I worked at a company with a technician who clearly did not understand this. When I asked him to order an assortment of resistors with a range of values, he came back to me and said that Digikey did not have most of them. Turns out he had submitted a request for quote, listing desired values in a linear progression: 1 ohm, 2 ohm, 3 ohm, 4 ohm, etc.
It's not very effective, then. Back when most people were masked, I had little trouble recognizing most people from the uncovered parts; facial recognition software is even better at it.
And many of these masked activists are happy to give their names for attribution in social media or quotes for the press.
Actually, "Hamas should run the entire Levant" does seem to be the view of a lot of these protesters. And "opinions you dislike" is an oddly mild characterization of the actual slaughter of gays that happens under Hamas and other Islamist regimes.
From these pictures, and others I've seen, it seems that the last people still routinely wearing masks are leftist activists. Is there some political statement behind this, or are they trying to hide their identity?
The correlary to that is that the "yield" goes down for all but the very most competitive colleges, so colleges have to build longer waitlists to ensure a full class. And more uncertainty for everybody.
The other problem with "project-based assessments" is that the grading is inherently subjective; I could see the graders being under pressure to "equalize" the results in the interest of "equity."
At several points during a typical engineer's career, he/she will be offered the "opportunity" to move into a less-technical role; for example, engineering management, product management, or sales. These transfers, even if intended to be temporary, nearly always turn out to be one-way: after a couple of years away from hard development, the engineer finds that his/her skills have grown soft, and that technology has advanced to the point where it's difficult to catch up. So the older that an engineer is, the greater the probability that he/she has fallen into one of these non-technical career sinks.
I have a friend in a similar business who was honest enough to admit that his impact on society was "likely negative, at best neutral," but it was a comfortable living.
When I was 19 and naive, I was interviewed for a desperately-needed summer job selling dictionaries door-to-door. The head interviewer wore a three-piece suit, gold watch, and an expensive haircut. He told me that as a demonstration of my independence and maturity, he wanted a commitment from me right then and there that I would accept the job and sign all the paperwork if he made an offer. If I wanted to go home and think about it or discuss it with my parents, that meant I was "immature" and didn't have the right stuff for the job.
Fortunately I had the presense of mind to see through that and walked out. When I got back to school, I found out that a friend of mine had worked for the same company selling Bibles in rural Tennessee; he hated it so much that he quit after a couple of weeks. He didn't make any money because the contract he had signed required that he stay for the entire summer before seeing a penny.
Because you could have waited on paying off your loans, and under Biden's plan you would have got $20K handed to you. In that case, the decision to pay off your loans would have carried an opportunity cost of $20K to you.
"I hope others get forgiveness." Loan forgiveness does not mean the debt magically disappears; it means somebody else is paying it. That "somebody else" is a taxpayer, who might be a plumber or Walmart clerk who never went to college. "Their gain" really is somebody else's loss, who likely makes less money than the beneficiary of loan forgiveness.
Agree...but any program to subsidize education should be done in a well-understood, predictable manner. It is deeply unjust and arbitrary for the government to retroactively hand out money to some people based on decisions they made long ago with different assumptions. Those people who chose a cheaper college for financial reasons; or who sacrificed their social life to work their way through college; or who paid off their loans early...would now be suckers for having made decisions that seemed financially responsible at the time.
Not the list I expected. I was looking for technical books like, say, Kernighan and Ritchie, or "Classical Electrodynamics" by J.D. Jackson. This is a list of popular books "about" technology.
I've found Airbnb to be worth it when I need a house for a large family group, like 8 people, when we want a common living and dining area instead of 4 separate hotel rooms. Otherwise, I agree--for 2 people, a hotel room is always a better deal, especially when you tack on Airbnb's fees.
The last time my diminutive elderly mother flew to visit me, she had to sit next to a "plus size" woman who was so fat that the armrest between them wouldn't go down, and the woman spilled over into half of my mother's seat. My mom had to spend the 3-hour flight crushed against the opposite arm rest. She tried to get help from the flight attendant, but the plane was completely full so there was nowhere to move either of them.
If the solution is for "people of size" to be allowed to take two seats for the price of one, the cost per seat will go up for everyone; this is especially true if, according to the article, 38% of the world is obese and would presumably be able to take advantage of this situation.
What was the rationale for not requiring plates? California is also the only state I've driven in where the freeways don't have mile markers. How are people supposed to report the location of an accident or breakdown?
What happens if you don't pull over? In cities like Philadelphia now (and I'd be surprised if this is not also the case in many CA cities), the police are not allowed to chase cars. So if you want to commit a crime, remove the plate and if the cop tries to pull you over, just drive away! We had a neighborhood meeting with a local police captain in Philly who admitted as much.
What do they do about cars without license plates? I seem to recall that new cars in California are sold with NO plates, not even paper temporary tags.