They don't need to know you worked as a tech support - sure, you might have to put it on the application, but it should stay off the resume.
If their getting to the interview stage then the resume is not likely the culprit. Unless the poster is a minority, that's the only reason (I can think of) any company would waste time interviewing a person who's resume is not a fit for the job (ie to meet some interview quota, I don't know if that happens, just a guess since I am not such, I get very few interviews but a 100% job offer to interview ratio.) This *sounds* like a problem with interviewer skills not presenting this experience, and regardless the resume is going to need presented, and done in a positive light. More details, like trying to get feedback from past interviews that failed. And write down the questions and answers, etc and maybe even run them by the people you know that got jobs, or are in a similar position. Also say nothing bad about your current job, no matter how horrible of calls, abuse, etc you get. Nothing bad about your boss not promoting you, etc. At most I might say "I haven't pursued promotion because current company does not have my carer path..."
Education is definitely not enough because people just don't care.
Would you have done something significantly different in the study case? About the 2nd pop-up in this study, I would be fairly confident the computer was already infected (which was true, just not by a truly malicious program) Once that assumption was made, at that point the choices I made going forward would be the same result (f'd up PC) Well I would try using the escape key, but if that didn't work, enter would be fine to dismiss the rest. Of course if it was a computer I had any obligations surrounding, I would have pulled the network connection immediately. Otherwise I would have finished the task, and maybe said "hey your computer is messed up" at the end.
line item VETO (if implemented correctly) would only give the executive more power, if the way laws were worded remained unchanged. IE their could be no more submarine a good bill by loading it with crap. Granted it would technically only stop the party that didn't have the president behind them. However in congress/senate it is a negotiation IE the dems allow the repubs to stick in a rider, in exchange they know they'll get their chance next time. By letting the (R) president veto Democrat riders, it will cause the Democrats to make sure and kill the Republican riders, before their bill gets to the Pres. So my theory is that it should put a end to unrelated things put together in the same bill, just to be vetoed out. Of course this doesn't work when you got a super majority in both houses, and president all aligned. Then again they can just then just pass the individual bills they want in that scenario without worrying about line items.
1) context: their running this in a commercial comparing "Vista to Mac OS" not Mac hardware to Dell. 2) their simply stating in the commercial "the #1 in sales of laptop to college students" (not sure the exact wording though) 3) what I see is their 6% of the total market, 16% of laptops in education, projected to become "the preferred choice" for 43% of those projected to purchase a laptop for education.
Their was no mention of "projected", no mention of "manufacture" and no mention of comparing a "single model of laptop". So A Macintosh OS will not be number one in that market, they may sell more laptops than Dell in this market, but that is not a "fact." And they definitely won't ship more copies of OS X than Vista to this demographic.
The mac commercial was disseminating false information when they are clearly talking macOS vs windowsOS then all of a sudden claim their 16% market share of laptops for students makes them the number one laptop choice by college students. I am guessing their saying the Mac book air out sell the Dell Latitude (or whatever the top volume models are), but it is a flat out distortion when dell alone sells 50% more laptops than all of apple, to college students. Especially their are true (non-misleading) statements that would have sounded just as good. But using the term PC to refer to windows machines (then making it very clear later) when 94% of PC's (start out) as windows machines, seams to pass truth bar for me.
I have no problem with "Christian Values", and that was nothing otherwise in my other post. The problem is, the appearance that she has allowed those with a very minority view to form her polices in office without seeking any balance. A vast majority of those in the USA do not believe "flat earth", and "intelligent design" are science, or that it should be taught in a science class. Clearly these are not views even she has a real strong opinion on, but somehow that became a policy she wanted to push forward. That is important to me, because it appears she will be very open to manipulation by others pandering to her "christian values", and she will allow that manipulation straight through to policy decisions. It is one thing to allow your values to shape your actions, of course they must. It is completely un-acceptable (to me) if that causes her to agree with zealots and kooks who also claim christian values, without a through sanity check.
People put blinders on when it comes to their religion. For example, the best mathematician
To me personally: the issues is not so much about intelligence, but being prone to manipulation, and causing issue with their "job". IE no concerns with a mathematician as long as their beliefs either 1) do not conflict with their math duties 2) when their is a conflict their is a cognition, and disclosure. Or a professionalism that trumps the religious problems, at their job.
