In the '90's I worked with a bunch of ham operators in a building next to Route 95. Perhaps the most interesting call that we heard was a guy who kept switching between his wife and his girlfriend. IIRC (it was many years ago) neither one was happy with him.
I'm looking forward to someday trying a Librem 5 but it's been 4 years since I backed the campaign and now I've been told that it will be at least October before mine ships. If anyone else is interested in the state of the art of Linux phones it looks like PinePhone is your only choice right now.
I just entered "error 422" into DDG and got a useful result so if you interpret the parent post as "use your favorite search engine" then it doesn't depend on a single website.
A definitive diagnosis requires an endoscopy (at least it did a few years ago when my daughter was diagnosed) but there's a blood test which is indicative. It's probably worth it for you to get the blood test.
I started using a checklist for my motorcycle track days a few years ago when I almost forgot the key to my bike. I remembered as I was pulling out of the driveway. Now I've got a thorough checklist, and a track bike that doesn't use a key.
Funny coincidence - I went to see a talk by Rich Benoit (of Rich Rebuilds fame) just the other day. Rich used this security loophole to find the key for one of the donor cars that he used to build his franken-tesla. After he swapped the electronics from a crashed car into a water-damaged car he was able to power it up enough to get the navigation to work but couldn't drive it without a key. The previous owner's house was still listed as "Home" in the nav system so he was able to get in touch with him and get the key.
I think that this is people finally getting fed up with corporate hypocrisy. When you quit, for example, it's expected that you give at least two week's notice, and anything less would be "unprofessional". When there's a layoff, though, people are shown the door immediately (or sometimes even fired over the phone). Why should I be held to rules that don't apply to the company that I'm working for?
Funny that the headline mentions Ferrari but the article indicates that the benchmark was set down by an Alfa Romeo. I'm not a car guy but aren't Alfa's more like sedans where Ferrari's are full-on sports cars?
I was recruited by a large travel company that advises people on trips. They sent me a questionnaire beforehand and asked that I send them my answers. Being earnest and naive, I spent a couple of hours writing a bunch of short essays as answers. When I arrived for the interview, nobody had even read them. Needless to say, each time I've been re-recruited by that company in the intervening years, I've declined. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
At my company, a small startup, I recently attended a meeting whose invitation list included 4 managers and 2 workers. From that I can extrapolate that the bullshit to work ratio is 2 to 1. They're working to fix it, though: they're hiring more managers.
The last place I worked where I got a private office (and probably the last place I ever will) was the MITRE Corporation in Bedford, MA, a federally-funded R&D corporation. Level AC-5 and above got solo offices, AC-4's had to share.
> In standard screening lanes, TSA agents will be stationed in front of X-ray machines to verbally assist passengers with the new screening procedures.
Is "verbally assist" a new euphemism for "yell at"?
Software development involves many disciplines besides coding. You've already had some experience with automated test development, so maybe consider SQA. If you can read code and describe what it does in a natural language you might want to be a tech writer. If all else fails you can go over to the dark side and be a manager. It's not as much fun as coding but can be more lucrative.
Yup, and it's been interesting to see the approach the different churches have taken. My town is a land grant town, so the Unitarians, Congregationalists, and Episcopalians own large tracts of land that are tied up in 999-year leases. The Episcopalians view this as a bother and they'll basically give up the freehold if you pay all the lawyer's fees. The UU's, on the other hand, are taking the long view and won't sell the leasehold; at least the offer I made (granted, at a cocktail party) was politely refused.
This sort of thing happens in the US, too, at least in the Northeast corner of it. The land that my house sits on is owned by the Unitarian Universalist church down the street, and each year I owe them $4 or the equivalent in livestock or firewood. To date I've always found it easiest to mail them a check but someday if I'm feeling grumpy maybe I'll give them a duckling.
We switched from the Oracle JDK to OpenJDK a couple of months back and it's going fine. It's nice to "yum install openjdk" and not have to worry about license gotchas. What are the advantages to the Oracle JDK that we're missing?
Tooling for injection molded plastic is very expensive so for small-volume runs like this one it's likely cheaper and quicker to get off-the-shelf plastic.
I don't want to speak for vinceguidry but when I was a teen my first car was a Mazda RX-4 with a blown tip seal. My job (with Dad's guidance) was to swap the blown motor for a fresh one and if I could get the car running it would be mine. I remember fondly both the car and the time I spent wrenching on it with my Dad.
I got a $60 ZTE firefox phone then switched to Android. Compared to my kid's Moto G it's smaller, feels thicker, has a lower-res screen, no selfie-cam, crappy forward-cam, and that's about it. It's pretty great for texting but if I used it for email (which I don't) I think I'd want a phone with a bigger, higher-res screen and the extra $100 for the G would be worth it.