They have been jamming for a long time, well before Ukraine demonstrated any capabilities outside its borders. It is just particularly heavy in last couple of weeks.
In my case, this is actually happening right now :) In the view of several potentially hacked cameras. But I still don't care at all about that image leaking somewhere. But I still prefer to step outside the room when discussing personal information over phone.
Just curious, why is a camera considered somehow more privacy invading than a microphone? I would rather like to have physical switch for mike. I don’t really care if someone sees my ugly mug picking boogers. Listening in on business discussions in the next room over is another story. Let alone the contents of the machine itself or the rest of the network that “they” probably already have if they are capable of turning cameras on and off.
Cut back hours, I think this is the root cause of your issues. Next, try to find something else to do on weekends, go biking, gym, etc. Start learning a musical instrument that you don't know anything about. Challenge yourself.
If coding is your hobby also (mine was / is), then even taking a side project that has nothing to do with you day job works nicely. Take some new language, explore some library / tool, build something with arduino or similar, even if it is "mobile app to flush your toilet"-kind of stupid. In my experience this can totally took thoughts way from work even if it is still "coding". And on a plus side, you can gain additional experience, learn about api design and so on.
Also if looking for a job, I think it is better to try smaller players than hunt for big ones. Bigger companies usually have very idiotic hiring processes and it is easy to end up being a "factory worker" not someone who can have a say about things. Challenge yourself there too. I was a self-taught newbie PHP 3 and Delphi coder, applied for C++ job that I only have vague idea about, was accepted. Started developing for Lotus Notes from first day on the job instead. Didn't know it even existed before. Ended up as mainly Java dev a couple of years later in the same place...
In my (20y+) experience, as soon as a methodology/process gets a name for itself, it has lost its original meaning and starts undermining the productivity. At that time all sorts of consultants crawl out of the woodwork and start converting companies to that process. Making good money of course. After that, following the process becomes more important than whatever the actual product is. Turning a large corporation into a new process takes years. Lots of documents created and new roles with funny names etc. And then someone invents a new cool process....
In my opinion, the basics is just to plan ahead only as far as realistic, communicate freely and directly in all levels including customer, document what makes sense, learn from mistakes and don't be afraid to throw away and redo things that don't work. Which, in my opinion, is pretty much the core of most of the processes anyway. But please don't start calling it with some name....
Yes! I would rather spend resources to standardize “smart” traffic control infrastructure, where vehicles and road/street constantly communicate with each other even if it would just be for augmenting drivers’ awareness. For example in-car warnings about abrupt stop ahead, train approaching level crossing, positions of nearby vehicles, traffic light cycles, actual speed limits etc… Training “AI” to make sense of (sometimes barely) human readable signs and clues is waste of time in my opinion. Maybe just for helping with low speed obstacle avoidance…
While I agree that using card with computer is usually quite a bit annoying, but misplacing the card is not so big deal. A quick replacement card can be issued in less than an hour but it is not a "physical ID" (no photo), only electronic. It costs a bit more than normal eID card and it has shorter validity period. This can be active in parallel with the full eID card.
I personally rarely use ID card electronically, but I use mobile ID (phone sim application) instead which is much more convenient. Unfortunately this is phased out in this year and I haven't seen any full replacement for it so far.
I believe it might be because of the orbit isn’t perfectly circular and and same inclination as the station. Check some docking videos where they show relative trajectories between docking ships and station and you notice that it forms “loops” if no thrust is applied. Orbital mechanics can be unintuitive, if you apply thrust towards your orbital motion you raise your orbit on the opposite side of the earth and so on.
I have been working fully from home more than 5 years now. And before that almost as much half time from home. I think I can safely say that I would be devastated if I had to go full time office worker again. I have been working in office more than 10 years in the past. I find myself lot less distracted and interrupted even when the kids are at home. Digging in some code with other people over screen sharing is much better experience than over-the-shoulder way. Lot less fingerprints on screen is an added bonus. Sometimes I like to work late in the evening and I absolutely hated commuting home after long days in the office. YMMV obviously.
This reminds me a nice day we spent at customer's premises trying to figure out why DB2 won't install or start properly on a win2k box. Weird error messages etc. Problem was that it didn't like that the box was named 'DB2'...
No idea, it was years ago. JVM-s were extremely buggy. We were quite n00bs at that time also so we didn't dig into the depths of it, we had to fix production issue that we had already spent a lot of time on. We found the bug by just narrowing down a broken case further and further. Finally we wrote a code that just tried a range of dates one by one over several years to find out the pattern. Unfortunately it wasn't possible upgrade the JVM as it was embedded into Lotus Notes, so we wrote our own date implementation (yay!) that satisfied our needs. It was fixed on later Notes version, but our sh*tty date implementation lived much much longer...
IBM Java 1.1.8 that was embedded into Lotus Notes 5 (if I remember correctly) didn't have 29th of April if it happened to be on Tuesday.
When you constructed a Date object of 29th of April with such a year that it was a Tuesday, you get the 30th of April when you read back the value. Took a while to figure out why date calculations were sometimes off. The flux of expletives was impressive when we finally did...