That way it can't be overwritten by software. Or at least require an internal jumper to be set before any writes can happen. Any user updating their BIOS would be fairly experienced so taking the lid off an setting a jumper wouldn't be a problem for them and people who arn't technical could just take it to a store.
Oh yeah, great. So when there's a critical flaw in there which actually needs to be fixed, and IT in a company is supporting dozens, or hundreds, or maybe even thousands of machines. Yeah, great.
Why the hell were you storing / manipulating a 64-bit key in a tree class as floating-point?
One would guess that maybe just maybe the natural type of the key was floating point? So then what unnatural type would you suggest he should have used in its place?
Yes, comparing floating-point numbers is tricky and you have to aware of the issues. No, it is not always wrong to compare them, nor to use them as keys. Would you really argue that it is inappropriate for a database to provide the ability to index a floating-point column???
Unless the Cushing's Syndrome somehow implies termodynamics laws' violation, which I strongly doubt, I don't think you can increase *weight* simply by metabolizing tissues into fat.
Yeah, OK, you're right about that--especially your point about water content of fat. It's been a long time since I dealt with this with a relative, and my recollection is somewhat hazy of the explanation for why it can be simply impossible for Cushing's patients to avoid weight gain, much less lose weight.
And yes, I know Cushing's Syndrome usually curses with obesity, but you can bet it is not because of what you say but because the way you eat more (specially when it curses with depression) and how you transform what you eat mainly into fat at the expense of other tissues, which in turn makes you move less, which in turn makes your intake even more -relatively speaking, excessive.
Cushing's patients can gain weight even on strict calorie-limited diets and with vigorous exercise. It's because of the changes in the way food is metabolized, increased metabolism specifically of carbohydrates & fats. In order to actually lose weight, some people with that disease would have to reduce caloric intake to a level that would lead to death pretty quickly from heart failure. (Now, to be clear, I am not talking about the mildest cases, thus "can gain weight..." not "will gain weight...", "some people..." not "all people...".)
Let me put it to you this way: when said relative described her attempts at calorie reduction and increased exercise to the specialist, his response was "Yes, that's why you gained 100 lbs last year instead of 200".
The vast majority of overweight people simply need to eat less and exercise more. That's true, but unfortunately it has been simplified into such dogma that, literally, someone who has weighed 120lbs an entire adult life, and suddenly balloons to nearly 200 in a few months without diet or activity changes, can go to the doctor and be told to see a dietician and and get a personal trainer, despite having multiple other symptoms besides weight gain, and that's dangerous. Dangerous, and happens again and again--very common at the Mayo Clinic for Cushing's patients to show up with photos to prove what they looked like a year ago because they've been blown off by so many.
Average time from onset of symptoms to diagnosis: 3 years. In a disease that has a 50% mortality rate (mostly heart failure) in 5 years. While 3 < 5, that's a delay that is scary:-(
Many of my friends will not agree, but I wonder how one can gain weight by putting less calories in their system.
Endocrine disorder which totally mucks up metabolism, causing your body to metabolize muscle (including your heart, oh joy) and connective tissue, in order to create huge mounds of fat which are mostly water. It's called "Cushing's Syndrome".
It is also EXTREMELY RARE, so yeah, in the vast majority of cases eating less and moving your ass more works just fine;-)
I was taught that current kills not Voltage. A static shock has huge tension but non-existent current whereas a toaster in the bathtub has (relatively) low voltage and high current.
True.
Can a sparky weigh in on this for me?
Sure. The amperage coming through a 230V home outlet is still orders of magnitude higher than what's required to be lethal. The reduction by 1/2 from our 120V service has nothing to do with making it safe to stick a fork in the outlet;-)
"Religious Right" in the USA is a euphemism for "sex obsessed control freaks".
Correction: "pleasure-obsessed control freaks". Marijuana has (almost) nothing to do with sex, yet these are the people who are promising, at the state level, to undo the laws passed by citizen referendums, and, at the federal level, to force those states back into compliance with federal law. (Presumably by storming DEA assaults throughout the states, since the feds have absolutely 0 ability to direct local law enforcement's day-to-day operations.)
The graciousness and politeness of the losing side. Their statements of congratulations are certainly not what you'd see from the religious right here in the U.S.
That's going a bit far. Javascript definitely has some kludge...
Oh, I agree. Some last-second editing rephrased "at all compared to" and made it read a bit differently than I intended. JavaScript is kludgy; but it's nothing compared to the ass-backware inside-out semantic model that Node.js advocates promote;-)
All you kiddies who discovered event-driven programming and the C10K problem last month, shut up. The real adults have solved the C2M problem, and the solution involves threads AND event-driven queues, a technique which has been well understood for about 20 freaking years now.
If the zealots have their way, the servers will all run javascript (a la node.js), just like your browser, though I'll never understand all the love and hype over a language which is so kludgy.
