specify a maximum word count, and set out specific objectives for what the paper needs to contain
That was the standard approach in the early 90s when I did my degree.
Most lecturers would also add some 'ease of reading' measures such as font size and spacing, but those were exactly that, and fuck all to do with being able to concisely demonstrate an understanding of the subject.
E.g. for some audiences the first two pages must contain everything relevant; the rest may be needed as supporting material but assume it'll never get read.
For many audiences they need something short enough to go through in a fixed amount of time. So a 40 page document is pointless if you need to get through the material in 30 minutes.
Sure, you can write a 200 page report and just present a 12 page summary. But reality is that many times in a business context your time is better spent writing a 12 page report in the first place. People just wont read a book.
That doesn't mean that there aren't occasions where a long and detailed report is needed. I'd hate the Air Accident Investigation Board to only produce 4 sentence summaries. "It crashed. People died. We blame the wing manufacturer."
Unfortunately the font doesn't work if lines of code is the metric
Please report any such academic fields to the examination boards for incompetence, as lines of code is never a fucking metric.
A good software engineer can take 1000 shit lines of code and turn them into 20. A great one will take those 20 and turn them into 50.
I doubt the analysis has been done to an adequate level to correctly predict the output in lines of code to a degree sufficient for inclusion in grading for even simple problems.
The article does not state that there are only 14000 people in the city. It does not state how many people there are in the city, or indeed how many cars were traversing it.
That would be the point the person to whom you are replying is trying to make.
In August more Model 3 were sold than Altima, Accent, Legacy, Impreza, Sentra, Focus, the Fiats, Chryslers,....all these "affordable" middle class cars. Of course it also outsold all BMW cars combined, all Lexus cars combined, all MB cars combined,
... and I don't allow remote access. [..] Every now and then I log in through my WiFi
So all I need to do is get you to open a perfectly innocent web page on your primary computer with a specially crafted payload that connects to your device via your wireless LAN and does the nasty (including enabling remote access, if your firewall doesn't block that).
Isn't something of this type gross neglect or something
No, and yes.
Introducing a vulnerability of this form is merely accidental and/or inexperienced. Even the best software engineers will cock up from time to time, and no affordable review process will catch everything.
Failing to fix it for many months afterwards is however shitty indeed.
Ah, that's why you let somebody else buy one first, and read their description of it.
Unless you want something on the day of release, sites like https://www.snbforums.com/ will almost certainly give you enough information to understand what you're buying.
I don't have one of these devices, but do own something comparable.
It cost less than buying the component parts to build my own, came pre-built, pre-configured, with a warranty and designed to operate at low cost for years. It's also a fully functional linux server to which I have root access via SSH (and have disabled root login via SSH).
The sane alternative is to buy one and use it, but for those that want to tinker buy one anyway then wipe it and install your own OS of choice for use as a file server on the perfectly capable hardware.
I wont berate you for it. Just stop expecting me to help pay for them and stop telling me to forgo small luxuries because they damage the planet that I wont be around to need.
If everybody in my country turned barren tomorrow I'd be just fine with that.
We can't get people to agree that sexual harassment is even a thing, or should be legally actionable; you really think "law enforcement" is going to "prosecute" that?
In which case excluding someone from a project to which they may have made many contributions over an extended period is even more fucking asinine.
If they post "You're cute, I want to fuck you until you're unconscious" on the kernel mailing list then sure, ask them to change their behaviour. What they do at an entirely unconnected conference is, oddly enough, entirely unconnected.
I bet dollars to doughnuts that Linus is right 99.99% of the time but some wordings in his mails really sound childish.
How many tens of thousands of emails has he sent? How many are in public?
People get upset by the dozen in which he's finally lost patience and shown he's actually human.
I get that he has to deal with sub-par kernel engineers from company X pushing an agenda and being really stupid and they deserve an ass-chewing, but if I were him
You're not him though. None of us are. He's fucking remarkable, and I'm willing to accept that occasionally he might send an email that's less diplomatic than the other 99.99% of them.
