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by starky 6y ago
There is a good reason why I've been at my current employer as long as I have, they actually give salary and benefit increases that attempt to reflect how you contribute to the company and how much they want to keep you around. Unfortu
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by starky 6y ago
And for many years after the release of the iPod it was "lame" compared to other products on the market. It was really the introduction of the iPod Nano that was the first product that improved on the competition. But Apple market
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by starky 6y ago
The author seems way too focused on the exact meaning of "expert" without thinking about what they actually need from a subject matter expert for a specific hearing. Who you need for an ethics hearing will likely be different than
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by starky 6y ago
The challenge to the idea of hiring the most competent person (I know you didn't specify "most"), is that people from disadvantaged backgrounds may not have had the opportunity to become competent at them due to systemic oppr
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by starky 6y ago
While I definitely had a couple packages arrive late in the April/May timeframe, since June I've had a couple packages actually show up before the delivery date Canada Post gave.
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by starky 6y ago
Exactly, it will be a cold day in hell before I buy a pair of headphones that I have to charge on order to make them work or have any "smart" features.
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by starky 6y ago
The company I work for drives me nuts with this. We do tons of research and innovation on the software side of things. But because hardware takes longer we almost never do any research or try out anything risky because we are always the cri
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by starky 6y ago
This really applies to every CAD software I've used, but Solidworks is an overly heavy, unstable piece of crap that drives me absolutely nuts every day I have to use it.
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by starky 6y ago
Yeah, our on-prem Atlassian installation is utter crap performance wise, opening a Confluence page often takes 30 seconds or more. I also get pissed off every time we try to upgrade our SolidWorks installation because they share a DB server
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by starky 6y ago
I can pretty much visualize things as if they were in a 3D modeling system (there may be a reason why I work in mechanical product design). I can take some object and imagine it flipped around to another orientation or imagine how a complex
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by starky 6y ago
It is even more tenuous than that. If just one of a company's fabs goes down much of the imaging industry will have problems. A few years ago when the earthquake affected Sony's Kumamoto sensor fab it caused some serious issues fo
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by starky 6y ago
To be fair, that guy who cut the RPi merely cut off the USB ports, RJ45 jack, and the ethernet controller and maybe a couple caps. I don't think chopping off a couple of low pin count peripherals far away from the SoC and DRAM counts a
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by starky 6y ago
Flattening the curve is just stage 1 of dealing with the virus. Yes you start to re-open in stage 2, but you do it carefully and while maintaining much of the social distancing and having effective contact tracing in place to control any ou
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by starky 6y ago
I really wish I could find the research paper, but I've always been unsuccessful, when I worked in the battery lab about 10 years ago one of the scientists presented a paper that analyzed the amount of known lithium reserves at the tim
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by starky 6y ago
I mean, how silly would you have to be to buy a 32 core/64 thread processor if single threaded performance was a consideration at all. There is obviously going to be some sort of tradeoff in single core performance to obtain that densi
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by starky 6y ago
My argument is that you can choose any desktop environment you want with the most well designed window decorations, but as long as you have most packages built on GTK+ or Qt by people that aren't UI/UX experts, your system is goin
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by starky 6y ago
Linux is never beautiful IMO. There are so few packages out there that actually have good UI/UX design that you could put whatever DE you want on a distro and it will still be ugly. Whenever I use Linux I pretty much always end up righ
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by starky 7y ago
My install of this stopped working on my work desktop suddenly a few months ago. I was without it for about a week until I was able to figure out what was wrong, and in that time I realized just how incredibly dependent I am on this simple
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by starky 7y ago
You are correct that it would only work at night since a majority of cameras out there have IR Cut Filters for daylight colour accuracy. Not to mention the safety risks of strapping IR LEDs that are that bright at other people's eye le
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by starky 7y ago
CCD cameras haven't been the preferred camera sensor for more than a decade at this point. The entire industry moved to CMOS a long time ago. You might find CCDs in use today in specific scenarios like where you need global shutters, b
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by starky 7y ago
Sounds similar to what happened to me, I had a dry cough come on around March 17 and initially thought it was allergies, but those aren't my normal symptoms (sneezing and itchy eyes). I had heard enough rumblings about asymptomatic cas
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by starky 7y ago
I interview people in non-coding disciplines and this is what I try to do. Ask them technical questions from a soft-skills perspective. I like to ask questions where they criticize their own work, or get an idea of how they approach and tac
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by starky 7y ago
I work in tech in a non-coding discipline. I was reading this article thinking, "Are there really that many people out there that you need to separate the good hires from the average hires?" Every time I've interviewed it is
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by starky 7y ago
Beryl was the shit when I was in high school. Those wobbly windows were mind-blowing at the time.
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by starky 7y ago
I don't want to get into an argument about specs either, because in the end all that matters is whether you can get the shot. From a technological standpoint there is a significant difference between the 1/1.8" sensor or what
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by starky 7y ago
I'm curious as to why you say they haven't really innovated in the last round? "Real-time tracking AF" was pretty mind-blowing at release and forced Canon and Nikon to spend the past year making firmware updates to their
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by starky 7y ago
Coyotes are pretty adapted to city living. I know in my city (Vancouver) they are not uncommon to see, even in some pretty densely populated areas of town. I once had one walk right in front of me in a residential area one night, it wandere
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by starky 7y ago
At least on the Canadian side of the border, there is a distrust of how the US has handled this and the general belief is that there are significantly more cases that aren't being reported compared to Canada. Closing the border gives u
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by starky 7y ago
My experience with working with Asia off-shoring is with physical products, so this was interesting to see the software perspective where there are multiple programmers working on something in parallel, whereas my experience is more serial
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by starky 7y ago
Sure you could add other cities, but the result of the graph is the same for Canadians. We are getting absolutely hosed on salary considering that nearly everything (minus housing) in Canada is pegged to the US dollar. It makes it really ha

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