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 Discussion on question by Klaus Kiene…

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Glenn Willen
Oct 8, 2024 19:37
The right move is probably to try to work through the system first. But if I were the friend and ultimately did not obtain a good outcome, I would be looking at a lawsuit, naming the supervisor, the school, and Turnitin.
 

 Discussion on answer by ohwilleke: Do…

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Glenn Willen
Jul 22, 2024 21:47
How are standards like recklessness or gross negligence determined, in a very technical scenario like this? Where is the boundary between law and fact drawn? (Can I get a bunch of expert witnesses to testify that no reasonable and prudent person in Crowdstrike's position would ever even for a moment consider shipping a blatantly untested change to this number of machines, and that such an act would be a firing offense at any adequately-run company even a fraction of Crowdstrike's size and prominence?)
 

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Glenn Willen
May 11, 2024 15:09
My experience in comparable situations is that the reimbursing party would normally calculate what the price of the agreed tickets would have been, and reimburse that. You cannot get a receipt from the airline for that price, so if you want any reimbursement to happen someone will need to argue about the documentation requirements. My experience is with reimbursement of employee business trips by US companies; the standards of evidence involved are up to the company, plus whatever the IRS wants as evidence for tax-exemption.
 

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Glenn Willen
Apr 5, 2024 05:48
no, not glibc. The gcc runtime library, "libgcc": gnu.org/licenses/gcc-exception-3.1.en.html This is the library with the stuff that's not usually optional, like the code that calls "main" at the start of execution.
Glenn Willen
Apr 5, 2024 05:48
This doesn't directly answer your question, but something to consider: The parts of the GCC compiler which end up getting linked into the final compiled program are under a different license from the rest of the compiler, to avoid this issue in the other direction.
 

 Discussion on question by Hilmar: How…

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Glenn Willen
Feb 7, 2024 05:29
@MikeP The people you reach will be customer service drones. They have no idea why your card was rejected or how to fix this. If you're very lucky, they will know that and admit it. Otherwise, they will tell some lies to get you off the phone, or try some stuff that doesn't work; and you won't find out until the next time you travel.
 

 Discussion on question by Victor: How…

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Glenn Willen
Feb 2, 2024 19:07
@JarrodChristman A cashier's check has the exact same problems as the bank draft described in the story (and I think it might be effectively the same thing?) A real cashier's check is guaranteed to be good, but if the check is a forgery you will still be out the money. It doesn't matter what your bank tells you; they won't know for sure it's a forgery until it's refused by the issuing bank later. There's no paper instrument that can avoid the problem of forged instruments.
 

 Discussion on question by Sidney: Is …

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Glenn Willen
Nov 10, 2023 15:32
@Tristan Thanks for the suggestion, I just reported it as unsafe.
Glenn Willen
Nov 10, 2023 15:32
I have seen a version of this device made in USA, with appropriate circuit breakers and safety interlocks to prevent energizing it without both plugs verified to be plugged into opposite phases. I still doubt it's legal but it seems a lot safer.
 

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Glenn Willen
Sep 27, 2023 21:18
@PiedPiper not an error in the sense that the music is wrong, just in the sense that the person creating the score meant to remove it, but missed it. (Explaining why it's present, when all the other similar ones are absent.) I think this is confirmed by learning that it was typeset using musescore -- the way you produce this appearance in musescore is to enter all notes for both voices, then manually select and hide the duplicate ones.
Glenn Willen
Sep 27, 2023 21:18
I expect that the double stem for the clarinet is a typesetting error. Depending on the software being used to format the score, it may be necessary to manually suppress the extra stem, if one feels that it's clearer without it.
 

 Discussion on question by Juli: Is we…

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Glenn Willen
Aug 30, 2023 12:58
I live in the San Francisco Bay area. I still see people around wearing masks. Many of them are Asian, but definitely not all. I think in liberal places, and/or places with significant east Asian populations, you probably won't even get comments.
 

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Glenn Willen
Jul 30, 2023 04:14
There's definitely a balance to be struck. Some of it's just personal philosophy, and mine is definitely more aligned with OP's than with yours (but I accept it being a matter of taste.) On the other hand, I think there's a difference between "deliberately spending less effort, and accepting worse results" versus "being sloppy to no benefit" or "just having no idea what you're doing". OP's coworker does not sound to me like they're on the efficient frontier of effort versus results, as it were.
Glenn Willen
Jul 30, 2023 04:14
""The UI is slow" isn't a business case either." -- and here we have a nice one-sentence summary of why so much software is total garbage. Honestly, if I give someone the requirement "when the user clicks the button, the software does X", and they come back with "ok, but you didn't say it had to do it at any particular speed!" they're gonna be out on their ass.
 

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Glenn Willen
Mar 29, 2021 21:27
The problem with this theory is that there are thousands of companies a software engineer can go to work for that are NOT associated with retail, and will NOT ask them to agree to these kinds of things. So if you blindly apply these rules to your software engineers -- who have NO contact with valuables, for whom the application of this policy is pointless bureaucracy -- the good ones (who have choices) will go work somewhere else, and you will end up hiring the ones who couldn't manage to get hired somewhere that would treat them better.
 

 Discussion on question by Alice: Was …

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Glenn Willen
Sep 19, 2020 18:49
I find it hard to interpret the student's use of caps. I don't think there's any harm in presuming that it's a communication issue, rather than an expression of anger, at least for now. (For example, if done aloud, yelling "SORRY" would be weird, as would yelling the word "CODES" by itself.) Also -- if there is a real technical problem with accessing required course materials, which is outside the student's control, it would be good to be forgiving, even if it's also out of your direct control. Likely the vast bulk of your students do their work at the last minute.
 

 Discussion on question by ivanko: How…

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Glenn Willen
Aug 26, 2020 14:28
Assuming you own your property: Do you know what utility easements exist on it? Is it possible that this cable is providing service to another property adjacent to yours? Until you can answer those questions, definitely don't cut it. I don't know your location, but many areas have a centralized "call before you dig" service, which can help you locate and identify shallowly-buried utility services, regardless of whether they are power, cable TV, etc. Perhaps contact them?
 

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Glenn Willen
Jul 22, 2020 15:41
Worth noting that in multiple US states it is now against the law for the recruiter to ask you your current salary. So definitely read up on applicable laws before having this conversation.
 

 Discussion on question by Z.E.: What …

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Glenn Willen
Jun 28, 2020 21:27
You're basically building something like a set-top cable box, at this point. It's not clear what your objective is, but essentially literally any other solution than the one you've chosen will be more practical -- such as e.g. buying a pre-made device that does this -- so you're going to be hard pressed to get people to give you much help with it.
Glenn Willen
Jun 28, 2020 21:27
It seems like your circuit would necessarily have to include a framebuffer -- that is, you would have to store one entire frame of the image, at least, because you won't know what the first output pixel is (the new top-left corner) until you have seen the beginning of the last row of the input image (the bottom-left corner). And since you want to work with RF input, that means your device will need to (1) select and decode a channel (which means that channel-selection will move from the TV to your device), (2) rotate the image, then (3) re-encode everything as RF for the TV.
 

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Glenn Willen
Dec 20, 2019 14:15
Reiterating: it is literally a crime for them not to be paying you. It's not legal to have someone just work for free and call it an "internship" except under extremely restrictive circumstances. An "employer" like this will never be a good reference, and you are clearly not getting valuable experience (given what you've said about their tech stack.) So it's not clear to me you are actually getting anything out of this, other than abuse, and a distorted sense of how the work world operates that will serve you badly at real jobs in the future. Just leave.