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> Managers almost always take internal transfers over external hires, since they have a good idea of your performance, plenty of references, and knowledge that you'll require much less ramp up time

One of my biggest mistakes as a newly promoted manager at Google was to take an internal transfer without asking enough questions as to why that person was transferring. It turns out that sometimes an internal transfer is happening because their current manager is desperate to get rid of that employee, and it's much, much easier to do so via an internal transfer rather than going through a separation.

It turned out that the employee who transferred to my team, while technically competent in most ways, was extremely frustrating to work with because of the degree to which they refused to accept feedback and change their behaviors. While they acted very pleasant and always used the "right" words in communications, if you tried to give them any feedback on their code, they would litigate every single last detail of the feedback and simply would never accept something like, "All of your peers think this change makes the codebase harder to read and maintain for reasons [X] and [Y]. If you did things this other way instead, see how that's more elegant?"

Their response was habitually, "Well it adheres to the letter of the style guide, and there are no specific rules supporting your requests, so I won't change anything you're asking me to change because I don't think that's reasonable."

Repeat that for literally every single comment in every single code review, and you can see how nobody would want to work with this person.

After several months of seeing first-hand what the problematic behaviors were and their pernicious impact on team morale, I was finally able to "read between the lines" in that employee's previous peer feedback, since none of their previous peers felt comfortable being direct and forthcoming in the written perf feedback about how working with that employee made them feel. All of the feedback simply focused on the technical quality of that person's work, which appeared fine for someone in that role and level.

Eventually after enough damage was being done, my own management asked him to transfer to a more experienced manager elsewhere in the org who then helped "manage out" the employee after their behaviors yet again caused rifts in that new team.

Lesson learned. I will never again just look at the role, level, and historical performance scores of an internal transfer candidate and "trust the system," but I'll instead really dig as deep as I can and try to arrange for some trial tasks with the team before accepting a formal transfer.

For the record, just looking purely at the statistics of my team over several years, the new external hires ended up being less of a risk than the internal transfers.
Just to add another perspective, as an American living in Germany, I often find that the German criticism of American optimism/interpersonal warmth is extremely paranoid. I have heard so many Germans describe American "niceness" as "fake", but I don't think the American approach is rooted in dishonesty as it's sometimes assumed by outsiders. For instance, Germans will be shocked if they go to the US, and a stranger starts a conversation with them waiting in line at the convenience store with a lot of warmth and curiosity. As I understand, to them this reads as the approach of someone who wants to con them or trick them, putting on the guise of un-earned closeness. But Americans in my experience just give interpersonal warmth a bit more freely, and are more willing to have friendlier interactions with someone they don't know, with no expectation that the relationship will last longer than the time both of you are standing in line, while that type of warmth and friendliness will be reserved for close friends and family in other cultures. As someone who grew up in American culture, it's not "fake" or forced when I smile to a stranger, or congratulate them on the new grandchild they just told me about in our first meeting. It's just part of the culture, and it's something which I enjoy to give and receive in these random, short interactions throughout the week.

And when it comes to work criticism, I agree that there is some value in what would be considered "blunt feedback" by American standards, and that Americans are sometimes too hesitant to give it. At the same time, I think this also comes from a different cultural approach which is also valid. Americans have deeply rooted ideals for independence and self determination, and a general sense of optimism. I think the default position when someone is showing you a piece of work is often to assume that they have it under control, and that it would be presumptuous to tear down a piece of work someone else owns and that you are seeing for the first time. By focusing on praising the best elements of the work, you are giving your colleague feedback on what they should focus and expand on, and you are leaving it up to them to discover the flaws in their work and resolve them in their own way. So you would reserve direct criticism for times when you think there is a critical misunderstanding in the basic direction of the work which will prevent the correct result from being reached.

And you can cliticise the American approach all you want, and I will be the first to admit that it does lead to a lot of problems and blind-spots. But as someone who has worked in the US and in Germany, my experience is that American companies move and innovate a lot quicker than German ones by focusing on potential rather than flaws, and that trend seems to have been borne out if you look at the major innovations which have come out of each country in the last 30 years.
> removes the Great Wall Of Greed

How about the Great Wall of Paying Journalists?
Yeah, but you'd have to be a fool to go.

Google has proven over and over again that they don't value customer support or long term maintenance. They will get bored and sunset services you depend on, or switch off your entire business because some employee sent suspicious email on his gmail.
A key point if the article is that consumer sentiment is shifting, Google knows it, and isn’t happy about that.
The 2021 iMac is a great family computer
It does: https://www.unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#bom4

Well require is a bit excessive, but it certainly allows and recommends one.

