The HP Spectre x360 line has had physical kill switches to the camera for some time now. I think since the 2018 version. Still waiting for the microphone switch though.
German researches recorded the sleep patterns of 397 residents in areas where there was previously no mobile reception.
After erecting 10 towers, many people complained about a change in sleep patterns. 5 of the 10 towers were turned off though so had no actual effect. Just the believe was enough to cause problems. [0]
>In fact, electric vehicles will only help if the electricity powering it was generated from renewable sources which is a significant fraction in certain countries but not most.
That statement is false. If an EV is run on electricity generated from coal only, the overall emissions output is close to that of a comparable ICE car [0]. Introduce some friendlier methods into the mix and your beating ICE by quite a margin.
The main source of emissions from an EV come from the manufacturing process. Even those can be significantly reduced when proper methods are applied.
Or just hire people from low cost of living areas.
Depending on the location, they could just let you go.
Imagine moving from Idaho to NYC. Drastic increase in cost. If an employer needs to compensate for that, I'm pretty sure theyll think long and hard whether its worth it.
Not OP but I'll chime in.
I have a range of devices myself and within in my social circle. I also live abroad from my family so good communication is key.
My work phone is an iPhone, my personal an Android, and across the family there is a multitude of old and new, Android and Apple.
Telegram is using (or used) some homebrew encryption protocol and I simply don't trust it. As it doesn't have a proper tried and tested encryption I'm not going to use it. (The encryption may have changed by now, as I haven't kept tabs on it.)
Signal is okay. There are 2 main things that irk me. Signal's Windows App is bad. Long loading times, bad UI. Keeps crashing for me. I also frequently video chat with family. Signal's quality is considerably worse than that of other services. The sound is choppy and video may or may not work. This is on all devices I own, regardless of network speed.
iMessage and FaceTime are good but platform locked. The video call quality on FaceTime is the best one across all services for me. The picture and sound is just significantly clearer than anywhere else. If I talk to family members with an Apple device I will generally use FaceTime.
WhatsApp still remains my main one for the simple reason that it gives me the best average experience across all devices and circumstances. Video and phone calls could be better but are acceptable. Chats are easy to use and work. Service quality is generally good. WhatsApp for me stands out because it doesn't really negatively stand out anywhere else. Yes, owned by Facebook is something I'm not entirely comfortable with, but right now, there simply isn't any other application that for me is consistently average across every platform.
Join a company based in the US (like many tech companies), and do a really good job. They will then start trying to get you to move to the US, under an L1/L2 (if you can handle management, L2 tends to be better as your partner/spouse can work).
Immediately apply for a green card.
Preferably be born in a small European country, so the green card comes in your lifetime.
Meh, it's not impossible. You probably need to move to Ireland or the UK though, as that's where most of the larger tech companies have most of their roles.
I dont mind if it does. There are plenty of people who prefer to work from home and are more productive in doing so. I'm certainly not one of them. Just like you, I prefer the mental divide.
As for you coworkers, I would simply set fixed working hours, like in the office, and put that into calendar, skype, teams, what have you and close everything else. Thats when you stop work and are not reachable anymore.
I had the same issue as you. Got called at 8pm about a project on my private number (massive mistake handing that out to someone work related). Told them I'm not working right now, reach me under my work phone from 9-5 and call back then. Don't even allow for discussion.
This really depends on why you want to go to university. Is it just for the knowledge and nothing else? Save the money and self learn. Since you specifically mentioned developer, you can take a look here https://ossu.firebaseapp.com/#/curriculum
I've looked at and talked to a lot of different people at different universities in comp sci bachelors. For the most part the curriculum is the same. What sets some schools apart are what you do on the side and general academic environment.
Some people might say that going to university just for the sake of a degree might be a waste, but again this depends on you and your circumstances. There are companies that only hire people with a degree. It's a stupid way to make a hiring decision, but here we are.
I've actually just finished my masters degree in info systems and can definitely understand your thought process. Let me know if you have any other questions. More than happy to help.
From my experience that is indeed a somewhat unusual situation.
The companies I have worked for in the past and those where friends and family work tend give "raises" to match inflation and sometimes a bit on top.
There are also plenty of companies that dont raise your salary at all unless you get promoted.
I think that is part of why many people advise new graduates to change jobs every 2-3 years for some time as often the salary of the newly hired tends to reflect the current market rate.
I have had instances where newly hired people with less experience than colleagues received 20% more salary simply because they were new. This is for the same job and productivity level.
Your standpoint on promotions is perfectly fine and even healthy. Not all people want to get promoted and as long as your are comfortable in your job and like, or at least not mind, doing it, thats okay.
