Of course exercise has many other health benefits and is highly recommended, it's just not an effective weight loss tool.
I know it's anecdotal, but that has not been my experience. I started doing Judo and Jujitsu about nine years ago, I was about 216 lbs. when I started (I'm 5'9"). I started working out one day a week, then two and finally settled in at three, sometimes four, days a week at the dojo. In a maybe three years time I weighed in for a grappling tournament at 176 lbs. I had not changed my diet one bit.
I have noticed that if I make it to the dojo three times a week, then I lose weight. If I make it twice a week I maintain, and if go once then I slowly add weight. I took a couple month break after my second shoulder injury 20 months ago and have only been making it in once a week due to changing jobs and working more hours than I was. Since then I've gained all of the weight back; I topped out at about 220 and have managed to lose maybe five or six pounds of that by really watching what I eat (sugar in the evening is terrible, it makes me ravenous). It's very frustrating. The only way I seem to lose weight is by working out three days a week.
I used to do electronic trading support for a large investment bank and yeah, their applications and processes tended to be disasters.
Part of the problem was bad developers; I saw some very basic mistakes like case-sensitive columns in a database that were supposed to be case-insensitive.
Poor QA process; management would have the team simply not report bugs because it made "the numbers" look bad and they were trying to get the software out the door.
Poor training. Support staff were never really trained on how the applications worked, or sat near the traders so they could watch what they were doing day-to-day. We were just supposed to figure it out on our own.
And poor management. There were so many teams in so many locations that no one owned the entire process and knew how it worked end-to-end. Downstream applications would bomb out on perfectly good data and then their support staff would call ours to complain. We would tell them it's valid data and to fix their code, but would have to implement workarounds in order to deliver the data in the required timeframe. In many cases known bugs were not addressed because the business didn't want to fund the fixes. Their solution was to have support constantly performing workarounds and massaging the data so it would go through the various systems and electronic exchanges. Instead of fixing the applications they had, they would build new ones to do the same thing and then we'd have to support more and more of them because the new ones didn't work and the old apps were still in use.
It was an extremely frustrating experience. You'd go home every day feeling like nothing was accomplished.
No, there is nothing about you or your skills that is so unique that you cannot be replaced.
While it's true that no one is irreplaceable, some positions are much more difficult to fill than others. Try talking to a recruiter sometimes about how difficult it is to find technical talent. There's a lot of bullshitters out there.
The reality is that when a company wants to cut their IT costs to save money, your skills will have nothing to do with their decision.
That all depends on the company and the role you fill in the organization. A large corporation is likely to have many people occupying the same role, in those cases you're correct that your skills may have nothing to do with their decision of whom to eliminate.
If you work for a small company it's a different story. If you're the only guy doing something like handling production support, or computing infrastructure, than you're less likely to have your position eliminated due to cost cutting compared to say one of the half-dozen front-end developers, or someone from a QA group.
According to law enforcement officials, there isn't enough evidence for a successful criminal case.
Sorry, that's most certainly not what Director Comey said. He said there was plenty of evidence, but that Hillary lacked intent (which the relevant statutes don't require) because she was so clueless about handling classified materials that she may not have understood which materials were classified including the ones bearing classification markings. Sort of begs the question of why she was allowed to handle such material in the first place.
What's next ? We going to strap a suicide vest on the K9's, let them run the suspects down ?
In this case it was for military service, but we've been using animals as weapons for a long time.
Dolphins have been trained in attack-and-kill missions since the Cold War. The US Atlantic bottlenose dolphins have apparently been taught to shoot terrorists attacking military vessels.
Definitely yes? The guy was cornered in a parking garage. You can just cordon off the area and wait him out, send in a dog, use a flashbang, etc. From my armchair it seems like there were plenty of options.
Some liberals lie and say they want "reasonable" gun restrictions when their goal is a total ban (except for the elites). It's all about getting the thin edge of the wedge under the door.
Upon seeing her Clinton gun ban enacted in 1994, she said: “If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them . . . ‘Mr. and Mrs. America, turn ‘em all in,’ I would have done it.”
