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The reason it has a stigma, though, is that when layoffs happen, companies tend not to layoff their star performers, or they do at least some amount of stack ranking. Of course that is not always the case (sometimes entire departments are closed if a company exits a line of business, or the entire company itself folds), but if the company had a ~5-30% across-the-board layoff, it's generally assumed some level of personal-level decision making goes into deciding who gets laid off.

Which is why I'll repeat the advice: the best time to find a new job is when you've already got one. Layoffs very rarely come without any warning, so if things start to look even a little dicey, not a bad idea to at least put your resume out there.
I suspect they are marketing this for incapacitated pilots (an extremely rare situation), but it also seems like an alternative for overwhelmed pilots. They don't want to call their potential customers idiots, but this is another feature to help pilots avoid loss of control.

And I definitely see a future version that could handle engine failures. If you can count on auto land to flawlessly glide to the nearest airport, who needs a twin engine airplane? Single engine airplanes are significantly cheaper to operate than twins.
Well, if a scam is successful and unnoticeable, by definition we won't see any articles about those, right?
>HotelTonight (sadly recently purchased by AirBnB) has a very robust review system and a very responsive customer support system.

How is this different from Hilton/Marriott/IHG/Choice/Wyndham's current options for customer support?
> What happened in the world for people not daring to take risk?

If you're a real risk-taker, you don't apply for a job working for someone else. You go build something and blaze your own path.

Companies usually value predictability over risk-taking. You'll learn that lesson once your own assets are at stake: you'll likely hire someone to execute on what you want, rather than someone who "takes risks" and does their own thing.
Agreed, especially considering 1 in 6 millennials have $100k saved.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/05/1-in-6-millennials-have-1000...
The correct terminology would be "control groups".

The configuration of control groups is visible in replays; AlphaStar's replay data does not have any control groups in it.

Though, via its API, it is able to select arbitrary groups of units from anywhere on the map.

Personally, I would have loved to see it work through control group management because I think that is something that is important and steals attention away from humans. But probably to the researchers, it is just annoying data to model that doesn't get to the "core" of StarCraft.
> Its part of the very wealthy keeping all the money ...

When does it start trickling down Mr Reagan?! When does it start trickling down!?
Full Ack.
Unfortunately training against confirmation bias (or other ones) is not part of any scientific study.
We in general give very little attention to papers that falsify an accepted theory.
For example, look at the papers http://cosmology.info has collected. If you have gone through some of them, you can not, at least as a scientist, still think that Big Bang is a true theory. But still, this bulls*t theory pops up all the time....
This is just one of them, in fact, nearly everything is falsified...
It does not matter if theory X predict A correct, if prediction B is false your theory X is also not true but at most a model to calculate A.
The model I have adopted also perdicted the "Higg-Boson", but it has nothing to do with gravity.
Yes! What values do you hold? Aren't you disappointed when an organization goes against them? Much less, when they have previously stated they agree with you?

Fascism and the removal of political freedom should not be taken lightly. This should not be controversial.
The latter is the reason why China has so much influence. Tencent only owns 5% of Blizzard. Heck, Blizzard only gets around 6-8% of their revenue from China. But they're looking at it as an avenue of future growth. Just like every other international corporation.
If my BubbleMachine currently makes SoapBubbles, but I want it to be able to make GumBubbles as well, who, out of those three, is responsible for overriding the “new” method to create GumBubbles instead of SoapBubbles?
Its akin to having a nation-wide mini mart chain knowingly structure their inventory to help children buy cigarettes. They know it is happening and it is wrong, but they make money doing it so they will drag their heals (CVS pun) for as long as possible.

This is the kinda thing corps get fined billions of dollars for.
A 20mph vertical impact into someone's roof really isn't the worst of outcomes.
Yes, really. I agree there are exceptions, which is why I said "likely". But by and large, fitness for purpose correlates with design intent (which generally involves a significant period of iterative use, further driving fitness for purpose).
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This article was originally written with a critical tone of C & Unix, it said they have a lot of problems, but with a 50% functionality, a lot of people had accepted it as good enough, then spreaded it like "the ultimate computer viruses". After it's publication, many Unix people reinterpreted it as a celebration of Unix's successful apporach since then.

I always strongly dislike JavaScript for its inconsistencies and ugly syntax, I found the tendency that everything now comes with a JavaScript engine and force developing in JavaScript regardless of their native programming language is unfortunately, and I always dreamed that the alternative timeline which Scheme became the language of the web.

