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one price, one person All-tasks Contractor.. I farm out/purchase all basic graphics, use tons of open source libraries and farm out most tedious stuff. My employers know, as long as we deliver they do not care.

Doing about the same thing 50% of my day, except I have to spend another 50% on meetings explaining higher-up's the why's of every and each architectural decision. Then the third 50% of my time I spend on HR issues, like filling forms and compliance training.. They do pay me by the hour.. so no complaints here :)

Loved this books and allowed me to build several of the projects.. (Including the very crappy LED oscilloscope). They where very non threatening to a 14 year old kid with a reduced command of the English language.

With the engines placed at the tip of the wings it must be next to impossible to operate with a single engine.

If you are prone to hemorrhoids.. this is a must have! Don't ask me how I know ;)

When I am stuck on a issue/decision/bug I just stand up and go "walk about it" with my dog.. Most of the times I come back with something to get started.. All of the times my dog comes back with a wagging tail.

First write a tests for every function point. After that you will understand what the system does. Then re-write the whole thing.

Somewhere I read a measure of intelligence is: the ability to achieve your objectives efficiently. You could say the same about coding. Are you achieving your coding objectives efficiently?

In (some) poor countries, public teaching pays poorly and tend to have strong unions. Unfortunately this combination attracts bad actors that politicize education putting the interests of the children last. Technology can't do much about this.

That said, is unbelievable what kids are getting on their own from access to what is available on the internet. It is truly transforming rural areas.

The answers to your questions are: yes and yes. As long as the current regime has money to keep their coalition together, they are going nowhere. (as long as oil keeps coming out of the ground, money will be there)

All it takes for a perfectly democratic country to elect a terrible leader (who will probably erode democracy away) is to have a previous leader not pay attention to the voting masses. Anger is a very bad advisor.

Not "their" problem.. you could say the same about pretty much any other technology product.

It is not a matter of hard or easy, is a matter of simple economics: 2nd amendment = high price to pay, no 2nd amendment = easy peasy.

For most people, (read spreadsheets, word processors, etc ) computers make their jobs easier or more productive. It is hard to say the same for medical software, mainly because it is not designed to help medical providers, but to help administrators.

That is exactly how we do them.. you say the word and point to the item with the hand you will be using.

Ex: When landing the plane: GUMPS (gas, undercarriage, mixture,prop,seatbelts ) say them all while pointing to each item.

One way to mitigate slips are mnemonics.. in grain them into the students when they are learning, and they will get stuck with them for life. I have one for pretty much everything I do.

I learned to protect MY shareholders first. (my family) I am somewhat OCD and have given sweat and blood for companies more motivated by the "get it done" attitude then for the money. After the last .com crash debacle, I realized no matter how nice the company or important the task, Family comes first.

Ignore recruiters, There is nothing wrong with listing a one year sabbatical in your resume.

If I made a penny for every time I accepted blame for a managers dumb mess-up..... (As an over paid IT contractor)

Oh! now that I think about it.. guess who always gets called back by those managers for new projects! :)

Nothing beats a short nap after lunch to let the body (and mind) reset the system for a great afternoon. Many companies now days have special nap rooms, with mats and blankies. :)

My tip: A short "siesta" (Nap in Spanish) after lunch is a time proven way to reset the system for a productive afternoon.

Your hobby is to expensive? Try clubs.. great way to share resources

IMHO, Soon, smart glasses will be as ubiquitous as cellphones. We as humans keep increasing our communications and multitasking. This item covers both.

No surprise here.. You would be surprised at the knowledge and experience level of so called "industry security experts"

Exactly as I would do if I was on the office: Jira (or whatever task manager you use), GroupChat, Git PR's and so on.. And if you are doing some sort of Agile, a 15 minute morning stand-up call.

Unfortunately, I do not need to see a study to know that the waters near Lima (Where I live & surf) are full of crap.. That said, the healthy effects of the exercising on the sea must counteract the bacteria, because I don't know a healthier group than the surfing community around here.

Please look at my comment above on Accidents vs Recklessness. As an example of a group that is well trained, follows procedures and plans properly, take the Golden Knights skydiving team.

They had a handful of deaths since they started in 1959. And their worst accident was a fatal aircraft failure, which is technically an aircraft accident, not a skydiving accident.

There is a hidden factor here that I don't think is being taken into account. Accidents vs Recklessness.

Let me explain: When you do a risk activity, the way to mitigate risk is to bound the situation to keep all variables within safe margins.. For example, on aircrafts we look at the mean time of failure on a part, then you replace the part before it gets there, so you reduce the chances of it failing..

On adventure sports we do the same. When Skydiving, Rock climbing, Paragliding etc.. you keep looking at accident causes and develop a plan to avoid those situations.

So, If you do follow all the existing safety procedures,and still get in trouble, it is probably an accident, something you could not prepare or account for. (procedures are then created to mitigate its repeat occurrence)

On the other side.. if you disregard the safety procedures (push de envelope, as we say) and get in trouble, then you were reckless, and you paid heavily for it. That is NO accident. (if you get away with it.. you were just dumb lucky)

My point is.. I bet the micromorts computed here are based on "all" accidents, not on accidental vs reckless deaths.

With all due respect to the death.. if you seen a cluster of 20 deaths within a small group, you need to look closely at the reason why those deaths happened.. Where they trained properly? Where they at the appropriate experience level to engage on the type of activity they where doing? (RW, CRW, fast landings etc) Where there other external factors involved? , was there a single significant accidental event that affected many members of the group at the same time? (Aircraft crash for example..)

Here we go again.. (I think we discussed this topic previously)

Skydiving, hang gliding,Paragliding and many other "adventure sports" contain a significan amount of risk.. the difference is that skydiving (not base jumping) is tightly regulated by the FAA, there are strict training requirements, equipment maintenance etc etc .. it is almost like flying a plane. so.. it is super dangerous compared to knitting.. but it's quite safe compared to many other risk activities.. (Paragliding, hang gliding, motorcycle racing on a street, experimenting with drugs, proximity flying etc)

Most of the people I've met during 20 years skydiving are very much alive and still jumping, several hundred people..

Yea! when the beep of the vario kicks in, is like: free fuel!