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chasontherobot

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chasontherobot··on CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract
ah yes, let private entities pay for it. then when there is a vulnerability with one of those entities' software, they can pay a bit more to bury it!
chasontherobot··on Googler... ex-Googler
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.
chasontherobot··on How Japanese black companies oppress workers (2014)
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.

chasontherobot··on Japanese workers turn to resignation agencies
Contracts might require it, but the law says 2 weeks (on a regular full time contract or a limited contract after the first year) and contracts can't supersede the law.
chasontherobot··on Breaking Down OnlyFans' Economics
> 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

chasontherobot··on Open-Source Cola
Web3 enthusiasts?
chasontherobot··on A forged Apple employee badge
now you're just describing the business model of most fintech companies
chasontherobot··on The Time I Lied to the CTO and Saved the Day
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.

chasontherobot··on Redis adopts dual source-available licensing
ES was already huge before AWS made everyone think it was an Amazon product
chasontherobot··on eBay pays $3M fine in blogger harassment case
I don't know if it still exists but there used to be a company that advertised public lice as a service
chasontherobot··on WeWork Goes Bankrupt
The first step is that you start rich
chasontherobot··on Personalized learning can feel isolating. Whole class learning can feel personal
What failures did he learn from? The other two social networks at the time, Friendster and Myspace were both hugely popular still when he launched Facebook.
chasontherobot··on Why is Y Combinator so defensive lately?
What is wrong with the article? It seemed to be a fairly normal piece, certainly not "braincell killing"
chasontherobot··on The perpetual truck driver shortage is not real
This, but not sarcastic.
chasontherobot··on VanMoof acquired by e-mobility company Lavoie
#1 matters if you want to own and ride a bike for a few decades, which used to be a relatively common thing.
chasontherobot··on FTC warns board game content creators, publishers to disclose relationships
hard to donate a used steam key
chasontherobot··on Japanese words of Portuguese origin
...why would it bother you?
chasontherobot··on Kevin Mitnick has died
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.
chasontherobot··on It’s not wrong that "🤦🏼‍♂️".length == 7 (2019)
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.

chasontherobot··on It’s not wrong that "🤦🏼‍♂️".length == 7 (2019)
As someone who has done both, I'd say that argument is wrong. It is much more convenient to index by code point. Indexing by bytes is almost always what you don't want to do, and leads to a lot of errors.
chasontherobot··on Where can I see Hokusai's Great Wave today?
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...

chasontherobot··on We replaced rental brokers with software and filled 200 vacant apartments
That doesn't make any sense, the Oregon law works very well for the landlord in that case. Tenant is locked in at $1000/mo. 6 months in, decides they want to move. Tenant pays $1500 to break lease, and landlord can charge $10000/mo immediately to the next tenant.
chasontherobot··on Python 3.9
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.
chasontherobot··on My friend starts her job today, after learning to program in prison
maybe, but why would that apply to only males?
chasontherobot··on Reducing aerosols might paradoxically increase global temperature
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."

chasontherobot··on Weird-Looking Freak Saves Apollo 14 (1971)
Whose side was Reagan on? He certainly wasn't on the side of a lot of gays, blacks, or the other minorities his administration threw in jail, poisoned, or just let die through inaction.
chasontherobot··on Show HN: I built a community for women entrepreneurs and makers
TERFs
chasontherobot··on Sweden's 100 explosions this year: what's going on?
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.
chasontherobot··on Why did a humpback whale save a seal's life? (2016)
Japanese commercial whaling doesn't target humpback whales.
chasontherobot··on Realtime Tokyo 3D train map using open API
That green line (the Chuo line) is regularly 10-30m late during rush hour.
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