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If I run a business and I can't afford you, then I have to continue employing you to the detriment of the rest of the business?

I frequently hear this being trotted out as the reason why at-will employment is a good thing. This is, however, not the reality. You can fire employees for many reasons: Poor performance, breaking the rules, and - yes - lack of money.

What you cannot do is fire people on the spot for any random reason. You can fire people, but you have to follow a process that is designed to protect both the employer and the employee.

I have had to fire people in my employ a few times, and every time I was annoyed at the length and complication of the process I had to follow. I never once thought that at-will employment was a good alternative. As an employer, I strongly believe that the practice is barbaric and uncivilized.

Well, you can also quit for any reason, at any time

And...? If your business is structured in such a way that this situation would pose an existential threat to your business, you have failed as a business manager. If this situation doesn't pose an existential threat to your business, it is just an annoyance - sucks to be you, I guess. As a reward for the risks and hardships of being a company owner, you get to take home your profits.
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I buy Vanguard ETFs and many other index funds (that Vanguard doesn't offer) on Robinhood. The user interface is 100x better, and why wouldn't I want to keep it all in 1 place? They just need an IRA product and most people would be set.
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The most realistic path to this would be them buying Canonical. I doubt they are going to roll their own distro from scratch.
If the economic model was different they might have spoken up. I think it might be worthwhile, in this case, to examine / contrast what a socialist society might do vs a capitalistic society.

EDIT: I'm in no way inferring this is a black and white issue. But I do think it's a worthwhile experiment for the mind.
What interest would such a switch brings on the table? I can't see any, except reducing diversity in the computer landscape.
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One could also say that agriculture changed machine learning via RA Fischer, pioneer of modern statistics - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Fisher#Rothamsted_Exper...
They are wrong generally speaking. Willful conduct is the standard for criminal liability. A developer in good faith introducing a bug or inheriting one from a third party is not in that situations

My guess as to why the draconian position is more about the internal process. You have to identify and disclose breaches in a timely way; if you don’t the company is at risk.

From HHS summary of the rules:

(See: https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/laws-reg... ) (it’s also laid out in the regulation which I don’t have time to find.)

“Criminal Penalties. A person who knowingly obtains or discloses individually identifiable health information in violation of the Privacy Rule may face a criminal penalty of up to $50,000 and up to one-year imprisonment. The criminal penalties increase to $100,000 and up to five years imprisonment if the wrongful conduct involves false pretenses, and to $250,000 and up to 10 years imprisonment if the wrongful conduct involves the intent to sell, transfer, or use identifiable health information for commercial advantage, personal gain or malicious harm.”
Is there a reason why the seats are facing away from the water?
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my point is that as an employee I like knowing I can leave at any time I want

What gives you the idea that you cannot leave anytime you want as an employee?
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I'd like to use linux, and install it from time to time, but am always eventually worn down by problems, some trivial & some less so, that could mostly be solved, but at the cost of research & fiddling time I'm not interested in spending.

The issues largely fall into two categories - missing software, and missing or undercooked hardware support. If Microsoft did signal to the market an increased long-term support for Linux with a concomitant warning about Windows' longevity, I suspect these issues would be mitigated. Bring it on.
Apple only needed to support their own hardware. Microsoft would need to make Linux work wherever NT works, and would need to figure out a solution for third-party closed-source NT drivers.

Besides, in a sense, Microsoft did this when they moved the desktop product line to NT. It wsa a similar compatibility break and a similar improvement in stability and switch to a robust, multiuser, preemptively-multitasking kernel as classic Mac OS to XNU; it's just that the kernel Microsoft already had in house was NT, and the one Apple/NeXT had was XNU.
Ah yeah. O Holy Night is the perfect example. It starts off soft and soothing, then transforms into something that sounds foreboding, and then finishes with something that sounds triumphant. It's marvelous.
Countries can take super long views of such projects. In 100+ years are people going to want super high speed rail?

If so, a little investment now can add up in the long term. This a long way from proven technology, but you make that jump in small investments not a complete replacement of a working system.

Even better, the first track is going to end up as a tourist destination.
This is exactly the kind of thing that should be a layer on top of FoundationDB. Too many state stores all doing largely the same thing.
Uh no actually referencing these comments:

"It might actually spur some action on the part of faculty to get off their collective backsides and consider how every day they perpetuate an unsustainable system of scientific communication ... Faculty who make publication and review decisions simply don't care about the cost of subscriptions enough."
Dont people know that most of these "followers" are fake accounts created from some third world digital slave labor company?
I'm sure all that attitude has nothing to do with the fact that corporations do bad things.
please god, no! ibm rhel. microsoft ubuntu.
For the longest time I assumed MS would buy Ubuntu.

