Independent confirmation of results is a fundamental part of the scientific method. For example it has been known since the 1990's that tree rings are an unreliable climate indicator after ~1960, nobody knows why, but they do know that it doesn't match the other lines of evidence, which includes the modern instrumental records. This is what the infamous "Mike's trick in Nature" quote was referring to in the 'climategate' beat up, the truncation of a data set that was known to be wrong. The character assassins behind 'climategate' insisted that removing the bad data was dishonest and politically motivated, despite the fact that the explanation of the 'trick' had been published in Nature.
The climate freaks would be much more credible if their back casted models matched historical observations.
Well you should be pleased to learn that they have been doing that for about 40yrs now.
PS: Modeling past climate is normally referred to as 'hindcasting', perhaps if you google using the correct terminology you will get more informative results.
First game I ever hacked, the question "Could Buck Rogers reach the domed city?" drove me nuts for weeks but it also taught me a fair bit about disassembly.
Who you know has always been more important than what you know. However most people in business aren't morons, they won't hire a "who" they know unless they actually believe they are competent and trustworthy.
Recruiters are paid to be judgemental, it's how they make a living, most of those I have met over the last 25yrs have actually been former software developers or network techs who wanted a career change.
There's no point taking a string of job rejections personally, that attitude will inevitably lead to the misery of self-pity which in turn makes it harder to get a job.. If there are jobs available and you* keep getting knocked back then it would seem to me "you're doing it wrong", have you considered finding out why they are rejecting you and fixing it? Most recruiters will offer free advice, especially if you make their short list - but that won't happen until you stop looking at them like they are idiots put there to stop you getting the job. And don't say "what did I do wrong" use a less confrontational manner, something like "how can I better my chances next time a job like this comes up".
Yep, SOP is that HR are only asked to find CV's when all "word of mouth" options are exhausted. In large organisations HR will then advertise internally and offer a finder's before advertising on the open market. So if you have the respect of your co-workers (and vica-versa) it pays to keep in touch with them when you or they move on to greener pastures.
It's just lost in translation, project manager fills out some questions on a form, says xyz is mandatory, abc are "nice to have", overall 5yr experience requirement gets conflated with 5yrs experience with xyz by someone writing a job ad who has no idea what xyz means. Go and read your job description at HR, it's utterly devoid of any meaning. Of course this is fucking annoying for all concerned but the same is true for any professional position, and from the project managers POV going to HR is still better than trying to do the first cut filtering yourself.
Thing is, the project manager does usually set the skills requirements, HR just mangle it into a job advert and pick out the "best" five CV's they receive in X amount of time. Like any other "purple squirrel", software devs often get invited to apply for jobs via word of mouth long before anyone talks to HR. Most multinationals take advantage of this via their referral bonus schemes. Here in Oz the going rate for finding a purple squirrel is ~$500, professional agents will charge companies 5X that amount to do the same thing..
As a non-american the last time I saw your government work like a government is when Obama took over from Bush. The GFC was tackled as a bi-partisan issue and I believe what they came up with together averted a 1930's style global depression. There was no finger pointing at that time by senior party members, they put their heads together, listened to expert opinion, and averted a much more serious disaster. Since that time the US economy has bounced back despite the "just say no" attitude of republicans to bipartisan compromise.
Same goes for the Iraq war, sure Obama spoke and voted against it but he was in the minority, even in his own party. That kind of situation or the situation you have now where Democrats are distancing themselves from their own leader is rare in a parliamentary system, in the parliamentary there is an expectation party leaders will demand loyalty as long they have the support of caucus. If they lose that support they can be replaced by their own party without the need for a general election, (as has happened twice here in Oz in the past few years). The only time a parliamentary party acts like a US political party is when the leader allows a "conscience vote", normally "crossing the floor" to vote with the another party is seen as a betrayal and in extreme circumstances will get you kicked out of the party. The British FM famously quit rather than voting with the party to join the Iraq war. In the US politicians are expected to grab as much pork as they can for their state, the national interest and loyalty to party policy don't really count for much in the US system.
