What kind of “brand” name is Building 8 anyway? It sounds like something from 1984, a place where naughty employees are dragged off to, to be subjected to electroshock, rubber truncheons, and a cageful of face chewing rats.
Peer review means bugger all in the social "sciences". A few notable (and struggling) individuals aside, the field has become an incredible dystopian echo chamber of pseudoscience.
The reality is that is you offer a candidate a lower than expected "nice to have" salary, say: 50% less, they'll walk to the next employer who is offering more.
To some extent that is correct. But salary is a hygiene factor: if it's lower than expected it leads to dissatisfaction, but paying above expectation does not yield a lot of extra satisfaction. I look for different things in jobs now that I am older. But even when I was young, I usually picked lower paying jobs, with opportunities for learning and growing and interesting work, over crappy but well-paying jobs. And I've done a few crappy but well paying jobs as well... and it sucked. Pay is poor compensation for that.
SMS in itself is not an auth factor in the sense of "something you have". Your phone may be "something you have" if there is a way it can positively identify itself in a way that cannot be duplicated. For example by using the Google Authenticator app. The problem with SMS is that it is your SIM card that becomes "someting you have"... and SIM cards can be cloned relatively easily. Not easy enough to do it en masse, but it's worth the effort once you've identified a high value target. They've used this to get at bank accounts with a lot of money in them, or to hijack high profile social media accounts for ransom.
Even some banks do this. People need to understand that SMS is NOT 2FA... especially when the device handling the payment is the same one that is receiving the auth code.
Banning loot boxes and prohibiting sales to minors are proportionate measures. So are PG ratings that help parents decide what is right for their kids and what isn't. An outright ban is not.
If you are talking in terms of "they are right this time", i.e. "I'm against banning things... except the stuff I don't like", then perhaps you need to read up a bit about what human rights are and why we have them.
That depends on the nature of the test. Does it merely test how well you have memorised the material? Or does it test how well you understand it, being able to apply your knowledge to new (to you) problems? When I studied EE, the professors didn’t care how well we memorised every little fact, and we were allowed to refer to the textbooks during most of the exams. Just as well, as I have the memory of a goldfish living in a bowl of cheap tequila.
As Dean points out, all you need to do is "find someone that you're gonna pair-program with who's compatible with your way of thinking, so that the two of you together are a complementary force."
Is that all? No. First, you need to find a great match for pair-programming which is already hard enough. But you need to find one who is nearby (this doesn't work all that well remotely), and who happens to work at the same company or startup or whatever, on the same team or on the same or similar assignments. Or you need to already have that coding partner and have the luxury to pick your own employer and assignment together, have the time and energy to work together on some FOSS thing, or be in a position to found your own startup. So no, I am not at all surprised that not many people end up doing this.
And that's exactly what they are selling: a lifestyle, a pleasant fantasy, or an "experience". Something that many marketing managers are keen on these days, thanks in part to Apple's success in doing that. And people like it. Though I'd have to agree that it is taken to ridiculous levels these days.
Full disclosure: I do own Apple products. For one, I prefer iOS - walls and all - over Android. And while I did some app development, I much preferred Objective-C over Java. But I don't buy into Apple's weird culture.
The fake patting in the back and fake "positive" attitude was revolting
Oh yes, corporate culture. Expressed in the language used in team meetings, documents, and corporate communication, and the drivel from the mouths of managers. As well as in the absolutely hideous corporate "art" hanging in meeting rooms (3 stylized figures lifting a heavy pyramid: I know it means teamwork but it sure looks like slave labour...)
It's the stuff that eventually drove me to leave my previous client where I had been working for years. People at my current client thankfully don't put up with that crap. By the way, for those who want a little taste of this fakey corporate culture, just look at the message/news feed in LinkedIn.
Banks are using blockchain as a settlement mechanism for innovative payment services. But their chief motivation for this use case it to circumvent their own bloated creaking legacy payment processing systems and the months-long development cycles associated with them. So they use it as an innovation platform to develop prototypes quickly. Once they have a good idea if and how to roll out that service to all customers, they will probably integrate it with the legacy systems rather than stick to blockchain (especially something like Ripple which is under external control)
Yeah, that's what I meant by "volume of BTC transactions", not a very good description. I meant the volume of transactions involving goods and services rather than simply buying or selling of BTC for speculative purposes, i.e. BTC's "virtual economy".
