Honestly not the weirdest behavior you'd see in campus, and could almost be wholesome. Guy's down on the ground interacting with his dog; what's wrong with that? Also: it's at night - could they see he was actually eating grass, or did it look like he was just playing with his dog?
Also also: college campus... night... couple sitting on a bench... "sitting." College couples never only sit on secluded benches in the dark. OP probably interrupted a handy.
Seconded. OP, if you can write Markdown, Hugo will turn it into a website.
I'm not the intended audience, I guess. I get the pollution stereotype, but all the dead baby references went over my head. It's as if someone was writing a bunch of stereotypes about America, and there were some Freedom Unit references so you almost get it, but then there are also a bunch of references to dead orangutans and you're like: what?
Those used to come out of India. I guess everyone is outsourcing now.
But it's anti-nation, so... anti-nationalism?
Anon lives in China. Their meds are small bits of cancerous gravel.
China will grow larger.
Go ahead... you can whisper it to me
Opening an office is a completely different thing; there is an enormous difference between offshore contractors and offshore employees. That much, I'll agree with.
In the US, though, it's usually cost-driven. When offshore mandates come down, it's always in terms of getting more people for less cost. However, in most cases, you don't get more quality code faster by throwing more people at it. It's very much a case of "9 women making a baby in one month." Rarely are software problems solved with larger teams; usually, a single, highly skilled programmer will do more for a software project than 5 junior developers.
Not an projects are the same. Sometimes what you do need is a bunch of people. But it's by far more the exception than the rule, and yet Management (especially in companies where software isn't the core competency) almost always assumes the opposite.
If you performed a survey in the US, I would bet good money that in the majority of cases the decision to offshore was not made by line managers, but by someone higher in the chain who did not have a software engineering degree.
Thing is, outsourcing never stopped. It's still going strong, sending jobs to whichever country is cheapest.
India is losing out to Indonesia, to Mexico, and to S American countries.
It's a really stupid drive to the bottom, and you always get what you pay for. Want a good development team in Bengaluru? It might be cheaper than in the US, but not that much cheaper. Want good developers in Mexico? You can get them, but they're not the cheapest. And when a company outsources like this, they've already admitted they're willing to sacrifice quality for cost savings, and you - as a manager - won't be getting those good, more expensive developers. You'll be getting whoever is cheapest.
It is among the most stupid business practices I've had to fight with in my long career, and one of the things I hate the most.
Developers are not cogs. You can't swap them out like such, and any executive who thinks you can is a fool and an incompetent idiot.
Me: Mom, can see have Evil Santa?
Mom: No, we have Evil Santa at home.
Evil Santa at home:
I think Android updates intentionally made the Pixel C slower. It was a noticeable process, up to the point they stopped supporting it. I'd downgrade to an earlier version, but there's such poor support in Lineage, I'm barely able to run the version that's on there now.
Such a shame, because it's still an amazingly beautiful device.
I once owned a bunch of WiFi connected devices. One day I inspected my router logs and found out that they were all making calls to a bunch of services that weren't the vendor - things like Google, and Facebook.
WiFi connected devices require connecting to a router; in most homes, this is going to be one that's also connected to the internet - most people aren't going to buy a second router just for their smart home, or set up a disconnected second LAN on their one router. And nearly all of these devices come with an app, which talks to the device through an external service (I'm looking at you, Honeywell, and you, Rainbird). This is a privacy shit-show. WiFi is a terrible option for smart home devices.
ZigBee, well, I haven't had any luck with it - pairing problems which are certainly just a learning curve in my part and not an issue with the protocol. I chose ZWave myself because I read about the size and range limitations of ZigBee technology, versus ZWave, but honestly I could have gone either way. Back then, there was no appreciable price difference in devices. Most hubs support both, though, and I can't see why I wouldn't mix them (other than I need to figure out how to get ZigBee to work).
In any case, low-power BT, ZigBee, or Zwave are all options, whereas I will not allow more WiFi smart devices in my house. I'm stuck with Honeywell and Rainbird, for... reasons... but that's it. I don't need to be poking more holes in my LAN security.