How much of that is due to automation? Profit margins are also important, especially in a global economy.
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I have migrated the vast majority of my computational work to use R with RStudio. In a Rmarkdown document I can embed R and Pyhon code and generate plots. These documents play well with version control.
They proposed and agreed upon new "standards" based upon measurments with better precision and accuracy. See the Wikipedia summary [1]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_redefinition_of_the_SI_ba...
2. There is a mechanism for people to participate - a pull request. The owner has the right to decide if this is consistent with the project goals and respond accordingly.
3. Charitable interactions are productive. It encourages collaboration and the result is the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. That is fun. Too much drama causes developers to find other uses for their time and talent.
A student is not bound to reproduce slavishly the interpretations of others, but you are bound to assess critically what you read.
Before you can say, "I disagree," you must be able to say, "I understand." It is axiomatic that before you level criticism you should be able to state an author's position in terms that he or she would find acceptable. After that, you may proceed in any of six directions:
a. Show where the author is misinformed.
b. Show where the author is uninformed.
c. Show where the author is inconsistent.
d. Show where the author's treatment is incomplete.
e. Show where the author misinterprets through faulty assumptions or procedures.
f. Show where the author makes valuable contributions to the discussion at hand.
[1] Gordon Fee, Exegesis, 3rd edition 2002 p.33
My wife and I had little savings when I got out of graduate school. Neither of our parents had taught us about budgeting. I found books that taught us how to make a monthly budget. The authors stressed the importance of working together to plan a budget and setting a goal of saving for an emergency fund that would eventually cover six months expenses. We drove our old car until it was too expensive to repair. Eating out was a rare treat. I carried a bag lunch to work. We bought a used tent and camping supplies for a vacation. We had a used B&W TV for years. We were able to purchase a modest house. We never upgraded to a bigger one. A careful lifestyle helped us get our kids though state universities with no debt.
In time we could add more "fun" items because we had a buffer. We were still careful. My employer had perennial layoffs. We knew I could be laid off at any time. Happily, I was ready to retire when my time came (My company went from 65,000 employees in our city to less than 1,700 when I was laid off).
I have a friend who ran his own computer business and counseled (free of charge)many families with money problems. His conclusion was that lack of money was not the biggest problem these families had. He concluded that poor management of what they had was a bigger problem.
[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/most-americans-cant-afford-a-50...
I do a lot of work in Rmarkdown and I like Sublime's spell checker best. I especially like the subl command line launcher on MacOS and Linux...
1) We have volunteers that curate content and they have limited time. We need to be gracious, courteous, and thankful for their effort.
2) Businesses are providing content and generate revenue via subscription, advertisements, or data mining our input. Put another way, in the last two cases we are the product.
In all cases the content will be biased because humans are biased. We deal with that by reading content from multiple points of view and apply critical thinking and reasoning skills.
We also have to continually remind ourselves that there are people with disruptive agendas - both individuals and collectives funded by nation states that have an agenda. How many times have you been notified that your information has been compromised?... Jurisdictional issues make it hard for law enforcement agencies to track them down and shut them down. The situation reminds me of the caricature of the American West in the 1800s - a free-for-all. To be forewarned is to be forearmed. We need to take security seriously.
For his own health and well being as a family, he needs to find new employment. Find a job with a more reasonable work/life balance and adapt lifestyle choices to fit the budget.
I know a chaplain that has been at the bedside of many people during their final hours. None ever thought that they should have spent more time at the office.
My management treated me well when it was in their power to do so. I survived for 36 years in a company that had multiple downsizings, sometimes 2 a year in the last 15 years. Our workgroup supported each other the best we could. We still get together for lunch periodically. Ross Perot's "great sucking sound of jobs leaving the country" occured on my watch. We just had to deal with it the best we could.
I was much happier and productive when I realized that it was best to be thankful for the good parts of my work and that sometimes you go through situations that suck. That's life...
I could walk longer in them w/o problems. I'm currently rehabbing a strained hip and walking 35-40 mi/week and need to replace shoes about every 750 mi. I suspect a lightweight runner could get a longer useful life from the same shoe. Like many others, I have found the uneven wear patterns on my shoes reflect issues with my foot strike that I have improved but not eliminated.
When I started my career as a scientist in a corporate analytical lab 36 years ago, corporate funding for travel and continuing education was plentiful. When budgets got tight, that was the first to go. Those of us who were self-directed learners survived the downsizing and cost-cutting much longer than those who didn't.
One can add just the packages you need and it can be installed in user directories for people who do not have admin privleges.
Our next door neighbor had a single older cat. The cat had a weight problem so they got a book, "How to exercise your cat". As I recall, the opening sentence was, "If you have 2 cats, you don't need this book."
Turns out that the company had a policy for the type of desk and chairs people could have. Senior scientists (mostly PhDs) got nice chairs and large desks. The technicians called them the "tunas". The technicians in the lab often had to share desks and had inexpensive chairs. They referred to themselves as "sardines". The BS/MS folks had medium size desks and and so were called "sartun". Mystery solved.
The good news is that after a few years management discovered that ergonomic/repetitive stress injuries increased medical problems and absences. Management instituted individual ergonomic assessments and provided desk/chairs matched to the individual's needs and it made work much better and reduced repetitive stress injuries.
Living this way takes determination, persistence, and hard work. We need to know when to rest and recharge because fatigue makes us ineffective and error-prone. For me, that includes both rest and exercise.
I find it helpful to discuss my plans with those I trust to refine the plans and projects I undertake. It is too easy to be overly ambitious/optimistic and start more projects than I can finish. Good counsel helps us to evaluate what we do and focus on what best supports our long term goals.
We all make mistakes. I find it better to learn from them and try not to repeat them rather than engaging in self-pity or trying to cast myself as a "victim." Sometimes life is just hard and we need to be thankful for and encouraged by the "wins" we get. Living that way is far more pleasant than being constantly negative and critical of ourselves and others.