From painful experience: declaring variables on the fly is wonderful to start out when adding features to small projects. It _does_ come back to bite you, hard, when something conflicts when two developers add the same variable in conflicting fashion.
Except that this country can be barred from imports for failure to cooperate with repressive intellectual property laws. Related events occurred in Africa, where AIDS is more common that it ever became in the USA. The drug cocktails used to treat AIDS were prohibitively expensive to purchase for many of the patients, and some of these companies started manufacturing the drugs locally, in violation of international patent law.
I actually was accused of sexual harassment in my workplace decades ago. My professional and social encouragement to a new female engineer who didn't speak English as a native language was misinterpreted by a manager who was sensitive to harassment issues. It took direct testimony by several other junior engineers in other work groups with whom I collaborated to clear the charge, which had been encouraged by that manager directly to the new employee. It took roughly a decade to re-establish a good relationship with that employee due to the resulting embarrassment, including making friends with their spouse and their child.
All planets are within the heliosphere, the region where the solar wind is not countered by interstellar medium. It does cause a very slight amount of orbital decay, but it's much closer to a vacuum than can be easily obtained on Earth. It was very exciting for some of us when Voyager left the heliosphere in 2012 and was _still working_.
The major apt and rpm providers publish all their source code, and their build environments. Being "Open source" is no guarantee that the developer's tools or the build tools will be available for developers. Such tools are often the "secret sauce" that some providers use to keep the gates closed to their walled gardens. AWS Linux, for example, is doing so quite effectively, even though their Linux is built from RHEL. RHEL _is_ very good about making their full toolkits and build tools accessible to developers.
There is an old form used to evaluate anti-spam solutions, at https://craphound.com/spamsolu.... It's a useful tool to evaluate spam solutions and can even be applied to various security software practices.
In this case, I see a number of issues.
( ) Users of email will not put up with it ( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
( ) Open relays in foreign countries ( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP ( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email ( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes ( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft ( ) Outlook
( ) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical ( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
In this case, the existence of rootkitted Windows boxes which have DKIM keys is the major problem. Blocking one particular form of spam may reduce the overall spam traffic, but it seems clear from various conferences on spammers that spam evolves. As one type of spam is more effectively blocked, others grow to fill the economic niche occupied by older forms of spam.
Those "some cases" wind up being a significant proportion of the children in pre-school. For the reasons I mentioned already, that socialization and early education is vital. Even for those of us who were older, and perhaps wealthier, childhood tutoring was one of the best educational aids we could get for children without relatives who were delighted to play and teach and share knowledge.
> Since it's pre-school that's kind of irrelevant. It's a place to park children and a play group not a school.
I've seen some very good pre-schools working with normal kids to help socialize them in ways that modern, smaller families who keep changing neighborhoods find very difficult. I've also seen them do invaluable work with children with learning or physical disabilities, and with children whose parents are struggling to make ends meet and can't themselves provide the variety of supervised outings and educationally oriented play time that a good pre-school provides. Those factors can be _very_ helpful for ensuring early familiarity with reading, writing, numbers, and dealing with other children.
Since US law during the time of Dr. King made clear that black lives did not matter, and since various law enforcement agencies since his time made clear that black lives did not matter to them, equating Martin Luther King's work with that of the contemporary "Black Lives Matter" political movement seems completely reasonable. Dr. King focused, with very good reason, on the injustices against his community. He and the movement he led collaborated with, but not primarily focus on, other disadvantaged groups. Their effectiveness for the American black community was partly due to their focus.
> "A drive bay is a standard-sized area for adding hardware to a computer. Most drive bays are fixed to the inside of a case, but some can be removed."
When the words "drive bay" are used in a laptop description, it has typically referred to a detachable physical bay. Wikipedia can be confusing when used to refer to a more or less general description than the specific instance. In this case, Wikipedia referred to the more general usage for desktops and servers as well.
> Most people wouldn't humiliate themselves in front of the entire department for an undersized SSD.
Many, perhaps not most, would find some way to express their frustrations.. But attempting to do a hardware upgrade to an assigned laptop is not that unusual in groups where developers and admins have modest hardware knowledge. I've certainly done so, though I did more research before taking apart working hardware.
Perhaps I'm more tolerant of people making fools of themselves? I try to teach such moments as teaching opportunities, and it helps encourage me to educate and share experience. Since I've been at my technical work for longer than some of my senior level staff have been alive, I see profound foolishness quite frequently. If they refuse to learn, _that_ becomes frustrating and is grounds to help them find a different career path.
