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The overlords of my time were certainly schooled in the ways of Jack Welch, but also particularly inspired by the 2009 Netflix vision of a High Performing Workplace as seen in their culture document. It was mandatory and inspirational reading.

When the performative beating and meritocracy absolutism collides with the sensitivities of the modern workplace the results are strangely unpredictable.

The memos are tucked away somewhere with my NDA and the memories of crushing peoples hopes, dreams and aspirations.
There is a fascinating story documented in "How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution" by by Lee Alan Dugatkin and Lyudmila Trut (https://www.amazon.com/How-Tame-Fox-Build-Dog/dp/022644418X) about a long-running domestication of silver foxes, started in USSR in 1950ies and still running. One of the early comments in that book is what Dmitri Belyaev (idea man) really wanted was to run this on chimpanzees, but (paraphrasing his words) "a) due to breeding cycles the minimum time to results 6 centuries" and "b) the ethics of doing this would not pass any committee". He chose foxes since they breed once a year and he was able to justify it on commercial grounds (fur production). Results are absolutely spectacular, as the book lovingly documents
Convergence highlighted the differences for me in all four images.

Divergence only worked for me in the cat bear image. For the others, I could see a combined image but I could not see any differences highlighted, even though I knew what to look for.
Maybe there are tradeoffs. If the code will never need the same thing again manual tests are good enough. Most code has things that don't change even as you add new features and so tests are valuable.
Exactly, and it is some form of computing power we normally do not have voluntary access to.
This is almost definitely against GDPR, there's no indication whatsoever of which legal entity is holding the data and how long it is stored on which servers where.
I had to see an eye doctor at the hospital when I was ~7 and I got to do some exercises, but I never learned to cross my eyes, and then it was like it probably wasn't very important since I did not have to go to the doctor again and no one mentioned it so I just went on with my life and it seems overall like not being able to cross my eyes is not a huge problem. But I guess it may be connected to my complete inability to see 3D effects or figure out how to see anything in the images in the article.
I think it very much depends. When BLM happened, I had the opportunity to sit in on a number of discussions with executives from a variety of companies about diversity programs, and the things I heard...

"I thought after Obama was elected, that diversity was no longer a problem"
"When we thought of diversity, we thought of it in terms of hiring more women"
"We just don't get the applicants. There's nothing we can do."

The whole BLM thing really shook up their thinking and approach to diversity. Now, I think a bunch of them did really engage in "corporate puffery", but I did see a lot of cases where tangible changes were made to diversity programs.

...and then more recently they seem to be firing their entire DEI teams. :-(
> The companies we're talking about have DEI programs specifically because they believe they'll improve their profitability in one way or another

Definitely not. I've been exposed to the rationale for these. Profit and effectiveness have nothing to do with it. CEOs put them in place because otherwise left wing employees or board members will try and destroy them, and Democrat-run regulators will support them in that goal even if it means breaking the rules. There have been many examples of such things in action - look at the organized cartel-like boycotts of X after Musk upset left wing marketing execs.

CEOs don't want that to happen to them. That's why this is happening now, the moment Trump won a major victory. The fact that the left has lost power comprehensively makes it safer to stand up for what Zuckerberg believed in all along.
>So now what? Make headlights less bright? Is that safer, when you’re driving down a wooded road at night without any other cars around?

We have a solution for that, they're called high-beams.
You only need to go back 3 generations in my family to find someone born a slave. And I am not even middle aged. People don’t understand that hundreds of years of enslavement and all the ensuing trauma doesn’t just go away after a few generations, it carries over in really strange and insidious ways.
Looking at your comments history I need to do this: GhatGPT test: send me a react component for a todo app.
Only woke people have problems with understanding what "woke" means.
That makes it warmer than regular fridges, while wikipedia claims the opposite.
> It's nearly impossible to fix. The horrors of involuntary commitment vs. the horrors of not having involuntary commitment vs. the horrors of using the criminal justice system vs. the horrors of not using the criminal justice system.

I think, frankly, and I base this on experience with family undergoing involuntary commitment in Europe... we really are still a bit collectively traumatized or basing our takes on what happened prior here in the US from past abuse of involuntary commitment systems.

It can be compassionate. It can help people get psychiatric and psychological help they didn't know how to access. It can help get people back on their feet and transition them into a return to normalcy. It can work.
Hazard reduction burns need to occur on all land which is at risk of burning, whereas wildfires actually only occur on a small proportion of the land surrounding a population center each year.

The result is much more smoke being emitted overall.
It should not make sense, but as long as discrimination is based on skin color, you will see efforts to address it also be based on skin color.

