JackFr

Losing your job sucks. Typically, there is no silver lining. I’ve been laid off 2x and those were both among the worst experiences of my life.

> rawness is an excellent time to reflect on what went right and what I could've done better, before the brain starts coping with the trauma of the event in question.

But that isn’t what he’s done in the essay. I don’t think he’s doing an honest assessment of what he could have done better. Rather there’s a thin patina of “I should have realized . . .” and then a litany of complaints about the company. And the complaints about the company are the same usual ones that everyone makes. I HAVE BEEN THERE. I HAVE MADE THEM TOO.

But I would advise, in six months in a year when you’re in a new job, to take a HARD look at yourself. Try not to cast people as villains and thus can be a learning experience.

Maybe a dumb question here, but how would they discover a dark matter particle, if dark matter is basically invisible to us except for its gravitational effects?

Railroad cars don't have differentials and travel on parallel tracks. How?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Skookum/comments/47sbri/richard_fey...

"What clown wrote this ... [ runs git blame ] ...erm...never mind."

My grandfather taught me, I have long since forgotten. But I do recall that the killer use case was cube roots, which as opposed to multiplication or even square roots is difficult to do with pen and paper and much harder to mentally estimate.

The first time I saw baseball from box seats after 30 years of upper deck, it was two different games. While you couldn’t hear, seeing the players speak to one another was a blast.

They talked about it because they knew the median voter disagreed with the Democrats.

Much of the difference in the BYD cost is accounted for by a 27% tariff on the cars, transport and increased costs for warranty and compliance certification costs, as well as likely subsidies in the domestic market.

Of those, you’ll see that only transport costs are a function of “capitalism” the rest is government.

Googled and I found it. It seems I inflated my own importance in the remembering. My post is part of an article on undefined behavior on the comp.lang.c FAQ's maintainer. https://www.eskimo.com/~scs/readings/undef.950321.html

I remember being called out by name in an Archimedes Plutonium rant around 1993. I also had a post referenced in the comp.lang.c FAQ for a few years. That's the closest I've come to celebrity. The internet before the web brings back memories.

I better not dwell to long or I'll have flashbacks t coding X/Motif UI's.

I read these and it's beyond my comprehension how people can get sucked in and fall for it. And yet I know I'm not special and I think back on periods in my life where I was depressed, under a great deal of stress very apprehensive, and I wonder "Could they have gotten me then?"

(My mother who is 88 years old has been so indoctrinated in scam avoidance that she refuses to set up an online password for her bank, and totters to the branch every two weeks to do her banking, where they plead with her to do it online. But she's not gonna get scammed. Also she finds the idea of a new romance at 88 "repulsive".)

For men I suspect the “killed by a rando” number is pretty low, but robbery/theft is very high. Of course if you have nothing to steal, that does insulate you a little.

For women I suspect the “killed by a rando” number is low, but the sexual assault number is higher.

> the way he proudly explains how he is using people is just awful.

TFA: “One might even call the art of accepting generosity a type of compassion.”

Turns out he’s doing them a favor!

A company who does cutting edge R&D for defense contracts and and consumer small appliances is destined for trouble. They are two very different lines of business. While you might make an argument about synergy, the problem stems from the investors who are investing in two very different lines of business. Ultimately one of them was going to win. The failure to realize that offshoring would turn suppliers into competitors is a known issue in the consumer small appliance world and it looks like they were not ready.

Interestingly enough the R&D portion that was sold off, became Endeavor Robotics which was sold to Teledyne FLIR Systems and seems to be doing fine.

> IUPAC nomenclature ensures that 2,2,4-trimethylpentane describes exactly one molecule. No chemist wakes up and decides to call it “Steve” because Steve is a funny name and they think it’ll make their paper more approachable.

Well if they work for a drug company they will say “Let’s call this phlogistotheremone but sell it under the name Zyphyrax so that doctors and patients will refer to the same medication by different names.”

And the users of this device are typically who?

Well Hamming observed it. It's not a randomized controlled study. It's anecdotal of course, and if one observed something to the contrary they would be well served to discount it. But presumably Hamming was there was a reason Hamming was addressing Bellcore.

It seems identical to the displays used in NJ Transit trains.

What the author ignores is speaking from the point of view of the omniscient observer these things seem obvious. But the characters, even if they were purely rational happiness optimizers, lack all the information the movie viewer has.

It's less silly if one thinks of it as the New Zealand Parliament created a Whanganui River Authority and endowed it with the same structure and rights.

> The only reason corporate personhood is a thing is because it allows corporate lawyers to pick from a bigger pool of personal rights in a perversion of the spirit of these original rights.

Not at all. It allows corporations to own property, enter contracts and appear as a plaintiff or defendant in lawsuits. Without legal personhood it could do none of these.

> Most people who (quite reasonably) hate corporate personhood

Most people understand that incorporated businesses need to own property, enter into contracts and act as either plaintiff or defendant in lawsuits.

> breathless articles

Nice.

To be fair Luca Brazil did explicitly assure the bandleader that either his signature or his brains would be on the contract before he left.

So that’s kind of a threat.

> we focused a LOT OF MONEY on it

Apollo at its height commanded 0.8% of the entire US economy.

It always bothered me because cryptography isn’t the CIA’s thing. Spies and analysis are their thing. Code breaking is the NSA

Clearly someone who never knew EJBs.

(I know the irony of Spring is that it became what it replaced. But it got a good ten or fifteen years of productivity before it began getting high on its own supply. )

> they both find trades entertaining or have a cultural preference for doing business with each other

That is value. It is any benefit they capture which they would not otherwise.

BuzzFeed apparently leading Springer and Elsevier in social science publishing.

> The difference between being good and being great isn’t talent or formal training, but the invisible practice that happens when you're just living life.

Pure nonsense.

Necessary != sufficient, and honestly neither are demonstrated in the anecdotes.