JavaScript itself is not kludgy at all; well, at least not compared to what node.js has done with it;-)
Would consider such a simple question to be a "brain teaser". In fact, I suspect this is totally fake. Why in the hell would Musk would his time and that of a freakin' rocket scientist??? He might as well demand proof that the interviewee is capable of putting on his own shoes in the morning.
The Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey crashed 4 times during testing killing 30 crew members.
You got me; I'd totally forgotten about the V-22 Albatross;-)
All modern planes except light GA aircraft have engines have fully computer-controlled engines, it's called FADEC...
Of course they are. I wasn't taking a cheap shot a software-controlled planes in general, I was taking a cheap shot at French software engineering--sorry I wasn't more clear about that...
They WERE testing the plane. cant know about the bugs until the real world tests
And yet, somehow, in modern times, it's only Airbus whose planes crash during testing and kill crews. But I guess since we don't have a statistically meaningful sample size of computer-controlled jets doing that, it's just coincidence that they're both Airbus, right? Just pure dumb luck...
Once again, state labor laws have absolutely nothing, nada, zip, zilch to do with a bankruptcy proceeding. Repeating it over and over will not make it true, no matter how often you try.
Once again, principals' legal liability for wage theft HAS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH BANKRUPTCY LAW. Bankruptcy for the CORPORATION deals with the disposition of the CORPORATION'S assets. It has nothing at all to do with personal assets, and how those personal assets might be attached in a suit for FRAUD.
Look, at least one other person here has pointed out that your claims are incorrect, using pretty much the same argument that I have. Apparently you are one of those unfortunates who is incapable of admitting when you are wrong. Good luck to you, sir. You're going to need it.
My understanding came directly from a corporate attorney who was asked the exact question. Yours and his came from reading and interpreting the wrong law.
That is only true if the company is a sole proprietorship or partnership structure where there is no corporate veil. Claims for wages due to insolvency do not fall under the Fair Labor Standards Act [shrm.org] unless the principle willfully filed for bankruptcy in an attempt to avoid paying wages. Employees are considered creditors during a bankruptcy and may be paid according to their priority as a creditor but generally they will have no claim on the personal assets of the shareholders unless there was a personal guarantee of some sort or malfeasance
Again, that is only FEDERAL law. Laws pertaining to "wage theft" vary from state to state.
And, by the way, how is allowing employees to come to work after you run out of money, but not telling them until payday, not malfeasance???
The #1 reason businesses incorporate is to protect the owner(s) from the liabilities of the corporate entity - that's ALL liabilities, including unpaid wages.
Only under certain circumstances. There are MANY circumstances under which the corporate veil does not protect the owners, and wage theft can be exactly such a circumstance--indeed ANY kind of fraud.
Wow. I guess you figured the hole you're in wasn't deep enough, so you decided to keep digging.
Right back at you;-)
FYI, there is no such thing as a state bankruptcy court, and state labor laws play no part in a bankruptcy proceeding. ALL bankruptcies in the US take place in a federal court, and are governed by federal law: [wikipedia.org]
Absolutely true. And completely irrelevant. The bankruptcy proceeding is about the disposition of the corporation's assets, and has absolutely no protections for personal liabilities under state labor laws or anti-fraud statutes.
In no case (in the US) are owners personally liable for unpaid wages or any other unpaid creditor.
The article you link to is about FEDERAL bankruptcy law and the FEDERAL Department of Labor. It says absolutely nothing about state laws nor state departments of labor.
Companies must have the ability to meet their liabilities as they become due otherwise they are trading insolvent. Put simply if Tesla had reached pay day and been unable to make the payment then it would have been insolvent and it would have been illegal for them to continue trading.
True. Being publicly-traded brings that regulatory aspect into it. Of course, halting trading doesn't get employees paid, but it does at least let them know what's coming:-(
Also, I think unpaid wages are a priority claim against assets, so in a bankruptcy reorganization or liquidation, employees would have priority over other creditors, and investors are further back.
How is it legal to not have enough to pay your employees?
Laws vary from state to state. But, in general, companies must pay their employees for time worked. If the company runs out, then principals can be held liable. Smaller company, wealthy principal, employees have a reasonable chance of getting paid, enforced by their state Department of Labor. But of course if what is owed is way more than the principals' assets, then there's not much to be done.
So that's how employees are different than investors, the "corporate veil" does not protect the company owner from liability for their wages.
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That way it can't be overwritten by software. Or at least require an internal jumper to be set before any writes can happen. Any user updating their BIOS would be fairly experienced so taking the lid off an setting a jumper wouldn't be a problem for them and people who arn't technical could just take it to a store.
Oh yeah, great. So when there's a critical flaw in there which actually needs to be fixed, and IT in a company is supporting dozens, or hundreds, or maybe even thousands of machines. Yeah, great.
