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>>if the tires are completely flat then they are not supporting the car and you can't use them for measurement.

Run-flat tires are a thing though - you can drive on them even with no internal pressure, there can be a gaping hole in it and you can still drive on them. So what's the pressure the car exerts on the road when driving then?
"cry mir einen river" since river is masculine
do you really think that Italy and China wanted to put a stop to their economic activity with quarantines for no reason?
When I was running Z for Linux the costing was in the order of six figures per processor.
It is an interesting story and I can relate. I don't think anyone should feel sorry for the author or me though. In the grand scheme of things it is a good job, just a shitty company. I find Warren Buffet's commentary to be interesting as well but I don't feel sorry for him when he makes a mistake or has a problem.
Consumer data brokers are a legal (non-criminal) business and they would definitely reidentify then well information if it weren't illegal.
50+ is elderly now?
3) will do a lot less harm than botching the response in the long run. AFAIAC none of that politicking matters.
What I don’t understand is why the US still doesn’t have widespread testing. If the government lifted restrictions on testing and let people other than CDC and health authorities test for it, most research hospitals and universities (and many other private labs) would be able to test for this disease very easily. The reagents are commercially available, and most other countries are rolling out (or have already rolled out) very widespread testing.

I am not an expert in this, so if someone with more understanding wants to chime in I’d love to hear it.

Edit: the FDA has reduced the restrictions on clia regulated labs

https://www.fda.gov/media/135659/download
It is U+00A0 [1], a non-breaking space [2], can be typed in some office applications using ⌃+⇧+␣.

[1]: http://fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/00a0/

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-breaking_space
I don't read it as bitterness over his personal situation. Clearly it was pretty comfortable for him. It seemed to me more like bewilderment and amusement over the whole Kafkaesque abomination.

If I were in his position, I would've kept taking the paycheck without complaints, but once I was no longer there, I'd definitely consider writing something like this.
Nice update!

If I touch "Edit", and make an update, then I have three buttons "Add item", "Submit" and "Cancel". I'm not sure if I should click on "Add item" or "Submit". (So I tried both.)

Also, after the submission, the item is not updated. I guess you (or some register users) must approve the change. It would be nice if the "thanks" message explain that, something like:

> Thanks for your contribution! It will be reviewed soon by one of the Mathpendium members.

where "soon" and "members" are two fuzzy defined concepts.

It also should be nice to see how many pending corrections has each entry, to get some feedback that the correction was registered.
Capturing most of your data in your commits/revisions seems to suffer from a lot of the unsolved event sourcing issues:

- How do I quickly find the info that I want? How do I "query" the commit log? Often times, we want a "view" of the history which tells us specific info. If I need to scan through half of the commits just to get a good understanding of the architecture of the code, then that's more wasteful than just having a design doc. If I'm troubleshooting a production bug, then the granularity the commit log offers becomes important enough to offset its slow "query" speed, so I'd want enough "why" commits in the commit log and outside of people's heads.

- People write to the commit log without a well-defined "schema". If you use something like tags, how do you handle changes to the tags ("schema evolution")

This is my train of thought for why I lean towards "why" comments near the code or in a design doc over commit messages, which I allow to be a more sloppy.

A higher-level thought: The attractiveness of the event sourcing analogy often comes from assuming that the commit log should be a strongly consistent source of truth. However, it's good to remember that a huge amount of info about the code is stored in the team members' heads. In particular, the code writer knows a huge amount that can't be easily documented. So an alternative analogy would be to think of each member as a VM attached to block storage. If a VM fails (the person gets sick) or leaves the cluster (they leave the job), then you lose all of the data in block storage. So, the team wants to facilitate just enough overhead/admin work to transfer important data from individual team members to shared but slower storage (like the commit log, design doc, comments, etc.)
You're free not to use any website...
China is not reliable? You follow some random guy on twitter?

Here is some tinfoil for you...
Thank you for that. I haven't used German since HS so I am a little rusty. I can still order a beer though.

With that said, I picked that particular version of the phrase from zero punctuation. I did not intend for it to be grammatically correct.
> but the services organization is pretty spectacular.

Overall, the org looks decent on Glassdoor.
> P4 was an engineering mistake.

The story I've heard was that P4 was a management mistake. Some engineers claimed they surely understood that the limits existed, but the management believed that the only thing that's sellable is a bigger number of GHz. So the engineers got the goal to make a processor architecture for 10 GHz, and apparently P4 was made for that (long pipelines) and it was known that on lower number of GHz the architecture performed worse. But 10 GHz was unachievable because physics can't be cheated (the chips would simply melt without some special cooling that was also not sellable), so P4 architecture was never driven with the clock speeds for which it was designed.
The only thing I think about is leisure time, vacation, indefinite amount of time in front of me with no obligations, commitments, or constraints to acquire resources that meet my biological, psychological or social needs.