First of all, you can't prove a negative. Comey had no way of knowing that Guccifer did not access that server.
Otherwise there should have been evidence of the break-in
Exactly what sort of evidence do you think would have been found? Skilled hackers remove log entries and wipe timestamps so as to leave no trace they were there.
I've heard a couple theories on hell and how one ends up there. Some people argue that everyone is offered redemption after death, but only those that reject God's forgiveness are sent to Hell, which isn't brimstone and fire, but simply a state of being eternally separated from God. Floating in the void perhaps.
As far as Heaven, according to the New Testament, people don't go there immediately after death. Those who were saved go to Paradise and reside with Jesus while waiting for Armageddon to occur and then the Final Judgement. It's after this judgment that people are sent to Heaven, and even then there are different parts to Heaven. Those most faithful to God sit closer to him, while others are further away based on how they lived their lives.
I must admit that I don't really understand why people act like they _know_ what happens after death and then tell others what's going to happen to them if they don't do X. The truth is that no one on this Earth knows; just because men wrote about it in the Bible doesn't make it true. You have faith that it's true, but you may be wrong.
I was working at a large investment bank dong electronic trading support and stayed on about two years too long. Things were great for the first few years; learning about credit and rate trading, learning how products like credit default swaps and interest rate swaps work, etc. Then the mortgage meltdown happened and things started going south.
Over the next few years staff was reduced to the point that members of my team were now covering both first and second shift. We had a rotating weekend schedule where we would either shut the environments down on Saturday, or perform a software release, and then we brought the systems back up on Sunday morning and then covered the beginning of Asia's trading. We used to get time off the following week, but because of the staffing situation that went away. When I asked about overtime I was told that I was classified as an exempt worker, which I later found out was not true. So I went from working a standard 40 hour week to working 40 hours each week plus two weekends of 10 to 20 hours of work each month; about 200 hours.
I finally was fed up enough to contact my recruiter and got an interview with a tech startup. Things went well and I was just waiting for the Board to approve the role. My plan was to take a week off work, go to Las Vegas for a few days, then put in my two weeks notice the following Monday. Unfortunately the Board took a couple more weeks before they signed off, so I was getting up every morning and signing a new resignation letter that I then carried around while waiting for the phone call. That was was pretty hard to do since I wanted nothing to do with the place and I kept thinking to myself that I should just leave, but I stuck it out.
So I'm finally out and getting up to speed in my new position. Then I get a letter in the mail from my former employer about applying for COBRA health insurance. It turns out that they had cancelled my insurance coverage two days after I left instead of deducting the premium for the rest of the month from my final paycheck and then waited weeks before letting me know. Thank goodness I didn't need it! I received another letter a week or so later saying they accidentally overpaid me on my final paycheck and would I please send them a check for the difference. Ha! At around the same time I had been doing some research about the laws regarding overtime and who qualifies as exempt. It turns out that they lied to me when they said I was exempt and they probably owed me ten or fifteen thousand dollars of overtime. I keep a work log of my hours and the tasks I do each day, so I had the records I needed. I was so fed up with them at that point that I just let it go rather than contact an attorney, I didn't need the stress.
In hindsight I really wish I would have just handed in my resignation letter and walked out the door. They were totally incompetent and I absolutely hated going to work every one of those last ten days. People always say not to burn bridges, but there was no way I would ever apply for a position with that company again so I do somewhat regret not giving myself some additional time off before starting the new job.
Some perspective, people; we've had encryption in use for over 40 years, and the actual amount of people using it to escape prosecution is almost none.
Encryption has been around for much longer than 40 years!
"The earliest known text containing components of cryptography originates in the Egyptian town Menet
Khufu on the tomb of nobleman Khnumhotep II nearly 4,000 years ago."
-- "Past, Present, and Future Methods of Cryptography ", http://www.eng.utah.edu/~nmcdo...
Multiculturalism is a dangerously naive ideology. Just because you love people that are different from you doesn't mean that they will reciprocate and respect your way of life.