Why the hell were you storing / manipulating a 64-bit key in a tree class as floating-point?
One would guess that maybe just maybe the natural type of the key was floating point? So then what unnatural type would you suggest he should have used in its place?
Yes, comparing floating-point numbers is tricky and you have to aware of the issues. No, it is not always wrong to compare them, nor to use them as keys. Would you really argue that it is inappropriate for a database to provide the ability to index a floating-point column???
... but I can pretty quickly decide if it's a possible threat coming from the clearing over there and not something I've monitored for weeks on end...
Because, as we all know, there are zero portable devices which use unlicensed Wi-Fi spectrum. Oh, wait...
Unless the Cushing's Syndrome somehow implies termodynamics laws' violation, which I strongly doubt, I don't think you can increase *weight* simply by metabolizing tissues into fat.
Yeah, OK, you're right about that--especially your point about water content of fat. It's been a long time since I dealt with this with a relative, and my recollection is somewhat hazy of the explanation for why it can be simply impossible for Cushing's patients to avoid weight gain, much less lose weight.
And yes, I know Cushing's Syndrome usually curses with obesity, but you can bet it is not because of what you say but because the way you eat more (specially when it curses with depression) and how you transform what you eat mainly into fat at the expense of other tissues, which in turn makes you move less, which in turn makes your intake even more -relatively speaking, excessive.
Cushing's patients can gain weight even on strict calorie-limited diets and with vigorous exercise. It's because of the changes in the way food is metabolized, increased metabolism specifically of carbohydrates & fats. In order to actually lose weight, some people with that disease would have to reduce caloric intake to a level that would lead to death pretty quickly from heart failure. (Now, to be clear, I am not talking about the mildest cases, thus "can gain weight..." not "will gain weight...", "some people..." not "all people...".)
Let me put it to you this way: when said relative described her attempts at calorie reduction and increased exercise to the specialist, his response was "Yes, that's why you gained 100 lbs last year instead of 200".
The vast majority of overweight people simply need to eat less and exercise more. That's true, but unfortunately it has been simplified into such dogma that, literally, someone who has weighed 120lbs an entire adult life, and suddenly balloons to nearly 200 in a few months without diet or activity changes, can go to the doctor and be told to see a dietician and and get a personal trainer, despite having multiple other symptoms besides weight gain, and that's dangerous. Dangerous, and happens again and again--very common at the Mayo Clinic for Cushing's patients to show up with photos to prove what they looked like a year ago because they've been blown off by so many.
Average time from onset of symptoms to diagnosis: 3 years. In a disease that has a 50% mortality rate (mostly heart failure) in 5 years. While 3 < 5, that's a delay that is scary :-(
Ahh you added something the GP forgot. " moving your ass more works"
Heh, in my case I never even bother with the "reduce calories" part. Exercise has always been enough for me.
Many of my friends will not agree, but I wonder how one can gain weight by putting less calories in their system.
Endocrine disorder which totally mucks up metabolism, causing your body to metabolize muscle (including your heart, oh joy) and connective tissue, in order to create huge mounds of fat which are mostly water. It's called "Cushing's Syndrome".
It is also EXTREMELY RARE, so yeah, in the vast majority of cases eating less and moving your ass more works just fine ;-)
I was taught that current kills not Voltage. A static shock has huge tension but non-existent current whereas a toaster in the bathtub has (relatively) low voltage and high current.
True.
Can a sparky weigh in on this for me?
Sure. The amperage coming through a 230V home outlet is still orders of magnitude higher than what's required to be lethal. The reduction by 1/2 from our 120V service has nothing to do with making it safe to stick a fork in the outlet ;-)
"Religious Right" in the USA is a euphemism for "sex obsessed control freaks".
Correction: "pleasure-obsessed control freaks". Marijuana has (almost) nothing to do with sex, yet these are the people who are promising, at the state level, to undo the laws passed by citizen referendums, and, at the federal level, to force those states back into compliance with federal law. (Presumably by storming DEA assaults throughout the states, since the feds have absolutely 0 ability to direct local law enforcement's day-to-day operations.)
The graciousness and politeness of the losing side. Their statements of congratulations are certainly not what you'd see from the religious right here in the U.S.
That's going a bit far. Javascript definitely has some kludge...
Oh, I agree. Some last-second editing rephrased "at all compared to" and made it read a bit differently than I intended. JavaScript is kludgy; but it's nothing compared to the ass-backware inside-out semantic model that Node.js advocates promote ;-)
All you kiddies who discovered event-driven programming and the C10K problem last month, shut up. The real adults have solved the C2M problem, and the solution involves threads AND event-driven queues, a technique which has been well understood for about 20 freaking years now.
If the zealots have their way, the servers will all run javascript (a la node.js), just like your browser, though I'll never understand all the love and hype over a language which is so kludgy.
