What I have been doing for the last few years is, every time I am away from my home area and low on gas, when I find a station, I make a mental note if it (or another station within eyeshot) has diesel, so a 'if I had a diesel car right now, would I be in trouble?'. If I get a chance to explore I can usually find one, but I am thinking of cases where I do not know the area.
I was more thinking forward to when such vehicles come down in price, but even today while the Tesla is the upper end in terms of technology and capability, there are other electric vehicles that are road certified which are within the price range of a middle class consumer. Thus concerns about their flexibility for households that may only have one car is something that impacts adoption.
Which speaks to a great need to reform how research is funded in the US. Right now, Universities depend on a combination of private funding and their own patent portfolio. Without those two sources their ability to do public research would be severely reduced or completely broken. What we could really use is a new funding structure where researches get the resources they need (say, from NSF and other such organizations) and in return all research results are open for usage by private entities... then companies that actually mange to take basic research and turn it into something marketable still profit, but they can not lock other people out.
This can be contributed to capitalism in the same way long bread lines can be contributed to communism. Both have issues related to how they get implemented in the real world and when they interact with other systems. In capitalism, companies influencing the state (or other entities) to get a monopoly is on of the issues that arrise when you use the system in the real, non-idealized world.
Now, what is false is trying to claim communism would somehow fix the problem since it has its own issues when implemented, which we saw play out over the last few decades... but those issues also arrise from how it implements and interacts with other systems and are not present in its idealized form.
I think the big problem will be personal edge cases, times when someone has to drive somewhere they normally would not. A home charger, for me, would cover 99% of my usage, but every few years I need to drive to somewhere odd that would be outside that range, and not knowing if I will be able to recharge would be a worry. It is the same thing that makes me nervous about going diesel... easy to get locally once you know who carries it, but a few hundred miles away from home and that 'not every station' element becomes a concern.
I kinda wish more people had stories like that, well, not that journalism is so corrupt, but that more people had at least a few good experiences with seeing internal knowledge of a story vs media portral. If such experiences were more wide spread then a greater chunk of the population would be a bit better at taking the media with a grain of salt.
Though one thing I do think has really improved the experience over the last few years are the comments. While there is a lot of garbage in them, often a few people with actual domain (or local) knowledge will chime in and recenter the story. Granted they sometimes have their own problems, but at least the details and corrects get out there in some form.
Well, there are a number of layers to this, and it can be useful to unpack them. In a way the OP has a point, both have a known bais and preformed a similar test with drastically different results. Once all the data is looked at, of course it is possible one of them is, as you say, completely full of shit.. it is also possible they both are a bit off, and a whole range in between. However the final outcome does not negate initial bais, and looking over their respective reviews and results should be done with that bais in mind.
I suspect much of that comes from how many here work with machines and see them malfunction in our day to day work. Yeah, humans are plenty fallible, but the idea that someone was suck in a car for an hour (or more) and getting advice from one of the manufacturer's tech failed to do basic things like 'shut off the engine' if the option was there, is kinda out there.
The plausibility the car's embedded system having a bug in it is somewhat higher.
I suspect their technician had a bit more knowledge about their car and situation than random people on the internet. From the piece, pushing on the break did not work, and I suspect that since this sounds like a drive by wire system the other options might not have been available either. Not all cars have a kill switch you can just shut things down.
You got lucky. There is a good chance of the car going out of control if you apply the hand break at those speeds, if the break does not disintegrate first.
The strange thing is, that this is a combat metal, the first one that does not require being in any actual danger. I doubt people would be snickering so much if it was simply a metal for achievement like other ones.
That is, in this case, a good point. Here farmers were knowingly replanting seed they had purchased.
However, while I do not know if it has come up in US courts, there have been instances of Monsanto claiming that farmers who simply have their seeds in their field, even through natural spreading, owe them a fee. If nothing else, they can supply samples as evidence of theft simply because in most cases there is way to differentiate between something like theft or replanting from natural spreading, they only have to show the farmer was benefiting from their GMO.
So I will admit, I tangented from this particular case.
At this point I am skeptical to take advice from people at Dice. When they start posting actual jobs maybe I will listen... but for the moment I do not think they really have the needs of job hunters in mind.
This not only does not surprise me, it pleases me ^_^. Not because I have any use for a OS/360 emulator, but because it is the type of thing that should exist.
Sadly it is pretty much the only way to keep the mythology alive... gotta take advantage of all those systems while still putting on a facade of being against them. So it is not that he is using a system that he claims to be against just because it suits him when negotiations failed to produce the deal he wanted... no, it has to be rephrased to sound like he has no choice...
