The very best are totally self-trained but that's maybe the top 2%. Then you have people who have a combination of self-trained and schooling which makes up maybe the next quartile, a big half who just got paper degrees and muddle through, and then there are the folks who somehow managed to get a job and not get fired but nobody can figure out why.
Anyway, 2% of the workforce is effectively zero if you have to do any significant hiring. Your best bet is to hire the next quartile to be your managers, have them hire the next half, avoid the bottom mess, and hire on the geniuses as consultants as needed to jumpstart projects or make a significant advance quickly. Unfortunately only half of them can manage to run a consultancy as well as being genius engineers, but hire one if you can.
And they exist. There is not enough properly trained people. Diversity is bullshit to hide the fact that the industry is lacking people.
In much of the industry you can find an expert developer with a masters and a twenty years of architecture experience who has mastery of several problem domains and he'll be making a third of what a new lawyer with a two-year degree is making.
This doesn't encourage people to go into tech, and outside of the 5% of people who work in the highly-competitive urban centers your head of Marketing is probably making more than your head of Engineering.
It's not supply vs. demand, it's a culture of paying engineers low wages and engineers accepting that kind of treatment. But that also prevents many people who can do other things from going into engineering. Many of us know people who are qualified and still program for a hobby who went into some of those other professional fields, and they're handsomely rewarded for having done so.
Frankly, getting some non-traditional blood in the industry might be good for everybody if they bring along the attitude of fighting to get what they deserve.
Especially since a plan to break the law by hiring diverse candidates at lower rates, and then publicly announcing it so that you get maximum scrutiny by social justice organizations probably isn't the most sensible way to pull off such a diabolical scheme.
Jeez, if that's all they want to do, they can just hire women at 77 cents on the dollar for the same type and level of education and the same amount of job experience, and save a hundred million right off the bat.
I see from the author's blurb that he has significant professional experience. s/blogger/reporter/
It's too bad Broadcomm doesn't seem to. On a 90-day disclosure it looks like they acknowledged the bug with two weeks left to go, asked for an extension, and now it'll be four months before typical users get patches for an exploit that is going to be stealing banking passwords in train stations next Monday (or more interesting data on the BART or DC Metro).
Apple is making a strong case for using its products - not on features, but just by meeting bare-minimum basic competency metrics.
Yes, it's not remotely exploitable like Stagefright, but it's also completely untraceable. Lots of users are seriously screwed.
Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
And we had it too - a nuclear reactor that used up spent fuel from the old reactors and was easy to scale without weapons proliferation concerns. The US Labs had one running very well for a couple years ("thanks GHWB?" omg) until the project was attacked, defunded, then cancelled by the hit squad of: Hazel O'Leary, John Kerry, and Senate President... Al Gore.
We should have had 1100 of these things running by now but we're talking about "bringing back coal" because politicians fuck everything up. Oh, but they want more money and power to "save us" from global warming.
If you want to stop AGW you either need to believe that this time Lucy will hold the ball for the field kick, or examine the empirical evidence and accept that as long as politicians are in charge, this problem will not be solved. The AGW crowd is chock-full of history deniers, unfortunately.
In the general case, IP can be a universal automation technology without running new wires or worrying about signaling protocols.
You know, your phone comes into range between 1700 and 1900 after having not been seen for 4+ hours, your garage door gets opened, a lighting and music scene is enabled, one of those freezer-to-table cookers turns on, the heat/AC adjusts to the habitable zone, the doggy door unlocks, the kitchen PC gets a WoL packet, etc.
It's very SciFi other than SciFi almost always forgetting about security (just like IoT developers).
I don't know if this door opener has any integrations or an API, but certainly in the general class all these things could happen. Maybe if a standard ever evolves I'll be curious (I'm a decade older than you - I'm not installing anything in my house that isn't running on an open stack).
I can't find anything this side of the paywall that says that they controlled for economic factors that lead to or were caused by the shutdown of these plants. Ordinarily poor economic conditions is the prime cause of low birth weights.
i want nuclear to win out on its actual merits. Save the coal for distributed micro-energy needs.
Wait, do you have an understanding of this reality that agrees with observation? That would be revolutionary.
what happened *prior* to the "Big Bang"
*prior* is a function of time. Time didn't exist until the Big Bang. Hawking's equations suggest that time only approaches a limit of zero at the Big Bang but never achieves it. Ergo, the question you're asking doesn't even make sense semantically. cf. "do you have an understanding of this reality that agrees with observation?"