The globalists are driving this crisis. They import workers from alien cultures who do not integrate with society and push for open borders; literally the destruction of a nation. They target the young and foolish and convince them that they should support these actions because it's the "right" thing to do. If you're opposed to their agenda and want to preserve your heritage, well that just means you're an awful racist!
The day after the Brexit vote NPR interviewed some young people that were just wailing about how the old people had ruined their futures by voting for Nationalism and not Globalism. Totally clueless that they're being used by the elites in an attempt to consolidate their power. Now there's talk of EU members being forced to give up their own armies in favor of an "integrated" EU army?!
I noticed those videos the other day while watching some of those stupid top-10 lists about time travelers and things you should never Google. I didn't realize that they were "hacks", just figured they were the usual YouTube fare.
Not everyone lives in big cities. Those who live in Rural areas who need high speed internet (sometimes even more than city folks) are still left out because such areas are unprofitable.
It's not just rural areas that are left out. I'm on the south-side of Chicago and my only realistic option is Comcast; they bill me over $100/mo for 25 Mb service.
I so want to switch providers, but it's the same story every time:
Webpass is building specific and is currently not available in your building. Please fill out this form to bring Webpass to your building!
The biggest problem I see is that it appears they'll use the same jack for both charging and audio out. I very frequently plug into a stereo and power when playing tunes.
I've been reading a few articles about how the new Type-C connector will enable all these fantastic new features (that no one wants) for your headphones, like a heart rate monitor or fancy lights. Maybe you'll be able to buy headphones with a built-in battery pack to charge your phone:)
I too am glad that bill was defeated. The no-fly list is clearly unconstitutional and does not provide any meaningful security.
First you have the fact that this list doesn't even identify people properly. It's simply a list of names with no accompanying biometric data. No photographs, no fingerprints, etc. People are wrongly prohibited from flying as a result, including U.S. senators, because first/last names are not unique.
Then there's the fact that the people on the list haven't done anything criminal. When they approach the ticket counter and are told they are on the list, they are not arrested and they are not fined. These people on the list are so dangerous that they are simply allowed to walk away.
Finally, if allowed to proceed, people on the no-fly list would go through the same security procedures as everyone else. Their luggage would be screened and they would pass through a metal detector or body scanner. At that point how could they pose any sort of security risk?
What exactly is the point of this list, other than infringing peoples' freedom of movement? How does is protect anyone?
I'm guessing OP was referencing regex in C and Python. In those language it typically takes you three steps to apply a regex where in Perl you can do it all in one step.
But Perl usage as part of a modern stack is on the rise again even if it is one of the less popular choices it is technically one of the better non-blocking highly parallel solutions able to handle thousands of concurrent connections without breaking a sweat.
Why the heck would you choose to write highly-concurrent code in Perl instead of using a language, like Erlang, that was designed for it?
I do sysadmin work (and dev work); started using Perl back in 1996 for Apache CGI's and any shell scripts that were a pain to write using Bourne shell. Perl was great, it basically glued together all of the various Unix power tools like sed, awk, grep, cut, etc.
These days I'm still writing Bourne shell scripts for simple tasks, but I've switched to using Python instead of Perl. The code is much easier to read, there are plenty of third-party libraries available, much better OO support, Python language bindings tend to be better supported than Perl, etc. I'm definitely not missing the leaning toothpicks (yes, I know you can use a different character set, but still), and crazy variable names like $$@array_r.
Pretty much the only thing I prefer Perl for these days is doing pure regexp work. Perl's syntax is just so much better than other languages like C or Python where you have to build an expression, then compile it and finally execute.
Slashdot Mirror
Of course exercise has many other health benefits and is highly recommended, it's just not an effective weight loss tool.
I know it's anecdotal, but that has not been my experience. I started doing Judo and Jujitsu about nine years ago, I was about 216 lbs. when I started (I'm 5'9"). I started working out one day a week, then two and finally settled in at three, sometimes four, days a week at the dojo. In a maybe three years time I weighed in for a grappling tournament at 176 lbs. I had not changed my diet one bit.