But I've changed my position in recent years, because of this article. Now I think the same principle applies to JavaScript. It was something with a 50% functionality, and so it became the ultimate virus on the Web, and since then, a huge amount of manpower was spent on improving JavaScript. As a result, it still has the same inconsistencies from its original design, but overall, due to all the efforts, the overall usability is actually higher than alternative systems with a "cleaner" / "better" design. Just like a Unix-like OS like FreeBSD or Linux is still one of the most usable systems in existence. So I think I'd just accept JavaScript...
I'm going on a 10-day vacation overseas at the end of this month. Given how infrequently I do big vacations (a personal issue I'm working to overcome), I have zero tolerance for surprises when it comes to my accommodations. I simply look for large and established four- or five-star hotels that have been around for a while and have numerous positive reviews across several web sites. Another hack I do is to use the "!mill" directive in DDG to filter out corpspeak and SEO-type stuff. I try to book directly with the hotels whenever possible -- although sometimes language and cultural barriers make that prohibitively tricky. I once spent half an hour trying to book something on a Japanese-language hotel web site (making generous use of page source and Google translate) before giving up and going through Booking.com, since there are apparently things about Japanese hospitality culture that I'm not clued in to.

In the end, I probably pay something like 50% more for my accommodations than I could if I were to take chances with AirBNB. But for me, the insecurity and potential for high-stress situations once I arrive in a foreign country just aren't worth it.
I did find this FAQ that discusses speed in very broad terms.

https://www.t-mobile.com/responsibility/consumer-info/polici...
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Yes, but ads with no reach effectively means you have no meaningful voice in the public discourse. So it's free speech, but without any teeth.
Especially in Europe, where you don't have anything like the tuition costs.

In the US, graduating a semester or two early translates into serious money saved. At a very conservative estimate, that's around $10k of debt that you can avoid, and could mean 20, 30, 40k, depending on the situation.
> "That's the failure point for most biotech startups -- they dont have a useful application of their tech."

This is precisely the failure of every academic ever. We can examine this through the Theil-lens where they're trying to create a narrative of uniqueness where their research applies + revolutionizes everything ( when it does not ).

But everyone knows this is not the case. This is the central plague of all academic research, that its the pursuit of novel understanding before useful application.

I would argue that this is more a defining characteristic of the current academic pyramid scheme than biotech startups.

Biotech startups dont go out for VC unless they HAVE a market.

Biotech phds go to the NIH regardless of whether theres a market.
Let’s keep polluting then, because at least then rich or poor, we’ll all be equally dead.
This seems to follow the craze of mobile broadband in the UK. Unlimited data is a very nice option to have though
It's not possible to be fixed because the majority of people are apolitical, highly illogical and vain.

Democracy as a system dispowers the individual (what is a single voice in a sea of milions). It is perfectly rational to not vote (your single vote would never matter, while the time it takes to go vote will).

Since most people want to spend their lives infinity-scrolling a facebook feed, and for some reason political power can be derived from these people, then facebook will have power by deciding what these people get to see, and if it's not facebook then it's twitter, or google, or the ISP, or the department of the internet, or the TV channels, so on and so forth.

only 0.1% of people care about free platform.
For the CRUD type jobs I've worked on, database design and understanding of SQL and ORM frameworks probably helped get me in. Are you strong or lacking there? Try programming a blog from scratch.
Despite the fact that what's written is the title of the linked article, it seems that these are "[5] Things Rob Pike Attributes Go's Success to" (i.e., the causes of the success), rather than "[5] Things Rob Pike Attributes to Go's Success" (i.e., things caused by that success).
Capitalism sees most the productivity gains to the workers. I think our experiment has failed and it is time to try capitalism again. Our country hasn't seen it for over 100 years.
And here we have in just a few words an explanation of why we know that Spain learnt nothing about democracy in the 20th century.

The rest of us know that you permit democratic expression so that the force is spent at a ballot box. Most people don't want needless change (in fact, the countries first used referendums used them precisely to prevent change).

If Catalonia had've been permitted to vote in a fair referendum, it would've been lost 45 to 55 and there would be peace and order in the streets of Barcelona, just like Glasgow.

Instead, the ignoramouses in Madrid thought force was the first choice, and now everyone in Barcelona suffers - those who want change, and those who don't.
You can work, but you can't afford housing, healthcare or education. This is the disastrous consequence of re-inflating another asset bubble after 2008-2009 with a decade of zero interest rates and a doubling of the national debt. The wealth inequality between capital and labor is the direct cause of political volatility globally.
> Following the analogy, a general purpose AI simply isn't a bigger Deep Blue or AlphaGo; it's probably something different that requires knowledge that we currently don't have.

I agree with this, but it isn't clear to me that a general AI will have a significantly different impact on society than a world where task-specific well performing AIs are easy for anyone to develop.

