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You should try Japan Air Lines (JAL) or All Nippon Airways (ANA) for comparison. The difference is amazing. With those airlines, First/Business class actually means something besides a slightly larger seat. With Delta, first class means spending the entire flight with the Coach passengers parading up and down the aisle on their way to the lavatories that are not supposed to be available to them. Another very noticeable difference is in the age, appearance, attitude, and demeanor of flight attendants.

Earlier this month Rand Paul, a U.S. Senator and a former physician, was banned from YouTube for a week for simply saying that cloth masks are ineffective.

YouTube et al. could just as easily decide that discussion of natural immunity from prior infection is also "dangerous" (it might discourage vaccination) and ban it.

Of the major US carriers, Delta is certainly the worst IMHO. They've been hit by Covid-19 like all the airlines, but their concerns about public perception would be improved more by them stepping up their game and improving quality. They always seem to me to have embraced the "airlines are just flying busses" philosophy.

One can observe how this topic has become political, and is no longer scientific. Our focus and concerns are now all about existing and forthcoming restrictions and mandates for vaccinations and masks -- so much that information like this is no longer even interesting to most people. Not only uninteresting, but vulnerable to censors.

Management Information Systems. A "business oriented" computer degree. They were popular in the 80s as an alternative to comp. sci. They focus on how to use databases and spreadsheets, and other analytical and management systems. In those days, "decision support" software was a big thing. Is MIS still a thing anymore?

Gawd, Six Sigma was an ever-present factor in all our work when I was at IBM in the late 80's to early 90's. I have complete respect for Deming, but when anything becomes "religion" it gets damaged or mis-used a lot, as you say.

In our software group, we were constantly battling with management that wanted to start to look at software development as a factory-like process, and to apply factory QA processes.

It's cool looking, but frankly it has nothing to do with "digging a tunnel". It's a "graphically draw a line through a sphere" app.

Digging a tunnel would have to deal with deep earth concerns, such as how to deal with the core, what to do with the removed material, etc.

Stern tried to adapt, and with a degree of success. He came from the "Shock Jock", Andrew Dice Clay era, but shifted in recent years to become much softer and "woke".

Rumble is gaining popularity; maybe he should move there.

The fact that he re-created the image on his own several times as a teenager and as an adult, along with his expression of seeing it all as a benefit: "It's always been a positive thing and opened doors for me... when he heard I was the Nirvana baby, he thought that was really cool." should get the suit properly tossed out. I say "should"...

Most non-tech people are oblivious to the depth of Linus's contribution. As a Linux/tech person, it's hard imagine a world where there was no alternative to M$ or Apple. "Regular" people would have an even harder time understanding it.

We need a new Linus to create a viable, competitive alternative in the mobile space. Android is a good starting point, but so far no de-Googled Android (what I call Undroid) alternatives seem that viable.

Hence the reference to the onion, etc. The responses prove my point; and yes that's sad.

Since when is "the system" the thing that is supposed to win? To me, it seems more like the system is cheating the startup.

There's validity in working around or gaming systems so that a company has a chance of growing and thriving. The tactics used (contractors instead of employees, etc.) are perfectly legal. People are getting paid per an agreement, and they spend their income in their country/society, which disperses the benefits. A startup saddled with year (or two) long maternity leave and other such extreme requirements would make the risk too high.

These regulations create a regulatory capture situation where only large, established, or very well financed businesses can survive. Kudos to the agile and clever startups that find ways to make it, regardless. One should be on the side of the people, not the system.

"You need social programs to keep kids out of gangs"

A cohesive home with both the mother and father present, where moral values are taught, is more effective than a sad, government-run program.

The point is black lives seem to matter only if taken by a white police officer. The BLM movement is quite silent regarding other black deaths.

You should try embedded systems work, Board Support Package (BSP) development, in particular. BSP development is about adapting an OS to a particular (usually new) board design/implementation. You have to understand how the system works from a bare-metal perspective, and most everything is problem-solving. The guiding motivation is what I came to call FIO "Figure It Out" -- often with little and/or poorly written documentation. It'll get you deep into the kernel (of whatever OS), device drivers, chip specifications (architectures, register configurations, modes of operation, ...), SoC's, microcontrollers, ... It's a fascinating, though low-level, world.