I have noticed that if I make it to the dojo three times a week, then I lose weight. If I make it twice a week I maintain, and if go once then I slowly add weight. I took a couple month break after my second shoulder injury 20 months ago and have only been making it in once a week due to changing jobs and working more hours than I was. Since then I've gained all of the weight back; I topped out at about 220 and have managed to lose maybe five or six pounds of that by really watching what I eat (sugar in the evening is terrible, it makes me ravenous). It's very frustrating. The only way I seem to lose weight is by working out three days a week.
Maybe they need a way to keep the driver involved: steering wheel pressure sensors, or eye sensors.
That's what Mercedes did, their vehicles disengage the driving assist features if you take your hands off of the wheel for longer than ten seconds.
Here's someone defeating the disengage function with a soda can.
I used to do electronic trading support for a large investment bank and yeah, their applications and processes tended to be disasters.
Part of the problem was bad developers; I saw some very basic mistakes like case-sensitive columns in a database that were supposed to be case-insensitive.
Poor QA process; management would have the team simply not report bugs because it made "the numbers" look bad and they were trying to get the software out the door.
Poor training. Support staff were never really trained on how the applications worked, or sat near the traders so they could watch what they were doing day-to-day. We were just supposed to figure it out on our own.
And poor management. There were so many teams in so many locations that no one owned the entire process and knew how it worked end-to-end. Downstream applications would bomb out on perfectly good data and then their support staff would call ours to complain. We would tell them it's valid data and to fix their code, but would have to implement workarounds in order to deliver the data in the required timeframe. In many cases known bugs were not addressed because the business didn't want to fund the fixes. Their solution was to have support constantly performing workarounds and massaging the data so it would go through the various systems and electronic exchanges. Instead of fixing the applications they had, they would build new ones to do the same thing and then we'd have to support more and more of them because the new ones didn't work and the old apps were still in use.
It was an extremely frustrating experience. You'd go home every day feeling like nothing was accomplished.
No, there is nothing about you or your skills that is so unique that you cannot be replaced.
While it's true that no one is irreplaceable, some positions are much more difficult to fill than others. Try talking to a recruiter sometimes about how difficult it is to find technical talent. There's a lot of bullshitters out there.
The reality is that when a company wants to cut their IT costs to save money, your skills will have nothing to do with their decision.
That all depends on the company and the role you fill in the organization. A large corporation is likely to have many people occupying the same role, in those cases you're correct that your skills may have nothing to do with their decision of whom to eliminate.
If you work for a small company it's a different story. If you're the only guy doing something like handling production support, or computing infrastructure, than you're less likely to have your position eliminated due to cost cutting compared to say one of the half-dozen front-end developers, or someone from a QA group.
According to law enforcement officials, there isn't enough evidence for a successful criminal case.
Sorry, that's most certainly not what Director Comey said. He said there was plenty of evidence, but that Hillary lacked intent (which the relevant statutes don't require) because she was so clueless about handling classified materials that she may not have understood which materials were classified including the ones bearing classification markings. Sort of begs the question of why she was allowed to handle such material in the first place.
You do realize that you can write object oriented code in C with structs and function pointers, don't you?
Take a look at Berkeley Sockets, as you go up the networking stack structs extend other structs, which is OO design.
What's next ? We going to strap a suicide vest on the K9's, let them run the suspects down ?
In this case it was for military service, but we've been using animals as weapons for a long time.
Dolphins have been trained in attack-and-kill missions since the Cold War. The US Atlantic bottlenose dolphins have apparently been taught to shoot terrorists attacking military vessels.
Armed and dangerous - Flipper the firing dolphin let loose by Katrina
Definitely yes? The guy was cornered in a parking garage. You can just cordon off the area and wait him out, send in a dog, use a flashbang, etc. From my armchair it seems like there were plenty of options.
Some liberals lie and say they want "reasonable" gun restrictions when their goal is a total ban (except for the elites). It's all about getting the thin edge of the wedge under the door.
