driving intentionally poor design: too-thin phones, too-fragile connectors, non-replaceable batteries, screens without a reasonable bezel around them, etc. There's no good reason at all a phone can't be designed to be easy to maintain, repair, use and carry.
There is a "reason" if your forte is selling sleek visually cool fashion accessories that double as smart-phones.
Ethnic groups that one is not familiar with indeed do look "the same". One's brain is simply not trained to process differences in the new group due to lack of exposure.
CA's regular transportation needs some serious help. Roads are falling apart and have faded lines. Because cars got more efficient, there's less gas tax revenue to fix them. Fix stuff actually used first rather than invent needs.
The secret to getting away with a bullshit promise is to set the promised payoff so far in the future that you'll be long gone by the time people realize you were full of shit.
This is often why budget deficits and pension problems happen: those who negotiate the deals will only be around to get the upsides of their deals. They sell off the future to get benefits during their reign. Those deal-makers are usually long-gone when the monster awakes.
The current IT, Tech, Engineering, and Science shortages are proof.
I've seen 2 STEM bubbles in my lifetime. Shit changes. If you were any good at predicting the future, you'd have Warren Buffett's paycheck.
For one, if they'd clean up or replace Web client UI standards with something rational, half of us would be out on the street. Web UI "standards" are the greatest job engine since war (and caused by similar mentalities).
This is simply a response to the failure to communicate. In CA as in many other places, it is customary for drivers and pedestrians to enjoy a lively communication. This typically involves vigorous hand, arm and facial body language as well as enthusiastic vocal invitations...
I invented Deep Flip to automate such communication. It's web-scale. We're currently testing it on dumbshits and dipwads. Next week we'll start on asstards.
Sorry, I weighed the tradeoffs and feel differently about this. Your Taco Bell example is cherry-picking. Sample Error. I did the "pain math" and it benefits the aggregate drivers by far. I invite you to also do it.
Progressivism (aka US 'Liberalism'): Ideas so good they need a police/surveillance-state to enforce.
Righties are just as pro-snooping if not more. They just tend to back snooping on different things.
Microsoft doesn't care what you run anymore... [their new] strategy is to get everyone possible onto a monthly subscription, and Office 365 is the first step for most organizations.
Their sales and hype teams got our PHB's to have us turn all new internal applications into "microservice" architectures so that MS can more easily rent components/services to us. It bloated the code base by 4x what a normal "monolithic" application would be. We have to launch bunches of consoles and "Solutions" to develop and debug. The very term "monolithic" is to paint such designs as stone-age tech. Gaawwwd, what a mess.
It's a clever bullshit game, I have to admit. The premise of "magic Legos" architecture for mass plug-and-play and reuse sounds enticing. Too bad the reality of fracturing everything and the overhead of JSON back-and-forth conversion kicks the dream in the nuts. You can make a regular site I/O JSON the old fashioned way anyhow when (rarely) needed. I've seen about 4 other dev fads in the past also claim magic Legos of one sort or the other, so it's a recycled game. This BS is the real "re-use".
Investigations of fault likely have to follow the same evidentiary rules as criminal investigations.
That's a dumb rule. Tens of thousands of people, perhaps hundreds of thousands sometimes, are inconvenienced for that. The cost trade-off to society is NOT worth it. Let it go so traffic can go. Math gives it the finger.
Often somebody is injured, but why so slow to move them? I realize sometimes you have to be careful about broken backs, but it seems the delays are too common for that: not everybody busts their back. Granted, I don't know all the details, but it seems like unjustified delay due to silly laws or rules.
It's the "new" New York city. Newer York? You don't work in NY city because you want a big house with a white picket fence, you work in NY because you want to be "where the action" is.
Crashes do this all the time now. If there's a wreck on the freeway I use to get to work, it clogs the entire freeway so that traffic slows to a snail's pace. The alternative routes also fill up fast. Doesn't take rocket science; just old-fashioned stupidity and inattention.
It doesn't help that crash inspectors have to "do science" on the wreck to understand it better. Why waste tens of thousands of commuter hours to clear up the insurance of 2 people? Selfish allocation of resources. Take lots of pictures then push the wrecks off the road, and study the pictures back in the office.
Re: [Problems with remote work:...[gateway to] outsource to India.] This assumes that the workers in India are competent. I have seen far too many projects sent to India for cost savings only for the project to utterly fail and result in a 100% loss. I have found that for the truly competent people in India, you're paying at about $60,000 per head.
It's mostly the same here: you get what you pay for, but about a 15% difference. You have to pay roughly 70k in the US for competence. (I know, plenty of exceptions, it's only a generalization.)
Screwed-up managers will screw things up regardless of where they get staff such that they figure it's better to pay less for failure. Would you rather pay $115 mil for the Titanic or $100 mil? Dysfunctional orgs can't compete on competence, so they instead focus on cost, becoming the 98-cent store of service. Sure, their wash-rags degenerate into lint, but so do the competitor's: the 99-cent store.
