Depending on the program, you can get an age waiver. Typically doctors and nurses have no age limit for waiver. Other programs have definite age caps even with waiver.
My understanding is part of doing the waiver is to make it clear that depending on how old you are when you commission, you may be unlikely to make the 20 years to qualify for pension.
What is interesting is that by commissioning these executives, they will now be subject to the UCMJ...
Before I learned to touch type, I had managed to get pretty fast (I would estimate maybe 20-40 wpm) using a primitive hunt and peck technique. I more or less knew where they keys were, so I could use both hands and multiple fingers to type, but I needed to switch from looking at the screen to looking at the keyboard in order to not make mistakes.
After learning to touch type (on an electric typewriter - not a word processor), I probably tripled my speed, but the biggest advantage was being able to stay in context by looking at the screen instead of switching between the keyboard and the screen, and being able to fix mistakes while I was typing instead of having to go back and fix them after looking back up at the screen.
Of course, this was all pre mouse/gui, when memorizing and using keyboard shortcuts was not just a way of speeding up your workflow, but a requirement for basic functionality unless you wanted to continuously have the reference card taped to your desk.
In today's world, with continuous autospell correction, word and sentence completion, and even automated message reply suggestions... you can argue that actually typing as a form of communication is starting to become as antiquated as handwriting. The human is now more of a middle manager to all the machine tools, trying to put their individual stamp on the work of their electronic underlings (including LLM output).
Up until now, communication between humans was still a necessary and valuable skill. What happens when it is just bots writing memos to be read and summarized by other bots? I've already run into problems with people just refusing to read things and wanting meetings instead. Meetings don't scale, but apparently reading is just too hard... In that context, does it still make sense to put your skill points into writing things when people refuse to consume that output?
So... what keeps you from booking two tickets to get the better price and then cancelling one within 24 hours (during the period where even non-refundable tickets are refundable)?
Congratulations, you feckless imbeciles. You've "innovated" general software package management a mere three $(GOD)-damned decades after Redhat and Debian did it.
While you're at it, why don't you "invent" a tiling window manager that can be driven entirely from the keyboard... Oh, wait...
Honestly... Why is anyone still voluntarily giving money to these chowderheads?
It's cheaper.
They don't need to secure the paper test materials anymore to prevent someone from leaking a copy of the test and invalidating a whole season's worth of test results.
No more scan-trons to process for scoring, so they don't need purchase, scan, and then dispose of the answer sheets.
They can enable things like adaptive tests, which theoretically results in a more representative scoring (assuming you didn't flub your first couple of questions badly). This also has the side benefit of making the questions being used per participant possibly different, which makes organized cheating more difficult (it is harder to send a group of ringers in to take the test and then regurgitate the questions and answer choices after the test to reconstruct the entire test). It also means they can probably keep using the same question pools for longer.
Basically, the College Board can make more money per session while running more students through testing sessions... which means more money.
They're not the only ones.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pbs.org%2Fwgbh%2Fpages...
There are also smaller testers that exist, like PSI:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.psiexams.com%2F
Basically, it all boils down to money.
When I was applying to college I took both the SAT and the ACT (just in case). Although I didn't take any IB courses, I knew people who did. I just took AP classes... up until I figured out that I could take the test without wasting my time taking the actual class. Another thing I didn't figure out until much later was I could have taken more community college classes (either concurrently during the school year, or in the summer) and used that to get more transferable college credit when I went to a 4 year school.
From what I can tell, although the ACT now has a digital option, they still offer paper tests:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.act.org%2Fcontent%2Fac...
Competition is good. If the College Board keeps dropping the ball, there are alternatives.
From what I can tell, the jury is still out on possible causes for the outage. However, for people pointing out the issues involved in decreasing inertial stability, it is possible to convert older gas and coal fired plant generators into synchronous condensers to maintain inertial stability.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fspectrum.ieee.org%2Fzomb...
"Repurposing old power-plant generators is part of a larger comeback story for a technology that seemed doomed with the advent of solid-state controllers in the 1970s. Thyristor-based static VAR compensators (SVCs) quickly conquered the market for dynamic voltage support because they produced VARs more cheaply and efficiently than synchronous condensers.
Their predecessors started making a comeback a decade ago, however, thanks to faster control systems and a growing recognition that spinning machines offered some crucial advantages over electronics. Those pros stem from a spinning rotorâ(TM)s mechanical and electromagnetic inertia, which make the machines more tolerant of grid disturbances.