I suspect, but do not have enough details to know for sure the following about Palin:
1) appears she was easily manipulated into a belief she didn't initiate, by others around her.
2) that belief and manipulation influenced her job, without her giving a equal exposure from the other side.
3) Those same actions taken as a president would cause great damage (in respect, and future education and thus productivity) to the entire USA.
I know others similar to your mathematician friend, that have had issues with their beliefs possibly affecting their work. They 1) recognized the conflict 2) acknowledged the concern with co-workers 3) were able to set-aside that small part of their belief that had the potential to upset their Job.
when Palin develops a long enough track record showing she can do similar (so far I have seen the opposite) then her beliefs wouldn't affect my judgment of her fitness for a job as V.P.
of course this is a very personal opinion of mine, many others will have a different set of concerns.
imagine a class with 10 Creationist students in it. All arguing their latest talking points with the teacher.
Now imagine you spent 8 hours breaking down those 10 students beliefs into how their wrong, they now each go home and tell their 2 parents, now you got 20 people (not including their contacts) yelling at the principal and shaking books and yelling... You may be able to convince 10 students who have been exposed to some of the facts of science in the last year to listen. Your not going to get 20 parents to all acknowledge, to their kids and peers, that they don't know it all (and may never have had any science teaching, at least not likely in the last 20 years.)
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well, not to restate whats in the article, but basically if a manager is in a technical department, and isn't technical enough to search google to solve even simple tasks them selves, then their people skills alone are not likely enough to re-direct a shrinking workforce and to correctly choose then manage the inevitable "what tasks can be contracted to India." And certainly is not interested enough in tech to understand the tech needs of his customers (customer also = tech users within the same company) to save customer satisfaction in the transition. Of course this managers next level manager doesn't need the same skills, as long as their is a manager with those responsibilities who can in the chain (and the chain isn't too long.)
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The biggest reason why this is a kit car is almost certainly because
my guess would be so they don't have to pass all the crash and safety laws and regulations. much like kit airplanes, kit cars do not have to pass the same safety standards (which I understand involves destroying many cars = bad for the environment) I am sure their are lots of other savings as well (shipping, licensing, financing, etc.) Also lots less warranty, because it will be on average years before many make any use of their cars.
That's the point of this challenge; it's because they don't think it's possible and all the smart people already know it's not possible. This is just to dispel the myths. Data destruction can be trivially achieved with just dd and/dev/null.
if thats the point of the challenge they cannot be successful. Since in theory it is possible, however it would currently require destroying the drive. If the goal was impossible and all know it, then the challenge would be big $$$ and plenty of analysis time, and resulting state of the drive wouldn't matter. This challenge only proves that your data, if it's of limited value, is currently hidden sufficiently easily. For example, if your the Catholic church and you were to discover proof your religion is false, simply doing a dd to destroy that data, then storing would be insufficient protection. Because it is theoretically possible to recover dd erased data. Which means within 20 years it may be trivial to recover that data with off the shelf technology. At that point the entire Vatican would be at risk of destruction (although proof probably would never destroy a religion.)
Without legal advice I would be very hesitant to give any non-public information. Even giving public information, that they obviously already know, *might* even be used to imply in a court, by omission, that you have no other claims to the domain. Simply fishing for more information, without making any claims, or anything that might be lost in translation as a threat Would seam safer. (IE re-stating what they already know, may sound more like a "lets fight", than "I also know what you know.")
Simply, "I have received your letter. I would be interested in receiving any information you are willing to share relating to any plans you may have relating to "mylastname.com" "
simply to get a feel for "are they legit" and "are they just fishing." before assuming anything more.
well almost half of the 64% of those eligible to vote who actually voted. so really your down to less than 1/4 (maybe 60 million voted for W out of ~300 million in USA)
But one employee can circumvent it ALL with a $50 wireless access point
Or a cellphone with a USB cable. 5 minutes searching the web (from home) gives the required driver, and dial-up networking settings. Considering our IT policy forbids network access not provided by the company. They supplied the cell phone, cable, laptop, so all I needed was a driver (not the easiest thing to sneak in without admin rights, may require a boot disk, etc.)
Penn and Teller "Bullshit" did explore that they could make a $5 meal with a $3 bottle of wine fool all but a very few food critiques with a great presentation at a classy restaurant.
