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IANAL, but nothing I've read in sibling comments and other threads fits the legal definition of retaliation. Realigning priorities in a way that the employee doesn't like, sure, but not technically retaliation from a legal perspective.

EDIT: To clarify, Google's reaction isn't the disqualifier, it's that the employee's action of staging a political walkout isn't legally protected since it conflicts with contractual duties and isn't a typical case of utilizing good faith channels for whistleblowing illegal activity. That type of channel is typically what's protected from retaliation. Not to mention working with someone accused of a crime isn't illegal. Association is a freedom and lobbying to change it is purely political.
That happens with ICE vehicles too, Grand Tour got several to overheat and go into "limp home" mode. They're also not designed to be run at a high load factor.
Positive for Google & Shareholders, but not for the rest of the 7.7 billion people on Earth.
I do a lot of searches like

> https://github.com/search? l=Common+Lisp&o=desc&q=lisp& s=updated&type=Repositories

and while I often get Chinese results mixed in (not to exclude Japanese and a few others!), I actually like seeing what people are up to regardless of their spoken language.

When something interesting shows up, there's an online translator for that.

While there is some value to seeing what is trending in whatever language you speak, that is a specific filter that gets further and further away from the reality of what is actually trending on github. Github is all about programming and not about spoken language, so the filter would be a tad arbitrary (although maybe someone would be interested in knowing how many Rust repos are written in Swahili or Cree).

That filter could be a feature, but on a global platform, the Chinese certainly aren't "ruining" it. They are integral to it.
I believe the strong term "evil" is only used because Google's motto is "don't be evil".

Not everyone has the freedom to instantly change jobs. The world might be a better place if employees had the right to whistle blow without being threatened with homelessness or fleeing to Russia.

Unions striking and protesting against their companies for better wages seems acceptable. Why is protesting for ethical reasons without quitting faux pas?
A sense of entitlement is part of Googler culture. The inside joke was that this was measured for interviewing candidates.
Agreed, I'm not sure what they want out of the rpi.

If it's only 1-2 (xlr) mics, I would use a Scarlet 2i2 audio interface if possible and connect via its usb out. Although I have no idea how well it works with raspbian / ARM operating systems. There may be another type of interface that works with the rpi.

Either way, this is rather niche and goes beyond the rpi is intended for. You can still achieve rather good sound on a budget with a usb microphone depending on the room setup, etc.
I just said the company should be open to external critique. Which the employees should be free to engage in their spare time...
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> The details of somebody's worst moments of their life needs to be public because...?

The article highlights cases where the 911 records revealed misconduct or negligence.
So is the Rpi 4 susceptible to Spectre? There is no information about it even though the chipset is apparently
It's funny that now that I don't live a 12 hour flight away from those places any more, I can't go because I don't have any vacation days.
This is a separate issue now though. Just because something isn't completely proven (yet, anyway) doesn't mean that it doesn't already look bad from the outset.

And if you listen to what they're actually saying, they're alleging retaliation, not merely disagreeing with the direction the company is going on.
Give a man a fish, and you fed him for a day. Some ancient wisdom being ignored.
The age of browser XSS filters is over
Why only in their spare time?
This. And if one still struggles to understand the importance of institutional culture + individual memory, I would like into invite you to the following thought experiment.

“Imagine waking up the next morning and the world totally forgot all knowledge on Linux Kernel, and you are now tasked to release the next major version with major changes / improvements”

And remember the documentation and tests we have on Saturn V is certainly not as great as what we have on Linux kernel.
Honestly if I had stock in google I'd buy more because they are getting rid of trouble makers. You can't have capitalism and democracy in the work place.
And Google employees do the work that keeps the company going. There's no law that says that people can't refuse to do certain kinds of work. You take a job that you expect to give you work that you find acceptable and if that expectation is violated, you resist.
I am so glad I don't work in the left-wing dominated FAANG companies... To any sane, moderate person out there: leave those places, and join Fin-Tech or Finance: the pay is a bit lower, but you don't have to deal with PC culture... Until they ruin it as well...
I've tried to run the playground, but it fails. I've seen the code snippet on the upper half first, but then the whole frame turned white.

Using latest Chromium on Kubuntu.
I couldn't care less about google, but Bloomberg has a past of bullshit stories (like the china chip thing) and 3 articles in just 2 days rings the bell
"Sqawk is an Awk-like program that uses SQL and can combine data from multiple files. It is powered by SQLite."

https://github.com/dbohdan/sqawk
Not sure why you are being downvoted. It's sad to say, but we are not going to terraform Mars. Why? Because that requires organized human life on earth first and the way we are going, it's a real question whether we will maintain civilization.
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Any opinion looks worthless when you deliberately mischaracterise it like this.
I'm guessing heli or plane to satellite is hard because of the movement requiring tracking of satellites. The intermediate heli and plane are probably to ensure you keep LOS. With the trucks. The third heli I'm guessing is either for boosting the signal (putting the heavy equipment on a heli that does less extreme maneuvering) or perhaps for ensuring LOS between the cameras and plane.

