To be fair I have an EE degree but most of what I know is self-taught. University was honestly a waste of time. I could have avoided the cost and jumped into the IT sector and no one would be any wiser
I had I think a thinkpad with parallel port years ago. Can't remember which model. It was an ultrabay addition. I rarely used it as there was a battery rammed in it most of the time.
Read into this muppet. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Robinson_(activist)
Until a motive is established keep an open mind.
There are a load of weird people all around us, look at the UK's history over the last 5 years, and even now some people still cannot see how we should be working and cooperating together with other EU countries even down to not accepting their help with Covid-19 FFS
if you are open for anything, you have a major leak.
Sorry, my feeble attempt at translating this, hope I preserved the gist ...
I like this version:
"Be careful not to be so open-minded that the contents fall out!"
Actually, I think that IS the more appropriate translation.
To be fair I have an EE degree but most of what I know is self-taught. University was honestly a waste of time. I could have avoided the cost and jumped into the IT sector and no one would be any wiser
I had I think a thinkpad with parallel port years ago. Can't remember which model. It was an ultrabay addition. I rarely used it as there was a battery rammed in it most of the time.
The world is full of people who have university degrees, and most of them end up doing mundane jobs, I think in reality it is very hard to beat decent on the job learning backed up with day release college courses, that way when you get your passes and certificates , you actually know a hell of lot more than just the theory, also know how to put that theory into practise.
if you are open for anything, you have a major leak.
Sorry, my feeble attempt at translating this, hope I preserved the gist ...
I like this version:
"Be careful not to be so open-minded that the contents fall out!"
Actually, I think that IS the more appropriate translation.
I don't agree, because if it was the more appropriate translation, then it would be a relatively easy task to shake those stupid notions out of their heads, but in reality it dosen't seem to be does it?
Going back to the saying earlier, or translation anyway, I tend to like to evaluate most possibilities. It's fun finding the stupid ones and gives you great insight into the human condition and people's line of thought. Don't forget that their failures are lessons you can learn from too
The world is full of people who have university degrees, and most of them end up doing mundane jobs, I think in reality it is very hard to beat decent on the job learning backed up with day release college courses, that way when you get your passes and certificates , you actually know a hell of lot more than just the theory, also know how to put that theory into practise.
Indeed. I'm recruiting at the moment and I can't find anyone who knows what they are doing qualified in any way or another. So I have to look for people who have the initiative to get from zero to knowledgeable on their own or with assistance. The best guy we have is an actuary strangely enough.
Set up the Technics SL-Q3, since I am outta space it's improvise adapt overcome again, this time with IKEA.
Oh, it's post-pictures-of-your-record-player day?
It's an ex-radio station SL-1000 with integrated RIAA amplifier. Cabling to matrix is originally via a DIN 41622 Messerleiste, and of course I had to follow suit, so there's a box for that on the wall.
See now you could buy an old thinkpad to run XP 
Boooooooored. Have tidied everything up, done the shopping and done all the housework. ebay is dead. Everything in the house works. My todo list is empty and I can't be arsed to start any new projects at the moment 
then you need one of these:
which you can find here:
eBay auction: #373018371799you can thank me later.
The world is full of people who have university degrees, and most of them end up doing mundane jobs, I think in reality it is very hard to beat decent on the job learning backed up with day release college courses, that way when you get your passes and certificates , you actually know a hell of lot more than just the theory, also know how to put that theory into practise.
It depends on what the job entails. Your suggestion is appropriate for people slotting into working with existing products/technologies/application domains. It is unlikely to be very successful if one or more of those are novel, or just new to a company.
In the fun interesting places that I have worked, this has
always been what interviewers (I've been on both sides of the table) have been looking for...
Indeed. I'm recruiting at the moment and I can't find anyone who knows what they are doing qualified in any way or another. So I have to look for people who have the initiative to get from zero to knowledgeable on their own or with assistance.
Such bootstrapping usually requires a sufficient knowledge of the fundamental theory, so that it can be applied to new circumstances.
Such employees tend to be good long-term employees since they will adjust to the changing requirements over the years. After all, the half-life of specific "which button do I press" knowledge is a couple of years.
Indeed. I'm recruiting at the moment and I can't find anyone who knows what they are doing qualified in any way or another. So I have to look for people who have the initiative to get from zero to knowledgeable on their own or with assistance.
Such bootstrapping usually requires a sufficient knowledge of the fundamental theory, so that it can be applied to new circumstances.
Such employees tend to be good long-term employees since they will adjust to the changing requirements over the years. After all, the half-life of specific "which button do I press" knowledge is a couple of years.
Yes that's true on both counts. However they don't teach the fundamental theory of what we do at universities. Instead we need broken people with battle scars. Need more Harry Tuttles to keep a 14th century church from collapsing
Just found this picture which covers wingnuttery and how far it goes. This is the Russian orthodox church blessing a computer system to protect against WannaCry
Batten down the hatches.
We are having a rain storm today with high winds. A few minutes ago there was one hell of gust and within 2 minutes two calls in town for multiple trees down. And my power flashed for a second but stayed on....so far.
Later today supposed to up the ante with thunderstorms. Luckily we are NOT in what's considered an area prone to tornadoes but every once in a while one does come through.
Update....now a 3rd call for a tree down across a road. Gonna be an interesting afternoon.
Hopefully the trees will land on your local idiots
Well I've got his home address already from a grey hat source. I'm not going to post it on here but will refer it to Ofcom and the police.
This is actually a criminal act (ofcom are already jumping on people) and he should be prosecuted for it. I suspect that they're building case evidence against him at the moment anyway. I'm sure a few YT syndication links will help that case.
Sit outside his house in a porcupine car. That will make him absolutely ape shit.
That was menu item #2 from my once-upon-a-time dream business: vengeanceismine.com *2. Hire deliberately nondescript man in suit and bowler hat to follow subject around public places with a clipboard, randomly taking gibberish notes which are "accidentally" left for him to find after he has noticed "the observating man".
*These were simpler times; long before we as a breed had swallowed the "war on terror" lie hook, line & sinker. mnem
Just found this picture which covers wingnuttery and how far it goes. This is the Russian orthodox church blessing a computer system to protect against WannaCry
Put that guy to work on COVID-19!
I'm not aware of any dangerous idiots like the individual we've been discussing. But there are individuals wandering the streets down there who are completely harmless because while the lights are on but there's nobody home.
If you wanna hear the weather forecast for me log onto Discord right now. I've got the National Weather Service on.
Edit...off now.
Meh....more like this....
I'm not aware of any dangerous idiots like the individual we've been discussing. But there are individuals wandering the streets down there who are completely harmless because while the lights are on but there's nobody home.
I first had my eyes opened at university. One of my landladies had a husband that was the skipper of a boat that went to sea every day (to dump sewage!). Even with that nautical/aquatic connection, she seriously believed that fish came up to the surface to breath.
@med: Yeah, that's the great thing about CNY weather this time of year; if you don't like it, just wait 5 minutes.
mnem
compared to him, our Boris looks almost bleeding normal
Indeed. Mr Johnson ticks a lot of wrong boxes on opinions and standpoints, but the man probably can read an entire book, and can probably keep a line of thought (that is not about himself and his ego) through several minutes. Both of which would put him well
above some other people in power.
Also reported it under "domestic terrorism" I've attacked a few other responses as well.