There are good paying jobs out there, you just need to know latest thing X,Y and Z.
X,Y and Z vary by year and by company. People on the homeless trail probably don't even know X, so it's not like those guys are getting through the interview even if they aren't wearing their underwear on the outside and smelling like a badly maintained porta-john
Um...it's what was (collectively, not you personally) told to the machinists and steelworkers other displaced professions (soon to be taxi drivers and semi truck operators) once a million of them lose their jobs. Many are not suited for it and few of them with zero experience in their new field at 40+ are going to be snapped up like that, even if they can afford to re-skill (many cannot)
To be fair, plenty of engineers also have mental health issues, it's just that it's aspergers/ocd vs dementia/ptsd. Also these things called a college education and experience. The showering and underwear on the inside of your pants policy is pure bonus.
Um...because outsourcing+fake jobs (technically on the books, but never going to be filled at those rates)? I know the guys you're talking about. They cold call me all the time offering contracts at terrible rates when full time senior engineering positions (at higher rates) are available all over the valley. I guess some people must bite or they wouldn't bother to call, but hiring the cheapest possible developers never ends well. In the meantime the recruiters get their 30%ish cut
I imagine it's "possible" but that's academic. Ultimately our world is connected. You could do the cleanest possible thing in a few countries and it wouldn't matter. Ultimately it might make it worse like say...exactly what we have now. Current anti-pollution laws are in no small way associated with outsourcing. We all breathe the same air and drink the same water. It may be worse in East Asia where they're burning scrap electronics to recycle copper and gold, but you're the ones who turned them in to be "recycled" and ultimately the jet stream will distribute your comuppance, at least insofar a what wasn't released as soil contamination, that will come through in the food instead.
Wow...um. It kind of still is. It's actually getting worse. You can stick all the Band-Aids ("Bayer" GM weed retardent crops, pesticides, petrochemical based fertilizers, water subsidies, donations to countries where it doesn't rain and they have no food, etc) on it you like, we are both growing our global population and losing ariable land on a daily basis.
While I would be the first to agree with the late Sam Kinneson, ultimately this is a numbers problem. If instead of sending starving people in the worst parts of Africa food for like 80+ years now, maybe send them some luggage and U-Haul trucks so they can MOVE TO WHERE THE FOOD IS. That has finally happened thanks to Germany and the Syrian conflict. Unfortunately that isn't working out so great for the countries hosting these folks since there are things like...a finite number of jobs, not everyone being cool with Sharia law and stoning women to death, etc.
I'm sure it will all work out in the end, just like the last time team Germany tried to "help". One way or another we will live on, just hopefully sans lukemia from the upcoming holocaust.
So replacing a reliable and efficient working thing with an "approved" non-working thing and then replacing it with a semi-working thing (many dollars later, provided you can jump through enough government mandated hoops and endured months of a thing that does not work) is the "best" path? I think I'd rather fund terrorism.
Virtually all of the supplies going into Afghanistan are shipped through Pakistani tribal lands. The US government pays bribes to allow each of those shipments to go through. Who do you imagine receives those funds? I can assure you it isn't the Red Cross, it's the exact same groups we're "fighting" in Afghanistan. The government would like to pretend drug sales are funding them while they literally find them.
No, it isn't. If you'd ever tried to do that swap you would know this. In order to retain the same cooling characteristics you'd need to increase the duty cycle of the compressor or upgrade it. Do you think GE (or whomever) chose some toxic thing just because? They chose it because it was the most effective refrigerant they could find.
If I legitimately need a new appliance/car/home air conditioning system fine, I will spend the money. The problem is that we're now legislating that 'need'. By the power of law you can no longer repair things that need sealant and will go for another 20+ years, you now need to spend thousands on less efficient gear that may not even last 10 years. If any of my R-12 systems need recharging in the future I will be contacting India or China or flipping ISIS if that's what it takes.
Everybody wins by crushing thousands of tons of otherwise perfectly functional cars and appliances, got it. Does Everybody also work at your car dealership/appliance store? Putting R13A into a R-12 based system does not work.
All of my cars and refrigerators still require R-12 you intolerant bastard. I mean, not that I've ever had to replace any of it but without team India/China how could I?
Congratulations you've saved the environment by mandating something that wastes more electricity/fuel and isn't released into the atmosphere unless things go very wrong.
The primary waste product is water vapor you pedant.
Waste products are (or would be, barring legal challenge) stuck underground in the desert hundreds of miles from anywhere and doing no harm.
