Well, if you have a 30-mile round-trip commute 250 days per year, you are spending over $4k at IRS rates getting to work. A $12k "garden shed" office makes for a pretty good investment. Spending an extra $500/month on rent for an extra room may or may not though, depending on your tax bracket.
For me as a business owner, paying (on average) 10% of payroll for office space is just stupid, especially when average commute times are about an hour each way. We had to open a second office in the same metro area because too many people were at two hours commute time. That just reeks of poor value.
But, mentoring junior engineers is a problem when all the senior staff is remote. The financial equation is also worse when the average salary of in-office workers drops, but rent stays the same. The only way to make the math work is to cram more people into a smaller area.
I might be a PHB and all, but visual expression is much easier for me to follow than code; done properly, it can quickly help me see the parts of interest at a point in time, and ignore the rest.
That said, flowcharts are only effective in that end for a small set of conditionals.
Exactly. You have too many people that are effectively high-risk, and there isn't much you can do about them. I am somewhat surprised that the police don't have informants keeping tabs on more of them; it doesn't sound like the formula is that difficult.
To stop terrorism, you need to stop the money. First focus on foreign influence, then local supporters, and eventually squeeze them from regular organized crime.
You also need to stop labeling everything as terrorism. Limit the use of that word carefully, and instead label the people doing bad things as "nutjobs" or "crazies" with a death wish in the media. If it really is "terrorism", deal with it on the investigation end appropriately.
I am surprised that people think they don't have their numbers already. You call 911 and there is no anonymity at all. The only anonymity you get is that the local police might not index and catalog calls for investigative purposes, but everything is recorded with metadata.
For the facilities I have been in, the dispatch center and 911 center all have the same information, although a local police station might not have everything in an easy to access way if the call is direct.
Flaws aplenty, but also an opportunity for some extra cash and a "free" trip home, which is inherently more efficient for a small number of deliveries per person.
In the flyover states, I can imagine many walmart employees are driving over 20 miles to get to work based on past experience.
Famous last words. VRLAs fail open-circuit or very high impedance under load. Without proper cell-level monitoring you really don't know if you have any battery left when under load. Best course of action is generally to ride on generator while you have someone pull all the jars with an Alber meter and live with reduced voltage or parallel strings.
Almost every time we have seen major issues, it is auto-restart of systems followed by a power failure during boot. (Almost) Everything is designed to survive the first hard crash, but crashing during boot or initialization often leaves systems in an unstable condition.
Taking hours to do an orderly restoration is not uncommon; even for a simple system you might need to bring your network core up first, restore DHCP services, get domain controllers up and synchronized, and audit all your filesystems before secondary systems boot... It becomes an order of magnitude more complex when you have some hardware failures and data corruption. Still shows they had a crap business continuity plan, but hey...
(While Eaton makes crap transfer switches, their UPSs are generally better than Schneider/APC/MGE or Liebert/Emerson/Vertiv in my experience. Closed transition switches, even when properly commissioned and tested, can create a number of issues, especially when you have neutrals on the switch as you would in Europe.)
Because your batteries gave their last gasp to get onto generator, or because the impact event was not the initial loss of power but the thermal damage from restoration of power.
After people hitting the big red button (or the fire alarm doing it automatically), this is the most common failure mode for a data center.
Sounds like 365 Main, the problem was in multiple small blips which were each too small to start the engine, but in aggregate depleted the flywheel below the minimum to start the engine.
I would give 10:1 odds that they had a voltage dip, transferred to generator and failed coming back because their batteries were no good. Unclear if they lost power once or twice, or if it was the servers auto restarting, but the kind of damage they allude to typically is when you are 7 years into your "10-year" VRLA batteries. Also known as cost cutting...
Sorry, but you are wrong. It all comes down to local labor laws. California treats accrued PTO as earned income, Texas (as an example) does not. Cost-cutters try to get rid of California employees because of things like this... but it isn't about a company accounting policy.
I completely agree that people need to use their vacation, however for some people they would rather have the money.
From a corporate responsibility perspective, it is stupid to not force people to take two week contiguous vacations every year, fully disconnected from work. You basically need it for detecting fraud and lack of process redundancy. The challenge is how a company handles the vacancy-- OT on other people, temps, or something else... all of which are ineffective.
Take it to his superior (or HR) and identify it as an issue that makes you consider changing jobs. Start looking for a new job...