That is a rather different situation than you originally described. To quote you: "A coworker of mine went bat shit crazy over a new laptop because it didn't have 2.5" hard drive bay". What you seem to be describing is not a "drive bay", which would normally be a detachable bay. It's the primary system drive. Please don't be surprised if people do not understand your outrage over your colleague's outrage when the situation you've described seems to be a very different situation than you experience.
What you describe actually makes me wonder if the colleague decided the SSD drive was undersized and expected to be able to upgrade it to a larger spinning drive for very real needs. I've myself noticed that SSD is wonderful for fast booting and virtualization, but the smaller drive size can be a very real limitation.
> A coworker of mine went bat shit crazy over a new laptop because it didn't have 2.5" hard drive bay.
That bay could also hold a spare battery, or a _much_ larger drive than a built-in SSD drive can manage. Many modern laptops also have significantly smaller keyboards, or the durability that some working engineers and sales personnel demand. I'm afraid that often, the feature that you personally may consider a profound advantage is not a benefit to other people's workflow and is not an effective replacement for what they need. I've used such bays myself to support critical backup supplies for offsite visits, both for power and for spare disk with spare disk images or virtualized hosts to use on my laptop, and to protect sensitive corporate data by keeping it on my person rather than leaving it in a hotel room.
I'd not automatically tie rejection of a new feature with a lack of curiosity, nor with a lack of professional competence.
The Farady cage effect is real. The difficulty I'd be concerned is relatively low impedance paths through electrically sensitive equipment, especially equipment that may be grounded. The steel and aluminum components of a car body, for example, are quite conductive. But many modern cars have extensive plastic or fiberglass components in the body itself: cars are not as
There's a fairly good analysis of the effects and the risks at https://weather.com/storms/tor.... The guideliines mentioned there include "park safely" and "keep your hands away from metal parts of your car".
> Why is the officer going home while on-duty, driving their personal vehicle?
Many officers do their laundry at home, and wear their uniforms to and from work. Others do extra hours on paid details, and may only have time for a meal or a nap before that paid duty shift: returning from patrol to the station, rather than proceeding to a paid detail to or from home, may make little sense.
And yes, an officer on longer shifts may need gear, medication, or tools that are not available at the station but is at home. I'm particularly thinking of socks and shoes: I've personally seen police working during poor weather whose shoes or boots were _soaked_, and who would definitely need fresh shoes and socks to protect their feet to do a necessary second shift.
Unfortunately, that's a common fraud call now. You're told your card is being abused, you are given a number to call to follow up about the abuse, and the call number is used to collect your bank information and even passwords.
Poorly secured video of an officer's family and home, or their personal vehicle, could endanger their safety. Video of an officer's day to day patrol patterns or their favorite place to get breakfast could also aggravate such risks. And managing the security of such content is burden both to software data access management, and to the budgets for police departments. Making them "FOIA exempt" is not helpful if it's being stolen or requested by such poorly managed legal means as a Patriot Act request. Even police in local departments have been caught abusing their powers to violate the privacy of other local officers.
Please note that I am not automatically saying that such data is valueless. The existence of police misconduct, and the availability of reliable information to aid prosecution, are factors in favor of constant surveillance of the police themselves. But this does not eliminate the risks of having and of maintaining and securing this data.
I've found IRC and tools like it to be the opposite of helpful for such discussions. The constant disruption to a chain of thought of trying to monitor such channels during work, and the temptation to post or discuss or explain an issue rather than actually working on it can be overwhelming for me. I get quite enough "pop-up" alerts about real work related services, any additional from chat channels would overwhelm me.
Some of us also use our hands, a local whiteboard, or facial expression and intonation, alone or in combination, to convey or to notice additional communication. Face to face communications is particularly helpful when I am uncertain if a colleague understood what I was saying, due to language barriers or unfamiliarity with particular technical jargon.
Please allow me to differ. I've known numerous attempted suicides, genuine cries for help. This included acquaintances with bipolar depression at the worst of their cycles, and their death would have caused far greater tragedy for their friends and family. And I do know of one former acquaintance, during a divorce struggle, who ended his life with a firearm. Not having a firearm would not have necessarily saved him. But it made a moment of bleakest despondency even more dangerous for him.
At the time, the states were concerned that a federal standing army might take away their state sovereignty. This actually occurred during the US Civil War, when the southern states attempted to secede from the union and were overwhelmed by military forces. Some of the uses of military power against US civilians have been more clearly unconstitutional, such as the imprisonment of Japanese American in concentration camps during WW II: that internment should actually be mentioned more as people review President Trump's policies on immigration.