They'll figure it out eventually. Those people are NOT idiots.
Many of them are not. Many of them realize that when they have a correction factor, like Einstein's Cosmological Constant, that those numbers represent "future work required to determine the cause of the need for this adjustment".
But enough of them start to believe that the mathematical adjustment is a real phenomena that a significant group of people starts to go off the rails. We see a new phlogiston crop up every few decades and then it goes away. Maybe this is just one of those "structure of scientific revolutions" things, but it does seem like quite a waste of time because there are other problems that need solving, and to some degree physicist time is fungible.
Here's a gedankenexperiment I'd love to see explored mathematically, if there are any newbie physicists in the crowd looking for a project outside the orthodoxy: Imagine two entangled particles created at the Big Bang. They wound up traveling in opposite directions and represent the leading edge of the Universe's expansion currently. Since time and space are related by c those particles represent the entirety of time in our Universe, setting an upper bound of "all of time" on entangled action. Therefore, the root mechanism of quantum entanglement, probably related to the "two" particles being projections of a single higher-dimension entity, must operate in a space/field/dimension where all points in time exist simultaneously (and/or time doesn't exist at all), as the "spooky action" can happen regardless of the state of the space-time dimension of either particle. If this has been well-explored mathematically, I haven't been able to find it (pointers appreciated, of course).
"Free market enterprise" results in coin slots on aircraft toilets so you have to pay a pound to take a piss. In fact, we'd have that if the UK govt didn't force airlines to provide relief facilities.
And in turn airline seats prices have fallen by an inflation-adjusted 10x over the past thirty years. But nobody wants to pay 1/20th of the ticket price to take a piss.
I get that nickle-and-diming is economically wasteful, but don't miss the broader picture. Or pay for "business class" which is like the old economy class, at the same inflation-adjusted prices, if you don't want to ride in steerage.
Ah, Southbridge? I can push way more than a USB-bus full of data over a PCIe bus - so maybe a $15 USB/PCI card solves this problem on my server? That would be keen.
For those of you who want the world to be better without a government acting as the means to corral all of us cats wandering around need to
First thing to do when something doesn't work is to stop doing that. We're in this situation where the government controls the issuance and devaluation of money, the government regulates the markets, the government fakes the inflation data to make it look like we're not in a depression, and then people say, "obviously we need a government to be successful!"
start showing us who think otherwise how that's going to work.
The newest of those is forty years old and they're all available for free, so there's no real reason to not at least understand this alternate system that the vast majorith of people (including many former communists and socialists) never go back from after understanding.
You'll be hard pressed to find even a Windows admin who wants to run 2003-era stuff now. But due to the high cost of Windows infrastructure , reluctant beancounters, and their lack of political savvy they have neither the manpower nor the budget to upgrade, and lack the confidence to quit over it.
Sure it's based on bad decisions from the past, but today they are paying the bill. And that cost may be having all of their private data exfiltrated.
Stop participating in confused people's erroneous perceptions. This one embodies a string of fallacies and rational people have no obligation but to pity their confusion. Amplifying their misperceptions is a disservice to everybody involved.
That's 500 times the actual fine. All that would do would be to convince the airline to spend money trying to take power away from these bureaucrats.
All the voters care about is that the government is "doing something" - it doesn't matter at all if that "something" is effective.
This kind of tiny fine keeps the companies happy, the voters happy, and the bureaucrats happy. The minute percentage of the population that knows it's a scam does not matter - they still have to pay taxes anyway.
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The very best are totally self-trained but that's maybe the top 2%. Then you have people who have a combination of self-trained and schooling which makes up maybe the next quartile, a big half who just got paper degrees and muddle through, and then there are the folks who somehow managed to get a job and not get fired but nobody can figure out why.
Anyway, 2% of the workforce is effectively zero if you have to do any significant hiring. Your best bet is to hire the next quartile to be your managers, have them hire the next half, avoid the bottom mess, and hire on the geniuses as consultants as needed to jumpstart projects or make a significant advance quickly. Unfortunately only half of them can manage to run a consultancy as well as being genius engineers, but hire one if you can.
And they exist. There is not enough properly trained people. Diversity is bullshit to hide the fact that the industry is lacking people.
