I was expecting your linked article to talk about Huang going around hitting employees with sticks or something, given your characterization of "abusing" employees. Turns out that is not the case.

Huang now displays a "task-oriented" leadership style which places value on getting things done, setting ambitious goals, and monitoring performance, Rivkin said.

Horrendous! How can an employer just expect that employees perform?? Worse,

Workers at a high-profile company like Nvidia generally have other options but "they are choosing to remain for as long as they can," says Chaturvedi, which suggests Huang is doing something right.

All those poor abused working people must have Stockholm Syndrome to want to stay in such a terrible environment!

I don't know. Maybe it feels "abusive" to you when your boss judges your performance based on what you have accomplished, but many people actually appreciate that sort of environment and are able to work hard there to get ahead.

Now, cheating on your wife, OTOH, is definitely a very bad thing. Especially when it is with a foreign spy. Frankly, that level of poor judgement should probably cost him his job.

But it doesn't sound like he was abusing his employees.

Interesting point! I did not know that was the origin of their zone oddness. Thanks for that information.

Lots of other places drift west. Like lots of islands that are in the wrong zone for no real good reason. Probably silly reasons like past (or current) country ownership.

Stupid it may be, but there are a lot of places in the world that already do that and are effectively already going permanent DST. In fact, some of these places then also do DST again, making double DST. Don't believe me? Well, let's look at a time zone map:

Time zone map
Places that do DST

Consider the US state of Alaska. It is nominally in time zones -10 and -11 (check the water north and south of the state). But for some reason, the whole state is in -9. And for some reason, despite their high latitude, they also do DST. I guess they have so much, or so little, sun that it doesn't really matter if their clocks align to it, but then why change twice a year?

But a sparsely populated place not very interesting? Then consider China. Despite being 4 time zones wide, the whole country is in a single time zone (+8). The western border of China is in effectively triple permanent DST. Must be annoying to have solar noon at 3 in the afternoon. At least they don't do DST, through, and a lot of China's population is on its eastern side, which is in the right time zone for its longitude.

But maybe an authoritarian dictatorship isn't a great example. Then turn your eyes to France and Spain. They are effectively south of the UK and effectively in the GMT (+0) time zone entirely. But for some reason, they choose to be in the +1 timezone, giving them permanent DST. Then they also do DST in the summer, making it effectively double DST.

Basically, a lot of time zones "drift" to the west. There are probably a lot of reasons for this, some reasonable, some perhaps less so (the cynical part of me thinks it is older leaders trying to get younger people to wake up earlier and stop sleeping in, though it is actually hard to assign that much forethought to country leaders).

Interestingly, if you look at the DST map linked above, it is clearly just a European and US concept. Not to get too political, but I expected the non-thinking, white-things-are-bad, extreme TDS sufferers to loudly call for an end to DST now that Trump supported it so strongly, but so far that doesn't seem to have happened.

"For all they keep doing, the one thing they can't seem to do is make a checkbox to stop being harassed about updates."

You literally post this on every article about Firefox. Aren't you tired yet? I have replied numerous times that they are *NEVER* going to do that. And then I pointed you to using policies, which will disable updates.

So... what you're saying is that you are tired of seeing the same pointless message again and again over something that will never be changed? This has to be the most unintentionally ironic post I've ever seen!

Not disputing your points, but JPEG2000 is used pretty extensively in the remote sensing world (think overhead satellite imagery from companies like Maxar [was Worldview]). These images are often huge (think GB+), benefit well from the compression and especially the inherent res levels J2K provides. It is a common compression format in NITF formatted imagery files. A niche area to be sure, but it is used.

DST works by tricking people to wake up and get to their daily activities an hour earlier than they normally would. And it is sold as "giving" people an hour extra in the evening. They could do that without changing their clocks by just waking up at 5 instead of 6 and working 7-4 instead of 8-5, but most people don't want to wake up earlier. So we use DST to trick them into doing it.

Doing DST as a whole society also helps for people who don't have flexible hours for their daytime activities.

