>>A college degree may not the best route when it comes to jobs in coding.
If you plan to be employed in the technology field, then you have to have a degree in computer science, engineering, math, or physics. Without a degree you will find nearly impossible to get past HR gatekeepers. Nobody actually cares where the degree is from, just that you have one.
Sure, you can beat the odds and be The Exception, but life is hard enough already that it is unwise to invite additional difficulties.
Compliance establishes baseline level of competence. As a system integrator, I have seen numerous examples that fall under gross negligence category. As a result, I strongly believe that even ineffective standards testing with associated increased overhead is better than a status quo.
You are incorrect. ISO standards are recognized by multiple countries. You can Google the full list.
The main advantage of any kind ISO is that it enables your software to get on government procurement lists. This doesn't impact small shops, they don't generally have resources or organizational maturity to sell to governments. There are multiple international, proprietary, and country-specific standards (e.g. ISO, FIPS, Common Criteria, PCI-DSS). International means you only have to go through certification once, not once per country that you were doing before the standard was adopted.
I actually have Phenom II (Thuban), got CPU the same year it came out in (googled: it came out in 2010, so that would be 4 years now?!). I did performance comparisons to both steamroller and piledriver and decided minute gain was not worth the hassle of rebuilding the system. I did upgrade GPU, RAM and SSD.
Bread lines will return because combination of sanctions and Putin's effort to Keep Up With the US Military Jonses will put Russia back into impossible economical position of high military spending out of shrinking budget.
Fabrication of evidence by NATO would be much bigger news than entire war in Ukraine. As such, we are can be certain that facts that are presented by Western media are accurate. What we can't be sure about is what facts are omitted or under-reported. Like civilian casualties and humanitarian crisis in Donetsk. Was it avoidable, could it be meaningfully mitigated by ether side?
I don't think it is difficult to conclude that Russian state media's point of view on Russian involvement in Ukraine will closely mirror Russian government's official position. Motivations are less clear for Western media, but at least hard facts, like satellite images, or actual footage from reporters could be largely trusted.
You are entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts. Satellite images of Russian armored columns entering Ukraine, captured active duty Russian troops, secret burials of killed Russian soldiers, rebel chain of command composed entirely out of Russian citizens with ties to KGB are all disagree with you. You can account for maybe one of these by claiming accidental what-have-you, but combined they establish clear pattern.
I PC game, and for the first time in decades have zero reasons to upgrade. My rig is now about 2 years old and runs every title at max setting. Unless I upgrade to 4K monitor (and I see no reason to) my PC should last me another 3-4 years before I get bumped to medium settings.
I just can't justify upgrading everything for messily 10% gain. As such, both Intel and AMD have to work harder on backwards compatibility. I might buy new CPU when it goes on sale if I also don't have to upgrade motherboard and RAM.
Russia is back to totalitarianism, the only thing that still missing for a full return to Soviet era are bread lines and mandatory people's rallies. With sanctions brought by Putin's military aggression theses are not too far away.
Yes, there are statisticians that end up working in other fields and they tend to be better at statistics than a typical practitioner in their adapted area of expertise. Thing is, these statisticians are no longer in the field of Statistics, they are researchers in these other fields.
Following is anecdote, but when someone I knew approached multiple statisticians with a model question (related repeated measures), the understanding of concept was not there. If your view that "everyone is complete shit at statistics", that should include statisticians.
Statistical analysis is now more complex, and statistics are better understood in science than a decade ago. There are number of software packages and libraries that simplifies and standardizes techniques.
Correctly applying all of these require subject matter expertise. You need to understand what you analyzing. As a result pure statistician is not very useful - generic analysis can be performed by software, in-depth analysis requires specific knowledge.
This is not unlike complaining that assembly coding is dying. Well, yes, we now have less need to code everything that way because we have better tools.
I build my own PCs from carefully researched performance parts and have not had a single instance of OEM (me) installing any bloatware. I also purchase full version of Windows directly from Microsoft and keep legally using it on a single (but drastically changing with time) PC.
For multiple high end business-line Dell laptops I have purchased from vendors, not a single one had any bloatware on it.
Maybe you get what you pay for? That 299$ laptop probably has 20$ sponsored by bloatware companies.
Because heart attacks happen, we should treat everyone as if they are having, or about to have a heat attack. Because you never know, and HeartAttack Culture!
>>>Why do enough members of my own gender have to be such creepy bastards that we need something like this to be developed?
You are welcome to self-loathing narrative, but I refuse to buy into evidence-free assertions of this kind. Men are not any more likely to be abusers, rapists, sociopaths and so on than the general population. Awful people exist, but gender is not a reliable predictor of this.
People do awful things, and we should take measures to reduce or mitigate this awfulness. This nail polish is one good example of such mitigation tactic with no downsides to it.
What isn't a good example? Well, turning a large number of gender issues into moral panic where proposed TSA-like solution is arguably worse than the problem.
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>>A college degree may not the best route when it comes to jobs in coding.
If you plan to be employed in the technology field, then you have to have a degree in computer science, engineering, math, or physics. Without a degree you will find nearly impossible to get past HR gatekeepers. Nobody actually cares where the degree is from, just that you have one.
Sure, you can beat the odds and be The Exception, but life is hard enough already that it is unwise to invite additional difficulties.
