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> At least in Italy, your work contract always falls within the general rules established with the unions. At the end of the day, you are somehow unionized.

That is true in many countries - though there are some (US being one) where non-union employees are ostracized or pushed away from being employed, especially as the law allows exclusive union representation in about half of the states [0]. The unions have been known to argue for union members and sacrificing non-members as part of exclusive bargaining with the company.

> I know the issue has 1000 shades of color, but if somehow, someway, in a sunny day, with all the possible luck in the world, someone sides with you in a dispute (and is not a lawyer you are paying), that will be unions.

That's not being impartial - that is being on your side. Yes, there are conditions in which unions may be on your side (in which case: great, but still bring a lawyer) - but the claim in grandparent post is that they may be impartial, whereas they very rarely are.

[0] https://www.nrtw.org/your-right-to-work-rights-in-three-minu...
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Teams is a menace, just like IE 6.0 was. Apart from being essentially a spyware it is also chewing resources like an old locomotive, at least on Linux. It's interesting that they put so much focus on tracking, but actual usability is in dire straits.
They even dared to push this crap in my Windows machine without my consent.
I think the problem is that such tracking of employees is largely unregulated, so greedy execs are milking the situation while they can to stroke their egos and count those beans. Unfortunately it seems like the unions or even workers themselves are not so concerned about this.
When I told my colleagues about it, they said "so what, we are tracked everywhere anyway".
See also ZDNet article about this:

If you lost Bitcoin in Mt. Gox scandal, there is now a chance of some recovery

https://www.zdnet.com/article/if-you-lost-bitcoin-in-mt-gox-...
I remember a Swedish children's book from the 70s with a theme that imaginary friends are a normal childhood thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfie_and_His_Secret_Friend

Never heard of anyone actually having an imaginary friend, I thought it was some kind of narrative trope, similar to how daydreams might be represented as vivid realistic hallucinations in a movie.
What are the other requirements for it to count as "harassment"?
Mr. Navorski?
In my modest experience the perfect Julia slogan would be:

"fast as C, easy as python, but NEVER the two together"

All the sentences:

"When you’re writing various algorithms, you don’t necessarily want to think about whether you’re on a GPU, or whether you’re on a distributed computer. You don’t necessarily want to think about how you’ve implemented the specific data structure. What you want to do is talk about what you want to compute."

sound nice.

Except in practice, unless someone else bothered doing that for you, you have to do it yourself.
I tested my well-optimised R code and saw only 3x to 10x performance gain. That's still not substantial enough currently to migrate a whole code base, in particular given that the libraries are also still not mature enough. The research group I'm working with also have no interest in adopting anything new, In fact most of our code is still in FORTRAN so that is something I would be more interested in migrating to Julia but I don't think that is happening anytime in the next 10 years
In my tests I frequently switch between cpython, pypy and julia (depending on the libraries/task I want to perform) and I haven't found the JIT overhead to be worse than pypy on average.

Count me as one of the 1-based index haters, but I do love multiple dispatch and the language in general. As a language for explorative tools and analysis is on par of python (strict preference between the two according to taste).

To me the biggest flaw currently is the poor "catch" syntax for exception handling. There are countless spots where exceptions are incorrectly caught at random points due to the catch-all semantics hiding/masking/breaking stuff. This is one area where I really find the syntax has been chosen poorly and it's causing real damage.
Yeah, the idea is pretty cool, but expecting people to sign up for Facebook for it kinda kills it.
> Tl;dr: dynamic linking results in calling code you didn't mean to.

Way to show you didn't read the linked article. Because in it he even mentions he used static linking.

So that alone won't always save you.
I have only encountered BitLocker on military computers. There BitLocker login occurs before Windows boots, like at the BIOS key entry, and has no options for forgot password.
Doesn't launching from a plane rather than a launch pad indicate you need less infrastructure (a launch pad), fuel differences etc. I can imagine this is a good way to quickly get a satellite in the air from any location and into a preferred orbit. Although this means you need the rocket and satellite already made and stored.
There is none of my private stuff on a company machine. If I need to do private stuff, i use my phone or bring my laptop. If I use them in the company WiFi, I use a VPN, to bypass the mandatory proxy.

When I do private stuff (happens sometimes), I only do it in private browser windows. And only if the HTTPS session is not cracked by the company proxy (I check the certificate chain).
> Interestingly, both French ministers (economy and digital) severely condemned the "unilateral" and "oligarchic" decision to de-platform Tump and conservatives. Pointing the lack of "judiciary or democratic supervision".

They are afraid that eventually, Twitter or Facebook is going to remove their conservative speech, if it rubs Twitter or Facebook employees the wrong way, and they'd be right. That's exactly what is going to happen.