How ironic...half the Walmarts around here literally have a McDonalds located inside of them. Pretty much like (figuratively) their waddling diabetic patrons.
If you artificially limit hardware yes a software update will "fix" it. A Tesla that will now go another 50 miles after a software update is no different than a CPU that I 'upgraded' by increasing the clock speed (either via an unlocked multiplier or bus speed clock). That said, the concept of "crashing" is entirely different.
Agreed 100%. Antilock braking = reduced braking. That said it's been a thing since like...1985ish and repeated braking tests are simple to do. Brake fade (repeated braking = increased stopping distance) is indeed a thing but there's no way you can fix that with software. My guess is that they have some way of increasing or decreasing the caliper pressure (or as you said, modulation timing). This doesn't "fix" the brakes, it just increases initial stopping distance and increases heat related brake fade.
Aren't these the same people that are deathly afraid of nuclear power plants?
This is ironically the cleanest way of generating power. Wind and solar are great (discounting all the endangered birds they kill) but sometimes we need electricity at night, when it's not windy out, if for no other reason than to charge your electric car.
Adjusting brakes is an OLD car thing. Since the er...mid 1960s? brakes have auto adjusted (moved the worn pads closer to the drum/disc) all by themselves.
Um... I'm almost positive Teslas still have oil and grease in them, that's what causes the wheels and bearings not to make grinding noises and need to be replaced weekly. It's also mostly what your car interior is made of, assuming it's not made out of cows and wood.
If anything that makes the suit more irrational, not less. Any sensible sensible judge who understands technology would have tossed every one of these lawsuits.
copyright law protects only the expression of an idea and not the idea itself. In other words, copyright can only prevent the copying of a particular expression of an idea i.e. copying of source code or a portion of it, and not the copying of the idea/functionality
You have the exact same opportunity to despair and throw yourselves off of buildings (aka Foxconn) or contract cancer by age 35 (aka people who breathe in 40 packs of Lucky Strikes daily, aka Beijing) as any other technology worker.
You also have way more opportunities what with that whole one-child policy thing and it's effect on urban demographics.
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There are good paying jobs out there, you just need to know latest thing X,Y and Z. X,Y and Z vary by year and by company. People on the homeless trail probably don't even know X, so it's not like those guys are getting through the interview even if they aren't wearing their underwear on the outside and smelling like a badly maintained porta-john
Um...it's what was (collectively, not you personally) told to the machinists and steelworkers other displaced professions (soon to be taxi drivers and semi truck operators) once a million of them lose their jobs. Many are not suited for it and few of them with zero experience in their new field at 40+ are going to be snapped up like that, even if they can afford to re-skill (many cannot)
To be fair, plenty of engineers also have mental health issues, it's just that it's aspergers/ocd vs dementia/ptsd. Also these things called a college education and experience. The showering and underwear on the inside of your pants policy is pure bonus.
Um...because outsourcing+fake jobs (technically on the books, but never going to be filled at those rates)? I know the guys you're talking about. They cold call me all the time offering contracts at terrible rates when full time senior engineering positions (at higher rates) are available all over the valley. I guess some people must bite or they wouldn't bother to call, but hiring the cheapest possible developers never ends well. In the meantime the recruiters get their 30%ish cut
Here, have another cookie. Please tell me MORE
So...you do get that a very large percentage of these "Syrian refugees" aren't actually from the country of Syria right?
I imagine it's "possible" but that's academic. Ultimately our world is connected. You could do the cleanest possible thing in a few countries and it wouldn't matter. Ultimately it might make it worse like say...exactly what we have now. Current anti-pollution laws are in no small way associated with outsourcing. We all breathe the same air and drink the same water. It may be worse in East Asia where they're burning scrap electronics to recycle copper and gold, but you're the ones who turned them in to be "recycled" and ultimately the jet stream will distribute your comuppance, at least insofar a what wasn't released as soil contamination, that will come through in the food instead.
Wow...um. It kind of still is. It's actually getting worse. You can stick all the Band-Aids ("Bayer" GM weed retardent crops, pesticides, petrochemical based fertilizers, water subsidies, donations to countries where it doesn't rain and they have no food, etc) on it you like, we are both growing our global population and losing ariable land on a daily basis.
While I would be the first to agree with the late Sam Kinneson, ultimately this is a numbers problem. If instead of sending starving people in the worst parts of Africa food for like 80+ years now, maybe send them some luggage and U-Haul trucks so they can MOVE TO WHERE THE FOOD IS. That has finally happened thanks to Germany and the Syrian conflict. Unfortunately that isn't working out so great for the countries hosting these folks since there are things like...a finite number of jobs, not everyone being cool with Sharia law and stoning women to death, etc.