However, at the time the Constitution was written, private citizens did not typically maintain an _armory_. Black powder was much more dangerous to store in bulk, so even quite small communities maintained a common reserve where gun owners would share the cost and maintenance and bulk resupply. Circulating through a bulk supply, rather than maintaining your own long-term reserve, was safer and far more cost effective. The result was that the ammunition for mass murder or military resistance was in short supply for most gun owners. Some historical review shows that even an infantryman of that era might have roughly 60 rounds:
It can. A wet car can certainly conduct electricity. and a direct lightning strike would fairly certainly destroy various parts of a modern car's electrical system, even if no significant amount of it went through the passenger. _Controlling_ a moving car that was just hit by lightning would seem to be quite difficult, especially after the noise and flash of a direct strike. _That_ would be when the seat belt would prove invaluable.
Because records can be, and are, stolen. Some are even "stolen" legally, with Patriot Act warrants, and could put the officer's life and those of people near him at risk.
> That doesn't mean the camera shouldn't be always on
It does present a privacy issue for police who are off duty and have not yet taken off their uniforms. When an officer is working double or triple shifts in an emergency, I'd concede them some private time in between those shifts without having to switch uniform, or even personal time on their way home in their own vehicle. As long as they've taken off their badge and are clearly off duty, I can understand it.
There are difficulties when they go "on" duty in the midst of their off duty time, again for an emergency of some sort.
Sir, the burdens were usually there with or without us. Some of us chose to shoulder them, and sacrifice our resources and powerful fiscal goals like home ownership in favor of shouldering fiscal burdens like family. But what is the point, after all, of having a house if you don't have family, legal or social, to share it with?
> The bay area bubble is about to explode big time as all those googlers get their head out of their ass and realize they can use all of their tools remotely
Except that it's not true. I've worked with many engineers remotely, and it can be effective. The hallway conversation, the cup of coffee with a colleague to discuss family and weekends, and most critically _face time with the management_ even if it's only in passing is a very valuable help to the workplace. A great deal of useful, even critical information never makes it to support tickets or flow charts or chat sessions. Like using a mouse with only one button, it can be done but it's a definite deficit.
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From painful experience: declaring variables on the fly is wonderful to start out when adding features to small projects. It _does_ come back to bite you, hard, when something conflicts when two developers add the same variable in conflicting fashion.
Except that this country can be barred from imports for failure to cooperate with repressive intellectual property laws. Related events occurred in Africa, where AIDS is more common that it ever became in the USA. The drug cocktails used to treat AIDS were prohibitively expensive to purchase for many of the patients, and some of these companies started manufacturing the drugs locally, in violation of international patent law.
There are a number of good articles about the problem, such as https://cyber.harvard.edu/peop... .
I actually was accused of sexual harassment in my workplace decades ago. My professional and social encouragement to a new female engineer who didn't speak English as a native language was misinterpreted by a manager who was sensitive to harassment issues. It took direct testimony by several other junior engineers in other work groups with whom I collaborated to clear the charge, which had been encouraged by that manager directly to the new employee. It took roughly a decade to re-establish a good relationship with that employee due to the resulting embarrassment, including making friends with their spouse and their child.
All planets are within the heliosphere, the region where the solar wind is not countered by interstellar medium. It does cause a very slight amount of orbital decay, but it's much closer to a vacuum than can be easily obtained on Earth. It was very exciting for some of us when Voyager left the heliosphere in 2012 and was _still working_.
The major apt and rpm providers publish all their source code, and their build environments. Being "Open source" is no guarantee that the developer's tools or the build tools will be available for developers. Such tools are often the "secret sauce" that some providers use to keep the gates closed to their walled gardens. AWS Linux, for example, is doing so quite effectively, even though their Linux is built from RHEL. RHEL _is_ very good about making their full toolkits and build tools accessible to developers.
There is an old form used to evaluate anti-spam solutions, at https://craphound.com/spamsolu.... It's a useful tool to evaluate spam solutions and can even be applied to various security software practices.
In this case, I see a number of issues.
( ) Users of email will not put up with it
( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
( ) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
( ) Outlook
( ) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical
( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
In this case, the existence of rootkitted Windows boxes which have DKIM keys is the major problem. Blocking one particular form of spam may reduce the overall spam traffic, but it seems clear from various conferences on spammers that spam evolves. As one type of spam is more effectively blocked, others grow to fill the economic niche occupied by older forms of spam.