Your boss and the company you work for may very well genuinely care about you. They may have also raised your salary because your are extremely knowledgeable in your area and cant afford to have you leave the company. They could also very much underpay your current market rate and raised your salary to match what other people are earning in that position. No one except your boss can answer that.
Leaving a company that you like working at is a risk and can backfire. I did it once and regretted my decision. Other times it can be a great decision and expose you to new things that you may end up liking even more than your current job.
At the end of the day that decision is squarely on you.
I will be flying from east US to Germany this weekend. (Planned move and visa is running out so no choice).
So far I'm the only person on the transatlantic plane.
Interestingly enough the local US-US flight seems to still have a lot of passengers on it (50ish%)
In 2011 I took a flight to Boston which happened to be on the same day that William and Kate got married. I don't know if that was the reason, but the flight was almost empty (apparently under 30 passengers on a 737). It was annoying for a couple of reasons: Firstly they didn't upgrade anyone, even though first and business was basically empty. Secondly, the flight attendants were constantly badgering me in case I wanted something, when really what I wanted was a bigger seat and to be left alone. Anyway, good luck on your 1 passenger flight.
They can't upgrade people on an empty flight without upsetting the balance of the plane. I've been on flights where we didn't leave the gate until people downgraded so the front wasn't overfull. (I was the only person flying economy, first and economy plus was full so everybody was in front of the wings)
I'm having trouble believing that the margins are so close that the position of a 200lb mass on a 68000 lb plane is a significant factor in anything. If true it would suggest that using the lavatories would be a significant event requiring coordination with the stewards and pilot.
30*150 = 4500 lb. There are cases of planes crashing because everyone rushed to the front or the back to avoid smoke.
I know it's not the same as a commercial airliner, but I used to teach hang gliding on the beach and we'd sometimes get a little packed sand in the back of the keel (which is the name for the central bar that the wings were mirrored across). The total weight of the student plus the glider could get up to ~280 lb, and the amount of packed sand would be less than a pound or two, but the flight characteristics of the gliders would change drastically, to the point where we could barely get them in the air.
As another commenter notes below, the few people moving around the cabin is less about control ability and safety than it is about fuel efficiency.
Actually, for center-of-gravity reasons they (often) cannot reassign seats freely, as the aircraft gets balanced based on the assigned seats. If everyone moves up front, the pilots might get a surprise in how the plane reacts.
I think this is actually not the case. A Boeing 737 totally empty and in the smallest possible configuration is 61,864lbs. If 20 people move up to 1st class that is less than 7% of the overall weight. With the engines and fuel in the centerline, that represents even less in terms of overall torque change on the center of gravity. The aircraft would adjust for this with the tiniest of movements on the elevator, so small it very well might be in the hundreds of an inch.
Here is an example for an A320neo where LH seems to have resolved the issue by not booking the last row due to GoC issues [1]. So 6 people can make a difference.
Moving people left and right has absolutely zero effect on the controlability of the plane, because the ailerons can compensate for much larger movements than that. What it might have an effect on, though, is the overall efficiency with which the plane flies. It is more efficient to have the center of lift and the center of gravity matched, than not.
>Firstly they didn't upgrade anyone, even though first and business was basically empty.
They rarely upgrade to international first/business because the meals and other perks cost real money. And it'll piss off the people who payed over a thousand dollars for those seats.
> Interestingly enough the local US-US flight seems to still have a lot of passengers on it (50ish%)
That's probably a mix of people with critical jobs needing to travel, people having to move for a variety of reasons, and people listening to the ignorant and ignoring the advice to social distance.
Probably. As far as I can see from the airport website this is a regular flight leaving a few times a day. Right now it appears to fly once every other day.
How do you know that? Seatmap are not a reliable indicator - I made this mistake once to board a full flight to India (idea was to save on assigned seat) - many people booking will not be assigned a seat until checkin. The information your OTA or bespoke corporate travel agent has is no different to expertflyer, seatmap bad indicator and for availability you'll only see a max of 9 in each bucket..
Empty transatlantics aren't unheard-of. I was one of only two passengers on a Lufthansa MUC-EWR last year.
It's better for them to run highly unprofitable flights than miss their contract obligations with big corporations that want a plane available to move people transatlantic on a day's notice.
If you ask, they'll almost always say yes. Something like, "Hey, I noticed the flight is mostly empty. Would it be possible for me to get a complimentary upgrade to one of the empty first class seats?"
Unlikely. There are different crew for different cabins. When a flight departs without anyone in first, for example, they don't normally bump people up to fill it they redistribute crew into the main cabins.
Now, if you fly regularly and have some miles status with that airline you can request all sorts of things. The gate agent has a lot of leeway in that regard.
