You said it yourself - the problem isn't so much the programmers as it is management. Programmers often want to validate/verify/test their work a lot more, but if management's attitude is "ship it!", the coders don't stand a chance no matter how good they are. My experience is that if you're stuck on a difficult problem that only shows itself under very hard-to-duplicate conditions and are spending lots of time trying to fix it, you get written up instead of appreciation for trying to create a quality product.
"Just have it switch modes when the accelerometer registers one Mars gravity."
All three accelerometers, and that they've registered no movement for long enough to confirm they're not moving. It's easy to armchair-quarterback stuff like this, but really, you'd think there was sufficient hardware on the machine to deal with problems like this.
The only thing holding me back from a Linux desktop at home is gaming.
Gaming is one sticky point for me, but the primary thing keeping me on Windows right now is audio/music production. Ardour is a nice package (although not really comparable to stuff like ProTools) and I really do appreciate the work that's gone into it, but despite the great strides made with packages like dssi-vst and vst-bridge, there are still plenty of VST plugins that don't work properly (or at all). That's assuming you have an audio interface that will work under Linux to begin with. If you have a package that uses an iLok, you're pretty much SOL from the start.
And yet there are a whole host of companies who produce high end panels that last many MANY years which offer better value for money than Apple displays.
Hell, they don't even have to be high-end panels. I have a pair of Sceptre X20WG displays that I bought for less than $200 each and are still going strong 11 years and three moves later. Those displays outlasted a Power Mac G4, an iBook, and a MacBook, all of which experienced hardware failures of one kind or another.
Some people do, a lot of people don't. A former co-worker of mine murdered a guy at a bar because he thought he was putting some moves on his girlfriend. He was convicted of first degree murder, and got a sentence of 25 years. When he's released in 2021 he will have served just under 21 years for it, not accounting for any further reductions for good behavior. He didn't have a prior record at all, which often affects the sentence passed down.
In the end you options are, they will say little or nothing other than that you were laid off and not fired for cause, or they will say you were insubordinate; thus preventing you from getting another job.
It'll probably go more like this:
"I'm calling about a former employee named DarkOx. Can you tell me anything about him?"
"He was employed here from $START_DATE to $END_DATE"
"I see. What's his rehire status?"
"No rehire."
"Thanks for your time, have a nice day."
[tosses resume in the trash]
Companies have gotten savvy to what they can and can't say nowadays so it's unlikely they'll tell you anything specific, but they'll still get the point across.
Not to mention that getting a judgment is one thing, but actually collecting it is quite another. Plus, don't be surprised if the company files suit against you for one thing or another. Doesn't really cost them anything, and that's more time and expense for you to deal with.
I'd argue that setting up and maintaining your own server to the same level of service as a Hotmail or Gmail would require more effort overall.
Of course it does. It can be a royal PITA keeping the spam filtering up to date, ensuring the backups have run properly, addressing potential security issues, and all of the other various and sundry system admin tasks that need to be done on a regular basis. I've been doing just that for more than a decade, and it's sometimes a lot of work. But generally something worth doing takes a bit of effort, and it provides a degree of comfort that if I ever have an issue with my provider, I can just pull up the tent stakes and have everything moved to another provider and running in less than an hour (not accounting for DNS propagation).
I've had an email server running on a static, public IP for months now without getting blacklisted.
More than a decade here, and the only issue in all that time was one listing on the Spamhaus PDL (I still have no idea how it got listed) and was taken care of in five minutes. But, it runs on a machine in a real data center with clean IP addresses (IPv4 and IPv6), a proper RDNS entry, secondary/tertiary DNS, SPF/DKIM entries, etc.
Lots of movie soundtracks, lots of classical. It's generally pretty good for popular music, not so much for stuff off the beaten path. As far as progressive rock goes, they don't have any of the Neal Morse-era Spock's Beard albums.
And the thing is, they don't even need to spend $5/token - just implementing some kind of simple TOTP scheme using Google Authenticator or other generator would help immensely.
It's nice they're putting so much effort into blockchain schemes, but they still don't seem motivated to make an industry-wide effort to secure their online account access via 2FA for their customers.
FICO Score 8 (scores range from 300-850) is not the only credit scoring system out there. VantageScore, for instance, goes to 990, and Fair-Issac itself provides a number of different scoring products for different uses (auto loans vs. credit cards, for instance). FICO Bankcard Score 8 ranges from 250-900, and it's a real FICO score.