Any behavior that I engage in that has productivity as a side effect that I rely on, ie to be paid money or to retrieve food or to nurture relationships, even if that productivity is not a conscious focus or stress, is inherently upsetting and painful to me.

If I had complete financial and commitment freedom, I literally would not do anything (and that sounds amazing). I know myself well and have introspected on it very much, and truly I would not do anything if I could. I would just sit there like a bump on a log and watch nature. I would not spend time with people. I would not busy my mind on any kind of puzzle or reductionist exploration of nature or myself. I would just sit there for years and years and years. That’s all I want to do.
Isn't this just going to be `lambda M: [[M[1][1],-M[0][1]], [-M[1][0], M[0][0]]]`? You guys are going to add a library just for that?
> I Passed Up a $50,000 Severance To Write This

I wish he had taken the $50K. We would have all been better off!

(As noted in the article, the $50K severance would have been tied to a non-disparagement agreement.)
Yeah that's fine, but it's informative to more junior people who might consider employment at pivotal so they can go in with more (if biased) information.
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By that logic, if you are going to spend time with anyone 50+, you should be equally concerned, yeah?
That’s a really interesting point. I learned CSS back in the early 2000s and it was easy. Not only was there less to learn, the resources out there were high quality. It was clear that CSS was the new “best practice” and the alternatives (tables-based layout and font tags) were legacy. Whenever I try to brush up on newer CSS features, the signal-to-noise ratio seems much lower than it used to be. Part of that is probably that I’m experienced enough to recognise bad advice now, but part of it is also the industrialisation of the web industry and huge influx of new developers.
I believe the first "page" of opcodes (i.e. 1-byte opcodes, the ones that don't start with 0F) has already been extensively researched and documented, at least in 16 and 32-bit mode; the interesting things are all in the "second page", the ones that begin with 0F and are relatively new instructions, and the awkward and somewhat inconsistent way in which 64-bit mode was implemented.

Also, the fact that they're trying to test undocumented behaviour from within a full OS was a bit unexpected; in the retrocomputing community, where CPUs like the Z80 and 6502 have been studied extensively, the usual way of testing undocumented behaviour is to boot into a very minimal environment whose only purpose is test that behaviour, so as to eliminate any other variables from the process. Logic analysers/bus monitoring are also used sometimes, although that might be harder with a modern high-speed CPU.
The point is that you don't learn all the ways in which things fail in C by trying. At best, you learn the way in which they fail (or fail to fail!) on your specific platform/compiler/version/compiler options combo.

If you want to know how things can fail (or, what things can fail in unspecified ways), you have to do a bit of reading and no amount of trying and experimenting will conjure that knowledge.
REBOL and its derivative Red seem like cool languages, but I can't get over the fact that it's impossible to bootstrap these free software projects because Red requires REBOL 3, which is self hosting using REBOL 2, which is proprietary.
The number of cases doesn’t increase if you don’t test for it.
They need to create new IC beds at a rate of 200 per day right now. If you have anything else that requires IC, like say a ruptured appendix, you're just as dead if there are no beds than if you had ncov19.

Also, I still have one parent and don't want to lose her.
Did I miss something or is this article a bit light in details?

This testing organization claims 70% of honey they tested was adulterated in some way after talking about the most egregious offenders, making you assume it’s all just imported sugar filtered with hydrocarbons with a little honey mixed in. But they also claim just heating up raw honey to make it easier to work with is an offense according to their rules.

While I’m all for more transparency or standardization this feels a bit submarine like.
I mean, sure Fluss is masculine... But it seems like borrowed English nouns generally end up masculine also. So sure, why not!
One example: https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/food-safety/tesco-honey-test-not...
The other doesn't seem to be in SF, but have you seen what a mortgage payment is in SF?
No, It does not.

Businesses are created by people who offer services / products for trade or money. Govt has nothing to do with that and in many cases (In the US) creates barriers to entry prohibiting private industry
Right, doesn't it need to say "extra virgin olive oil" to actually be pure?. Otherwise it could be a blend
(3) is kind of a strawman. No one actually thinks Donald Trump said the virus itself is a hoax. In context the "hoax" is referring to the claims about the seriousness of the virus and the government response to it.