Severe voltage drops, for example, hobble SVCs, whose reactive power output drops at double the rate of line voltage. In contrast, a synchronous condenserâ(TM)s spinning rotor keeps on pumping out reactive power. It will also generate real power if needed, moderating the drop in AC frequency that would result, say, from shutting down a power plant."
"Speed was a critical factor in the California Independent System Operatorâ(TM)s decision to order a condenser conversion, though in a gas-fired plant instead of a coal plant, following the shuttering in 2012 of the San Onofre nuclear power plant. Without the 2,200-MW plant, located between Los Angeles and San Diego, voltage control weakened all across Southern California. âoeThe potential for rolling blackouts in the L.A. basin was seen as a very high risk,â says Chris Davidson, an electrical solutions business-Âdevelopment director for Siemens, which did the conversion."
Speaking of magnet schools:
If you have the right set of high school students and the will, then you can least train them to be EMTs:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjfkhs.lausd.org%2Fapps%2Fp...
"The Kennedy Gifted Medical Magnet offers a Patient Care/Emergency Medical Technician career pathway that prepares students for emergency medical services (EMS) occupations.
The pathway consists of two courses, Health Science and Emergency Medicine and Emergency Medical Technician, that emphasize both technical skills (ex. first aid and CPR for children, airway management, bleeding control techniques) and vocational skills (ex. situational awareness, medical terminology, legal and ethical issues).
Graduates who successfully complete this pathway will meet the training requirements for Emergency Medical Technician-1 (EMT-1), and they can pursue certification once they turn 18."
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbanninghs.lausd.org%2Fap...
"The Firefighter/EMS Magnet develops students and prepares them academically for college and careers as first responders. This program is the place to get prepared for applying to and completing the Los Angeles Fire Departmentâ(TM)s program. All students take A-G required courses and experience rigorous physical training taught by the Los Angeles Fire Department. They receive in-class support from LAFD and go on field trips to observe various Firefighter career pathways. They receive 15+ college units including Fire Technology classes from LA Harbor College and Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) Exam preparation."
The company is favoring a handful of more "friendly" outlets with early access, under strict conditions. These outlets were given preview drivers – but only under guidelines that make their products shine beyond what's real-world testing would conclude. To cite two examples:
- One of the restrictions is not comparing the new RTX 5060 to the RTX 4060. Don't even need to explain than one.
- Another restriction or heavy-handed suggestion: run the RTX 5060 with 4x multi-frame generation turned on, inflating FPS results, while older GPUs that dont support MFG look considerably worse in charts.
The result: glowing previews published just days before the official launch, creating a first impression based almost entirely on Nvidia's marketing narrative.
I learned a thing today (on Slashdot, no less!). Thank you very kindly.
Perhaps I'm ignorant of the underlying biology involved, but is anyone besides me having difficulty seeing how "antibodies" can be effective against hemotoxins or neurotoxins?
Sixty billion dollars?
Is there any breakdown of this figure? Even if you paid up front for 100,000 headsets, you might only get to $0.1 billion. Where did all the money go? How many prototypes did they make? Were the optics made out of DeBeers diamonds? Did they use AWS or something?
In other words... subsidized?
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fadvisor...
"What Is a Subsidized Loan?
As the name implies, direct subsidized loans are a type of federal student loan that come with a subsidy for borrowers, making them one of the cheapest loan options available. The âoedirectâ in their name comes from the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program, the U.S. Department of Education initiative that makes these loans available. You may also see direct loans referred to by their old name, Stafford loans.
As soon as you take out a subsidized loan, interest starts accruing, but the government pays it on your behalf. As is true for most federal student loans, you are not required to make any paymentsâ"on interest or principalâ"while in school or for six months after leaving school. That means that on a subsidized loan, there will be no interest to add to the principal when those six months are up, so youâ(TM)ll only repay the original amount you borrowed.
The government covers the interest on a subsidized loan during the following periods:
While youâ(TM)re in school at least half-time
During your six-month grace period, which occurs after you graduate, leave school or start attending less than half-time
During periods of deferment, a type of payment-postponement period youâ(TM)re eligible for when youâ(TM)re unemployed, are undergoing cancer treatment, meet income guidelines qualifying you for economic hardship and in certain other circumstances
"
Yes, I realize not all student loans are subsidized, and in this case, the subsidy only is effective during certain conditions/time periods. But they do exist.
If you voluntary quit, they don't have to pay you severance or be on the hook for unemployment (at least here in the USA).
You're using a keyboard! How quaint!