I think the new class D amps eliminate even this issue, however they use more electricity.
Class D amps are far more power-efficient than A, B, or A/B, and the vast majority of them are also much lighter and more compact, as they don't need a huge output transformer.
I was under the impression that those covenants were unenforceable, as the FCC has direct jurisdiction over all consumer communications equipment and ordinances.
The OTARD rule that was passed in 1996 which preempts local government/HOA regulations only applies to video reception, not RF comms in general.
Bullshit. I've had many a mousetrap go off when I was nearby, that left the mouse screaming for several minutes before it died. Yes, my squeamishness exceeds my compassion, and I failed to finish them off more promptly by other means. Not my proudest self-realization.
Likewise, I've often had to finish what the trap started, usually by breaking their necks. Not fun, but I can't leave the little beggars suffering like that. My experience is that about a quarter are clean instant kills, half get their neck broken and die within a few seconds, and the remaining 25% require intervention. The worst one was when the mouse tripped it, and it took his snout off.
I'd guess over 2/3 of people don't even answer the phone unless the number is already in their contact list. They just let it go to voicemail.
Hell, most of the time I don't even answer my work phone. Almost every call that comes in is from the same telemarketing firm trying to sell me something.
and the data circuits are passed through optical transmitters which essentially eliminate the power issue.
Optoisolators aren't going to help a lot if the voltage is high enough to arc over/around them, and with a sustained (longer than a few milliseconds) overvoltage of a few thousand volts, it's likely that they'd get burned out even if nothing else was damaged, effectively destroying the port. You can actively insulate the circuit to keep it from arcing, but circuitry that will effectively protect against this kind of attack is going to be hard to fit into a laptop case.
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You said it yourself - the problem isn't so much the programmers as it is management. Programmers often want to validate/verify/test their work a lot more, but if management's attitude is "ship it!", the coders don't stand a chance no matter how good they are. My experience is that if you're stuck on a difficult problem that only shows itself under very hard-to-duplicate conditions and are spending lots of time trying to fix it, you get written up instead of appreciation for trying to create a quality product.
"Just have it switch modes when the accelerometer registers one Mars gravity."
All three accelerometers, and that they've registered no movement for long enough to confirm they're not moving. It's easy to armchair-quarterback stuff like this, but really, you'd think there was sufficient hardware on the machine to deal with problems like this.
The only thing holding me back from a Linux desktop at home is gaming.
Gaming is one sticky point for me, but the primary thing keeping me on Windows right now is audio/music production. Ardour is a nice package (although not really comparable to stuff like ProTools) and I really do appreciate the work that's gone into it, but despite the great strides made with packages like dssi-vst and vst-bridge, there are still plenty of VST plugins that don't work properly (or at all). That's assuming you have an audio interface that will work under Linux to begin with. If you have a package that uses an iLok, you're pretty much SOL from the start.
And yet there are a whole host of companies who produce high end panels that last many MANY years which offer better value for money than Apple displays.
Hell, they don't even have to be high-end panels. I have a pair of Sceptre X20WG displays that I bought for less than $200 each and are still going strong 11 years and three moves later. Those displays outlasted a Power Mac G4, an iBook, and a MacBook, all of which experienced hardware failures of one kind or another.
I often do this. I also hang up while I'm speaking so there's a plausible "we got cut off" excuse if it's someone I really do want/need to talk to.
I have to open a window or put on headphones with some white noise.
This site was a lifesaver for me: https://mynoise.net.
It may not matter much in 5 years unless Microsoft starts listening to the criticisms regarding Windows 10.
Some people do, a lot of people don't. A former co-worker of mine murdered a guy at a bar because he thought he was putting some moves on his girlfriend. He was convicted of first degree murder, and got a sentence of 25 years. When he's released in 2021 he will have served just under 21 years for it, not accounting for any further reductions for good behavior. He didn't have a prior record at all, which often affects the sentence passed down.
In the end you options are, they will say little or nothing other than that you were laid off and not fired for cause, or they will say you were insubordinate; thus preventing you from getting another job.
It'll probably go more like this:
"I'm calling about a former employee named DarkOx. Can you tell me anything about him?"
"He was employed here from $START_DATE to $END_DATE"
"I see. What's his rehire status?"
"No rehire."
"Thanks for your time, have a nice day."
