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Fun fact: the awa building is clearly visible in the helicopter scene in The Matrix
Also when driving but Siri / Google assistant are more applicable for that use case
Now if only updates wouldn't brick the device
I have had chronic dizziness for three years. One or two drinks makes me feel hung over for days
I ended up finding "architect" is the role I enjoy. Still very technical but involves talking to people (I have always been a slight expert).
It also suits my "management" style which I learned with volunteers, instead of workers
Some collections are little more than hoarding. Bring on digital
When I worked for Avaya labs in the early 2000s, it was also well known internally that the split made more money. Hence the subsequent voluntary splits
I learned this long ago.
Along with: you will never be thanked for getting a garbage project across the line. You will be thanked more for having a small part in a good project than being the hero on a garbage project.
How applicable is this to eastern musical scales?
Being an architect is like training a bag of cats. You are also in the bag
If the president of the college can't even remember what a Van De Graff generator is... you're going to have a bad time
You need to use the timer to bit bang - which may require writing a device driver
Source: wrote a software UART for an embedded project
Strayan here. These nets are used quite widely by a number of local councils including Greater Sydney. They are not universally used though. Larger waterways may have a boom, a number have these nets, some have something like a metal sieve and many have nothing
Some people have suggested a vacuum may be easier. But a council in Australia always has bulldozers and rubbish trucks available, so it may fit better into that existing infrastructure
Generate AC then use diodes to turn it into DC
I thought it was an alleged terrorist's phone? Or has innocent until proven guilty gone out the window?
Does Stack Overflow have ads? I have been running ad blockers since they started
Not to mention the top reason I dropped Dropbox: with Condolezza Rice on the board I feel they are a bit too chummy with the government and the NSA.
The 'how' of encryption is often quite simple - it is 'why' that is difficult
Programming languages are the interface between the computer and fallible humans. Thus it is in fact very difficult to prove that a particular paradigm is better or worse.
Civil engineering has been around for centuries. Yet the Tacoma Narrows Bridge failed in a completely unexpected way.
This passed down engineering "memory" or "lore" is invaluable. Every engineer should endeavour to learn from their mistakes and successes
That's not really true. Back in the 1980s most small and medium businesses still used paper based journals. All the people who were employed to do that are gone - one person now can do the job of about 6 people in the 1980s.
Before the 1980s you had to do everything by post, not even fax. So you needed to follow up a lot more and talk a lot more on the phone.
Better technology doesn't necessarily mean that people will be "replaced" but it generally has meant that fewer people can do the same job.
AI may not replace lawyers themselves. But in my dealings with lawyers basic technology will mean that 1 lawyer can do the work of three.
For example: nothing is OCRed. So if a lawyer needs to get a section of a document they have to remember where it is.
There is some basic MS Word templating but really most law firms are stuck in the 19th century
I am not sure about this article. Mobile and tablet have had massive rates of adoption but even they are getting saturated now.
There are still large numbers of businesses that use desktops. Everywhere I look there are desktops. Tablets are displacing some but not all in business.
"...like a high-tech vending machine." Well there's your problem
If you commit a crime on witness protection you would be cut loose. Then the mob can come and tidy up. Being killed by a mobster is probably pretty good motivation to not commit crimes.
The fact is that HUMANS will build the new reactors; interfere with engineering plans and systems; and not be trained properly.
If a reactor can't be safely designed, built and run by fallible humans then it shouldn't be built.
I have talked to people in the coal power industry. There are plenty of cases of accidents.
In one case they started up the generator with the oil pumps turned off - the multi-tonne rotor ripped off the bearing then rolled through the hall crushing everything in its path. What if that had been a nuclear power station?
A manager without a clue asked for a chute to be opened, the worker tried to explain why that was a bad idea, the manager insisted and a few kilograms of coal dropped down on them.
It can take minutes for the mulit-tonne generator to synchronise with the 50Hz supply frequency. There are special electric motors that retard or advance the generator until it is in sync, then keep it in sync. Normally there are resistors to allow the sync to happen slowly. However in one case it was thrown to full power before the sync was complete. There was a momentary blackout through the southern UK while a huge amount of power was used to sync the generator in a fraction of a second. Strangely the fuses didn't blow.
That is basically what the article said. In addition skills that would help to get those jobs independently are also taught within the family.
Students from a poor background (like me back in the day) may still be better of studying because they haven't been taught the networking skills to profit from socialising more. Conversely maybe they should try.
I am just lucky that at least university is heavily subsidised in Australia. Coming from a poor background puts you one step behind but at least I am one step behind, not ten steps behind.
Aside from the security - Apple made much of write once run anywhere being a terrible idea (e.g. Java, Flash and iOS/Android frameworks) yet now it is a fabulous idea that Apple just thought of