chrisBob

I needed another monitor for my wife's work from home setup and ended up purchasing from Best Buy last week. Amazon had everything at least a week out, but I ordered Wednesday and got it Friday via Best Buy. I didn't get the exact model I would have ordered normally (from Philips), but I got a nice 4k Samsung screen.

Would you like to provide some context? Not the OP, but it seems that this needs a national level response, and my impression is that the President is not handling things well.

Some of the language wasn't clear but "Apple also announced it will commit $1 million to local San Jose organizations to offset associated revenue loss as a result of WWDC 2020’s new online format." makes it sound like there will be no in-person conference.

hopin looks like a decent product and is at least trying to get into this space. Has anyone attended an event they hosted?

- poster sessions with a way for people to see the available posters and discuss them with the poster presenter

I completely forgot poster sessions which are a large part of most scientific conferences

The problem with kids isn't that they are at risk of a serious infection, the problem is that someone needs to watch them. I worked from home yesterday while my daughter was off for the election, and while my work from home days are usually more productive, yesterday my output was clearly lower. Even a good 5-year-old needs a fair amount of attention. Younger kids need even more.

Kids are also great at spreading viruses even if they don't get very sick from them. In some ways that makes it worse because if they don't have obvious symptoms then they could be more likely to transmit it as no one is monitoring them closely.

Shoes of the winning marathoners tells you what brand is sponsoring the runners. The sponsorship has a tremendous impact on who wins major races. The shoes don't have that much of an impact.

Do you have a way to filter duplicates? I just took a look at the iOS list and there are a few games that are on all 3 of the first 3 pages.

I love the idea, and will use this to help find games for our family iPad.

If they care at all about making the touchbar a thing then the best way to do that is make every mac developer get one on their daily-use laptop. I still think of it as a novelty more than a functional feature, but I don't think any third party apps would support it if it didn't come on every MBP.

I like this idea until I try honestly to defend myself and fail, and the company says "ok we would like our $10k judgement and $10M legal fees paid today please."

I am trying to find the source I read a few years ago where climate scientists are intentionally scaling back their predictions so they aren’t discounted as crazy doomsday predictions. I think that there are many accurate predictions out there but we mostly see the most mild ones because they figure some action is better than being written off completely.

University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | Full-Time | Onsite | $52-$62k

http://careers.umich.edu/job_detail/179036/research_software...

My team is hiring a junior Research Support Programmer. We are setup as an internal consulting service for the college of LSA that takes any programming job a research lab needs help with. We are looking for someone ready to learn/write/debug whatever the labs need. The listing specifically asks for someone with 1 year of MATLAB or Python experience (our two most common languages) so that you can hit the ground running, but you will be asked to take on a wide variety of work. In the first few years, this will include working with a lot of new languages and technologies.

Last month we posted this as an intermediate position and did not get a good candidate pool, so we are trying again with a slightly different posting for someone more junior.

Feel free to email me with any questions, but you must apply through the link above.

I have a TCL TV and use my Apple TV exclusively.

I was actually really pissed a while back because my in-laws were over and when I came home they told me "For some reason you hadn't connected your TV to the internet. We gave it your wifi password, and now it works!" Thanks. Now I have to change wifi passwords, and the power light on the TV constantly blinks because it thinks it should be connected to the internet, but isn't.

You must be authorized to work in the US, but we have no citizenship requirement. We probably won't be able to sponsor a work Visa for this position.

If you have a more specific question, I recommend that you apply and we can help you figure it out if you are one of the top applicants.

What is it exactly about "processed foods" that make it bad for you. Is it just that they tend to be the ones with high sugar and fat content, or is there something about the processing of processed foods that is unhealthy?

I know our salaries sound a little low, but I can afford to live on 6 acres and have a 10 minute commute to work. If you are looking for a similar lifestyle then this might actually be one of the best paid jobs in tech.

University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | Full-Time | Onsite | $52-$68k

http://careers.umich.edu/job_detail/176986/research_support_... My team is hiring a junior/intermediate Research Support Programmer. We are setup as an internal consulting service for the college of LSA that takes any programming job a research lab needs help with. If you think of yourself as a “web developer” or a “python programmer” then this might not be for you. We are looking for someone ready to learn/write/debug whatever the labs need. In the first few years, this will include working with a lot of new languages and technologies.

