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Kent Sharkey wrote: Because 81% of hiring managers have degrees? I think more because that 81% of the managers think than having a degree is the same as knowing what was teached in the degree...
but many degrees have actually little to do with the real world, so...
Hey, many managers (and most politicians) have lost contact with the reality. Here it is...
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Because it's always been done that way and because they're too lazy to independently assess candidates' skills other than to ask dumb-ass questions during interviews.
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Where else besides college could you possibly learn about manhole covers?
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Because the self taught expert balsk when developing a Proportional-Integral control algorithm with a BEMF observer to manage the PWM signals for the 6 MOSFETs of a three-phase system.
Because the self taught "coder" won't implement a frequency-based image analysis alogrithm capable of running in less than 10ms on a Pentium 4 to detect foreing objects in x-rayed containers traveling at 3 m/s on a conveyor line.
Because the bright geniusses that only coded on their own won't give a flying about computational complexity, known operational research approches, advanced trigonometry, signal electronics, error estimation and transients.
Such developers can easily get to work in the overcrowded and overmarketed world of the thousand Javascript frameworks, but no more than that.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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I doubt it's the hiring managers. It's HR that requires these degrees. The reason is an idiotic US Supreme Court decision back in the early 70s that basically forced companies to find criteria other than skill sets for job offerings on the basis that this was the same as racial profiling and discrimination. The result was that companies pushed this determination onto the American higher education system. So instead of companies being hit with racial discrimination lawsuits our colleges and universities now get hit with them.
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Scientists in Switzerland have developed a battery made out of paper which will release its charge when splattered with water. For when you need to send a shocking letter
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Nervous people that get sweaty hands might really have fun with these...
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While everyone seems to agree that memory safety is really important, what actually constitutes safety remains subjective. "Is it safe?"
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Older Core and current Celeron and Pentium iGPUs move to "legacy" driver model. I'm sure this has nothing to do with people not buying the new chips?
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ITPro Today’s survey of IT professionals revealed a desire for more training and better tools. 43% want a job, but 100% want a salary?
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And only 10% or less is actually qualified to get it as a fair payment.
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Duh, Intel. It's been like this for 10 years.
It's over now and it's not coming back.
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AFAIK, it's mostly for industries (cars ... ) not directly for consumer products (ie consumer PC components)
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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Money won't help Intel anymore than it helped Baldwin Locomotive.
The ship has sailed.
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As an American tax payer, you are welcome. The industry don't need money - you can bet it's pork and directed in certain ways to certain individuals. What the industry needs is regulatory reform. Go research Global Foundries Inc that is starting one of a few fabrication facilities. Upstate New York. They've been held up for quite some time by people brought in to protest the environmental impact. Meanwhile, lot's of people would like to start working there.
Same thing needs to happen for pharmaceuticals, but that's a rabbit trail.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Maybe we're at a point where most PCs sold are just too damn good (performance and quality) and don't need upgrading that often (for 99% of the people) ?
(side note) I read something about the guitar maker Gibson going bankrupt because they just made good guitars that lasted too long and people just stopped buying new ones.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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That's an interesting (and plausible) theory.
I built a desktop with AMD Ryzen 5 & 16GB RAM in 2019 and it is still blazing away.
it could also be that many processes take advantage of GPUs too so it takes less CPU processing power thus machines last a bit longer.
And then also, even as terrible as software is, there's not much more to do to make the software eat resources that hasn't already been done. Unless you are cryptomining on your desktop or something.
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That's not the only reason Gibson had problems. I think the main reason is nearly all of their instruments are just too expensive compared to their competition. That's what happens when you use almost entirely manual processes with American workers. Their competition uses lots of automation in Asian factories so their costs are much lower. They can get away with that because their quality is not far behind Gibson's, if at all.
As an example, my first major purchase when I got out of Engineering school was a custom made (in the USA) bass that was really, really nice. It was my primary instrument for almost thirty years. Then I decided it was just too heavy and I ended buying four other basses that are much lighter and were made in Asia and Mexico. The total cost of the four newer ones is less than the custom one's price was forty years ago. The new ones don't sound as good as the old one but they're good enough and they are much, much lighter. That makes a really big difference after four hours of playing.
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I'm curious if the only people who notice the difference are bassists.
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Does this mean that PC prices will drop, either for the back to school season or for the Christmas season????
That would be welcome for all those parents whose children need a new Windows 11 computer for school-ordered website access to do their homework. (Locally, I heard that one of the local high schools requires access to a website that has downloads that only work right on Windows 11 machines. Might just be standard parent griping, but, knowing this local school district, may be tied to a cost-cutting move: something like - yes, there is a Win10 version but the school district would have to pay extra to access it)
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Currently, ultrasound imaging requires bulky and specialized equipment available only in hospitals and doctor's offices. But a new design by MIT engineers might make the technology as wearable and accessible as buying Band-Aids at the pharmacy. I'm stuck on scanning, because the scanners stuck on me
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I'm holding out until they make them scratch and sniff.
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