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The utter destruction of any sense of team work when people realize that someone has to be the bottom is awful.

He had to be a smart guy. How did he not realize anything that actually needs a team is going to suffer? Is this some lone eagle crap like EDS had?[1] Can you imagine the original Macintosh team running under stack ranking? I guess you shouldn't appoint people CEO who don't understand teams are required to build great products.

1) had a buddy who worked for EDS tell me that they wouldn't hire anyone who came as a group at a job fair because "eagles fly alone". That would actually explain some interactions.
You have laws to protect society, the environment and the community. Tax environmental and socially harmful activities and let the drive for shareholder maximization lead to environmental and social improvements.

Companies don't vote.
If the event is cancelled by the city or other government body there is probably event insurance which is triggered which can pay for refunds. Events like this, even ones with lots of sponsorship and corporate interest, do not usually have high margins. As a result, any cash they have right now is needed to pay their suppliers.

I doubt they have money to refund more than a fraction of tickets. The responsible thing is for the local government to cancel it. Ideally SXSW would make this decision but ultimately they are not public health experts.
It's probably wiser to cancel/delay games. The leagues and teams aren't going to go bankrupt, and knowing how hard coronavirus is to contain, limiting massive gatherings like conferences, concerts, sporting events, etc. in the next few weeks seems like the wise thing to do.
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>Microservice usually means distributed system. A distributed system is more complex than a non-distributed system since it has to do everything the non-distributed system has to do and, additionally, handle all the distributed problems. Microservices just hide the complexity in places where people don't see them if they take a cursory look over the code, e.g. what is a function call in a monolith can be a call to a completely different machine in a microservice architecture. Often they look the same on the outside, but behave very differently.

This is a false assumption. Some problems are distributed. Sometimes you'll have an external data store or you'll need to deal with distribution across instances of the monolith. You really run into pain when you build a distributed system in your single monolithic code base and your monolithic abstractions start falling apart.

In my experience you end up solving these problems eventually, monolith or not. You might as well embrace the idea that you're deploying multiple services and some form of cross service communication. You don't need to go crazy with it though.
> a time when people thought deeply

As opposed to "completely succumbed to metrics". Conventions like shift to range-multiselect/ctrl to toggle-multiselect cannot evolve from a series of a/b tests. It's not as if people never tested UI ideas back then, but it was a tool, not the entire process.
The article is a bit misleading. They talk about how many AC induction motors there are and how much power they consume. I don't doubt those numbers. But the vast majority of those are synchronous: they run at a set speed.

What they are working on is variable speed motors which need a special "drive" (aka VFD) device to convert the constant 50 or 60 Hz power supply to a variable frequency. Now VFDs are getting more common as simply using a VFD can make big efficiency gains on a process. But VFDs are still not the norm yet.
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Read it as an inclusive OR.

He asks about a dichotomy, but not a false one.
I've heard this argument but it skews in both directions, I imagine. You'll have mild cases that recover where no test is ran that skews the data to the "more harmful than being presented" but I suspect there are also cases, especially for those with other preexisting conditions, where deaths also didn't run a test. Those cases would skew the data in the opposite, "less harmful than being presented" side. You essentially have a huge mess of amalgamated/non-systematically collected data. Even in controlled settings you get a lot of censored data to deal with.

RT-PCR tests are reasonable these days in cost, but it isn't cheap by any means and I suspect many early cases weren't checking or didn't have the capability to check. The question is: which way is the data skewed more towards?

I know absolutely nothing about the chinese healthcare system. Even if you do, there's a significant amount of guesswork. Only now as it spreads are we starting to get more controlled tests that give us more accurate data.

For now, I have a tendency to trust the raw data until I see definitive evidence of skewness otherwise.
Of course! How would a transatlantic flight only emit 1 tonne of CO2?
Sure thing.

But how big is the benefit otherwise?
Good CEO's/management stand out to staff, however long their tenue. Though they tend to be retained.

How would I act, well, if you was good, I'd vocalise that and your replacement would have a hard time filling those shoes. But again, why would a company let a good manager/CEO leave due to some fixed term contract?

Equally I get that people get bored at all levels and move on, even if the company tries to retain them.

