I was thinking of the Honored Matres of the scattering, whom the bene gesserit despise largely because they rely on sexual manipulation rather than other forms of control and influence.
I probably should have specified that much of that is later in the series and not in the first book.
They weren't just great at technology, they were great to work for. My father worked for IBM in the 80's and again in the 2000's after they acquired the company he was working for. He said it was like two entirely different companies. The 80's IBM cared about family, work/life balance, generous healthcare, had a pension. They were an engineering company that could solve any technical problem their customers could come up with. By the 2000's IBM had become a sales and management company. They had software to give employees the bare minimum pay and benefits tailored to their zip code. They were succesfully sued for age discrimination. They successfully convinced my father that he had absolutely maxed out on salary amd would never make any more. His raises didn't even match 3% inflation. He was laid off in the 2010's after a decade and a half of exemplary performance.
Five years later his salary had doubled and he was loving working on novel projects again. It was wild too see how the corporate gaslighting had convinced him he didn't deserve any better and was just lucky to have his job when in reality he was majorly underpaid and had very valuable and unique hardware design expertise. Getting laid off sucked but turned out to be one of the best things that could have happened to him.
My uncle worked at HP for the majority of his career and watched a very similar decline.
If the suits take over your engineering company, it's time to start asking colleagues if their company is still engineering focused. Don't stick around for the decline.
The CEO that managed to take GE from being the single most valuable technology company and turn it into a poorly performing stagnant mess popularized the idea of survival of the fittest within companies. He asserted that by cutting the bottom performers and even whole divisions regularly that it would leave a stronger, better company. He set targets to lay off the bottom 10% every year regardless of whether it was financially necessary.
In the short term, this strategy makes efficiency metrics look really good, and with good looking metrics, the stock goes up temporarily. However, there are major costs to layoffs that take months, years, and decades to materialize. Eventually, forced churn ruins the best of companies, from GE to IBM. Unfortunately, this management style is still incredibly popular amongst publicly traded companies. Most of the investors are willing to accept the eventual demise of a company if it means a decade of really good returns in the meantime.
If the CAD package can leverage GPU computing, then an eGPU is a good compromise. That way you can have plenty of power and airflow at the desk for intensive tasks, but you don't need to lug all the hardware to the floor for interfacing with plc's or to meetings. Although systems with good eGPU support are often expensive enough that keeping a separate desktop workstation and a lightweight laptop is competitive.
High single core cpu clock speeds and lots of ram should be the first priority for cad. Solidworks, for example, does not handle running out of ram gracefully at all.
On the other hand, humans don't see in defined frames. The signals aren't synchronized. So a big part of perceived blurring is that the succession of signals isn't forming a single focused image. There isn't really a picture 1 and 2 for your brain to process discreetly. And different regions in your vision are more sensitive to small changes than others.
A faster refresh rate is always "better" for the human eye, but you'll need higher and higher panel brightness to have a measurable reaction time difference.
But hitting really high refresh rates requires too many other compromises on image quality, so I won't personally be paying a large premium for anything more than a 120hz display for the time being.
I chose mander.xyz and feddit.nl partially because neither require an email address. I haven't really kept track of who all they have and have not defederated from. I think both don't defederate much. I use the block feature in Connect liberally to remove the communities I don't care to see, like the tankies.
I set up multiple profiles on different instances as there were quite a few downtime events when I started. Now things are a little more stable and I only use two. I wonder how much of that decline is from redundant profiles going dark without actually losing the user.
In my school, what you are describing was in a personal finance class, what the parent comment is describing was called home ec. The personal finance class was required and home ec was not.
You're using overly broad language. Multiple family members and myself get brutal headaches from aspartame. While that's certainly not life threatening damage, it is fair to call that a harmful effect. I am not better off with many products switching to aspartame as a sweetener.
Yes, it is just an anecdote, but it's enough to show that absolute statements don't usually hold universally. Please stay open to the possibility of nuance.
Blue switches are not a good choice for office use if the user shares a space with others or has video meetings. I find typing on a red switch to be just as fast and comfortable as on a blue switch. Brown is a good in-between.
Check out the Kechron C2 or Logitech G413.
I recommend getting a red switch from a retailer you know has good returns and see if she likes it as much as yours. Or maybe go to a best buy together and have her try out a couple different switches.
Does anyone know what that grabber device is? I like to use grabbers to pick up chestnuts, but the ones I have are pretty flimsy. This thing looks like a beast in comparison.
Sounds like Tesla should market it as adaptive cruise and lane assist, since clearly their clientel think autopilot means autonomous driving.
We're getting to the point where these features might need to be locked behind a specific driving license designation. Drivers need to demonstrate to a proctor that they understand where the systems do and do not work.
We already have license classifications for commercial equipment and motorcycles, having one for automated features seems fairly justifiable at this point.
The people who bought homes at 3% interest rates are doing fairly ok. The increases in Healthcare, food, and utilities really suck but are mostly manageable if your housing cost is fixed.
Until we see policy makers talking about how rent prices are outstripping any wage increases, a large portion of the population will continue to feel increasingly crushed and disenfranchised. Averages cease being useful measures when the difference between the budgeting with a fixed mortgage vs variable rent is so significant.
Fortunately, I am in the first group, but had been renting for a long time before that. A lot of people I care about are still renters or stuck living with family. Even though I'm comfortable, I can't take anyone seriously who says this economy is healthy without addressing the millions of people struggling to make ends meet.
I really wish we'd see policy makers shift to measures of quality of life, including financial security, over raw economic metrics. Those metrics are even sometimes at odds to each other. For example, people fully owning durable homes and cars that don't need much maintenance would increase their quality of life, but decrease measures of economic activity.
I was thinking of the Honored Matres of the scattering, whom the bene gesserit despise largely because they rely on sexual manipulation rather than other forms of control and influence.
I probably should have specified that much of that is later in the series and not in the first book.