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Prices have been going down around here.
Prices have been going down around here.
Surge suppressors do not drop extra voltage to ground. They selectively short out surges between whatever two conductors have a high potential between them.
No ground conductor means there cannot be a high potential between it and anything else!
Can you link or provide reference to the official US narrative?
If your company is using story points to “measure” developers, they are completely misusing that concept, and it probably results in a low-teamwork environment (as you describe).
The purpose of story points is so a team can say “we’re not taking more than X work for the next two weeks. Make sure it’s the important stuff.” It is a way to communicate a limit to force prioritization by the product owner.
And, in fact, data shows that point estimation so poorly converges on reality that teams may as well assign everything a “1”. The key technique is to try to make stories the same size, and to reduce variability by having the team swarm/mob to unblock stuck work.
Who creates these tasks? They need to close the year old items, reevaluate the work and break it down into sub-5-day chunks. If there are so many unknowns that it’s impossible to do that, the team needs to brainstorm how to resolve them.
FYI, banks do run exactly this type of analysis inside their own system to get around not being able to share your account activity.
along these lines, you should also know about the condensate drain from your air conditioner – since water drips out of it all summer, it has a tendency to grow some algae or mold, and if it plugs up your air conditioner may flood and ruin your ceiling/walls/floor.
it’s worth paying that AC guy to come by every couple of years even if you’re not on their service plan.
for what it’s worth, coolant is not consumed by an air conditioner – the same initial charge can last 20+ years. Low coolant either means a leak, which the technician should have investigated and fixed or ruled out, or improper initial installation.
Betavoltaics have been around for 40+ years. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betavoltaic_device
This device generates microwatts. You’d need thousands of them in parallel to power a typical mobile phone.
All of their tech job openings are in India or Vietnam. I’d have assumed a major US health data handler would be developing onshore!
For most organizations, the cost of paying programmers far exceeds the cost of CPU time; benchmarks really should include how long the solution took to envision/implement and how many follow up commits were required to tune it.
Yes, it is a huge pain, especially if you want to have round-trip interoperability with humans using markup. Wikipedia had a major challenge with this when they decided to add a rich text editor alongside wiki markup.