Given where my career and interests have taken me, I'm regularly in engineering spaces in buildings to see and interact with the concrete and steel and wood of buildings. I have a good feel for how building materials up to a hundred years old behaves.
...but my employer agreed only on the condition that he work onsite full time for the first month to prove himself.
HAHAH AHAHAHA HAHAHAAHAHA!
A month! That's precious! That isn't even enough time to know if an employee is worth keeping yet, or to see them in-action once they've really gotten into the new job. It would be so easy to stretch three-days' real work into those five days each week for that limited time, to then have four-day weekends for the rest of one's career.
Just VPN in, open a few files in the morning, and have one's phone ready to be answered, and you can go out into the workshop to play. Before lunch, come in and close out the files, save some things, then after lunch, open a few more things. Heck, put a computer out in the shop and if some caller needs something *right now* one can just open it and look like one's there.
For most Americans this is hard to visualise but many Europeans walk to the supermarket. The bag has to be carry-able with handles, survive getting wet, and support a reasonable amount of weight.
And handle all of this without any underwear-loss incidents...
Well, in my experience, owning a few of those heavy duty canvas bags, they're not particularly straightforward to sanitize. We washed and dried one and it shrunk drastically. I don't know about you, but given the vectors for disease that uncooked foodstuffs provide, I don't want to have un-launderable bags that I have to pay any significant money for.
By shifting the price of the dominant option, you change people's buying patterns towards those alternatives. Simples[sic] economics.
Not always. The price of fuel has skyrocketed in recent years, and most people do not commute on a daily basis further than the range of an electric car, but even households with more than one car (where the other can remain petroleum-powered) have not switched over to electric cars for at least one vehicle. Demand remains low enough that most automakers have only begrudgingly developed electric cars as governments have required them, and even then, only distribute them in limited numbers and only to the absolute minimum requirements.
From the summary, "Plastic bags usually take several hundred years until they decay..."
This is technically incorrect. Plastic bags have not existed for even fifty years, let alone a hundred or several hundred. Based on the best research and scientific modeling, materials scientists expect that plastic bags will remain for hundreds of years before they degrade, but that is an educated conjecture, not an observed fact.
Even tests done in ways to simulate time are by definition, simulations. They may well be accurate, but there have been times where scientific conjectures were later discovered to be either incorrect or else in need of modification to correct inaccuracies. This isn't to downplay the problems with the bags, but excessive assumptions only lead to someone else being able to counter one's arguments.
I wouldn't be surprised if the "23%" figure is fairly close to the percentage of the general populace that spends Thanksgiving with friends instead of with their own family, or of the general populace that spends Thanksgiving with their coworkers, who are also their friends.
If I lived away from family and couldn't justify the travel to visit them for a meal, and if most of my friends were also coworkers, I'd probably spend time with them, like I'd spend time with the off-work anyway.
And this is why an electric car should skimp on all of those gizmo-bells-and-whistles that really don't do much for the purpose. Take a Tesla, keep the batteries and charging, but give me a mechanically-driven speedometer and odometer, a nineties-era car stereo (with EEPROM for remembering the stations and a tiny CR2032 for keeping the clock running) and manually-controlled air conditioning and heat.
I don't need the touchscreen, the nav system, the multi-zone climate control, the internet connection, any of that stuff. I need the car to be comfortable, to work when I get in to drive, and to function properly.
And for those who'll argue, "but it's a luxury car! It has to have the electronics," I counter bullshit. My expensive bed doesn't have electronics, neither does my whirlpool bathtub, or my wetbar, or any of a huge number of other luxuries that I have afforded myself over the years. It needs to be simple, elegant, and to always work. It can be wrapped in expensive leather and finished with exotic wood and given the best comforting suspension and sound-insulated to almost silly levels without a single bit of electronics.
If the electronics compromise the basic function of the car then some serious reconsideration needs to be made for their inclusion.
Well, based on my own experience with bureaucracies, there is some existing rule that ensures that certain types of staff have certain days off unless there's an emergency, and a software update probably didn't previously count as an emergency.
From one standpoint, it makes sense, especially if those doing the work need technical support from a vendor. On the other hand, it probably makes more sense to have a QA lab set up if one is going to operate this way, so that one can test a rollout in advance, hopefully forestalling such problems going live.
Well, being angry is certainly one thing that may matter, but having multiple devices is another.