Sure, a general AI has a set of properties that are really fascinating to discuss and debate (including what is consciousness and whether AIs should be given rights), and perhaps a general AI is required for doomsday computers-taking-over scenarios, but the impacts that AI will have on our economy and politics don't require general AI.
Its API allows it to select units arbitrarily from anywhere (regardless of camera). Camera vision only controls the specificity of data it sees for on-screen units.
You last point, in parentheses, is exactly right. Came to say the same thing.
This is what SSI has done well.

See https://sovrin.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/What-if-someon...
He's not landing it back at the pad or anything like that, just wherever it happens to be coming down at. Then keep it vertical(ish), keep it from moving too fast sideways or it'll tip over (again, stability, not guidance), and wherever it touches down, it touches down.
That actually makes sense. My assets have never been at stake, not really anyway. I'll try to think more about that mindset.
I appreciate the plug to your blog -- subscribed! I really like your latest post about Genentech. I never knew how related they were to Apple.
Doesn't that mean you need to bubble up every dependency up the stack? Like if function a calls b which calls c which calls d, and d needs a new dependency, wouldn't that involve modifying a, b, and c's function signatures and all call sites?
>The latter is the reason why China has so much influence.

When specifically talking about Blizzard, yes, but not when you think of companies like Riot.
Why are you moving the goal? That's not a nice tactic. I've not expressed the Spanish practices as non-democratic or fascist, so I should not have to show an international condemnation for them in these words.

In a shallow search I've found this, from just before the trial [0] Iceland, and Scotland, ask for democratic solution. Couple of quotes: "The Icelandic Government has called upon their Spanish counterparts to look for a negotiated solution, emphasising the need to respect human rights.", "Scottish minister reiterates support for “the people of Catalonia to determine their own future”". February 15th 2019.

I've heard interventions on the EU parliament to talk about the issues, but it was voted against.

On the other hand I've seen no country saying that Spain is doing great with their police. Almost the opposite, with China saying that Hong Kong police are better than Spanish police and the press is the other way around [1].

Then, again, the appeal to the sentence to international courts will do nothing. The appeal, even if it prospered, it would do nothing against the ruling, at most it would ask a revision of the trial [2]. And that's from a pro-independence source, so you can imagine what others might say.

[0] https://www.commonspace.scot/articles/13862/iceland-becomes-...
[1] http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1168214.shtml
[2] https://www.naciodigital.cat/noticia/189638/exvicepresident/...
50 Mbps.

On the "Why we do it" page it says "Offered exclusively where we expect speeds of around 50 Mbps."

The terms also list the usual stuff that makes me shy away from using it. "During congestion, Home Internet customers may notice speeds lower than other customers due to data prioritization."

This is made for people living in rural areas where satellite is the biggest competitor.
If China wants to enforce global censorship by using their market as a hammer, America should use their market to enforce global (or at least bilateral) freedom of speech.

It's an intl trade issue, it's impossible to expect every company to stand up to the CCP when they use access to one of the biggest markets in the world as a weapon
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I have 2 screens connected to my computer at work in addition to my charger coupled with adapters and what not (MBP so all USB C). Dangling all those cables got me wondering why and if/when will we have wireless screens so that we can practically be wire-free and can move around/connect to other desks seamlessly.
That is a very atypical international expansion. Typically when a company opens up new markets, they don't have huge drops in the old ones.
I don’t know any engineers driving busses (or the equivalent). The company I’m working for is currently looking for a lot of new ones, too.
trade school != job...

A common trap in the current era is to go back for more education when the job market isn't working out, missing a year or more of wages and taking on further debt... And then finding things aren't much better on the other side of the degree.

This happened to one of my parents: got one awful job at a tiny company for about a year after getting the master's, then was fired for trying to be ethical (refusing to lie about the results of security audit for the benefit of a large customer), and now can't find anything else... woohoo.
The definition has always been the same since the Labor Department started publishing official unemployment statistics. Nothing has been redefined.
They are stealing from you.

Would you keep going to a grocer who fraudulently billed your credit card, just cause they were cheaper?

How much cheaper than a hotel was your stay after a 3 digit cleaning fee?
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Yeah, I’m aware of FileMaker. We actually use it a lot at my job, but I don’t because I can’t access it remotely from a Linux server. Not sure if that’s a quirk with the FileMaker server security we have or a lack of support.

I also tend to avoid it because it’s halfway in between Access and a real SQL database (Postgres, MySQL, etc). But also — have you seen how expensive it is? If you want an individual license, it’s >$500. Or you can get a subscription per user per month.