Not this again. Real currencies are not tied to a resource backed standard, but they are closely tied to the economy in which that currency is used. And governments generally know quite well how much extra cash they can print without setting off inflation: if the economy grows, you can grow the money supply as well. Bitcoin isn't tied to any real economy, the volume of BTC transactions is absolutely dwarfed by the speculative transactions. Bitcoin isn't like shares either, which have a speculative nature but always have a real and objective value underpinning them, not a commodity but a company holding assets, adding value and making profit (or with the potential to make future profit)
AMS really went to crap when they set up the new security counters. But it has always seemed like they staffed the checkpoints with 80% of what is needed to have the lines move smoothly, regardless of how busy it is. Almost like it is policy.
I prefer small airports like Rotterdam. Until recently you could rock up 20 minutes before departure, park right next to the terminal and still have time for a quick coffee in the terminal. Best time I made was 30 minutes from touchdown to unlocking my front door. Though these days they try to be more like a "real" airport, including the ridiculous waiting.
That's pretty interesting. I've no idea what people in your neck of the woods would charge for a 356 engine rebuild. I check around and found some conversion kits for the cars you mentioned here. They have conversion kits for $7,500 or so, motors, batteries and regenerative brakes. Plus labour to get everything installed. So you're looking at around $10k for a conversion with what is probably a very low range battery. That may be worth it for our beloved and collectible 911, but for the Volco C70 that's worth maybe €15,000 not so much.
You might want some form of policing anyway. Some people (especially older ones) have complained before about having far fewer conductors on trains and trams these days. They are useful for keeping unruly passengers in line, provide directions, etc.
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What kind of “brand” name is Building 8 anyway? It sounds like something from 1984, a place where naughty employees are dragged off to, to be subjected to electroshock, rubber truncheons, and a cageful of face chewing rats.
My money is on those guys (the Wendelstein project)
Peer review means bugger all in the social "sciences". A few notable (and struggling) individuals aside, the field has become an incredible dystopian echo chamber of pseudoscience.
The reality is that is you offer a candidate a lower than expected "nice to have" salary, say: 50% less, they'll walk to the next employer who is offering more.
To some extent that is correct. But salary is a hygiene factor: if it's lower than expected it leads to dissatisfaction, but paying above expectation does not yield a lot of extra satisfaction. I look for different things in jobs now that I am older. But even when I was young, I usually picked lower paying jobs, with opportunities for learning and growing and interesting work, over crappy but well-paying jobs. And I've done a few crappy but well paying jobs as well... and it sucked. Pay is poor compensation for that.
SMS in itself is not an auth factor in the sense of "something you have". Your phone may be "something you have" if there is a way it can positively identify itself in a way that cannot be duplicated. For example by using the Google Authenticator app. The problem with SMS is that it is your SIM card that becomes "someting you have"... and SIM cards can be cloned relatively easily. Not easy enough to do it en masse, but it's worth the effort once you've identified a high value target. They've used this to get at bank accounts with a lot of money in them, or to hijack high profile social media accounts for ransom.
Even some banks do this. People need to understand that SMS is NOT 2FA... especially when the device handling the payment is the same one that is receiving the auth code.
They do? Around here they'd think you were an exhibit. Wouldn't be the weirdest thing in the museum either.
Banning loot boxes and prohibiting sales to minors are proportionate measures. So are PG ratings that help parents decide what is right for their kids and what isn't. An outright ban is not.
If you are talking in terms of "they are right this time", i.e. "I'm against banning things... except the stuff I don't like", then perhaps you need to read up a bit about what human rights are and why we have them.
That depends on the nature of the test. Does it merely test how well you have memorised the material? Or does it test how well you understand it, being able to apply your knowledge to new (to you) problems? When I studied EE, the professors didn’t care how well we memorised every little fact, and we were allowed to refer to the textbooks during most of the exams. Just as well, as I have the memory of a goldfish living in a bowl of cheap tequila.
As Dean points out, all you need to do is "find someone that you're gonna pair-program with who's compatible with your way of thinking, so that the two of you together are a complementary force."