And there are definitely Trump supporters calling the situation a hoax, as in, "this is a hoax to blow up the stock market and make Trump look bad, don't you know that more people die of the flu every year?".
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To me, the writings of a disgruntled ex-employee who is on a vendetta against the company, is just as worthless as those fake Glassdoor reviews. They have written at least 5 rambling articles with the sole purpose of tearing down Pivotal, which at some point starts to be more of a reflection of the author than the company.
The author is experiencing cognitive dissonance because he was expecting professional life to push him to his limits, in an environment designed for maximal productivity and innovation, working with people who care about doing the best work of their life. A lot of overachievers in school have that outlook.

There are some jobs that are like this, but they are very few and far between. There are far more companies that claim to be like this when really it’s just a convenient excuse for treating their employees poorly.

The reality is that if you care about your craft a tiny bit more than average, you will most likely end up feeling that you are overpaid for trivial work, that you could do so much more for the company, that your coworkers and hierarchy are apathetic to things that do not directly affect them (and will seek to avoid any change as much as possible). The more you stay in this situation, the likelier you are to burn out.

If you are that kind of person, then you need to GTFO and start your own thing - have your own skin in the game - or accept that that’s the reality of being a mere employee. That doesn’t mean that you can’t do good work, btw - just that you’ll have to find your sources of life fulfillment elsewhere.
I suppose there is a world market for maybe five of those…
fuck this was funny
Removal isn't the only thing that happens. Sometimes they add in stuff like pollen.

Also, just because they fool the particular testing tools that labs use doesn't mean you as a consumer won't have an adverse reaction to whatever it was they put in to the honey.

The problem with adulteration isn't exclusively limited to harmful health effects either. Even if your health would not be adversely affected by the adulterants, you might still want to be certain you're getting is genuine.

Let's say you bought corn syrup while under the impression that it was honey. It might not harm your health any more than any other corn syrup would, but you've still been defrauded, and what you got might not have the same health benefits that honey has (assuming honey has such benefits).

Your purchasing decisions could have an ecological impact too. Effectively subsidizing the growing of corn by mistakenly buying corn syrup will have different ecological consequences than subsidizing the establishment of more bee colonies by buying genuine honey.

That's not to mention the ethical issues of being conned in to giving money to fraudsters versus giving it to honest business people.
It IS the no-break space. The hex UTF-8 representation of it is C2A0; you can find that sequence in original version of the file.
No, the SPA hype has warn off and people realize that although these new technologies exist, they are not always needed.

If you are building a web app, use React or similar.

If you are building a web site, use plain HTML+CSS w/ supplemental JS.

Sometimes your project can be split in half. Do the landing page, signup, login, privacy policy, etc. in plain HTML.

Maybe don't embed all that stuff in your app and you wouldn't struggle with forms and routing, something that browsers can do very well with no programming.
This is likely catering specifically to IBM's customers who have been them from the mainframe days and continue to rely on IBM products (airline, banking etc.). The systems used by these orgs are massive in complexity and I'm not sure how much they want to invest in refactoring them to run on COTS hardware.... it probably doesn't make sense for them financially.
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Why would you suggest older versions?
No worries... It's been almost 15 years for myself. Even when I was much better, I used to describe myself as competent enough to get into trouble, but not back out again.
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If anything I'd say that makes it even easier to reverse-engineer, since the layout is far more regular. There are some public tools to do this already - here's one that immediately comes to mind: https://degate.org/
That is true, and it might not work for Open Source development, but I don't see managers trawling through git commits to see what was done / is in progress.
There isn't a guide to learn how things fail on platform, compiler, version, options combo. Probably the only things that force you to systematically research and accumulate such knowledge is by writing a language VM in C or use C as an intermediate representation. Even writing a C compiler itself won't teach you that.
> The entitlement is strong with this one.

You'd need to know what sales were earning before you resort to name calling.
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More than one third of the Italian population is 50+, so if you are Italian there is probably reason to worry
SOSML [0] came out recently, written in TypeScript and sporting an online interpreter. Then there's this prominent SML-er's JavaScript backend for Moscow ML [1]. And Andreas Rossberg's HaMLet [2] also has a JavaScript backend.

[0] https://github.com/SOSML/SOSML

[1] https://github.com/kfl/mosml-js

[2] https://people.mpi-sws.org/~rossberg/hamlet/
McDonnell Douglas was dead. It was either closing or being acquired. Being a very important military contractor, it's easy to see why it merged with another similar company.
Thanks for that. Could you help me with something? I'm reading the foreword of that book right now from Amazon's preview, and it says that it's the 1st of a set of 3 books. I found the 2nd, "Turning Pro", on Amazon, but I can't find the 3rd, "The Higher Realm". Was that book renamed to something else after the foreword was written, or has it still not been published, or what could have happened to it? Do you know anything about that?