Utf8 does not need one because the code units are bytes, so bytes order is not a concern.

Exchanging utf32 is pretty rare though, and as long as you don’t move anything between machines bytes order is not an issue.
Health care data is the only thing with regulations in the US. Everything else is fair game. That is how Google rakes in the billions. They aren't going to leave money on the table to satisfy an ethical code.
There is education and "education". I think the general understanding what it means to be educated (in this context) is that the people have been exposed different philosophical worldviews, from the left to right, and they can choose from these.

In this sense, middle-class is often uneducated, despite receiving education. For example, neoclassical economics was (and still is) often taught in economic schools at the expense of economic history and political economy, which are more colorful. How many basic economic textbooks talk about Cambridge Capital Controversy before using word "capital"?

> For a contemporary example, just look at MMT and the mother of all bubbles forming right now. A simple man might say if you print more money, money will be worth less. He would be at a high level quite right.

A simple man might think that MMT is the cause, but it is rather an explanation of these bubbles. In MMT, money are endogenous, and the bubble originates outside of the government control. The people who applied QE knew very well, that the neoclassical monetarist theory is no use, because they came from praxis (central banks). They were educated in the practice, not in theory, and it told them that theory is useless (and dangerous). Of course they could have used helicopter money than QE to banks with the same or even greater effect (as Steve Keen recommended), but it wasn't quite in their self-interest.

So the problem with "simple man" is that he assumes there are only two sides in the argument. The crisis of 2008 itself shows there are not - there was neoclassical monetarists and people believing in them, despite this being empirically wrong; then there was central bankers (and other politicians at the revolving door), who knew better, wanted to save the economy, but didn't care about the common man; and finally, there was a common man, who got into debt, because he was told so, and now was confused why banks are being saved and not him. So he opened economic textbook, found about Friedman and Hayek, and was like, ha, I knew you're doing something nefarious!
Amusingly, I've shared my location permanently with a couple close friends on Google Maps, and Google will not shut up about it, reminding me every month about it.

I get aggressive monthly warnings "Are you SURE you want to share your location with XX,YY,ZZ?". I wish there was a toggle where I could say "yes, I absolutely positively am OK with the privacy implications here, because I don't care very much; please forever stop bothering me."
I am also really surprised that you are being downvoted for this. This is not a cultural thing at all and assuming it away is terrible.
To take one example the uk gov reports testing around 1
million a day for an extended period with only 2-3k positive and there is no strong correlation between testing rates and cases. That indicates a very low false positive rate - a significant false positive rate would give a higher baseline and a stronger correlation.
Heading over to the West Coast later this year myself. I've lived there before and love the sunshine, the pace of life and the big open spaces (compared to here in the UK).

I won't earn as much as I would if I stayed a London(ish) Fintech(ish) contractor here, but the quality of life is so much better, IMHO.
Sorry for your loss OP.

No solutions but more questions for the community :

What about professional help ?

Drugs / medications ?

Emotional transference : Pets, SO ?

Rationalization vs letting emotions flow ?

Radical changes / responses ? Ultra normal behavior ?

Job searching ?

Vacations ? Binge working ?

Going through the motions ?

Letting time work ?

Emotional art pieces consumption / creation ?

Fight vs freeze vs flight ?

Reflections on our own mortality ?

Acceptance ?

Having a protocol /support system in place in advance ?
Wow I did not know that. What a blunder. I guess I'll have to reconsider my subscription as well then.
It is not just a case of "back then". The Daily Mail spreads misinformation and hate propaganda right now. It is by any definition a low-quality source.
Which specific factual aspect of this story do you believe contradicts those claims? I'm a Xoogler, not a Googler, but in my post-Google experience I haven't seen anything that was even in the same league as Google's privacy controls. In my personal privacy threat model I think Google scores 10/10. They protect my data against external attackers, which in my view is the main problem faced by personal data, and their protections against insider risk are also excellent. Other places where I've worked, that you've definitely heard of, have security and insider risk practices that are a complete f-ing joke. There's nobody at Google who is "the DBA" who can just covertly access your data, there's no ad-hoc logs access (every logs access flows through a proxy that ensures only limited access for pre-defined purposes), and there are software controls that trigger privacy incident response (by a 24x7 user privacy incident response team) whenever an insider attempts to access user data in excess of their authority. In protocol buffer definitions, every field has an annotation for whether it contains private, sensitive, or non-private information so that even in crash dumps and debug logs those fields are censored before being printed. I really think Google has a pretty strong privacy story, compared to virtually every other company (except Apple and Microsoft) who leave themselves highly exposed to both outside and insider attacks, software (and even hardware) supply-chain attacks, accidental leaks, leaks into debug systems, poor encryption practices, and generally wanton behavior.
The big question is whether this can be read as "Vaccinated with Sinovac or CoviVac (i.e. a vaccine based on the whole but inactivated virus, as opposed to mRNA or a vector)? You’ll probably make antibodies for a lifetime".
Well, if something like this doesn't get caught down the production line, they might have bigger issues regarding security.