FileMaker seems like one of those applications that Apple has never really known quite what to do with.
Wish the UK had something like this.

I'm paying approx 30usd/mo for unlimited 4G in Sweden. The coverage is fantastic. Middle of nowhere, still getting 1MB/s symmetric or so.
It was called Rickshaw Rage, Monster Truck Rampage, Plane Simulator. Around 2013. I can still see the gameplay on the game magazine sites.
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> The idea that one side tells lies, and the other only truth is part of the problem here.

Your divisive thinking is the problem here. Someone said that Trump lies, they didn't say "Republicans lie and dems don't," but that was somehow your interpretation of the statement that Trump lies (which is true of any president, yet you and I both know in our heart of hearts that he lies more than anybody by an overwhelming margin).
My view is pretty much any city centric mom and pop business. The Russian risk is lower than the US Federal risk almost always. Consider the IRS and importing products.
A few years of college does not an engineer or office manager make. The good ones are employed in those roles, the rest haven't proven to be useful enough to be afforded them.
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Hearthstone apparently has 100 million users, and at some points was banking about 40 million a month.
And given china voted for the declaration of human rights, they are objectively bad under their own measure.
Because I have kids (they're smaller, under 7) I can't really risk getting shafted at an AirBnB. Our experiences were so up and down that I rarely look to the site anymore for options. Suite hotels are prevalent, and work great for families, and you can be relatively certain it'll be a fine place to hang your hat for the night.

For longer-term rentals, I find it's best to work through local property managers or maybe VRBO, where you're dealing with the person more directly. That said, the destination probably makes a HUGE difference in terms of how you are treated.

The fact that AirBnB's rating system is so gamed that you can't trust any reviews, and the fact that their policies for refunds skew towards the property owners and not guests means that my trust in the site is low. I'd probably only risk it again if there are hotels around as backups. That said, I'm also typically looking for cheaper places, so the scam-level density is probably higher.
Isn't it likely they have been doing that for decades?
I think 1. companies are burned out with CS grads who simply can't code 2. companies are burned out from new employees just learning the job and then jump somewhere else and 3. companies are looking to on-board you as fast as possible.

A few problems you should be working on:

> nobody cares that I fast-tracked

> in terms of crystalized intelligence

> But my portfolio is rather terrible

> compared to what I'm capable of [*hint: Unless you did something that you can't show publicly, what you are capable of is nothing if what you did in terms of production is nothing]

I think you are over-confident when it comes to your skills.
Hire the PHD.

God knows they'll work for 3rd-world labor rates.
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I reckon Swift is the exact opposite of every point mentioned in the article. Yet it has achieved tremendous success too.
Just remember that it gets harder to get a job as you get older. You probably don’t want to be the oldest in your place of employment. Sure you might be the lucky one.

Your best bet if you’re younger than 40 is to get rid of all your debt and have a viable exit strategy from the workforce.

If you’re younger and reading this just remember your replacement will be along shortly.

Age discrimination is real and unstoppable and coming for your job.
Can you map any of what you said to the role I applied for? I can't. Can you map anything you just said to the roles I was interviewing when I was hiring at Deloitte? I can't.

You really think that many places aren't doing diversity for the sake of diversity? You're so naive.

Deloitte have no reason to give women extra points on their CV / resume scoring.

Oracle have no reason to turn down males sales execs in an attempt to balance out the male heavy teams.

All male teams are not always toxic and hiring women doesn't guarantee that you'll end up with a less toxic team. I've worked with toxic men and toxic women.

I hope you get rejected over your gender so you know how it feels.
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As a European, I would like to see that, but I think the EU would have a problem with the US demanding free speech, let alone most of the other countries outside the west.
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You can't do it with just any iOS app. It has to be recompiled by the dev. It's basically just rebuilding it for X64 instead of ARM64 and linking slightly differently though, so lots of apps are doing it.
Knowing that the us-goverment will back up and bail out any failure of management and technology- tech-debt, basically becomes just tax-debt in another shape.
Knowing capitalism, there is already a column for "tax-payer paid for planes" in nearly every airline on the planet.
High GPAs count against you.

That has been my experience.
In my case, there were around 25 people, and 12 were let go. This was financial, and they primarily lost the higher paid people (me) and kept the jrs. Also, LIFO was a factor, and I was one of the last in.

You're not wrong. Certainly people think "well, there must have been a reason you were let go..." and yeah, sometimes it may mean you were stackranked out. With smaller companies that's probably harder to do, or... there are bigger factors at play (more immediate cashflow in our situation).

And yes, always be looking.
Blizzard was, in fact, consistently following their core principles the entire time. We just got an education on what those principles actually were.