It's not a label liberally bestowed upon all people just because they are not there long. You generally find bad management are brilliant at being seen to be doing their job, over actually doing it. Equally, you can find good management can and do get shafted and seen that happen.

Though I will add that I've not worked for a company that employs CEO's for fixed terms as you outline and do find that curious as it does seem somewhat counter productive upon all levels.
I've completely given up on giving advice and persuading people because it doesn't work and often people do the opposite. People are going to do what they want anyway. Doesn't stop me having my opinions though.
In europe the carbon cost is EUR24/ton right now.
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Quantum gravity in the lab? The hype is on
But FreeBSD doesn’t control what software works on FreeBSD, that is up to the individual software maintainers. What you are describing would be “GCC has removed support for FreeBSD.”
If you control the Tabula trademark (which doesn't necessarily require a formal registration), you may be able to prohibit them from using the TabulaPro name. That's exactly what trademark law is for.

(IANAL)
Yes! And if software lets a user do something that lands them in an error condition, then there should be a way to recover from that condition in the software.
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I don't miss the child windows. It was so confusing.
No. They just purchase votes.
His achievement was leverage and acquisition to make the top line number look really big.

The legacy is stack ranking has destroyed culture at innumerable companies (I continue to witness it in most companies that I know).

Also the CEOs from the GE CEO factory went to on to destroy not only GE value, but also Boeing [1] and many others.

[1] https://www.economist.com/business/2020/01/11/the-last-ge-ma...
They have more body to control, too.

Surprisingly, certain birds have a very high brain to body size ratio.
I didn’t object to paying for upgrades when I was actively using the software, but at this point, I’d be paying tens per invocation of the program.

I’ve moved on, I don’t do photography much anymore and if I’m going to be plowing money into something, I’d rather it be in a current hobby.
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It already has. You can have food delivered from Whole Foods which is owned by Amazon.
I contribute to the Windows kernel. We are slower than other OSes. Here is why
> if you think you might have coronavirus

Actually, very few people have reasons to think they have the coronavirus now. Of course, if you come back from an infected area, you should be extra careful and follow standard procedures defined by your local government. Right now most people with flu symptoms simply have a cold or the flu, and not the wuhan virus.

I've just listened to an interview of a French doctor and what is happening now is that hospitals are getting overwhelmed with regular people who want to be tested for the coronavirus.

The coronavirus isn't that different from a regular flu virus in terms of care. Mostly, you just need to stay home waiting for it to pass (and of course avoid infecting others). Only people with severe symptoms should go to the hospital.
>Their research probably found people LIKED it more, not that it performed better.

This internal survey seems to suggest otherwise. It asked a range of questions, not just "do you like it?".

http://video.ch9.ms/slides/mix08/UX09_Harris.pptx slide 140
China was handling it after 2 months of spreading ( hurray censorship). This isn't happening anywhere else in the world.
I think you’re violently agreeing with me. I meant that, even SXSW aside, the decisions being made to cancel or not cancel tech events is almost certainly not taking the local impact into account.
It means, the dead person can not defend, so critic should be fair.
If the situation escalates, I would not be surprised if playing in front of empty stadiums will be what happens. I guess it will depend on if loss of TV money will outweigh loss of ticket money or the other way around.
In real life, there are monsters lurking behind Go's "simplicity." An example: errors as values. It forces you to deal with errors as they come up, right? Not exactly... People just start ignoring errors. The extremely opinionated linter doesn't care if you just assign an error to _, or even just don't handle the return values at all. And it's not something you can easily spot in a pull request either. Then you end up with nil pointers or spaghetti errors that only show up at runtime and can be quite difficult to trace, where a Python exception would make debugging trivial.

This isn't necessarily a knock on Go. I've enjoyed working in it full time for several years now. I don't think there's a such thing as a simple programming language. Go just hides the complexity from initial inspection.
Just as good as using famous authors I suppose

http://dresdencodak.com/2010/06/03/dark-science-01/
Ah yes, the famous LOCKSS principle. Quite true. Probably contacting Jason Scott[0] could set it on motion.

