You can never convince me and my Ph.D. students and my research sponsors and my consulting clients that the brainstorming we did and do has been "utterly useless," indeed it has been consistently invaluable.
In 28 years, I think that you’re the first person who both uses their real name and provides a link to their website in their slashdot bio...
No, I don't post often but my real name and website link have been in my bio for 20 years. Here they are:
E Douglas Jensen
real-time.org
Replaceable battery technology is still years away.
In my long history of owning cell phones, they all have had (and will always have) user-replaceable batteries. For example, my current Samsung Galaxy XCover 6 Pro and my next (announced January 2024) Galaxy XCover XCover 7 Pro.
There are multple reasons to ditch a phone after 3-4 years
Usually the screen has multiple breaks. Never in my long history of owning mobile phones
The overall performance has degraded as software bloat outpaces proceesor development. Citation for specific measurements?
The battery is shot for life All my past and present (and future) cell phones had/have/will have user-replaceable batteries.
"So I am explicitly asking here, how long to DVDs or Blue-ray disks last before they become unreadable or unreliable? Is it a suitable archival medium?"
Check out M-Disks on Wikipedia et al.
Which is why external optical drives are alive and well.
The reason is, it was bought by the government to disable the decentralized call routing feature.
They were asked to implement CALEA wiretapping and wouldnt. So microsoft air quote, bought them, and the first change was to route calls through a centralized system.
This is all about wire, tapping, and had nothing to do about anything else.
Citation?
And companies with a strict dresscode usually suffers from mediocre employees.
The most important skill for then is how to sell, not how to solve problems.
Unsubstantiated and biased claim.
This entire article is stupid. Consultants have throughout all of history coached their employees on presentation in office environments and communicating in an influential way. Every generation working for a consultant will have experienced this. This has nothing to do with GenZ or returning to the office.
And self-employed consultants, such as I have been for decades, have immediately found out the necessity and benefits of dressing and communicating with clients in a professional way. That applies equally, whether the client is a C-level executive, a military officer, or a room full of programmers wearing jeans with holes in them.
Texas is trying to cripple all its renewable power sources. They come right out and say why: oil and gas are major industries in Texas.
I understand that this discussion is about software engineers who need only a PC and peripherals. But "software engineers" without further qualification include software engineers who do embedded system software engineering. Most of them do that in a lab context housing the (perhaps physically very large) hardware/software system in which their software is embedded. That lab equipment rarely is accessible remotely, so no WFH option is available. In addition, often that lab and equipment is being shared concurrently with other software and hardware and system engineers, making remote use even less feasible.
And likewise the Samsung XCover pro and 6 Pro (plus they have phone jacks).
My Lenovo T series and its matching charger allow you to set the min and max battery charge level. I have mine set to 20% min and 80% max, and leave it plugged in all the time. I see it sits at about 50% all the time.
Samsung's Galaxy XCover 6 Pro is a really decent phone--with a user-replaceable battery (available on Amazon) and even a phone jack.
Many larger customers of mine require me to carry liability insurance.
Agreed--I have liability insurance because most of my consulting clients require it.
The disks are getting full; purge a file today.