But i realized a while ago that the twice a year time change is the PRIMARY reason why DST even works. Because without the constant change, people would just adapt to the new timezone. Daily activities (like school and work) would shift to starting an hour later. Lunch would start being eaten from 1-2 instead of 12-1, as the new time would be when the sun is at its highest. Dinner would be 6-7 instead of 5-6, because that is closer to when the sun is setting. It would take several years, but eventually, society would shift its schedule to closer match the sun. And the way that DST "tricks" people into getting up an hour earlier would stop.

btw, your preference (and mine) for year standard time is the way most of the world works. Gray countries in that map do not do DST. It's really only US, Canada, Europe and a few other places. And I'll never understand DST in Alaska, which is already entirely in the wrong time zone.

It isn't about Hollywood making movies that Chinese audiences would appreciate. It's about making movies that the authoritarian Chinese government would allow to be available to Chinese audiences. There's a difference.

I'm inclined to agree, but thinking about it there might be some things that an "agentic" AI could help with. Like "fill out my timecard for today" or "every time Outlook web logs me out, log back in with my credentials." You know, the things that would give the bureaucrats a heart attack if they knew I could do them instead of wasting my time.

Assuming I trusted the AI enough, of course.

You think it is bad timing because it will increase the number of people leaving Disney services. But I think it will muddy the waters so no one will be able to definitively say why people left. Did they leave over Kimmel? Did they leave because the price went up? Who can say? This way, no one can be blamed for falling subscriber numbers.

It may be bad for the company, but it is good for executives who don't want to be blamed.

Of course, the most likely explanation is that this had been planned and the timing was just a coincidence. But that explanation is boring.

... Florida does not have a problem with invasive Python scripts.

As a software developer in Florida, I can tell you that Python scripts are definitely invasive. Twenty years ago, there were practically none, and now they are all over the place! They gobble up precious white space and unused braces just fall from the brace trees to rot, uneaten. They've driven cute, innocent Perl and shell scripts almost to extinction! It's quite a problem almost no one is talking about...

Python is kind of the modern Visual Basic in that it makes it easier for non-experts to create applications to accomplish their specific tasks. While this is probably overall a good thing, it does mean that there is lots of poorly written Python code out there. Even Python code written by professional software developers can be bad. I dealt with some Python scripts once that took 30 seconds to print help usage because of how many imports they were doing.

As far as GUIs, PyQt is useful for creating Qt GUIs. Qt generally uses native platform widgets and themes so they blend well on various platforms. Unfortunately, it is one of those batteries that is not included. Though I just checked and the `PyQt5` module was installed on my local Linux machine, so YMMV.

Jupyter notebooks are a web based Python interface that can help visualize results from Python functions, but again that is a separate package, and may not be what you are looking for.

That article is dated September 30, 2016, which is probably the Friday referenced. I was curious, and found this follow-up, dated 11/04/2016, indicating that lawsuit was again dropped. it further stated that the first lawsuit was dismissed because the federal law cited did not apply (apparently it would have had to have been a race based rape, which seems like a really crazy law).

btw, this was based on a some simple Google searching. Here is a brief Wikipedia description of the case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_sexual_misconduct_allegations#Katie_Johnson/Jane_Doe_(1994). Wikipedia seems to match both articles, and confirms that this is a 9 year old case.

When the Gov is paying all of the bills it can really drive down prices

That's why all those tanks and fighter jets and aircraft carriers are so CHEAP!

Or alternatively, consider the US university system prices when the government started providing more money (in the form of loans) to students who otherwise couldn't afford college. Yes, that's not the only factor, but an increase in the demand for something, especially by giving out money for that thing, will likely increase that things price, not lower it.

A person or group of people suing a private company falls under none of them.

It falls under the first of them, in the appellate form. SCOTUS would not re-try the case or anything, but could consider the application of law(s) used in the case and whether those laws are compatible with the constitution.

I think we're probably saying effectively the same thing, just in different ways.

SCOTUS only hears cases that related to either lawsuits involving the government or government officials, or matters of law/legality (including constitutional/civil rights).

The second part of that is correct, though the first is not. Any cases could come before the Supreme Court, though a great many will involve the government (executive branch) in some way. This is kind of a selection bias, though, because the government has the resources to appeal (or fight appeals) all the way to the Supreme Court, and because the government is a party in a great many court cases (all criminal cases, for example).

Important cases do tend to involve the government, though, since they establish what the government can or cannot do, which affects all of us.

[ IANAL, so any or all of this could be wrong, but I think it is correct ]