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Meh. Phones I can take or leave. Personally, I will never, ever use an appliance as my workstation though and I'm a user, so my opinion matters much more than any manufacturers because I'm faaaaar from alone ;)
"It will" is a strong choice of words. The root of the matter is I don't, personally, trust the people doing the selling.

It varies by region but where I'm from, back in April-ish, we were sold: "just two weeks of lockdowns and the virus will die out! everything will be back to normal!". So we did. Businesses shut down, transit basically stopped running, our downtown core was a wasteland. Everyone parroted "stay safe, stay home" back and forth at each other and sat at home for a few weeks. It sucked, everyone had a bad time, lots of busineses had to go out of business, but we all were told it was for the greater good and it'll be worth it. And... it didn't do shit.

Now here we are again. Odds on, in a few months, it'll be either "turns out this vaccine doesn't protect you as well as we thought", or "turns out it only protects you for six months", or "turns out the virus mutated so the vaccine isn't effective at all anymore"? In exchange for, what, testing not only a new vaccine, but a whole new method of vaccination on yourself? Whether that's worth it to you or not is a personal choice, but "it will literally save lives and end [the disease]" is firmly TBD.
Cloud Run is for containers, not functions, and it's the next evolution of App Engine.

The GCP equivalent to Lambda is Cloud Functions.
Or they know how to hide better. We've always only caught the stupid ones anyway.
I know the anti-administration circle jerk is pretty strong here but the administration actually doesn't have much of any control over the roll-out plan. I have physician friends with reservations for vaccinations as early as next week. There are hundreds of people working on the roll-out plan.

Trump isn't sitting in the Oval deciding which Walgreens are getting the vaccine when.
Coalescing into 2-3 major competitors is natural in the sense that consumers can't, and don't want to, keep track of 10 or 20 different choices for the same thing. It's just too much. It's the paradox of choice.

There's nothing inherently wrong with "oligopolies" except when they collude together to raise prices, and competition is weak. But that's obviously not the case in office productivity software -- competition and innovation are intense, and there's zero evidence of price-gouging whatsoever.
I think the ratio of people using functional language that work on "hard" problems should be a lot higher than the mainstream language users.

From my personal experience, before I become a Clojure user, I wouldn't dare to write "hard" software such as compiler, database, and such, all by myself. Now I have done all that, I would credit part of that to the productivity of the language. That's why with such a small community, Clojure ecosystem has produced so many first of its kind innovative systems, e.g. Storm, Datomic, etc.
Thats not a choice. You are forced to wait until more at risk people get it. The question is, when it is available to you, will you take it or wait.

Also your logic relies on false assumptions. You are not likely to get seriously ill from the virus. You are still just fine, get the virus and be infected.
Listening to a Russian theoretical physicist mumble about how trivial various results are over a zoom call really makes my day, put it that way.i
Counter-example: Anker's bluetooth speakers are widely viewed to sound better than those from JBL, Sony & Bose and they have fewer years in the audio industry.

There are a many technologies present in products like this that a company that is purely "focused on producing the best headphones" wouldn't normally concern themselves with such as a DAC, amp, DSP, microphone & wireless protocols. When these components are tightly designed together, Apple can disrupt much in the same way they're doing with their M1 line.
Who in their right mind would trust the opinion of school leaders so far as the value of schools is concerned? Yet we routinely do.
Even taking all this at face value, I think the reason so many of your comments are downvoted is that they're sort of off topic for the original suggestion, which was that the government should not be trusted to handle rollout of the vaccine in a safe or fair manner. That would include giving people in positions of power or with a lot of wealth some loophole to legally be vaccinated ahead of schedule.

What you're talking about is literally a black market. The people you are hanging out with are literally criminals, who are at best injecting themselves with an unknown substance provided by criminal doctors. Most of us probably wish to see such people prosecuted.
Oracle Moves HQ to Austin from California
No vaccine can entirely prevent transmission of an airborne pathogen that replicates in the upper airways - there's not enough blood flow there, so some replication will always happen before the immune system reacts sufficiently, and during that time transmission is possible. However, all available data suggests that the vaccine-initiated immune response would dramatically reduce the transmission probability by both reducing viral load and reducing the time window for successful transmission. This effect has not been measured with this particular vaccine because it can only be measured for a very short period immediately after infection. It's very hard to do this unless you intentionally trigger an infection and that's why we have no data. (This is called a "challenge study" and it's been done with animals but not humans. There's a plan to do one with volunteers in January.)

Lots of anti-vaccine fuckers have latched onto the "it can't prevent transmission" part of this and are using it to discredit vaccines. Lots of people with insufficient information are repeating this statement because they don't know better.
My water heater, dishwasher, washer and dryer are already timed to work during off-peak - what are you waiting for ? (I'll have to check about fridge ice, good idea!)
That paper doesn't show what you're claiming, because it lacked a control group. They explicitly say so:

"The authors observed that neither symptoms nor blood investigations were predictive of organ impairment.

