I could turn off the lights during the day. I don't need to read anything that isn't on a computer monitor so there is zero reason to have the lights on. All they are doing is wasting electricity, generating electrical noise (flourescent light hum), and attracting insects indoors.
I've had a corner window office before, they are not all that great, especially if they are South or West facing. There is nothing you can do to escape the heat generated and the glare from sunlight is tiresome.
Just download the Youtube-dl utility, it downloads video & audio directly from Youtube, it even has a simple GUI. Works great on Playlists as well and has an automatic download resume. The occasional error crops up but a simple re-download solves that.
You don't need to worry about Russian's interfering with the mid-term elections, Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, and Instagram are all doing that domestically themselves by continuing to censor Republican candidates.
I've worked in HR before, when jobs were scarce it was more like 150-300 candidates per job. Not just direct applicants but recruiters and headhunters as well, faxing, mailing, and digitally submitting resumes. The culling process consisted of take the first 50 that arrived and toss out everything else. Of the first 50, glance over them to see if they had the educational requirement, once the first 10 had been found that met the requirement, toss the rest. Hand those 10 over to the HR rep. for review from which they would select 3-4 for an interview.
One thing that working in Silicon Valley taught me is that loyalty is worthless. Companies don't care about you, so you shouldn't care about them. I was a no-show for the first day of work at Nvidia, I took a job with Electronic Arts instead. The pay at EA was less but the benefits were better and I wasn't sure that Nvidia was going to keep me around for more than a year. No regrets.
I've never failed to show up for an interview though. Even if I had zero intention of taking the job I always felt that it was worth the time to gain experience interviewing at as many different companies for as many positions as possible to improve my ability to cope with the social awkwardness of the interviewing process. My dad had the same sentiment, he was let go from a major company and would take any interview that he was called for simply to get comfortable with the job hunt process again.
I've had interviews where I could tell right away the the person doing the interview had zero intention of hiring me, their disappointment was immediately obvious and they struggled to come up with questions to ask. I simply focused on remaining confident and spent the time practicing good interview techniques, looking at a person's forehead, being mindful of my posture, asking a few select questions of my own, etc... I always felt like I got something out of the process and if anything, impressed the person interviewing me such that they might consider me for a different position if one were available.
For $159 you can get a Nokia 3.1 running pure Android (Oreo) with zero bloatware. It's part of the "Android One" program. The only real downside is that Nokia removed the NFC chip from the US model and it doesn't have any biometric authentication. At that price don't expect flagship performance either.
For $100 more you can get the Nokia 6.1 which includes NFC and a fingerprint reader.
Both phones have a beautiful design accented with metal. They are sleek and can take great daylight pictures. Their nighttime picture taking ability is poor though.
The Air National Guard receives airplanes that are passed down by the USAF. Since the USAF has been getting F-22's they have had F-15's to pass down. There is actually a concern right now that with the Air Force getting so many F-22's there will be a gap in available aircraft for the USAF to pass down for a number of years as the F-22's are expected to have a long service life.
Microsoft drastically dumbed down SharePoint for Office365 which has made it less prone to failure but nobody bothers to use it still due to the terrible UI that Microsoft forces on everything for the sake of being "touch friendly".
Considering that paper checks still account for over 10 billion payments annually, don't expect voice-based purchases to make a blip on any radar in the next 5-10 years. It was just 6 years ago (2012) that ACH payments overtook paper checks. Even after my parents have died and gone to Heaven there will still be people paying by paper check.
The last time my parent's wanted to buy me something they saw online: they emailed me the homepage of the store (rather than the direct URL of the item), a description of the item, and asked me to pay for it myself; then they asked me to tell them what the total was so they could snail mail me a check for the exact amount of the purchase.:|
Time for another name change, that always works when a company name becomes permanently associated with something terrible. SBC, Philip Morris, ValuJet, the list goes on. In the case of Comcast, they need to change both the parent company name and rebrand Xfinity.
Global warming is a natural phenomenon. There is nothing humans can do to stop it and any attempt to do so is foolish. The focus should be on improving our ability to survive the changes in temperature and air quality. Reducing use of fossil fuels is a good start towards that need.
Thanks Slashdot, I needed a laugh. I look forward to seeing scientists in white lab coats on street corners holding signs proclaiming the coming apocalypse.
Any job stating it requires a CS degree does not actually NEED a degree, the HR department is just incompetent and incapable of hiring for a position if their recruitment software shows a particular job title having a degree listed for it. They toss out applicants that do not match what the software tells them. They are worse to deal with than outsourced Indian Help Desk "support". The only degree worth a damn is a business management degree, assuming you ever want to get promoted into management.
Myself and almost everyone else that bought an iPhone 7 still has their dongle sitting new in the box. We will sell you ours for the same price as replacements that are sold at retail. Gotta love how Apple stuff retains value in the aftermarket. Actually, wait about a month and I will have an iPhone 7 to sell you as well since I'm ditching iOS for Android and almost have the iPhone paid off.