But I'd argue, why are they still flocking to thus promoting these platforms at first place? Promote open techs, open protocols so that anybody with any client can subscribe to their messages without being forced to go on Twitter and co... it exists, it's called RSS, ActivePub... the tools of freedom are here and they don't take much effort at all.

edit: I feel like people are missing my point or maybe I didn't expressed it very well. Twitter and Facebook should be entitled to ban whomever they want on their platform, that's not the point. The point is governments and politicians should start promoting open protocols and technologies for communication instead of voting law for fear of getting their 'conservative' speech banned by these platforms they decided to speak on, often exclusively. That's all I'm saying.
I hope you are wrong that his ethnicity has anything to do with his treatment. Not least because Singh is a traditionally Sikh name making the implication doubly stupid.
I agree that it is the standard, but I wish it wasn't. USB-C is preferable in every way.

When the iMac came out, everyone thought it was crazy not to have a serial port on the outside, since that was the standard for mouse and keyboard. But pretty soon, everything was available for USB. In fact, you might not have all those USB-A peripherals if Apple hadn't cut the cord, so to speak.

So I don't mind the loss of USB-A as much because USB-C is a strict upgrade. But for the SD card reader and the HDMI those are sort of separate and common use cases.
A lot of people like the back-end admin panel of WordPress and its WYSIWYG feature, so a bunch of other people have created a lot of themes/mods/plugins around WP because of that.

If you run a small website it's all fine, otherwise you have to deal with performance issues and WP limitations because you've decided to build a social network on top of a blogging engine.
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It's still on the spectrum. Loneliness shouldn't be treated by detachment and doing so can only lead to a lack of interest in social relationships, a solitary lifestyle and an exclusively internal fantasy world.

You can call it what you want but it's definitely Cluster A.
> Also now really isn't the right time to promote the Fediverse's uncensored prowess, everyone's looking for the next Parler

Given the precedent set by Google, Apple and AWS all synchronously booting a single company and platform out of existence, I can't think of a single better time to promote open platforms you are free to own yourself.
There's a near-future hard science fiction manga and anime series Planetes, about these cleaning workers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetes
A couple of reasons.

1. Your nationals can be expected to follow your laws.

2. You can use this as a stepping stone to asking other countries to normalize their laws to be similar to yours, or for a treaty negotiation, or for a UN decision.

The principle of this law isn't a bad one, and it should be extended to other early artifacts of lunar exploration.
Dover (YC S19) is hiring a growth engineer to modernize recruiting
I have noticed that it seems like more windows users at work are also using thunderbolt for displays on small and light laptops
Tencent-backed Hike, once India’s answer to WhatsApp, has given up on messaging
Just about every vegan or entertainment channel complains about demonetized video(s) at some point.
Probably not a HN tier comment, but there's a great anime about space debris cleanup.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ-OyT4ivkM
You are not that keen to figure it out, the information has been readily available for a couple of months, and it was headline news for a week when the info for each approved vaccine was released.
Unlikely for several reasons. The volume of space is enormous, many shards aren't ferrous, and a magnetic field that intense would damage things on the ground.
This is exactly the kind of initiative I've been looking for and thought about lately! Thanks so much!

I especially like the idea of rating products by their monthly/daily cost.

I imagine this growing in a direction where the manufacturers and producers have added initiative to produce durable products again.

Of course for real change to occur governments, regulation, large scale action would have to happen.

One vector which would be interesting to see this with is bigger and maybe even less consumer centric products. How durable is a delivery van? How durable and cost effective is a factory machine?
> Running untested combos of libraries gives me some anxiety.

It should, especially with multi-threaded code.

(Half of MySQL AB's support calls at one time were user-built binaries. Building things yourself skips the vendor's QA process. For new grads, it used to be a thing of pride to build your own database, web and mail servers on linux, and nobody valued QA at the time.)
IBM wants to be your multicloud integrator and can win
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> The Hollywood blacklist were, by and large, a group of people who were “deplatformed” for being enthusiastic supporters of Joseph Stalin.

I think it’s more accurate to say that there were people enthusiastic about communism, rather than Stalin. Your statement is akin to stating that all republicans are enthusiastic about Trump. The Lincoln Project would suggest otherwise.
on the other hand you move a lot faster than one usually does on earths surface
From what you can read on the Internet, yes it appears to really be a thing. Read up on Kessler Syndrome to understand a bit more on the subject.

The problem is not just about satellites, but random debris flying unpredictably on orbit. When there starts to be a critical number, the odds to hit something start to raise in the "very possible" territory.

The Wikipedia page for Kessler Syndrome even state that, currently, one satellite is destroyed every year by junk. That's only going to increase if nothing is done.
curious of the price of de-orbiting an m6 screw (say m = 4g, v = 8000m/s) given it has the same kinetic energy as a small car (m = 1000kg v = 16m/s).
EU forced social network to remove problematic content in less then 24 hours.