“Causality of the relationship between organ impairment and infection cannot be deduced, but may be addressed by longitudinal follow-up of individuals with organ impairment,” the authors said."

The paper took 201 people who self-reported as long Covid sufferers, and found that 66% of them had something that could be characterized as "organ impairment" when a whole-body MRI scan was conducted. It's not at all clear that this would differ significantly from any random group of people whom you stick in a whole-body MRI scan (let alone a group of people who had recently recovered from any other viral illness). Which is why we don't do them.

Thus far, ~all such "long Covid" research has been anecdotal and/or uncontrolled. The evidence quality is quite poor.
The US has managed to get the population vaccinated previously, and adults will be in charge of the executive again in a month or so. Unfortunately, that’s too late when it comes to ordering enough of the mRNA vaccines, but it will help to have the pandemic taken seriously.
Determination is orthogonal to happiness. Survivor guilt over what may have been done to survive, demonstrates this.
1. I stay in Australia where the prevalence of Covid-19 is really really low however my parents stay in India and if either of us were to visit each other, I'd prefer all of us vaccinated and even then we'll not be socialising with the extended family. Reason being that the vaccines so far have proven to be effective in preventing disease if someone is infected but no proof yet on whether they prevent transmission/infection as well
> You dismissed my concern as "minor inconvenience". I acknowledge that for you its minor but for me its major inconvenience.

I did, because your concern is something that should be dismissed. The hypothetical drunk driver I mentioned earlier almost certainly has similar rationalizations for his irresponsible behavior, too. But no one is swayed by his insistence that not driving drunk would have caused "major inconvenience" to him.

Refusing to wear a mask in this environment is like deciding to drive drunk. Don't be like a drunk driver, be a responsible person.
Or buy multiple to alternate, and just keep a mechanic and a tiny fraction of your prior workforce around for special cases
That would not quite be my point.

SIP is already fairly flexible, in that it allows you to selectively disable only certain protections (see csrutil's man page). The things people complain about being unable to do without disabling SIP—injecting into other processes, modifying system files, etc—are in fact the exact things SIP exists to prevent.

A lot of Mac users I've talked to, including technical ones who IMO should absolutely know better—appear to be under the impression that disabling any part of SIP will perform voodoo magic that makes them an instant hacker target. This just isn't true. Running `csrutil disable && csrutil enable --without debug` allows mac apps with root privledges to inject code into other processes, nothing more and nothing less. To the extent that allowing code injection is a security risk, this is a security risk. If you want to inject code, turn it off and have fun.

iOS apps are the first time to my knowledge that disabling SIP has actually broken something unrelated. (But do let me know if there's a --without-disabling-fairplay option, I don't have an M1 Mac and there's a dearth of information on this.)

As far as having a trusted computing base, well, I think anyone who believes that's actually possible on a mainstream end-user device is fooling themselves. Jailbreaks already exist, as does Corellium. If you're distributing a private app to employees on company computers, set up an MDM profile which prevents messing with SIP, and schedule regular, in-person device check ups to look for signs of user tampering. In any other situation, assume your software is going to be run in an untrusted environment at some point, because it will be.
I will be taking it asap, I'd rather face the risks of taking a tested vaccine than the risks of getting or spreading Covid.
> If those 3% of people are vaccinated, then why does it even matter if anyone else is?

They can't all be. A significant chunk of the people at risk are also immunocompromised, which means the vaccine will be counter indicated and they rely on the disease not reaching them.

In order for the disease not to reach them, you need herd immunity.

Also, do you want to have a normal life again? Take the damn vaccine. We won't get to looser restrictions without achieving herd immunity, and herd immunity needs 60 percent of people, not the 3 percent at risk.

"I'll let others get it and be part of the 40 percent who want to have a normal life ASAP but won't do anything to contribute to that" is the most selfish shit.
Half the geography, maybe. Maybe 12% of the population (at most).
“ Russia approved the vaccine after trying it on several dozen subjects in a non-blind study and ahead of Phase 3 trials, which are key to establish its safety and efficacy, drawing skepticism from the international community and accusations it could have jumped the gun for political gains.”
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/what-explains-...
If vaccines restrict travel, then a lot of young people wanna get vaccinated
This can also paint a target on non TX workers. I have lived through that. HQ of a company I worked for in the past moved to TX and anyone that was not willing to relocate was part of the layoffs. Of course, it didn't start off that way. People were initially told they would be fine where they were. Our California office went from several hundred to six people.
I don't see what they have to lose. Their house and land might be worth more.
I see. No, I was suggesting that the effectiveness of the attack wasn't it's death toll but instead its visibility. Anyways, enough of this topic, thanks for explaining
It used to be that the tech companies where champions of free speech, the ideal. It changed when generation woke entered their workforce. There has been a generational change brought on by changed values in American universities. That's what really is happening.