The worst Achilles Heel for the $399 Surface Go is the 32GB eMMC storage. eMMC has close to the same performance as an old 5400RPM laptop hard drive. You have to upgrade to the more expensive models of the Go to get a higher performance SSD.
I pay $40/month for 25/2 from AT&T (DSL), cancel at the end of the 1-year agreement, then $30/month (after fees) for 25/5 from Comcast (Cable) for a year and cycle back and forth between the two each year. They both suck but there are zero competitors in Northern Illinois. The only actual hope for a competitor will be 5G from a cellular data provider, assuming they charge a reasonable fee (LOL.)
My first job was at Applied Materials in the early '90s, they had a great cafeteria with pleasant staff and a large variety of freshly prepared foods to choose from: burgers, pasta, salads, and so on. I would eat there for breakfast and lunch every day. At the last corporation I worked, the cafeteria served up pre-made frozen crap dumped in a fryer or tossed in a commercial microwave oven. They eventually decided to invest in more consumer microwaves and installed about 30 of them along one wall stacked 3 high in custom shelving. The outsourced cafeteria staff got replaced by another outsourced company with 1/3rd less offerings than the previous company offered. They focused more on pre-packaged crap they could set out in refrigerated stands for people to buy and microwave in the newly increased microwave area. The small company I am at now has nothing but vending machines and a handful of microwaves. The best option is to go out and eat at a local grill.
I'm surprised that more people don't go out to eat considering the paltry offerings available on-site.
San Francisco summarized in 5 words: "Walk around and eat sh*t".
Next legislative season they will begin taxing people per ounce of poop that comes out of their butt. (Except the homeless and anyone self-identifying as non-human.) Stick around and in another year they will limit how many minutes you can spend taking a shower. Followed by limiting how many licks you can lick a lollipop. Don't worry about breaking the law though, SFPD have already proven they can't shoot a person from 5 feet away and won't enforce laws anyways.
I remember the day I was driving my shiny new 2001 Suzuki Vitara and pulled up alongside a Chevy Tracker at a red light. It was the same exact vehicle as mine but with a few different plastic trim pieces, different bumper covers and different wheels. I believe it had a different engine as well, they simply shared the same body and interior trims.
Actually, you can be charged with obstruction of justice, just the same as if you or anyone in your home refuses to open a door when the police have a warrant.
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I could turn off the lights during the day. I don't need to read anything that isn't on a computer monitor so there is zero reason to have the lights on. All they are doing is wasting electricity, generating electrical noise (flourescent light hum), and attracting insects indoors.
I've had a corner window office before, they are not all that great, especially if they are South or West facing. There is nothing you can do to escape the heat generated and the glare from sunlight is tiresome.
Just download the Youtube-dl utility, it downloads video & audio directly from Youtube, it even has a simple GUI. Works great on Playlists as well and has an automatic download resume. The occasional error crops up but a simple re-download solves that.
Yo Mama' so fat, they have to use the Large Hadron Collider to measure the mass of her atoms.
Summer weather causes ice to melt, and water to heat up, film at 11.
You don't need to worry about Russian's interfering with the mid-term elections, Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, and Instagram are all doing that domestically themselves by continuing to censor Republican candidates.
I've worked in HR before, when jobs were scarce it was more like 150-300 candidates per job. Not just direct applicants but recruiters and headhunters as well, faxing, mailing, and digitally submitting resumes. The culling process consisted of take the first 50 that arrived and toss out everything else. Of the first 50, glance over them to see if they had the educational requirement, once the first 10 had been found that met the requirement, toss the rest. Hand those 10 over to the HR rep. for review from which they would select 3-4 for an interview.
One thing that working in Silicon Valley taught me is that loyalty is worthless. Companies don't care about you, so you shouldn't care about them. I was a no-show for the first day of work at Nvidia, I took a job with Electronic Arts instead. The pay at EA was less but the benefits were better and I wasn't sure that Nvidia was going to keep me around for more than a year. No regrets.
I've never failed to show up for an interview though. Even if I had zero intention of taking the job I always felt that it was worth the time to gain experience interviewing at as many different companies for as many positions as possible to improve my ability to cope with the social awkwardness of the interviewing process. My dad had the same sentiment, he was let go from a major company and would take any interview that he was called for simply to get comfortable with the job hunt process again.
I've had interviews where I could tell right away the the person doing the interview had zero intention of hiring me, their disappointment was immediately obvious and they struggled to come up with questions to ask. I simply focused on remaining confident and spent the time practicing good interview techniques, looking at a person's forehead, being mindful of my posture, asking a few select questions of my own, etc... I always felt like I got something out of the process and if anything, impressed the person interviewing me such that they might consider me for a different position if one were available.
For $159 you can get a Nokia 3.1 running pure Android (Oreo) with zero bloatware. It's part of the "Android One" program. The only real downside is that Nokia removed the NFC chip from the US model and it doesn't have any biometric authentication. At that price don't expect flagship performance either.
For $100 more you can get the Nokia 6.1 which includes NFC and a fingerprint reader.