The only thing I advocate for is on economic basis. Nothing else should matter.

If one is "poor" (for a socially acceptable definition of poor), we as a society must help them.

Skin color, historical persecution, country of origin,gender, sexual orientation or any of the thousand things that can be "different" , shouldn't matter.
Fun fact: it's a different device, but the principle is the same as the device used in the documentary Tim's Vermeer. It results in the images overlapping between your left and right eye and you simply paint until the difference goes away.
Yeah, you're right.

A kimchi fridge I've owned had a temperature dial with a little chart next to it, that if I recall advised around 1-4C for halting fermentation for long-term storage and around 11 or above for active fermentation, and encouraged being mindful of the stage in your kimchi's, uh, lifecycle.

Pretty interesting to find a flat-out-wrong Wikipedia article in this day and age!
(don't feed the trolls)
It might be obvious based on your criteria, but remember that you invented that criteria based your arbitrary biases. Those with 10 years of real experience are statistically more likely to be qualified for the job, that is hard to disagree with, but being a white male also makes you statistically more likely to be qualified for the job in question. That is why the bias spoken of exists! But the point made at the business told about earlier is that statistical likelihood does not preclude outliers who deserve equal consideration.

Your original comment suggests you come from the software industry, in which case you know full well that there are programmers who have been at it for a few years who can program circles around those who have been doing it for 10. Not everyone progresses at the same rate. Years of experience across a wide population will provide positive correlation, but is not anywhere close to being an accurate measuring device and says nothing down at the individual level. To discount someone with less years of experience than your arbitrarily chosen number before you have even talked to them is the very same lack of inclusion being talked about.
No, still doesn't work. Progress bar now stuck at 95% for dozens of seconds after initial progress to 95% takes only 5 seconds. Broken.
Pnpm 10.0.0 Blocks Lifecycle Scripts by Default
This is a common misinterpretation. It's not about equality of outcomes.

It's about recognizing that some people have potential that they wouldn't be able to realize due to longstanding historical inequalities that are highly correlated with race and working to account for historial injustices that still impact people today.

It's not anyone's fault that these issues exist today, but it's our responsibility as a civilized society to at least ensure we don't actively perpetuate them.
Many DEI programs are hit hard by reality: there are only so many people of race X, gender Y or whatever metric Z interested and qualified for a job. The more difficult the job, the less diversity of candidates you have.

I did around 1000 interviews for my current company and about 200 for the previous one. I found that in IT in Europe there are not many candidates to meet DEI targetsand still hire the qualified ones. Even expanding to other continents, we barely made it; the last team I hired was one Latino, one Filipino and one white, 2 out of 3 were male. I interviewed around 30 candidates for these positions and I selected the top 3. These 3 were just above the lower limit of expertise to be hired, so I basically had zero choice, the alternative was to pull triple shifts myself to cover for the missing people.

Let's say you are the director of a steel plant. DEI targets are totally irrelevant, I never heard about a woman working on the plant floor, but I have many cousins who did. Dying at 45 or 50 years old due to lung or throat cancer is not something many women want to, but all my cousins did. I don't believe in DEI in these circumstances. But if you want DEI in "a day in life of a Microsoft /Twitter employee having free food and pointless meetings all day" videos, that is not fair.

So, I don't know why you were not able to place the developers, but think about DEI even more. We have several black people in my department, one of the best PMs I worked with is an older black woman, a good professional will find a place almost anywhere. Morgan Freeman shows that being black does not prevent one from magnificent results, but asking for rewards for being black is not the way.
But on the Internet, nobody knows that you are a moose.
These DEI programs were not primarily about outreach. Outreach existed way before DEI (e.g. interns, new grads, Grace Hopper conference, etc) and will continue to exist. DEI introduced improper - discriminatory - systems with quotas and heavy prioritization of specific groups of people.
Alternatively, trying to appeal to everyone or really the lowest common denominator just ends up creating bland products that nobody likes. Which is quite apparent right in the AAA video game industry.

I'd argue that a specialised company that focuses and hones in on catering to black, angular high-powered cars OR smaller, more brightly coloured cars will have a healthier long term outlook than a company that tries to appeal to every market.
Slavery is at an all-time high going back thousands of years

2 million institutionalized slaves (per 13th amendment) in the US today, around the same as 1830 USA

50 million worldwide as of a few years ago
That's an efficient market theory, and it's extremely optimistic about how real people work.
1. _Actually_, not practicing a talk is insane to me unless people are regular speakers. From a cold start, it takes me 10x the amount of time to prep as it does to actually give a speech.