I'm not a .NET dev currently running PopOs on my XPS 13. VS Code is my primary editor for all things. If MS released a desktop that looked this good and came batteries included for their tool chains and services I'd hop in a heart beat.

My only guess is that doing so would lower consumer confidence in the corporate space? I know Chrome books are making a push there and the psychological factor of "it's not Windows" does seem to be a competitive advantage for MS (for now).
You can't join together, even though neither of you have Huawei deployed, because your German majority owner has Huawei and we want to leverage an advantage. Merkel isn't in five eyes and we have no other leverage.

That's abusing the reasons major mergers like this are referred to the system in peacetime. It's not a hot war, it's not a cold ear, it's a trade war. What happened to the WTO? Did we all just walk off the reservation back to tarrifland?
True. In our brand new service offering we took it all into account. Networking is costly but doesn't change the game that much. Scylla is 4x-6x cheaper, depending whether it's on-demand (vs Dynamo on-demand) or reserved for a year (vs dynamo reservation)

https://www.scylladb.com/product/scylla-cloud/#pricing
Builder is the key. If you have a house built and the foundation is cracked or mold is growing, you’ll be able to successfully sue.
It's not a whole monitor flicker. Just specific windows flicker. Like my terminal will suddenly strobe at 10Hz+.
From a software standpoint, will any of these ideas be ported to TensorFlow or is this very different?
Even for those of us who are male, white, and straight, your state sounds unpleasant. Convincing someone like me to move there is going to be very expensive.
Mono isn't sponsored by Microsoft; they bought it. They also publish an insane number of things completely open source, developing them in the open. .NET Core being a huge one, but ASP.NET, VSCode, ChakraCore, TypeScript, and so many others. There are 2181 repositories in the MS Github account.
Yea I'm relatively certain it isn't the hardware.
Late in reply - I switched off from Slack to FreeBSD around 2006. Perhaps things have changed, but Slackware generally followed the BSD conventions of what goes where as opposed to say RedHat.
National security is becoming an umbrella term to justify anything, including tariff on Canadian steel.
Never read GK Chesterton, but now I guess I have to. Dude wrote the hell out of that passage.
Apostates really? There is no apostate holocaust. The fuss made for "exmuslims" is just victim aggrandization meant to cast aspersions on Muslim countries. It's not a god damn "category".
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> In addition, for several years now, Microsoft's WSL developers have been working on mapping Linux API calls to Windows and vice-versa. A lot of the work needed for Windows apps to run without modification on Linux has already been done.

This argument makes little sense: that "vice versa" is wholly unsubstantiated and without it the rest collapses. Making Linux binaries work on NT (which already has a subsystem concept; Interix proved that this could be done) in a way where they interact little with the Windows desktop, and making not just NT binaries but Win32 binaries work smoothly on Linux, are almost entirely unrelated problems.

It is true that MS owns the code necessary to make this happen, that WINE is an existence proof that it can be done shockingly well even without that code, and that there is both code and expertise at MS for stuffing Linux concepts and NT concepts in the same kernel. But that's about it.
The big difference is that urban California outvotes rural California, something that isn’t true in Mississippi.
How do atmospheric disturbances appear to a system like this?

My naive assumption is that, at the macro scale, you will have a slowly varying snaking path through the atmosphere, causing the beam position on the ground to lazily move about. And, at the smaller scale, turbulence, spread, and flicker within that beam (caustics?).

Does anyone have some insight?
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LoL, u have no idea.
LLVM was always intended to be a compiler IR rather than a "JIT for C", and the "virtual machine" in the name was named as much to refer to the idea that it's a more direct model of an instantiation of the C abstract machine as any actual ability to perform dynamic optimization.

The big push LLVM made early on was on being able to do ahead-of-time, runtime, and idle-time optimization; the latter of which is mostly reflected in profile-guided optimization. The poor quality of its dynamic optimization [1] and the general reluctance to use profile-guided optimization means that LLVM ended up focusing hard on optimizing ahead-of-time like traditional C compilers. The fact that people got too easily confused about what LLVM actually did caused Lattner to de-acronymize it officially several years ago.

[1] A more difficult problem for C and C++ is that actually collecting enough of the code in a single IR representation is surprisingly hard, as build systems are completely and totally inane, and that's before you start trying to figure out how to glue in things like assembly files or glibc.
And then when someone does publish work in that venue, are others doing related research supposed to refuse to acknowledge related published work? That's a pretty serious ethics breach in itself.
Microsoft acquired Xamarin, the corporate sponsors of Mono, in 2016.
The WebApp suggests places to hangout which is closer to every friend of yours on the map!.

