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> Whatever the definition of a Rock Star employee is surely, well...by definition, they must be a net positive for the organisation :-)

What?
To be honest, it was the author who I felt like, while perhaps not an asshole, showed a pretty intense level of oblivious immaturity.

I get it, the other guy was a jerk, especially to someone who was maintaining an add-on for free. But at the point where the author responded with the "Sorry, I don't agree with that," he should have left it at that and moved on. Who cares what some rando on the internet thinks about your product? Instead the author decided to go into vindictive mode and leave the negative review, and then leave this whole blog post, which does the author no favors. To be honest, to me the cringiest part of this article is it feels like the author is trying to project how virtuous he is, when, at least for me, it had the opposite effect.
Ah, fair enough. It could definitely do with an overhaul. It's still one of my favourite programs simply because of all it's functionality.
Why does Google get a pass? They're an advertising company, and listening to conversations is very relevant to that business model.

In fact, I think it's more plausible that this entire foray into IOT is to collect even more data for use in advertising (e.g. get more microphones in more places). Why else would an advertising company get into such a wide array of businesses?

Yes, their products are convenient and typically get good QA testing, but there's still no way I'll be convinced that they're not trying to get as much data as possible to contribute to their core advertising business.
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Interesting bug, I presume that happend even after bumping WDB_GOPHER_TAPE_LEN. I had a similar bug, where if the object file was "too large" (if you needed debug symbols...) the IDE loader would crash and you couldn't debug.
> death threats are ridiculous

Fixed that for you...
Most researchers agree that mental disorders should not have names, as it is difficult or impossible to draw discrete boundaries in this complex and poorly-understood spectrum of symptoms. However, as a broad generalization, researchers are the only group who feel this way:

- Doctors like names because then they can provide a diagnosis and recommend action based on the diagnosis

- Patients and their loved ones (often) like names because it is easier to think/say "I have schizophrenia" than it is to describe their factor scores on a myriad of benchmarks

- Drug companies like names because they can develop drugs for specific disorders rather than for a combinatorially large number of factors

- Regulators like names because they can approve treatments and standards of care for a finite number of situations

- Insurance companies like names because it allows them to approve or deny claims in a more straightforward way.

While names are often times arbitrary, they make many things more convenient. I am not saying that I personally agree or disagree that there should or should not be names, only that this is a complex issue with many complexities besides the underlying science.

Also, I see nobody has mentioned RDoC yet, which is the taxonomy researchers are starting to use to classify mental disorders: https://www.nimh.nih.gov/research-priorities/rdoc/constructs...
Florida is a perfect storm of retirees who should have had their licenses revoked years ago, car-centric exurban non-planning, big trucks as culture, and weather so hot and prone to unexpected storms that few people cycle for anything other than recreation and thus most riders are seen as ridiculous wannabe racers, or just some drunk who lost their drivers' license. Everything is spread out and connected by 6-lane divided highways with bike lanes "generously" thrown into the shoulder by FDOT, and everyone is distracted by their phones because they're bored because they spend enormous amounts of time sitting in traffic.

I lived in Florida for most of my early life, was car-free for a lot of it, and don't miss riding there at all. The cycling community in Miami used to joke that in the rest of the country, you ride like you're invisible - but in South Florida, you ride like the drivers can see you and are actively trying to kill you. Stay safe.
Do you feel like it's difficult to find the opinions of Male Engineers online?
This can be done using WebAssembly and swift web.
thank the State DOT.
I don't know if you're being sarcastic or not, but I think we all know that "ask an engineer" means "ask a male engineer" 99% of the time.

Edit: I was just guessing at the ratio of male to female engineers, so maybe I overestimated the imbalance, but I think the point stands.
"Gear" makes a lot of sense. "Zaumzeug" denotes the bridles used to control horses.

Etymology is just fascinating.
It does the exact opposite of that. The argument is that the focus on finding “rock stars” who act as a positive force is less efficient than a focus on avoiding “toxic” employees who act as a negative force.
A good general approach to problem solving that is not CSS specific -- prototype something that just works to get familiar with the problem space, then refactor/reiteratively improve the solution.
> Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

The article says that the "insect apocalypse" is not going to happen, despite pretty strong evidence of insect decline. So Betteridge's Law does hold here.
I mean no one really comes out looking good in this story.

You don't trump an asshole by out-assholing him
Why does it have to be something else? Couldn't the particles have precipitated gravitationally inside a smallish dust cloud?
Case in point, Go has its roots in Oberon-2 and Limbo, and we all know how they both went.

Had Go been created while their authors would be working elsewhere, and it wouldn't have taken off like that.