But I agree with you, I think I should give them a chance to respond to this. Personally, I think this is a serious issue.

I opened up a GitHub issue for their frontend (as they do not have any security disclosure contact possibility as it seems): https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClient/issues/242
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you!
There is also this excellent and difficult-to-watch movie about a Canadian First Nations boy who is forcibly separated from his family and raised in one of the Catholic orphanages. He has an extraordinary talent for playing hockey--this is a Canadian film after all--but that talent is squandered from all the abuse he is subjected to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Horse_(film)
> Jupyter exists mostly because analytics/math guys are too lazy to spend a day learning software development practices

Bahahahaha, yup those dang lazy mathematicians just shooting themselves in the foot and forcing us to deal with it! /s

Your preferences for software development are irrelevant. The value is in delivering the math to the end user. Using GCP, kubernetes or JavaScript to do that is an implementation detail. Sorry to tell you this, but you're a servant to those dang lazy analysts and without their insights, you're worthless.
I've never been a fan of 'loud pipes save lives'. Its your riding skill that is going to save your life, your ability to anticipate the actions of others.
One large source of byte order marks in utf8 is Windows. In MS DOS and later windows, 8 bit encoded files are assumed to be in the system code page, which to enable all the worlds writing systems varies from country to country. When utf8 came along, Microsoft tools disambiguated those from the local code page by prefixing them with a byte order mark. They also do this in (for instance) the .net framework Xml libraries(by default). I don’t know what .net core does. I suppose it made sense at the time but I’m sure they regret this by now.
"Who’s it for

Well, idiots who don’t want to think about how to set up a PC, for one."

wtf?
AI supercomputers report their performance in mixed-precision (bfloat16 or another format) FLOPs, and it's based on the peak performance of the machine, rather than realistic performance (like LINPACK). It's a terrible marketing approach that juices numbers in ways that are irrelevant to the existing supercomputer community.

The trend is more to call these things 'superpods' than 'supercomputers'.
Parsing Signals on Remote Work from CEOs
The foundation of PageRank is counting incoming links to a website. Linking from your website to another website is largely a human decision and PageRank aggregates all these decisions across the Web.

You can either optimize a search engine for a specific vertical or you can try to build features that generalize across the Web no matter the existing verticals or future ones.

While Google is certainly looking at the problem as an algorithmic one, it very much relies on human input to decide what is important and relevant.
google cloud does not have high performance networking. You want azure or maybe AWS if you wnt high performance networking.
Considering all the dark patterns they've implemented to force location tracking there's no way management doesn't know about what the settings are meant to accomplish.
So, this lights are maintained even if the stations are abandoned?
Except SV investors actively avoid competition with the monopolies. They will try and disrupt for sure, but there’s a dead zone around monopolies.
Yeah, I absolutely agree with that. I personally moved my family to Bitwarden and am very happy so far.
No, because the government doesn't allow them.
Makes me wonder if they will try nefarious things like uploading the hash of passwords they don't have to try and get people to change them.
I am familiar with, as one could be, of what might be called the "White Stolen Generation", an identity I resist in my personal circles, because I was placed there, whereas the original owners children truly were stolen - and I therefore have more respect for their anguish than any other mob in Australia.

The trade of children in the Empire is a story that is not yet fully told.

I learned, very early and with still distinct memories, that the Australian founders and social engineers of the 20th century had their own plans for construction of the new social order.

Children from all over the world, in the Commonwealth and under the guise of our sovereign, were taken under distinctly sinister pretext and placed into white homes, all over Australia. White children, mostly, from seriously impoverished regions of the empire. Promised a vacation, ended there for life.

It was not so innocent. In many cases, the stories are too hard to tell.

Another thing the catholic priests taught me, is that a society is as weak as its secrets. That one has actually served me well, in life, in general.
java -XX:+PrintCompilation prints all methods/loops generated to native code

The reflection API has two issues, a security check each time you call a method and the arguments being transformed to objects.
The code is still generated to assembly code but the assembly code is slower because of that overhead.
Just imagine lock downs augmented with geo fenced official national wallets with cash no longer accepted anywhere.
Two separate things: preventing fake account sign ups vs. preventing legit signup typos

In practice, you build your UI for the latter. You add captchas or other friction for the former.
I recently had to move because of the noise caused by people like you.
The batteries (I assume) caught my eye too, mainly because they seem exposed in the event of a crash.

