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by vortico 8y ago
https://www.nfpa.org/public-education/by-topic/property-type... >U.S. fire departments responded to an estimated average of 4,980 structure fires in educational properties in 2011–2015, annually. These fires c
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by vortico 8y ago
Same here. It never hit production, but this simulator was fully-featured enough to replace SPICE and accompany breadboard prototypes before I ordered a PCB run.
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by vortico 8y ago
Who knows, this could be valid, but remember: "5% of 95% p-value studies are false positives."
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by vortico 8y ago
I've seen over-application of machine learning in areas it doesn't belong, but this is ridiculous. I'm not saying it's a cool discovery of the match, but should I believe that they were the first to notice it and not alm
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Ask HN: Is there a map of self-service fast food kiosk locations?
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by vortico 8y ago
>We clearly have different opinions on what retraining means Well, this post is about training people to hammer out cymbals. >Indeed: the point is that a company will now hire somebody with that certification already in the bag, avoid
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by vortico 8y ago
A downturn doesn't always mean lower demand. But if there was lower demand, employees can work harder to bring those up by offering new products or cheaper products.
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by vortico 8y ago
No, I think I stated it correctly. Those with more savings/assets would stay and be able to withdraw from their savings while their pay isn't enough. Those who need every penny for the next utility bill would be forced to leave.
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by vortico 8y ago
That's what davegardner above mentioned as well, but something like the 2010-11 recession was too much for many companies to "coast" over, so they ultimately had to choose 1, 2, or 3. And sometimes this conservative method do
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by vortico 8y ago
Hmm, I followed the Circuit City layoffs a while back, but it seems that they didn't trade untrained staff for other untrained staff with the intention of making them better employees than who they replaced, but they traded already tr
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by vortico 8y ago
I don't believe your experience that big companies almost immediately re-hire after layoffs, for jobs that require training from square one (after firing square-one employees). In the tech field, I've seen plenty of re-hires right
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by vortico 8y ago
Can you give an example of a situation where a company has laid off, hired, and trained, when re-training would have been equal or less effort?
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by vortico 8y ago
For Zildjian, it's a no-brainer to re-train an existing employee to use a new pressing tool than to lay them off, hire another employee, and then train them to use the new tool that the original employee could have just learned in the
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by vortico 8y ago
Right, that's the "don't let it happen" option. But the options I listed are for when it does anyway.
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by vortico 8y ago
Most people in this industry are contractual employees so that's usually not a legal option. If their pay was any less, it'd be approaching minimum wage laws. But if not, it's a bad option because instead of the algorithm &qu
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by vortico 8y ago
The article doesn't spend 1 second explaining the answer promised in the title but keeps reinforcing how good and flowery it is that Zildjian doesn't lay off anyone. I'm in the audio hardware industry, and the answer is cle
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by vortico 8y ago
I don't know, but the other 200+ countries seem to have that answer.
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by vortico 8y ago
So I'll ask the obvious question: Why does Austria ask for $24M for citizenship instead of just denying it?
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by vortico 8y ago
In this case, the rules of Unicode has set itself up to be doomed. If the organization favors commercial votes over common sense, it is no longer an organization with the purpose of standardizing human glyphs, but a company that accepts ico
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by vortico 8y ago
So why don't Apple and Google agree on a standard? Why does Unicode need to do it?
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by vortico 8y ago
Private reserved blocks are perfect for emoji and developling languages. They can be a time-variable recommendation, not a standard, by Unicode. That's how anything gets standardized. You don't just put new arbitrary ideas into
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by vortico 8y ago
The difference is that Han and Kanji are 4000+ years old. When smiley faces reach han/kanji's level of consistency if humans 20 generations from now speak in full smiley face syntax, then it's time for Unicode to standardize
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by vortico 8y ago
Am I alone in thinking that emoji should be completely removed from the Unicode standard? The character set is an amazing collaboration between companies and countries to place all glyphs used by humans in a standardized collection... And t
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by vortico 8y ago
Why in your opinion should they release it?
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by vortico 8y ago
Yes, and different hardware that they connect to.
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by vortico 8y ago
It's not a collection of x86_64 instructions, it's an separate specialized core on Intel CPUs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quick_Sync_Video#Hardwar... and AMD https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by vortico 8y ago
You're right, there are fewer h264 encoders than decoders in consumer software, but still dozens. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264/MPEG-4_AVC_products_and_... There are precisely 0 for AV1 so far (except s
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by vortico 8y ago
I'm a cross platform tester for my own company. I spend a couple months stabalizing software for say, MacOS 10.14, until it's to satisfaction, and then I move on to say, Windows 10 with a touch screen. And then an ARM and AMD mach
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by vortico 8y ago
My laptop churn rate is so high, if I put stickers on my computer, I'd have to remove them in 6-12 months. You can use this argument if you want. :)
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by vortico 8y ago
Yes, currently there is no hardware encoder/decoder for AV1, but there is for h264 on many processors. This may change in the future if companies and users adopt it.

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