Every time I've been in charge of hiring people, I firmly tell HR not to screen the resumes. If I really distrust HR, this is the first candidate I'm hiring at that company or randomly sampling, I set up a one-off email address and send in a barely qualified resume. If I get it, HR is following instructions. If I don't, I ask the VP of HR why his or her department is not following directions. They can schedule people, handle directions, do all the other grunt work.
Initial screening bad resumes takes me seconds. Minutes if there's a huge stack. Sometimes completely 'unqualified' people catch my eye, sometimes not. It is my job and part of my responsibility to do the screening, because HR cannot know what I'm looking for. I'm virtually never look for a set list. I'm looking for the best fit for the position. Someone might have abilities or skills in areas I want, but don't have a budget for a full time position. Or a product we want to explore. Or a thousand other circumstances.
Not that I'm entirely biased towards Israel (they don't treat non-terrorist Palestinians the best), but I don't think it's exactly "paranoid" when all of your neighbors have tried to kill you at least once. In most cases, several times. And have one or two terrorist attacks in addition to full out wars. And a couple countries routinely chant death to their entire country, possibly all the inhabitants as well. Though I hear the Iranian President is trying to get "Death to Israel" labels removed from their ballistic missiles.
At some point, "absolutely paranoid security levels" become "probably appropriate, but could be more tactful about it especially when dealing with not involved third parties".
Sadly, I own my own home. And my water heater just died, so it's yet another trip to Lowes this week. Still have to reseal the driveway, lay down engineered hardwood flooring in the living room, finish the trim work in the bathroom, always more landscaping, put in more curtains, the list never ends. Still, I got it for a very good price and I like having the extra space around the house.
Happily am putting 10% (combined) into the 401K, plus $50 every week into direct investments. Retirement is on track. My parents were from the age were companies had pensions, so they're already retired and have an annuity for the rest of their lives. Actually, they just got back from a wine tour in Italy. I would like to travel more, but I mostly do more long weekend road trips rather than one or two week long trips per year. Spent a very nice long weekend in Harper's Ferry on kinda an extended date. My siblings and I are renting a cabin up in NY wine country on a lake for a vacation this year, house looks incredible.
Because adding hexanitroisowurtzitane isn't quite nerve wracking enough. You know, stuff that gets more stable when you add TNT. Someone added 98% hydrogen peroxide, then crystallized with acetonitrile. Same crazy chemists co-crystallized the beta-phase of HMX with CL-20, which I'm sure deeply interested the USAF folks.
Probably because I admitted it was potcheen, which is Irish moonshine. I assume he wanted to make sure I was carrying the legal kind, not the illegal kind. Or he was making sure it was actually duty free. He asked if I was importing alcohol or tobacco. I said yep, potcheen and a 21 year old Glenlivet that I picked up in Shannon. He asked to see the bottles and receipt.
So I forked over my SAW until I snagged the bottles. Then traded. He looked at the receipt for about a second then moved onto the next guy.
Back when I was in the Army, I unfortunately had a clearance. Which means when you go on TDY, you become a classified material pack mule. In this particular case, in addition to a bunch of sealed envelopes, I had to carry a stickered laptop. Unshockingly, electronics certified to handle classified material are labeled clearly to include the words "US Government Property" and "Protect from unauthorized disclosure". I was also traveling on a government purchased ticket using government ID. But in civvies, because post-9/11.
Sadly didn't have my crypto carrier card as I wasn't carrying crypto material, that one gets you waved past any security checkpoint. TSA had semi-recently been spun up. Naturally US military people are high risk on aircraft, so we got selected for 'random searching'.
TSA: Sign into the laptop and turn it over.
Me: Uhm. No? It's a classified laptop, and I have no proof you have proper clearance.
TSA: We handle government laptops all the time.
Me: Not my problem. You can swab it for explosives all you want, but if it leaves my line of sight, I'm grabbing the real cops to arrest you while I call the FBI to report theft of classified material.
They squawked like a bunch of chickens. Dumped out all of our stuff, triple checked everything. Sadly none of our stuff was easily breakable, because well, soldiers. Not for a lack of trying. They also tried to make us miss the flight. Like we cared, as again, government travel voucher. This was before body cavity searches and sexually assaulting folks, but it got pretty hands on. Laptop however remained within my line of sight and turned off the entire time. You could almost taste the bureaucrat rage. Got the "special" random selection treatment every time I flew (again, usually on govt dime) for a long while afterwards, so I guess they did get the last laugh.