JavaScript itself is not kludgy at all; well, at least not compared to what node.js has done with it ;-)
You need to grab a phone at tell all those sites above I mentioned, also, while you're at it, don't forget IBM and Oracle, they'll have a blast.
Would you suggest he grab an Android phone while he's at it?
Would consider such a simple question to be a "brain teaser". In fact, I suspect this is totally fake. Why in the hell would Musk would his time and that of a freakin' rocket scientist??? He might as well demand proof that the interviewee is capable of putting on his own shoes in the morning.
You cannot outrun inflation.
No. But you can keep pace with it, rather than LAGGING IT BY A FULL 50%
The Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey crashed 4 times during testing killing 30 crew members.
You got me; I'd totally forgotten about the V-22 Albatross ;-)
All modern planes except light GA aircraft have engines have fully computer-controlled engines, it's called FADEC...
Of course they are. I wasn't taking a cheap shot a software-controlled planes in general, I was taking a cheap shot at French software engineering--sorry I wasn't more clear about that...
They WERE testing the plane. cant know about the bugs until the real world tests
And yet, somehow, in modern times, it's only Airbus whose planes crash during testing and kill crews. But I guess since we don't have a statistically meaningful sample size of computer-controlled jets doing that, it's just coincidence that they're both Airbus, right? Just pure dumb luck...
It takes a real sociopath to make that statement with a straight face.
Once again, state labor laws have absolutely nothing, nada, zip, zilch to do with a bankruptcy proceeding. Repeating it over and over will not make it true, no matter how often you try.
Once again, principals' legal liability for wage theft HAS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH BANKRUPTCY LAW. Bankruptcy for the CORPORATION deals with the disposition of the CORPORATION'S assets. It has nothing at all to do with personal assets, and how those personal assets might be attached in a suit for FRAUD.
Look, at least one other person here has pointed out that your claims are incorrect, using pretty much the same argument that I have. Apparently you are one of those unfortunates who is incapable of admitting when you are wrong. Good luck to you, sir. You're going to need it.
My understanding came directly from a corporate attorney who was asked the exact question. Yours and his came from reading and interpreting the wrong law.
That is only true if the company is a sole proprietorship or partnership structure where there is no corporate veil. Claims for wages due to insolvency do not fall under the Fair Labor Standards Act [shrm.org] unless the principle willfully filed for bankruptcy in an attempt to avoid paying wages. Employees are considered creditors during a bankruptcy and may be paid according to their priority as a creditor but generally they will have no claim on the personal assets of the shareholders unless there was a personal guarantee of some sort or malfeasance
Again, that is only FEDERAL law. Laws pertaining to "wage theft" vary from state to state.
And, by the way, how is allowing employees to come to work after you run out of money, but not telling them until payday, not malfeasance???
The #1 reason businesses incorporate is to protect the owner(s) from the liabilities of the corporate entity - that's ALL liabilities, including unpaid wages.
Only under certain circumstances. There are MANY circumstances under which the corporate veil does not protect the owners, and wage theft can be exactly such a circumstance--indeed ANY kind of fraud.
Wow. I guess you figured the hole you're in wasn't deep enough, so you decided to keep digging.
Right back at you ;-)
FYI, there is no such thing as a state bankruptcy court, and state labor laws play no part in a bankruptcy proceeding. ALL bankruptcies in the US take place in a federal court, and are governed by federal law: [wikipedia.org]
Absolutely true. And completely irrelevant. The bankruptcy proceeding is about the disposition of the corporation's assets, and has absolutely no protections for personal liabilities under state labor laws or anti-fraud statutes.
You have no idea what you're talking about.
Uhm, yes, actually I do.
In no case (in the US) are owners personally liable for unpaid wages or any other unpaid creditor.
The article you link to is about FEDERAL bankruptcy law and the FEDERAL Department of Labor. It says absolutely nothing about state laws nor state departments of labor.
Companies must have the ability to meet their liabilities as they become due otherwise they are trading insolvent. Put simply if Tesla had reached pay day and been unable to make the payment then it would have been insolvent and it would have been illegal for them to continue trading.
True. Being publicly-traded brings that regulatory aspect into it. Of course, halting trading doesn't get employees paid, but it does at least let them know what's coming :-(
Also, I think unpaid wages are a priority claim against assets, so in a bankruptcy reorganization or liquidation, employees would have priority over other creditors, and investors are further back.
How is it legal to not have enough to pay your employees?
Laws vary from state to state. But, in general, companies must pay their employees for time worked. If the company runs out, then principals can be held liable. Smaller company, wealthy principal, employees have a reasonable chance of getting paid, enforced by their state Department of Labor. But of course if what is owed is way more than the principals' assets, then there's not much to be done.
So that's how employees are different than investors, the "corporate veil" does not protect the company owner from liability for their wages.