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How is the advice worse?

The advice is acknowledging the reality that employees can always leave whether for other job opportunities or family reasons or just because. As a business owner, you need to plan for that reality. Having the expectation that your employees will never leave you for other things is unrealistic and unhealthy.

The employer makes it clear that the employee does a great job. The only complaint the business owner seems to have is that the employee isn't in a desperate financial situation and thus has control over her life decisions.
Running the same C code through different compilers is totally doable though.
The value is in their user base and driver portfolio. If they're worth anything, it's the contracts they have with drivers and cities to host an automated taxi dispatching service via mobile phones.
Depends on the suburb. Some suburban towns are like Springfield from The Simpsons, or that town in Bob's Burgers, and kids can walk around them. But in other places, "the suburbs" means gated communities off sidewalk-free arterial roads, with nothing but big-box stores around, and the onramps to even-larger highways.
Exactly. Maybe she enjoys the work enough that she wants to do it when it’s convenient for her, but would set it aside if something more interesting to her came up — which could be family! or a holiday! Or retirement! Or a different job! There doesn’t have to be grand purpose to employment and there can be a mis-alignment of goals: maybe the employer values reliability over skill, maybe she isn’t the perfect employee because of her likelihood to leave… that’s the assessment the employer has to make, there’s no magic solution.

The idea that the employer just needs to incentivise the employee the right way is absurd.
I haven’t read the article, but you might be the one missing the point: a meaningful role can be meaningful for both parties.

You need to get to a product/market fit in some sense.
The article has an example: in the unoptimized IR generated by the frontend, all the variables are stored in memory on the stack and accessed through pointers stored in registers, whereas after the mem2reg pass variables are stored directly in registers.

Memory is mutable whereas SSA registers are immutable, so the compiler frontend just put all the C variables in memory to express the semantics of the C program in the simplest way possible. The mem2reg pass then moved all the variables into SSA registers, by simply creating a new register for each assignment and adding phi nodes to track the flow of variables between basic blocks (like the individual iterations of the loop body).
Zoom has a paid feature to view processes of other meeting attendees. Yes. Scary.
You're right, and I think Rust proved that. I do wonder if we could turn that on and off during compilation time, though, to simplify most use cases until one needs to have a more manual approach (using the borrow checker or the whatnot)
> But the article isn’t about re-litigation of that election, or the next one. It starts from the premise that the result of the election was unprecedented, and that someone like Trump would not have had a chance in earlier times.

I'm supposed to blindly believe everything I read in highly pollical magazine like that one?

Millions of people loved Trump because of the way he spoke so directly to them, and not like a typical politician. There is nothing at all "unprecedented" in that election...inferior candidates have been losing elections since the beginning of the US.

That article was so full of FUD and wrong-headed nonsense I had to refute its assertions.
Maybe that's changed, but a couple months ago we tested it on vanilla Ubuntu in the team at $dayjob and we could see everything. Nothing was grayed out.
That manager needs to learn about the bus factor [1] and key person insurance [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor

[2] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/k/keypersoninsurance.asp
I think you may be overreading the text. The writer could also be just saying they feel really stuck. It's a common problem in small companies, especially in cases where it's hard to hire replacements.
Auto Insurance and the Cost of Living
At least DX12 and Metal have similar semantics to Vulkan. It may be a mess to support multiple platforms without using some kind of translation library, abstraction layer, or off-the-shelf rendering engine, but at least you can work with similar semantics on different platforms.
How though? If LIDAR is your only depth ranging input, then rain means it's gone - there's nothing to fuse.

RADAR isn't an adequate replacement as severally crashes have demonstrated - it can't see non metallic objects.

That's the problem I think you're glossing over: under a whole bunch of circumstances your model is operating with out an entire sense.
So it's a slab allocator to reuse recently destroyed buffers. I've got something similar on my Vulkan engine, but much less lines of code. I would have thought by now that most libraries/engines would be reusing allocated buffers using a slab allocator based design, so it doesn't suprise me to see that Zink got it as well. I would have been suprised if it never had it.
Can the human body handle rotating artificial gravity?
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I've just realized that I'm spending a lot of time doing the same tasks over and over again in a non-procedural manner, not really gathering a large collection of insights because just doing stuff ephemerally in notebooks is fast and forgettable. What are the best tools and approaches out there that have made you significantly more productive?
Bus and Coach Upholstery
If someone dies, thereby leaving a job without applying for unemployment benefit, and someone on benefits replaces them, thereby leaving the unemployment stats, does that count as a job being "created"?
I'm pretty confident that the original commit meant 1000% compared to the previous Zink performance - not that it's 1000% better than current OpenGL implementations.