We are especially interested in adding someone who has experience/interest in interfacing with research hardware: Imagine a researcher just bought a big micro-fluidics machine and a microscope and needs to automate taking images during an experiment. We would be particularly excited to get a LabVIEW fan.

You can email me with informal questions, but the only way to apply is through the link above at the umich careers site.

Note that this job listing ends soon and my close as early as the 6th

I have thought about that. Maybe when the time comes I should make a deal with Farmer Kenny. He really doesn't like the people trampling around to get pictures either, but maybe if I organized it and shared $10/person with him it would be better for everyone.

I am about to have this problem right in my back yard. I know the farm field that is 50 feet from my back door is going to grow sunflowers some time soon, and my driveway is the obvious way for people to access it. I have seen cars parked carelessly on major roads in the area when the same farmer used other fields, and I am really not sure what to do when the problem comes to me. I will be fortunate in that the field is slightly hidden and off the road, plus sunflowers can't be planted in the same place every year, so there is only a single season for people to discover and seek out the site. I am just really not looking forward to dealing with all of the people driving down my driveway to get their shot.

I am pretty sure there is a famous quote along the lines of "It is hard to make a man understand something when his private jet trips depend on him not understanding it" :)

It might be more intuitive if you think of the wires as the two sides of a battery. You can safely touch either the + or - side of a battery, even a high voltage one.

I have two ways to look at this:

1) I lived in Iraq for a while, and they have free electricity. What happens there is that they have to implement rolling blackouts because when people do have electricity they turn on every appliance, light, tv, ... Having some kind of cost involved helps to limit this type of silly behavior.

2) At some point, someone is paying for electricity even if they don't send me a bill every month. Let's say the government funds free electricity for everyone. As someone who tries to conserve energy, my costs will go up while the guy next door keeps his 3k sq-ft house at 65 degrees all summer pays less than he does now. That does not seem like a good system.

I am at work 40 hours a week. I work on what is basically an internal programmer for hire service, and on a good week I might be able to bill 20 productive hours. I don't have a good measure of how much of that is due to idle (internet) time, but a lot of the productivity loss is from meetings, switching between small projects or chatting with co-workers.

I spent a little time at Menlo (as a customer), where they do 100% pair programming. Being "on" and working >90% of the time takes some getting used to. The ability to just get up and walk around the building or the block when you want to is a nice perk.

Do things like the "pass through tax deduction" support this kind of investment. I don't understand the tax implications enough to know what causes the current issues.

I am not a Real Estate Investor, but I am a little confused who the bad-guy is in this situation. Why is it the investor and not the person who ends up paying top dollar for the flipped "move in ready" home?

It seems like the consensus here is usually that "the market" is a good thing, and I am not sure why this case is different.

I built a house last year, and had to work with a few different banks to finally get a construction loan. One of the fist ones said to me "1900 sq-ft? You shouldn't be building a house that small".

We made it work, but would have gone with a manufactured home before we would have built something with 3k+ square feet just to make the bank happy.

There are lots of definitions of comfortable. It seems like this article uses "Similar financial resources to your neighbors'", so the number sound right to me.

I went to grad school with someone who grew up as a subsistence farmer in Nepal. He has a much different idea of comfort/luxury than I do, but still likes to buy big TVs, etc. because thats what you do here.

My definition of comfortable is being able to afford 6 acres within a 12 minute commute from work. That really limits the jobs/locations that would be comfortable for me.

Or infants who aren’t old enough to get the vaccine, but screw them, right?

France has other unusual photo standards also. Americans traveling to France should be aware that in general you CAN'T photograph an individual in public.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Country_specific_...

After a coworker screamed twice from this I made them a pretty RGB-LED display that flashes a rainbow when you press the button at the entrance to their cube. I am surprised I haven't seen any good products in this space. I feel like you could make good money selling programmers something that is essentially a button, battery LED and 6' of wire.