You're setting out a false dichotomy there. The freedom loving sexist can choose to not spend their money on advertising.
The state merely mandates that if they do spend their money on advertising, they need to obey the social contract inherent to operating within that jurisdiction.
That's not forcing them to spend any money at all. It's not denying them freedom either. You're just being silly.
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Wait? The people seeking full autonomy for the country so that it doesn't have unwanted laws imposed upon it are the traitors?
When the fuck did that word get its definition changed?
Once it does, we can compare these numbers.
So why did you compare these numbers?
Anyway there is a legitimate argument
Which you didn't try to make.
Seriously, there are plenty of good reasons to support Tesla. Idiots spouting bullshit to try and close down conversation merely obscure those.
My degree is from a business school, but it's a BSc and not a BA.
Perhaps that's why we have word maximums, and never minimums. Who the fuck needs a minimum at even undergrad level?
specify a maximum word count, and set out specific objectives for what the paper needs to contain
That was the standard approach in the early 90s when I did my degree.
Most lecturers would also add some 'ease of reading' measures such as font size and spacing, but those were exactly that, and fuck all to do with being able to concisely demonstrate an understanding of the subject.
I have. Sometimes self-imposed.
E.g. for some audiences the first two pages must contain everything relevant; the rest may be needed as supporting material but assume it'll never get read.
For many audiences they need something short enough to go through in a fixed amount of time. So a 40 page document is pointless if you need to get through the material in 30 minutes.
Sure, you can write a 200 page report and just present a 12 page summary. But reality is that many times in a business context your time is better spent writing a 12 page report in the first place. People just wont read a book.
That doesn't mean that there aren't occasions where a long and detailed report is needed. I'd hate the Air Accident Investigation Board to only produce 4 sentence summaries. "It crashed. People died. We blame the wing manufacturer."
Comic sans is easier for dyslexic people to read.
Oh, I love that. Whether it's true or not, it's plausible, and beautiful for winding up people that loathe Comic Sans.
Although now I'm going to have to find out whether it's true, so that when I do wind people up I know whether I'm being malicious or honest.
Unfortunately the font doesn't work if lines of code is the metric
Please report any such academic fields to the examination boards for incompetence, as lines of code is never a fucking metric.
A good software engineer can take 1000 shit lines of code and turn them into 20. A great one will take those 20 and turn them into 50.
I doubt the analysis has been done to an adequate level to correctly predict the output in lines of code to a degree sufficient for inclusion in grading for even simple problems.
The article does not state that there are only 14000 people in the city. It does not state how many people there are in the city, or indeed how many cars were traversing it.
That would be the point the person to whom you are replying is trying to make.
Umm. No, he means repair of things like copiers and air conditioning units - you know, the things he actually mentioned in his post.
The US will "kindly" step in and pick up the pieces.
Really? Not China, or Brazil, or Japan and Korea, or a newly independent UK along with its Commonwealth (plenty of rich people in India these days).
In August more Model 3 were sold than Altima, Accent, Legacy, Impreza, Sentra, Focus, the Fiats, Chryslers, ....all these "affordable" middle class cars. Of course it also outsold all BMW cars combined, all Lexus cars combined, all MB cars combined,
Meanwhile, in the real world, there were more BMWs alone sold in August than there were Tesla cars (of any model):
http://carsalesbase.com/us-car...
http://carsalesbase.com/us-car...
Sure, not totally reliable data but substantially better than the ones you provided.
Given BMW and Mercedes alone sell more cars each month than Tesla make in a quarter, I'm feeling confident that you're talking shit.
It's just the old saying that no replacement for displacement, which is proven to be absurd these days.
In passenger cars, a 2.0L 4 cylinder turbo nowadays produces more power than a 3.5L 6 cylinder naturally aspired 20 years ago
But I can buy a 3.5L 6 cylinder turbo now, and your shitty 2L just isn't going to replace it.