Though the industry should want some policing. IE I bought "good" sushi, and liked it, but not more than a good steak. So I don't buy sushi. Perhaps I just got screwed, and buying the right stuff would make me a sushi lover.
a typical one, which is what this method will utilize), you know that no little amount of energy is lost
I doubt the typical (US) commercial oven is what would use here. Pizza hut uses a conveyor through the oven, always open oven at both ends. While this is a time/people saver, my outdoor Pizza oven (for example) seals up tight, heat it for 3 hours with a small fire, then will drop from 500F to 400F in 12 hours. That is the more typical world wide pizza oven.
Just to point out the obvious, but that has to be a part of the cost of telecommuting to be calculated. IE if this happens daily, and downtime costs hundreds, then obviously no tele-commute for at least one with that skill (until a fix is made.) When that happens monthly, and you have more than one printer, projector, and PC such that down time costs a few $ then it would be a small part of the equation. IE I spend a hour a day traveling, and $/day of ~ fuel($5)+insurance(+$1)+maintenance($1), etc. If I can drive in weekly on short notice and still save 4 hours + $30/week (that's totals to a extra 5 weeks time off, and $1500 raise per year)
for that I would gladly purchase out of my own pocket even, a backup PC+Printer+projector every 3 years or so.
If it's cheap to manufacture, I can think of at least one use that doesn't depend on efficiency. Radiant floor heating, if you could smear a thin layer in flooring apply electric, heat the floor at night, cool the house by day... granted metals do this heating fine today, but no cooling, and likely not as lightweight.
still a fair question, if the answer was more years than the panel will last (very doubtful.) Then burning oil now is not a environmentally positive solution for society. though I would still want enough to cover my camper, since I can't locate electric for it where I go (generator noise is frowned upon.)
But to know if this production is (part of) a solution to the energy crisis, and not just another battery to store and transport oil energy, we need to know true energy out - energy in.
Oil is fairly easy to store. So if were confident Oil will go up quickly, then best for society to just keep the oil, it is much more liquid (no pun.) than a slow and unchangeable drizzle of energy from the panel. I do agree pure energy cost to produce isn't a end all # for individual calculation of viability. Especially since we don't have any idea of future deliver costs, and supply. Having our own control may be worth it.
solar subsidy for homeowners in Arizona is the power companies themselves.
it should be added, it is because of a requirement in state law that they collect a "renewable energy" fee, and use that to invest in these resources. They will only give rebates to owners with grid tie systems with no batteries.
Passports, passport readers, etc. can't be updated via a patch, they need to be thrown away and replaced.
really? This is essentially a ram chip with RFID on the passport, correct? so starting tomorrow they could replace the contents on every passport that goes through security and add a watermark/new encryption, etc. Any passports without the latest "patch" aren't trusted,so require extra scrutiny until reprogrammed.
I did rush my passport renewel from Florida, to make sure I didn't get the chip. That doesn't mean it can't become useful with lots of scrutiny though.
I did this for awhile, 2 methods: car pool with pickup drivers, not my week I throw in the bike, this way I could get in the extra hours needed for my job. Truck with bicycle to work. Bicycle home. Motorcycle to work. Motorcycle in truck home. repeat. Need safe storage at your work. This was more informal, IE always tried to leave 2 wheel backup at work, and car pool (motorcycles actually not that fuel efficient, since no guy would ride with me on a moto. 45 MPG cycle is 45 mpg per passenger mile. 25 MPG pickup + 5 adults = 125 MPG/ passenger. My share was only 3, still 75 MPG/ passenger mile > moto.)
My company does the same, 180 day auto email purge. It is NOT for the companys benefit, or even the companys policy (in my case.) It was for IT's benefit, and their policy. Company policy set 180 days as the longest IT communications emails could be retained. Engineering, Accounting etc are all required by sarbanes oxley to keep much more email, much longer. IT set the policy those must be maintained on your Personal computer, couldn't be any server drive for archives. My company will likely be in lots of trouble thanks to IT's policy, but no one has fought it. This person, if also under S.O. is very likely violating company, and federal regs, if they doesn't find a way to archive, without violating IT policys.
I do think that may be a valid crossover point. IE my company provides life insurance of 2.5x salary. The IT I take care of (not my main job, but I am the only IT guy) could be completely re-done in a week for significantly less than 1x my annual salary, plus downtime of 0.5X my salary.
