What do you mean by, "don't see a future for themselves."?
As in, they've looked to the future, and what they see bodes ill, so they don't see a reason to participate, or they haven't really even considered the future too much, and are screwing around in the same way as the parable about the grasshopper with winter approaching?
Because I can tell you, it's probably more of the latter than the former.
Based on my experiences at work, there are lots of 'boys' that really don't give a damn and would have been happier in other careers anyway.
I'm actually in favor of gender-segregated junior high schools, mainly because of the showboating that goes on due to the hormones. It's been demonstrated that it's significantly curtailed when the other gender isn't present to display toward.
Well, I dislike it because it makes it much harder to administer a box as a UNIX-type machine with a simple text editor. Now it seems like I'm stuck with meta-scripts invoking meta-scripts invoked by other scripts to do something as simple as changing my DNS servers. A whole lot of stuff just got a lot harder because of an abstraction layer.
There are panhandlers at the freeway offramp lights around here, usually because they can stand on the left side of traffic near the driver's side. If you consider that your average light takes about 90 seconds to cycle, there are about forty times an hour when cars are sitting there. If one driver, every other light gives $2, then the panhandler can make $40/hr while sitting at the light. The advantage the panhandler has is that since the potential givers completely flush and replace every 90 seconds, there are new marks constantly, and it's unlikely that any would see anyone else giving money, so they may feel obligated to be the one to do so.
I figured out it was a borderline scam when I saw the bicycle that the panhandler had sitting off in the bushes. It cost more than the car I was driving.
They announced work on Hurd when I was still in university. I've worked a career, ended up disabled, retired, and spent years on a pet project since then, producing 13 point releases. Over 30 years have gone by.
Yet they've still only reached release 0.6? So one decimal point release every FIVE YEARS?
Jesus.
Stick a fork in this project.
It's done -- as in dead. Pushing up daisies. Pining for the fjords. Defunct. Deceased. Non functional.
It's not even worthy of being called a pipe dream any more. Even "Duke Nukem' Forever" beat them to the punch, and everyone gave up on that project long before it was released.
What do you want to name the fork? I vote for flock.
I don't think that there ever was supposed to be a Duke Nukem Forever. It was supposed to be a joke, as in, no game development would ever happen, so we would be waiting forever. Unfortunately someone else ended up with the rights to the franchise and didn't realize this.
...now we either have to come up with another excuse or else tell the person something along the lines of, "sorry, not interested"?
No one is under any obligation to buy from or to give money to someone panhandling. Given that there are enough actors out there to make one question if any given pandhandler is actually hard-up or not, I don't tend to give out money like that.
Damn that was close. Kind of makes me wonder if using the barge as such a small target is contributing to the hard landings, simply because it's such a tiny target relative to the area that the rocket has to come down on. It's about the length of a football field; makes me wonder if they could set-down on an area ten times that large if most of these control problems simply wouldn't matter.
Heh. There was an episode of House where as an aside, the topic of the over/under age on attempting significant risky medical procedures on children was brought up. House asserted that the age was seven.
Nazi Germany fell in April of 1945. Any true German-Government Nazis that had reached the age of majority before this fall would be 88 years old now. It doesn't matter if they're not dead yet, they're so close to it that true original Nazis are done.
Neo-Nazis are another matter, but no one will ever take them seriously enough that they could become a political force. They'd have to organize as something else with a name that isn't poisoned from the outset.
Yes, but coming for them was to take them away to either lock them up or execute them. Despite both being the only sure thing in life, there's quite a bit of difference between death and taxes. Despite what so many anti-tax people would try to tell you.
Last time I looked at tax status of non-profit-seeking entities, the two categories that I studied were 501c3 and 501c7. the c3 variety required charitable work. The c7 was for fraternal organizations and clubs that had to pay taxes if they made profits, but were for such entites that weren't really trying to make profits. I was looking because of clubs that I'm in, and how things like fandom organizations organized (some c3, some c7).