That said I certainly hope Zink becomes a suitable OpenGL implementation since it would simplify development of open source video drivers. i.e. just implement vulkan and you get OpenGL for free.
Do we know how this compares to native OpenGL implementations form AMD/Nvidia ? It would seem like these optimizations are already implemented on their native drivers.
But that was kind of true with any new technology. Enthusiasts at the dawn of radio and TV were convinced that the new technology would bring learning to the masses and while that was tried a bit (such as in the UK's "Open University" which provided basically pre-Internet MOOCs) both radio and TV failed to reach their enthusiasts' lofty goals. Why is it so surprising that the Internet was no different?
Hi ddon, one of the founders here. I personally do agree on flipping the pricing models to be more inclusive. We’ve tried our best to make them as cost effective as possible and even go as far as allowing unlimited users on a free plan.

When we were working on pricing, we looked into everything from compute costs per user, data storage per workspace, new feature development, marketing costs and much more over the span of time. We came up with our pricing based off those costs and hence on our lower plans we’re still under the price of similar tools.

We’d love to, in the future figure out more flexible ways to price our users but at the same time maintain the service and growing feature set. I can assure you that we definitely gave having a Spotify family plan like pricing model a thought. In the mean time we are working with startups to accommodate their needs as they move into paid plans by offering discounts on long term commitments, we’re always open to discussions with our users and helping them stay empowered on our platform.
> Finally, as plants are approximately half carbon, that means that 23.65 tonnes of plants were required to make just one litre of the petrol available at your local station.

Surely plants are majority water by mass? A quick google claims 89-90% water[1]

1: https://www.toppr.com/ask/question/the-percentage-of-water-i...
New Heterodox Mono
Or just don't let it run pidof.
I used to read this blog but it became clear a few years ago that most of the scenarios were phony.
Yeah, I doubt this meant in comparison with native implementations of OpenGL from AMD/Nvidia.
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This is a fastlane plugin which will provide an action to retrieve a list of names and UDIDs of each device registered with your Apple Certificate. This list is exactly the same as the list used to compare against what is/isn't registered in the register_device/s action.
It's likely they don't want to be a manager at all. It says they started their own business and have two employees. Probably just didn't want to work for someone else, but realized they can't do it alone, but don't have the means to hire an actual manager to hand the reigns to. You can have the greatest idea for a product or a business, but it doesn't mean you know jack about leadership or human motivation.
Can you explain this? Not sure how to look this up
Many managers don't realize the need for redundancy in their workforce. In technical industries you are taught to have machine/system redundancy to ensure no line interruptions...but there is little attention paid to making sure your workforce has the same redundancy.
I don't believe that, would be way too scary. Do you have a link?
That would actually be fine because it would take the problem of OpenGL drivers away from the manufacturers who don't give two shits of damn about it.

At this point, OpenGL is more important in being fully compatible than in being fully performant. And none of the graphics card guys care about that.
You could schedule a meeting with your manager and discuss the nature of your job. Ask what he thinks your role and responsibilities are and tell him what you though the job would be.

Could be that your vision and theirs might not be that far apart and you have a new project to tailor your job.
But do write it down…

If the job is exactly what you do now and you don’t like it. Then it is time to apply for other positions. From my own experience I know that sticking around will not make you more motivated or happier.

It is okay to switch within 2 months, 6 months or a year.
I would argue firings are extremely rare compared to brigading of voting, commenting, reporting systems and trending topics. A reasonable interpretation of “cancel culture” would include the less severe ways of kicking content/people off of platforms as well.
You can't be pleased?
Meanwhile, as a Canadian, if you try to bring this topic up with certain Americans in certain locations, expect to get treated as if you're the literal reincarnation of Karl Marx.
You might be inclined to think it's "the left" who is downvoting you, so I wanna clarify why at least I did. I am a European and mostly neutral on American politics.

I downvoted because your comment reeks of a them vs us fallacy and your comment is not in the spirit of an interesting discourse, but just about discrediting an opposing faction which isn't even directly related to the comment you replied to.
I don’t know if stellarators have a different plan, but in a production tokamak, it’s a combination of:

- deuterium-tritium fusion, which produces lots of high-energy neutrons

- the neutrons help to keep the plasma hot, but being neutral, they escape the magnetic bottle; there is a lithium blanket around the reactor to catch them

