"logistics, sales, marketing, design, retail, HR, maintenance, " and many functions of IT are all being automated *right* now. That's not even sometime in the distant future. It's been going on for a decade. My last job before I retired, we were automating sales and marketing jobs away for every customer who did under 10 million dollars a year in gross business. That was about 90% of the customers.
Low vitamin D can be an indicator of parathyroid cancer. Related to this is high calcium serum level. High calcium serum level can be an indicator of taking too much Vitamin D or of parathyroid cancer.
parathyroid cancer is a very slow cancer for most folks. high calcium serum is a mortality indicator (i.e. if it's high, on average you'll die sooner than most folks).
Just FYI!
While I'm on the horn, if you are between 27 and 33 and get an ache in your groin, and find any kind of hard growth on your testes, that's testicular cancer. It's highly fatal!!! It's also 99.9% curable these days but it's better if you get it cut out before it metastasizes.
You should check your testes regularly when you shower so you know there is not a new hard ball on them!
Final FYI!
Trouble sleeping, night sweats, foggy thinking, reduced sex drive for no reason, and/or constant dread (like you think your boss is going to fire you at the end of the day) could mean low testosterone! It's a simple test. If it's below 300, you need to consider HRT. If it's below 250, you need it. But don't get name brand testosterone ($500 per month) unless you have good insurance. They are extremely expensive. you can get compounded testosterone for $45 per month!!! You may have to mail order it to get that price so $80/month isn't unreasonable locally.
It happens to about 25% of men. Note that female doctors often consider even 200 acceptable and sometimes won't prescribe it so you may need a male doctor.
As a 57 year old testicular cancer survivor on HRT for 14 years now, I recommend it highly!!!
I've worked for two multi billion dollar companies that had severe problems due to performance issues with large systems that didn't follow good C.S. principles. Having a degree allowed me to fix those problems with relatively non-invasive changes.
Excel doesn't scale well.
An Excel spreadsheet rewritten in Java doesn't scale well.
Big (O) time matters.
The number of heads matters more than platter speed under heavy random load.
Likewise, the code I wrote became cleaner and easier to maintain every release. The code written by non C.S. coders tended to get worse every release and would have even passed a code review if I'd been able to get the business to do it. This meant after a few releases one set of software was increasingly unstable, generated a lot fo after hours on call and unscheduled downtime. The other set of code was stable, responsive to new customer requests, etc.
The only problem I had was when non C.S. people asked for requests which I knew were impossible. It was difficult to explain why it was impossible to them. They didn't really require C.S. They just required basic logical thinking like you get in your second year math courses.
I have no axe to grind on this issue- I've been retired for years. These days, I just do occasional massage on crippled programmers. But I was a fortune 500 manager over 15 developers for about the last 8 years of my career.
BTW, retiring was the best decision I ever made. If you love your work more than anything- by all means do it. But if you love other aspects of life then quit as soon as you have enough money to do so.
And I respect your conviction tho I don't share it (I have the despecialized editions. I also own the movies on DVD so I felt I had a right to see the actual original movies instead of modified versions from what I saw in the theaters).
Orginal (has different crawler than we saw in theaters) Despecialized (this is the gold standard.) The "magenta" version with terrible color balance? The "special" edition with the dinosaurs? The version where Han shoots first? Or where the odd pasted on gredo hand shoots first? (I think there was another version that looked better after that one too).
etc. etc .
For me, the only one I care about is the despecialized original where han shoots first.
By the way: If you haven't-- you *MUST* see "Obiwan has PTSD". It is an incredible video. If the second trilogy had actually been made second, this is how the scene where Obiwan meets Luke should have been filmed and edited.
While I think reducing the population is the easiest and quickest way to mitigate the problem, if we are successful there is a risk of a behavioral sink so we should be *really* careful we don't successfully convince everyone to not have children at the same time.
That said, I think we are about 3-4 billion over the "carrying" capacity of the planet and we are rapidly running thru our less common metals like Chromium. And when it's gone- no more stainless steel.
We'll probably figure out many ways to extend it (like mostly non steel tools with a thin steel edge.) the problem is hitting too many problems in a short period of time.
And I don't think your example addresses the use case this article is about anyway. New users, who have *never* seen the duckduckgo.com start page use google to try to find the "duck" search engine.
Also, at least for the real google site, when you put in duckduckgo or duck search engine, the top result is duckduckgo.com.
Also, on my android smart phone, if I type in duck search engine, the top link is duckduckgo.com so it seems this entire discussion is based on some kind of edge case.
No I didn't consider they should say "they" I considered the following...
I was reading it as
Crichton was a medical doctor. Pretty sure biology is somewhere in Crichton's (i.e. his) training.
not
Crichton was a medical doctor. Pretty sure biology is somewhere in medical doctor's (i.e. their) training.