> We asked whether people believe that citizens should be able to make public statements that are offensive to minority groups, or whether the government should be able to prevent people from saying these things. Four-in-ten Millennials say the government should be able to prevent people publicly making statements that are offensive to minority groups, while 58% said such speech is OK.
Even though a larger share of Millennials favor allowing offensive speech against minorities, the 40% who oppose it is striking given that only around a quarter of Gen Xers (27%) and Boomers (24%) and roughly one-in-ten Silents (12%) say the government should be able to prevent such speech.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/11/20/40-of-mille...
Governance in Rich American Cities
Not trying to be snarky, but just curious: do you know anyone under 45 who has died from it?
> are you suggesting that experience of one set of engineers with mastery of obsolete technologies 40 years ago is somehow a gate that a current company needs to pass through and excel at before they can compete

Yes. Not a gate, but a bar they need to clear. Audio is not easy, and I disagree that most of the skills in question are obsolete. The electronics, sure. But the NC algorithms and driver are old yet still unsolved fields.

Of course, as you say, billions of dollars and poaching those employees will help them do it in less time.

> Tesla is up against companies with literally a century of experience.

And Tesla sucks at stuff that years of experience helps you get right. Like doors that close evenly, and windows seals that don't leak. The simple, little things.
It’s not enough to exist. You actually have to perform at least comparably, which DDG doesn’t unfortunately.
I tend to agree. I think if the case had continued in court, Microsoft would have won this particular argument.

(Of course, they still would have lost on the other claims involving more egregious behavior.)
They got the genome (and I imagine other data) from scientists in China, identified what they believed would be a good target for the immune system and designed the mRNA sequence that would trigger immunity to that target.

https://globalnews.ca/news/7492076/moderna-coronavirus-vacci...
"FOR NINE MONTHS"
I sure can, if they're in the US. We're still in lockdown. My state just announced even stronger precautions which go into effect in about 6 hours.

If you are spreading COVID in the US, whether or not you're symptomatic, it's a conscious choice.
By the time they would let me get it, it'll be the GOTY version with all the release day bugs patched.
The answer is in the article itself. It gives you real historical data so you can predict how long the project will take with evidence, rather than just a feeling, hope, or guess.

> Velocity is an aggregate measure of tasks completed by a team over time, usually taking into account developers’ own estimates of the relative complexity of each task. It answers questions like, “how much work can this team do in the next two weeks?” The baseline answer is “about as much as they did in the last two weeks,”

If there's one thing the last 50 years of software development has conclusively proven, is that estimating the number of man months (hours) a project will take doesn't work.
re: the nature access - to add to what others have said about this ... I suggest you get out and explore Texas state parks. There's a lot of things I don't like about Texas (I don't live there, but spent a few months there a few years ago), but wow, the state park system is just amazing. So many incredible places, and with frequently pleasant winter weather meaning that they are still enjoyable in February.
I'm not setting strawmen, this is my actual experience. Tech is not immune to this kind of conspiracies.
>50hp tractors are probably cheaper and more capable and easier to run by a single operator than a single 250hp diesel monster.

5 50hp tractors are in no way cheaper than one 250. Soooo many more duplicated systems and stuff to maintain and repair. With the fleet of small tractors you have like 4x the number of hours tied up in service.

And before anyone say "hurr durr muh electric" I would advice you to google up some small machine manuals, look at the service intervals and see what you'll be doing the most of. Electric motors don't mean you can throw out your grease gun. The bulk of the hours on heavy equipment maintenance are spend on the business ends of the machine that take the abuse, attachments and drive-train, not engine/trans.
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> “Firing/resigning” which is it, two different events there.

Which of those is the case is hotly debated. The legal concept of “constructive termination” recognizes that detailed inquiry into the history leading up to the end of employment may be necessary to distinguish those two things, and in this case its even debated whether it was firing or resignation in the superficial sense, as well as being debated as to whether it was constructive termination even if superficially resignation.
This is good marketing!
Considering you can generate the import maps from a given npm/yarn lockfile (https://www.npmjs.com/package/@import-maps/generate/v/0.1.0) wouldn't it be possible for Deno to provide a command to do this and get the benefits of both backward npm/yarn compatibility and forward web compatibility with import-maps?
I don't think Tesla and Oracle belong in the same category. Tesla, for all its foibles, is still innovation driven and seems to be an active part of the tech ecosystem. Oracle seems more of the consulting/cubicle farm/enterprise driven company you describe.
At Microsoft they are starting to track your business travel days in other states and are going to WITHHOLD STATE TAXES (!!!) for the days that you spend in those states.