I'm sure it will all work out in the end, just like the last time team Germany tried to "help". One way or another we will live on, just hopefully sans lukemia from the upcoming holocaust.
So replacing a reliable and efficient working thing with an "approved" non-working thing and then replacing it with a semi-working thing (many dollars later, provided you can jump through enough government mandated hoops and endured months of a thing that does not work) is the "best" path? I think I'd rather fund terrorism. Virtually all of the supplies going into Afghanistan are shipped through Pakistani tribal lands. The US government pays bribes to allow each of those shipments to go through. Who do you imagine receives those funds? I can assure you it isn't the Red Cross, it's the exact same groups we're "fighting" in Afghanistan. The government would like to pretend drug sales are funding them while they literally find them.
No, it isn't. If you'd ever tried to do that swap you would know this. In order to retain the same cooling characteristics you'd need to increase the duty cycle of the compressor or upgrade it. Do you think GE (or whomever) chose some toxic thing just because? They chose it because it was the most effective refrigerant they could find.
If I legitimately need a new appliance/car/home air conditioning system fine, I will spend the money. The problem is that we're now legislating that 'need'. By the power of law you can no longer repair things that need sealant and will go for another 20+ years, you now need to spend thousands on less efficient gear that may not even last 10 years. If any of my R-12 systems need recharging in the future I will be contacting India or China or flipping ISIS if that's what it takes.
Everybody wins by crushing thousands of tons of otherwise perfectly functional cars and appliances, got it. Does Everybody also work at your car dealership/appliance store? Putting R13A into a R-12 based system does not work.
All of my cars and refrigerators still require R-12 you intolerant bastard. I mean, not that I've ever had to replace any of it but without team India/China how could I? Congratulations you've saved the environment by mandating something that wastes more electricity/fuel and isn't released into the atmosphere unless things go very wrong.
Um...did you read a different article than I did?
1. Absolutely none of those details were in the one linked here.
2. It's not like Tesla hasn't done pretty much this exact thing in the past.
The primary waste product is water vapor you pedant. Waste products are (or would be, barring legal challenge) stuck underground in the desert hundreds of miles from anywhere and doing no harm.
How ironic...half the Walmarts around here literally have a McDonalds located inside of them. Pretty much like (figuratively) their waddling diabetic patrons.
If you artificially limit hardware yes a software update will "fix" it. A Tesla that will now go another 50 miles after a software update is no different than a CPU that I 'upgraded' by increasing the clock speed (either via an unlocked multiplier or bus speed clock). That said, the concept of "crashing" is entirely different.
Agreed 100%. Antilock braking = reduced braking. That said it's been a thing since like...1985ish and repeated braking tests are simple to do. Brake fade (repeated braking = increased stopping distance) is indeed a thing but there's no way you can fix that with software. My guess is that they have some way of increasing or decreasing the caliper pressure (or as you said, modulation timing). This doesn't "fix" the brakes, it just increases initial stopping distance and increases heat related brake fade.
So...Teslas can now make more than 3-4 laps in 'ludicrous' mode without hour long pit-stops at Tesla certified charging stations?
Aren't these the same people that are deathly afraid of nuclear power plants? This is ironically the cleanest way of generating power. Wind and solar are great (discounting all the endangered birds they kill) but sometimes we need electricity at night, when it's not windy out, if for no other reason than to charge your electric car.
Adjusting brakes is an OLD car thing. Since the er...mid 1960s? brakes have auto adjusted (moved the worn pads closer to the drum/disc) all by themselves.
Um... I'm almost positive Teslas still have oil and grease in them, that's what causes the wheels and bearings not to make grinding noises and need to be replaced weekly. It's also mostly what your car interior is made of, assuming it's not made out of cows and wood.
You think your Commodore 64 is really neato
What kinda chip you got in there, a Dorito?
https://youtu.be/qpMvS1Q1sos
Provided there was still some pad material on them, um...yes?
Brakes won't stop a car on their own, only the bits they're connected to (tires) can do that. Wider and stickier ones do a far better job.
You have the exact same opportunity to despair and throw yourselves off of buildings (aka Foxconn) or contract cancer by age 35 (aka people who breathe in 40 packs of Lucky Strikes daily, aka Beijing) as any other technology worker.
You also have way more opportunities what with that whole one-child policy thing and it's effect on urban demographics.