A decade of data from many hundreds of people, help desk type roll where all communication was kept, mostly chat logs and emails. Machine learning with manual validation. The goal was to put a dollar figure on mistakes made since the customers were much more likely to quit and never come back if it was our fault, but also many customers are nothing but a constant pain in the ass so it was important to distinguish who was right whenever there was a conflict.
Mistakes made per call, like many things, were on a Pareto distribution, so 90% of the mistakes are made by 10% of the people. Identifying and firing those 10% made a huge difference. Some of the ‘mistakes’ were actually a result of corruption and they had management backing as management was enriching themselves at the cost of the company (a pretty common problem) so the initiative was killed after the first round.
This sounds really interesting but possibly qualitatively different than programming/engineering where automated improvements/iterations are part of the job (and what's rewarded)
Tim Cook is the Supply Chain Guy. He has been for decades, before he ever worked at Apple. He does everything he can to make sure that Apple directly controls as much of the supply chain as possible, and uses the full extent of their influence to get favorable long-term deals on what they don't make themselves.
In the past this has resulted in stuff like Samsung Display sending their best displays to Apple instead of Samsung Mobile.
25k annually (before taxes) is $12/hour with a 40 hour work week, how many software developers in the first world are working for that? There are probably some, but I’d be surprised if there were “many”.
What about life expectancy? If smoking makes you die 10 years earlier, that's ~10 years of pension savings for social insurance. Sure, an unlucky few may get lung cancer at 50 and cost a lot of money but most smokers will die, retired, of cheap ailments like COPD or hypertension without fully realizing their social security investment.
Yes, public pensions make smokers even more fiscally positive on expectation.
(However in my adopted home we don't have public pensions like that. Your pension pot is yours, and if you keel over, your heirs get it. But smokers are still fiscally positive.
I brought up the NHS as a short-hand for any kind of healthcare system where the general taxpayer foots your medical bill.)
Can you share more about your particular setup? I use a pretty vanilla setup of Doom emacs on Linux, and while I really wish to give exwm a try my experience with emacs has been too unstable so far. E.g. it sometimes crashes when it gets an I/O error trying to write a file (which happens when a USB drive is removed by accident). A more common annoyance is the entire program freezing while waiting for plugins that should be asynchronous, like Tramp or some LSP servers.
For livestreams there's AceStream built on BitTorrent, but I think it's closed-source. They do have some SDK but I never looked into it. It's mostly used by IPTV pirates. I've used it a few times and it's hit-or-miss but when it works well I have been able to watch livestreams in HD/FullHD without cuts. Latency is always very bad though.
Then for video-on-demand there are some web-based ones like PeerTube (FOSS) and I think BitChute? Sadly webtorrent is very limited.
no. fingerprinting is like denying a kid at a carnival ride with a height check.
what this thread is about is denying a kid a kindergarten spot because the dna shows their height will never get them a basketball college scholarship.
Your example doesn’t make any sense, because they could do it right now: most of the kids are never going to get a basketball college scholarship, everyone knows it, including schools, and they don’t care
That dictionary normally has a lot of rather obscure/long/hard to remember stuff. If you 'reroll' until you get a password you like better you're taking an unknown hit to the entropy of the results.
It's better to use a dictionary where every word is acceptable and commit yourself to taking the first result or best of two (confining the human-selection entropy loss).
Though I don't have any suggestion for a suitable one that is just a wget away.
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