You don't have time to sit around without anyone noticing in retail unless there's not a business case, in which case there's no customers. That business has (at least) two problems.

If there's work to be done, it's immediately noticeable when you aren't doing it, to anyone who understands the job. No one else is qualified to manage people doing it.

Those jobs hardly paid anything to begin with, either. I looked them over last time I was unemployed.

That's not wrong. It's only indicative of how poorly their stuff works with other stuff.

One of the interesting things about the Android Linux scene is that it's common for distributions to have various user-selectable schedulers. This seems kind of unusual on desktop Linux.

Did I hurt your fee-fees?

Fingers crossed, unless Trump simply forgot how conjunctions work when he added his name to the Kennedy Center:

"The Donald J. Trump and
John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts"

There's a Microsoft Excel World Championship competition? Is it April 1 already?

Given the choice, I don't know which I would have guessed the least likely thing to be true: (a) this or (b) Trump announcing a new "Trump-class" "battleship" (Google it or here. (Noting that "b" is still unlikely to come to fruition at all, but especially in the next 2 years as he stated.)

So about like every other autoland — right on the runway marker, hard enough to break teeth.

Maybe. I never saw that... but that's the sort of thing that can easily be worked around if you have good legal representation, and Google has very good immigration lawyers.

I don't know about other places, but Google hires a lot of H-1Bs because when you're trying to hire the top hundredth of one percent of talent, and you need tens of thousands of such people, the US just doesn't produce enough. Not because the US is bad at producing top software engineering talent, but because the US is only 4% of the world's population. Expanding the scope to include the whole world lets you find a lot more smart people.

The distribution at Google seems to be (from where I sat) about 1/3 from the US, 1/3 Asian (especially Indian and Chinese) and the other third made up of the rest. So, given that we're only 4% of the world's population, I'd say that Americans are pretty heavily overrepresented. Even more when you notice that the non-natives have a higher average education level. My team as it was when I stopped managing had three Americans, two with BS degrees and one with an MS, and we had five from other countries, three PhDs and two MS.

They're not cheaper than citizens, they're more expensive than citizens. They get paid the same as citizens but Google covers their immigration legal expenses, which can easily be $10-20k every few years. Of course, that's peanuts compared to their salaries.

Incorrect. We had an election. About one third of voting-age citizens preferred Trump. A little less than that preferred Harris. Almost that many didn't care enough to vote for either one.

I'd expect that every instance that gets even a little public attention goes viral and ends up on the news. It's just too novel and juicy not to.

It seems unlikely that the driver model will get re-designed. It's all fundamentally C ABI now, and it will stay that way, because all the drivers won't get rewritten. The Rust code that interfaces with it will just have to be careful, and carefully diagnose any driver misbehavior. But misbehavior shouldn't cause a BSOD. At worst it should cause whatever operation was being attempted to fail.

Any one of those cases could potentially have been insurmountable if a judge had found in their favor. Like I said, there were fundamental questions of law regarding whether that permit was lawfully issued in the first place.

They took apart the portions that were already built. It was shut down. Spin it however you want; the project was dead at that point.

They would fight it if they thought that him rescinding the permit was unlawful, because the only alternative was losing the money they had already spent building parts of it. They did not, because they believed that given the circumstances, rescinding the permit was lawful. They were potentially correct because of the way that the permit was issued.

Again, they did not. They stopped construction and started tearing it down. There are no plans to try again.

It actually is far off.

A legally issued permit is binding on the government. An illegally issued permit is not. The offshore wind farm permits were legally issued. The Keystone XL permits likely were not.

The legal difference between a permit issued through the usual decades-long approval process and a permit issued in an expedited fashion under executive orders to rush the environmental review to make the project happen is substantial. The legality of that executive order was in question, and the expedited environmental review created serious questions about whether the review met the standards required by federal law. At that point, it became the states' right to challenge the permitting, and they did.

Had they won, the permits would have been rolled back by the courts.

It's been a while so I can't really direct you. When licensing became very uncertain I backed away and haven't done one in a while.

My best advice is to get a good flight controller kit up front so everything works together without a lot of screwing around. Also to read lots of build logs before you do one. And maybe start with a cheap type to build familiarity.

Also any design where you just have arms connected to a central board tends to be flimsy. I started with a SK450 and it's kind of floppy