscribers to pay for them. They further know that they are popular enough that they can force the cable company's hand.
and they wonder why more and more people are refusing to pay the tax... bundled content makes sense when you have async comms channel and cannot negotiate what you want in real time. With the full two way communication , i am much more interested in setting up a tv bill more like a water bill. while I am using it, I am paying for it and if the tv isn't on, i am not paying. I will accept premium rates for different channels but to pay 100% of the time for something while I am not consuming it doesn't make any sense, let alone paying for 100s of channels I am not consuming..
This may be splitting hairs but that isn't quite right. There are several 403 subcodes. 403.7 (and several others) have to do w/ an improper client certificate being offered with the request. If you offer the right cert, you can get in.
whoa... does the fire and brimstone smell get you down or are you used to it? B)
Wasn't ESPN just part of the basic cable package? If sports channels are the biggest cost, why aren't there more unbundled packages that don't include them? Or at least get htem out of hte basic cable package. There must be a sizable market that could care less about ESPN et al who would appreciate the lower bill? you don't even ahve to lower it by as much as ESPN is getting.
(I moved out of country several years ago so maybe things have changed)
trying to find ways to sound cleverly skeptical
Well put, that sums up my feelings as well. i didn't have any mod points so this is just a 'me too!'
I 'grew up' on Linux/Solaris before job opportunities took me mostly MS around Win2k timeframe. I definitely thought the toolset was limited compared to what I was used to at the time. I think a lot of that changed as I got more comfortable with windows scripting, especially powershell.
That said, as I got more formal in my approach (less, get on there and try to make something work, more, this is the goal, what configuration of tools will meet that requirement), i started to realize that any competent engineer should be able to make either linux or windows as stable and secure as the other. The question then becomes what makes sense for the problem at hand. What are the requirements from business/mgmt, what do my junior admins know, what does dev work best with? Often those will choose your base toolset. I think of it similar to deciding whether to build in brick vs concrete vs wood vs steel. You are the engineer and should be comfortable that you can build something that will meet the client requirements, is maintainable and meets the security and availability goals, the material is only one consideration in meeting those goals and all have tradeoffs.
This does seem an appropriate place for a question i have. I haven't worked with larger (100 server+) farms on *nix so I don't really know what tools are available that ease in administration/configuration. When I was last doing it we were still scripting individual tool sets and copying text files individually. What are the preferred analogous tools to AD for both users (LDAP) and GPO type capabilities? Configuration auditing, still tripwire?
Thanks
whoa,... relax there buddy. I was just mentioning that I really don't get what the fuss is about. My workflow hasn't changed moving from 7 to 8, i actually have them side by side and find them very similar. Not saying everybody works like me, or should. Just throwing it out as a counterpoint to the 'sky is falling' rhetoric that seems to surround this issue.
Perhaps they didn't think people were _still_ using the start button, because they all know how to use windows. the MS key is ubiquitous on keyboards now, click it and type a few letters to search a program. it really is far better than finding the mouse to hunt through some menus. If that is the way you are using the machine, then the jump from 7 to 8 was really of very little consequence. The metro tiles thing shows up until i launch a program and then it is just a slightly improved desktop.
Now, I don't think it was a good idea to take it away (for shutdown if nothing else). The real disconnect is for people who never changed their habits or are just coming from xp.
You are speaking only about the consumer/retaion banking side. There is some competition in rates on the retail banking side but we still have problems with exorbitant fees that seem pretty collusive. The commercial and investment banking are more problematic.
One question i have had for some time that seems appropriate here is how there are such margins in banking? Why don't the competitive pressure in the banking industry drive down the margins? We have banking bonuses in teh billions of dollars going out and they are still making record profits. Doesn't economic logic dictate that in a competitive market place, another player would work for slimmer margins and drive the cost of the product (and therefore the margins) down?
another anecdote here but I essentially have the same story.
One of my first jobs out of college was configuring some mail servers for a well known publishing company. I build and tested the machines off site and shipped them to the datacenter in downtown NYC. That is where I ran into the union...
Got on site the day after the box arrived, it was sitting next to the rack still sealed. I started to break the seal thinking to unpack, rack, ip the box, test and be done early. I was told I couldn't unbox and rack it b/c the union guy had to do that. Sat around for 7(!) days waiting for them to get around to it.
By this point I was willing to pay the guy to do the work anyway, just let me do it myself. I was admonished that if I did something like that all the unions in the building (highrise in NYC) would walk off the job.
So we wait the 7 days. But that guy only racked it, he didn't cable it. Had to wait another 3 days for the cable guy to come around. He finally came around and cabled it incorrectly (used the wrong NICs on a multi nic box). Was admonished that the mailguys will stop delivering mail if I recable it. But at least I have power now so I start some non network testing. I got annoyed and when no one was around, I swapped the cables, configured the network, tested and then 're-broke' it by returning the cables.
At least i knew that when the union guy finally got there a few days later, things would just work.
So I held that anti union message to heart for years. but here is the problem, we are seeing an ever widening gap between the top and bottom, an erosion of the middle class. For all of their faults, unions are/were a bulwark against these abuses. Hoping the top 1% decide to play fair (or even in their own long term interests) has proven to be too much to ask. Not ready to join the union yet but we have to find something to balance the power.
I came across foo and bar as variable names in programming 101. Not sure that is what he meant but it isn't necessarily a typo.
amusingly, a quick google of 'foo and bar' to see if somebody had a page that answered your question and google instant decided i wanted fox news.
wikipedia has it though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foobar
Too bad we have strayed so far from those points our selves.
Thanks for the link, i find it very interesting. I also think there is a longer view of history in Europe that allows/forces people to think longer term. So while we may have put a lot of good ideas into law, the societal values are not all our doing.
hmm, mod vs comment... i guess comment.
for the most part I agree w/ your statement but I don't agree with this part:
On a different note; I don't think this German IT firm is seeking autistic workers because they're better. They're seeking them because they're vulnerable adults without the capacity to protect themselves from exploitative labor practices.
The germans (and europeans) seem to have a stronger societal ethic than you are giving them credit for. Where in the states we have abandoned everything that doesn't directly contribute to the short term bottom line, imho, the germans are able to take a longer view. This is a way these people can make a useful contribution and the society as a whole is stronger for finding some way for everybody to contribute. This seems similar to the strong push for apprenticeships that the germans also champion. Give people a way to do meaningful work rather than living off the gov't. We could take a lesson here.
I also think it makes perfect sense. QA (and various other areas of computing) dovetail nicely with the different outlook of some mildly autistic people. Where they wouldn't be successful in relationship management, they can be a valued contributor in finding things that don't look right.
The point is: right or wrong it's going to keep happening as long as it's legal, so let's make it illegal, k?
and me w/ no mod points. this is the point entirely, pls mod this up.
after leaving the data center, the heat is sent to a heat pump where it's used to heat houses.
which is dumping it back into the environment.