Then the two trucks are simply relay points for the satellite.
Large coorporations look a lot like governments. Normally, I bring this up from the perspective of regulations (eg. we should be willing to restrict the power of large private actors in the same ways we restrict the power of governments). However, I think it is applicable here too.

If you don't like something the US government is doing, you generally aren't going to leave. You are either going to ignore it, or try to change it. Even if your employer is the Federal government, few people would expect you to quit. If your problem is with the exact portion of the government where you are working, then some might expect you to quit but few would bat an eye if your next job happened to also be with the federal government.

What is happening here is akin to being forced out of government work for critizing the government; and we do not accept that behaviour.
I'm building a service that converts links, files and texts to audio
idk...their political opinions can deeply effect the product. At Intel or Microsoft for example it doesn't matter as much, what anyone's political views are. Their products can't start riots tomorrow morning.

Now ofcourse the corporate robots managing things are more interested in keeping the factory running than in anything else. So their natural instinct is to deny conservative/liberal fault lines.

But I think it will just increase the fault lines. We have conservative and liberal newspapers. There is a reason they bifurcated.

Search tech these days is really commoditized. Look at Elastic Search sure not as good as Google but it will do the job for most cases.
On top of that adding a conservative or liberal layer might actually benefit people. It feels more natural anyway. Now there is a lot of cognitive dissonance. Which is not going to go away.
What laws? Source for that please.
Runaway greenhouse effects are global, not local. It would be caused by a self-reinforcing feedback where the warming releases more CO2, but that would quickly spread over the entire planet.

There are lots of possible causes for the extra warming in the Arctic in particular, but the high-level view is that ice is more reflective than water, so the increased area of water surface absorbs more heat. There's going to be a lot more to it than that, from the way water and air flow within and around nearby regions, but it was expected that the Arctic would warm faster than the rest of the planet.
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Even a docking station would suffer from the same problem because people would just put the mouse onto the dock every time they were done using it. Also, I don't think contact charging is as fast as cable charging. The point is to only charge it when you absolutely need to.
I was very disappointed to see this article complain about Audible DRM without mentioning the variety of DRM-Free audiobook providers.

• downpour.com

• libro.fm

• audiobooksnow.com

(The last of these has a handful of DRM'd books, so you need to check the listing first, but the vast majority are DRM-free.)

While none of these retailers have as large a library as Audible, their offerings are more than decent, particularly if you don't mind hopping between sites sometimes. This isn't vodo.net, or even gog.com.

Note that like Audible, Downpour and Libro.fm have subscription plans, which are all-but required if you want books at a reasonable price. Unlike Audible, however, it's easy to game the system by subscribing and quickly unsubscribing.

I know that Audible DRM is currently easy to remove, and that's great, but we should support the true DRM-Free providers where we can, or they might disappear. And if that happens, who knows what Audible will do.

––––––––––

Honorable mentions:

• audiobookstore.com sells DRM Free audiobooks, but they always seem to cost much more than on other sites, even with a subscription plan. I've also never found a book that was available here but not on one of the cheaper DRM-Free stores.

• Graphicaudio.net offers DRM Free downloads if you don't mind paying a couple dollars extra per title. But these are very much not normal audiobooks.
That is besides the point. If Google retaliated in any way it's bad.
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The fact you're conflating sexual harrassment (which is illegal almost everywhere) with an incredibly politicized concept as "equal compensation" (which even within one's own family there are wide disparities in outcomes, as even siblings from the same house can have widely different career outcomes, let alone in society) says everything...

I also don’t like being told I support sexual harassment because I don’t think highly politicized work environments (note I said work environment not society) are a healthy environment. That’s a dirty tactic.
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Self-selected (those who choose to answer the poll in their app) sample (7k of 100k) of the population.
Thanks!

1. Initially we wanted to do one table per config-entry, but that'll be an easy to do UX improvement.

2. We're planning to add support for piping the csv/json file through stdin! That would be the most seamless workflow I think.
This should be obvious to anyone, but people are for some reason having trouble understanding it.

It's completely expected for a company to get rid of individuals on the payroll who are badmouthing the company they work for.

