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by Volundr 4y ago
This sounds like work to me > For booting the computers, I either boot them from Ethernet or I boot them from a small USB memory that uses a FAT file system for storing the OS kernel, either in the format required by UEFI booting, or, wh
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by Volundr 4y ago
I've never met a "high performing employee" who is willing to work the kind of hours being demanded, especially to meet arbitrary deadlines. Frankly to high performers know their value and are far less likely to bow to this n
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by Volundr 4y ago
One thing I was surprised not to see here but applies to any termination for any reason (even quitting really): do not sign anything without being paid for it. Even if they are offering a severance run it by a lawyer first. Without though,
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by Volundr 4y ago
Well sometimes they call them Nazi pedophiles, so maybe it's already covered with no update needed?
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by Volundr 4y ago
Sure but data corruption? Data integrity on powerloss or other crash is a core feature of pretty much any RDMS, and OOM is actually probably one of the safer ways a database can crash (any disk caches still get flushed so no unpredictabilit
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by Volundr 4y ago
If one employee quitting takes out your whole team, the problem isn't the employee that quit. Something is seriously wrong with your working environment and the whole thing was balanced on a knife edge. > In tech, it is relatively e
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by Volundr 4y ago
The department of labor does. Even here in Idaho it's amazing how excited the legal team gets when sent a letter of inquiry from the DoL. I imagine they have more teeth in CA.
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by Volundr 4y ago
I'll note that a company that depends on a single employee like this has failed to plan and is already in trouble. No matter how well you treat them, your critical employees will leave. You might be able to pay them well enough to limi
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by Volundr 4y ago
Symmetry can exist on one axis but not another. Sure it's symmetrical on the "actions an entity can take axis", but when people refer to the employee/employer relationship being asymmetrical they are discussing the risk
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by Volundr 4y ago
> You get paid a minimum wage worker's life-time-earnings per year? It's perfectly fine to ask you to come in this weekend for an urgent project. Something on fire? Sure. Regulation means this project must be done Monday? Maybe
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by Volundr 4y ago
You haven't tried my cooking.
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by Volundr 4y ago
I mean yeah, this is a pretty big own-goal for Musk, but someone made damn sure that purchase contract heavily favored Twitter with no wiggle room for Musk, and you can bet it wasn't Musk's lawyers. At minimum the Twitter exec tea
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by Volundr 4y ago
I see what your saying here, and it might be a relevant discussion in a different context, but here it's really not. If they wrote a deep thoughtful article about Rachel Levine, but simply misgendered her because they don't believ
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by Volundr 4y ago
> To me, that means that you shouldn’t be banned for contesting the idea of transgenderism. While I'm mixed on the ban, this is a mischaracterization of what they were banned for. They were banned for misgendering a specific person
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by Volundr 4y ago
> Does a community (in the general sense of the word) have the right to actively police/censor the content of an individual or group of people on the Internet in their own community (such as in the case of Kiwifarms)? Does Facebook
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by Volundr 4y ago
> If you can't handle it, there is Facebook for you. And Twitter. Similarly if you don't like the filtered environment of these communities there is 4chan/8kun/etc. So then this is a solved problem and all the hand-wr
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by Volundr 4y ago
> I also have seen incredibly too much "It's just a joke bro" "defenses" for saying certain things that I have little sympathy for it. People often seem to fail to understand that humor is inherently a complex sy
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by Volundr 4y ago
>> He can go around now saying that he forced Elon to buy the company by not backing down > Are you or anyone impressed by this? I mean he produced shareholder value by getting the richest man in the world to by the company for a h
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by Volundr 4y ago
I never cease to be amazed at how few people really realize just how little hardware is often required for getting real work done. You'd be surprised just how much that 2GB vm with a couple cores can handle!
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by Volundr 4y ago
I don't think licensing is the only reason people hate Oracle. They have at the very best a mixed record when it comes to open source they've acquired. While they've done pretty well by Java and virtualbox after some initia
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by Volundr 4y ago
Pretty much my thinking as well. Exactly what % hit rate do we need before we give up on the 4th amendment? 5% seems shockingly low to me. I'm all for protecting children, but if you have evidence one is being abused... get a warrant!
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by Volundr 4y ago
> In all the time I have been forced to use windows laptops that were of “premium” quality, I have never ever had one last into its third year. I've heard this often and I find it baffling. I've replaced only one PC in my life
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by Volundr 4y ago
From your link: > Pixel 6 and later phones will get updates for at least 5 years from when the device first became available on the Google Store in the US.
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by Volundr 4y ago
I'm still on my Pixel 3. It's even been through the washing machine.
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by Volundr 4y ago
Yep!
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by Volundr 4y ago
> And also, does it imply the existence of non-blocking memory Yes actually! If you know your going to need a block of memory before you actually need it, you can put in a request to the memory controller before you need it, then proceed
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by Volundr 4y ago
Blocking in this case is referring to the CPU thread sitting idle whilst the operation is performed. This is what it means when your blocked on a network request, blocked on a disk operation, or blocked on a memory request. It's all bl
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by Volundr 4y ago
> That’s not fraud in the legal sense, is it? If he’s constantly wrong about the timing? There is fraud in the legal sense and the colloquial sense. If I describe myself as a genius programmer, but am actually quite below average, I&#x27
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by Volundr 4y ago
If an application can't handle failed web requests that application is already broken. Web requests can and will fail at any time.
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by Volundr 4y ago
I think you'll find that the cross section of people who support the right to abortion and people who support requiring companies to offer generous parental leave to be quite large.

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