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Your boss needs paperwork to justify pay raises, promotions, etc to their boss & HR. Isn't the whole purpose of that question to leave a paper trail that both you and they can point to?
That's what I've been told, and such I always answer those questions in a way that has a concrete 'goal' that I can point to and either makes ME more valuable to the company OR delivered some thing that is valuable TO the company.
From 2022 to 2024, the percentage of men in nursing decreased from 11.2% to 10.4%.2
https://www.aacnnursing.org/news-data/fact-sheets/nursing-wo...
My org has restructured to gear up for reducing engineers' necessary skills
They've changed our job titles from 'Engineer' to 'Developer'.
Power (in the form of talking to business owners, organizing work, setting engineering direction) has been centralized. We had 6 engineering managers now we have one 'Director'.
I don't think I've solved a real problem in 8 months.
It kinda seems like Sullivan being shrewd. Sullivan probably saw the value in one of his junior architects going through the whole process of building a house for himself. It'd give Wright valuable experience. Mistakes could happen to his own property rather than a client's. Having such a contract may limit the chances that Wright would leave the employer. Wrights attitude towards Sullivan would be more positive if Wright saw him as a patron.
Maybe the more interesting thing is how far people are going to 'fight' against AI?
Just the fact that people are putting real thought and effort (even if it doesn't last too long...) is worth considering.
On the human side, I'm kinda losing patience proving I'm human. But, I also really like claude being able to access information.
I played the timeline from 1800-1900
the explosion of dots from the civil war is really something!
my BIGGEST pet peeve.
Tell me what the thing IS! It's shockingly common for READMEs or About pages to already assume the reader knows what the product/project is.
ScrollPods lets you scroll hands-free on your Mac with your AirPods in a precise, smooth, continuous, dynamic and inconspicuous way.
That's BELOW the viewport of my browser. So to figure out what the product is, I have to scroll. Maybe that's by design?
Honestly one sentence at the beginning explaining that "ScrollPods" is software that lets you use airpods (or compatible headphones) to scroll would be really helpful
For some reason this brings back memories of looking for clocks or strangers with a watch while walking around a department store or mall
I mustve forgotten how common 'public' clocks used to be. Now... not even the clock on my local town hall is correct
also friction-less
I am so burnt out of making accounts. verifying my email. entering 2fa. re-logging in. entering cc info. getting spammed with marketing email.
I agree with you in theory
If it were a one-time purchase, wouldn't that encourage the service provider to make it worse over time because they've already taken your money?
Couldn't it encourage the provider to make it better because their revenue comes from new customers?
if the service gets worse, simply cancel your subscription.
There's plenty of examples of subscriptions that are nearly impossible to cancel, or have a giant fee for cancelling early. Adobe, Comcast, siriusxm spring to mind. Anecdotally, streaming services are partly funded by people who subscribe for a particular film/tv show and just never cancel.
That's an insane amount of work. An amazing adventure and a saint of a wife!
I'm wondering if there'll be any follow up:
Thats a lot of metal in the engine oil. Whats the source? is there a fix? or is it just 'breaking in' a new motor?
Did he ever solve the overheating problems?
Did he ever finish the headlights and other small items?
and now what does he do with all the duplicate/spare parts?
I've done a couple extremely high stress road trips, so I fully empathize with him passing out every time he had to pull over. What a fun read; I love these ultra-long-form articles.
Tenda is a supplier of home and business network devices such as routers, switches, wireless access points, and video surveillance equipment.
I was unfamiliar with Tenda.
Shenzhen Tenda Technology Co.,Ltd. ( https://www.tendacn.com/us/profile )
Tenda may just rebrand, right? It seems like many chinese brands will either rebrand or have a 'competing' brand with the same internals but different externals. (I have no idea if Tenda does this, I've just seen it previously. Specifically with security cameras)
I wish the authors provided some method for checking this vulnerability other than fw version. It seems like Tenda could just change the password and say "yep! all safe now"
american history is so recent it can basically be covered in detail in a single middle school year.
Here's yale spending a semester on the revolution ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shTBSGoYtK0&list=PLDA2BC5E78... ). Here's yale spending a semester on the civil war and reconstruction ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXXp1bHd6gI&list=PL5DD220D6A... ). If you took both in a year, you'd still only have the highlights of both events, covering about 40 years.
The US has had zero real external threats post revolution
The US had external threats by Great Britain, Spain, Mexico, Barbary states, Native peoples, Japan, USSR, Italy, and Germany. They all took military and political action against the United States.
