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Datagrip.

I spend a lot of time working in databases and this has been a huge quality of life improvement over ssms and related tools.

This type of rating system is always disappointing. Candidates and interviewers each have different ideas of what expertise means -- I guess because there is no real context around the question. Maybe it's a trope to say, but it seems like competence and likelihood to rate oneself an expert are inversely correlated (barring hubris or real expertise!).

I used to ask candidates to rate themselves from 1-10, e.g., in database performance analysis, and often would get people rating themselves a 9 or a 10 without being able to articulate anything about the topic. It just seems very meaningless, since we were going to have a discussion anyway -- and the conversational part of the interview is more revealing, in any case.

In VMC you still have a responsibility to see and avoid, regardless of whether you're on an instrument flight plan or not. (Ref: Regulation 14 CFR Part 91.113 (b))

Radar coverage has become ubiquitous in most places, but there's not universal coverage. Heads-up time is very important unless you're flying in actual IMC.

How do you rectify these numbers?

The sun is 99.86% of the mass of our solar system and is quite average. [1]

Dark matter is ~27% of the mass of the observable universe. [2]

Are you claiming that exoplanets and asteroids represent 27% of the mass of the universe when a typical G-type star (not particularly massive, by any means) is almost 100% of the mass of our entire solar system?

I'm confused by your assertion - you either have some data I am lacking, have entirely made up your post, or are, yourself, confused.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter

It's very easy to look at Alphabet's financials and see that there are no preferred or common shareholder dividends. Since you haven't done that, I presume you are genuinely curious.

There are probably a lot of reasons that people invest in corporations that don't pay a dividend. The "most obvious" is that you believe the company is growing. The organization will reinvest in itself -- instead of paying you a dividend -- and increase share price to a degree greater than you would have gotten with a quarterly dividend.

Do you know of any resources or tips to improve skimming skills? I am impressed that you can skim a book in a minute (even skimming a sentence or two per chapter might take longer than that for me).

I've been trying to improve my reading speed - I feel like it's actually degraded over time - but I don't know that I am making much progress.

I was surprised that the researchers were able to obtain keys quickly with most of these methods and, apparently, with other processes running on the machine (though, in the case of the acoustic, "coil whine", attack, they acknowledge that a non-idle machine results in reduced signal fidelity).

Does anyone know how they are able to take spectral analyses of, e.g., em signals, and turn them into data? I imagine the software is fairly complex. I'm not sure how I'd even approach this kind of problem!

Yes, of course. The poster is sharing information that shaped their opinion. The location is irrelevant.

In such an informal setting, the quality and worth of the source are up to the consumer; particularly when it is such a simple investigation. Do you trust or distrust the source? That belief guides your consumption of the poster's opinion.

I like both "A Tour of C++" by Stroustrup and "Effective Modern C++" by Scott Meyers. Though, the latter is a bit dense if you are unfamiliar with c++.

Aren't there a lot of protections for these loans? I thought they could not be discharged through bankruptcy, et cetera. My intuition is that this would reduce risk; seems a bit odd.

I'm in the same boat and it can be quite frustrating. The main issue that I've found is most of my classmates tend to be people who are "dipping their toes in" to the water of higher education and aren't sure what they want to do. It's very non-committal and many of them also aren't interested in putting the effort in (yet).

It's unfortunate, as discussions are not nearly as engaging as they could be.

For people nearing the end of high-school, please go to college.

I don't have a degree and have been extremely lucky; I managed to get into middle-management and have been successful.

The problem is that I'm not as "portable" as I would be with a degree - in other words, a layoff or termination could put my lifestyle in jeopardy. As such, I am going back to school at 29.

Get it over with :)

Yep! I got a TRS-80 as a hand-me-down and spent HOURS typing line-by-line Basic code from a book to replicate their programs (mostly animated faces, simple games, etc).

I had no clue what I was doing but it was a blast. :)

Give us both logins, please.

There is somewhat of a stigma regarding government employees because they are mainly unionized and impossible to fire.

They can pretty much get away with anything short of criminal activity (and sometimes even that). What incentive do they have for being polite? It sucks but they aren't paid as well as private sector and they don't really care.

Thank you for the link - this was a great read =)

In visual conditions it would be a total non-issue - GPS/VOR/IRS guidance to the airport (or radar vectors or pilotage), with a visual landing.

For an ILS approach to minimums in hard instrument conditions, it could be problematic - especially if you are off course and don't realize it. There are minimum safe altitudes on approach plates that could be violated if you are way off course (putting you into a TV tower, for example).

I'm not an airline pilot but I am pilot. I'm not aware of anything better than ILS for those types of conditions (very low ceilings and visibility). VOR/NDB approaches are non-precision approaches. The GPS I have access to does not permit a precision approach - maybe the airliners have something better.

Why would you need inspection if you are flying privately? I'm a GA pilot, what am I going to do, hijack myself with a fork?

I stopped when she "grew confused" by the weird articles. Perhaps she shouldn't be viewing webpages at all. Most people would recognize this instantly as nonsense, click the back button, and select another search result.

good. it's about time the legal system starts fighting back against this abuse.