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Ah yes, because CEOs often face consequences for their poor decisions. They definitely don't get golden parachutes and move on to a new company when they run a company into the ground.

Neither of these things is completely true.

1. While it is technically true a company could sue a worker for quitting, the amount of damages they'd have to show is far beyond anything they'd be able to do outside of an upper management position. As far as I know, you could not sue someone for doing a half assed job.

2. I'm not even sure how you are using the word "illegal" here. AFAIK there is no provisions in criminal law for punishing people who break employment contracts. What I assume you are talking about is that a contract worker is bound by the terms of their contract as far as notice to quit goes, but there are a couple of limits to this. - This only applies in the first year of the contract. After the contract has been renewed once, standard Japanese labor law applies, which is two weeks of notice. - Similar to the above statement about suing someone for quitting, Japanese law only allows for suits to be for actual damages, so the company would have to prove significant damages to make the suit worth it. Contract workers are generally not high value employees so it would be unusual for one to be worth suing over.

I have an llm inference rig that I enjoy on the weekends and the problem for the first time in my life it that I have supernormal stimulus which doesn't seem to reduce in potency the more I use it.

I have no idea what this sentence means

I'm trying to figure out where you are getting this "go above the CTO's head to the CEO" situation from the message you are replying to?

I am not the person you are replying to, but I've definitely made a stink my boss about my people being overworked. If the person from the original article went to the CTO and said "look, my people need a week off, but we will still have the software delivered on schedule", that would have been the right solution, not lying to your boss.

SBF wasn't anything new, just the latest in a long line of scammers and frauds. Mitnick, for all of his faults, inspired a generation of people to poke and prod at technology and opened their eyes to the ways in which it could be used (and abused). Also, I don't think many people consider him "morally good". Definitely a "morally gray" character more than anything.

Python has strong typing which seems to be what you mean here rather than strict typing.

A "character" is not a well defined term in Unicode, rather the "base" that does not vary across implementations is code points, which is what Python measures when you get the length of a string.

except that Google Bard gets the answer wrong? It says that it can currently be viewed at the British Museum in London, and then lists several other museums, information which conflicts directly with the info on this site.

Its almost as if LLMs are just making things up as they go along...

Python 3.9 6 years ago

It has nothing to do with any particular editor, it is for autocomplete and build time type checking in any editor and type checking in people's build chains.

This paper shows the opposite, though:

"Here we show that more realistic modelling scenarios do not produce a substantial near-term increase in either the magnitude or the rate of warming, and in fact can lead to a decrease in warming rates within two decades of the start of the fossil-fuel phase-out."

It's not that the truth is racist, its the selective application of the truth that is racist. For instance, the fact that the majority of the US prison population is African American has been used against African Americans for a very long time, while completely ignoring the selective prosecution that creates that situation.