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I agree. The UK never really wanted to be part of the EU. It only wanted to cherrypick the best parts and nothing else. Once they decided to leave I wasn't thinking a single thought about the EU crumbling but rather "good riddance". Other than the northern Ireland dilemma it is a win win situation.

Of course the UK will take a hit in the short term but failing to prepare for that is on them. It was their decision.
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He understands why it matters because he used to run his own one-man show before we "acqui-hired" him. But whenever I notice that he doesn't have his time logged in the system, he says "yeah I've been slammed all day" or something similar and promises to get it done soon... and then doesn't. And he genuinely is getting a lot of work done so there's no foul play or anything.

The issue isn't just logging his time either - he's also not great at taking detailed notes, writing accurate scope of work documents, etc. He's very good with clients, has a lot of knowledge and experience with the tech stack, but is a "cowboy engineer" if that makes sense.

The way I'm thinking about this is that everyone has different strengths and weaknesses, but for this one person, said weaknesses are directly affecting the company bottom line so they are impossible to ignore. :)
Yeah it’s not like we’re in any kind of emergency that required reorganizing the whole society and economy, or anything like that.
I have not experienced any of these issues. Do you have an example of a reproducible bug in apt involving third-party repositories? And how is RPM more reliable than DPKG? I have not seen either of them exhibit what I would call reliability issues (i.e. crashes)
This year was an absolute train wreck. MacBook failure, car issues, lots of dental re-work, multiple flights cancelled and the airlines are yet to issue a refund, plans had to be postponed and then changed completely, and then a family serious health issue. On hindsight, I think this year was a huge net positive as it let me re-evalute lots of stuff in my life.

Now to the good parts.

- This was the best year financially. This is also the year I made 0 income but financial assets and trades made me over six-figures in profit. Despite lots of unexpected expenses and losses; I'm wealthier than ever even adjusting for real inflation.

- I setup my own custom-built desktop and got to learn a lot about Linux. I have a fully customizable OS now, and albeit I do miss a few things about OS X; productivity wise, I'm way more productive. (now planning to buy the new Zen 3 and setting a new powerful desktop).

- There is lots of nature around you to discover. When travel was open, you are tempted to try new countries. But my guess is that any country of medium size has lots of places where you can find mind-blowing views. I did lots of biking/discovering this year (100-200km near me).

- I did significant progress in Rust. I finally got around to modern web development: Github action, CI/CD, Terraform/Consul, React, Static Sites, etc... I also made significant progress in some projects I'm working on despite the multiple breakdowns I had this year. Somehow some stuff got done.

- I did some writing to my blog, and lots of writing that is yet to get published. I relatively succeeded in having a routine for health, learning and work.

Looking for 2021.
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That's why you can RAIDZ3.
Wasn't one of the claims of insubordination because she refused to comply with a request to make the data less accessible? If she hadn't been fired, and if everyone around the issue just kept quite, then Florida might not have been doing such an awesome job.
Why let those subgroups participate in the first vaccinations though? If they were clearly aware of this, why go ahead in one of the most-watched "deployments" (in my life-time), and invite the potential risk (and it's a huge risk) in only after it's gone "live" with the real population? I mean, if I knew those subgroups would be problematic, I sure as hell would make sure the first week of those vaccinations would go as smooth as possible (with all the media and the rest of humanity carefully watching), and give it to people I am most certain will be fine with it. Everything else, the trials should've caught, or should catch in the near future? Why play the risk on day one?!
I think most vaccines right now have not been proven to have sterilizing immunity, so ppl who have gotten the vaccine can still transmit it to others who haven't been vaccinated. That's in the 1 or 2 week widow after getting infected themselves.
This is why it's so critical that multiple vaccines were and are being developed. So that whatever subset of people can't get vaccine X, well they can get vaccine Y and Z. And hopefully, this means everyone has at least one vaccine they can take.

It also highlights the need for everyone to get vaccinated as quickly as possible. Don't procrastinate when the opportunity arises, because there are people around you who can't be vaccinated or can't be vaccinated with vaccines available to them. You being vaccinated cuts off one more path the virus can take to them.
> The rebuild times in this post seem high to me, though.

Two factors. Disks are getting large, and the rebuild time for RAID-Z[1] is dependent on the fragmentation. In combination it means it can take ages.