Upon seeing her Clinton gun ban enacted in 1994, she said: “If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them . . . ‘Mr. and Mrs. America, turn ‘em all in,’ I would have done it.”
Gun Control Misses Mark: Sen. Feinstein Shoots-off Mouth, Hits Foot
The Second Amendment must go: We ban lawn darts. It’s time to ban guns
First of all, you can't prove a negative. Comey had no way of knowing that Guccifer did not access that server.
Otherwise there should have been evidence of the break-in
Exactly what sort of evidence do you think would have been found? Skilled hackers remove log entries and wipe timestamps so as to leave no trace they were there.
I've heard a couple theories on hell and how one ends up there. Some people argue that everyone is offered redemption after death, but only those that reject God's forgiveness are sent to Hell, which isn't brimstone and fire, but simply a state of being eternally separated from God. Floating in the void perhaps.
As far as Heaven, according to the New Testament, people don't go there immediately after death. Those who were saved go to Paradise and reside with Jesus while waiting for Armageddon to occur and then the Final Judgement. It's after this judgment that people are sent to Heaven, and even then there are different parts to Heaven. Those most faithful to God sit closer to him, while others are further away based on how they lived their lives.
I must admit that I don't really understand why people act like they _know_ what happens after death and then tell others what's going to happen to them if they don't do X. The truth is that no one on this Earth knows; just because men wrote about it in the Bible doesn't make it true. You have faith that it's true, but you may be wrong.
I was working at a large investment bank dong electronic trading support and stayed on about two years too long. Things were great for the first few years; learning about credit and rate trading, learning how products like credit default swaps and interest rate swaps work, etc. Then the mortgage meltdown happened and things started going south.
Over the next few years staff was reduced to the point that members of my team were now covering both first and second shift. We had a rotating weekend schedule where we would either shut the environments down on Saturday, or perform a software release, and then we brought the systems back up on Sunday morning and then covered the beginning of Asia's trading. We used to get time off the following week, but because of the staffing situation that went away. When I asked about overtime I was told that I was classified as an exempt worker, which I later found out was not true. So I went from working a standard 40 hour week to working 40 hours each week plus two weekends of 10 to 20 hours of work each month; about 200 hours.
I finally was fed up enough to contact my recruiter and got an interview with a tech startup. Things went well and I was just waiting for the Board to approve the role. My plan was to take a week off work, go to Las Vegas for a few days, then put in my two weeks notice the following Monday. Unfortunately the Board took a couple more weeks before they signed off, so I was getting up every morning and signing a new resignation letter that I then carried around while waiting for the phone call. That was was pretty hard to do since I wanted nothing to do with the place and I kept thinking to myself that I should just leave, but I stuck it out.
So I'm finally out and getting up to speed in my new position. Then I get a letter in the mail from my former employer about applying for COBRA health insurance. It turns out that they had cancelled my insurance coverage two days after I left instead of deducting the premium for the rest of the month from my final paycheck and then waited weeks before letting me know. Thank goodness I didn't need it! I received another letter a week or so later saying they accidentally overpaid me on my final paycheck and would I please send them a check for the difference. Ha! At around the same time I had been doing some research about the laws regarding overtime and who qualifies as exempt. It turns out that they lied to me when they said I was exempt and they probably owed me ten or fifteen thousand dollars of overtime. I keep a work log of my hours and the tasks I do each day, so I had the records I needed. I was so fed up with them at that point that I just let it go rather than contact an attorney, I didn't need the stress.
In hindsight I really wish I would have just handed in my resignation letter and walked out the door. They were totally incompetent and I absolutely hated going to work every one of those last ten days. People always say not to burn bridges, but there was no way I would ever apply for a position with that company again so I do somewhat regret not giving myself some additional time off before starting the new job.
How about that thumb drive of emails that she turned over to her attorney?
Some perspective, people; we've had encryption in use for over 40 years, and the actual amount of people using it to escape prosecution is almost none.
Encryption has been around for much longer than 40 years!
"The earliest known text containing components of cryptography originates in the Egyptian town Menet Khufu on the tomb of nobleman Khnumhotep II nearly 4,000 years ago."