As for drones, they're fucking scary in a sci-fi kind of way but they're orders of magnitude less "evil" than what went on in Fallujah under Bush, like it or not the US simply can't afford to ignore the tribal war playing out in Iraq/Syria, the last thing we want is for the tribes to perceive the west as a common enemy. Allowing one tribe to dominate is also a nightmare scenario for the west. So our only practical option is containment and "humanitarian bombing" to avert civilian massacres that any of the tribes may be contemplating. Bombing people back to the dark ages isn't much of a threat to people who want to go back to 700AD anyway.
"The bill does not explain exactly what constitutes metadata" - yet. It will do so before it becomes law since all sides have publicly stated it will be defined.
The Attorney General (Brandis) specifically ruled it out in a press conference. Sure he's a lying arsehole and I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him, but that's why we have independent courts that won't let him change his mind now without more legislation specifically enabling it.
We all know that Brandis has no clue what 'metadata' data means, there's plenty of clips on YT attesting to his ignorance. Turnbull and Brandis are ideological 'enemies' within the same party, both are strong candidates for the current PM's job (who is in the same ideological camp as Brandis). My guess is that Turnbull has convinced him to announce those things won't be included. Turnbull is an "old fashioned" conservative who wants to lead the party back toward the center after it's violent lurch to the "bogan right" at the last election. He's a previous party leader and he has sunk more than one of these proposals in the past from the inside, I'm fairly confident he will do the same again this time around, assuming the announcement by Brandis hasn't already done that.
Be careful what you wish for. I for one certainly don't want Melbourne to copy Athens just because the current government are a pack of "one term" cunts. Besides there are plenty of large political protests in Melbourne on all sorts of issues. Those people just don't attach the same priority to this issue as you do. If you want to know what gets Melbourne "out on the streets" then have a look at the tag cloud in thislist of Melbourne protests covering several recent years, privacy, the internet, and ASIO don't even rate a tag.
By world standards Aussies have an active and peaceful protest culture and I would like it to stay that way. Just because masses of people are not smashing shop windows and burning cars while protesting about what personally upsets you today doesn't mean everyone is complacent about politics in general. The fact you can't perceive that makes me think that you're the one who isn't paying attention to the local political climate. If you are really serious then get out on the street yourself and tell others why you are there, with social media and the like it's never been easier and cheaper to organise a protest about your pet issue.
However I dont expect this law to actually go anywhere
Agree but for different reasons. Abbot and his mates have turned us into the butt of every redneck joke on the world stage. However I checked outside just now and the sky still isn't falling, just the same old political horse trading and hyperbole that's surrounded this issue for the last 20+yrs. That's not to say we won't eventually extend our data retention rules to match what has been the norm in the EU for at least a decade - ie: 2yrs. The idea the information could be useful in an Aussie divorce is simply laughable. Unless of course it's kiddy porn, in which case you have much bigger legal problems than a simple divorce and you won't be seeing your kids for a long time anyway.
Yeah. yeah, is all a giant conspiracy involving just about every scientific institution on the planet and at least 195 nations, it stretches back to 1958 when the National Academies of Science told the US government the same thing.
Yes people's attitude to dst very much depends on where you live, people in Queensland where the sun is also high in the sky all year round also don't see any sense in it because in Qld an Az it's daylight at both ends of the work day anyway. Here in Melbourne where dawn/twilight stretches out much longer and the length of daylight changes more dramatically with the seasons it makes sense and people overwhelmingly support it. Go a similar distance south again and the winter day becomes shorter than workday so again it won't makes sense to someone who lives in (say) Northern Scotland.
The answer we have in Oz is that the two states (with the same UTC offset) have different time zones in summer, both of them are happy, a queenslander will not demand we drop it anymore than we demand they copy us. The only people who become confused are people who are confused about far more than just the time of day.
Because the vast majority of workers do not have the luxury of flexible hours, an assembly line needs everyone to synchronize their timekeeping or it simply does not work, in fact the majority of work in the "real world" fundamentally depends on more than one person being in the same place at the same time. So if you can't change the nature of the work, the only option is to change the arbitrary hands off the clock that synchronizes it. Most places have 6 months each way, which seems a fair compromise between driving to and from work in the dark. If you don't want to be part of DST then use UTC, you will never have to change your clock again!!!
On the contrary, it's bad design that leads to irreconcilable differences which cause all kinds of headaches.