I'm typing this on a Sun Type 6 USB keyboard. Next to me is one of those early full-size clear Apple USB keyboards. At home I use a Gateway 2000 "Anykey" keyboard on my desktop, and the integrated keyboard in my laptop when using that machine. I use a Kensington Expert Mouse trackball at home on the desktop, the integrated touchpad on the laptop as well as an external Logitech mouse, a Kensington Orbit Optical trackball on one computer, and a Microsoft Intellimouse on another computer.
I expect that my mouse movements and typing styles vary from computer to computer. If the point of an authentication scheme using this sort of method is to be global, I'd end up with either lockouts or with multiple profiles, requiring updating every time I use different equipment. Right now we're up to four without even going into other computers I have casual use of, and I can only see that going up over time.
Once the 1st generation of people who spent there youth screwing around in the public eye get ole enough, no one is going to care about tour screwing around when you where a teen because everyone does it to some degree.
I don't believe that. If that attitude really was the case, it already wouldn't be a problem.
Or do you pretend that your parents, and their parents, weren't interested in sex and parties and drinking and having fun when they were youths, regardless of later political affiliation or later opinions on sex?
...those that avoid publicly screwing up will end up doing better than those whose mistakes are documented for all to find.
This is not a new problem, it's simply a bigger problem than it used to be as communications have allowed one party to find out about another party more quickly and easily, and our collective narcissism has meant that we're constantly publishing our "accomplishments" for any random person to see, whether they're actually worth noting or not. A lot of people simply do not understand that moments or situations special to them are not special or important to anyone else.
Unfortunately the only way to really curtail this is to tell people that they're not special. To tell them that most people, even likely their friends, do not care about Johnny's part in the school play or Suzie's piano recital, let alone Ricky's first steps or Adrienne's first words. They really don't care about what you had for lunch unless you're eating something that most wouldn't consider food, and they don't care how you looked snockered at that party unless you're showing them something of prurient interest.
Stop oversharing and mind who's watching what you do, or expect to have less opportunity as those in positions of authority choose to turn you down in favor of someone that will embarrass them less.
If that one gives you issues, I use "LED Light". It doesn't list the Samsung Galaxy SII (T-Mobile version) as on the supported devices list, but it seems to work fine. Only annoyance is that it doesn't completely close on exit and I have to go exit its process, but how little I use it, I can accept that.
I've seen ruptured fuel tanks in car accidents a couple of times, no fire.
I've had a fuel line leak at the carburetor fitting, dripping fuel that pooled on the intake manifold, no fire. Ended up having to replace the carburetor to fix that one.
When any application that has no need for Internet access but wants it anyway, it's very hard to avoid it.
Last time I went looking for something as simple as a flash manual switch to use as a flashlight, it took digging through multiple apps to finally find one that didn't want Internet access.
...but obviously, if an accident punctures a battery there's a chance of fire just as there is one if you puncture a gas tank.
How likely is one to puncture the gas tank though, and how much risk of fire is there if the gas tank is ruptured, compared to if a battery is ruptured?
Don't get me wrong, I really like the idea of electric vehicles and have mulled doing a conversion on my quarter-ton pickup, but I don't like the idea of high-centering on a foreign object causing a fire.
Doesn't matter HOW new a car is, gasoline burns the same.
While the fuel will burn the same, the amount of time and mileage before a fire occurs is important. If 90% of models are end-of-lifed and junked out before there's a statistically significant chance of fire in that model, then it's much less of a problem than if it's new cars that are catching on fire, because not only is there a probability of an older, rarer-in-service model having a fire, but there's now a problem of new models, of which there are many more in service, catching fire.
Most of the car fires that I've seen have involved carbureted vehicles, which are older, possess a greater quantity of fuel up in the engine bay (in the fuel bowls), and have moving parts that have an opportunity go gum up and stick (the floats and the needles-and-seats). While fuel pressures are low, the rubber lines, fuel pump diaphragms, and carburetor gaskets are all places that are close to significant amounts of electricity and thus are fairly likely to spark off if a leak occurs.
I don't want to comment on the abortion that is TBI, but most post-fire EFI vehicles that I've seen have had passenger compartment fires, not engine/drivetrain/fuelsystem fires. Certainly there are burned-up EFI vehicles, but again, it should not happen to new vehicles.
The problem is that if highly-programmable calculators are permitted, test-prep companies like Kaplan will develop programs ostensibly for practice that would be based on reverse-engineered tests, change the test from measuring who is capable of handling this kind of engineering to who's capable of buying the "study materials" from Kaplan.
I can tell you, in the real world, I do not necessarily have access to documentation to do my technical job, I have to interpret what I see in front of me based on what I know and what I know how to do, not based on what I plug in to a device for an answer. I need to own the knowledge and the skills, not be in a position to constantly look them up for reference.