It's time for the tax code to change. Expenses associated with spreading the gospel should not be tax exempt. Expenses associated with the act of charity should be, but there's quite a difference between building a 10,000 seat auditorium with sound systems and paying for the expenses of an evangelist compared to running a soup kitchen or operating a shelter for those that cannot afford to stay somewhere.
I can kind of see how it's noteworthy to compare the use of aluminum as opposed to the sheet steel that most cars are made out of and to point out how that is at least evolutionary, but it's been done in mass-market cars before. The Plymouth Prowler was Chrysler's test platform for aluminum and other new ways to build cars, and as you point out, other car companies are doing this with main-line vehicles.
If it wasn't such a circle-jerk I might agree with you. Unfortunately there are too many 'makers' that are enthusiastic without having ability and aren't really developing it either. There are others that eschew modern manufacturing practices even if those practices really are good and are used because of their cost-effectiveness. Take the Tesla Model S as an example, it's made of aluminum and assembled through relatively conventional processes, not out of exotic processes. It's revolutionary because the company changed the conventional stuff that really is getting outmoded in the form of the drivetrain, not the entire body of the car.
It doesn't. There's no replacement for experience and actually working on things for real. A lot of 'makers' don't understand this.
Just as an example, Ikea is manufacturing ten thousand flatpack shelters. This was the result of people with materials experience getting together with people that manage refugee camps and are aware of the conditions, and people that do shipping and other materiel distribution, so that they could manufacture something that's durable, simple to assemble, and capable of being transported easily. Sure, corrugated plastic, extruded metal tubing, and rivets aren't sexy like a 3d printer, but the point was to build and deliver a product, not to navel-gaze in self-congratulatory smugness while the 3d printer warms up...
Sorry, I don't have a lot of respect for "makers". Those that self-identify with that label are as silly as those rooftop gardeners in high-density environments that try to call their 2' by 6' patch of dirt a "farm".
There was a game somewhere that was proven to have software so faulty that it wasn't even capable of 'drawing' one of the possible numbers that players could choose.
Computer-based random number generators are just about the worst possible way to conduct a lottery. They're not random, they're subject to tampering, they're only understood by a few people, and their function while operating cannot be observed by the public. They also aren't exciting.
Machines that dump a bunch of balls into a spinning drum and then start pulling those balls out look cool on TV, plus they can be inspected, the public understands how they work, their operation is transparent, and because of the nature of the beast, are about as random as one can get within the context of a machine doing the drawing.
If you don't want to have a safe deposit box and if you don't feel that you can keep things like this at work, if you have some kind of an accessory building on your property like a garden shed or workshop, use that structure to store it. Just make sure that it's either in a safe bolted to the floor or else it's very tiny and extremely well hidden.
Just make sure that the accessory building is sufficiently far enough from the structure with the primary storage that it doesn't suffer the same fate in a disaster.
At my work, 'offsite' is one of the other buildings on the campus. We have several rows of buildings with rows of parking in between, so we can store things 'offsite' where they're still readily accessible if we need them.
Yes. Before work was willing to issue a cell phone stipend so that we could use our personal phones for work purposes I had to carry a work phone in addition to my phone. I do not mind having to carry a heavier phone.
I'm in a building that has poor cell phone reception, so I definitely hear you on battery life. With no usage my battery is less than 20% after a full shift if I don't have a need to go out, and sometimes I'm down to less than 5% if I've had anyone call my cell instead of my desk.
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What do you mean by, "don't see a future for themselves."?
As in, they've looked to the future, and what they see bodes ill, so they don't see a reason to participate, or they haven't really even considered the future too much, and are screwing around in the same way as the parable about the grasshopper with winter approaching?
Because I can tell you, it's probably more of the latter than the former.
Based on my experiences at work, there are lots of 'boys' that really don't give a damn and would have been happier in other careers anyway.
