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If you know where I can get a qic tape drive, I'd really like to know !

I didn't comment on the project, just the design.

I was reading in the dark, so had brightness was low, but fine for any normal site.

This mistake is a common thing for people to complain about on accessibility forums. If you've lost lost any visual acuity, which a large percentage of the population has, your website is not usable.

This would be more fun if they showed a translation back to English after each step, so you could see how it changed at each step. (Approximately)

This is one of the most fun parts of the game of telephone, going through the circle again, and having each person say out loud what the thought they heard.

"Invisible idiot" is how I remember it.

"Driven by sales, not academic qualifications" is a GREAT metric for people providing your academic credentials.

No normal college can afford that many warm bodies calling. That tells you that either their profit margin per student is MUCH higher, or their student volume is way higher (they take everyone).

It's a valid red flag.

Lots of companies still have degree requirements.

Interview performance is about as low a correlation with job performance as having a degree. (i.e. none) https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/business/in-head-hunting-...

If we actually had some way of accurately evaluating performance, it would change the industry.

I don't know about modern in floor heating, but in Eichlers it eventually breaks, and is very hard to fix.

If your designer suggests grey text on a black background, fire them.

Parts are completely unreadable, other parts only hard. Not worth the bother.

ASU has an online college program. It's basically a bad port of their in person program. Recorded lectures by whoever is teaching the class this quarter, not a "master teacher", low production values (think webcam, not "myth busters" as someone suggested ), little to no interaction with teachers. (Just recorded videos) and no community at all.

Even my local community college is doing better.

Not sure why khan academy went with them. They do have infrastructure set up for online. They just manifestly don't know how to design online courses. Maybe khan can help them with that.

Or designed to sell those services to you.

I recently tried to boot and read a number of drives from 10 to 40(?) years old. (Pandemic. Was bored).

About half of them still spun up and were readable. Probably could have gotten more with heroic measures.

Most 3.5 floppies were likewise readable.

Tape suffers from hardware progress. It gets harder and harder to find hardware to read a given tape format.

The market for tape is much smaller than consumer markets (in units sold)

You'll probably be able to read CDs in fifty years, just because there are so many of them.

If you have a fifty year old tape, even in perfect condition, you probably won't be able find hardware to read it.

This will grow until it cripples California's budget for decade, if it is not shut down.

See also "the big dig"

You could probably find thirty people who say they have seen leprechauns, which are also hominids.

Most people would not consider this to be serious evidence.

Photopea is amazing. It's my default image editor now.

So, if you are down, how much of my docs still work? Everything but the code, or nothing?

That looks really odd. $155 (minimum) and they don't tell you what you will get.

"The artist and gift will be a surprise"

Hey, if it works for them, great. I just can't see using it.

I was thinking it's much like Google trying to deal with SEO. Most people optimize for high google ranking, not quality content.

Google periodically changes the evaluation, in theory to reward good content and penalize bad, but people still try to game the system, rather than improving content.

And non-quantitive evaluations are prone to favoritism and prejudice. AKA people gaming the system.

I doubt there's an easy answer.

Trying to better align the short term objectives with longer term ones could help, but that just makes it harder to game, doesn't eliminate it.

> We did not grow our headcount past four.

(Not OP)

Article stops halfway through with an ellipsis on iPhone. Nothing seems to open the rest of the article. Not even requesting the desktop version fixes this.

Closed source, monitors everything on the machine.

How much do you trust little snitch?

And then asking to keep a copy of your drivers license for ten years is a complete non starter. (Yes, that's in their privacy policy)

I'm with you on not sending data, but have you ever read user reports? IF you get any (most won't report) they likely won't have enough information to reproduce or fix.

Automated Error reporting does has it uses.

If the code is there, it is potentially exploitable. So, opt out is nowhere near good enough. If it can send to remote hosts, this can be abused. This capability should not be there, at all.

Look at the recent logging fiasco for an example.

It's even more common with windows-only software.

Classic clickbait. Post a terrible idea, that gets people angry, and they click through.

Ignore this and don't click.

Here's a 2013 article on google's results on evaluating various factors in hiring.

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/business/in-head-hunting-...

Basically, no one really knows how to hire.

It really does. It's regular practice with supportive people.

And it's structured, so if you are shy about sudden surprise situations, it can be comforting to know what is expected.

It's not a panacea, but it's easy to get started, accessible and designed to help you be more comfortable talking.

Try it, if you want to talk to people more.

There are tons of premade, microwaveable foods at any US grocery store. I like frozen burritos, for example. Some are quite tasty, some quite healthy. Optimize to your preferences. Cooking/cleaning effort is similar to delivery. Price is maybe 30% (that's a guess)

Delivery services add so much cost that I never use them. With trivial effort, I can stop on the way home, and pick up from a restaurant on the way, for half the price, and fewer mistakes.

Consider long term health cost. Are you eating from healthy restaurants? The consequences of a bad diet dwarf all the other costs, which is why learning to meal prep efficiently is probably the best option, long term.