I interviewed at a defense contractor once and the project sounded interesting. They were under a serious schedule crunch and the interviewer told me I could expect to work 60 hours a week for the next 18 months without any overtime.
I told him I didn't want to waste any more of his time and did I need an escort out or could I find my own way.
I wonder whether it would be possible to avoid all this bullsh*t by using Geo-Location to deny access to anyone trying to access a website from a location in California? I am not the least bit dependent on income from my private website, and I couldn't care less if Californians let their politicians block access to my website.
"the computer went really slow after I installed it"
This version also appears to be using a lot of system resources. Firefox on Linux is idling at about 6% CPU while reading HN. Go to that web site and the usage goes up to 80% to 90%. Come back here and CPU goes back down to 6% or so.
I remember reading quite a few years ago about an auction process that turned things upside down. Each buyer had a push button, and there was a display at the front that showed a price going from high to low (the opposite of the usual auction where the bidders drive the price up). The auction starts with the price up high, and the displayed price goes down relatively quickly. When one of the buyers pushes their button they win the auction at the price shown on the display at the time the button was pressed. If a buyer presses the button too soon, they may be paying a higher price. If a buyer waits too long another buyer will win the auction.
This process is used for items that are relatively high volume and low cost. The example I saw was for flowers; growers selling to flower shop owners. This process makes it possible to move a lot of product from seller to buyer very quickly.
Somewhat unrelated to the article: I am a LADA diabetic (Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults, sometimes referred to as Type 1.5). I am insulin dependent, but I didn't become symptomatic until my early 40s.
Lately, I have been experimenting with the "grazing diet". Instead of eating three meals a day one would eat a dozen or more really small meals; basically snacks.
The motivation was that the glucose response profile of my insulin was poorly matched with the glucose response profile of the foods I eat. My insulin (Humalog), has a profile lasting three to four hours, while most of my foods have a much shorter profile, some with a profile of an hour or less. By spreading my carbohydrate intake over more time I get a better match to my insulin response. For example, I spend two or more hours eating lunch. So far, it seems to be helping noticeably.
Adderall doesn't make you smarter; it just makes you more alert. It helps you focus longer on whatever intellectual task you're working on, be it problem solving or studying. (Not /s)
In my opinion, nothing can make you smarter. Learning rationalist techniques may make you better at thinking through problems, learning memory techniques like Memory Palace may improve your memory, using learning techniques like Spaced Repetition may help you learn and retain large amounts of information with the minimum necessary effort, but nothing can make you smarter.
Isn't there technology that can prevent this kind of replay attack? And shouldn't the maker of a $50,000 car take advantage of this kind of technology to protect their car buyers? This kind of article would make me much less likely to buy this car.
It seems to me that this one code enforcer is wasting the city's money by spending his time writing citations that aren't based on a complaint. He seems to have a vendetta against this one homeowner. I think he should be fired.
I believe the meaning is that RISC-V is trying to take market share from Raspberry Pi and Legacy Chips. It's a rarely used meaning for the word "guns" which is probably why it's confusing. A better title might be "RISC-V Seeks to Challenge Raspberry Pi and Legacy Chips".
I am wondering about the implications if an organization (charitable or otherwise) located in a state that allows abortions provides travel expenses to someone coming from Texas (or other states banning abortion) into a state that allows abortions? What if an organization provides relocation assistance (including travel, moving expenses, help with job hunting, etc) to someone relocating to a state that allows abortions? Can Texas charge someone who did not have an abortion in Texas, or someone who has stopped being a resident of Texas?
My wife worked on the project to upgrade the C-5 cargo plane's cockpit. She's 5 feet 1 inch tall, so she was chosen as the test person for the 5% end of the usability range. If she couldn't reach or operate a control in the cockpit it was a problem and the control had to be redesigned.
I am wondering whether a business being abused like this could trademark their business name, then sue TrustPilot for trademark infringement? Can anybody here who knows more about trademark infringement comment?
I tried "a boy standing in front of a house", then "a girl standing in front of a house". Both results would make good surrealist paintings, but they weren't even close to what I would expect from the regular DALL-E images I've seen.
I remember reading years ago about one of the more amusing machine translation failures. The software translated "The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak." into Russian, then translated the result from Russian back into English, and the result was "The vodka is good, but the meat is spoiled."
I tried the same test with Google Translate just now and the result produced was "The spirit wants, but the flesh is weak." Not bad.
I can't justify the kind of prices being discussed here because the only use I have for a camera setup like this is Family Zoom meetings. I went looking on Amazon and I stumbled on "Vlogging Cameras". There seem to be quite a few of them available for less than $200, with 4K sensors, and either attached microphones, or an input for an external microphone. I have no idea of the quality of the image being produced by these cameras, but they seem like they could be a low cost option, and better than the typical webcams available.
I have never had interviews this bad, but I have had interviews which required travel to get to the interview. Travel which was paid for by the company I was interviewing with. In one case I had an interview with paid travel, and I added an interview with another company on the same trip. I actually accepted the offer from the second company. I think in a situation like the one I described, you should go through the process as far as the interviewers want to, while at the same time politely making it clear that you don't think it's a good fit, and that they could save everyone time by concluding the process.
I have often wondered why no one has developed a multi-wheel steering truck trailer. I know nothing about the engineering difficulties, or the cost penalty, but it seems to me that multi-wheel steering would make a truck, even a long truck, much more manouverable in confined spaces.