I'm actually in favor of gender-segregated junior high schools, mainly because of the showboating that goes on due to the hormones. It's been demonstrated that it's significantly curtailed when the other gender isn't present to display toward.
Well, I dislike it because it makes it much harder to administer a box as a UNIX-type machine with a simple text editor. Now it seems like I'm stuck with meta-scripts invoking meta-scripts invoked by other scripts to do something as simple as changing my DNS servers. A whole lot of stuff just got a lot harder because of an abstraction layer.
People are not smart.
There are panhandlers at the freeway offramp lights around here, usually because they can stand on the left side of traffic near the driver's side. If you consider that your average light takes about 90 seconds to cycle, there are about forty times an hour when cars are sitting there. If one driver, every other light gives $2, then the panhandler can make $40/hr while sitting at the light. The advantage the panhandler has is that since the potential givers completely flush and replace every 90 seconds, there are new marks constantly, and it's unlikely that any would see anyone else giving money, so they may feel obligated to be the one to do so.
I figured out it was a borderline scam when I saw the bicycle that the panhandler had sitting off in the bushes. It cost more than the car I was driving.
They announced work on Hurd when I was still in university. I've worked a career, ended up disabled, retired, and spent years on a pet project since then, producing 13 point releases. Over 30 years have gone by.
Yet they've still only reached release 0.6? So one decimal point release every FIVE YEARS?
Jesus.
Stick a fork in this project.
It's done -- as in dead. Pushing up daisies. Pining for the fjords. Defunct. Deceased. Non functional.
It's not even worthy of being called a pipe dream any more. Even "Duke Nukem' Forever" beat them to the punch, and everyone gave up on that project long before it was released.
What do you want to name the fork? I vote for flock.
I don't think that there ever was supposed to be a Duke Nukem Forever. It was supposed to be a joke, as in, no game development would ever happen, so we would be waiting forever. Unfortunately someone else ended up with the rights to the franchise and didn't realize this.
S'okay. I've been in local Fandom for almost 25 years. Shouldn't be worse than eighty clones of the Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons...
Writing drivers is hard mmmkay...
If systemd comes to dominate Linux, we could see something more like 2020: the year of the GNU Hurd Linux replacement...
I had not really considered using Hurd until the systemd explosion. Maybe I'll load it on a spare box to see what I get.
I think I'll wait for the computer with the nontouch 'mouse' that determines what I want to do without using another device.
...now we either have to come up with another excuse or else tell the person something along the lines of, "sorry, not interested"?
No one is under any obligation to buy from or to give money to someone panhandling. Given that there are enough actors out there to make one question if any given pandhandler is actually hard-up or not, I don't tend to give out money like that.
Damn that was close. Kind of makes me wonder if using the barge as such a small target is contributing to the hard landings, simply because it's such a tiny target relative to the area that the rocket has to come down on. It's about the length of a football field; makes me wonder if they could set-down on an area ten times that large if most of these control problems simply wouldn't matter.
Heh. There was an episode of House where as an aside, the topic of the over/under age on attempting significant risky medical procedures on children was brought up. House asserted that the age was seven.
Nazi Germany fell in April of 1945. Any true German-Government Nazis that had reached the age of majority before this fall would be 88 years old now. It doesn't matter if they're not dead yet, they're so close to it that true original Nazis are done.
Neo-Nazis are another matter, but no one will ever take them seriously enough that they could become a political force. They'd have to organize as something else with a name that isn't poisoned from the outset.
Yes, but coming for them was to take them away to either lock them up or execute them. Despite both being the only sure thing in life, there's quite a bit of difference between death and taxes. Despite what so many anti-tax people would try to tell you.
Are you sure of this?
Last time I looked at tax status of non-profit-seeking entities, the two categories that I studied were 501c3 and 501c7. the c3 variety required charitable work. The c7 was for fraternal organizations and clubs that had to pay taxes if they made profits, but were for such entites that weren't really trying to make profits. I was looking because of clubs that I'm in, and how things like fandom organizations organized (some c3, some c7).