Naturally one can use Dart as counter example, but it only failed because Chrome and Angular teams weren't willing to keep pushing it forward.
It's incredible the author was so proud of being an asshole that he wrote a blog post about it.
The article compares the return on the cost/investment of hiring a rock star vs NOT hiring a toxic. It acts as guidance on what part of one's hiring pipeline is most worth investment.
I find it perplexing that the parent comment so confidently assumes that Trump will not be re-elected at the same time.

I mean, if I voted for Trump comments like these would make me want to vote for him again even more.
Manual, rotary knobs remind me of phones with manual, rotary dials. They were everywhere through the entire 20th Century, but now there are plenty of people who've never seen them in their entire life, and of course youtube videos of kids being laughed at by their parents when they're forced to try to figure out how to use them. That's something else we didn't have back then: humiliating videos of ourselves -- recorded by our family, no less -- broadcast to the whole world. I don't blame the kids for failing, though. The dialing mechanism of such phones is clearly not very intuitive.
> Can you provide a source for this? (especially concerning the separation of bicyclists and motor traffic)

https://rspcb.safety.fhwa.dot.gov/Dashboard/Default.aspx

USDOT routinely finds freeways to be the safest roadway for all involved each year (lowest number of ped/bike/car fatalities), since it separates traffic modes.

Pedestrians and bicyclists go over/under/beside it on dedicated infrastructure, they are never on it. And similarly, cars are never on the dedicated ped/bike infrastructure, so collisions are effectively impossible from either side, due to physics.
Wish they didn't use the .dev extension.

It should be developers.ycombinator.com
Why the article doesn't mention of distracted and inattentive pedestrians? It might be possible that the sudden increase in deaths is due to the rise of handheld distractions.

Also the same could be true of drivers and cyclist using their handheld.
Sure, but the assistant also doesn't typically record all conversations and give them to the service they work for, and they also don't typically bug the entire house so they can hear every conversation throughout the house.

There's no way I'm getting a digital personal assistant like Google Home or Amazon Alexa. It's a novelty that trades privacy for a little convenience, and I'm not that lazy.
IMHO it's important to take the quoted words into the context. And the context is:

1. Redis Labs anyway pays me full time and Fabio Nicotra (prat time) to just do BSD code. So they are not taking away anything from the OSS part.

2. Internal devs at Redis Labs submit pull requests to the Redis core BSD code base.

So this whole discussion is centered around modules, that is, their POV is that in the cloud era you have to do also things under different licenses. Now it's perfectly licit to disagree with that, however it's important to realize that Redis Labs is not taking away anything from the OSS effort around Redis, it's actually paying for such BSD code. Yet Redis Labs for some reason is getting a lot of criticisms despite other systems went completely non-open-source, core + accessory things. Something does not add up IMHO.
Thanks for the update, yeah seems every browser except Chrome and FF have trouble.
One of the primary benefits of YC is getting a bunch of other YC companies as your first customers.
And if they later activated the microphones through a software update and didn't tell anyone, I guess that would be an "error," too.
I’m sure there are some secure networks that require 802.1x authentication against a specific certificate authority, which would ensure devices only connect to a trusted network. That’s definitely an exception rather than the rule though - I’ve never worked anywhere that does anything more than limiting which device can connect to a particular switch port.
Honestly I think right turns on red should be illegal at more intersections for this reason. At least busier ones. It's these cases where a right turner has to carefully watch for oncoming traffic that pedestrians are exactly opposite of where they're looking. God forbid you're trying to cross from the same side of the street as the right turner.
The problem is that Erlang and its BEAM-based descendants still seem to be the only languages that actually do get concurrency completely right. Lots of languages have some form of an actor model, sure (whether as libraries or - like Pony - baked into the language), but all of them seem to rely either on OS threads per process (which are obscenely heavy) or green threads / coroutines (which lack preemption) (if you happen to know of any other languages/runtimes that offer lightweight preemptive concurrent actors/processes, let me know).

Until that happens, BEAM is unfortunately a hard dependency on getting the concurrency model fully "right".
Re your second case: When economic incentives line up with environmental goals, progress is made. OP should have been transparent, but if someone makes a profit while improving other people's eco-footprints, it's a win-win.
While there is nothing to harm you, apparently, shouldn't it be still a goal for us humans to try to use materials which do not radiat at all?

How much impact does radiation has on our cancer rates we at the moment?

I mean, i would accept the risk of flying and getting a xray but i would probably try to choose my building materials differently if it would make sense.
and where exactly did i do that? will you provide a link to your claim?
I pretty much assume that unless I make eye contact with a driver and get some kind of acknowledgement, I don’t trust that they see me. By far the closest calls I’ve had are stop signs where someone in an SUV stops, doesn’t look right or left (or worse, doesn’t look up from their phone), and then just goes.

