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Necroware. Only 30000 subscribers but the videos he published are amazing. :)

If you can bill for it, you can disclose it.

There are many salty streams where the streamer does not get what he wants. Having done some gacha pulls and received what I wanted on the first pull with 0.07% odds, it truly is random. One card I have took... let's just say a lot of money... to get. Characters are available for a limited time and then may or may not ever return. For example, the rare character Fujino in FGO could be summoned in 2020, then there was no idea whether she would ever return. It turns out she did return in 2021 and 2022, but her next projected availability is in 2027.

I am not saying that the streamer you referred to does not receive preferential treatment, but FGO streams are definitely random.

Data Science is a form of statistics. Algebra II is a pre-requisite for statistics. How is replacing a pre-requisite with a more advanced class is a good idea?

Filed a comment. Please do the same. :)

OK... and what is "AI-generated"? Who will define it? At what point does a CUDA-powered Photoshop plugin become an AI tool?

This was not a typical sluggish wayward Cessna 152 or 172 with a cruise speed of 122 knots that tend to violate airspace by ignorance. The Cessna 560 Citation V Business Jet cruises at 430 knots/Mach 0.755 and can probably fly faster. I wish news articles would include the model family in the headline.

At Mach 0.755 with supersonic barrier being at Mach 1.0, it becomes obvious why it had to be a supersonic intercept.

AI-assisted media manipulation will have an interesting effect on evidence becoming subject to reasonable doubt. Ten years ago, showing a video in court was damning evidence. I expect it to become less so.

The first backend developer is customarily the CTO. UX simply does not involve integrating as many systems. He doesn’t understand it and that makes him even less qualified. He’s a CPO at best.

There are systems to follow the subject. I configured my work’s cameras to show a few key cameras on the live feed, but several more are quietly recording. When we review the footage, I can follow a subject across my entire array of cameras. I can track someone from the point they enter the parking lot with a plate camera.

I had facial recognition in a nightclub over a decade ago. Modern cameras’ capabilities are scary.

To keep people who don’t have a means to pay at that store by having the app installed and configured with their account away from the sales floor.

It’s one thing to stop a shoplifter at a normal store. Turnstiles reinforce the notion that this facility actively enforces access control.

This is similar to Passport Control line at the airport. If I have Mobile passport (MPC) app installed, I use a dedicated and usually empty lane. The same is true if I have my Global Entry card. It takes a couple of minutes to setup MPC while walking, but most people choose to wait in the main line.

A better approach could be to mimic Japan and install vending machines. You walk into the store and see walls of vending machines. Shrink goes to zero. Restocking the machines becomes the only job. They can augment their Whole Foods chain first.

I am not an artist, but I also recently realized why I am not an artist.

Creating a visual piece of art involves three processes.

1) Visualize what you want the final piece to resemble and amend that mental image until you consider the project finished. This involves framing, aspect ratio, and other compositional techniques.

2) Transpose 3D into 2D using highlights and shadows.

3) Render your vision using appropriate materials and techniques.

We learn how to render but not emphasis is on the first two parts. They are usually chalked up to "innate talent".

Photography enables you to skip the rendering process and focus on the first two. I learned more about how to render what I envisioned after studying highlights and shadows in my photographs.

Therefore, start taking pictures in the art style you found interesting in other art forms.

Let’s say you’re DHS. You contact some person and have a conversation like this

Govt: “I need IP addresses, ideally cellular and known public wifi, of a person using this email address”.

Data broker: “Here’s the list including the most recent cellular IP address associated with that person at this timestamp and their most used public wifi locations.”

Govt: “Hey, cellular provider, where is this subscriber right now?”

Provider: “Here’s the lat/long, last seen 1 second ago. Happy hunting!”

With sufficient staffing and instant mobile checkout, stores can implement a fully secure experience. The caveat here is "sufficient staffing" of people who can use a mobile checkout solution.

Unless they are exceptionally talented and seeking an either high level, high impact, differentiated or early role, jobseekers don’t have the luxury of researching every company to which they apply. Especially, when that company will not return equivalent courtesy.

Unless interested, such companies will not respond to every applicant with a personal letter.

Let’s be practical. I am a sysadmin/network engineer/developer. I am very good at what I do. I honestly don’t care where I work. My work will be largely the same. If I applied as a product manager or a sufficiently senior developer, then yes I would be far more selective.

There’s another word for receiving resumes in the personal mailbox, which is spam. If the company has a jobs@ email address, it should have a workflow process attached so there’s no need to spam the unpublished email address to get someone’s attention.

So, items 3,4,6,7,9,10,12,13,14,15 are invalid.

Item 8 is a cliche. Item 15 is out of the sender’s control.

Let’s review.

1. Questionable. Corporate marketing is different from social media marketing. They have social media professionals on their team.