Personally, I generally go for "long weekends", although I do try and have at least a couple week-and-a-half vacations per year; I get nearly 5 weeks per year. I am one of the business owners, but I do still have responsibilities to my partners that puts pressure on. Generally my vacations are "working" vacations where a couple hours per day are spent on phone/email, delegating work, and writing reports or proposals.
"Commodity" programming jobs will go away in all languages-- code monkeys go the way of web monkeys in the.bomb.
Skilled programmers (especially with architectural aptitude) will continue to be in demand, although most projects will have a higher level of automation on the bulk of the work.
Automating things at the airport improves customer service opportunities, to a point. Place humans where they can improve brand perception and not doing archaic data entry.
It is amazing how fast checking a bag with Virgin America is compared to the legacy carriers as a simple example.
EV charging will have a huge impact on businesses from what I am seeing, especially as office density generally seems to be increasing. At 20% EV penetration you would expect building electrical demand to go up by 10%, which is really huge given how predictable commercial building loads have been over the years. On-site PV may help buffer it some in the winter, but some of my clients are very nervous.
But, then autonomous cars may change the formula again...
For an autonomous semi, would stopping time really be a problem? Perishables might be an issue, but driving for 2 hours and charging for one isn't necessarily the end of the world. Likewise, for an autonomous semi... there isn't necessarily an advantage in not switching cabs every few hours if you need speed. Making a 1-2MWh battery isn't rocket science, but you likely hit diminishing returns pretty quickly. Flow batteries might be another option, where you just replace electrolyte.
Pick a given Interstate, designate 30-mile stretches every 60/90 miles where a charging truck runs every 15 minutes. Predict if car wants/needs charge at a given location, make a "reservation," and adjust speed to meet with the peleton for a sufficient period to provide adequate charge until the next peleton.
The whole premise though is that the cars are self-driving. If you are going to sleep 8 hours, the self-driving cars can "fight with each other" for the chargers, and they don't necessarily need to be at the hotel.
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Network Neutrality is about #200 on their constituent's list of "issues," so it is ripe for exploitation.
They don't sell oodles of trash cans. The trash can does not address the needs of the market it is intended to serve.
In practical terms, since it is a low-volume product, allowing it to be upgraded more easily by the end user might be economically viable.
Well, if you have a 30-mile round-trip commute 250 days per year, you are spending over $4k at IRS rates getting to work. A $12k "garden shed" office makes for a pretty good investment. Spending an extra $500/month on rent for an extra room may or may not though, depending on your tax bracket.
For me as a business owner, paying (on average) 10% of payroll for office space is just stupid, especially when average commute times are about an hour each way. We had to open a second office in the same metro area because too many people were at two hours commute time. That just reeks of poor value.
But, mentoring junior engineers is a problem when all the senior staff is remote. The financial equation is also worse when the average salary of in-office workers drops, but rent stays the same. The only way to make the math work is to cram more people into a smaller area.
I might be a PHB and all, but visual expression is much easier for me to follow than code; done properly, it can quickly help me see the parts of interest at a point in time, and ignore the rest.
That said, flowcharts are only effective in that end for a small set of conditionals.
Can't we just stick to ladder logic diagrams?
Exactly. You have too many people that are effectively high-risk, and there isn't much you can do about them. I am somewhat surprised that the police don't have informants keeping tabs on more of them; it doesn't sound like the formula is that difficult.
To stop terrorism, you need to stop the money. First focus on foreign influence, then local supporters, and eventually squeeze them from regular organized crime.
You also need to stop labeling everything as terrorism. Limit the use of that word carefully, and instead label the people doing bad things as "nutjobs" or "crazies" with a death wish in the media. If it really is "terrorism", deal with it on the investigation end appropriately.
For the actors, maybe... for the Teamsters, not so much.
Police generally are using the ANI rather than CID. AFAIK, there is no way for an end user to spoof ANI, although it might not reflect an extension.
I am surprised that people think they don't have their numbers already. You call 911 and there is no anonymity at all. The only anonymity you get is that the local police might not index and catalog calls for investigative purposes, but everything is recorded with metadata.
For the facilities I have been in, the dispatch center and 911 center all have the same information, although a local police station might not have everything in an easy to access way if the call is direct.
Flaws aplenty, but also an opportunity for some extra cash and a "free" trip home, which is inherently more efficient for a small number of deliveries per person.
In the flyover states, I can imagine many walmart employees are driving over 20 miles to get to work based on past experience.