[0] @textfiles on twitter
If you look at "reducing 1 tonne" of emission as -1 to the current emission output, sure. But if you see it as +0 to the current C02 levels, it's different math.

-1 tonne (active output) is not equivalent to -1 tonne (overall C02 levels)

It's splitting hairs over what we consider to be better. Either is an improvement that I am happy to see.
Or, as he might have said, "Free Country".
Interestingly, the CDC website no longer has these numbers. A week ago, their main COVID-19 landing page had a table of positive tests, negative tests, and pending tests (total tests was in the neighborhood of 450). That seems to have disappeared, with a subset of those statistics here: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-in-us.html.
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I think power pivot was only added in excel 2010? Pretty much every megacorp has people power pivoting all day long
What laws? You mean the ones corporations spend millions of dollars lobbying against/for and practically writing?
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I don't know what to tell you. As someone who develops and uses FreeBSD, the title is true on its face and long-awaited. Yes, "from the base system as a supported base compiler" is implicit context here that someone outside of that community might not understand, but I think everyone familiar with FreeBSD can understand the headline, or failing that, the body of the (short) commit message and have a good understanding of the truth.
The lack of discovery is not inherent in a command line system. The usual counter-example is something like TOPS-20 https://www.bourguet.org/v2/pdp10/users/chap2#sec_2
where the command line system was built such that for every command you could interactively in the middle of typing your command line get help about what the possible options were, what the argument for the option you'd just typed was, etc (and this was built in to the system and commands, not a half-baked add-on like bash tab-completion).
I wonder how a Just In Time world will impact a "supply side" shock. Normally I'm a bit of a critic of it for making it too easy to cut all the margin out of the supply chain, but once a normal situation resumes and random chunks of the world aren't under quarantine, I wonder if there wouldn't be a radically different response to a supply shock. While there are still some limitations on how fast things can move around (container ships, for instance, introduce certain unavoidable latency), the logistics world of 2020 is very different from the logistics world of 1970. The flow of supply and demand indicators through the economy of 2020 isn't going to be like 1970.

(Note I'm not saying this will be no problem, or that it is certain disaster; I'm wondering about how it will be different in any manner or direction.)
Right, but that doesn't mean there aren't remaining incentives that tempt unscrupulous organizers.

Insurance, if underwritten correctly, just turns a crippling loss into a moderate loss, not into a break-even.
Theoretically, yes. In practice, calling a spade a spade can often be a career-limiting move.
Eh, it probably buffers against overreaction, especially when a correction in fundamentals is being mixed with a reaction to new pressure.

But this is still a good point: if the market really is overheated then short-term monetary policy won't change that, and we can expect a lasting hit regardless of how disease issues play out. And it's not necessarily going to be obvious what's market movement and what's disease-related; I wouldn't be surprised if some over-hyped companies seize this as a chance to lower guidance faster than they normally could without spooking investors.
This is a stereotypical first world problem. I think calling attention to it risks trivializing the serious effects of climate change.
Saying that this is a big deal isn't fearmongering -- all of our elected officials are downplaying this as hard as they can, and most people don't seem concerned about it.

People need the truth, and they need time to be able to react to it before we're already in the midst of a bad situation.

A Harvard scientist predicted that 40-70% of the world could get this, and the death rate could be 1%. That rate is much higher among the elderly and the unwell.

A lot of people are going to die amidst the backdrop of a completely overloaded and mostly unprepared healthcare system. We need to acknowledge that.

I do not believe anything I've written is exaggerated or written from a place of fear.
tl;dr

The article is a book review/author interview.

The author of the book has a grievance. Rich people can pay to avoid
waiting, inconvenience, and hassle. It isn't fair. the author also
expresses the opinion this leads to much resentment in the have nots.
I agree with those points but I have not seen evidence for the idea that the availability of social safety nets is not also a significant factor in fertility rate trend, which I took to be the thrust of your original post.
ARM cores are tens of times smaller than X86, plus very likely they fab it on a more mature node
I want to, but I use two computers at my desk and run Synergy so I only need one keyboard/mouse. (bought a copy twice) Synergy does not yet support Wayland. I really hope they come around and support it soon.
Afaik the primary method of transmission is believed to be saliva droplets in the air, expelled via talking, sneezing, or coughing. I think even a badly fitting mask would cut this drastically?