Hell, that's TSA and pretty expected. Fed buddy was made to bin his bottled water, but his loaded Sig and spare loaded magazines were fine. CBP made me dig out receipts to prove the booze I picked up in Ireland were from the duty free shop. I had him hold my SAW (a not small belt fed machine gun) while I dug around for the bottles and receipt. He didn't even blink. Never underestimate a government employee's ability to follow stupid rules.
I have a number of utility laptops that I use for random stuff. Most of them are not encrypted. They tend to be old laptops I got from work or other places, and saved from the bin. Never underestimate the usefulness of a laptop with an actual serial port. For some reason, USB serial dongles tend to be twitchy. A lot of them are too slow for full disk encryption. And honestly, don't care if even the NSA got their hands on them. I'd barely care if they were stolen.
Admittedly not everyone has a crate of obsolete laptops lying around.
This is true in a literal sense. But completely false in practical terms.
Worker's comp is a trade off. They must cover you if you are injured, but generally you cannot sue for additional damages even if the employer is at serious fault. Damages are capped to medical bills and a paycheck. Without worker's comp limit of liability, there is no cap. A significant number of insurance providers demand employers ask for proof of workman's comp insurance for their contractors or pay for their workman's comp just as if they were a normal employee. Elsewise, said insurance provider leave themselves potentially open for significant uncapped liability.
Workman's comp insurance is pretty cheap for occupations that aren't statistically dangerous. Electricians, chainsaw jugglers and commercial fishermen might have a much harder job.
There are times where it makes sense. If you have existing tools or scripts that are not cloud/cluster compatible, $33k is chump change compared to development costs. Sometimes it indeed makes sense to throw money at the hardware. Not to mention sometimes you CAN'T cloud things for security, liability or just plain licensing reasons.
I get what you're saying, but a decade or so tells you sometimes there are really really really good reasons for seemingly extremely inefficient procedures.
I moved over to ODROID to get around certain Pi limitations. Specifically to include easy to implement Android. Pi has a lot of physical limitations and I've had stability issues. But they have an insanely large user base as well as tons of accessories.
ODROID-C1+ is cheaper at $32, includes quad core, 1GE, 1GB RAM and a better GPU. I normally buy the ODROID-C2 because it plays XBMC/Kodi better with the extra gig of RAM, and can actually output 4K.
We tried Smart TVs for video players. Unreliable and we had lag between video clips. Didn't power on as smoothly as we'd like for recovery from power outage. Failed pretty much every "seamless solution" criteria we tried. They do actually make digital signage TVs, but they tend to be more specialized than generally desired.
A consumer TV and a dedicated video unit are cheaper, and we "toss" the TVs every year or so.
Did a fashion display a bit ago on Madison Ave for Fashion Week. PCs and Smart TVs do a crap job. Best solution for absolutely no fail, 24/7/365 displays is a dedicated video unit. We went with VideoTel unit for $300. Cheap, SD card for media and dumb as a brick, which is exactly what we wanted. BrightSign always more scripting and niftier features but costs more.
No updates, no way to hack without physical access, no nothing except playing a video on a loop. They automatically power up after power loss. Our units typically run for months without hiccups.
On board NAND is indeed always going to be faster. Because well, it's on the friggin board. MicroSD however is good enough for sequential reads. Like music, photos, video, etc. Which tends to be what people store on MicroSD cards. So, yes, sometimes I indeed DO want cheap slow storage. That's why folks often back up to NAS's instead of backing up to SAN's with twenty times the cost.
That's why the tax bill also included significant tobacco hikes. And in case people just decide to quit, they included a huge hike on vaping products. Along with shutting down a significant number of vaping stores by a one time 40% inventory tax, payable within 90 days. And licensing, which doesn't exist yet.
You are correct that Netflix, et al are not essentials. However, they're economic alternatives to a high cable bill. The poor are (hopefully) more likely to pick one or two services like Netflix or Hulu rather than pay $100+ for a full cable package. They're budget luxuries. While the poor don't NEED them, it makes life better. On the plus side, this might get folks going to libraries more. Tis what I do, my library has hundreds of TV shows on DVD and Blu-Rays. I'm not poor, just prefer spending my money on other stuff.