This is little more then 'I believe in the free market, unless regulation gives me a better deal, then I am not actually using regulation because.. look a squirrel!'
That would help yes, but another part of the problem is, with these older technologies, many companies are only interested in drop-in replacements. There are few (if any) companies out there taking on entry or mid level developers for mainframe stuff, so once the current crop of experienced people run out they are going to be in trouble.
Heh. In my job search I have actually been, well, surprised might not be the right word, but amused, at all the COBOL, FORTRAN, and mainframe postings. One thing I think they are getting themselves into trouble with though is all the postings I have seen require decades of experience in the technology, so they seem to be trying to replace retiring boomers with similarly skilled people, but not creating entry level or training paths.
I am skeptical of COBOL actually preforming types of tasks quicker then other languages. Every year the compilers for the most active languages get better and better, while the COBOL one has pretty much stood still for a long time.
They are supposed to be the voice of their constituents yes, but they still have to follow the law. If a bunch of people were voted in on the platform 'kill all the darkies' and then starting rounding up and killing people, their actions would still be quite illegal even if they are doing what 51% of the voting public wanted them to.
I have always been a bit surprised that passing illegal laws does not carry some legal penalty, but yeah, treason would not work since you have to be aiding an external state. Then again, the most modern case of treason involved someone aiding a non-state entity (al-Qaeda), and these legislators like talking about the Kingdom of God and Christian Nation, which if you wanted to really stretch you could claim that they are aiding a foreign power (this Kingdom or Nation of God) by harming America (via damaging our educational system, which is one of the cornerstones of our economy). It would make a fun trial.
I suspect that clause was put in so parents of one denomination do not have to worry about having another denomination's "G"od taught by name.
Christian groups are often at the forefront of lawsuits involving teaching of religion in school and such, at least when their children are in the minority and some other sect is in the local majority. Take away the fear of Christian groups that their kids will be taught the wrong Christianity and that will take a LOT of the funding and power out of establishment clause backlash.
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What I have been doing for the last few years is, every time I am away from my home area and low on gas, when I find a station, I make a mental note if it (or another station within eyeshot) has diesel, so a 'if I had a diesel car right now, would I be in trouble?'. If I get a chance to explore I can usually find one, but I am thinking of cases where I do not know the area.
I was more thinking forward to when such vehicles come down in price, but even today while the Tesla is the upper end in terms of technology and capability, there are other electric vehicles that are road certified which are within the price range of a middle class consumer. Thus concerns about their flexibility for households that may only have one car is something that impacts adoption.
Which speaks to a great need to reform how research is funded in the US. Right now, Universities depend on a combination of private funding and their own patent portfolio. Without those two sources their ability to do public research would be severely reduced or completely broken. What we could really use is a new funding structure where researches get the resources they need (say, from NSF and other such organizations) and in return all research results are open for usage by private entities... then companies that actually mange to take basic research and turn it into something marketable still profit, but they can not lock other people out.
This can be contributed to capitalism in the same way long bread lines can be contributed to communism. Both have issues related to how they get implemented in the real world and when they interact with other systems. In capitalism, companies influencing the state (or other entities) to get a monopoly is on of the issues that arrise when you use the system in the real, non-idealized world.
Now, what is false is trying to claim communism would somehow fix the problem since it has its own issues when implemented, which we saw play out over the last few decades... but those issues also arrise from how it implements and interacts with other systems and are not present in its idealized form.
I think the big problem will be personal edge cases, times when someone has to drive somewhere they normally would not. A home charger, for me, would cover 99% of my usage, but every few years I need to drive to somewhere odd that would be outside that range, and not knowing if I will be able to recharge would be a worry. It is the same thing that makes me nervous about going diesel... easy to get locally once you know who carries it, but a few hundred miles away from home and that 'not every station' element becomes a concern.
I kinda wish more people had stories like that, well, not that journalism is so corrupt, but that more people had at least a few good experiences with seeing internal knowledge of a story vs media portral. If such experiences were more wide spread then a greater chunk of the population would be a bit better at taking the media with a grain of salt.
Though one thing I do think has really improved the experience over the last few years are the comments. While there is a lot of garbage in them, often a few people with actual domain (or local) knowledge will chime in and recenter the story. Granted they sometimes have their own problems, but at least the details and corrects get out there in some form.