Wonder if all of this is related.
Opposite: the Pfizer vaccine has allergy warnings.
None of these are non-lethal. They're less lethal. They still kill people. They still maim people.

But since many people share your view - that they're non-lethal and thus morally superior - these less lethal means are used frequently, and often inappropriately, when the use of force is not justified.

The parallel is clear: government funded and backed forces equipped with military gear, using military-developed weapons (chemical, sound, light, physical); some of which are restricted by international convention during war.

And there will be no trials to hold people accountable for mis-using these weapons; as pointed out in the article, the government is actively blocking such attempts.
> When you switch from product A to product B only because product B integrates with proprietary protocols or services you rely on and not on the merit or price of the product itself then that's bad, and it's harming consumer welfare and competition.

Slack could have integrated with LibreOffice Online and ownCloud. They chose not to.
Measuring Memory Usage in Rust
The certificate is still containing blast radius when the attacker is in your network and limiting the insider threat from people who have access to some subset of production. Without a cert, they’d be able to access everything. With a cert, they can only access stuff that the identity bound to the certificate can access. It’s doing precisely what I want it to do.

If you find someone malicious in your network, you lock them out of your network. You don’t need to revoke a certificate to do this.

OR, you can do CRL. This isn’t jazz hands, it’s a choice. As you push mTLS harder, and need things like active revocation to satisfy your threat model, it’s worth reconsidering whether mTLS is the right choice. Sometimes it is, sometimes it’s not. Sometimes you don’t have a feasible alternative.
You have a 0.5-1.0% chance to die from COVID-19, a higher chance to be hospitalized and experience serious consequences from that. And the chance to contract the disease is very, very high in many countries right now.

The vaccines have been tested in 30-40,000 people each. The typical serious side effects for vaccines are something like 1 in a million or 1 in a few hundred thousand. Even if the vaccine had an usually high level of side effects, odds are it's still far, far less harmfull than contracting the actual disease.
This project's logo reminds me of Metricon [1], an Australian construction company.

https://metricon.azureedge.net/Metricon/media/metricon/about...
Roseburg, Oregon/Douglas County wouldn't even cough up the money to fund their library system. Some places are not very, uh, forward thinking.
Yeah, EV is still top 3 for me!

As for the Windows release of Nova, I had the honour of packaging that up and releasing it. I still remember exactly where I was when I pressed the button!

People on IRC were going wild! I was so fortunate to be part of it.
I can't predict the future. Correct wording is "would you take the covid vaccine."
Geographically, yes. By population... not even close to half.
The Surgeon General and the NIAID director both told me not to. They've since changed their minds, but I changed mine before they did. I'm kind of surprised they haven't resigned, to underscore the certainty of their new recommendations...
The difference between resigned and fired doesn't seem that meaningful to me. Is there an agreed on definition of the terms?

As I understand it Gebru said something like I need X, Y, and Z or I can work on an end date. Google then "accepted her resignation" or fired her. However you prefer to say it.

I can see that mattering if she needs to collect unemployment or something, but then it seems like a legal discussion which I'm not equipped for. In the vernacular, it seems like she threatened to resign and Google accepted it. Either way, I don't see why a vocabulary dispute is a big deal.

Regarding her unprofessional email, it might be easiest to read it for yourself. https://www.platformer.news/p/the-withering-email-that-got-a...

Finally, regarding Pichai's comments, I've not read them so I don't know what he did or didn't say. You seem to be assuming he should apologize and complaining that he didn't though. I'd start by asking why he should apologize? I'm not really convinced Google did anything wrong here.
I am not American.
Not really - I think you missed the point of the original claim, it wasn't meant to be interpreted literally. In this case, "not enough work" does not translate to "not enough jobs". It translates to tons of useless jobs that employ people to count beans and create powerpoint presentations.

Perhaps the original claim would've been better phrased as "not enough real/useful/impactful work".
You've already hinted at this, but it's not just selfishness - CEOs are much more mobile than companies. Both the CEO and the company as a whole are subject to similar incentives, but companies are big ships and execs' families are comparatively nimble.
The era of the JVM is coming to an end
Looking at AMZN beyond Bezos (who, let's not forget, worked in finance before he founded AMZN): Jassy went to HBS and JAW to Sloan. Since they are both 'CEOs', feel like they need to be taken into account, similar to how it's correct to regard Sandberg as the one who 'runs' FB on a day to day basis.

Thus amongst FAANG its only N which is not 'run' by an MBA. Sarantos, who runs content, is a college dropout. Yes, Hastings does have a MSCS from Stanford- but he was also a liberal arts undergrad (Bowdoin) and a Peace Corps volunteer. Of all of them, he's got the most interesting story to me.

This isn't to say MBA's haven't screwed things up- of course they have. But so have engineers. Apparently the idea of engineers building cool tech with no use case has never occurred to anyone else here.