[tosses resume in the trash]
Companies have gotten savvy to what they can and can't say nowadays so it's unlikely they'll tell you anything specific, but they'll still get the point across.
Not to mention that getting a judgment is one thing, but actually collecting it is quite another. Plus, don't be surprised if the company files suit against you for one thing or another. Doesn't really cost them anything, and that's more time and expense for you to deal with.
I'd argue that setting up and maintaining your own server to the same level of service as a Hotmail or Gmail would require more effort overall.
Of course it does. It can be a royal PITA keeping the spam filtering up to date, ensuring the backups have run properly, addressing potential security issues, and all of the other various and sundry system admin tasks that need to be done on a regular basis. I've been doing just that for more than a decade, and it's sometimes a lot of work. But generally something worth doing takes a bit of effort, and it provides a degree of comfort that if I ever have an issue with my provider, I can just pull up the tent stakes and have everything moved to another provider and running in less than an hour (not accounting for DNS propagation).
I've had an email server running on a static, public IP for months now without getting blacklisted.
More than a decade here, and the only issue in all that time was one listing on the Spamhaus PDL (I still have no idea how it got listed) and was taken care of in five minutes. But, it runs on a machine in a real data center with clean IP addresses (IPv4 and IPv6), a proper RDNS entry, secondary/tertiary DNS, SPF/DKIM entries, etc.
And then there's "I don't have insurance". "Okay, let me cut this bill in half. Getting cash up front and not dealing with insurance saves me money."
Lots of movie soundtracks, lots of classical. It's generally pretty good for popular music, not so much for stuff off the beaten path. As far as progressive rock goes, they don't have any of the Neal Morse-era Spock's Beard albums.
My credit union does MFA, are banks slacking?
Sadly, a lot of them still are, even though technically it's a very easy feature to add.
And the thing is, they don't even need to spend $5/token - just implementing some kind of simple TOTP scheme using Google Authenticator or other generator would help immensely.
It's nice they're putting so much effort into blockchain schemes, but they still don't seem motivated to make an industry-wide effort to secure their online account access via 2FA for their customers.
because the $10 a month for "any music I can think of" is a better value than the "some movies" I get from Netflix
My experience has been that content disappearing on Spotify is just as bad as Netflix. I'm sure different genres suffer this more than others, though.
FICO Score 8 (scores range from 300-850) is not the only credit scoring system out there. VantageScore, for instance, goes to 990, and Fair-Issac itself provides a number of different scoring products for different uses (auto loans vs. credit cards, for instance). FICO Bankcard Score 8 ranges from 250-900, and it's a real FICO score.
I think the new class D amps eliminate even this issue, however they use more electricity.
Class D amps are far more power-efficient than A, B, or A/B, and the vast majority of them are also much lighter and more compact, as they don't need a huge output transformer.
Also, you don't ever say "hi's", or "her's" when using those possessives. "Its" follows the same logic.
I was under the impression that those covenants were unenforceable, as the FCC has direct jurisdiction over all consumer communications equipment and ordinances.
The OTARD rule that was passed in 1996 which preempts local government/HOA regulations only applies to video reception, not RF comms in general.
Bullshit. I've had many a mousetrap go off when I was nearby, that left the mouse screaming for several minutes before it died. Yes, my squeamishness exceeds my compassion, and I failed to finish them off more promptly by other means. Not my proudest self-realization.
Likewise, I've often had to finish what the trap started, usually by breaking their necks. Not fun, but I can't leave the little beggars suffering like that. My experience is that about a quarter are clean instant kills, half get their neck broken and die within a few seconds, and the remaining 25% require intervention. The worst one was when the mouse tripped it, and it took his snout off.
I'd guess over 2/3 of people don't even answer the phone unless the number is already in their contact list. They just let it go to voicemail.
Hell, most of the time I don't even answer my work phone. Almost every call that comes in is from the same telemarketing firm trying to sell me something.
and the data circuits are passed through optical transmitters which essentially eliminate the power issue.
Optoisolators aren't going to help a lot if the voltage is high enough to arc over/around them, and with a sustained (longer than a few milliseconds) overvoltage of a few thousand volts, it's likely that they'd get burned out even if nothing else was damaged, effectively destroying the port. You can actively insulate the circuit to keep it from arcing, but circuitry that will effectively protect against this kind of attack is going to be hard to fit into a laptop case.