Is that all? No. First, you need to find a great match for pair-programming which is already hard enough. But you need to find one who is nearby (this doesn't work all that well remotely), and who happens to work at the same company or startup or whatever, on the same team or on the same or similar assignments. Or you need to already have that coding partner and have the luxury to pick your own employer and assignment together, have the time and energy to work together on some FOSS thing, or be in a position to found your own startup. So no, I am not at all surprised that not many people end up doing this.
Don't buy into that lifestyle
And that's exactly what they are selling: a lifestyle, a pleasant fantasy, or an "experience". Something that many marketing managers are keen on these days, thanks in part to Apple's success in doing that. And people like it. Though I'd have to agree that it is taken to ridiculous levels these days.
Full disclosure: I do own Apple products. For one, I prefer iOS - walls and all - over Android. And while I did some app development, I much preferred Objective-C over Java. But I don't buy into Apple's weird culture.
Political correctness is fascism pretending to be good manners. That from another politically incorrect old fuck, George Carlin.
If people at your company think that phrasing things differently is what will help them improve, then you're in a corporate cargo cult.
The fake patting in the back and fake "positive" attitude was revolting
Oh yes, corporate culture. Expressed in the language used in team meetings, documents, and corporate communication, and the drivel from the mouths of managers. As well as in the absolutely hideous corporate "art" hanging in meeting rooms (3 stylized figures lifting a heavy pyramid: I know it means teamwork but it sure looks like slave labour...)
It's the stuff that eventually drove me to leave my previous client where I had been working for years. People at my current client thankfully don't put up with that crap. By the way, for those who want a little taste of this fakey corporate culture, just look at the message/news feed in LinkedIn.
Santander Group for instance. And that’s just one of them.
Banks are using blockchain as a settlement mechanism for innovative payment services. But their chief motivation for this use case it to circumvent their own bloated creaking legacy payment processing systems and the months-long development cycles associated with them. So they use it as an innovation platform to develop prototypes quickly. Once they have a good idea if and how to roll out that service to all customers, they will probably integrate it with the legacy systems rather than stick to blockchain (especially something like Ripple which is under external control)
Yeah, that's what I meant by "volume of BTC transactions", not a very good description. I meant the volume of transactions involving goods and services rather than simply buying or selling of BTC for speculative purposes, i.e. BTC's "virtual economy".
Not this again. Real currencies are not tied to a resource backed standard, but they are closely tied to the economy in which that currency is used. And governments generally know quite well how much extra cash they can print without setting off inflation: if the economy grows, you can grow the money supply as well. Bitcoin isn't tied to any real economy, the volume of BTC transactions is absolutely dwarfed by the speculative transactions. Bitcoin isn't like shares either, which have a speculative nature but always have a real and objective value underpinning them, not a commodity but a company holding assets, adding value and making profit (or with the potential to make future profit)
You're right, it's at L2 in what's referred to as a "halo orbit". So still an orbit! (to be honest I thought it was actually orbiting the moon)
AMS really went to crap when they set up the new security counters. But it has always seemed like they staffed the checkpoints with 80% of what is needed to have the lines move smoothly, regardless of how busy it is. Almost like it is policy.
I prefer small airports like Rotterdam. Until recently you could rock up 20 minutes before departure, park right next to the terminal and still have time for a quick coffee in the terminal. Best time I made was 30 minutes from touchdown to unlocking my front door. Though these days they try to be more like a "real" airport, including the ridiculous waiting.
Sounds exactly as a TSA guy in Family Guy described it: "The thing we're going for here is a kind of bored fascism"
They do have a satellite in orbit around the moon to relay the signals. And they are not mapping the moon but exploring the surface.
That's pretty interesting. I've no idea what people in your neck of the woods would charge for a 356 engine rebuild. I check around and found some conversion kits for the cars you mentioned here. They have conversion kits for $7,500 or so, motors, batteries and regenerative brakes. Plus labour to get everything installed. So you're looking at around $10k for a conversion with what is probably a very low range battery. That may be worth it for our beloved and collectible 911, but for the Volco C70 that's worth maybe €15,000 not so much.
You might want some form of policing anyway. Some people (especially older ones) have complained before about having far fewer conductors on trains and trams these days. They are useful for keeping unruly passengers in line, provide directions, etc.