I just had to replace a failing WD Red 3TB[2] in an old 4xRAID-Z1 pool, and it took 9 hours. That was a single 3TB disk. The disks in my new pool are 14TB and 16TB.

[1]: https://youtu.be/Efl0Kv_hXwY

[2]: power-on hours in SMART showed over 7 years
I use AWS and GCP regularly and Azure sometimes as well. GCP is too damn slow by comparison not that others too would win any industry awards for speed but they are usable. On GCP however, the GKE screens are damn slow with spinner spinning for so long that I started to doubt my internet connection.

UI of a IaaS (or PaaS) certainly is a complex matter and I guess few iterations down the road, GCP might perform better. May be load lazy load the UI functionality (JS) on demand or something.
Anyone? Yes. There's billions of people out there. If the government says it's good to go, some folks will absolutely take that at face value.
As a recent convert to Google cloud from AWS; it is really slow!!
It's more or less standard. _Any_ new drug is highly likely to exclude certain classes of people. This is particularly the case with vaccines where the risks of excluding a small number of people are generally low, as you're relying on herd immunity anyway.

I'm not sure if this was talked about before, but the fact that (like basically every vaccine ever) it won't initially be available to pregnant women was certainly talked about ahead of time. This isn't a fiasco; it's normal.
I mean obviously not yet? But it seems pretty clear that within a few months that situation is going to change.
Come on, be serious. You think people who standardized their infrastructure on CentOS 8 under the assumption that they will have 10 years of stable support, are negative about this because they are afraid of change?

And you know that's not the reason for the negativity, so I don't know why you're being so flippant about this. Nobody has a problem with the idea of 'CentOS 8 Stream'. They have a problem with this being the replacement to CentOS 8 Linux because it doesn't fulfill the same use-cases.
Is it really free? In my cloudflare dashboard it shows 'Upgrade to Pro' in 'analytics' tab.
The slow and clunky I referenced don't have "loading semantics" issues, they all show loaders, action statuses, and many indicate connectivity and save progress for multipage sagas. But you are right that slow and clunky can be unreliable, but so can slick and snappy. Tho, neither of them have to be. In some domains, slick and snappy can feel insubstantial and off-key. It's interesting that the pages you reference are "consumer" products, not enterprise, so that's inline with how I think this goes. I think basically we're talking about orthogonal kinds of slow and clunky, yours is more the engineering focus of how it works, and mine is, like I said in the parent comment, about the aesthetics and the medium in a domain.
Do you have a reference? AFAIK it's 2 other German companies that are key in the production of EUV photolitography machines; Zeiss for the lenses and Trumpf for the lasers.

I see reference for a company bought by ASML in California, HMI. They were bought in 2016 but the development of EUV technology predates it by many years so I find it unlikely that it had an important role in it.
Management is about knowing what people need.

Hammering someone who doesn't see a problem is the best way to make a problem. It's not about being passive. It's about identifying the problem, explaining the problem, and coming to a mutual solution if possible.

Or, in other words, treating humans like humans.
This doesn't add to the debate and detracts from it. To come back to it - we were not discussing whether it is fair for Apple to charge how much ever percentage it does on its app store vs Amazon (or anyone similar).

The crux of the matter is that neither Amazon or Walmart or any other online or offline supermarket restricts anyone from buying a product directly from the producer / manufacture or from elsewhere.

Apple does precisely that with its app store on ios (and soon will on macOS too). By depriving us the freedom of buying from the developer (or others) directly, Apple not only violates our privacy but also raises the cost of an app for everyone (by unnecessarily charging the developer an annual recurring fee and by charging a commission on sale).
I agree that's a possibility and a probability. He was surely convinced otherwise by his advisors, whomever they were. We do live in a democracy and as citizens who elect representatives, we must have that information to be able to elect properly. That's is the concerning disconnect. We need to understand the justifications of Guantanamo and the wars and USA PATRIOT Act and decide for ourselves. But we aren't "allowed" to, which is in itself circumventing democracy.

An analogy I would use is buying a car. On the outside it looks great. I have normal concerns, but the salesman won't allow me to either inspect it, or have an independent mechanic inspect it, but he'll allow his mechanic to inspect it and he'll report the results to me. That's what I feel our democracy is like on these issues.
> EU's biggest tech company aside of ARM is Spotify

How about SAP, Capgemini, Atos, Deutsche Telekom, Telefónica, Vodafone, ASML?