-- "Past, Present, and Future Methods of Cryptography ", http://www.eng.utah.edu/~nmcdo...
Multiculturalism is a dangerously naive ideology. Just because you love people that are different from you doesn't mean that they will reciprocate and respect your way of life.
The globalists are driving this crisis. They import workers from alien cultures who do not integrate with society and push for open borders; literally the destruction of a nation. They target the young and foolish and convince them that they should support these actions because it's the "right" thing to do. If you're opposed to their agenda and want to preserve your heritage, well that just means you're an awful racist!
The day after the Brexit vote NPR interviewed some young people that were just wailing about how the old people had ruined their futures by voting for Nationalism and not Globalism. Totally clueless that they're being used by the elites in an attempt to consolidate their power. Now there's talk of EU members being forced to give up their own armies in favor of an "integrated" EU army?!
Why buy an expensive product when a simple one-liner will do the same job
What if there's a problem with the physical drive that prevents the system from recognizing it, or writing data to it?
Doing a dd is also very time consuming. If I had to do this routinely I'd invest in a disk punch or shredder.
I think this product looks pretty neat. It sort of reminds me of the old computer games Rocky's Boots and Gertrude's Secrets.
The idea is to introduce kids to some simple logic and control elements and get them to play.
I noticed those videos the other day while watching some of those stupid top-10 lists about time travelers and things you should never Google. I didn't realize that they were "hacks", just figured they were the usual YouTube fare.
Not everyone lives in big cities. Those who live in Rural areas who need high speed internet (sometimes even more than city folks) are still left out because such areas are unprofitable.
It's not just rural areas that are left out. I'm on the south-side of Chicago and my only realistic option is Comcast; they bill me over $100/mo for 25 Mb service.
I so want to switch providers, but it's the same story every time:
Webpass is building specific and is currently not available in your building. Please fill out this form to bring Webpass to your building!
I've been reading a few articles about how the new Type-C connector will enable all these fantastic new features (that no one wants) for your headphones, like a heart rate monitor or fancy lights. Maybe you'll be able to buy headphones with a built-in battery pack to charge your phone :)
I too am glad that bill was defeated. The no-fly list is clearly unconstitutional and does not provide any meaningful security.
First you have the fact that this list doesn't even identify people properly. It's simply a list of names with no accompanying biometric data. No photographs, no fingerprints, etc. People are wrongly prohibited from flying as a result, including U.S. senators, because first/last names are not unique.
Then there's the fact that the people on the list haven't done anything criminal. When they approach the ticket counter and are told they are on the list, they are not arrested and they are not fined. These people on the list are so dangerous that they are simply allowed to walk away.
Finally, if allowed to proceed, people on the no-fly list would go through the same security procedures as everyone else. Their luggage would be screened and they would pass through a metal detector or body scanner. At that point how could they pose any sort of security risk?
What exactly is the point of this list, other than infringing peoples' freedom of movement? How does is protect anyone?
You do realize that these mass shooting have all occurred in gun free zones, don't you?
I'm guessing OP was referencing regex in C and Python. In those language it typically takes you three steps to apply a regex where in Perl you can do it all in one step.
Why the heck would you choose to write highly-concurrent code in Perl instead of using a language, like Erlang, that was designed for it?
I do sysadmin work (and dev work); started using Perl back in 1996 for Apache CGI's and any shell scripts that were a pain to write using Bourne shell. Perl was great, it basically glued together all of the various Unix power tools like sed, awk, grep, cut, etc.
These days I'm still writing Bourne shell scripts for simple tasks, but I've switched to using Python instead of Perl. The code is much easier to read, there are plenty of third-party libraries available, much better OO support, Python language bindings tend to be better supported than Perl, etc. I'm definitely not missing the leaning toothpicks (yes, I know you can use a different character set, but still), and crazy variable names like $$@array_r.
Pretty much the only thing I prefer Perl for these days is doing pure regexp work. Perl's syntax is just so much better than other languages like C or Python where you have to build an expression, then compile it and finally execute.