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boutad commented on Google offers certificate to help IT career growth blog.google/outreach-init... · Posted by u/jonas_kgomo

tombert · 6 years ago

I don't mean to come off as dismissive, but as someone who has a bunch of these company-sponsored certificates, does any employer (outside of the one issuing it) care at all about these certs?

I have a few from EdX, something from W3Schools, and something from RedHat that I still put on my resume for some indiscernible reason, but having asked interviewers about it after being hired, they don't appear to have been of any direct practical use.

I'm not saying you shouldn't learn all the stuff required for the certificate, but at the same time, I think it's naive to think that putting it on a resume is going to be much direct help.

boutad · 6 years ago

According to this(https://grow.google/programs/it-support/), BofA, PNC, Intel, Hulu, Wallmart, and others care about it.

boutad commented on Trying out the Pinebook Pro – a $200 ARM Laptop jeremymorgan.com/blog/lin... · Posted by u/JeremyMorgan

Scarbutt · 6 years ago

Are there any $200 laptops like this one but x86 powered?

boutad · 6 years ago

Depends what you mean when you say like this. You can find some x86 Chromebooks for that price but they wouldn't be as open.

boutad commented on Trying out the Pinebook Pro – a $200 ARM Laptop jeremymorgan.com/blog/lin... · Posted by u/JeremyMorgan

purplezooey · 6 years ago

Is the screen IPS?

boutad · 6 years ago

Yes, that is listed on the product page.

https://www.pine64.org/pinebook-pro/

boutad commented on A Sad Day for Rust words.steveklabnik.com/a-... · Posted by u/pjmlp

pfortuny · 6 years ago

And?

boutad · 6 years ago

Wouldn't it be better if there was one repo that had all of the fixes?

boutad commented on The 100 Year Starship en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100... · Posted by u/mmhsieh

EA · 6 years ago

What if Country X starts building a starship in, say, 40 years and it works and off they go.

Then Country Y invests in new technology and starts building their new ship in, say, 100 years.

It's possible and likely that Country Y's starship is more capable and faster than Country X's ship as they would have waited for and capitalized on scientific breakthroughs that make interstellar travel better.

boutad · 6 years ago

> It has been argued that an interstellar mission that cannot be completed within 50 years should not be started at all. Instead, assuming that a civilization is still on an increasing curve of propulsion system velocity and not yet having reached the limit, the resources should be invested in designing a better propulsion system. This is because a slow spacecraft would probably be passed by another mission sent later with more advanced propulsion (the incessant obsolescence postulate).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_travel#Wait_calcu...

boutad commented on EU considers temporary ban on facial recognition in public spaces reuters.com/article/us-eu... · Posted by u/doener

randomsearch · 6 years ago

Response as a Brit: “yes! That’s great news. Idiot/sinister police forces have already been trialling this, fantastic. Thank god for the EU.”

(Pause)

“Oh shit, I forgot.”

boutad · 6 years ago

Good thing the UK are able to pass their own laws.

boutad commented on Microsoft’s quest to go ‘carbon negative’ inspires $1B fund greenbiz.com/article/micr... · Posted by u/frankdenbow

tito · 6 years ago

Awesome! What have people seen from the performance of these types of corporate venture capital funds? I'm guessing a lot of it will go towards carbon neutral, but I'm most excited about the carbon removal pieces like Direct air capture, carbon to value, and underground carbon storage.

If you had $1B for carbon negative tech, where would you invest it?

boutad · 6 years ago

I think carbon to value is the best way. If valuable uses for carbon are found companies will work on carbon capture themselves without political purpose.

boutad commented on A Sad Day for Rust words.steveklabnik.com/a-... · Posted by u/pjmlp

jwlake · 6 years ago

I honestly dont understand people being mad at this. Every dependancy I use I don't like 100% I fork and modify and then upstream changes, and if they never get merged, who cares?

If there was a big user community that wanted different things, fork and have a seperate maintainer structure. Why drama?

boutad · 6 years ago

Then you might end up with a bunch of different forks each with different fixes applied.

boutad commented on How The New York Times Verified the Iran Missile-Strike Footage cjr.org/q_and_a/new-york-... · Posted by u/danso

deanclatworthy · 6 years ago

It's worth pointing out that since the incident Iran has arrested those responsible for downing the jet - in an attempt to place blame on to individuals - who I'm certain are devastated at accidentally killing their countryman. I suspect they will be labelled traitors and never seen again.

They have also arrested the person who filmed this video [2]. Whilst we might celebrate this investigative journalism, this video changed the course of the narrative and forced Iran to come clean, we should also be aware of the consequences of it.

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-51114945

boutad · 6 years ago

Why did BBC put quotes around the word arrested in the title?

boutad commented on FBI unlocked iPhone 11 Pro via GrayKey, raising more doubts about Pensacola case ww.9to5mac.com/2020/01/15... · Posted by u/miles

boutad · 6 years ago

Once again, it seems that it was an excuse to weaken the security of all iPhone users rather than getting information from a specific device. In the case of San Bernandino the FBI was able to use Cellebrite to crack the attacker iPhone without Apple creating backdoors.

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KarmaCake day54January 13, 2020View Original