Not hip enough for you?
Yeah, it's kind of an under-appreciated fact that the good majority of the total potential and actual power draw of a home is composed of dedicated circuits for kitchen and laundry appliances and the HVAC stack, most of them 240V. The 120V 15 amp circuits servicing outlets in the rest of the rooms don't add up to much, especially now in the LED era.

One thing that bugs me is that there aren't counter-top 240V kitchen outlets. If I ever build my own house I'll put in an extra 240V circuit for the kitchen just so I can have some higher power outlets for electric kettles and such. You can boil water for tea twice as fast with 3 kW as with 1.5 kW, as those smug Brits always like to remind us about. I don't think I'd make much use out of 240V anywhere else (except obviously in the garage for EV charging), but just having a couple outlets in the kitchen would be a godsend.
I really wonder if and how badly this will affect the already on-edge population on "just how soon they'll ring up to get in line" for testing, once they see this plastered all over the news this evening.

n=1 anecdote follows:

I'm somewhat in the camp of "Of course I'll take the vaccine, but I don't necessarily want to be at the front of the line" and this - to me - is irrelevant. So far it's two people out of thousands, and those two had a known history of severe allergic reactions. So this doesn't make me any more reluctant to take the vaccine.

And, I mean, pure gold for the antivaxxers, which is going to be a problem, too.

Yeah, I am worried about that as well. The last thing we need is anything to encourage the anti-vaxxer crowd and fuel their ridiculous conspiracy theories. sigh
This is why I mention legislation. I think we could see it becoming illegal to exclude people based on their vaccine status. Or maybe we have some sort of exemption card.
That's how normal vaccines for things like measles work. Not everyone can take them, or they have other issues, so they depend on the rest of us to do our part for herd immunity.
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As much as I applaud every alternative to Google services, I would think about these kind of analytics twice when running any kind of developer-centric service. Chance is that your target audience is running an adblocker / DNS blocker of some sort and that this will heavily skew the analytics results: The absolute numbers will be a lot lower and you will only capture folks not savvy enough for adblockers. I removed any external analytics about a year ago when I realized that more than 50% of visitors to my service were blocking Google Analytics and that GA numbers had become meaningless (cross-referenced against access.log).
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I think that was covered under being clear about expectations. Good managers don’t just set expectations though, they provide support, which was the other half of the article. Are you arguing against managers providing employees support?
For those for whom it is really crushing there are plenty of relief available, most importantly income based repayment program. I simply don’t see why allowing bankruptcy, which is redistribution favoring college graduates, is needed.
It does seem paranoid to think that someone viewing something like this with scepticism makes them a state actor. I think there have been too many incidents of companies crying wolf for people to think otherwise. This is a forum for discussion and to accuse people with alternative views of being state actors probably just adds fuel to the fire.
If you refer to Cymer, they're doing the light source. A critical part of the system certainly, but not the whole. Then mirrors are done by Carl Zeiss in Germany. The blank photomask come mostly from 2 Japanses companies. On such complex systems there's room for many critical providers. Still, the integrated product comes from ASML.
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Privacy-first analytics is a contradiction in terms. Do not spy on people. Do not build software that spies on people. It's that easy. This project is despicable, and this company is despicable.
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The guidance is intentionally lacking. She should talk to her doctor.
Yes but I'm extending that to be treating adult humans like adult humans. Have a discussion, grab a coffee. Make it known. No hammering, discourse.

"It’s emotionally draining to keep faking success or status that’s not legitimate." I'm saying get this sort of thing out of your playbook entirely. Of course someone's going to think they're doing well if you tell them they are!
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Nope. You learn nothing by testing on people with known allergies to the ingredients.
They're just saying it's a worry.

The point is if China decide to do this, there isn't anyone who can stop them.
For Google, it's better when it's my CPU doing the work, than theirs.
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“Oh look here’s an unattended purse, I need the money so I’ll just take it. They left it here anyway”

Introducing a drastic billing change under the implied threat that your year or more of man hours performed using an underlying open source library with an understandable billing model is now potentially at risk, is shady. These billing changes make some self hosted tile users go from $0 to tens of thousands of dollars a month in usage. It’s shady, don’t lie to yourself.

Also, you are not your company. I am not saying you are shady, because you are just a person who has bills and a skill and you need a salary. Don’t conflate criticisms of your employer as attacks on yourself, or you can have a hard time seeing what other people see. Tricking yourself to believe something that might not be true is one of the worst thing you can do.
What happens to "visits" in Brave or other browsers that strip the Referer header in top-level navigations [1]? Also, what about direct traffic?