South american countries also have a fascinating history! But I'm not sure how that diminishes anything of the USA's struggle for existence. If anything, it heightens the fact that the founding of the USA is largely a miracle where the right people were in the right place at the right time. The fact that the USA's government has endured is by itself worth study.
and why limit it to external threats? are external threats the only one that threaten a country?
totally off topic. I noticed the banner photo ( https://fens2026.abstractserver.com/program/img/logo.e8cd4ff... ) load noticeably slow.
It's 1,790.16 KB (1,833,122 bytes), which is ~800,000 bytes larger than the code space of the main microprocessor of the product I'm working on.
My Aunt spent her 'empty-nester' years tracking down our family. She found the immigration records and went back as far as the Habsburg monarchy. She went to the village where her grandfather was born and looked into the town's records.
She found people who looked exactly like her brothers (my father and my uncle)
To her, it was like a religious experience.
When she returned she said the village kept birth & marriage records to make sure new marriages were 'far enough apart'. I don't know if that's true, or just some color she put on the story.
I just tried looking up my last name on https://www.familysearch.org and got over 1.2M record results. daunting!
Honestly, this is just a bad article.
The history of engineering in the USA is actually SUPER important. The article touches on some restrictions the British imposed on their colonies, but it goes much further. The fight for 'Sovereignty' took a long time and was almost never certain.
I HIGHLY recommend the Yale lecture series. They're not engineering-specific, unfortunately. But still really, really, good (I mean... it's Yale)
The Revolution with Professor Freeman - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shTBSGoYtK0&list=PLDA2BC5E78...
America at 250 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TNcFQiqHGw&list=PLh9mgdi4rN...
The Civil War and Reconstruction with David Blight - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXXp1bHd6gI&list=PL5DD220D6A...
yeah, it's worded strangely; as if both conflicts were exclusively/divisively maritime.
Which is a shame because the role of the Colonial Navy and later the U.S. Navy in the war of independence and later in the War of 1812 is actually fascinating and often overlooked
John Paul Jones, for example had an amazing (as in interesting, not 'goodly') life ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paul_Jones )
And the Battle of Lake Erie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lake_Erie
It's a 4 minute read.
"country that lived in easy mode succeeds", yay.
or "How to say you know nothing about American history without saying you know nothing about American history"
Good to see Mr. Valente is doing well
I think it's because it's the Smithsonian magazine. Smithsonian celebrates the origins of people and things that shaped some part of American history.
It's significant that "Boepple immigrated to the United States in the late 1880s, resolving to search for more of these freshwater mussels."
And he was German. Lots of Germans emigrated to the USA, especially around that time. so it's important context of who this man was
Do you know why EU has a history of outsourcing core systems to non-EU entities?
Is it just because it is (or was) more cost effective? I mean EU has tons of talent, so it's hard for me to believe it's a lack of resources
Maybe it is too costly or too difficult to start up in the EU?
I haven't done too much research myself. I don't know the stories of anyone who tried to compete against palantir/google/boeing/etc
this is a great way to train people to ignore PR emails/notifications
Anecdotally, I think it depends on age and family more than anything. I grew up with hand-me-down computers, games because we couldn't afford anything new. Started with win98 and games from the mid 90s, but running them in 2002.
I do remember having to look lots of things up and figuring out why some things wouldnt work. Then getting into building our own computers (because it was cheaper) and figuring out how to get halflife mods working...
I don't think it's reasonable to have privacy in a public place. All other arguments follow from there.
- United states v Jones
- Carpenter v United States
- florida v jardines
- kyllo v united states
All affirm some level of expectation of privacy in public.
ALPR's, facial recognition, drone surveillance are going to get challenged at some point. GORSUCH in this opinion pontificated on Katz v United States. Highly recommend reading his opinion
Thats totally fair and really scary since so many services think 2fa means texting or calling a phone number (my bank for example)
I am a vocal opponent to magic links via email (I am an unhinged person, in case it wasn't obvious before :) ).
I NEVER log into my mail from my laptop/desktop. I access my email via my phone's mail app.
So
1. try logging on via my laptop's browser
2. service sends a magic link to my email
3. click the link on my phone
4. now I'm logged in on my phone! not what I wanted!
There's a japanese docuseries called 'Manben' (available on youtube) that interviews a bunch of famous manga artists. Without fail they all talk about how much work, hours, suffering goes into the first years of making manga.
It's very interesting to watch and I highly recommend it. But it's also a GREAT advertisement for avoiding the industry.
oh dang that's not good. I've had the same phone number since 2006 so I didn't really think about it
I'm sure this is worse than using lastpass in some way
but for the past couple years I've just generated and forgotten 90% of my passwords. the final 10% I keep in a password manager. But if the service isn't really that important I just use the 'forgot my password' to change and generate a new password every time I need to login