I also hate “share the road” situations where the right thing to do is take up the whole lane; drivers are almost religiously against this concept. Even if it’s, like, 30 yards. So you’re stuck either taking the dangerous option of treating a rough, basically nonexistent shoulder as a “bike lane”, or dealing with road rage as you occupy the full lane. I can keep up pretty well with traffic, but even so people just get angry.
A fighting attitude is harmful if it leads you to prioritize prolonging life at any cost.
There is no tuition fee if you are an EU/EEA/Swiss citizen.
You owe common decency to other human beings trying to act decently.

If your boss happens to be a cog in a broken machine, treating them like it's their fault isn't fair to them or you.

Of course, you can always quit (and usually should). But failing to determine root cause and mis-blaming your boss is about as useful as screaming at the gate attendant when your flight gets a weather delay.
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Also anecdotal, but:

My parents would talk all the time about catching lightning bugs as kids. Growing up in the 80s and 90s, I didn't see a single one. Now, the back yard is absolutely full of them (again, apparently.)
The viewpoints of male engineers are not particularly interesting, because they are the majority. The viewpoints of minority groups are interesting, but, the very categorization of “Ask a Female Engineer” excludes all women who feel like the article I linked to (and apparently there are more than a few of them). Furthermore, the category “Ask a Female Engineer” does not even acknowledge the existence of this viewpoint – it misleads the reader, who is probably from a majority group, into thinking that this is how all of the minority group members feel. Which is why I thought it might be useful for a reader to know about the existence of this alternate viewpoint, by the inclusion of a simple link, explaining why the very categorization of “Female Engineers” is problematic for some, even those who otherwise would belong to it.
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Only two more months until Librem 5 launch. Yes it has a microphone (it has to), but it's far more trustworthy than any other smartphone from a privacy perspective.
What problems do people have with systemd? I actually think it’s pretty great. They also made some tools like busctl that are really nice for Linux developers.
Especially bad considering that the company is located in an EU member country. (Estonia)
And I don't think one need the domain name to start working on a website?
The tragedy of systemd is that it's the wrong solution to a real problem. Because most people against systemd will keep saying that the old init system was ok, they don't move forward trying to provide a true alternative. So systemd became a standard despite the issues, because it solves certain real problems that people have, even if not great.
"We're past the time that a human needs to understand assembly instructions."

Until you're debugging broken compiler/JIT output, which I've had to do multiple times in the last year while using .NET Core.
https://news.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/16-057_d...

It comes to a figure of 12k loss as the cost of replacing the toxic employee. Yes, replacing an employee is always a net loss in isolation.

It seems to be using a tautological definition:

defines a “toxic” employee as: “A worker that engages in behavior that is harmful to an organization, including either its property or people.” Yes, that causes a net loss. By definition.

They also state they don't consider "productivity spillover" because they found spillover can sometimes be negative so they just assume it all cancels out. If Bob rebuilds something and saves every other employee lots of time going forward.... this analysis just ignores it.

The news coverage makes it seem like a tickbox study tailored to HR interests in large orgs, so they can pat themselves on the back for 'proving' that teamwork trumps uncharismatic productivity, despite the study saying nothing about that.

If one wanted to truly study these costs, they'd also be looking at charismatic unproductive people who, despite all making each other feel good, don't actually bring any value to an organisation.
While I do like Rust, many of its improvements are already present in Ada, and Rust still lacks something like SPARK.

Naturally since Ada is tainted by its history, other approaches more interesting to the common crowd are needed.
the study finds that

> avoiding a toxic worker (or converting him to an average worker) enhances performance to a much greater extent than replacing an average worker with a superstar worker
No, the safest option is to separate cycle lanes from roads altogether, as is evidenced by the significantly lower death toll per km that e.g. the NL and Denmark have compared to the US [1]. In those countries, cyclists almost never share the road with car drivers.

In roads that are not designed for cycling (where cyclists have to share the road with car drivers), perhaps it is true that they fare best when they act as vehicles. However, the safest option by far is not sharing the road with cars to begin with.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2015/02/24/the-mo...
While I find what happened to him to be disgusting, I think you CAN do better nuance in 140 characters than call people who support X (Israel in this case) "awful human beings".

But again, such an outburst shouldn't be cause for exclusion, nor strong evidence for anti-semitism.
This reminds me of a story about hen breeding:

Selecting the hen who lays the most eggs doesn't necessarily get you the most efficient egg-laying metabolism. It may get you the most dominant hen, that pecked its way to the top of the pecking order at the expense of other hens. Individual selection doesn't necessarily work to the benefit of the group, but a farm's productivity is determined by group outputs.

Indeed, for some strange reason, the individual breeding programs which had been so successful at increasing egg production now required hens to have their beaks clipped, or be housed in individual cages, or they would peck each other to death.