Correctly handling time in computers is trivial from a (new) design POV, simply store everything in UTC and translate it to whatever the local display requires, if the original local version of the UTC timestamp is important then you also store the tz offset and dst flag, best to do this anyway since unimportant things have a habit of becoming important soon after release.
Unfortunately the kind of implementation you allude to is far to common in the commercial world, worse still it's software "engineers" who are to blame because their original design either failed to consider different time zones or believed they were unimportant. As developer's we can promote an understanding of UTC, so next time you're writing code to display tz information, suggest that UTC should also be displayed. Online video games are a prime example of what I'm talking about, events are advertised for US time zones, would it really hurt to add UTC for the already neglected customers down here in Oz who understand what it means wrt to their local time? "Simplifying" UTC for customers is the root of the problem, you can't do that without losing information or making the display conversion horrendously complex.
In other words - "teach a man UTC and he will eat fish fingers all day" - or something like that.
Accurately maintaining the official tz table is another thing altogether, it's accuracy is at the mercy of political whim, and there's nothing in the known universe more baffling than whim.
My alarm clock is still flashing because the power went out for 3hrs a month ago, the Marvin the Martian wall clock in the kitchen has had a dead battery for several years, the antique clock in the lounge was broken when I found it, the microwave is on the same setting as when I bought it 10yrs ago, the car radio has been wrong since I replaced the car battery five years ago. The TV and my computers automatically adjust themselves, I don't own a mobile phone or a watch. Oddly my life has not fallen to bits due to my disdain of clock watching, a disdain that probably stems from punching clock cards in the 70's and 80's.
Disclaimer: I have an unusually accurate "inner clock", I can normally guess the time to within +/-15 min, I don't have to think about it, the approximate time in my head is "just there" when I want it. I thought everyone could do this until I was well into my 40's when a new lady friend started calling it a "party trick". The really odd thing is that I actually have to do the mental arithmetic for a few days after a DST change to keep my inner clock in sync with the correct time..
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Independent confirmation of results is a fundamental part of the scientific method. For example it has been known since the 1990's that tree rings are an unreliable climate indicator after ~1960, nobody knows why, but they do know that it doesn't match the other lines of evidence, which includes the modern instrumental records. This is what the infamous "Mike's trick in Nature" quote was referring to in the 'climategate' beat up, the truncation of a data set that was known to be wrong. The character assassins behind 'climategate' insisted that removing the bad data was dishonest and politically motivated, despite the fact that the explanation of the 'trick' had been published in Nature.
The shit you gave in your post implies your anger is rooted in your own willful ignorance.
The climate freaks would be much more credible if their back casted models matched historical observations.
Well you should be pleased to learn that they have been doing that for about 40yrs now.
PS: Modeling past climate is normally referred to as 'hindcasting', perhaps if you google using the correct terminology you will get more informative results.
The thing that always amazes me in that story is they put Captain Bligh on a row boat in the Pacific and somehow he made it back to England.
First game I ever hacked, the question "Could Buck Rogers reach the domed city?" drove me nuts for weeks but it also taught me a fair bit about disassembly.
Works for me, maybe you should move to Athens.
Who you know has always been more important than what you know. However most people in business aren't morons, they won't hire a "who" they know unless they actually believe they are competent and trustworthy.
Recruiters are paid to be judgemental, it's how they make a living, most of those I have met over the last 25yrs have actually been former software developers or network techs who wanted a career change.
There's no point taking a string of job rejections personally, that attitude will inevitably lead to the misery of self-pity which in turn makes it harder to get a job.. If there are jobs available and you* keep getting knocked back then it would seem to me "you're doing it wrong", have you considered finding out why they are rejecting you and fixing it? Most recruiters will offer free advice, especially if you make their short list - but that won't happen until you stop looking at them like they are idiots put there to stop you getting the job. And don't say "what did I do wrong" use a less confrontational manner, something like "how can I better my chances next time a job like this comes up".
*you - the royal version.
Yep, SOP is that HR are only asked to find CV's when all "word of mouth" options are exhausted. In large organisations HR will then advertise internally and offer a finder's before advertising on the open market. So if you have the respect of your co-workers (and vica-versa) it pays to keep in touch with them when you or they move on to greener pastures.