- the neutrons that hit the lithium produce tritium for the reactor, and steam for the turbines
I'm new to NodeJS but it was my understanding that using await like that would help by not blocking the thread, leaving node free to process other requests.
Thats propably because you are looking inlined assembly of definition. If you name and reuse all the partial patterns it become much more clear. Though regex is cool obfuscation method.
I hope that one day, no one needs their jobs and everyone is like Jean, only working because they want to. Right now the employee/employer relationship is more like indentured servitude. And a lot of managers like it that way, because it's the only way they know how to lead a team: with the threat of losing your shelter and food to motivate you. Universal basic income can't come soon enough, but I'm willing to compromise at just universal healthcare for now.
Maybe, but the phrasing makes me think that the only tool he considered initially is coercion.
Solar and wind can be deployed very quickly, and can be deployed today. Fusion will be available somewhere between "decades from now" and "never".
That would likely not demonstrate grid comparable cost though.
The useful advice is in the second half of the answer. Your comment seems to be fixating on just one part of the response.
Reading these comments makes it clear that most folks here have no small business experience.

My advice is to try to look for a replacement asap. You can’t afford to have a prima donna employee if you run a tiny business. PERIOD.
Agreed. I suggested Jitsi to a few university professors early in the pandemic last year. They used it for a good 6 months, with classes of about 20 people, 2-3 times a week.

The experience of not having to login and fuss with accounts was great. However, when everyone had their cameras on + screen sharing, audio quality typically suffered.

These professors since moved on to use Zoom and it’s way more stable. I don’t like Zoom generally (for many of the reasons noted in this thread), but it’s definitely reliable.
Non-paywall link: https://outline.com/F43cPG
As a "big flat file" -- does that mean things like PB_MessageRequester(), SYS_InitString(), etc., are also in the source code, or in a source library? If the source for those aren't included, then it's not really portable beyond the platforms it already supports.
It’s the German parliament, not government (although I guess there are definitions that include all three branches, the latter seems to be used synonymously with ‘administration’ here).

The committee chair in question is from the liberal (as in libertarian, for Americans) party, which isn’t part of the governing coalition.

That being said, the criticism isn’t necessarily outside the mainstream, and both his Free Democrats and, even more so, the Green Party that would likely agree could well be part of the next government six weeks from now.
This is completely true but I also just don't really care. The airpods are quite small and use minimal resources so the environmental impact of buying airpods every 5 years is minimal compared to other things. I already do not use a car or public transport so I am well below the average persons resource usage.

And for price, $250AUD every 5 years is well within what I am willing to pay for the convenience of the airpods. I use them daily, I have them in my pocket always. Being able to quickly put them on and take a call and it all just works instantly is worth it to me.

I also have just not ever had in ear headphones ever last that long either. The cable always breaks within a few years max of usage.
How will someone lower prices when the government has done nothing but print money in the last 4 years...let alone the free cash giveaways in the last 18 months. People are using that money to buy bigger or more houses...thus driving up the price of real estate.
How do you lower the price of real estate?
Quite the contrary I think it says everything we need to know about the business owner. It really just seems like they’re concerned they won’t be able to get such a nice deal of an employee, if Jean were to leave.

They would have to hire two whole employees to do her job, and pay them market wages! Jean works for less because she likes what we tell her to do, and she doesn’t need the money. Instead of maybe paying a little more to ensure the business would continue running in the case that Jean leaves or even just falls sick for an extended period, they would rather look for ways to lock her in (it doesn’t really seem like pay raises are on the table though). This just reads like textbook exploitation to me.
It's still an unnecessary mess driven by lock-in interests. MS and Apple should have collaborated on supporting Vulkan instead and made whatever higher level stuff on top of it already.

But you are right, translating DX12 to Vulkan is easier than translating DX9 or DX11 to it.
Most people work but most dont necessarily have to, at least as much as we do. People enter the "rat race" because it gives them something, not just a source of money but other achievement and identity stuff.

I think a lot of those incentives are changing. My take on work is that it's getting more exploitive, more administrative, less fun and less satisfying. Between politics and policies and management, work is asking much more, not physically but in terms of behaviors and beliefs. It's a new kind of exploitation we haven't really faced before. And it's my theory anyway that a lot of people have had enough.

A simpler way to say it is that more people would rather exist outside society, in a sense, and do their own thing, than put up with all the BS that comes with working for someone else. Even if the pay is worse. I bet most Uber Eats drivers make less than fast food employees, but I also bet they have less non work corporate BS to deal with, and outside whatever algorithmic unfairness can work as they want. In corporate jobs, the situation is magnified because the requirements of conformity are much greater, but so generally are the options.
I have worked with people kind of like this. They are senior developers can do software anywhere, so go ahead and threaten them. It won't matter.

