thewileyone

> a world dominated by Xi Jinping and the CCP

China has made no move to dominate the world as the West has continued to do throughout history. Even the Belt and Road Initiative is a trade initiative to benefit all participating nations. China isn't going to build military bases around the world, or force countries to adopt their political proclivities, unlike the US.

As a communist country, China inherently believes that if all grow rich, all will benefit. This is completely unlike capitalism in which "there can be only one."

Seen many of these rise to managerial ranks where they kick up their -10x work into high gear to make up for imposter syndrome.

"...if you're so desperate to pump out babies, you have to give people a way to do so and still work."

Yeah, I don't think they feel that way.

Cheaper to sell downgraded or mislabeled CPUs than maintain separate manufacturing lines.

I can bring up JPMCD5 page but the data is flat from 22/11/22 until 24/03/23 and then a single data point for 28/03/23 with a -17.94% drop. So something fishy must be going on to hide the data for the period.

I don't get it. You can just turn off the news and ads, even uninstall MS News.

Insurance companies are scum of the earth. A relative, who's a Prudential agent, bragged that Prudential had billions in their war-chest. I replied that's because ya'll don't payout any claims.

Near zero peanut allergies in South East Asia because there's so much peanuts in our food. Mothers who breast-feed their babies must be passing on the resistance as well.

I made the same point about the U2 as well. Such irony and hypo-criticism.

My biggest complaint about Macs is the lack of backwards compatibility of the OS and apps. It always comes to a point when the OS won't support your hardware and then the apps won't be supported on the older OS. This has a much bigger effect with the advent of cloud services.

I don't get the argument as well because Apple already dominates by forcing Webkit to every browser on iOS, making everything effectively Safari.

I found it interesting that the plots always seemed to match the scripts, stereotypes and cinematography styles of the eras that the plots occur in. That's what stood out more to me.

Yes, the dialogue in Crystal Skull wasn't the greatest but it didn't really take away the fun for me.

I remember when Siskel & Ebert (the original Siskel and Ebert) reviewed The Last Crusade in 1989, Siskel gave a thumbs-down because the father-son relationship wasn't believable. Ebert's response was, to paraphrase, this is an Indiana Jones movie, not a real-life drama.

Look for an Executive MBA course nearby that you can enroll and complete. The most important things that I learned from such a course was Financial Management and Marketing Strategy.

"Ecosystem" can and will expand.

So everyone is collecting and using data ... boy am I surprised.

"parasitic capacitance" ... I shudder recalling the nights wasted in the analog lab due to this.

Had a guy who worked for me who was diagnosed as ADHD. When he was taking adderall or ritalin, he was fine, but if he went off the meds, he would make mistakes. Eventually, after making a 3rd big screw-up, I had to let him go. Really too bad.

This is actually a good idea because as a leader you should always hire to your weaknesses.

Having managed several teams in big corporate environments, I have to agree that the squeaky wheels are the ones to watch out for.

I learnt this because early on, during performance reviews, I had a sixth sense that I was shafting the quiet ones so I put together a performance metric system based on impact of work. What I found was that the quiet ones were more productive and caused the least negative impact compared to the self-aggrandizing ones. I shared this system with everyone on the team with their own data and slowly the squeaky ones started to transfer out while the team continued to improve productivity and quality because the quiet ones were happier.

> It was only when I went to university and research was more important than rote learning

I saw this at university as well. The very few girls in engineering did well on homework and tests but the guys kicked ass in the lab work, but maybe not the lab reports.

The National Endowment for Democracy does everything to subvert every country if they are not subservient to US interests.

You're right about Fourier Transforms. I went through the fundamental classes and wasn't quite getting it until a more advanced class when the real-world applications were explained and then it all clicked.

It's been so long that I can't remember the class names anymore.

Started working in tech in 1996. All desktops, no laptops, no mobile phones. Worked your time, maybe more if needed, then you left the office and didn't take work home.

References were books. "UNIX In A Nutshell" and "PERL In A Nutshell" were pretty much on everyone's desks, in addition to the K&R C book and various C++ books.

Systems were simpler in that you didn't have multiple frameworks to deal with.

My teams built supporting tools for a system on OpenStep so we coded some in ObjectiveC and PERL to support file systems operations. Then our lead found Python and migrated our PERL stack to Python which was great but it was Python 0.5 so no published documentation at that time. I wish I kept a copy of my emails and responses with Guido Van Rossum because he was the only support available!

Very fond memories ...

Awesome to see CL listed here ... worked at computerliteracy.com which eventually became fatbrain.com. Good times!

I've experienced pushback to new software implementation but it's usually due to processes having to change.

That's why China created the Digital Yuan for overseas trade.

I can agree that money != fun but !money == !fun.

I don't know if it was atrocious ... Richard Simmons with Colin, Ryan and Wayne is TV gold.

If the code, whatever state it's in, generates 20 million in revenue, you're going to have a hard time arguing that it needs to change, especially with only 3 people; that's pretty damn good.

Really depends on the management of the acquiring company. Adobe acquired Aldus and didn't help the Aldus market.