In much of the industry you can find an expert developer with a masters and a twenty years of architecture experience who has mastery of several problem domains and he'll be making a third of what a new lawyer with a two-year degree is making.
This doesn't encourage people to go into tech, and outside of the 5% of people who work in the highly-competitive urban centers your head of Marketing is probably making more than your head of Engineering.
It's not supply vs. demand, it's a culture of paying engineers low wages and engineers accepting that kind of treatment. But that also prevents many people who can do other things from going into engineering. Many of us know people who are qualified and still program for a hobby who went into some of those other professional fields, and they're handsomely rewarded for having done so.
Frankly, getting some non-traditional blood in the industry might be good for everybody if they bring along the attitude of fighting to get what they deserve.
Especially since a plan to break the law by hiring diverse candidates at lower rates, and then publicly announcing it so that you get maximum scrutiny by social justice organizations probably isn't the most sensible way to pull off such a diabolical scheme.
Jeez, if that's all they want to do, they can just hire women at 77 cents on the dollar for the same type and level of education and the same amount of job experience, and save a hundred million right off the bat.
I see from the author's blurb that he has significant professional experience. s/blogger/reporter/
It's too bad Broadcomm doesn't seem to. On a 90-day disclosure it looks like they acknowledged the bug with two weeks left to go, asked for an extension, and now it'll be four months before typical users get patches for an exploit that is going to be stealing banking passwords in train stations next Monday (or more interesting data on the BART or DC Metro).
Apple is making a strong case for using its products - not on features, but just by meeting bare-minimum basic competency metrics.
Yes, it's not remotely exploitable like Stagefright, but it's also completely untraceable. Lots of users are seriously screwed.
Looks interesting but they seem to think Wayland is a non-starter. At this point if I'm switching DE's I'll get away from X11 insecurity too.
So what is _your_ magic plan exactly?
Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
And we had it too - a nuclear reactor that used up spent fuel from the old reactors and was easy to scale without weapons proliferation concerns. The US Labs had one running very well for a couple years ("thanks GHWB?" omg) until the project was attacked, defunded, then cancelled by the hit squad of: Hazel O'Leary, John Kerry, and Senate President ... Al Gore.
We should have had 1100 of these things running by now but we're talking about "bringing back coal" because politicians fuck everything up. Oh, but they want more money and power to "save us" from global warming.
If you want to stop AGW you either need to believe that this time Lucy will hold the ball for the field kick, or examine the empirical evidence and accept that as long as politicians are in charge, this problem will not be solved. The AGW crowd is chock-full of history deniers, unfortunately.
It sounds like the "easy 20%" of LBRY to me. So, none of the hard (but really interesting) features.
Here's the Tiger Rag on one. All that noise wasn't purely used for evil.
In the general case, IP can be a universal automation technology without running new wires or worrying about signaling protocols.
You know, your phone comes into range between 1700 and 1900 after having not been seen for 4+ hours, your garage door gets opened, a lighting and music scene is enabled, one of those freezer-to-table cookers turns on, the heat/AC adjusts to the habitable zone, the doggy door unlocks, the kitchen PC gets a WoL packet, etc.
It's very SciFi other than SciFi almost always forgetting about security (just like IoT developers).
I don't know if this door opener has any integrations or an API, but certainly in the general class all these things could happen. Maybe if a standard ever evolves I'll be curious (I'm a decade older than you - I'm not installing anything in my house that isn't running on an open stack).
And you wanted "free" stuff.
I can't find anything this side of the paywall that says that they controlled for economic factors that lead to or were caused by the shutdown of these plants. Ordinarily poor economic conditions is the prime cause of low birth weights.
i want nuclear to win out on its actual merits. Save the coal for distributed micro-energy needs.
If you're going to replace the Mac with an iOS "Mac Mode" and drive a KVM you're going to need a very efficient GPU and a decent patent portfolio.
They'll make the Windows users pay for it too.
I think that's a college study hall.
a very questionable understanding of this reality
Wait, do you have an understanding of this reality that agrees with observation? That would be revolutionary.
what happened *prior* to the "Big Bang"
*prior* is a function of time. Time didn't exist until the Big Bang. Hawking's equations suggest that time only approaches a limit of zero at the Big Bang but never achieves it. Ergo, the question you're asking doesn't even make sense semantically. cf. "do you have an understanding of this reality that agrees with observation?"
They'll figure it out eventually. Those people are NOT idiots.