Both phones have a beautiful design accented with metal. They are sleek and can take great daylight pictures. Their nighttime picture taking ability is poor though.
The Air National Guard receives airplanes that are passed down by the USAF. Since the USAF has been getting F-22's they have had F-15's to pass down. There is actually a concern right now that with the Air Force getting so many F-22's there will be a gap in available aircraft for the USAF to pass down for a number of years as the F-22's are expected to have a long service life.
Another Liberal off their "meds". Legalize more drugs, surely that will help! SMH
Microsoft drastically dumbed down SharePoint for Office365 which has made it less prone to failure but nobody bothers to use it still due to the terrible UI that Microsoft forces on everything for the sake of being "touch friendly".
Considering that paper checks still account for over 10 billion payments annually, don't expect voice-based purchases to make a blip on any radar in the next 5-10 years. It was just 6 years ago (2012) that ACH payments overtook paper checks. Even after my parents have died and gone to Heaven there will still be people paying by paper check.
Source: https://www.federalreserve.gov...
The last time my parent's wanted to buy me something they saw online: they emailed me the homepage of the store (rather than the direct URL of the item), a description of the item, and asked me to pay for it myself; then they asked me to tell them what the total was so they could snail mail me a check for the exact amount of the purchase. :|
Time for another name change, that always works when a company name becomes permanently associated with something terrible. SBC, Philip Morris, ValuJet, the list goes on. In the case of Comcast, they need to change both the parent company name and rebrand Xfinity.
I am happy to see you admit that glaciers were going to melt regardless.
Global warming is a natural phenomenon. There is nothing humans can do to stop it and any attempt to do so is foolish. The focus should be on improving our ability to survive the changes in temperature and air quality. Reducing use of fossil fuels is a good start towards that need.
Thanks Slashdot, I needed a laugh. I look forward to seeing scientists in white lab coats on street corners holding signs proclaiming the coming apocalypse.
Any job stating it requires a CS degree does not actually NEED a degree, the HR department is just incompetent and incapable of hiring for a position if their recruitment software shows a particular job title having a degree listed for it. They toss out applicants that do not match what the software tells them. They are worse to deal with than outsourced Indian Help Desk "support". The only degree worth a damn is a business management degree, assuming you ever want to get promoted into management.
Myself and almost everyone else that bought an iPhone 7 still has their dongle sitting new in the box. We will sell you ours for the same price as replacements that are sold at retail. Gotta love how Apple stuff retains value in the aftermarket. Actually, wait about a month and I will have an iPhone 7 to sell you as well since I'm ditching iOS for Android and almost have the iPhone paid off.
The worst Achilles Heel for the $399 Surface Go is the 32GB eMMC storage. eMMC has close to the same performance as an old 5400RPM laptop hard drive. You have to upgrade to the more expensive models of the Go to get a higher performance SSD.
I pay $40/month for 25/2 from AT&T (DSL), cancel at the end of the 1-year agreement, then $30/month (after fees) for 25/5 from Comcast (Cable) for a year and cycle back and forth between the two each year. They both suck but there are zero competitors in Northern Illinois. The only actual hope for a competitor will be 5G from a cellular data provider, assuming they charge a reasonable fee (LOL.)
So have they decide what they're going to rename Austin to?
My first job was at Applied Materials in the early '90s, they had a great cafeteria with pleasant staff and a large variety of freshly prepared foods to choose from: burgers, pasta, salads, and so on. I would eat there for breakfast and lunch every day. At the last corporation I worked, the cafeteria served up pre-made frozen crap dumped in a fryer or tossed in a commercial microwave oven. They eventually decided to invest in more consumer microwaves and installed about 30 of them along one wall stacked 3 high in custom shelving. The outsourced cafeteria staff got replaced by another outsourced company with 1/3rd less offerings than the previous company offered. They focused more on pre-packaged crap they could set out in refrigerated stands for people to buy and microwave in the newly increased microwave area. The small company I am at now has nothing but vending machines and a handful of microwaves. The best option is to go out and eat at a local grill.
I'm surprised that more people don't go out to eat considering the paltry offerings available on-site.
Millennial's something something.
San Francisco summarized in 5 words: "Walk around and eat sh*t".
Next legislative season they will begin taxing people per ounce of poop that comes out of their butt. (Except the homeless and anyone self-identifying as non-human.) Stick around and in another year they will limit how many minutes you can spend taking a shower. Followed by limiting how many licks you can lick a lollipop. Don't worry about breaking the law though, SFPD have already proven they can't shoot a person from 5 feet away and won't enforce laws anyways.
I remember the day I was driving my shiny new 2001 Suzuki Vitara and pulled up alongside a Chevy Tracker at a red light. It was the same exact vehicle as mine but with a few different plastic trim pieces, different bumper covers and different wheels. I believe it had a different engine as well, they simply shared the same body and interior trims.
Actually, you can be charged with obstruction of justice, just the same as if you or anyone in your home refuses to open a door when the police have a warrant.