Why would anyone willfully employ people to work against the company's interest?
We are approaching the glorious day when we'll be able to write web frontends for web-based apps in real programming languages. Not there yet though.

What I really want is something like an "old school" UI library and the ability to style it via well-documented straightforward CSS. For web apps I don't necessarily want to code my UI in HTML. I want to develop an app in a more Qt-like way but with a more modern API.

The older versions of GWT actually kind of did this but it's Java and newer versions have decided to try to cater to people who want to do web sites rather than business apps with it.
I think it's correct that doing that is the most effective direct action, but the problem is that one person doing this is totally ineffective, it's the "drop of water" problem.

Raising a ruckus, strikes, etc are useful because they trigger people to become aware and concerned that this is a problem, causing more people to stop giving the company money. The ruckus is essential.
what is political about this?

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This is a fully stock (even tires) Tesla Model 3P running Laguna Seca in 1:46.1 at the end of a long day of racing BMWs. Just for fun the driver wanted to take his Telsa out, and his boss is riding shotgun. [1]

The production EV record is held by a non-stock TM3P (upgraded suspension, brakes, and tires) at 1:37.5 [2].

By comparison, here are a list of Laguna Seca records [3].

[1] - https://youtu.be/_DZSMxrHyHo

[2] - https://youtu.be/D1MDCPk-7Yw

[3] - https://i.imgsafe.org/7d/7d96bea0ab.png
Exactly. The act of working at Google _is_ now a political position itself. The amount of power Google has should be checked, and if internal employee's are able to curb some runaway unethical programs, it is in their best interest of humanity to do so. I personally couldn't imagine staying at a company that was knowingly harming society.

Is there a way to do interviews and promote only persons with unethical & immoral attributes to keep their business from running into issues like these repeatedly?
The number of PhDs writing basic JavaScript was astounding.
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This is still pretty good for new content creators, considering their newsletter does not have to be paid and they pay no fees.

Hopefully there is no minimum charge so that smaller newsletters can charge something like a dollar a month and build a following.
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Nobody needed the explicit mentioning of their gender, nobody did with Damore.

She probably was given a nice comp package just so she would leave and STFU about internals.

Unions. SV needs unionizing to give employees stronger voices.
Apple should build a system to scan the three-dimensional shape of its customers ears using the iPhone Face ID sensor. They could collate that data and feed it into a machine learning algorithm that could come up with two or three alternative AirPod shapes that would suit the widest array of ears.

(Then use the same "Ear ID" feature on your iPhone to tell you which model best suits your ears.)
One can be used to automate extortion.

So the difference is automation?

Suppose someone used Microsoft Office to quickly template and print envelopes with the addresses of 10 different municipalities and stuffed them with boilerplate requests for public information, and then used the responses from those municipalities to carry out extortion.

Should the law act differently towards the individual who mails a lawful open records request than the one who queries for records via HTTP if they used the same records, provided by the same municipalities and jurisdictions to carry out unlawful activity post hoc?
So if the company were you are working at, treats you badly, you would resign over going on strike to force a change and then stay at the company, for example?
Because you're paid by Google...to work at Google? And other employees shouldn't have to be fed your politics constantly just because they have to show up at work every day just like you do.
It has worked, perhaps not for long, but outweighted sums of cash to play with a nice side project or work on an actual "at scale" thing whilst you vest some shares probably appeals to a lot more smart people than we might imagine.

Salaries are also deductible, so they get the talent in their pool, off the market, adding a small % of value, whilst also being able to offset taxes on record profits.

It's a pretty nice win-win for them.
I was going to say the same. They call out a few products that I doubt were misses because of Jony Ive. He may have been involved with them but to say that they were misses because of the work he did on them is a little...misleading.
I'm using a combination of three letters from my first and my last name. For you it could be "cliste.com" (taken in this case), maybe this works with your real name. This concept is also fairly easy to explain on the phone, at least I found it to be.

But the .com space is probably more crowded than .de in my case, so you might not find it so easy to get a nice URL.
Cool project. On a side note, Apache Drill (https://drill.apache.org/) is also worth checking out. The homepage doesn't make it very apparent, but I've used it to query CSVs, etc., using SQL.
> Definitely does seem like a weird thing to base an article on especially when Tesla does lots of other things wrong.

The admission of willful ignorance here is rather astounding.
This is an amazing comment.
Imho it isn't relevant. The implication of OP is that the fact that they are female paints Google in a bad light, not that they were protest leaders.

Corporations do not care about gender, it's all about power and control, and they do not care about the gender of those who they have to dismantle to keep it.