Therefore if the death of the friend, and associated costs, is significantly higher than the cost of replacing the current un-documented work. Then that scenario shouldn't weigh heavily in the mind of the owner/manager.
If replacing the undocumented work costs more, then you either need to pay the guy more, or get some more help on the project.
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If their getting to the interview stage then the resume is not likely the culprit. Unless the poster is a minority, that's the only reason (I can think of) any company would waste time interviewing a person who's resume is not a fit for the job (ie to meet some interview quota, I don't know if that happens, just a guess since I am not such, I get very few interviews but a 100% job offer to interview ratio.)
This *sounds* like a problem with interviewer skills not presenting this experience, and regardless the resume is going to need presented, and done in a positive light.
More details, like trying to get feedback from past interviews that failed. And write down the questions and answers, etc and maybe even run them by the people you know that got jobs, or are in a similar position. Also say nothing bad about your current job, no matter how horrible of calls, abuse, etc you get. Nothing bad about your boss not promoting you, etc. At most I might say "I haven't pursued promotion because current company does not have my carer path..."
Would you have done something significantly different in the study case? About the 2nd pop-up in this study, I would be fairly confident the computer was already infected (which was true, just not by a truly malicious program) Once that assumption was made, at that point the choices I made going forward would be the same result (f'd up PC) Well I would try using the escape key, but if that didn't work, enter would be fine to dismiss the rest.
Of course if it was a computer I had any obligations surrounding, I would have pulled the network connection immediately. Otherwise I would have finished the task, and maybe said "hey your computer is messed up" at the end.
line item VETO (if implemented correctly) would only give the executive more power, if the way laws were worded remained unchanged.
IE their could be no more submarine a good bill by loading it with crap. Granted it would technically only stop the party that didn't have the president behind them. However in congress/senate it is a negotiation IE the dems allow the repubs to stick in a rider, in exchange they know they'll get their chance next time.
By letting the (R) president veto Democrat riders, it will cause the Democrats to make sure and kill the Republican riders, before their bill gets to the Pres.
So my theory is that it should put a end to unrelated things put together in the same bill, just to be vetoed out.
Of course this doesn't work when you got a super majority in both houses, and president all aligned. Then again they can just then just pass the individual bills they want in that scenario without worrying about line items.
1) context: their running this in a commercial comparing "Vista to Mac OS" not Mac hardware to Dell.
2) their simply stating in the commercial "the #1 in sales of laptop to college students" (not sure the exact wording though)
3) what I see is their 6% of the total market, 16% of laptops in education, projected to become "the preferred choice" for 43% of those projected to purchase a laptop for education.
Their was no mention of "projected", no mention of "manufacture" and no mention of comparing a "single model of laptop".
So A Macintosh OS will not be number one in that market, they may sell more laptops than Dell in this market, but that is not a "fact." And they definitely won't ship more copies of OS X than Vista to this demographic.
The mac commercial was disseminating false information when they are clearly talking macOS vs windowsOS then all of a sudden claim their 16% market share of laptops for students makes them the number one laptop choice by college students. I am guessing their saying the Mac book air out sell the Dell Latitude (or whatever the top volume models are), but it is a flat out distortion when dell alone sells 50% more laptops than all of apple, to college students.
Especially their are true (non-misleading) statements that would have sounded just as good. But using the term PC to refer to windows machines (then making it very clear later) when 94% of PC's (start out) as windows machines, seams to pass truth bar for me.
I have no problem with "Christian Values", and that was nothing otherwise in my other post. The problem is, the appearance that she has allowed those with a very minority view to form her polices in office without seeking any balance.
A vast majority of those in the USA do not believe "flat earth", and "intelligent design" are science, or that it should be taught in a science class. Clearly these are not views even she has a real strong opinion on, but somehow that became a policy she wanted to push forward. That is important to me, because it appears she will be very open to manipulation by others pandering to her "christian values", and she will allow that manipulation straight through to policy decisions. It is one thing to allow your values to shape your actions, of course they must. It is completely un-acceptable (to me) if that causes her to agree with zealots and kooks who also claim christian values, without a through sanity check.
To me personally: the issues is not so much about intelligence, but being prone to manipulation, and causing issue with their "job". IE no concerns with a mathematician as long as their beliefs either 1) do not conflict with their math duties 2) when their is a conflict their is a cognition, and disclosure. Or a professionalism that trumps the religious problems, at their job.