Antecedent agreement normally applies only within a sentence. Making it a new sentence restores the subject to Crichton.
So
Crichton was a medical doctor and I'm pretty sure biology is somewhere in their (medical doctor's) training.
But...
Crichton was a medical doctor. I'm pretty sure biology is somewhere in his (Crichton's) training.
Constantly changing the subject of the overall post every sentence would be confusing.
So the topic is CRICHTON
HE was a medical doctor
Therefore biology was in HIS training.
OTH, as a person who uses "they" and "their" as a gender neutral group pronoun, If the topic is MEDICAL DOCTORS
THEY are medical doctors
Therefore biology was in THEIR training.
For unknown gender... Topic is "A User"
The User was a medical doctor
Therefore biology was in THEIR training. (We don't know if they are male or female so using "his" is misleading and perhaps wrong).
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"logistics, sales, marketing, design, retail, HR, maintenance, " and many functions of IT are all being automated *right* now. That's not even sometime in the distant future. It's been going on for a decade. My last job before I retired, we were automating sales and marketing jobs away for every customer who did under 10 million dollars a year in gross business. That was about 90% of the customers.
Dishwashers are likely to be automated out of existence fairly soon (10-15 years).
FYI folks!
Low vitamin D can be an indicator of parathyroid cancer. Related to this is high calcium serum level. High calcium serum level can be an indicator of taking too much Vitamin D or of parathyroid cancer.
parathyroid cancer is a very slow cancer for most folks. high calcium serum is a mortality indicator (i.e. if it's high, on average you'll die sooner than most folks).
Just FYI!
While I'm on the horn, if you are between 27 and 33 and get an ache in your groin, and find any kind of hard growth on your testes, that's testicular cancer. It's highly fatal!!! It's also 99.9% curable these days but it's better if you get it cut out before it metastasizes.
You should check your testes regularly when you shower so you know there is not a new hard ball on them!
Final FYI!
Trouble sleeping, night sweats, foggy thinking, reduced sex drive for no reason, and/or constant dread (like you think your boss is going to fire you at the end of the day) could mean low testosterone! It's a simple test. If it's below 300, you need to consider HRT. If it's below 250, you need it. But don't get name brand testosterone ($500 per month) unless you have good insurance. They are extremely expensive. you can get compounded testosterone for $45 per month!!! You may have to mail order it to get that price so $80/month isn't unreasonable locally.
It happens to about 25% of men. Note that female doctors often consider even 200 acceptable and sometimes won't prescribe it so you may need a male doctor.
As a 57 year old testicular cancer survivor on HRT for 14 years now, I recommend it highly!!!
Nah, there are so many posts, no one reads them any more anyway.
You can set a private profile and browse from somewhere besides your home I.P.
It gives you a very different view of the world.
There's actually some studies showing that being 20-40 pounds "overweight" can add a couple years to your life.
I've worked for two multi billion dollar companies that had severe problems due to performance issues with large systems that didn't follow good C.S. principles. Having a degree allowed me to fix those problems with relatively non-invasive changes.
Excel doesn't scale well.
An Excel spreadsheet rewritten in Java doesn't scale well.
Big (O) time matters.
The number of heads matters more than platter speed under heavy random load.
Likewise, the code I wrote became cleaner and easier to maintain every release. The code written by non C.S. coders tended to get worse every release and would have even passed a code review if I'd been able to get the business to do it. This meant after a few releases one set of software was increasingly unstable, generated a lot fo after hours on call and unscheduled downtime. The other set of code was stable, responsive to new customer requests, etc.
The only problem I had was when non C.S. people asked for requests which I knew were impossible. It was difficult to explain why it was impossible to them. They didn't really require C.S. They just required basic logical thinking like you get in your second year math courses.
I have no axe to grind on this issue- I've been retired for years. These days, I just do occasional massage on crippled programmers. But I was a fortune 500 manager over 15 developers for about the last 8 years of my career.
BTW, retiring was the best decision I ever made. If you love your work more than anything- by all means do it. But if you love other aspects of life then quit as soon as you have enough money to do so.
You will never be able to buy it legally.
You got a code and you live by it.
And I respect your conviction tho I don't share it (I have the despecialized editions. I also own the movies on DVD so I felt I had a right to see the actual original movies instead of modified versions from what I saw in the theaters).
Orginal (has different crawler than we saw in theaters)
Despecialized (this is the gold standard.)
The "magenta" version with terrible color balance?
The "special" edition with the dinosaurs?
The version where Han shoots first? Or where the odd pasted on gredo hand shoots first? (I think there was another version that looked better after that one too).
etc. etc .