2. Agreed. Applying for work that creates portfolio without said portfolio makes no sense.

3. Personalizing email greetings is not a good use of time. You can get to know each other on second contact.

4. They are following your process. If your hiring inbox is not used for hiring, then solve your broken process. I would hate to receive resume spam as a team member.

5. Agreed.

6. Applying to companies is inhuman. Setup a process to automatically process blank emails with attachments. Many of them will be pure spam.

7. You’re asking for a marketing document from people who are not trained in copy writing. I can tell the article is written by someone in marketing for whom communication is second nature. It’s a difficult skill that people outside marketing rarely possess.

8. The seeker is asking if you have unadvertised openings. It is an annoying cliché, but they don’t know any better and are likely following someone’s advice.

9. See point 7. The original meaning of information technology still means just that. It has been hijacked to mean something else, but it remains valid and frankly irrelevant to hiring.

10. That’s just someone trying too hard. See point 7.

11. There should be no emails sent that cannot be replied to. Stop using no-reply@ when responding. That’s the number 1 thing I hate.

12. That’s actually a positive signal. The person took the time to find you on LinkedIn.

13. Attaching a document preserves formatting and eliminates copy/paste errors. Attaching a traceable link lets me see you opened my resume. In light of point 1, you should be welcoming this.

14. There’s nothing wrong with taking a cue from Elle Woods about customizing a resume. You can see that the person is creative.

15. Email virus checkers are often out of the sender’s control. You can at least be certain they will follow your endpoint security policies.

So, setup a workflow to process incoming resumes, respond to every applicant who took the time to personalize their application, and you will miss fewer hires.

Well, I might as well start prototyping tracked shoes. My version would have a wearable battery park with a quick disconnect.

It’s not that bad. I crashed into other people regularly while playing roller soccer. It feels like a bump at slow speeds.

It is likely an pair of accelerometers that learns the user’s gait pattern. Like most other AI claims, it has nothing to do with actual AI.

I disagree as a proficient skater. I can do various street style tricks and play roller soccer as well as dance. Their innovation is the stacked wheels to mimic the contact patch of a much larger wheel. They give you similar ability to traverse road imperfections as a tracked vehicle. I have fallen victim to small rocks despite being an expert skater.

They are safer than scooters. Scooters are too vulnerable to road imperfections. A pebble can send you flying. They’re on my wishlist now. :)

A public university at that.

Go with AWS, but there are significant incentives for becoming Azure certified. Microsoft partner organizations, which are usually larger consulting firms and OEMs, are required to maintain a headcount of certified professionals and there are a lot of them.

Middle Class has multiple definitions. Let's make it simple - you are either a property owner with significant disposable income after your mortgage obligations or are in a position to own property but choose not to. As far as I can tell, many in the working class identify themselves as middle class and that just is not true. I intend to run my own survey, on lawmakers, of what are the defining criteria for middle class in the context of documents they design.

I like this article. It has this lovely quote at the end "But given different life situations and perceptions of wealth, there’s a good chance not everyone who feels middle class actually is, and vice-versa."

Here's the start of that rabbit hole. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/13/anthropologist-sociologist-a...

Equifax comes to mind.

Java books are still useful if they were considered good while current. Many good programming books remain useful even as the language evolves and the syntax diverges. Dreamweaver 4 can be useful to someone to understand the concepts of design. Browsers will still mostly happily render old code. I'd give them to a library if they are willing to accept them or list them on a site like Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace for your locale.

C, C++, Linux, Unix, and Cisco books are eternal. They may not teach you secure ways of doing things, but they are eternal. NetWare may be obsolete. ;)

Madison Avenue may disagree about the statement about creative people. There are a lot of creatives in New York especially. As for good-looking people, there are several fashion modeling agencies there, which are an integral part of advertising. :)

Sure, why wouldn't it be? The question is what are you actually learning and how much will you retain. Learning syntax only gets you so far. To me, the hardest part is figuring out how to express the actions I want to take in the form of objects. API design adds a lot of clarity. 10 days on CSS... Why?! What on Earth could they be teaching that takes so long and would you actually need that level of CSS knowledge at an entry level position. I can think of much better ways to spend that time.

Try to recreate standard library functions using just the most primitive parts of the language. That's what I do when assessing my ability to use a language. For example, write your own implementation of https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... with just loops and variables.

Great step in the right direction. USPS routes are local, low speed once near its destination, involve lots of stops, and are relatively short in terms of total length. Vehicles can recharge overnight. Sounds like the ideal definition of business suitable for EVs.

An argument can be made that it would benefit the student to see the exact shape of muscles. When I study dance, it's much easier when the instructors wear either swimwear or clothing that makes seeing their muscles and joint movements easier.