They shouldn't even try to report "visits" if it won't be accurate because now they're just going to have a bunch of confused publishers asking why the numbers are so different than GA.

[1] https://www.cookiestatus.com/brave/#referrer
This is not what they are suggesting. They are suggesting: if a person has a clear lack of competency, or is inconsistent in their output, acknowledge that they are doing some things well - the reality - but also they have a number of shortcomings - also the reality - which need to be addressed to perform their Really Vital Role that provides Great Business Value. They could just fire them and find someone else who can actually fulfil the needs of the role, but it's a sensible option for the company to provide a means for the employee to better themselves, rather than wear the down-time of someone not performing those duties.
I'm having trouble defining the problem you want to fix.

Are you saying that non-technology companies have weaker technology candidates? Such as for hiring IT resources at a hospital or agricultural company? That the strongest candidates go to hard tech companies like Google?

Or are you saying that there are no bootcamps for medical or agricultural candidates? And would those be focused on IT candidates or any worker in that industry?
Yep. Set expectations and ensure he gets it (he might not, even if he ran his own shop), work through that process, then get rid of him if you have to.

That sucks out loud, but sometimes weaknesses outweigh benefits. And it's your job to draw that line.
Thanks. I've passed all this on to the right people.
Well, if trouble-free usability is advantageous to you, you can have a competitive advantage by doing just that.
Github's site is really fast. Many of the pages it displays are dense with information and I think it displays everything well, for example viewing diffs in Github is very good, it smartly wraps all the text so you can view everything on the screen and everything loads fast. Try comparing it to Bitbucket's diff view, which can't wrap text amongst other things. It's light years better in comparison. It looks good at any window width with little wasted whitespace.

Amazon's site works pretty well. Their product range is quite a mess to navigate but I've never been annoyed much by their front end. It seems pretty well engineered, eg. [1]

[1] https://bjk5.com/post/44698559168/breaking-down-amazons-mega...
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Might give GlobalFoundries another crack at their 7nm technology. Currently they are stuck at 14nm at their US fab and 12nm at their German fab (they rolled that out last year iirc).
Why should I learn blockchain? What real world problem have you solved using blockchain that can't be done easier/cheaper/faster using a more conventional data store?

Isn't private blockchain really an oxymoron? And a public blockchain really needs some method of funding/reimbursement --- like cryptocurrency. Otherwise, why would a "community" devote resources to the overhead of a blockchain? Without significant "community" resources and commitment, a blockchain can lack trust and thus start to wither and die.

In other words, aren't the "social engineering" aspects of a practical blockchain just as significant (if not more so) than the technical ones?

Aside from a few niche areas like cryptocurrency, isn't blockchain really a solution in search of a problem?
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I work in Scandinavia where "just fire them if they're not improving" is a lengthy process. So when I got a case like this on one of my teams, it was worth my time to try to help this person improve because with their long tenure, they were going to be very hard to give the boot. This person seemed to be a fairly competent programmer, but just didn't do much actual work. He spent all of his time butterflying around, joining meetings he didn't need to be in, digging into other teams' work that didn't need digging into. I give my teams a ton of autonomy, but he was clearly taking advantage of that in order to seem busy without delivering any value for our users.

The single best tool in handling this situation for me was peer feedback. We instituted a system where peer feedback came from a few peers he selected and a few I myself selected. The person in question was shocked when even the peers he selected came back saying that he simply failed to get stuff done.

This came as a wakeup call for him, and we were able to work on a very clear development plan that minimized distractions and maximized time for deep work. He ended up being a solid contributor.
totally agree with this comment, help the person; we all bring different skills. Also, the person might just need a prompt or remind, someone telling them mid afternoon on Friday that a form is due before going home.
When I worked as a consultant tracking billable hours was the hardest part of my job, far harder than any engineering problem, and the thing I hated even more than bad clients who couldn't make up their minds about requirements. For the last year I just started making up the hours and nobody seemed to notice! Thankfully I moved on to a salaried position at a product company and I don't have to micromanage myself anymore. I don't have a point here: time tracking sucks, that's all
This needs to be upvoted & discussed, possibly people here have even more details to report..
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Just the US value from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea... vs #2 (Switzerland) is $US800 000 000 000 for all US residents in extra spending.