They do it for you because they enjoy the work. Plenty of others want them. They do need money, but 15 other people will give it to them if you won't.
When the country that put up with the Gestapo and the Stasi is telling you you've gone too far, I would heed the advice.
These advice column problems always feel a little bit like a strawman argument designed to make it easy for the reader to dunk on the person asking the question. The quip about not having leverage over the employee is poor phrasing, at best.

That said, the advice delivered is good. Specifically:

> But the point is to have an honest conversation with Jean when this stuff comes up — here’s what she wants, here’s what you need, and is there a path forward that works for everyone? If there’s not, that’s okay.

Like most of these situations, the solution is to have an honest conversation with the person and lay out clear expectations. Many of these problems arise when people are too timid to address the elephant in the room. In this case, the issue is that the employee has no qualms with leaving the job for a month on short notice without coordinating with the employer.

Having employees who come and go as they please (specifically excluding medical and family emergencies out of their control) is not a great situation. I don't mind coordinating leaves of absence with employees in advance, but it requires some two-way communication and planning. If an employee decides to take spontaneous, extended leave (again, excluding emergencies and other situations out of their control) without first coordinating it with us, I would strongly consider transitioning the relationship to a contractor arrangement.

Keep in mind that this impacts the entire team's workload. If one team member disappears occasionally, the rest of the team will have to pick up the extra work to cover for her. Ask yourself how you'd feel if one of your coworkers disappeared for months at a time because they felt like it and you were asked to cover part of their workload. Not great for team morale.

The other issue with these situations is that it sets a precedent: If one employee disappears for a month because they decided not to work for a few weeks, you're in a tough spot next time someone else wants to do the same thing. If you let this employee come and go as they please but refuse to allow someone else to take voluntary leave, it's not a good look. Don't give people one-off allowances unless you're ready to give the same allowance to anyone else who asks.
Managers should not have leverage over employees. Any management is simply, straight up, abuse. Sorry not sorry your chosen profession was not viable. That's not my fault.
Not a bad business to get into. Facebook marketplace doesn’t allow live animals and that’s the bigger classified site usually, leaving a vacuum for everything else.
Not leaks, proudly announces!
Increase supply by building more and building up.
Most people live at or above their means so they can get caught up in squeeze as their income declines and their expenses stay the same. It's hard to immediately adjust to fast declines as we are experiencing during this pandemic. A guy like this can be riding a jet one day and the next day he is negotiating with the banks on how not to default on all his properties plus his jet.

I can understand why he feels like he is having a hard time but the big difference is that the banks will be more than happy to work with him so they don't have to deal with a default so it's hard to think of him as someone that's suffering. He'll be fine. He might end-up owning 20 properties instead of 24 but for most people in the world they would be happy to be in his situation. He'll be more than fine.
I'm an employee that doesn't need the job. As far as I can tell I get managed just like everyone else, because I'm a professional. The only time I can imagine it mattering is if my manager started acting unprofessionally, in which case I'd first try to fix it directly and through my org, and then go to HR to discuss next steps, such as a transfer or an amicable end of employment.

Supposing a hypothetical employee who doesn't need the job and is unprofessional, why would one handle that differently than any other unprofessional employee?
Sounds like you either missed the point, or didn’t read the whole article.

Relying on a magical single person, where it would be a disaster if they suddenly left, is a bad spot to be in. “Bus factor” seems to be the main point of this advice.
Every base except unary is a constant-factor away from binary, and so is irrelevant asymptotically. We don't use unary because it's artificially slow.
> Completely misses the point: the manager needs Jean, not the way around.

I think you miss the point: Something meaningful in this case is (probably) meant as "something Jean thinks of as good and important", with the intention that Jean herself is happy and simply doesn't want to leave.
We have a similarly large population full of so much vitriol that it wouldn't matter what the topic is, instinct is to rebel. The first step is for people advocating for vaccines to stop this hateful bile, and with social media etc. it just ain't gonna happen.
Jitsi was awful. So it’s a combo. Zoom wouldn’t be where it is if it was Jitsi. I used Jitsi from 2018-2020. So many problems with it. You won’t find anywhere close to the polarizing views of the actual usability or Jitsi compared to Zoom or any other better app in any niche.
I have a friend that has been in “funemployment” for the last 20 months.

He always says he wishes he could take “working vacations” to exercise his productive self.

It’s a bit like contacting, if the contractor didn’t need the money but was looking for an interesting challenge.

I have a feeling this will be the future of employment. Basically salary positions with 9-11 months of unpaid vacation. We just need a really good project/schedule management solution.
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Ah, my bad. When you said "backend" I thought you mean "HTTP backend" hence my over-simplification. You're right -- SSA isn't covered in that course. Cheers.