I suspect, but do not have enough details to know for sure the following about Palin:
1) appears she was easily manipulated into a belief she didn't initiate, by others around her.
2) that belief and manipulation influenced her job, without her giving a equal exposure from the other side.
3) Those same actions taken as a president would cause great damage (in respect, and future education and thus productivity) to the entire USA.
I know others similar to your mathematician friend, that have had issues with their beliefs possibly affecting their work. They 1) recognized the conflict 2) acknowledged the concern with co-workers 3) were able to set-aside that small part of their belief that had the potential to upset their Job.
when Palin develops a long enough track record showing she can do similar (so far I have seen the opposite) then her beliefs wouldn't affect my judgment of her fitness for a job as V.P.
of course this is a very personal opinion of mine, many others will have a different set of concerns.
Now imagine you spent 8 hours breaking down those 10 students beliefs into how their wrong, they now each go home and tell their 2 parents, now you got 20 people (not including their contacts) yelling at the principal and shaking books and yelling...
You may be able to convince 10 students who have been exposed to some of the facts of science in the last year to listen. Your not going to get 20 parents to all acknowledge, to their kids and peers, that they don't know it all (and may never have had any science teaching, at least not likely in the last 20 years.)
well, not to restate whats in the article, but basically if a manager is in a technical department, and isn't technical enough to search google to solve even simple tasks them selves, then their people skills alone are not likely enough to re-direct a shrinking workforce and to correctly choose then manage the inevitable "what tasks can be contracted to India." And certainly is not interested enough in tech to understand the tech needs of his customers (customer also = tech users within the same company) to save customer satisfaction in the transition.
Of course this managers next level manager doesn't need the same skills, as long as their is a manager with those responsibilities who can in the chain (and the chain isn't too long.)
The biggest reason why this is a kit car is almost certainly because
my guess would be so they don't have to pass all the crash and safety laws and regulations. much like kit airplanes, kit cars do not have to pass the same safety standards (which I understand involves destroying many cars = bad for the environment)
I am sure their are lots of other savings as well (shipping, licensing, financing, etc.) Also lots less warranty, because it will be on average years before many make any use of their cars.
if thats the point of the challenge they cannot be successful. Since in theory it is possible, however it would currently require destroying the drive. If the goal was impossible and all know it, then the challenge would be big $$$ and plenty of analysis time, and resulting state of the drive wouldn't matter. This challenge only proves that your data, if it's of limited value, is currently hidden sufficiently easily. For example, if your the Catholic church and you were to discover proof your religion is false, simply doing a dd to destroy that data, then storing would be insufficient protection. Because it is theoretically possible to recover dd erased data. Which means within 20 years it may be trivial to recover that data with off the shelf technology. At that point the entire Vatican would be at risk of destruction (although proof probably would never destroy a religion.)
In your case, I'd state that
Without legal advice I would be very hesitant to give any non-public information. Even giving public information, that they obviously already know, *might* even be used to imply in a court, by omission, that you have no other claims to the domain. Simply fishing for more information, without making any claims, or anything that might be lost in translation as a threat Would seam safer. (IE re-stating what they already know, may sound more like a "lets fight", than "I also know what you know.")
Simply, "I have received your letter. I would be interested in receiving any information you are willing to share relating to any plans you may have relating to "mylastname.com" "
simply to get a feel for "are they legit" and "are they just fishing." before assuming anything more.
well almost half of the 64% of those eligible to vote who actually voted. so really your down to less than 1/4 (maybe 60 million voted for W out of ~300 million in USA)
Or a cellphone with a USB cable. 5 minutes searching the web (from home) gives the required driver, and dial-up networking settings. Considering our IT policy forbids network access not provided by the company. They supplied the cell phone, cable, laptop, so all I needed was a driver (not the easiest thing to sneak in without admin rights, may require a boot disk, etc.)
Penn and Teller "Bullshit" did explore that they could make a $5 meal with a $3 bottle of wine fool all but a very few food critiques with a great presentation at a classy restaurant.
Though the industry should want some policing. IE I bought "good" sushi, and liked it, but not more than a good steak. So I don't buy sushi. Perhaps I just got screwed, and buying the right stuff would make me a sushi lover.