"Use tax". My first after school job when I was a kid was helping prep tax returns for a local CPA. I also fixed their computers. Correct, virtually no one complies and reports their Use Tax. It's on any non-exempt purchase from outside the state. Per PA Department of Revenue: "The use tax rate is the same as the sales tax rate: 6 percent state tax, plus an additional 1 percent local tax for items purchased in delivered to or used in Allegheny County and 2 percent local tax for Philadelphia."
That's why certain sections of the tax bill (vaping and tobacco products) have fines of up to $5,000 or up to five years in prison for evading paying the sales tax.
No, this is clickbait and incorrect information. It's a tax on all digital services or material. Textbooks and purchases by non-profits are exempt. A church buying digital bibles (?) would be tax free. Buying a digital bible from a college bookstore would be tax free. Buying a Bible on your Kindle isn't. Same with any other type of ebook, digital movie, etc.
This was a 'compromise' between Republicans (specifically the House Republicans) and Governor Wolf (Dem). So, yay for bipartisanship.
Same tax bill also includes a substantial hike on tobacco products (except for cigars). And a 40% on all vaping products. Plus a 40% inventory tax on all vaping products in vaping stores. Payable within 90 days, or fines/prison. Which is scheduled to drive at least 300 small businesses out of business. Criminal fines and up to 30 days or 5 years in prison if you buy out of state or off the internet, and then don't pay the 40% tax.
Those theater grade fog machines use multiple gallons of propylene glycol. And it's not toxic, just an eye and respiratory tract irritation. Enough irritation for long enough duration will cause you problems. Sand in your eye isn't toxic. Enough sand in your eye enough times will cause scarring and other problems.
Vaping folks use around 5ml a day of a combination of PG, VG, nicotine and flavorings. So, call it a maximum of around 4ml of PG, per day. Some people use less in volume, or PG ratio. There's 3785.41 ml in a US gallon. So call it around somewhere between 2 and 10 years worth of vaping to reach one gallon of fog machine. Theater fog machines use a lot more than a gallon.
Tried to read the study, which is paywalled. I love it when folks make substantial claims and then refuse to hand over the proof unless you pay for it. The abstract is fairly light but the claimed glycidol is below NIOSH limits unless you take enough that nicotine poisoning is virtually certain. Some of the other toxins I recognize as being a characteristic of lower quality or badly made liquids. I would advise making sure one obtains liquids that have been checked by a lab. They're expensive. And worth it. Buying cheap stuff likely does have significantly higher carcinogens.
Studies without bias or an ideological axe to grind would be very helpful to folks wanting an alternative to smoking that is significantly less unhealthy. Very little in this life is completely healthy with no downsides. Personally I don't live my life to eliminate all unhealthy activities in my life. I however do appreciate calculated risk and good science.
Flip to page 75. The report is fairly well written, and surprisingly not someone trying to prove pre-defined results via poorly conducted experiments.
This is only applicable to mechanized vaping tests. Essentially, you need to burn the vaping chemicals rather than atomize them. As someone that quit vaping, I can testify that you know when your vaping unit get cranked to the max while being in your pocket and fried the coils, along with some of the nicotine liquid. It is extremely unpleasant. Theoretically a person could continue to try to inhale the results, but it would be a spectacularly unpleasant experience. It's extremely noticeable
. It's called a 'dry hit' and it's pretty rare under normal circumstances. I've had... three, maybe? It's certainly not good for you, but probably not as bad for me as my old pack a day of cigarettes would be if I continued smoking.
Because people other than the US might try to jam US GPS, and the Navy maybe wants to see how well they operate when a hostile foreign entity jams GPS? In other words, routine training but not something they want to advertise. Given that the US owns GPS, they don't need to jam it. Which everyone seems to be missing. They do need to train for GPS being shot down or failing.
Because likely the Navy is testing how to operate if someone ELSE is jamming GPS. The conspiracy theorists here on Slashdot are kinda missing the obvious.
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Every time I've been in charge of hiring people, I firmly tell HR not to screen the resumes. If I really distrust HR, this is the first candidate I'm hiring at that company or randomly sampling, I set up a one-off email address and send in a barely qualified resume. If I get it, HR is following instructions. If I don't, I ask the VP of HR why his or her department is not following directions. They can schedule people, handle directions, do all the other grunt work.