If the two thick yellow cables going to the rear axle are any indication, the motor is tiny and in the axle - so, not much to see there. :)
Seems to be a great way to justify higher budgets for the Air Force. But most of the news is quite blurry and murky.
That's the biggest annoyance in my eyes.
As a motorcyclist, i think its ok for the engine to make some noise (not counting the obnoxious cruisers or bike with some aftermarket exhausts), but there is truly no reason to rev up hard while sitting in traffic or in a slow central streets.
This is the only realistic way forward for attempting to do autonomous cars. Humans use visual range light to make their decisions on where to drive. If automated vehicles use anything else their decisions will be based off different information and likely lead to different outcomes.

This is especially highlighted in the parts of the USA that have a real winter with permanent snowcover. In these areas of the country sometimes the road surface is not visible for months at a time and the lanes that are formed have little to do with existing road markers. Instead humans sort of flock and form new emergent lanes and behaviors. And all the other humans (mostly) follow this visually in a low constrast (white snow) environment. Any system that uses absolute positioning or non-visual cues will not be able to follow the emergent lanes and cause danger.
Yeah, that fable isn’t the greatest. The dog could run away but it benefits from the arrangement and in many countries dogs don’t even have collars - yet they still return home.

The wolf like an entrepreneur is still a slave to survival just with higher stakes. You may think that you don’t have a boss, but you still have clients/customers in the end. Freedom (Financial independence) is gained once you can collect rents, investment income, or delegate responsibilities - but someone else is now your ‘slave’ in those cases.

The company man in the tropical paradise was a strange example. The company gives him a better life than he would have otherwise had and let’s him live like a king - so he supports the company. Is there any treatment of employees possible that Taleb would think is a fair shake? Perhaps because the title is “skin in the game” he thinks they must make their income through company stock?
I've internalised the adage "Don’t listen to what people/corporations say, watch what they do" and found it very useful to see through these fancy statements.

It's especially useful at workplace to observe what people do and understand the politics. And at a different level observing how Google was acting more evil by the day made me completely switch over to the Apple ecosystem.
In my case I need to build a network to find jobs as it is more niche and I refuse to work for fin-tech or ad sellers (for now, this may clearly change if I need money).
My father passed away in early 2020 from heart disease. He had a heart attack in the early 2000s and the assumption is that he had lingering complications that went unnoticed. If you're a heart patient, you're a heart patient for life. Even if you think you're in the clear, it can still come back.

Everyone deals with grief differently, and there is no right or wrong way grieve. Don't feel like you have to grieve in a certain way, no two people are the same and no two people have the exact same relationship with each other.

I'm generally the quiet type in this type of situation, I need time to myself, to process my grief and the endless stream of thoughts that pop up. Sometimes the grief just hits me again, out of nowhere. Others need to express their grief more openly and share it with others. Again, there is no right or wrong way, it depends on how you need to express your grief, to process your loss.

And don't feel guilty for starting to not feel grief all the time, that's perfectly normal and OK. It does fade over time, even if it never goes away completely.

In regards to my dad, I know he got an additional almost two decades worth of life. He started cooking more, started playing the drums again, had energy for hobbies and DIY/home improvement again, it was like a new lease on life. That keeps me thinking a bit more positively, for those times where I really miss him.

Take care, and remember your family, they're all dealing with this in different ways, some harder than others.
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it is generally true that proteins won't have many charged amino acids (of the same charge) clustered in an area (it's not uncommon to have clusters of oppositely charged amino acids). But none of this could be used as 'fingerprint proof'.
Motorcycles are lethal _because_ of cars.

Blaming people for injuries are deaths caused by cars is the most discusting tactic the car industry has used to fight against road safety. Just look at any newspaper article about car drivers murdering children: they are always phrased as in "inattentive child was looking at his cellphone and died in a road".

I find it incredible that walking on a street is illegal in parts of America. Honestly, the only reasonable solution to this is a Netherlands-style law that makes the biggest vehicle automatically guilty for all accidents they caused: this alone being deaths down tenfold.
I did both, but the rules have changed since then. When I did the CA DMV motorcycle test it was super easy. Ride straight between two white lines, then around a full circle between the lines, then back between another set of lines - all you have to do is stay in the lines. Took all of about 1 minute. The trick was to use a small motorcycle, you need a 250cc or above for M1 so I borrowed a 250. Piece of cake.
What happens if you move and simply ignore US taxes?