For me, the only one I care about is the despecialized original where han shoots first.
By the way: If you haven't-- you *MUST* see "Obiwan has PTSD". It is an incredible video. If the second trilogy had actually been made second, this is how the scene where Obiwan meets Luke should have been filmed and edited.
It was the right choice.
You only have one life. If you *love* your job and gain your self worth from it- then please work!
I never did. I worked for money. Once I had enough, I quit.
Nope.
Do some googling on chromium consumption vs the total chromium available in the crust and mantle. Educate yourself.
While I think reducing the population is the easiest and quickest way to mitigate the problem, if we are successful there is a risk of a behavioral sink so we should be *really* careful we don't successfully convince everyone to not have children at the same time.
That said, I think we are about 3-4 billion over the "carrying" capacity of the planet and we are rapidly running thru our less common metals like Chromium. And when it's gone- no more stainless steel.
We'll probably figure out many ways to extend it (like mostly non steel tools with a thin steel edge.) the problem is hitting too many problems in a short period of time.
I mean, you could have a human with four buttons to click/press as people walk into the mall.
Young, old, male, female.
I'm creeped out by our growing surveillance state, but I don't see how you need someone's consent to note details about them in public.
It would certainly put a crimp on the private detective business.
Funny true story.
I used to be the guy that fixed corrupted Microsoft documents that would no longer load.
I fixed them by loading them in to Openoffice and simply resaving them in Word format.
They would often crash Word when it tried to load them.
The documents usually looked identical or had a few graphics moved around.
Which was fine- one of the reasons word documents crashed then was overlapping graphics boxes.
It's free and it fills all my needs.
I understand the need to have word if you are at an office that has word.
But ... when I was I bought full Office 2010 for $10.
And I've never used it at home. Just wasn't necessary.
Yup. I want a 17" screen like I have on my current laptops.
I want a truly portable computer which I can use at the hotel.
While I'm on the go, I use my phone, not a laptop anyway.
They really didn't "stop" the illegal immigrants so much as "delay" them until later.
It depends on the state. In some places, you are still eligible for the money after a penalty period.
We have 50 (or more) sets of state unemployment rules.
Unemployment insurance in my state is *your* money. The company takes it from your pay and pays it to the government.
Once you hit $11,800, you lose the excess.
Which is odd since, you get no benefits normally unless you have a balance with the unemployment agency.
I.e. if you use your $11,800 then get a new job and pay $1078 dollars and then lose your job, you are only eligible for $1078 dollars.
Not sure what happens with the money over the $11,800 cap.
I used to like to do that with my vacation. Even one day per month was very refreshing and productive.
4 days at 9 hours seems like it produces an hour and a half per day of lower productivity.
I don't find it at all confusing and never did.
And I don't think your example addresses the use case this article is about anyway. New users, who have *never* seen the duckduckgo.com start page use google to try to find the "duck" search engine.
Also, at least for the real google site, when you put in duckduckgo or duck search engine, the top result is duckduckgo.com.
Also, on my android smart phone, if I type in duck search engine, the top link is duckduckgo.com so it seems this entire discussion is based on some kind of edge case.
It's english. Dictionaries record current usage. They do not proscribe "correct" usage
You ain't got to follow the rules except in particular settings like academic papers.
You are free to use his, hers, theirs, yon, xis, xir, etc.
I have liked "they" for "he/she" and "he or she" for close to 30 years. It always made sense to me.
Small businesses report increased business resulting from higher wages vastly swamps the increased cost of their own employees.
Wages have been held too low so long that it's actually hurting the economy
I answered this above but just for completeness.
No I didn't consider they should say "they" I considered the following...
I was reading it as
Crichton was a medical doctor. Pretty sure biology is somewhere in Crichton's (i.e. his) training.
not
Crichton was a medical doctor. Pretty sure biology is somewhere in medical doctor's (i.e. their) training.
Antecedent agreement normally applies only within a sentence. Making it a new sentence restores the subject to Crichton.
So
Crichton was a medical doctor and I'm pretty sure biology is somewhere in their (medical doctor's) training.
But...
Crichton was a medical doctor. I'm pretty sure biology is somewhere in his (Crichton's) training.
Constantly changing the subject of the overall post every sentence would be confusing.
So the topic is
CRICHTON
HE was a medical doctor
Therefore biology was in HIS training.
OTH, as a person who uses "they" and "their" as a gender neutral group pronoun,
If the topic is MEDICAL DOCTORS
THEY are medical doctors
Therefore biology was in THEIR training.
For unknown gender...
Topic is "A User"
The User was a medical doctor
Therefore biology was in THEIR training. (We don't know if they are male or female so using "his" is misleading and perhaps wrong).