Initial screening bad resumes takes me seconds. Minutes if there's a huge stack. Sometimes completely 'unqualified' people catch my eye, sometimes not. It is my job and part of my responsibility to do the screening, because HR cannot know what I'm looking for. I'm virtually never look for a set list. I'm looking for the best fit for the position. Someone might have abilities or skills in areas I want, but don't have a budget for a full time position. Or a product we want to explore. Or a thousand other circumstances.
Not that I'm entirely biased towards Israel (they don't treat non-terrorist Palestinians the best), but I don't think it's exactly "paranoid" when all of your neighbors have tried to kill you at least once. In most cases, several times. And have one or two terrorist attacks in addition to full out wars. And a couple countries routinely chant death to their entire country, possibly all the inhabitants as well. Though I hear the Iranian President is trying to get "Death to Israel" labels removed from their ballistic missiles.
At some point, "absolutely paranoid security levels" become "probably appropriate, but could be more tactful about it especially when dealing with not involved third parties".
https://github.com/fuchsia-mir...
Unless I'm way off base, there's the kernel.
Sadly, I own my own home. And my water heater just died, so it's yet another trip to Lowes this week. Still have to reseal the driveway, lay down engineered hardwood flooring in the living room, finish the trim work in the bathroom, always more landscaping, put in more curtains, the list never ends. Still, I got it for a very good price and I like having the extra space around the house.
Happily am putting 10% (combined) into the 401K, plus $50 every week into direct investments. Retirement is on track. My parents were from the age were companies had pensions, so they're already retired and have an annuity for the rest of their lives. Actually, they just got back from a wine tour in Italy. I would like to travel more, but I mostly do more long weekend road trips rather than one or two week long trips per year. Spent a very nice long weekend in Harper's Ferry on kinda an extended date. My siblings and I are renting a cabin up in NY wine country on a lake for a vacation this year, house looks incredible.
You'd love this article if you're a nitro-toluene guy: http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pi...
Because adding hexanitroisowurtzitane isn't quite nerve wracking enough. You know, stuff that gets more stable when you add TNT. Someone added 98% hydrogen peroxide, then crystallized with acetonitrile. Same crazy chemists co-crystallized the beta-phase of HMX with CL-20, which I'm sure deeply interested the USAF folks.
Probably because I admitted it was potcheen, which is Irish moonshine. I assume he wanted to make sure I was carrying the legal kind, not the illegal kind. Or he was making sure it was actually duty free. He asked if I was importing alcohol or tobacco. I said yep, potcheen and a 21 year old Glenlivet that I picked up in Shannon. He asked to see the bottles and receipt.
So I forked over my SAW until I snagged the bottles. Then traded. He looked at the receipt for about a second then moved onto the next guy.
Back when I was in the Army, I unfortunately had a clearance. Which means when you go on TDY, you become a classified material pack mule. In this particular case, in addition to a bunch of sealed envelopes, I had to carry a stickered laptop. Unshockingly, electronics certified to handle classified material are labeled clearly to include the words "US Government Property" and "Protect from unauthorized disclosure". I was also traveling on a government purchased ticket using government ID. But in civvies, because post-9/11.
Sadly didn't have my crypto carrier card as I wasn't carrying crypto material, that one gets you waved past any security checkpoint. TSA had semi-recently been spun up. Naturally US military people are high risk on aircraft, so we got selected for 'random searching'.
TSA: Sign into the laptop and turn it over.
Me: Uhm. No? It's a classified laptop, and I have no proof you have proper clearance.
TSA: We handle government laptops all the time.
Me: Not my problem. You can swab it for explosives all you want, but if it leaves my line of sight, I'm grabbing the real cops to arrest you while I call the FBI to report theft of classified material.
They squawked like a bunch of chickens. Dumped out all of our stuff, triple checked everything. Sadly none of our stuff was easily breakable, because well, soldiers. Not for a lack of trying. They also tried to make us miss the flight. Like we cared, as again, government travel voucher. This was before body cavity searches and sexually assaulting folks, but it got pretty hands on. Laptop however remained within my line of sight and turned off the entire time. You could almost taste the bureaucrat rage. Got the "special" random selection treatment every time I flew (again, usually on govt dime) for a long while afterwards, so I guess they did get the last laugh.
