I have survived a PIP. I had a individual turn against me, and it was pretty clear even to HR that was what was happening. The individual was lashing out at me to cover for their own bad performance.

That said, I immediately started job hunting and quit as soon as I had an offer.

this is not always a practical benchmark. People writing the law are not thinking about practicality, and are often not the sharpest tools in the shed.

Assuming the road is a 35 mph road.
1. At what point does the car ignore the crosswalk? You are doing 35 mph, does the car have to slam on the breaks because someone looks like they might cross?
2. How much of the pedestrian has to be in the crosswalk? One toe? Can a pedestrian just stand in the crosswalk talking and stall traffic for 30 minutes? My wife would do this, she is 100% oblivious to her surroundings when talking. She could stall out an intersection multiple times a day, feel horrible it each time, and proceed to do the same thing again with no memory of the previous time. (ADHD for the win).
3. how does this relate parking lots. My Walmart has crosswalks and there is a stead stream of people in and out. If you waited for everyone to be out of the crosswalk you could be there hours. There is a protocol to just slowly move forward to get thru.

Because if you aren't growing revenue you might as well not exist.

A lot of Azure has Python examples. And a lot of python is run in Azure (especially there machine learning and AI services.) So it is in their own best interest to make python faster.

I'm ethnically Dutch, so it is fun trivia just to be able to say "my people named that", but it is just a name. If the people living there want to change it, then they should be able to change it. At least out west we have renamed a bunch of things because they were offensive to the indigenous people in our area, once I found that out I was more sad we didn't change them sooner.

Again, it is just a name.

I don't believe there is a Omicron specific booster, just the same Covid-19 vaccine, which still works...just not quite as well.

Personally I like "Damned if you do, damned if you don't" better.

Don't moderate content? Bad shit happens on your site and people will sue you.
Do moderate content? Then you are the bad shit and people will sue you.

Where public person is scrutinized to the n'th degree, twitter posts are analyzed back to pre-teen years, this is the perfect response. Make a fake person, rotate thru who it is for phone conversations, everything can be scripted, and the person is free of any objectionable past. I'd be surprised if this isn't done more.

We love our WiiU, but about the only game we play is Breath of the Wild. We have others, but that is the game we always seem to go back to.

well, you don't eat a steak from a milk cow anyway (I've done it, pretty tough), but that isn't to say they go to waste. Milks cows don't live long lives no matter what, about 7 years before old age kicks in. Once that hits, often they are turned into hamburger for fast food burger joints.

Source: me, grew up on a dairy, most of my family are still in the dairy industry.

I had a one semester class on programming in high school...more like half a semester really, and it was very elective. It was part of a class on word processors (Word Perfect), spreadsheets (Quatro Pro I think), and databases (don't remember). Half way thru the class the teacher said some of us could switch to learning programming instead (GW Basic -- am I dating myself now?). About 4 of us took him up on it. Of those 4, 3 of us are in the technology field now.

Other things I'd like to see schools teach as electives:
* welding & metal shop
* woodworking
* accounting
* Home ec.

Lets stop pretending all high schools need to go to college, and help them transition out of the education system.

From a business standpoint, they trust Office. End of story. Microsoft has to fail for that to end. When I write reports for business analyst, the most consistent way to get them angry is to not include export to Excel. "oh, you wrote the report I asked you for, where is the export to excel? Screw you then, put that in and I will talk to you." Those people live in Excel, Word, Powerpoint, and Outlook. And there is no force on the face of the Earth that will compel them elsewhere.

Data Scientists might like R or Python with Machine learning...business worker don't need any of that crap, Excel does everything their imaginations would ever want.

Second point: if something goes wrong, what a business manager wants is a throat to choke. Who to I call up and swear to when something goes really wrong. They want to know that someone is getting fired over their outage. Microsoft gives them that (not the firing part, but they know how to play along). Better if it is a big company that they know has dealt with "big" problems like theirs before. Open Source? You mean some guy in his mom's basement? Sure, we can go after his lunch money, but that is not nearly exciting enough.

TL:DR: Unless Microsoft screws themselves and does something really wrong, no one else really has a chance.

And these are the same people that keep meaningful spelling reform from happening. "The words are spelled this way because we don't think language should ever change"

You keep spelling it wrong, should have been "Don't install Oracle products on your computer". Common mistake.

Can't be worse than Safari.