It's just lost in translation, project manager fills out some questions on a form, says xyz is mandatory, abc are "nice to have", overall 5yr experience requirement gets conflated with 5yrs experience with xyz by someone writing a job ad who has no idea what xyz means. Go and read your job description at HR, it's utterly devoid of any meaning. Of course this is fucking annoying for all concerned but the same is true for any professional position, and from the project managers POV going to HR is still better than trying to do the first cut filtering yourself.
Thing is, the project manager does usually set the skills requirements, HR just mangle it into a job advert and pick out the "best" five CV's they receive in X amount of time. Like any other "purple squirrel", software devs often get invited to apply for jobs via word of mouth long before anyone talks to HR. Most multinationals take advantage of this via their referral bonus schemes. Here in Oz the going rate for finding a purple squirrel is ~$500, professional agents will charge companies 5X that amount to do the same thing..
First came music, then language, symbolism, and finally math. The last two are where humans have unique abilities.
As a non-american the last time I saw your government work like a government is when Obama took over from Bush. The GFC was tackled as a bi-partisan issue and I believe what they came up with together averted a 1930's style global depression. There was no finger pointing at that time by senior party members, they put their heads together, listened to expert opinion, and averted a much more serious disaster. Since that time the US economy has bounced back despite the "just say no" attitude of republicans to bipartisan compromise.
Same goes for the Iraq war, sure Obama spoke and voted against it but he was in the minority, even in his own party. That kind of situation or the situation you have now where Democrats are distancing themselves from their own leader is rare in a parliamentary system, in the parliamentary there is an expectation party leaders will demand loyalty as long they have the support of caucus. If they lose that support they can be replaced by their own party without the need for a general election, (as has happened twice here in Oz in the past few years). The only time a parliamentary party acts like a US political party is when the leader allows a "conscience vote", normally "crossing the floor" to vote with the another party is seen as a betrayal and in extreme circumstances will get you kicked out of the party. The British FM famously quit rather than voting with the party to join the Iraq war. In the US politicians are expected to grab as much pork as they can for their state, the national interest and loyalty to party policy don't really count for much in the US system.
As for drones, they're fucking scary in a sci-fi kind of way but they're orders of magnitude less "evil" than what went on in Fallujah under Bush, like it or not the US simply can't afford to ignore the tribal war playing out in Iraq/Syria, the last thing we want is for the tribes to perceive the west as a common enemy. Allowing one tribe to dominate is also a nightmare scenario for the west. So our only practical option is containment and "humanitarian bombing" to avert civilian massacres that any of the tribes may be contemplating. Bombing people back to the dark ages isn't much of a threat to people who want to go back to 700AD anyway.
"The bill does not explain exactly what constitutes metadata" - yet. It will do so before it becomes law since all sides have publicly stated it will be defined.
The Attorney General (Brandis) specifically ruled it out in a press conference. Sure he's a lying arsehole and I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him, but that's why we have independent courts that won't let him change his mind now without more legislation specifically enabling it.
We all know that Brandis has no clue what 'metadata' data means, there's plenty of clips on YT attesting to his ignorance. Turnbull and Brandis are ideological 'enemies' within the same party, both are strong candidates for the current PM's job (who is in the same ideological camp as Brandis). My guess is that Turnbull has convinced him to announce those things won't be included. Turnbull is an "old fashioned" conservative who wants to lead the party back toward the center after it's violent lurch to the "bogan right" at the last election. He's a previous party leader and he has sunk more than one of these proposals in the past from the inside, I'm fairly confident he will do the same again this time around, assuming the announcement by Brandis hasn't already done that.
Toughen the fuck up, you whiney bitch!
I mean that in the nicest possible way. You know that, right?
You sure you're not an Aussie?
Be careful what you wish for. I for one certainly don't want Melbourne to copy Athens just because the current government are a pack of "one term" cunts. Besides there are plenty of large political protests in Melbourne on all sorts of issues. Those people just don't attach the same priority to this issue as you do. If you want to know what gets Melbourne "out on the streets" then have a look at the tag cloud in thislist of Melbourne protests covering several recent years, privacy, the internet, and ASIO don't even rate a tag.
By world standards Aussies have an active and peaceful protest culture and I would like it to stay that way. Just because masses of people are not smashing shop windows and burning cars while protesting about what personally upsets you today doesn't mean everyone is complacent about politics in general. The fact you can't perceive that makes me think that you're the one who isn't paying attention to the local political climate. If you are really serious then get out on the street yourself and tell others why you are there, with social media and the like it's never been easier and cheaper to organise a protest about your pet issue.