It's time for the tax code to change. Expenses associated with spreading the gospel should not be tax exempt. Expenses associated with the act of charity should be, but there's quite a difference between building a 10,000 seat auditorium with sound systems and paying for the expenses of an evangelist compared to running a soup kitchen or operating a shelter for those that cannot afford to stay somewhere.
I can kind of see how it's noteworthy to compare the use of aluminum as opposed to the sheet steel that most cars are made out of and to point out how that is at least evolutionary, but it's been done in mass-market cars before. The Plymouth Prowler was Chrysler's test platform for aluminum and other new ways to build cars, and as you point out, other car companies are doing this with main-line vehicles.
He really just carried it too far.
Yeah, sounds like they've essentially developed a library that the programming language is dependent on.
If it wasn't such a circle-jerk I might agree with you. Unfortunately there are too many 'makers' that are enthusiastic without having ability and aren't really developing it either. There are others that eschew modern manufacturing practices even if those practices really are good and are used because of their cost-effectiveness. Take the Tesla Model S as an example, it's made of aluminum and assembled through relatively conventional processes, not out of exotic processes. It's revolutionary because the company changed the conventional stuff that really is getting outmoded in the form of the drivetrain, not the entire body of the car.
You want random? Monitor your microphone input on your computer, or use an NTSC tuner and have it sample the static on a nonexistent channel.
It doesn't. There's no replacement for experience and actually working on things for real. A lot of 'makers' don't understand this.
Just as an example, Ikea is manufacturing ten thousand flatpack shelters. This was the result of people with materials experience getting together with people that manage refugee camps and are aware of the conditions, and people that do shipping and other materiel distribution, so that they could manufacture something that's durable, simple to assemble, and capable of being transported easily. Sure, corrugated plastic, extruded metal tubing, and rivets aren't sexy like a 3d printer, but the point was to build and deliver a product, not to navel-gaze in self-congratulatory smugness while the 3d printer warms up...
Sorry, I don't have a lot of respect for "makers". Those that self-identify with that label are as silly as those rooftop gardeners in high-density environments that try to call their 2' by 6' patch of dirt a "farm".
There was a game somewhere that was proven to have software so faulty that it wasn't even capable of 'drawing' one of the possible numbers that players could choose.
Computer-based random number generators are just about the worst possible way to conduct a lottery. They're not random, they're subject to tampering, they're only understood by a few people, and their function while operating cannot be observed by the public. They also aren't exciting.
Machines that dump a bunch of balls into a spinning drum and then start pulling those balls out look cool on TV, plus they can be inspected, the public understands how they work, their operation is transparent, and because of the nature of the beast, are about as random as one can get within the context of a machine doing the drawing.
So, our anonymous reader that sent in the article swung and completely missed with their headline...
If you don't want to have a safe deposit box and if you don't feel that you can keep things like this at work, if you have some kind of an accessory building on your property like a garden shed or workshop, use that structure to store it. Just make sure that it's either in a safe bolted to the floor or else it's very tiny and extremely well hidden.
Just make sure that the accessory building is sufficiently far enough from the structure with the primary storage that it doesn't suffer the same fate in a disaster.
At my work, 'offsite' is one of the other buildings on the campus. We have several rows of buildings with rows of parking in between, so we can store things 'offsite' where they're still readily accessible if we need them.
Yes. Before work was willing to issue a cell phone stipend so that we could use our personal phones for work purposes I had to carry a work phone in addition to my phone. I do not mind having to carry a heavier phone.
I'm in a building that has poor cell phone reception, so I definitely hear you on battery life. With no usage my battery is less than 20% after a full shift if I don't have a need to go out, and sometimes I'm down to less than 5% if I've had anyone call my cell instead of my desk.