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Here’s a team. Someone leaves. We hire a replacement.
We get lucky and manage to find someone more skilled. Looks like we’re better off? Reminds me of the number of relationships in a social gathering. Two people is two relationships. Four people is six relationships.
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Sean Ewington wrote: Two people is two relationships. Four people is six relationships.
If each relationship is bidirectional, then two people is one relationship, and four people is six relationships.
If each relationship is unidirectional, then two people is two relationships, and four people is twelve relationships.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I knew I should have come here and asked you first.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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A massive cyberattack warning Ukrainians to "be afraid and expect the worst" hit government websites late on Thursday, leaving some websites inaccessible on Friday morning and prompting Kyiv to open an investigation. OK that's probably the scariest hacking message I've ever read.
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Tesla has never been fantastic at meeting deadlines, so it’s not too surprising that the company’s ambitious electric pickup — the Cybertruck — is running a little late. It’s that darn windshield wiper that’s causing this delay
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More than 1 million fewer students are enrolled in college now than before the pandemic began. According to new data released Thursday, U.S. colleges and universities saw a drop of nearly 500,000 undergraduate students in the fall of 2021, continuing a historic decline that began the previous fall. I'm not an economist, so I'm gonna take a wild guess. It's not a good thing?
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Sean Ewington wrote: It's not a good thing?
I don't know. One would expect that it would lead to universities competing for students and reducing tuition? Not that I see any sign of that actually happening 
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Given the rising cost of college (more than double the inflation rate as a whole since the late 90s) and the uselessness of most college degrees I can completely understand why teenagers and young adults are skipping college entirely. In the article there's a telling statement of the real issue:
the skills, credentials and degrees necessary for a higher-paying job.
The skills part of this statement is accurate, but why are we requiring credentials and degrees for people who have the skills?
What this article didn't go into is the fact that engineering schools are seeing increasing numbers of applications while it's the liberal arts schools that are seeing declining enrollments. In addition, universities that offer both are seeing declining enrollment in their liberal arts programs while their engineering programs are seeing increasing enrollment numbers. So maybe the issue isn't declining college enrollment but rather more selective enrollment to learn the skills needed for future success.
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obermd wrote: engineering schools are seeing increasing numbers of applications while it's the liberal arts schools that are seeing declining enrollments.
When a Liberal Arts degree included subjects such as history, literature, and philosophy, it was worth pursuing. Today, it's mostly "woke studies". Why bother?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Agreed. I was trying to stay apolitical in my response. The reality, from looking at political party registrations, is that there are more college graduates registered as Democrats than as Republicans and Independents combined. College has become, in many places, an indoctrination into the Democratic Party.
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With clearing skies and moderate winds, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket rideshare mission safely launched into space on Thursday. First reaction: hmm, that's interesting ... Delayed reaction: 10 times? That is insane! It is funny how our brain quickly accepts the extraordinary as the new normal
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Are you saying that you trust the government satellites up there?
(Trusting a government - any government - is prima facie evidence of insanity).
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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"I have certain rules that I live by. My first rule: I don't trust anything the government tells me. Nothing. Zero." --George Carlin
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If you actually have a need for a satellite, that's not very much. We don't want the price to drop too low, or every high school in some countries will be launching their own vanity satellites, with results that are better not imagined.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I bug to differ...
As long as the cost are astronomical, we will not have any space development or infrastructure..
I look forward to the time where one can go to the moon! That requires much lower cost...
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Quote: ...every high school in some countryies...
FTFY
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Language nitpicking: Wouldn't your correction imply that all those relevant high schools reside in a single country?
Certainly, "some countries" may refer to more than one country. "Some country" refers to one single country, from some more or less arbitrary selection of countries.
Or am I completely misled? English is not my native language ...
The way I read Daniel Pfeffer, he didn't intent to limit the high schools to those in a single country.
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You're absolutely right, and that's what I meant to imply, because I could only think of one country where something so frivolous would be done. 
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Research using employee data reveals the top five predictors of attrition and four actions managers can take in the short term to reduce attrition. Apparently "unethical behavior" is part of toxic corporate culture. Like, swiping paperclips?
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Scientists from the Physics and Engineering Department of the UK's Lancaster University have published a paper detailing a breakthrough in the mass production of UltraRAM. Bob, what do you want to call this? How about 'SuperRAM.' "Absolutely ridiculous. But how about ..."
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Sam: Hey Jim, how about MegaRam. Better than Bob's Idea about SuperRam
Jim: You're fired...
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Apple hasn't stopped selling Intel Macs just yet, but it's safe to say that we'll never see a Mac with one of Intel's 12th-generation Core processors in it. Stay strong, Hackintosh fam.
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Improving Windows 11's visual and functional consistency is shaping up to be a major priority for Microsoft this year Because someone out there is super passionate about volume indicator UI and I don't want to deprive them.
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