They're in no way against censoring speech. They just want courts and governments to hold the monopoly over censoring speech.
You could buy a small desktop mixer with two sends, so you could connect a microphone to it and choose which computer it will send voice to and also mix sound from both computers.
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Blockchain to big data and IoT: tech is trying to speed up vaccine supply chains
> Personally, the whole thing feels oppressive to me.

To me, too. It reads like "In order to be considered for a gift, explain how you suck and can't provide, and how good you are at feeling generalized gratitude and appreciation. All of you will be judged, the least capable and most thankful will be chosen."
> In the long term, this accumulation of junk may lead to a chain reaction, known as Kessler syndrome, that would make some low-Earth orbits unusable.

I read about it, and it seems a little counter-intuitive for me. I would expect that in a collision in space, some of the kinetic energy would be used in internal structural changes, and not all converted to the resulting motion.

Am I wrong here? If not, does it still preserve enough kinetic energy after collision to promote this chain reaction? And how long until lower space ring is actually unusable?
And oddly enough, the last one to leave.
One thing that has allowed 4G to expand radily is the fact that those Qualcomm patents are under a FRAND agreement in exchange for them being including in the 4G standard.

FRAND is not with out its own problems, but it is alot better than the situation with eINK or 3-d Printers where there is not FRAND agreement
That’s why, back in the day, some people carefully placed often-accessed data in the middle of the disk.

I think that’s a long lost art, but it still might be done on mainframes (on the really old ones, files were mostly pre-allocated, with individual items stored in a partitioned data set (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_set_(IBM_mainframe)#Parti...), so you could have some control where individual ‘files’ in a ‘directory’ got stored. Nowadays, you would have to partition a disk to do that)

I don’t think it has been cost effective to even think of this kind of black magic for decades, though.
Julia has the focus on scientific and numerical computing, and is overtaking the python/numpy combo in that niche. In addition to being considerably faster than python, it also has quite some innovative libraries in the area. This can also extend into machine learning, where python has been the go to language, despite its limitations.

For other areas, like web programming, there is no sign of Julia replacing Python in the forseable future.
>only 3x to 10x performance gain

That sounds like a lot.

I can see why maturity might be an issue, but after the word only I'd expect something like 5-10%, not integer multiples.
They often reason backwards. They want to order bail, but danger-to-community is a required condition for bail (as pointed out in another comment), so they proclaim that he is indeed a danger.
The judge was a woman and defendant a man - men always get tougher punishments and are incarnated at higher alarmingly higher levels. This is the way society is.
I think I read a blog a few years ago about someone replacing the display in their laptop with an e-ink monitor but I'm having trouble tracking down the link. This might be of interest however...

https://dasung-tech.myshopify.com/
A Muslim travel ban comes to mind:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13769
It's just never going to be difficult to get funding when you have Elon Musk and Sam Altman as founders (and even more so when founders put one billion of their own money into it).
Teams has a feature of sending questions anonymously. I have always been wondering whether the admin or the OP can see who sent questions.
I would call that a huge performance gain! Perhaps Julia can be chosen for new projects; it is rarely worth rewriting old ones.
I guess whether it's effective to migrate a code base depends a lot on where your costs are.

If you pay 500k$ for compute, it might become worthwhile to invest time into rewriting hot paths.
I wish people start realising that locking a animal inside a flat is the same as imprison a Dolphin/Elefant/etc... I really don't understand the dual criteria. And how much garbage/waste they "do" and cities has to deal with it. Buy a bicycle! go buy bread/coffee across town. Healthy
Cheaper and Cleaner. Or play pokemon!
I’m in the UK. The fines go to the Treasury, so the central purse.

If fines were distributed to the public and the ICO collected zero income, I believe the political will do finance it would disappear. I was not suggesting officers themselves would change priorities based on individual pay outs, sorry for the confusion.
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If my 1000 was in a runnable condition, I'd be seriously interested in this.
Glad to see this at the top.

This is a very cynical take that applies wildly general negative sentiment and statements to a huge group of people. It's not just about workplace dynamics. I couldn't keep reading after the ~5th paragraph where the (not so subtle) point is: how can _these people_ live with themselves?

I'll copy the relevant paragraph below:

> Expert gaslighters, they are. What really makes me wonder is how the people keep doing these jobs. Many of them are in the very classes that get abused by other people regularly. How can you honestly keep doing that job when you are just enabling the abusers?

Sorry, but this is insane. You're generalizing millions of people here. Imagine this type of statement made towards a cultural subgroup rather than a profession. What would we call it?

edit: removed quotes in the first paragraph to reduce confusion around attribution, as per post below. I don't have time to reply in-depth right now but I appreciate the rebuttal and I'll give it a shot later.
But there is a correlation wrt race and religion, so how do you distinguish?