2. It's a mix of ego and motivation. When the work is going out to the public, for me it's just the fear people will end up viewing my work the same as they'd view a Neil Breen film.
> when celestial navigation is all but impossible without advanced, expensive equipment (i.e., a bubble sextant).

Compared to what the Navy usually steers by, how advanced and expensive are bubble sextants?
Well, they are small pages. And I don't expect everyone to read every page... but at least be familiar with all of the buttons, controls, and indicators which the driver is expected to operate.
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YouTubers Are Selling Their Unused Video Footage to AI Companies
Thiel: Can we believe that { examples } without American backing,

> I think that he's saying that foreign countries may be free to sanction or block US internet firms, but that the US should respond forcefully to such actions.

My read on that is he's obtusingly saying that "US (old) leaders" are prevented by the US Constitution from doing stuff they'd like to do .. and so instead they use five eyes allies and partners to do these things about the globe with a view to normalising them and bringing them to the US seemingly without direct US involvement.

It's commonly held that the US | UK | AU agencies spy on each others citizens in order to have clean hands and truthfully state that they don't spy on their own.

Presumeably he wants to champion Trump as someone to clean house, etc. but I have my doubts about the machinations of Thiel .. he's more complicate than most via the panopticon of Palantir .
Almost no one makes their own sauerkraut in Germany (except some hippies/hipsters maybe) - it’s dirt cheap to buy and really good.

I might be ignorant but for me the flavour of kimchi is far more complex and varied - sauerkraut is pretty much always the same.
I see it as different history repeating: VC capital inserting itself as the middleman between people and things they want. If all of our interactions with external web sites now go through ChatGPT that gives OpenAI a phenomenal amount of power. Just like Google did with search.
So Hobbes' "war of all against all" is the real prior art, then?
I hope you're right :(
This is a pattern we see again and again. The true believers are fools because they don't anticipate how the implementation of their doctrine will be gamed.
That exit strategy sounds suspiciously similar to a technique I’ve heard for lucid dreaming.

Wonder if they’re related?
If they get satellite to satellite communication working across the entire globe, there's one niche usecase where it's certainly better. Latency over very long distances.

Light travels faster in a vacuum (laser in space) than it does through glass (fibre optic cable), when the gains from that exceed the trip up and down to the satellites you're coming out ahead in terms of latency. It may also be a more direct path than following undersea cables, but I haven't checked.

For bandwidth and regular internet connectivity, you can't really beat fibre. It's just so compact and speedy enough.
Thanks, that is interesting to know. I don't like kimchi (it's just worse sauerkraut) but I ferment other things and I always wanted a fridge just for that. I didn't know these things existed.
Yes, Numbers opens files much faster. Excel’s find, despite years of complaints, continues to not highlight the background color of what you’re looking for. Makes it tough to find what you need in a dense sea of cells.
Read my post again, of course companies have to make money.

My problem is with those whose __only__ goal is to make money.
What about this do you perceive to be flamebait or a generic tangent? I’m directly and sincerely commenting on the article. Plenty of other comments are expressing either support or criticism of the policy change.
> evolution keeps diversity around

Evolution has no built in preference for diversity and certain branches of the evolutionary tree wiping out others is a common occurrence throughout history. For instance, the Neanderthals. That's why there are so many rules about importing foreign plants at the border.
At the risk of stating the obvious here: Costco hires a great many people other than cashiers.
There are multiple possible outcomes from the merge with Datadog.

As my ex manager once told - there is no such thing as nice people in P&L statement. Someone has to pay

It's very easy to be anxious and see the path to the dark side here.

However one of possible outcomes - there will be a valid open source competitor to Grafana ecosystems, and this along secure the rest of scene from relicensing. There is a chance it will be all win-win with clear sustainable path and no money and power struggles for founders.

I want to stay on the positive here. Time will show.
and intext: ? I didn't say that quoting solves it
Sounds like you want DEI for white people. That is not going to happen. Chinese and Indians in tech was already a stereotype in the 90s.
Worth noting the same basic incentives apply to certain corporations performatively dropping their policies as a declaration of fealty to an administration they hope will refrain from interfering too much with their ability to make profits as a result. Whether that is considered to be a "free market reason" is another question entirely.
Pathfinding to a moving target in evolving terrain
Truth be speaking, that's not the direction the rest of the world outside the West has gone though, they'd actually be more aligned with those "13-year old" boys on those cultural issues.
"Trillionaire" media moguls were on board with the previous regime for at least the last decade. They are realigning now, not particularly surprising.
They'd sleep at home and use drugs mostly at home, so still a big improvement. Panhandling doesn't bother me as much if I know the people are housed.
Wow, the lack of a hood is baffling, was that actually a conscious design decision or an urban legend?