If you know how to drive. It's in no way "underpowered"
If it can't get me from 25 to 70 in less time than it takes me to go down the slip road it's fucking dangerously underpowered.
If it can't get me from 40, past the slow cunt holding me up and back into my lane before the next bend, it's underpowered.
But I do know how to drive, and I do know where proper acceleration is a useful safety feature.
The correct answer is, "Why the fuck would you ask me a question the answer to which is guaranteed to piss you off? Just fucking yell at me already."
Thank you for this insight but I am a little confused: What the fuck does this have to do with the topic at hand?
... and I don't allow remote access.
[..]
Every now and then I log in through my WiFi
So all I need to do is get you to open a perfectly innocent web page on your primary computer with a specially crafted payload that connects to your device via your wireless LAN and does the nasty (including enabling remote access, if your firewall doesn't block that).
Isn't something of this type gross neglect or something
No, and yes.
Introducing a vulnerability of this form is merely accidental and/or inexperienced. Even the best software engineers will cock up from time to time, and no affordable review process will catch everything.
Failing to fix it for many months afterwards is however shitty indeed.
Ah, that's why you let somebody else buy one first, and read their description of it.
Unless you want something on the day of release, sites like https://www.snbforums.com/ will almost certainly give you enough information to understand what you're buying.
I don't have one of these devices, but do own something comparable.
It cost less than buying the component parts to build my own, came pre-built, pre-configured, with a warranty and designed to operate at low cost for years. It's also a fully functional linux server to which I have root access via SSH (and have disabled root login via SSH).
The sane alternative is to buy one and use it, but for those that want to tinker buy one anyway then wipe it and install your own OS of choice for use as a file server on the perfectly capable hardware.
I wont berate you for it. Just stop expecting me to help pay for them and stop telling me to forgo small luxuries because they damage the planet that I wont be around to need.
If everybody in my country turned barren tomorrow I'd be just fine with that.
The TAB is obligated to maintain
confidentiality with regard to the reporter of an incident.
So basically it's a kangaroo court. No chance to challenge the credibility or facts of the accuser, because they remain anonymous.
We can't get people to agree that sexual harassment is even a thing, or should be legally actionable; you really think "law enforcement" is going to "prosecute" that?
In which case excluding someone from a project to which they may have made many contributions over an extended period is even more fucking asinine.
If they post "You're cute, I want to fuck you until you're unconscious" on the kernel mailing list then sure, ask them to change their behaviour. What they do at an entirely unconnected conference is, oddly enough, entirely unconnected.
I bet dollars to doughnuts that Linus is right 99.99% of the time but some wordings in his mails really sound childish.
How many tens of thousands of emails has he sent? How many are in public?
People get upset by the dozen in which he's finally lost patience and shown he's actually human.
I get that he has to deal with sub-par kernel engineers from company X pushing an agenda and being really stupid and they deserve an ass-chewing, but if I were him
You're not him though. None of us are. He's fucking remarkable, and I'm willing to accept that occasionally he might send an email that's less diplomatic than the other 99.99% of them.
Would it be illegal to advertise a job in a men's magazine? Probably not, even though you're more likely to only get men reading it.
Have you ever left a men's magazine in view with women in the house? You'll be lucky if they don't take it home with them.
Let me try: it is fundamentally wrong that the number of women in computing has plummeted
Why? What's 'wrong' about it? Who the fuck are you to tell women they're making the wrong career choices?
Sexist shit.
Women are excluded from programming
No, they're not. Ignorant sexist shit.
You're setting out a false dichotomy there. The freedom loving sexist can choose to not spend their money on advertising.
The state merely mandates that if they do spend their money on advertising, they need to obey the social contract inherent to operating within that jurisdiction.
That's not forcing them to spend any money at all. It's not denying them freedom either. You're just being silly.