Well, there are a number of layers to this, and it can be useful to unpack them. In a way the OP has a point, both have a known bais and preformed a similar test with drastically different results. Once all the data is looked at, of course it is possible one of them is, as you say, completely full of shit.. it is also possible they both are a bit off, and a whole range in between. However the final outcome does not negate initial bais, and looking over their respective reviews and results should be done with that bais in mind.
Yep. Running out of gas.
I suspect much of that comes from how many here work with machines and see them malfunction in our day to day work. Yeah, humans are plenty fallible, but the idea that someone was suck in a car for an hour (or more) and getting advice from one of the manufacturer's tech failed to do basic things like 'shut off the engine' if the option was there, is kinda out there.
The plausibility the car's embedded system having a bug in it is somewhat higher.
I suspect their technician had a bit more knowledge about their car and situation than random people on the internet. From the piece, pushing on the break did not work, and I suspect that since this sounds like a drive by wire system the other options might not have been available either. Not all cars have a kill switch you can just shut things down.
You got lucky. There is a good chance of the car going out of control if you apply the hand break at those speeds, if the break does not disintegrate first.
Not only that, but apparently it actually ranks above at least one of the existing combat metals.
The strange thing is, that this is a combat metal, the first one that does not require being in any actual danger. I doubt people would be snickering so much if it was simply a metal for achievement like other ones.
That is, in this case, a good point. Here farmers were knowingly replanting seed they had purchased.
However, while I do not know if it has come up in US courts, there have been instances of Monsanto claiming that farmers who simply have their seeds in their field, even through natural spreading, owe them a fee. If nothing else, they can supply samples as evidence of theft simply because in most cases there is way to differentiate between something like theft or replanting from natural spreading, they only have to show the farmer was benefiting from their GMO.
So I will admit, I tangented from this particular case.
At this point I am skeptical to take advice from people at Dice. When they start posting actual jobs maybe I will listen... but for the moment I do not think they really have the needs of job hunters in mind.
Yeah.. when they can charge people who never bought their product because it naturally spread...
This not only does not surprise me, it pleases me ^_^. Not because I have any use for a OS/360 emulator, but because it is the type of thing that should exist.
Sadly it is pretty much the only way to keep the mythology alive... gotta take advantage of all those systems while still putting on a facade of being against them. So it is not that he is using a system that he claims to be against just because it suits him when negotiations failed to produce the deal he wanted... no, it has to be rephrased to sound like he has no choice...
This is little more then 'I believe in the free market, unless regulation gives me a better deal, then I am not actually using regulation because.. look a squirrel!'
Maybe someone needs to write a mainframe emulator for linux? I know I have seen projects out there for things like ITS and Multics.
That would help yes, but another part of the problem is, with these older technologies, many companies are only interested in drop-in replacements. There are few (if any) companies out there taking on entry or mid level developers for mainframe stuff, so once the current crop of experienced people run out they are going to be in trouble.
Heh. In my job search I have actually been, well, surprised might not be the right word, but amused, at all the COBOL, FORTRAN, and mainframe postings. One thing I think they are getting themselves into trouble with though is all the postings I have seen require decades of experience in the technology, so they seem to be trying to replace retiring boomers with similarly skilled people, but not creating entry level or training paths.
I am skeptical of COBOL actually preforming types of tasks quicker then other languages. Every year the compilers for the most active languages get better and better, while the COBOL one has pretty much stood still for a long time.
They are supposed to be the voice of their constituents yes, but they still have to follow the law. If a bunch of people were voted in on the platform 'kill all the darkies' and then starting rounding up and killing people, their actions would still be quite illegal even if they are doing what 51% of the voting public wanted them to.
I have always been a bit surprised that passing illegal laws does not carry some legal penalty, but yeah, treason would not work since you have to be aiding an external state. Then again, the most modern case of treason involved someone aiding a non-state entity (al-Qaeda), and these legislators like talking about the Kingdom of God and Christian Nation, which if you wanted to really stretch you could claim that they are aiding a foreign power (this Kingdom or Nation of God) by harming America (via damaging our educational system, which is one of the cornerstones of our economy). It would make a fun trial.
I suspect that clause was put in so parents of one denomination do not have to worry about having another denomination's "G"od taught by name.
Christian groups are often at the forefront of lawsuits involving teaching of religion in school and such, at least when their children are in the minority and some other sect is in the local majority. Take away the fear of Christian groups that their kids will be taught the wrong Christianity and that will take a LOT of the funding and power out of establishment clause backlash.