Those "some cases" wind up being a significant proportion of the children in pre-school. For the reasons I mentioned already, that socialization and early education is vital. Even for those of us who were older, and perhaps wealthier, childhood tutoring was one of the best educational aids we could get for children without relatives who were delighted to play and teach and share knowledge.
> Since it's pre-school that's kind of irrelevant. It's a place to park children and a play group not a school.
I've seen some very good pre-schools working with normal kids to help socialize them in ways that modern, smaller families who keep changing neighborhoods find very difficult. I've also seen them do invaluable work with children with learning or physical disabilities, and with children whose parents are struggling to make ends meet and can't themselves provide the variety of supervised outings and educationally oriented play time that a good pre-school provides. Those factors can be _very_ helpful for ensuring early familiarity with reading, writing, numbers, and dealing with other children.
Since US law during the time of Dr. King made clear that black lives did not matter, and since various law enforcement agencies since his time made clear that black lives did not matter to them, equating Martin Luther King's work with that of the contemporary "Black Lives Matter" political movement seems completely reasonable. Dr. King focused, with very good reason, on the injustices against his community. He and the movement he led collaborated with, but not primarily focus on, other disadvantaged groups. Their effectiveness for the American black community was partly due to their focus.
> "A drive bay is a standard-sized area for adding hardware to a computer. Most drive bays are fixed to the inside of a case, but some can be removed."
When the words "drive bay" are used in a laptop description, it has typically referred to a detachable physical bay. Wikipedia can be confusing when used to refer to a more or less general description than the specific instance. In this case, Wikipedia referred to the more general usage for desktops and servers as well.
> Most people wouldn't humiliate themselves in front of the entire department for an undersized SSD.
Many, perhaps not most, would find some way to express their frustrations.. But attempting to do a hardware upgrade to an assigned laptop is not that unusual in groups where developers and admins have modest hardware knowledge. I've certainly done so, though I did more research before taking apart working hardware.
Perhaps I'm more tolerant of people making fools of themselves? I try to teach such moments as teaching opportunities, and it helps encourage me to educate and share experience. Since I've been at my technical work for longer than some of my senior level staff have been alive, I see profound foolishness quite frequently. If they refuse to learn, _that_ becomes frustrating and is grounds to help them find a different career path.
That is a rather different situation than you originally described. To quote you: "A coworker of mine went bat shit crazy over a new laptop because it didn't have 2.5" hard drive bay". What you seem to be describing is not a "drive bay", which would normally be a detachable bay. It's the primary system drive. Please don't be surprised if people do not understand your outrage over your colleague's outrage when the situation you've described seems to be a very different situation than you experience.
What you describe actually makes me wonder if the colleague decided the SSD drive was undersized and expected to be able to upgrade it to a larger spinning drive for very real needs. I've myself noticed that SSD is wonderful for fast booting and virtualization, but the smaller drive size can be a very real limitation.
> A coworker of mine went bat shit crazy over a new laptop because it didn't have 2.5" hard drive bay.
That bay could also hold a spare battery, or a _much_ larger drive than a built-in SSD drive can manage. Many modern laptops also have significantly smaller keyboards, or the durability that some working engineers and sales personnel demand. I'm afraid that often, the feature that you personally may consider a profound advantage is not a benefit to other people's workflow and is not an effective replacement for what they need. I've used such bays myself to support critical backup supplies for offsite visits, both for power and for spare disk with spare disk images or virtualized hosts to use on my laptop, and to protect sensitive corporate data by keeping it on my person rather than leaving it in a hotel room.
I'd not automatically tie rejection of a new feature with a lack of curiosity, nor with a lack of professional competence.
The Farady cage effect is real. The difficulty I'd be concerned is relatively low impedance paths through electrically sensitive equipment, especially equipment that may be grounded. The steel and aluminum components of a car body, for example, are quite conductive. But many modern cars have extensive plastic or fiberglass components in the body itself: cars are not as
There's a fairly good analysis of the effects and the risks at https://weather.com/storms/tor.... The guideliines mentioned there include "park safely" and "keep your hands away from metal parts of your car".
> Why is the officer going home while on-duty, driving their personal vehicle?
Many officers do their laundry at home, and wear their uniforms to and from work. Others do extra hours on paid details, and may only have time for a meal or a nap before that paid duty shift: returning from patrol to the station, rather than proceeding to a paid detail to or from home, may make little sense.
And yes, an officer on longer shifts may need gear, medication, or tools that are not available at the station but is at home. I'm particularly thinking of socks and shoes: I've personally seen police working during poor weather whose shoes or boots were _soaked_, and who would definitely need fresh shoes and socks to protect their feet to do a necessary second shift.