Washing hands, avoiding touching your face, and other measures like these mainly help with what seems to be a far less common vector of transmission via surfaces and physical contact, where the virus only remains active for a very short time.
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MacOS is moving to zsh (I think they still ship bash)
Seems like it would be possible to correct for this by requiring the numbers to include the salaries of anyone who was fired in the past quarter - after all, the value they took with them when they left ought to count as a loss.
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> If you are coming from i3 the move to sway is a no-brainer and works great

It may work great, but it's not as well packaged by/for upstream as i3.

I recently started running wayland+gnome (rather than i3) on my Ubuntu 18.04 at work - because less bad support for fractional scaling looks a bit better on my two 24" with different dpi.

But there didn't appear to be a "no effort" way to install sway (yet). Especially not with automatic (security) patches.

I'm hopeful it'll be in 20.04?
Unfortunately, when you need the output of program A as the input to B sometimes you have to jump through such hoops. I've never done it with .pdf but I've fought similar battles with .xps and never fully conquered them. (And the parser was unstable as hell, besides--it would break with every version and sometimes for far lesser reasons.)
Calling it a pandemic is giving far more credit than is due at this point. It's essentially only lethal to elderly or immunocompromised people. It would need to kill [0]220x more people than it already has to even be [1]comparable to the flu.

The media is making a huge deal about it, when really the situation calls for more handwashing for everyone, and an n95 mask for those who are or may be infected.

[0]https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/03/coronavirus-deaths-ch...

[1]https://www.health.com/condition/cold-flu-sinus/how-many-peo...
Perhaps CNAs should start wearing masks not only to prevent getting sick but to prevent spreading the virus.
Ok let's roll with this, although just between the cellular data carriers there are more choices than between web-scale search engines or smartphone platforms. If you had plenty of ISPs to choose from and all were in the habit of mining and monetizing your browsing data simply because that's legal and profitable should Mozilla recognize you as implicitly trusting the most dominant one that also happens to be paying them ?
What a stupid idea. You expect me to pay $8 a month to a for profit company in return of a promise of doing something that is no different than snake oil.
Hopefully they will bilk some enviro-freaks, but anyone with common sense will look at this and have a good chuckle.
Good grief.. Al Gore version 2.0
Better: protect a forest.

Most solutions to climate change are subtractive, not additive.
you are probably a stakeholder if you have investments such as a 401k. over 50% of american adults have investments in stocks.

you can vote your proxies to direct companies to do better. i built a website to make this more intuitive and easier, and you can support shareholder initiatives just like signing an online petition. e.g. https://www.yourstake.org/petition/disclose-corporate-politi...
No one is advocating for stopping conservation efforts or reforestation. But we will need a combination of solutions in order to reverse existing damage and meet targets.
Was that heavily cipher dependent? I wouldn't be surprised if Chacha20 performed much better than AES w/o any hardware acceleration (other than SIMD instructions)
> People are just “resources.”

This one drives me crazy. If you are talking specifically about people, I'm going to stop you and ask you to use people words.

If you are asking generically, "Do we have enough resources to accomplish this?" and you mean financial and people, that language is OK, IMO, but if you say "We have 3 resources assigned to this project", I'm going to correct you 100% of the time.
You also must consider that we're in the dark because of poor testing right now. A coworker pointed out that infection levels may be "leveling off" simply because the testing is rate limited.
I am skeptical of this article.

Paragraph 5: GE beat the market by 2x over Welch's career.

Paragraph 6: The market is the reason Welch's track record looks so good.
I disagree. For some, this might be the proof that is needed to make them realize something is wrong.
> There are some valid points to keeping comments for posts that have since been deleted, and I don't necessarily disagree with them

Then your argument isn't about parent-child relationship, but value of the actual content. I can assure you, even if you don't give it value, there's one.

The funny thing, this is most probably why it's important to delete it if someone want to delete his content. It's his value, not yours, not Facebook's, no one else.

> It would be much better (with no loss in privacy) to at minimum just replace those comments with null text and a null owner, to at least show that 3 rows used to be here, between these existing rows.

I don't care about this.