Comment Re:$340 for BBC America on FIOS. (Score 1) 255
Why the down-mod?
Why the down-mod?
The first question. The question that must never be answered. Hidden in plain sight! The question you've been running from all your life!
And TopGear.
I an a FIOS customer, and they have 3 plans of issue here: Select HD, Prime HD, and ExtremeHD. Select has every channel I want. Prime adds some channels, but takes away others, namely BBCA. Extreme then is Select+Prime+more. I'd be happy on Prime if it had BBCA, but as a result, I pay a price difference of $340 a year for one channel. I could deal with dropping it and going Amazon and getting the BBC shows that way, but there are severals hows on there that I watch. (And I'm not referring to St:TNG reruns)
I stress over my mortgage and car loan, though they are manageable because I can manage the payments. If someone had a potential liability of even just 0.1% of $250 billion, I could work the rest of my life and never make up 1/100th that kind of liability. How does it not affect your heath?
If you read my later replies, you see I factor that in too.
1. only bit was on FLAC files. Some programs like to set the ID3 meta tags. Once you have read-only flac files, it's not so important to lock fown the mp3s.
2. Disc blocks go bad. I'd copy my FLAC files around every so often to make sure they don't get corrupted because of hard disk block rot.
10 years ago I ripped my collection to FLAC, set the read-only bit and never looked back.
Now when my MP3s get fucked*, I just resample from the FLAC version.
* Technical term. There was a ulitility called "unfuck" that would repair the MP3
I've always over-performed at my jobs. I have letters of recommendation to prove it. And fantastic references.
The problem isn't me, it's that the industry is fickle. "Oh, you do java, but you haven't done Struts? We will find someone who has." It's not like struts would be that hard to learn. "Oh, you only have node.js, but not Angular.js sorry". I could learn angular in an afternoon, but I still couldn't put it on my resume. Maybe I am a fool for not padding it more?
After months of searching, I found one guy desperate enough to hire me as an Android developer, just because I indicated an interest in mobile. I'm a 1-man team and the iOS team is a 2-man team. It's been a few months, and I'm about 3/4 as far into a a project as they are, a project that we started at the same time, and I'm learning Android while I do it.
But how do you put that on a resume?
I don't know what it is with hiring managers. I've been submitting to jobs that I should be hired for. In one instance in particular, I submitted a job app at Zenimax where they were looking for a DevOps person with a string scripting background. Perl, PHP, Python, JS were all on my resume, even including Python embedding. They said my experience was "thin". I don't know how you an be "thin", when you've embedded Python into C apps, it requires a pretty thorough understanding of Python internals. I've been out of college 13 years now, and I've done everything except GIS, 3D, and mainframe stuff like SAP/PeopleSoft. I've done
These days, I think I need to talk to the actual dev people and not the idiot in HR.
If you're looking for bottom-feeding web work these are fine choices. But if you really want to get your career going in a "real place" move to either
Or Node.js if you are looking for the NextBigThing.
It seems that it would be fertile territory for genetic algorithms to design the die. Sure, humans need to define the features, but run everything through a genetic algorithm, simulate and let the computer grow its own chips. Perhaps whole chips are not practical, but sub-processing units could do it.
I've driven a BMW 135, X1 with a push button start. And I hate them. Maybe it is different for other manufactures, but here's what happens:
1. I push the fob key into the slot, and I accidentally unlock the trunk.
2. I've got to push some dash start button, which seems to have some kind of timer control. It's not a temporary switch to the starter motor. You can just tap it and it will engage thee stater. I worry what happens when my fuel pump or battery is a few years older and it takes a little longer to start.
3. Turning off the key is another ceremony in hitting a button then pulling the fob out.
If they had it so inserting the fob one click was "acc" a 2nd clock was "on", and pushing it in was "start" for as long as I push it, along with just pulling the whole thing out was "off", where I can start and stop the car in one fluid motion, then we would have something. But I hate this "Japanese tea ceremony" of starting a vehicle. I've got it down to one motion with my tumbler key. I don't want that replaced with an inferior process.
It's the mode created by lawyers to maintain that you are responsible for the vehicle's operation. because if the software fails, it's Volvo's fault. Imagine you drive through a oil slick, the vehicle takes a corner too fast before becoming aware of the reduced traction. In automatic mode, it's the car's fault, in "highly autonomous mode" it's still yours.
The power company already knows how much I use and when. In fact they send me this energy statement saying I'm using 10% more than my neighbors.
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