Once I've demonstrated an ability to know what skills need to be applied to a given situation, then it's not unreasonable to allow me to use tools, because I've already demonstrated that I understand what I am doing. That's why we have calculators in education in the first place, we stop doing multiplication, division, and trig after we've proven that we know how to do those.
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...it'll fork, and life will go on.
What's the big deal?
Given where my career and interests have taken me, I'm regularly in engineering spaces in buildings to see and interact with the concrete and steel and wood of buildings. I have a good feel for how building materials up to a hundred years old behaves.
And handle all of this without any underwear-loss incidents...
Well, in my experience, owning a few of those heavy duty canvas bags, they're not particularly straightforward to sanitize. We washed and dried one and it shrunk drastically. I don't know about you, but given the vectors for disease that uncooked foodstuffs provide, I don't want to have un-launderable bags that I have to pay any significant money for.
Not always. The price of fuel has skyrocketed in recent years, and most people do not commute on a daily basis further than the range of an electric car, but even households with more than one car (where the other can remain petroleum-powered) have not switched over to electric cars for at least one vehicle. Demand remains low enough that most automakers have only begrudgingly developed electric cars as governments have required them, and even then, only distribute them in limited numbers and only to the absolute minimum requirements.
From the summary, "Plastic bags usually take several hundred years until they decay..."
This is technically incorrect. Plastic bags have not existed for even fifty years, let alone a hundred or several hundred. Based on the best research and scientific modeling, materials scientists expect that plastic bags will remain for hundreds of years before they degrade, but that is an educated conjecture, not an observed fact.
Even tests done in ways to simulate time are by definition, simulations. They may well be accurate, but there have been times where scientific conjectures were later discovered to be either incorrect or else in need of modification to correct inaccuracies. This isn't to downplay the problems with the bags, but excessive assumptions only lead to someone else being able to counter one's arguments.
Pieces of it will get there at 18:25UTC on 28 November
Or,
Steam will get there at 18:25UTC on 28 November
I wouldn't be surprised if the "23%" figure is fairly close to the percentage of the general populace that spends Thanksgiving with friends instead of with their own family, or of the general populace that spends Thanksgiving with their coworkers, who are also their friends.
If I lived away from family and couldn't justify the travel to visit them for a meal, and if most of my friends were also coworkers, I'd probably spend time with them, like I'd spend time with the off-work anyway.
This is no surprise.
Turtles, all the way down...
And this is why an electric car should skimp on all of those gizmo-bells-and-whistles that really don't do much for the purpose. Take a Tesla, keep the batteries and charging, but give me a mechanically-driven speedometer and odometer, a nineties-era car stereo (with EEPROM for remembering the stations and a tiny CR2032 for keeping the clock running) and manually-controlled air conditioning and heat.
I don't need the touchscreen, the nav system, the multi-zone climate control, the internet connection, any of that stuff. I need the car to be comfortable, to work when I get in to drive, and to function properly.
And for those who'll argue, "but it's a luxury car! It has to have the electronics," I counter bullshit. My expensive bed doesn't have electronics, neither does my whirlpool bathtub, or my wetbar, or any of a huge number of other luxuries that I have afforded myself over the years. It needs to be simple, elegant, and to always work. It can be wrapped in expensive leather and finished with exotic wood and given the best comforting suspension and sound-insulated to almost silly levels without a single bit of electronics.
If the electronics compromise the basic function of the car then some serious reconsideration needs to be made for their inclusion.
Well, based on my own experience with bureaucracies, there is some existing rule that ensures that certain types of staff have certain days off unless there's an emergency, and a software update probably didn't previously count as an emergency.
From one standpoint, it makes sense, especially if those doing the work need technical support from a vendor. On the other hand, it probably makes more sense to have a QA lab set up if one is going to operate this way, so that one can test a rollout in advance, hopefully forestalling such problems going live.
Well, being angry is certainly one thing that may matter, but having multiple devices is another.
I'm typing this on a Sun Type 6 USB keyboard. Next to me is one of those early full-size clear Apple USB keyboards. At home I use a Gateway 2000 "Anykey" keyboard on my desktop, and the integrated keyboard in my laptop when using that machine. I use a Kensington Expert Mouse trackball at home on the desktop, the integrated touchpad on the laptop as well as an external Logitech mouse, a Kensington Orbit Optical trackball on one computer, and a Microsoft Intellimouse on another computer.