Many of them are not. Many of them realize that when they have a correction factor, like Einstein's Cosmological Constant, that those numbers represent "future work required to determine the cause of the need for this adjustment".
But enough of them start to believe that the mathematical adjustment is a real phenomena that a significant group of people starts to go off the rails. We see a new phlogiston crop up every few decades and then it goes away. Maybe this is just one of those "structure of scientific revolutions" things, but it does seem like quite a waste of time because there are other problems that need solving, and to some degree physicist time is fungible.
Here's a gedankenexperiment I'd love to see explored mathematically, if there are any newbie physicists in the crowd looking for a project outside the orthodoxy: Imagine two entangled particles created at the Big Bang. They wound up traveling in opposite directions and represent the leading edge of the Universe's expansion currently. Since time and space are related by c those particles represent the entirety of time in our Universe, setting an upper bound of "all of time" on entangled action. Therefore, the root mechanism of quantum entanglement, probably related to the "two" particles being projections of a single higher-dimension entity, must operate in a space/field/dimension where all points in time exist simultaneously (and/or time doesn't exist at all), as the "spooky action" can happen regardless of the state of the space-time dimension of either particle. If this has been well-explored mathematically, I haven't been able to find it (pointers appreciated, of course).
"Free market enterprise" results in coin slots on aircraft toilets so you have to pay a pound to take a piss. In fact, we'd have that if the UK govt didn't force airlines to provide relief facilities.
And in turn airline seats prices have fallen by an inflation-adjusted 10x over the past thirty years. But nobody wants to pay 1/20th of the ticket price to take a piss.
I get that nickle-and-diming is economically wasteful, but don't miss the broader picture. Or pay for "business class" which is like the old economy class, at the same inflation-adjusted prices, if you don't want to ride in steerage.
How do you even know it was Dolphin/Nautilus, the parent didn't share that information?
Seems like a convenient deflection, doesn't it. Some of us insist Linux is perfect, while others of us want it to be.
(both GNU cp and rsync trigger this problem)
That's due to the bridge chips being a bottleneck
Ah, Southbridge? I can push way more than a USB-bus full of data over a PCIe bus - so maybe a $15 USB/PCI card solves this problem on my server? That would be keen.
So they replaced a generic placeholder with a generic placeholder.
Did you think the story about the trolls was the true one or is this a SJW gender battle inside Twitter? Eggs are female, after all.
Meanwhile, Facebook still insists on knowing if you're male or female when you sign up.
For those of you who want the world to be better without a government acting as the means to corral all of us cats wandering around need to
First thing to do when something doesn't work is to stop doing that. We're in this situation where the government controls the issuance and devaluation of money, the government regulates the markets, the government fakes the inflation data to make it look like we're not in a depression, and then people say, "obviously we need a government to be successful!"
start showing us who think otherwise how that's going to work.
Do you want to just say that or do you want to put in the time to read Man, Economy, and State, The Road to Serfdom, On Human Action, Economics in One Lesson, and I, Pencil (in reverse order) to understand the arguments of people who do not believe that the status quo will ever bring widespread wealth among the population?
The newest of those is forty years old and they're all available for free, so there's no real reason to not at least understand this alternate system that the vast majorith of people (including many former communists and socialists) never go back from after understanding.
You'll be hard pressed to find even a Windows admin who wants to run 2003-era stuff now. But due to the high cost of Windows infrastructure , reluctant beancounters, and their lack of political savvy they have neither the manpower nor the budget to upgrade, and lack the confidence to quit over it.
Sure it's based on bad decisions from the past, but today they are paying the bill. And that cost may be having all of their private data exfiltrated.
The weak and foolish perish - same as always.
Stop participating in confused people's erroneous perceptions. This one embodies a string of fallacies and rational people have no obligation but to pity their confusion. Amplifying their misperceptions is a disservice to everybody involved.
Major kudos to the SpaceX team! Thank you for letting me get to see the future.
The fine should have been £10 per mail sent.
That's 500 times the actual fine. All that would do would be to convince the airline to spend money trying to take power away from these bureaucrats.
All the voters care about is that the government is "doing something" - it doesn't matter at all if that "something" is effective.
This kind of tiny fine keeps the companies happy, the voters happy, and the bureaucrats happy. The minute percentage of the population that knows it's a scam does not matter - they still have to pay taxes anyway.
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