While the conditions for group selection are only rarely right in Nature, one can readily impose genuine group selection in the laboratory. After only 6 generations of artificially imposed group selection - breeding from the hens in the best groups, rather than the best individual hens - average days of survival increased from 160 to 348, and egg mass per bird increased from 5.3 to 13.3 kg. At 58 weeks of age, the selected line had 20% mortality compared to the control group at 54%. A commercial line of hens, allowed to grow up with unclipped beaks, had 89% mortality at 58 weeks.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KE8wPzGiX5QPotyS8/conjuring-...
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Florida has pretty bad drivers. They are the 8th worst state according to this list: https://smartasset.com/checking-account/states-with-the-wors...

I think it's because it's a state with a lot of transplants (such as yourself) so you have a big mix of driving styles all interacting and they sometimes clash.
I use a z-wave smoke detector to supplement the wired smoked detectors in my house:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KMHXFAI

I then paired it with https://www.home-assistant.io/ to send alerts to my phone, google home, etc.

Haven't had to actually test that the carbon monoxide alarm works yet because testing that is hard/expensive, but for smoke it works just fine.
I think page about a video blog should have a video on the landing page. Especially with the presenter being informal and enthusiastic, if this is a check to see interest, then simulate what the experience you want to present in the video. Though I think the lead picture there is excellent.

To me, the screenshot looks more like an ID badge than a video forum screenshot, the main pic looks like a newscaster reading from a teleprompter, little too formal.
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NYC outlaws rights on red unless otherwise posted and it makes life as a pedestrian so much better.
In the last few years, the metagame strategy of work politicking has evolved to include the act of labeling things "toxic." Article like this are just ammunition in that.

I get that this article is about the trade-off between productivity and a less-easily-quantifiable loss to morale. But only a sliver of the people hearing about the study from this article will be carefully applying the lessons learned in towards their personnel decisions.
usually people use that word when they are suggesting "that's someones schtick" which is like their habit or what they are known for.

Like trump's schtick is getting people riled up
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They're rocks that someone undoubtedly collected from the surrounding area. Radioactive rocks, emitting low levels of mostly self-shielded radiation. Not great, but not a disaster deserving of national news.
Thanks, I'll check some of these out! Sounds like a very fun project.
I didn't read her article that way. I read it as "Creating a new box to push people into defeats the purpose of opening up the boxes of 'Women' and 'Tech Workers'". She's alright with the labels of "Woman" and "Tech Worker" because they're (relatively) open groups. There's a wide range of people who fit into them. On the other hand, when people are talking about "Women in Tech", there's an image, and expectations surrounding that.

Embracing her identity as a woman gives her a place to build her character from. Being a "Woman in Tech", the way she's using the term, pigeonholes her into acting or looking a certain way, for fear of the dissonance it might create for someone else.
That said, the kids might point out that most pilots these days will have a GPS in the plane, as well as a backup iPad with Foreflight.

Especially if they're doing a cross-Pacific ferry flight.
I moved from the Netherlands to Canada and still bike to a lot of places. While I of course expected the lack of infrastructure, I did not fully expect the amount of hate I would be getting.

People here see you as some idiot who is playing with his toy while `serious` people are driving. They yell at you to get on the sidewalk, get off the road, that you don`t pay `road tax` (wtf), some homophobic shit. Canadians are so nice otherwise, but not on the road.
Very good presentation, thank you, it looks like you are doing an amazing job on doing good both for the Team as well as the customers!

If only you would be looking for Audit/Security/Compliance, you would have my CV in a heartbeat!!

And that makes me wonder how do you manage GRC in the Team and the processes...
Thank you!

Ideally, if you dont care about looks, all you need is a Raspberry Pi 3B+, keyboard/monitor/screen, Rtl-sdr, and a wire.

The wire is hooked up to GPIO 4 and used in conjunction with RPITX library.

The Rtlsdr allows receiving radio signals.

The only broken thing right now, is that changing GPU clock frequencies does "weird" things to the onboard wifi (unsurprising).

My next step will be making 2 scripts: 1 to install a SigInt tooling, and 2 is to update said tooling.
I didn't say you were far off in general, I said everything you said happens to not be applicable to my experience (or that of most of my team members), and your comment seemed to be providing information about living in Sweden to someone who already lives in Sweden, which is why I figured you intended to reply to someone else.
As a kid, we'd have to stop on our summer car trips and scrape bugs of the windshield. Nowadays... never happens. I get frightened by the (very) occasional bug hitting the windscreen.
If you completely separate two things they can not collide.
It's a shame that NYC drivers never seem to follow this. I see even commercial vehicles like trucks regularly turn on red.

Although, I suppose the situation would be even worse if it wasn't outlawed...
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And I think someone followed up with a critique on frame. I'd agree for a different reason. People would want to know how much slowdown there is in userbase gain and how much of the revenue is made from getting existing users to pay more.