I expect that my mouse movements and typing styles vary from computer to computer. If the point of an authentication scheme using this sort of method is to be global, I'd end up with either lockouts or with multiple profiles, requiring updating every time I use different equipment. Right now we're up to four without even going into other computers I have casual use of, and I can only see that going up over time.
I don't believe that. If that attitude really was the case, it already wouldn't be a problem.
Or do you pretend that your parents, and their parents, weren't interested in sex and parties and drinking and having fun when they were youths, regardless of later political affiliation or later opinions on sex?
...those that avoid publicly screwing up will end up doing better than those whose mistakes are documented for all to find.
This is not a new problem, it's simply a bigger problem than it used to be as communications have allowed one party to find out about another party more quickly and easily, and our collective narcissism has meant that we're constantly publishing our "accomplishments" for any random person to see, whether they're actually worth noting or not. A lot of people simply do not understand that moments or situations special to them are not special or important to anyone else.
Unfortunately the only way to really curtail this is to tell people that they're not special. To tell them that most people, even likely their friends, do not care about Johnny's part in the school play or Suzie's piano recital, let alone Ricky's first steps or Adrienne's first words. They really don't care about what you had for lunch unless you're eating something that most wouldn't consider food, and they don't care how you looked snockered at that party unless you're showing them something of prurient interest.
Stop oversharing and mind who's watching what you do, or expect to have less opportunity as those in positions of authority choose to turn you down in favor of someone that will embarrass them less.
The temps that can lead to fires are from wheel bearings, brakes, and the exhaust piping, all of which route right there near the fuel tank.
If that one gives you issues, I use "LED Light". It doesn't list the Samsung Galaxy SII (T-Mobile version) as on the supported devices list, but it seems to work fine. Only annoyance is that it doesn't completely close on exit and I have to go exit its process, but how little I use it, I can accept that.
I've seen ruptured fuel tanks in car accidents a couple of times, no fire.
I've had a fuel line leak at the carburetor fitting, dripping fuel that pooled on the intake manifold, no fire. Ended up having to replace the carburetor to fix that one.
When any application that has no need for Internet access but wants it anyway, it's very hard to avoid it.
Last time I went looking for something as simple as a flash manual switch to use as a flashlight, it took digging through multiple apps to finally find one that didn't want Internet access.
How likely is one to puncture the gas tank though, and how much risk of fire is there if the gas tank is ruptured, compared to if a battery is ruptured?
Don't get me wrong, I really like the idea of electric vehicles and have mulled doing a conversion on my quarter-ton pickup, but I don't like the idea of high-centering on a foreign object causing a fire.
While the fuel will burn the same, the amount of time and mileage before a fire occurs is important. If 90% of models are end-of-lifed and junked out before there's a statistically significant chance of fire in that model, then it's much less of a problem than if it's new cars that are catching on fire, because not only is there a probability of an older, rarer-in-service model having a fire, but there's now a problem of new models, of which there are many more in service, catching fire.
Most of the car fires that I've seen have involved carbureted vehicles, which are older, possess a greater quantity of fuel up in the engine bay (in the fuel bowls), and have moving parts that have an opportunity go gum up and stick (the floats and the needles-and-seats). While fuel pressures are low, the rubber lines, fuel pump diaphragms, and carburetor gaskets are all places that are close to significant amounts of electricity and thus are fairly likely to spark off if a leak occurs.
I don't want to comment on the abortion that is TBI, but most post-fire EFI vehicles that I've seen have had passenger compartment fires, not engine/drivetrain/fuelsystem fires. Certainly there are burned-up EFI vehicles, but again, it should not happen to new vehicles.
The problem is that if highly-programmable calculators are permitted, test-prep companies like Kaplan will develop programs ostensibly for practice that would be based on reverse-engineered tests, change the test from measuring who is capable of handling this kind of engineering to who's capable of buying the "study materials" from Kaplan.
I can tell you, in the real world, I do not necessarily have access to documentation to do my technical job, I have to interpret what I see in front of me based on what I know and what I know how to do, not based on what I plug in to a device for an answer. I need to own the knowledge and the skills, not be in a position to constantly look them up for reference.
Once I've demonstrated an ability to know what skills need to be applied to a given situation, then it's not unreasonable to allow me to use tools, because I've already demonstrated that I understand what I am doing. That's why we have calculators in education in the first place, we stop doing multiplication, division, and trig after we've proven that we know how to do those.
Yeah, but apparently as a company they seem to Evolv in the wrong direction...
Yeah, but only a Die Hard would really seek out using Sears Auto for their data needs...
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