However I dont expect this law to actually go anywhere
Agree but for different reasons. Abbot and his mates have turned us into the butt of every redneck joke on the world stage. However I checked outside just now and the sky still isn't falling, just the same old political horse trading and hyperbole that's surrounded this issue for the last 20+yrs. That's not to say we won't eventually extend our data retention rules to match what has been the norm in the EU for at least a decade - ie: 2yrs. The idea the information could be useful in an Aussie divorce is simply laughable. Unless of course it's kiddy porn, in which case you have much bigger legal problems than a simple divorce and you won't be seeing your kids for a long time anyway.
Yeah. yeah, is all a giant conspiracy involving just about every scientific institution on the planet and at least 195 nations, it stretches back to 1958 when the National Academies of Science told the US government the same thing.
The IPCC do not propose remedies.
Roy Spencer? - 10 to 1 the data is stratospheric temps presented as surface temps..
I live in Arizona
Yes people's attitude to dst very much depends on where you live, people in Queensland where the sun is also high in the sky all year round also don't see any sense in it because in Qld an Az it's daylight at both ends of the work day anyway. Here in Melbourne where dawn/twilight stretches out much longer and the length of daylight changes more dramatically with the seasons it makes sense and people overwhelmingly support it. Go a similar distance south again and the winter day becomes shorter than workday so again it won't makes sense to someone who lives in (say) Northern Scotland.
The answer we have in Oz is that the two states (with the same UTC offset) have different time zones in summer, both of them are happy, a queenslander will not demand we drop it anymore than we demand they copy us. The only people who become confused are people who are confused about far more than just the time of day.
Because the vast majority of workers do not have the luxury of flexible hours, an assembly line needs everyone to synchronize their timekeeping or it simply does not work, in fact the majority of work in the "real world" fundamentally depends on more than one person being in the same place at the same time. So if you can't change the nature of the work, the only option is to change the arbitrary hands off the clock that synchronizes it. Most places have 6 months each way, which seems a fair compromise between driving to and from work in the dark. If you don't want to be part of DST then use UTC, you will never have to change your clock again!!!
On the contrary, it's bad design that leads to irreconcilable differences which cause all kinds of headaches.
Correctly handling time in computers is trivial from a (new) design POV, simply store everything in UTC and translate it to whatever the local display requires, if the original local version of the UTC timestamp is important then you also store the tz offset and dst flag, best to do this anyway since unimportant things have a habit of becoming important soon after release.
Unfortunately the kind of implementation you allude to is far to common in the commercial world, worse still it's software "engineers" who are to blame because their original design either failed to consider different time zones or believed they were unimportant. As developer's we can promote an understanding of UTC, so next time you're writing code to display tz information, suggest that UTC should also be displayed. Online video games are a prime example of what I'm talking about, events are advertised for US time zones, would it really hurt to add UTC for the already neglected customers down here in Oz who understand what it means wrt to their local time? "Simplifying" UTC for customers is the root of the problem, you can't do that without losing information or making the display conversion horrendously complex.
In other words - "teach a man UTC and he will eat fish fingers all day" - or something like that.
Accurately maintaining the official tz table is another thing altogether, it's accuracy is at the mercy of political whim, and there's nothing in the known universe more baffling than whim.
My alarm clock is still flashing because the power went out for 3hrs a month ago, the Marvin the Martian wall clock in the kitchen has had a dead battery for several years, the antique clock in the lounge was broken when I found it, the microwave is on the same setting as when I bought it 10yrs ago, the car radio has been wrong since I replaced the car battery five years ago. The TV and my computers automatically adjust themselves, I don't own a mobile phone or a watch. Oddly my life has not fallen to bits due to my disdain of clock watching, a disdain that probably stems from punching clock cards in the 70's and 80's.
Disclaimer: I have an unusually accurate "inner clock", I can normally guess the time to within +/-15 min, I don't have to think about it, the approximate time in my head is "just there" when I want it. I thought everyone could do this until I was well into my 40's when a new lady friend started calling it a "party trick". The really odd thing is that I actually have to do the mental arithmetic for a few days after a DST change to keep my inner clock in sync with the correct time..