I advise this sincerely, as I did it for 10 years, and enjoyed it a lot. However, I got myself back "above ground" and into systems and apps again, because my inclination is actually exactly the opposite of yours: "I could care less about “making” things; all I care about is “fixing” things".

Over time, although the gratification of getting things to work remained, I grew tired of FIO every. single. day. I longed to again design and create solutions -- to "make" things. Different strokes for different folks. Best of luck to you.

Krapp fully comprehends this world we're in.

I stopped at the "free" paywall.

A good response when the company starts with the "we're a family" BS, is to reply (with a smile on your face, to be safe) "good, then nobody can ever be fired!". It can be a lighthearted way to point out the absurdity of the concept.

Prop 22 is a poorly designed solution to an even worse AB5. I don't even use Uber or Lyft, but I feel for their drivers whose whole purpose of joining those businesses was because it allowed them independence.

These companies should put the screws to California if they're forced to comply, and charge lots more here than in free states. It might hurt their business in CA, but that's the case anyway (by design per the legislature's goal). Maybe just pull out altogether, and only serve free states.

They seem too well-educated to not be aware of toxic algae (very common throughout northern CA), and would know to not drink the water -- and certainly not give it to the child. Dogs do often tragically die every summer from drinking from streams, though. Similarly, it's odd for a responsible couple with a child and dog to not know to bring water, etc.

Heat or alage aren't impossible, but it sure does seem odd.

Interesting "feature": the user perceives a (real) benefit: preview. But, there is also an unspoken benefit for Microsoft, who can feed their marketing analytics, or AI training data, or ... with what it learns via the chats and links.

I'd be fine if the fine print in the EULA provides a guarantee that the feature scans content solely for generating previews, and that M$ keeps no copy of it, etc....But, I'm sure I'd go blind looking for such text in the EULA.

When some other animal species starts building libraries and exploring space, I'll consider them exceptional, too. Humans, a kind of animal, are quite distinct from other animal species. We can't fly by nature, but we can build machines where not only we can fly, but we can fly to space. Most all other animals live today in the same ways, and with the same capabilities, as their ancestors have for centuries; but, humans have adapted and advanced in ways that hardly a generation lives the same as the one before it -- all from human-driven, intentional advancement. We're a quite distinct species (judgements aside).

I don't see the harm in recognizing our superior differences; in fact, it's as important as recognizing our similarities and common bonds.

This is like the reason I quit using Skype 10 years ago. My colleagues and I noticed the same thing: send a link in a chat, and within seconds to minutes a request (or more) for that URL from a Microsoft server would be logged. Done and bye.

Or, rather than a societal problem, it's a case of someone with specialized skills moving to an island nation which had no opportunities for people with such skills (poor planning).

The same reason that the maker of the machine itself, the husband, isn't mentioned in the title -- doesn't fit the narrative. Who'd ever want to hear about a couple and a friend starting a company? "Two Women" will get more attention, and therefore sell more ads, which is the reason that the publication exists.

You're simply wrong. The US's economy was doing _great_ under the previous administration, and even top Democrats agreed that it was right to put strong pressure on China re: trade.

https://thehill.com/policy/international/392636-schumer-on-c...

What experiences with which government would lead you to believe that bureaucrats -- most of whom have never run a company nor made a product -- would be capable of "managing the market"?

But, it would be funny cartoon vomit spewing out of a cute little avatar face.

My fun in such a meeting would be ridiculing the silly tech. I bet it'll be a hit, nonetheless.

Dan Bricklin also published "Dan Bricklin's Demo Program" in the 1980s, which my team at IBM used quite a bit. It was for creating functional mockups of DOS (pre Windows) applications. We found it very useful in producing an interactive app mockup with which we could solidify agreement on requirements.

He acknowledges its existence, but doesn't have artifacts from it. As I recall, the box (as software was packaged then) had a large tomato on it (his company was Software Garden).

http://www.bricklin.com/softwaregarden.htm