Most neo-Nazis and white supremist are white, isn't any action targeting those groups also racist? of course not; but what's the difference between that argument and the so-called "muslim ban"?
Check this site out, it's a catalogue of known stuff in space http://stuffin.space/

The ISS has regular enough operations required to dodge debris detected approaching for a near miss in space that I think it's definitely a concern for future operations.

Consider as well that stuff in orbit is going ~25,000km/h or more and at that speed even a small bolt would decimate a spacecraft on impact.
I don’t use my MacBook Air M1 for development, but I believing positive reinforcement so I need to add to all praise here, who knows someone from Apple sees it.

This machine is so super nice. The keyboard is awesome, the dedicated emoji button is useful. But the cherry on top is insane performance and insane battery life.

To me, this machine is to other laptops as the iPhone was to all smartphone before it.
> So, we are talking about the area you are in after a flight, yes? Remind me, BBC, why is that a "secure" area?

Firstly, if passengers with connecting flights can get off one flight and onto another without going through security again, then the arrivals area must be connected to the departures area, and hence as secure as the departures area.

Indeed, if I wanted to sleep in an airport I'd go to the connections/departures area - as someone sleeping while awaiting a connection wouldn't seem out of the ordinary. Whereas sleeping in arrivals would be unusual, as an arriving passenger would go to their hotel or house and sleep there instead.

Secondly, if international arrivals have not yet passed through customs/immigration, the area should be secure enough that they have to do so. Although in the case of O'Hare, I believe international arrivals have a separate terminal, and this passenger was on a domestic flight.
I think this is an excellent idea. This does need to take amounts owned/used/sold into account, since some products sell in larger amounts and must thus have more reports of being broken.

I often hear mechanics say "car X is terrible! we get those all the time!" and yeah, car X is the most sold car some years ago, duh.
> and is overtaking the python/numpy combo in that niche

No, it's isn't. Julia is growing but it's far from overtaking Python at this point.

> For other areas, like web programming, there is no sign of Julia replacing Python in the forseable future.

That's where Go comes in.
> it’s important to break your fast with a nutritious, balanced meal that will further enhance the all-around cell and tissue health-boosting exercise you just undertook

Could you give some examples? What's safe to eat?
Other than the false equivalency of your argument, you would also have to prove the technology would not have been completed with out the patent, I think that is a hard conclusion to draw given the amount of other progress we have made with out such consideration (i.e see FOSS )

Once you have proven the need for an exclusivity grant, You also need to prove that 5, 10, 15 years of exclusivity via a patent would be unable provide enough incentive, that it had to be 20 years to strike the proper balance

In today's fast moving society, I think 5 years would provide more than enough incentive even for expensive technology that requires lots of capital investment though I would favor a shorter exclusivity grant, and then may be longer required licensing grant. like 2-3 years of exclusive use, and then 10 years of licensing but the patent holder is required to treat all uses of the patent in the same manner with fair and non-discriminatory pricing.
It doesn't seem from the article like the man was in need of a job but rather some encouragement about that the fears are overblown, maybe even some mental health check, who knows.
Think about what they would like to hear. And then pick something from that, that you agree with and could identify with.

If they don't tell you what's important for them, ask them during the interview.
> This seems unnecessarily hostile. Certbot is a complex beast that generates TLS configurations, has multiple plugins that likely require specific system configuration, and is I think charitably more than "a glorified Python script".

I didn't meant it as a knock on certbot, which I use and cherish. It's just not something that I would install and entire parallel package management system over, lest of all some ugly thing like snap.
The simple rule is: don't do it. Of course, it depends on the size of the company, the bigger the better not to break the illusion that you are a drone among many. Anything that you put on a corp machine will be used against you in or out of a court. Also, your personal stuff might compromise the corp security and you will be the scapegoat if it happens. So, unless you must, don't do it.
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There's a fair chance my 1999 ford mondeo v6 will still guzzle gas when the 2020 Teslas need their batteries replaced.

I _DO_ want an electric car, but I want it with a built in nuclear energy source that'll last at least 500k km before needing replacement.
When you have 2300 ETFs in the US and 7000 globally, narrow indices are important ways to tailor your exposure as the broad index stuff probably has ten different vehicles to invest in..
I think this is a fair assessment, and would like to add that the "time to first plot" is also quite the usability issue.

Julia is using LLVM for code-gen has to compile a lot of code before you can actually use stuff like plots.

It takes ages to get a Pluto Notebook up and running, while a jupyter notebook is available instantly.
Hard to answer that question any better than we can for alcoholism, workaholics and perpetual cheaters.
At this point I can't understand people for whom the answer isn't hopefully never.

People never had better tools to promote their views in human history so it's odd to me to worry about that more than clearly damaging effects of that unrestricted freedom.