Unfortunately, that's a common fraud call now. You're told your card is being abused, you are given a number to call to follow up about the abuse, and the call number is used to collect your bank information and even passwords.
Poorly secured video of an officer's family and home, or their personal vehicle, could endanger their safety. Video of an officer's day to day patrol patterns or their favorite place to get breakfast could also aggravate such risks. And managing the security of such content is burden both to software data access management, and to the budgets for police departments. Making them "FOIA exempt" is not helpful if it's being stolen or requested by such poorly managed legal means as a Patriot Act request. Even police in local departments have been caught abusing their powers to violate the privacy of other local officers.
Please note that I am not automatically saying that such data is valueless. The existence of police misconduct, and the availability of reliable information to aid prosecution, are factors in favor of constant surveillance of the police themselves. But this does not eliminate the risks of having and of maintaining and securing this data.
I've found IRC and tools like it to be the opposite of helpful for such discussions. The constant disruption to a chain of thought of trying to monitor such channels during work, and the temptation to post or discuss or explain an issue rather than actually working on it can be overwhelming for me. I get quite enough "pop-up" alerts about real work related services, any additional from chat channels would overwhelm me.
Some of us also use our hands, a local whiteboard, or facial expression and intonation, alone or in combination, to convey or to notice additional communication. Face to face communications is particularly helpful when I am uncertain if a colleague understood what I was saying, due to language barriers or unfamiliarity with particular technical jargon.
Please allow me to differ. I've known numerous attempted suicides, genuine cries for help. This included acquaintances with bipolar depression at the worst of their cycles, and their death would have caused far greater tragedy for their friends and family. And I do know of one former acquaintance, during a divorce struggle, who ended his life with a firearm. Not having a firearm would not have necessarily saved him. But it made a moment of bleakest despondency even more dangerous for him.
At the time, the states were concerned that a federal standing army might take away their state sovereignty. This actually occurred during the US Civil War, when the southern states attempted to secede from the union and were overwhelmed by military forces. Some of the uses of military power against US civilians have been more clearly unconstitutional, such as the imprisonment of Japanese American in concentration camps during WW II: that internment should actually be mentioned more as people review President Trump's policies on immigration.
However, at the time the Constitution was written, private citizens did not typically maintain an _armory_. Black powder was much more dangerous to store in bulk, so even quite small communities maintained a common reserve where gun owners would share the cost and maintenance and bulk resupply. Circulating through a bulk supply, rather than maintaining your own long-term reserve, was safer and far more cost effective. The result was that the ammunition for mass murder or military resistance was in short supply for most gun owners. Some historical review shows that even an infantryman of that era might have roughly 60 rounds:
It can. A wet car can certainly conduct electricity. and a direct lightning strike would fairly certainly destroy various parts of a modern car's electrical system, even if no significant amount of it went through the passenger. _Controlling_ a moving car that was just hit by lightning would seem to be quite difficult, especially after the noise and flash of a direct strike. _That_ would be when the seat belt would prove invaluable.
Ig Nobel, anyway. Especially the Ig Nobel awards, for science that makes you laugh and make you think.
http://www.improbable.com/ig/
Like the real Nobel awards, I've never been able to attend them. They do look like fun.
Because records can be, and are, stolen. Some are even "stolen" legally, with Patriot Act warrants, and could put the officer's life and those of people near him at risk.
> That doesn't mean the camera shouldn't be always on
It does present a privacy issue for police who are off duty and have not yet taken off their uniforms. When an officer is working double or triple shifts in an emergency, I'd concede them some private time in between those shifts without having to switch uniform, or even personal time on their way home in their own vehicle. As long as they've taken off their badge and are clearly off duty, I can understand it.
There are difficulties when they go "on" duty in the midst of their off duty time, again for an emergency of some sort.
> If you're placing a burden on yourself.
Sir, the burdens were usually there with or without us. Some of us chose to shoulder them, and sacrifice our resources and powerful fiscal goals like home ownership in favor of shouldering fiscal burdens like family. But what is the point, after all, of having a house if you don't have family, legal or social, to share it with?
> The bay area bubble is about to explode big time as all those googlers get their head out of their ass and realize they can use all of their tools remotely
Except that it's not true. I've worked with many engineers remotely, and it can be effective. The hallway conversation, the cup of coffee with a colleague to discuss family and weekends, and most critically _face time with the management_ even if it's only in passing is a very valuable help to the workplace. A great deal of useful, even critical information never makes it to support tickets or flow charts or chat sessions. Like using a mouse with only one button, it can be done but it's a definite deficit.