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Quote: Speaking of outdated, the feedback loop is far too long. 62% of employees want to receive feedback more frequently.
I don't get it. I know if I'm doing a good job or not. I know if I'm helping to meet the objectives of my department and/or the whole company. I know if I'm meeting my person objectives, sometimes at odds with the previous, but that's life. Why do people feel the need to have a review, other than that is the sheep thinking that began with grade school?
The only kind of review I've ever found useful is to review the management. And the only question to be asked is: Are they facilitating or hindering my work? If they are hindering, then the followup is "here's how YOU, Dear Manager, could be doing YOUR job better."
modified 12-Jan-21 8:37am.
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Imposter syndrome.
Also Dunning-Kruger.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Some Windows 10 users have complained of a bizarre error after upgrading to Windows 10 20H2. "As always, should you or any of your IM Force be caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions."
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Another day, another Windows mishap.
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While more progress is being made all the time in Artificial Intelligence (AI), some scientists and philosophers warn of the dangers of an uncontrollable superintelligent AI. "Here I am, brain the size of a planet and they ask me to take you down to the bridge"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: While more progress is being made all the time in Artificial Intelligence (AI), some scientists and philosophers warn of the dangers of an uncontrollable superintelligent AI. We have had warnings for longer than the AI has become a viable concept.
Pity is that they are catalogued as "science-fiction" and most of the people don't take them serious.
But many forget that:
Quote: what is today written as science-fiction, might tomorrow be documented as a reportage.
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When it comes to imitating human emotion, robots have a long way to go, but researchers at Columbia Engineering’s Creative Machines Lab have taken an initial step toward this goal. So it will feel sorry when it's killed us all off?
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It's basic pattern recognition, but that doesn't get you published. Call it empathy and fret about it taking over the world; that will generate checks.
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I have empathy, too
Error - too many levels of indirection
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Kent Sharkey wrote: So it will feel sorry when it's killed us all off?
It feels your pain as it kills you.
Not that it does you any good
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Intel took the time at CES to offer a preview of its next major chip release: its hybrid Alder Lake chipsets, which — like its Lakefield predecessor — will utilize an approach similar to Arm’s BIG.little technology, using high-performance and high-efficiency cores in a single package to maximize both power and efficiency. Do they come in Salt&Vinegar?
Or All-dressed?
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With 2021 finally here, Microsoft is planning on releasing some exciting new features and updates this year for Windows 10 operating system and other products. I'm going out on a limb here and guess, "patches"?
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Patches? no, that would imply fixing something. It'll be more icons and features that we never knew we needed.
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We identify some of the hot areas where software developers can focus their attention to better stand out from the crowd in a challenging job market. The ability to troubleshoot a video conference call?
The ability to write a Twitter clone (with security)?
The ability to look busy while working from home?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: The ability to troubleshoot a video conference call? What actually is not that easy. Depending on who is on each side of the line can be a total terror.
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With Linux 5.10 having shipped as the latest Long Term Support (LTS) release to be maintained for at least the next five years, a discussion has begun over dropping a number of old and obsolete CPU platform support currently found within the mainline kernel. Guess it's time to upgrade that PowerPC
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What's next, the 6502 and Z-80?
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As long as they don't do as MS and give the possibility to find the older versions where they are still supported... why not? If it helps to make it perform better / have better security in modern hardware I would say yes.
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This includes improvements around HTTP, Sockets, networking-related security, and other networking primitives. Sorry, still no Gopher
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I wonder how many of those improvements are needed to have (better?) interrelation of Windows with Teams / Skype, Telemetry and / or other MS products ?
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F* (pronounced F star) is a general-purpose functional programming language with effects aimed at program verification. For those that give all the Fs
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Does "F*ck it" count too?
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F* Compiler Kit Integration Toolset = F*CK IT
Software Zen: delete this;
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Samsung is working on a robot that can pick up laundry, load the dishwasher, set the table, pour wine, and even bring you a drink. Well, that's my needs covered
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What about beer? Is that an upgrade?
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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