• Basically exploiting the features provided by Google Maps API along with the concept of InterWeb [ PubNub helped me here :P ]
• All your friends share the same view as yours
> Believe me, I can come with examples that will put Scylla in a much better light

I know this; it's why I was disappointed in the way this test was designed. It would be great to see as close as possible comparison between the two then mention improvements and trade-offs that you can still make (such as single-AZ or self-service) since you have different knobs to turn as well as DynamoDB quirks (such as item size boundaries) that can make ScyllaDB more attractive for your use-case.
BGP was on my short list, based on the title.

And I'm puzzled by this:

> There was no concept that people would use this to do malicious things.

Pranking/rfing was very common, in those days. Not exactly malicious, of course. All in good fun. But still ...
My cat acts a bit strange and erratic in my kitchen, the strangest of which is insisting (via clawing the door and meowing) that I open up a pantry door where it will look inside and then leave, only to continue the behaviour soon after.

I've heard certain cleaning products can mimic cat pheromones (not sure how true that is, though), or at the very least affect the cats sense of smell which would affect a cat more than a human. My cat seems uninterested in cat nip.
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I'm sorry, I'm not sure how you could know that, or why it would be a precondition to forgiveness. Assuming that large numbers of people are dishonest and sociopathic may not be incorrect, but acting as if that were true seems pretty misguided.

The problem of forgiveness is forgiving atrocity. Yeshua bar Youssif suggested that one should "turn the other cheek," that is, not just to immediately forgive the offense, but to immediately give the perpetrator the opportunity to commit the same offense again. The application of this precept to persons such as Robert Bowers is a sickening thought -- clearly we must not condone atrocity in the name of forgiveness. Yet we must come in time to forgive, and indeed, sooner than our wont. The matter is a frequent and weighty concern for me; I don't have any answers.
They should buy elementary OS.

System_76 borrowed heavily from elementary OS to create Pop_Os which is a dream. Now that I'm saying it I hope they just swallow a little pride and become a major contributor to Pop_Os.

Every devops and net admin I know would wiggle with joy to be issued a Dell XPS 15 + Pop_Os tuned with PowerShell and other MS tool chains fully supported.
yeah sorry that's not the life I want. I'm glad I didn't grow up in some country like argentina or whatever that has a no lending where I would have to live with my parents until I'm 35 and take my girlfriends to love hotels.
> Either shake your head from side to side or wave your open hand in front of the lights to test if there's a strobe effect.

My method is filming any suspected bulb (not just Xmas lights) in slo-mo for a second and watching if they flash on playback. However, most I can tell out of hand without resorting to slo-mo.

If there’s something untrustworthy about the light emitted, it’s an LED.
Research shows that diverse teams tend to get stuck in group think less, and diverse markets are less prone to bubbles and corrections.
That makes me wonder...if my binaries are compiled on some fedora buildbot and distributed to everyone then wouldn't they all have the same "randomized" layout?
Let us not forget that like GNU Linux, Windows is actually a really good operating system.
In about 5 years, we're all going to be on inline styles in JSX (or equivalent), flabbergasted that we ever thought CSS was a good idea. Calling it now.
Zhuowei Zhang (@zhuowei) published a proof of concept that crashes Chrome 70: https://worthdoingbadly.com/sqlitebug/
Which friends?
Can I just check, do you use Edge browser? We've (SpeedCurve) been seeing some issues where Edge goes bonkers and makes thousands of requests to our CDN and fails to load CSS which would look like a broken site.
They've posted a response, for what it is worth: https://blog.robinhood.com/news/2018/12/14/a-letter-from-our...

Not exactly confidence-inspiring, but we will see.
Silent Night is interesting (and by that, I mean boring) in that it's your basic three-chord I/IV/V melody.

One might think this structure is only a recent invention with early blues and rock & roll. Is it unusual for a 200-year-old song to follow this pattern? How old is the three-chord musical structure?
I see a lot of “why not” but no actual “why”. Microsoft loses strategic platform control and gains: ...

crickets
What do tomography and holograms have in common? That's mostly a joke, but I wonder.
Ones you share the link with ;)
Honestly nothing really. It’s more that there are papers that I am often the best person to review them (because of particular expertise). I often just don’t pay attention to where it’s coming from.
This bug is just another example of the Valley children doing what they do best - writing terrible code. Keep moving fast and breaking things, kids. Please keep your culture confined to the west.
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Yeah, it's "100% safe, once applied", right?

https://nypost.com/2018/07/11/russian-asbestos-company-puts-...

>And in his 1997 book, “The Art of the Comeback,” he said it is “100% safe, once applied.”

All it needs is a little rebranding.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/russian-asbestos-trump_fac...