Because in the case of the former I find it unbelievable that no one on the team, or even at Volvo that dropped by to see how the project is coming along (I assume they weren't shipped off to some isolated island to complete their work in complete secrecy) didn't say something. The first question at least 80% of people I know would have when looking over a car to buy for the first time is, "Can you pop the hood?" Not to mention getting at the engine to adjust or replace consumables like belts, fluids, plugs or even minor repairs.

I'm far more willing to believe this is just a small detail that simplified the production process for a one off prototype than that anyone thought this was actually a good idea.
The problem with kimchi is that it is spicy. I won't understand why you'd ruin a perfectly good sauerkraut by making it spicy.

If you make your own sauerkraut, or anything else fermented really, the flavour is much more complex and varied than the store bought stuff.
Fringey political theorists like the Situationists have a concept called recuperation which suggests that capitalism doesn't just do these things to make money, but to perpetuate itself by giving people a safe method of blowing off steam, much like the 'bread and circuses' idea of Roman imperial governance. You could argue that the second season of Squid Game is specifically about this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recuperation_(politics)
First version was funnier.
I REALLY don't want any AI junk in my apps, and I especially don't want to pay extra for it.

Apple AI is terrible and Microsoft's is likely the same.
Ah yes, like the crypto backdoors only law enforcement use.

E-stopping a drone in flight is about the most dangerous thing you can do if you are worried about hurting someone. My drone has about 25lbs of lithium batteries externally mounted, I'd hate for it to fall on some school bus or firetruck etc.
Ha! I was going to say, I haven't managed to spend less than $100 for weekly grocery since before COVID at Costco, wonder what his secret is.
OpenTelemetry's traces are trees of spans. You cannot represent this efficiently without a combinatorial explosion of labels.

You may be thinking of metrics in the sense of counters and gauges, but that's not the data model that OpenTelemetry (and before they, Zipkin, Jaeger, and OpenCensus) uses for traces.

The data model for tracing is to emit events that provide a span ID and an optional parent span ID. The event collector can piece these together into a tree after the fact, which will work as long as the parent structure is maintained.

Prometheus is absolutely not suitable for this.

Quibbling about the word "telemetry" doesn't really help here. OpenTelemetry supports three different, completely different subsets of functionality: Metrics (counters, gauges, histograms), traces (span events in a tree structure), and logging (structured log events). They each have completely different client interfaces.
I’ll quote the parent comment again:

> To filter things based on the owner's identity… may disadvantage my business by making my own products (build from their components) worse.

Filtering based on identity can hurt his business by making his products worse. The line between cause and effect that he’s drawing seems pretty clear to me. What other interpretation would you have for that?

And for the sake of completeness let’s ask a 3rd party.

ChatGPT prompt:

“””
Given the following sentence:

To filter things based on the owner's identity… may disadvantage my business by making my own products (build from their components) worse.

To what is the reader attributing a potential lower quality in his products?
“””

Response:

“””

The reader is attributing the potential lower quality of their products to the filtering based on the owner’s identity. This implies that restricting components based on who owns them could limit access to necessary or high-quality components, thereby negatively impacting the quality of the products they build.
“””
> Oh trucks sit higher? Is that it? Should we exclusively develop low profile cars/trucks/SUVs?

For the love of god, yes. The American auto industry is simply out of fucking control with the size of trucks and SUVs, which is not JUST making them more difficult to drive safely with larger blind spots, making them MORE prone for parents to run over their own children with, take longer distances to stop and require larger brake components which cost more, more likely to kill anyone they happen to hit whether they're in a car or not, more expensive to buy, and equally shitty on fuel as trucks from the early 2000's are despite 20 fucking years of advancements in ICE technology, but is ALSO making them blind people because the headlight of a Silverado is roughly level with the ROOF of a standard sedan or compact.

Like I'm sorry, there is no fucking reason at all that an accountant from Stevesburg Ohio needs a vehicle that has worse safety characteristics than an LTL truck. If we can make SEMI'S not blind me, then we can do it for Joe who works at Walmart. Like... I don't even know why you'd call that LOW profile? My 2010 F-150 is the biggest vehicle I've ever owned, and if I park next to a modern F-150, the newer truck makes mine look like a goddamn mid-size truck. It's ridiculous how HUGE they've gotten.
There is a lot of literature on acute sleep deprivation causing symptoms of psychosis, and there is a lot of literature on acute sleep deprivation as a result of homelessness.