Hell, that's TSA and pretty expected. Fed buddy was made to bin his bottled water, but his loaded Sig and spare loaded magazines were fine. CBP made me dig out receipts to prove the booze I picked up in Ireland were from the duty free shop. I had him hold my SAW (a not small belt fed machine gun) while I dug around for the bottles and receipt. He didn't even blink. Never underestimate a government employee's ability to follow stupid rules.
I have a number of utility laptops that I use for random stuff. Most of them are not encrypted. They tend to be old laptops I got from work or other places, and saved from the bin. Never underestimate the usefulness of a laptop with an actual serial port. For some reason, USB serial dongles tend to be twitchy. A lot of them are too slow for full disk encryption. And honestly, don't care if even the NSA got their hands on them. I'd barely care if they were stolen.
Admittedly not everyone has a crate of obsolete laptops lying around.
This is true in a literal sense. But completely false in practical terms.
Worker's comp is a trade off. They must cover you if you are injured, but generally you cannot sue for additional damages even if the employer is at serious fault. Damages are capped to medical bills and a paycheck. Without worker's comp limit of liability, there is no cap. A significant number of insurance providers demand employers ask for proof of workman's comp insurance for their contractors or pay for their workman's comp just as if they were a normal employee. Elsewise, said insurance provider leave themselves potentially open for significant uncapped liability.
Workman's comp insurance is pretty cheap for occupations that aren't statistically dangerous. Electricians, chainsaw jugglers and commercial fishermen might have a much harder job.
There are times where it makes sense. If you have existing tools or scripts that are not cloud/cluster compatible, $33k is chump change compared to development costs. Sometimes it indeed makes sense to throw money at the hardware. Not to mention sometimes you CAN'T cloud things for security, liability or just plain licensing reasons.
I get what you're saying, but a decade or so tells you sometimes there are really really really good reasons for seemingly extremely inefficient procedures.
That request used to make me weep. Then I sorted out everything with LESS and now it's update one variable.
Didn't mention that development to anyone tho. I use that time to fix things I badly hacked up when dev was rushed.
I moved over to ODROID to get around certain Pi limitations. Specifically to include easy to implement Android. Pi has a lot of physical limitations and I've had stability issues. But they have an insanely large user base as well as tons of accessories.
ODROID-C1+ is cheaper at $32, includes quad core, 1GE, 1GB RAM and a better GPU. I normally buy the ODROID-C2 because it plays XBMC/Kodi better with the extra gig of RAM, and can actually output 4K.
We tried Smart TVs for video players. Unreliable and we had lag between video clips. Didn't power on as smoothly as we'd like for recovery from power outage. Failed pretty much every "seamless solution" criteria we tried. They do actually make digital signage TVs, but they tend to be more specialized than generally desired.
A consumer TV and a dedicated video unit are cheaper, and we "toss" the TVs every year or so.
Did a fashion display a bit ago on Madison Ave for Fashion Week. PCs and Smart TVs do a crap job. Best solution for absolutely no fail, 24/7/365 displays is a dedicated video unit. We went with VideoTel unit for $300. Cheap, SD card for media and dumb as a brick, which is exactly what we wanted. BrightSign always more scripting and niftier features but costs more.
No updates, no way to hack without physical access, no nothing except playing a video on a loop. They automatically power up after power loss. Our units typically run for months without hiccups.
On board NAND is indeed always going to be faster. Because well, it's on the friggin board. MicroSD however is good enough for sequential reads. Like music, photos, video, etc. Which tends to be what people store on MicroSD cards. So, yes, sometimes I indeed DO want cheap slow storage. That's why folks often back up to NAS's instead of backing up to SAN's with twenty times the cost.
That's why the tax bill also included significant tobacco hikes. And in case people just decide to quit, they included a huge hike on vaping products. Along with shutting down a significant number of vaping stores by a one time 40% inventory tax, payable within 90 days. And licensing, which doesn't exist yet.
You are correct that Netflix, et al are not essentials. However, they're economic alternatives to a high cable bill. The poor are (hopefully) more likely to pick one or two services like Netflix or Hulu rather than pay $100+ for a full cable package. They're budget luxuries. While the poor don't NEED them, it makes life better. On the plus side, this might get folks going to libraries more. Tis what I do, my library has hundreds of TV shows on DVD and Blu-Rays. I'm not poor, just prefer spending my money on other stuff.