Famous last words. VRLAs fail open-circuit or very high impedance under load. Without proper cell-level monitoring you really don't know if you have any battery left when under load. Best course of action is generally to ride on generator while you have someone pull all the jars with an Alber meter and live with reduced voltage or parallel strings.
Almost every time we have seen major issues, it is auto-restart of systems followed by a power failure during boot. (Almost) Everything is designed to survive the first hard crash, but crashing during boot or initialization often leaves systems in an unstable condition.
Taking hours to do an orderly restoration is not uncommon; even for a simple system you might need to bring your network core up first, restore DHCP services, get domain controllers up and synchronized, and audit all your filesystems before secondary systems boot... It becomes an order of magnitude more complex when you have some hardware failures and data corruption. Still shows they had a crap business continuity plan, but hey...
(While Eaton makes crap transfer switches, their UPSs are generally better than Schneider/APC/MGE or Liebert/Emerson/Vertiv in my experience. Closed transition switches, even when properly commissioned and tested, can create a number of issues, especially when you have neutrals on the switch as you would in Europe.)
Because your batteries gave their last gasp to get onto generator, or because the impact event was not the initial loss of power but the thermal damage from restoration of power.
After people hitting the big red button (or the fire alarm doing it automatically), this is the most common failure mode for a data center.
Sounds like 365 Main, the problem was in multiple small blips which were each too small to start the engine, but in aggregate depleted the flywheel below the minimum to start the engine.
I would give 10:1 odds that they had a voltage dip, transferred to generator and failed coming back because their batteries were no good. Unclear if they lost power once or twice, or if it was the servers auto restarting, but the kind of damage they allude to typically is when you are 7 years into your "10-year" VRLA batteries. Also known as cost cutting...
Sorry, but you are wrong. It all comes down to local labor laws. California treats accrued PTO as earned income, Texas (as an example) does not. Cost-cutters try to get rid of California employees because of things like this... but it isn't about a company accounting policy.
I completely agree that people need to use their vacation, however for some people they would rather have the money.
From a corporate responsibility perspective, it is stupid to not force people to take two week contiguous vacations every year, fully disconnected from work. You basically need it for detecting fraud and lack of process redundancy. The challenge is how a company handles the vacancy-- OT on other people, temps, or something else... all of which are ineffective.
Take it to his superior (or HR) and identify it as an issue that makes you consider changing jobs. Start looking for a new job...
Personally, I generally go for "long weekends", although I do try and have at least a couple week-and-a-half vacations per year; I get nearly 5 weeks per year. I am one of the business owners, but I do still have responsibilities to my partners that puts pressure on. Generally my vacations are "working" vacations where a couple hours per day are spent on phone/email, delegating work, and writing reports or proposals.
Pretty much. It makes https trivially easy to attack.
"Commodity" programming jobs will go away in all languages-- code monkeys go the way of web monkeys in the .bomb.
Skilled programmers (especially with architectural aptitude) will continue to be in demand, although most projects will have a higher level of automation on the bulk of the work.
No, it is about people bickering on fees, not knowing what they are doing, trying to change seats, etc. that shows the process down.
Automating things at the airport improves customer service opportunities, to a point. Place humans where they can improve brand perception and not doing archaic data entry.
It is amazing how fast checking a bag with Virgin America is compared to the legacy carriers as a simple example.
EV charging will have a huge impact on businesses from what I am seeing, especially as office density generally seems to be increasing. At 20% EV penetration you would expect building electrical demand to go up by 10%, which is really huge given how predictable commercial building loads have been over the years. On-site PV may help buffer it some in the winter, but some of my clients are very nervous.
But, then autonomous cars may change the formula again...
For an autonomous semi, would stopping time really be a problem? Perishables might be an issue, but driving for 2 hours and charging for one isn't necessarily the end of the world. Likewise, for an autonomous semi... there isn't necessarily an advantage in not switching cabs every few hours if you need speed. Making a 1-2MWh battery isn't rocket science, but you likely hit diminishing returns pretty quickly. Flow batteries might be another option, where you just replace electrolyte.
Pick a given Interstate, designate 30-mile stretches every 60/90 miles where a charging truck runs every 15 minutes. Predict if car wants/needs charge at a given location, make a "reservation," and adjust speed to meet with the peleton for a sufficient period to provide adequate charge until the next peleton.
The whole premise though is that the cars are self-driving. If you are going to sleep 8 hours, the self-driving cars can "fight with each other" for the chargers, and they don't necessarily need to be at the hotel.