While none (?) of us know the cause of his death, and to many of us it would be interesting, I'd say the only people who have a /right/ to know would be his family.

Does anybody remember, about 20 years ago, the legendary (W.) Richard Stevens passed away, apparently suddenly, and the family asked that the details of his death be kept private. (His books and writing on TCP/IP and Unix programming are IMO hands-down the best-ever on the subject.) In general, that fuels speculation that it was something humiliating, shameful, or embarrassing, but all of that is speculation. What I find fascinating is that 22 years later, with all sorts of internet sleuths, still no one has published anything about RS's death. I'm generally of a belief that secrets tend to leak out eventually.

Anyway -- I met Dan twice, and he always seemed like an upbeat, smart, and warm guy. I'm sorry for his family.

I've had some Time Machine backups that took hours /to start/. (Stuck in "Preparing Time Machine backup"...)

One thing I found that helped tremendously:

sudo sysctl debug.lowpri_throttle_enabled=0

AFter that TM backups seemed downright reasonable. Just in case this helps.

Oops. s/Should would/sure would/

"Asked it" to suspend... yeah right!

"Hey Zoom! Nice company you got there. Should would be a shame if something happened to it."

Totally sincere question - what does it mean to "pay your taxes" but not "declare your taxes"? Sorry, unfamiliar with the system. I hear about "filing your taxes" which to me means I tell the govt how much I earned, they have their own idea of how much I earned, and then we need to "get squared up" at the end of the year. So if that is paying the taxes, what is declaring them? Thanks and I hope the question's sincerity is clear.

Yes -- and also just recently, it became available only through a paid subscription ($50/yr). Well actually, the first 60 minutes of the podcast is still available for free, but the in-depth 3 hour discussions that have been released since the late November subscriber model implementation are much more satisfying than the 60-minute "teaser" (yes, an hour long "teaser")

By the way I like DavenH's list -- my top choices are Rogan, Sam Harris, Portal, and Sean Carroll. Although w/ Rogan, I normally skip the MMA ones and many of the comedian ones. I'll always listen to a Bill Burr or Whitney Cummings show though...

Place sounds like a dumpster fire.

Does the place have a name? Sounds like in your round alone, there were 12 people who walked out. Probably dozens, if not hundreds, have walked out over time.

It's a little bit tricky... copyright and patents are awarded by the federal government (talking U.S. here, obviously), but no such analogue applies for trade secrets. For example, secrets deemed “business information” are only protected under state law, if at all for that matter. One of the obvious differences between trade secrets and copyright & patents is filing/disclosure with the federal government. The whole idea of a trade secret is that you... wait for it... keep it secret. Not even the government knows.

Now since 2016 there is the DTSA, but generally, trade secret cases are tried in state court. (I'm speaking as an expert witness who has testified in state court and federal court, and in matters of copyright, patent and trade secret infringment).

Last thing I'll say, again from the perspective of an expert witness, is that it's very common that employees from Company A leave and go to competitor Company B. I've seen the entire spectrum, working both for plaintiffs and defense, from "walking out with everything that's not bolted down" to "doing it a better way, but old employer has sour grapes" and either wants to simply crush the new company with legal fees, or actually believes "they must have taken our stuff" when they actually didn't.

Like it or not, that's why we have the court system. From my experience, the truth is often somewhere in the middle - the employees aren't completely clean-handed, but the jilted ex-employer attempts to "throw the book" at the ex-employees.

For anyone who doesn't follow the link to read the story you posted -- apparently the gang members who donned brass knuckles and beat the kid into a coma were all Six Flags employees - WTF?!?! Kinda makes you wonder what the hiring process is like there.

In Germany the limit is 0.05; she was 4x this level.

I had exactly the same question. I watched the ~2 minute video (linked at the bottom of the summary) and I think the answer was in there -- they'll have multiple trucks conquering a neighborhood, often passing each other on a 2-lane road as each serves the buildings on the right hand side of the road. To me it's totally plausible that under such a scheme, the net distance could be less.

Holy crap. After reading the slide show on Imgur, I think we should call a doctor to help Mr. Thomas Goebl, Director of Marketing and author of the presentation. He patted himself and the company so much on the back, he must have broken his arm! I have never seen a more self-indulgent, self-congratulatory presentation in my life.

Speaking of RISC-V and its instruction set, I recently read an interesting & informative blog post on the topic by Adam Langely at his blog Imperial Violet

Wish I had mod points to mod you up. Also there was the guy on Hacker News (emcrazyone) who I think was a systems engineer at Ford, he (or she?) explained the BSquare shitshow.

I feel for you guys... having these asinine decisions rammed down your throats, and being told to "make it work". Sounds like you guys never had a fighting chance...

My understanding is that if this goes to trial, which in the U.S. is public and open, all the documents presented (except possibly source code?) will be available to the public.

Sounds like Ford is in very, very bad position on this one. Usually attorneys save the most damning material for trial. Maybe we'll see.