"Use tax". My first after school job when I was a kid was helping prep tax returns for a local CPA. I also fixed their computers. Correct, virtually no one complies and reports their Use Tax. It's on any non-exempt purchase from outside the state. Per PA Department of Revenue: "The use tax rate is the same as the sales tax rate: 6 percent state tax, plus an additional 1 percent local tax for items purchased in delivered to or used in Allegheny County and 2 percent local tax for Philadelphia."
That's why certain sections of the tax bill (vaping and tobacco products) have fines of up to $5,000 or up to five years in prison for evading paying the sales tax.
No, this is clickbait and incorrect information. It's a tax on all digital services or material. Textbooks and purchases by non-profits are exempt. A church buying digital bibles (?) would be tax free. Buying a digital bible from a college bookstore would be tax free. Buying a Bible on your Kindle isn't. Same with any other type of ebook, digital movie, etc.
This was a 'compromise' between Republicans (specifically the House Republicans) and Governor Wolf (Dem). So, yay for bipartisanship.
Same tax bill also includes a substantial hike on tobacco products (except for cigars). And a 40% on all vaping products. Plus a 40% inventory tax on all vaping products in vaping stores. Payable within 90 days, or fines/prison. Which is scheduled to drive at least 300 small businesses out of business. Criminal fines and up to 30 days or 5 years in prison if you buy out of state or off the internet, and then don't pay the 40% tax.
Those theater grade fog machines use multiple gallons of propylene glycol. And it's not toxic, just an eye and respiratory tract irritation. Enough irritation for long enough duration will cause you problems. Sand in your eye isn't toxic. Enough sand in your eye enough times will cause scarring and other problems.
Vaping folks use around 5ml a day of a combination of PG, VG, nicotine and flavorings. So, call it a maximum of around 4ml of PG, per day. Some people use less in volume, or PG ratio. There's 3785.41 ml in a US gallon. So call it around somewhere between 2 and 10 years worth of vaping to reach one gallon of fog machine. Theater fog machines use a lot more than a gallon.
Tried to read the study, which is paywalled. I love it when folks make substantial claims and then refuse to hand over the proof unless you pay for it. The abstract is fairly light but the claimed glycidol is below NIOSH limits unless you take enough that nicotine poisoning is virtually certain. Some of the other toxins I recognize as being a characteristic of lower quality or badly made liquids. I would advise making sure one obtains liquids that have been checked by a lab. They're expensive. And worth it. Buying cheap stuff likely does have significantly higher carcinogens.
Studies without bias or an ideological axe to grind would be very helpful to folks wanting an alternative to smoking that is significantly less unhealthy. Very little in this life is completely healthy with no downsides. Personally I don't live my life to eliminate all unhealthy activities in my life. I however do appreciate calculated risk and good science.
It's already covered in the UK govt report: https://www.gov.uk/government/...
Flip to page 75. The report is fairly well written, and surprisingly not someone trying to prove pre-defined results via poorly conducted experiments.
This is only applicable to mechanized vaping tests. Essentially, you need to burn the vaping chemicals rather than atomize them. As someone that quit vaping, I can testify that you know when your vaping unit get cranked to the max while being in your pocket and fried the coils, along with some of the nicotine liquid. It is extremely unpleasant. Theoretically a person could continue to try to inhale the results, but it would be a spectacularly unpleasant experience. It's extremely noticeable
. It's called a 'dry hit' and it's pretty rare under normal circumstances. I've had... three, maybe? It's certainly not good for you, but probably not as bad for me as my old pack a day of cigarettes would be if I continued smoking.
Because people other than the US might try to jam US GPS, and the Navy maybe wants to see how well they operate when a hostile foreign entity jams GPS? In other words, routine training but not something they want to advertise. Given that the US owns GPS, they don't need to jam it. Which everyone seems to be missing. They do need to train for GPS being shot down or failing.
Because likely the Navy is testing how to operate if someone ELSE is jamming GPS. The conspiracy theorists here on Slashdot are kinda missing the obvious.
While I agree people should have decorum, it's the internet. If you can't take it, don't use it.