Compliance establishes baseline level of competence. As a system integrator, I have seen numerous examples that fall under gross negligence category. As a result, I strongly believe that even ineffective standards testing with associated increased overhead is better than a status quo.
You are incorrect. ISO standards are recognized by multiple countries. You can Google the full list.
The main advantage of any kind ISO is that it enables your software to get on government procurement lists. This doesn't impact small shops, they don't generally have resources or organizational maturity to sell to governments. There are multiple international, proprietary, and country-specific standards (e.g. ISO, FIPS, Common Criteria, PCI-DSS). International means you only have to go through certification once, not once per country that you were doing before the standard was adopted.
I actually have Phenom II (Thuban), got CPU the same year it came out in (googled: it came out in 2010, so that would be 4 years now?!). I did performance comparisons to both steamroller and piledriver and decided minute gain was not worth the hassle of rebuilding the system. I did upgrade GPU, RAM and SSD.
Historically, Russia have not succeeded growing its own bread. Climate change may alter this, but food shortages in Russia go back to Napoleon times.
Bread lines will return because combination of sanctions and Putin's effort to Keep Up With the US Military Jonses will put Russia back into impossible economical position of high military spending out of shrinking budget.
No, I do not play BF4 as a protest. Loved BF2, but after BF3 fiasco I am unwilling to give them another dime.
Plus, in-browser game launcher. Enough said.
Fabrication of evidence by NATO would be much bigger news than entire war in Ukraine. As such, we are can be certain that facts that are presented by Western media are accurate. What we can't be sure about is what facts are omitted or under-reported. Like civilian casualties and humanitarian crisis in Donetsk. Was it avoidable, could it be meaningfully mitigated by ether side?
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Maybe FrozenPiss (or whatever that troll's name) is a time traveler from the future? That would explain some things.
I don't think it is difficult to conclude that Russian state media's point of view on Russian involvement in Ukraine will closely mirror Russian government's official position. Motivations are less clear for Western media, but at least hard facts, like satellite images, or actual footage from reporters could be largely trusted.
>>>no evidence.
You are entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts. Satellite images of Russian armored columns entering Ukraine, captured active duty Russian troops, secret burials of killed Russian soldiers, rebel chain of command composed entirely out of Russian citizens with ties to KGB are all disagree with you. You can account for maybe one of these by claiming accidental what-have-you, but combined they establish clear pattern.
I PC game, and for the first time in decades have zero reasons to upgrade. My rig is now about 2 years old and runs every title at max setting. Unless I upgrade to 4K monitor (and I see no reason to) my PC should last me another 3-4 years before I get bumped to medium settings.
I just can't justify upgrading everything for messily 10% gain. As such, both Intel and AMD have to work harder on backwards compatibility. I might buy new CPU when it goes on sale if I also don't have to upgrade motherboard and RAM.
Russia is back to totalitarianism, the only thing that still missing for a full return to Soviet era are bread lines and mandatory people's rallies. With sanctions brought by Putin's military aggression theses are not too far away.
First post, hot gritz, car analogy, robotic overlords, Beowulf cluster.
Can someone explain this to me with a car analogy?
Yes, there are statisticians that end up working in other fields and they tend to be better at statistics than a typical practitioner in their adapted area of expertise. Thing is, these statisticians are no longer in the field of Statistics, they are researchers in these other fields.
Following is anecdote, but when someone I knew approached multiple statisticians with a model question (related repeated measures), the understanding of concept was not there. If your view that "everyone is complete shit at statistics", that should include statisticians.
They have patched all input field sanitization bugs after some smartass called Merlin exploited the heck out of it.
Statistical analysis is now more complex, and statistics are better understood in science than a decade ago. There are number of software packages and libraries that simplifies and standardizes techniques.
Correctly applying all of these require subject matter expertise. You need to understand what you analyzing. As a result pure statistician is not very useful - generic analysis can be performed by software, in-depth analysis requires specific knowledge.
This is not unlike complaining that assembly coding is dying. Well, yes, we now have less need to code everything that way because we have better tools.
I build my own PCs from carefully researched performance parts and have not had a single instance of OEM (me) installing any bloatware. I also purchase full version of Windows directly from Microsoft and keep legally using it on a single (but drastically changing with time) PC.
For multiple high end business-line Dell laptops I have purchased from vendors, not a single one had any bloatware on it.
Maybe you get what you pay for? That 299$ laptop probably has 20$ sponsored by bloatware companies.
With upcoming war on weather, they will still somehow find a way to feed the prison industry complex with taxpayer money.
Because heart attacks happen, we should treat everyone as if they are having, or about to have a heat attack. Because you never know, and HeartAttack Culture!
>>>Why do enough members of my own gender have to be such creepy bastards that we need something like this to be developed?
You are welcome to self-loathing narrative, but I refuse to buy into evidence-free assertions of this kind. Men are not any more likely to be abusers, rapists, sociopaths and so on than the general population. Awful people exist, but gender is not a reliable predictor of this.
People do awful things, and we should take measures to reduce or mitigate this awfulness. This nail polish is one good example of such mitigation tactic with no downsides to it.
What isn't a good example? Well, turning a large number of gender issues into moral panic where proposed TSA-like solution is arguably worse than the problem.