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by lliamander 3y ago
I'm confused about task parallelism. Is that like a job scheduler that can run multiple jobs in parallel? Or is it more like a pipeline parallelism?
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by lliamander 3y ago
Indeed. I've averaged about 10% per year, and I probably could have gone for more.
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by lliamander 3y ago
Having good KPIs is hard. It does not excuse surveillance management, but it makes it understandable. I think it is important for employees that want to have less surveillance put forth the effort to heavily communicate to management.
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by lliamander 3y ago
> The Court will grant the motion to dismiss pursuant to Rule 12(b)(1) because plaintiff's claim is not redressable. NARA does not have the authority to designate materials as “Presidential records,” NARA does not have the tapes in
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by lliamander 3y ago
> But he didn't, so too bad. In medieval Iceland, you could be declared an outlaw (effectively a death sentence) for all sorts of reasons, including presenting your case before a jury of the incorrect number of people. Such harsh p
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by lliamander 3y ago
Hypothetically, let us assume Trump had gone through the effort to declassify these documents explicitly. Would he have been successful? What authority would anyone have to stop him? Would there be any legal grounds to charge after leaving
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by lliamander 3y ago
The key difference is that Trump, as president, was the ultimate authority on what documents are his personal documents. Any documents that he took with him are presumed personal - and that legal precedent was established with Bill Clinton[
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by lliamander 3y ago
> Knowing the wrong people doesn’t make you a loser. You should rethink your wording or qualify loser with “losing the chance to get hired at a certain place”. You are misreading ozim. The claim is not that people without connections are
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by lliamander 3y ago
> This comment reads like a classic "X-ism doesn't exist because Y people have it hard too!" The claim was not "nepotism doesn't exist". The claim was that "It isn't nepotism if the person hired th
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by lliamander 3y ago
That's an interesting strategy. How do you avoid getting pidgeon-holed into a role? What if you want to move into working something else?
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by lliamander 3y ago
> but if the work isn't done, then the employee should still be able to go home after 8 hours and get full salary? Of course not. If the work isn't getting done, then the employee should be fired. And that's the case even
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by lliamander 3y ago
For people who have already had chickenpox/shingles, is there any potential benefit from getting the vaccine?
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by lliamander 3y ago
If I was starting a project from scratch, there are three reasons I would go with the BEAM: - The runtime has so much devops/SRE stuff built right in. Hot code reloading, trace debugging, a remote shell. It's very easy for develo
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by lliamander 3y ago
If you look at the Wikipedia entry you cite, the very first clause of the first sentence is: "The Dark Ages is a term for the Early Middle Ages" That is the normal understanding of "dark ages" among historians.
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by lliamander 3y ago
Only the early middle ages were actually the "dark ages" (roughly 500AD to 1000AD, I think). They are called that only because of the relative lack of written material we have from that time.
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by lliamander 3y ago
That's not why they burned him at the stake. If anything it was because of his hermeticism.
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by lliamander 3y ago
It's a natural consequence of the IEEE 754 standard for floating point numbers.
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by lliamander 3y ago
Acknowledging that a person has agency and responsibility for their own well being is simply not the same thing as blaming them when they are victimized by other people. Until you understand that, there can be no meaningful discussion. If y
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by lliamander 3y ago
> Do you also think women should not be allowed to wear revealing clothes, lest they get raped? No. Nor have I said anything like that. > People deserve to be themselves without getting raped, or bullied. Sure, but we don't live
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by lliamander 3y ago
There is a difference between saying a victim, rather than the perpetrator, is to blame for the abuse (actual victim blaming) and saying the victim had the power to avoid it. If I go to a dangerous part of town and get mugged, it's per
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by lliamander 3y ago
What a wild assertion. For many of these problems, the only way you might know ahead of time is if you did a really extensive background check. Such a process would mostly be a waste. It's perfectly reasonable and fair to hire people
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by lliamander 3y ago
Unconscious bias is a completely overblown concept, and some of the science that supports it (such as Implicit Association Tests) is hogwash. Note that I am not saying that we do not have cognitive biases (in the general sense of the term)
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by lliamander 3y ago
> the claim that 20% of the staff were let go, but 100% of the laid off folk were "of historically marginalized groups. Women, people of color, queer folks, and multiple people on disability and even maternity leave" Even if th
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by lliamander 3y ago
I agree that this a perfectly on-topic post and worthy of discussion (in part because it was well written). I was just countering the claim/insuation that people were flagging the story because of their own prejudice against trans peop
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by lliamander 3y ago
> I'm not saying this person is wrong or did the wrong thing. I really don't have enough information. Despite what other people may claim about why this story was previously flagged, this is probably why: we don't have eno
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by lliamander 3y ago
I think the reality is that lazy people and bullies tend to end up in the same organizations (and are with some regularity the same people). The places that I've seen the least of both was in a privately owned company.
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by lliamander 3y ago
As is the case with many anti-discrimination policies, often the actual result can be the opposite of what was intended. Many employees are not comfortable with the accommodations for trans colleagues required of them by their employer (and
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by lliamander 3y ago
Maybe at the point where your company is considering doing business with them and you have a say in the matter, but otherwise it's your own business. I've never seen an HR policy that required disclosures without at least some rel
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by lliamander 3y ago
> No one's memory is perfect after nearly 40 years. Indeed! Which is one of the reasons why we should question her accusation! How can we be sure she even accurately remembers who committed the assault? It might very well have been
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by lliamander 3y ago
> and I think the evidence strongly leans against you. What evidence, exactly? In the case of Kavanaugh there was literally none beyond mere accusations (including some that were entertained on mainstream news that ended up being exposed

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