EDIT: Hmmm... On checking the foreword again, I see it says that book one is actually "Defining the Enemy". I'm starting to think that these 3 "books" are actually sections of the physical book. I guess the physical book "Turning Pro" of the same author might be completely unrelated to the equally named book two the foreword mentions. That's pretty confusing if true.
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> Gluing something like HBM2 to the die for a second

This is something AMD is already doing for EPYC, and they've already used HBM2 in their GPUs.

So I'm surprised they haven't released any CPU models with crazy huge L4 caches using a few GB of HBM2.

Then again, Intel made a laptop CPU with a huge 128MB cache and their comment was that it didn't make that big of a difference. I believe the performance boost was less than 5% for going from 64MB to 128MB.
I'm a scientist by training, so all I'm gonna say is that numbers don't exist in a vacuum. There are lots of undiscussed factors that to my eyes go towards inflating the numerical values being discussed, for example, there being a huge festival with relatively poor sanitation and a high transmissibility likelihood in the city with the primary blast radius and a general difference in hygeine culture between China and the US, and the US being less population dense in general. In my circle, probably about 10% actively self-label as germophobic, and even I as a relatively dirty person have started more meticulously washing hands and self-segregating while feeling under the weather this season.

In the us, we have signs in restaurants reminding employees (and customers) to wash their hands. Now in all honesty probably only 80% do in normal times but certainly more are now, and in any case, it's part of the active day to day thinking (or even better, it's part of letting the monkey drive) in our culture.
I survived a job that amounted to fixing keyboards for $35k/year but kudos to you for surviving your $220k/year internship. I’m sure it was brutal.
Some mild to severe big brother-esque connotations to this - ie. “your sleep is to benefit the company.” Just pay the employees better and/or reduce hours and stress.
It might be helpful to have some actual example code of what this looks like. In Python it would be

def invert_2_by_2_matrix(matrix):
# matrix is of form, for example ((1,2), (3,4))
((a, b), (c, d)) = matrix
det = (a*d - b*c)
return ((d/det, -b/det), (-c/det, a/det))

(This doesn't do any input checking including if the determinant is 0)
I think everyone is hyper focused on the 220k number, which is not that unusual for a VC-backed Silicon Valley startup.

Admittedly the article is a bit rant-filled, but I have also heard other people say Pivotal is (was?) a bit weird, especially regarding taking pair programming a bit too far (another blog example: http://mwilden.blogspot.com/2009/11/why-i-dont-like-pair-pro...)

I am a bit surprised at all the criticism of the author and saying that "I wouldn't hire the guy because of this post". Consider the asymmetry of power between employer and employee. Companies often put up self-praising blog posts describing their perfect hiring process and how great they are, but often they are a big messy hairball inside. In the US, people very rarely work up the courage to criticize them, because they have mouths to feed, health insurance to pay, and can't afford the expensive lawyers to combat the large companies' legal teams. So we should encourage those who speak out, or at least not punish them more for doing so. In fact, I think the only reason this person is comfortable doing so is that they have probably enough left over from that 220k/year to be comfortable speaking out.
Right. A guy who'd give up fifty grand just so he was free to write a rant.
While I don't disagree with most of what you're saying, this idea that people should (or can) just leave employment, needs to stop. This is not the way most of the world works and many people are "stuck" in very shitty situations that don't have many opportunities, out.

But with regard to the rest of your comment, absolutely. This guy is a knob.
yes indeed. This happens to the one I buy "BLOOM" which says its pure RAW Honey, and in the ingredients that's all it is "raw honey".
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There was a massive FUD campaign back in the early 2000's which saw many Delphi Projects moved to C#, I am lucky to have always been in charge of what language to develop in so I have ignored stuff like this ever since and just got on with life.
Heh, when it was first broadcast here, I taped it off the radio, but I think my tapes are long gone.
> Just look at what are called "protein bars" at your local market and check how much sugar those have

Something to bear in mind here is that products designed for athletes won't be healthy for people who aren't training at high volume. The metabolic pathway for sugar is very different when taken during or after training.
C is a particularly weird language: it's entirely possible for things to work but

- secretly introduce security vulnerabilities

- stop working on a different compiler or after a compiler upgrade

A generation of C programmers learned by trying things out, and they left us with superstitious beliefs about volatile (and also with imprisoned Uyghurs in China). We have the evidence and learning C by trial and error doesn't work. If you're going to write C (and there are definitely places where it's the right thing to use), learn it with more caution than you'd learn other languages.
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