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I wasn't dissing percentages themselves, but the comparison of percentages, which is fraught with peril. Which is pretty much what I was saying, though not very clearly perhaps.
Jeremy Falcon wrote: the poor/middle class
Well, it's not a matter of class. The less educated of whichever class are easily swayed by misuse of statistics -- percentages, graphs, etc.
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Oh snap. 
Jeremy Falcon
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Some would see this as a "them" problem.
If you have some jank thinkpad with 4 GB of RAM and that means everything is sluggish, it's just meaning you aren't able to give them as much as you could if they enabled you to do so.
I don't think it would necessarily be a function of salary but it's definitely a consideration in some ways. IDK so much I've ever had a problem where the equipment was just wholly inadequate. But I have been places and seen others where skimping on things like server resources had to cost them more than it saved.
If it's gumming up the progress for multiple people because things take way too long it's just hard to see how the money to improve it isn't less than the money lost in their loss of productivity.
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0x01AA wrote: I would expect at least 1% of my salary for my computer.
I went and did the calculation.
I did My_Annual_Salary * 0.01 (That's the calculation, right?)
I don't want to reveal my salary but this would mean that the company had to spend $10,000 on my computer.
That seems like an awful lot for the company to spend on my computer each year. 
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Ok, ok; maybe an upper limit sould be set 
But on the other hand, if you earn that much, why the tools you use to earn that, should not be in a relation.
[Edit]
Or are you a banker-CEO whose income has nothing to do with the work done. And work done, usually requires tools, except for banker-CEOs of course
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0x01AA wrote: why the tools you use to earn that, should not be in a relation.
I think that's the main fallacy with your thesis.
If two workers are performing the same job, it is reasonable to expect them to use the same tools/equipment regardless of how much they are paid to do it or how much the company earns from it. For the higher-paid worker, this would be a smaller percentage of income, but such a worker shouldn't complain about it.
This is one of the problems inherent in trying to compare percentages.
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raddevus wrote: My_Annual_Salary * 0.01
...company had to spend $10,000 on my computer.
...spend on my computer each year.
Wow! Congrats man! I put two and two together to figure out you have a 7-digits salary. In my neck of the woods you ain't gonna find many developers getting that.
Either that, or you missed a zero in your computations
Mircea
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He's joking; it was only $978,942. And wealthy people don't get paid in salary like that (at a job) because it's worst possible tax structure.
Jeremy Falcon
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raddevus wrote: I don't want to reveal my salary using a simple algebraic riddle.
FIFY
Any job openings where you work? I mean, dayum.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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raddevus wrote: I don't want to reveal my salary but this would mean that the company had to spend $10,000 on my computer.
See, I told you it would pay off to start male dancing.
Jeremy Falcon
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0x01AA wrote: I would expect at least 1% of my salary for my computer. Am I exaggerating?
That ratio would taper off the future up you go, for a dev at least, if you include stock options, etc. at a FAANG company. If you're talking base, gross salary then that seems on par for a salaried employee until you reach a threshold. Which I'll say the number is privately, but those talented few who know... know.
I've seen some companies push cheapo laptops on a contractor though. But, if it's cheapo company and you're an employee, your salary probably sucks too. So, 1% holds.
Jeremy Falcon
modified 3hrs 15mins ago.
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IMHO, the amount of $ spent on equipment is mostly related to the job(s) one is doing. Salary has nothing to do with it.
FWIW, my average of the last 10 years is 1.2% of my salary on hardware.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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I got an email this morning...Back in 2005, someone at this email address purchased SpinRite v6.0.
UNSUBSCRIBE: If you never wish to receive additional news of SpinRite improvements or “Beyond Recall”, our forthcoming secure drive wiping utility, or any new freeware, PLEASE click here to instantly UNSUBSCRIBE and this email address will never be used again.
You may upgrade your copy of SpinRite to v6.1 at no cost.
SpinRite has been significantly improved
After 20 years, SpinRite 6.0 has been updated to 6.1, and as a licensed owner of 6.0, you are invited to upgrade your copy of SpinRite at no cost. That's quite a delay between releases and interesting that GRC kept the record of my purchase for so long!
Anyway, I tried writing the image to a USB stick, then a CD, but couldn't get either to boot - SpinRite runs a a version of FreeDOS - so dug out my old USB floppy drive and picked up the first floppy disk to come to hand...
...which turned out to be a boot disk for SpinRite 6.0!