The Canadian Documentary "The Corporation" is a good example of how corporations behave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y888wVY5hzw

Dividing Media narratives help to keep people from realizing who's their common enemy.
It's strange how since the Raspberry Pi is so capable now, people expect them to build in all kinds of professional features into a $35 educational computer (PXE boot, pro audio, etc.).
I love his channel, but if we had that kind of capability we'd just mine Jupiter (if we'd already used the easier to access resources) and build habitats near earth where communications latency would be reasonable and the sun would be a much better power source.
Runs fine for me on Brave/macOS.
Didn't they drop that motto like 3 years ago?
You can already do that today in C, C++, D, Rust, Java and .NET.

I just wait for someone bored enough to bring Flash back.
I worked in a factory for a couple of weeks putting radiators on Defenders [0].

The work was extremely boring (30 second task repeated 8 hours a day) but temperature / conditions were never an issue. Workers were looked after seemingly well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_Rover_Defender
> No mention of Windows

Indeed. That description should be fixed. One click away there is a Windows build:
https://github.com/oracle/graal/releases
Of course I understand that. I just find it very hard to sympathize with the plight of someone making $15/hour. It seems high, even taking differences in cost of living into account.
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Like your PC and smartphone it is vulnerable in theory without software mitigations but have there been any documented practical Spectre attacks in the wild?

AFAIK Spectre implementations have been limited to security researchers in universities ATM.

So I'll ask, is it worth worrying about this for you? In terms of vulnerabilities there are lower hanging fruits.
I wouldn't say it's completely artificial. Steam offers APIs for things like cloud saving, workshop, achievements, cards, etc. and any games that want to make use of those things pays dev costs to integrate it EXCLUSIVELY for the Steam version. I'm sure the Epic Games Store offers something similar and more dev costs would be associated there to integrate. And so on.
I'm not defending Musk at all, but if those pictures were leaked from a Tesla employee, they're in breach of their NDA, a legally binding contract. Why wouldn't they go after someone breaching their NDA? I get that there are whistleblower protections and whatnot, but that is for lawyers and judges to decide. I'd be surprised if there wasn't a team analysing those photos.
I'd agree with you, if your employer wasn't spending literally the most money in tech on lobbying in DC. How much money has to be involved before it's ok for your job to get political?
What did she do that is protected under the various whistleblower protection laws? https://www.whistleblowers.gov/sites/wb/files/2019-06/whistl...

I don't think that objecting to your company's AI work for DoD or plans to comply with Chinese internet search regulations fall under any of them.

What did the "Open Research Group" at Google actually build?
>Unions striking and protesting against their companies for better wages seems acceptable. Why is protesting for ethical reasons without quitting faux pas?

Because unions embrace the violence inherent in the system, at least the good ones. This is peak wokeness, where stuck up women have found out that 'equality' in the workplace only extends to when you cost your employer money.

That anyone is surprised by this shows a naivete that borders on idiocy.
This is an excellent example of somethong you can only(easily) do in racket.

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2068896
Rephrasing even more: there is a number of rats that are capable of doing anything to advance their careers and to make more money. When a few people appear that value their conscience more than money, these rats will fight them.
You don't think TypeScript qualifies as a real programming language?

I personally am very happy with the progress that has been made over the past 10 years with JS and associated technologies.

Still excited about WebAssembly et al., but not nearly as excited as I would've been 10 years ago.
If you work for a defense contractor your work is political. Not literally political, but you are now serving the state.
The problem becomes that googlers stop thinking about anything but the current company priories, and you don't innovate anymore.

Weird as it is, I don't think there's a half-open position with the free-thought floodgate.
It stories like these that make me wonder, is it better to take an adversarial/external approach to change (like Meredith) or to work slowly inside an org and change it from the inside?

Of course the external/adversarial approach can generate huge changes quickly by relatively junior folks, but always comes at a huge cost and is not sustainable (see: most of the people who did these protests have left). So you get one shot, and worse, it sends a message to others that this behavior isn't tolerated. So in the long run, could even lead to worse outcomes overall.

On the other hand, the idea that you can change the system before it changes you...well we all know how that usually works out.
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Real != profitable. Google can offer academic style oppurtunities at industry style salaries.

Eg. Fuchsia OS might have been started because Google saw a bussines oppurtunity in writing an open source capabilities OS. Or, it might have been started to keep smart OS engineers from leaving the company.
Yes, if only there was some news story alleging that Google treated workers poorly after raising harassment concerns. Sounds like you want to see that!
To further your point, Apple doesn't just do business in China, they manufacture in China.
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Google's motto was don't be evil. I believe it was removed.

Source: https://gizmodo.com/google-removes-nearly-all-mentions-of-do...