I doubt the typical (US) commercial oven is what would use here. Pizza hut uses a conveyor through the oven, always open oven at both ends. While this is a time/people saver, my outdoor Pizza oven (for example) seals up tight, heat it for 3 hours with a small fire, then will drop from 500F to 400F in 12 hours. That is the more typical world wide pizza oven.
There's no way you're removing a melted...
Just to point out the obvious, but that has to be a part of the cost of telecommuting to be calculated. IE if this happens daily, and downtime costs hundreds, then obviously no tele-commute for at least one with that skill (until a fix is made.) When that happens monthly, and you have more than one printer, projector, and PC such that down time costs a few $ then it would be a small part of the equation. IE I spend a hour a day traveling, and $/day of ~ fuel($5)+insurance(+$1)+maintenance($1), etc. If I can drive in weekly on short notice and still save 4 hours + $30/week (that's totals to a extra 5 weeks time off, and $1500 raise per year)
for that I would gladly purchase out of my own pocket even, a backup PC+Printer+projector every 3 years or so.
If it's cheap to manufacture, I can think of at least one use that doesn't depend on efficiency. Radiant floor heating, if you could smear a thin layer in flooring apply electric, heat the floor at night, cool the house by day...
granted metals do this heating fine today, but no cooling, and likely not as lightweight.
still a fair question, if the answer was more years than the panel will last (very doubtful.) Then burning oil now is not a environmentally positive solution for society. though I would still want enough to cover my camper, since I can't locate electric for it where I go (generator noise is frowned upon.)
But to know if this production is (part of) a solution to the energy crisis, and not just another battery to store and transport oil energy, we need to know true energy out - energy in.
Oil is fairly easy to store. So if were confident Oil will go up quickly, then best for society to just keep the oil, it is much more liquid (no pun.) than a slow and unchangeable drizzle of energy from the panel.
I do agree pure energy cost to produce isn't a end all # for individual calculation of viability. Especially since we don't have any idea of future deliver costs, and supply. Having our own control may be worth it.
solar subsidy for homeowners in Arizona is the power companies themselves.
it should be added, it is because of a requirement in state law that they collect a "renewable energy" fee, and use that to invest in these resources. They will only give rebates to owners with grid tie systems with no batteries.
Passports, passport readers, etc. can't be updated via a patch, they need to be thrown away and replaced.
really? This is essentially a ram chip with RFID on the passport, correct? so starting tomorrow they could replace the contents on every passport that goes through security and add a watermark/new encryption, etc. Any passports without the latest "patch" aren't trusted,so require extra scrutiny until reprogrammed.
I did rush my passport renewel from Florida, to make sure I didn't get the chip. That doesn't mean it can't become useful with lots of scrutiny though.
I did this for awhile, 2 methods: car pool with pickup drivers, not my week I throw in the bike, this way I could get in the extra hours needed for my job.
Truck with bicycle to work. Bicycle home. Motorcycle to work. Motorcycle in truck home. repeat.
Need safe storage at your work. This was more informal, IE always tried to leave 2 wheel backup at work, and car pool (motorcycles actually not that fuel efficient, since no guy would ride with me on a moto. 45 MPG cycle is 45 mpg per passenger mile. 25 MPG pickup + 5 adults = 125 MPG/ passenger. My share was only 3, still 75 MPG/ passenger mile > moto.)
My company does the same, 180 day auto email purge. It is NOT for the companys benefit, or even the companys policy
(in my case.) It was for IT's benefit, and their policy. Company policy set 180 days as the longest IT communications emails could be retained. Engineering, Accounting etc are all required by sarbanes oxley to keep much more email, much longer. IT set the policy those must be maintained on your Personal computer, couldn't be any server drive for archives. My company will likely be in lots of trouble thanks to IT's policy, but no one has fought it. This person, if also under S.O. is very likely violating company, and federal regs, if they doesn't find a way to archive, without violating IT policys.
I do think that may be a valid crossover point. IE my company provides life insurance of 2.5x salary. The IT I take care of (not my main job, but I am the only IT guy) could be completely re-done in a week for significantly less than 1x my annual salary, plus downtime of 0.5X my salary.
Therefore if the death of the friend, and associated costs, is significantly higher than the cost of replacing the current un-documented work. Then that scenario shouldn't weigh heavily in the mind of the owner/manager.
If replacing the undocumented work costs more, then you either need to pay the guy more, or get some more help on the project.