Of course, I then worked out that the reason things wouldn't boot was the BIOS boot mode (EUFI) setting!
FYI...
My stack of laptops is in the back of the garage.
I still have a large stack of unused writable CDs (and DVDs).
I still have a small stack of unused punch cards.
I have 2 slide rules.
modified 10hrs ago.
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Plyushkin's disorder Seek HELP
Or send the laptops to me after you update them
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Steve Gibson (of GRC, and author of SpinRite) has often mentioned on his weekly podcast (Security Now) that even though it's been 20 years, he doesn't feel justified to ask existing customers to purchase an upgrade - no matter how far back they go. And he actually respects unsubscribe requests. Anyone who listens to his podcast would immediately realize he's a hardcore developer at heart, not marketing or sales. I give him a lot of kudos for that.
And even though he calls it a point upgrade, it's essentially a full rewrite, primarily to take advantage of disk technologies that have evolved over those last 20+ years. I haven't tried it myself, but based on the feedback he's been relaying on his podcast, people are seeing tremendous improvements in processing time, which was needed given that today's drives are so much larger than they used to be.
Unrelated: This week's podcast is #993 (it's in its...18th year?) Turns out security is a big topic, and he's not about to run out of material to discuss.
I never miss an occasion to say that the technically-minded who cares about cybersecurity (as much I hate using the term "cyber"-anything) would do well to listen to his podcast. Very informative, he's a stickler for accuracy, doesn't go for the attention-grabbing headlines and brings it down to earth. All my personal opinion.
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StarNamer@work wrote: I have 2 slide rules.
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StarNamer@work wrote: I have 2 slide rules.
All these recent posts mentioning slide rules makes me wonder whether or not my father still has the one I remember from my youth.
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StarNamer@work wrote: ..which turned out to be a boot disk for SpinRite 6.0!
After doing all that just to find it, do you really need to upgrade that tool?
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As sad as that might be, I'll try to make another point.
I never understood these types of headlines. "Star of" [XYZ]. I've never watched Downton Abbey, but I have seen all 8 Harry Potter movies. Yeah, ok, she had a role in all (?) of them. But I think it's fair to say she didn't star in them, in the sense that she did not get top billing, or all that much total screen time, relatively speaking, if that's how you want to measure it. That distinction goes to "the other three" - and I don't even need to name them for everyone to know exactly who I'm talking about.
Is it really the role that made her known? Probably not. The story wasn't about her character. She might have made great contributions to the movies, but they still didn't revolve around her.
I realize it's not the best measure, but her page on IMDB doesn't even show Harry Potter under the "Known For" section (nor does Downton Abbey for that matter).
So placing her role from Harry Potter right in the headline for her obituary and claiming she "starred" in it, as if that was her greatest accomplishment, really does her a disservice IMO. Kinda like saying Judy Dench "starred" in the James Bond series, for her role as M.
Aim a little higher than pointing out the bit parts, is all I'm saying.
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Now, if we're talking about her time as Miss Jean Brodie or the lady in the van, that would be very different.
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I can't say I'm familiar with either. Consider my interest piqued.
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They probably put the newbie young reports in charge of obits. And they probably only know her from Harry Potter. I still think of her as Wendy from the movie Hook. It was the first movie I ever saw her in.
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I got my SVG code parsing and more or less accurately rendering exactly one document. Found out my float point peephole parsing was off in some cases, and that my understanding of SVG path syntax was lacking. Correcting for what I learned and finding that bug dramatically improved my results, but...
I introduced errors in the vector graphics engine's antialiasing somehow. Not sure what I did, or what changed. Yikes!
No other document other than the one renders at all, but I'm not as concerned about that at the moment.
What a mess. It just reminds me of any significant project though.
I have one at work where, with demo coming up, we had to do a last minute swap of the hardware. Issue is we already had that swap in the pipeline, but somebody else nixed it due to it using a different cell protocol and them having to rewrite their code. (Not someone I work with directly usually - I'm actually working with a client, and another team - this coder is on that other team - and I'm not trying to dish on him - this was all a misunderstanding). We get the module swapped, and run into power supply problems. Fix that, run into some additional bugs. Finally, late night EST we had a deliverable. And honestly, some of that could have been avoided if I could have foreseen one of the issues we ended up with back when the project was spec'd.
Progress lurches.
They say 80% of goth is lint rolling.*
Well 80% of software development is having the patience to roll with the punches and eat your mistakes.
* The other 20% I think involves being hopelessly depressed, but that may apply to software as well.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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