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There is a "reason" if your forte is selling sleek visually cool fashion accessories that double as smart-phones.
"If we control everything about the phone, the user gets coordinated synergy between parts."
Ethnic groups that one is not familiar with indeed do look "the same". One's brain is simply not trained to process differences in the new group due to lack of exposure.
CA's regular transportation needs some serious help. Roads are falling apart and have faded lines. Because cars got more efficient, there's less gas tax revenue to fix them. Fix stuff actually used first rather than invent needs.
This is often why budget deficits and pension problems happen: those who negotiate the deals will only be around to get the upsides of their deals. They sell off the future to get benefits during their reign. Those deal-makers are usually long-gone when the monster awakes.
I've seen 2 STEM bubbles in my lifetime. Shit changes. If you were any good at predicting the future, you'd have Warren Buffett's paycheck.
For one, if they'd clean up or replace Web client UI standards with something rational, half of us would be out on the street. Web UI "standards" are the greatest job engine since war (and caused by similar mentalities).
The office is mostly Dilbertesque bullshit at most orgs. AI will probably master logic before it masters bullshit.
Or the auto-pilot from "Airplane"
In TX they'd blast it with a shotgun. "I ain't gonna let no robo-commie drive my ass around in a round little sissy cart."
I invented Deep Flip to automate such communication. It's web-scale. We're currently testing it on dumbshits and dipwads. Next week we'll start on asstards.
Oh snap!
Just case-mod it into a Chucky doll, then it wont be so unexpected.
No, that was your girlfriend. She just blamed Alexa.
Reminds me of my new Trump scale: when I step on it, it says "Yuuuuuge!"
Sorry, I weighed the tradeoffs and feel differently about this. Your Taco Bell example is cherry-picking. Sample Error. I did the "pain math" and it benefits the aggregate drivers by far. I invite you to also do it.
Righties are just as pro-snooping if not more. They just tend to back snooping on different things.
Hey! Corporate-licensed devices are people too!
Their sales and hype teams got our PHB's to have us turn all new internal applications into "microservice" architectures so that MS can more easily rent components/services to us. It bloated the code base by 4x what a normal "monolithic" application would be. We have to launch bunches of consoles and "Solutions" to develop and debug. The very term "monolithic" is to paint such designs as stone-age tech. Gaawwwd, what a mess.
It's a clever bullshit game, I have to admit. The premise of "magic Legos" architecture for mass plug-and-play and reuse sounds enticing. Too bad the reality of fracturing everything and the overhead of JSON back-and-forth conversion kicks the dream in the nuts. You can make a regular site I/O JSON the old fashioned way anyhow when (rarely) needed. I've seen about 4 other dev fads in the past also claim magic Legos of one sort or the other, so it's a recycled game. This BS is the real "re-use".
That's a dumb rule. Tens of thousands of people, perhaps hundreds of thousands sometimes, are inconvenienced for that. The cost trade-off to society is NOT worth it. Let it go so traffic can go. Math gives it the finger.
Often somebody is injured, but why so slow to move them? I realize sometimes you have to be careful about broken backs, but it seems the delays are too common for that: not everybody busts their back. Granted, I don't know all the details, but it seems like unjustified delay due to silly laws or rules.
It's the "new" New York city. Newer York? You don't work in NY city because you want a big house with a white picket fence, you work in NY because you want to be "where the action" is.
Ha! You got short changed.
Crashes do this all the time now. If there's a wreck on the freeway I use to get to work, it clogs the entire freeway so that traffic slows to a snail's pace. The alternative routes also fill up fast. Doesn't take rocket science; just old-fashioned stupidity and inattention.
It doesn't help that crash inspectors have to "do science" on the wreck to understand it better. Why waste tens of thousands of commuter hours to clear up the insurance of 2 people? Selfish allocation of resources. Take lots of pictures then push the wrecks off the road, and study the pictures back in the office.
It's mostly the same here: you get what you pay for, but about a 15% difference. You have to pay roughly 70k in the US for competence. (I know, plenty of exceptions, it's only a generalization.)
Screwed-up managers will screw things up regardless of where they get staff such that they figure it's better to pay less for failure. Would you rather pay $115 mil for the Titanic or $100 mil? Dysfunctional orgs can't compete on competence, so they instead focus on cost, becoming the 98-cent store of service. Sure, their wash-rags degenerate into lint, but so do the competitor's: the 99-cent store.
I'm all for direct votes on national initiatives instead of just representatives, but those are ripe for political manipulation also.
Are these Democrats trying to compete with Republicans for bad ideas? This War of Silly Legislation could spiral out of control quickly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Porn is almost half the Web. Putting a fee on it is almost like having a hamburger fee at Burger King.