>"I believe that the movement against asbestos was led by the mob, because it was often mob-related companies that would do the asbestos removal. Great pressure was put on politicians, and as usual, the politicians relented." -Trump, The Art of the Comeback, 1997

When they're not Rolling Coal, Trump supporters should show their faith in their leader and p0wn the libs by snorting up lines of asbestos and rubbing it all over their skin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_coal
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Well if I were them I'd implement my own stable driver ABI so companies wouldn't be forced to open source them (like it really makes a difference anyway with all the firmware blobs) and you wouldn't have to recompile every single driver for every single kernel revision. I'd also move more stuff into user space like they did in Windows, which is why a video or sound driver crash usually just wigs out the screen for a second instead of crashing the whole system.

Given that, maybe it would also be possible to implement a compatibility layer so some amount of current Windows drivers could be used anyway. I don't know if that's feasible, but if it is they're in a position to pull it off.
That's a good point. Most of the large LLVM projects I've used (such as Root's Cling) seem to lag behind LLVM's versions rather drastically.
even moreso when you remember that SO MANY COMPANIES enforce most of their auth z/n at the edge, and are a lot looser between internal services
A shortcut (perhaps the wrong word here) would be to migrate the Xbox to Xbox libraries on top of a Linux core. This would minimize the hardware for them to start with.

After a couple years, they could make Windows server run on a Linux core, and then another couple years have Windows run on Linux.

The whole progression could be pretty smooth, covering several years and taking a milestone-driven approach.

With the surface, im sure hey could use that to their advantage and have kore control over hardware.

Perhaps the best impetus to do this would be if they ever really wanted to migrate to ARM and reduce their reliance on the intel platform.

The hardware piece is important, but definitely controllable. Just like you mentioned NT, but this time with a smaller set of vendors to work with.
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Definitely some survivor bias in your choices, since Adeste Fideles and Veni Emmanuel have Latin names. I'd throw In Dulci Jubilo in the same group of songs that have earned a permanent place in the Christmas songbook.
So this sounds alarming, right?

> There is another dangerous possibility lurking in BGP, what Madory calls the “dystopian possibility” that some network — perhaps in a moment when international hostilities are spilling into cyberspace — intentionally claims control of sections of the Internet that don’t belong to it.

> Such a move would confuse the world’s routers, which would have to choose between rival claims to the same blocks of Internet addresses. The overall network, unable to discern truth amid competing claims, could fracture into rival fiefdoms.

But hey, the US already does this, for some FBI website seizures. And for black-holing "bad" sites.
I want to meet my friends somewhere cool. In the Bay Area, I suspect the centroid of most friends groups will be either in suburban wasteland or over water.
just a normal flex, really
> You don't need to make this claim to support the rest of your point.

True
I wonder if a new engine could work with only water injection instead of afterburning. It would certainly be much cheaper and delivers an impressive boost in thrust. Quite a few cargo jets use it for takeoffs, especially when heavily loaded on hot days and high altitude.
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"Not dystopian except for the thought police" doesn't cut it for me.
If 2 of the biggest Linux distributors get owned by giants with their intention of trying to save themselves than save the market is going to be a bad ride.

What other commercially supported option do we have for those concerned?
batchsize 1 should always work. The trade off is always “bigger batch size/more efficient” versus “smaller batch size/better results”. By using larger batches you are able to reduce overhead, take better advantage of memory caches, etc.... which can give very large speed ups. But mathematically it can slow down your training convergence (check out the plots showcasing how smaller batches converge in fewer optimizer steps). This is because when you average over an entire batch, you throw away a little bit of information that could otherwise be used to better learn your model. For intuition on this, imagine that you are doing homework, and you are forced to finish 1000 practice problems before being allowed to look at the answers; if you had looked earlier you may have been able to correct your mistake earlier and not gotten all 1000 wrong. However it would have taken you more time to go through those 1000 practice problems because you would have been looking up the answers and mentally adjusting your model for each problem you did.
What do you mean? All sorts of things get packaged into Snaps etc.
photographic proofs are not trustworthy... even with projections.

https://youtu.be/p5_tpq5ejFQ
From my point of view, both of you are right and wrong.
Being a conscientious objector to war is not the same thing as aiding an enemy. However, Defending against hacking is different from providing for offensive weapons.
In other words, defending government institutions takes precedence over the policies of government institutions. The policies are decided at the ballot box.
Reading this makes me think the author could skip the fuzzer altogether, grep the C FLOSS universe for the set of old-school, free-wheelin' string handling functions, and then iterate over the results to find the (hopefully) smaller set which can take arbitrary input for at least one of the arguments.
You can try this out and let me know ;)
I honestly don't think Microsoft cares about the Windows Desktop platform anymore. Certainly their actions regarding Windows 10 don't suggest that they do.

My bet is that if they release a Linux distro, it will be Microsoft's take on ChromeOS, tied to Azure and Office 365 and all that, with any other stuff shunted off somewhere in a container or VM. Oh, you can install your own software from other sources at will, you'll just have to compile it yourself or rely on a network of repos and maintainers. It'll be the death of everything I actually like about computing and I'm not looking forward to it.
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