I’ve played piano for the last 20 years, starting off initially with a teacher and going through the usual sheet music pieces. I used to think as you do for the longest time - “The important thing is to have fun!”
I still believe that, but I find that I learn new techniques every time I read, learn and play an existing piece - this makes my improvisation and jam sessions all that much better! So would highly recommend learning to read sheet music.
I have a similar day job, and would love to start consulting on the side. Legal and worries that it could be seen as “conflict of interest” prevent me from starting however. How do you manage that?
i have an extremely unusual position as a contractor bc of covid so i am actually not technically a fulltime employee for the day job as well. so it works out there at least on the employment terms level. as for conflict of interest, it's a product they dont (yet) offer, its open source, and i'm performing a different role to the day job. i've been public about it and nobody's raised an issue on either side. ofc if you want to get nasty you could, in which case my downside is having to give up either gig. not terrible. its amazing what you can do with job opps when you dont need the money.
I believe this is exactly what slot reservations in BigQuery achieve. Instead of paying on-demand pricing that is determined by data read, you purchase a fixed number of “slots” that are shared by queries running within that particular project.
Ah OK, after reading their docs I see they've changed what "slots" used to mean in Dremel (internal version of BQ). It used to be that slots _guaranteed_ capacity, but did not limit it. Meaning that you could rely on having a certain number of workers in the cluster when you issue a query, but if Dremel had more it'd give you all it's got. Obviously this is not viable when people have to pay per terabyte read, because a ton can be read.
What they have now strikes me as an even better solution to the problem of bankrupting someone with a query IMO. Not sure how pricing compares to redshift et al, but pricing is the easiest thing for Google to change.
The slow judicial system is the biggest weapon that the government and other large entities with money have. Not everyone can afford to put their lives on hold for 3 years while a court case slowly winds its way up to a judge.
Its worse now. The Supreme Court Of India has capitulated; it is, for all practical purposes, in the hands of Modi & Shah. An institution that should check unwarranted excesses is looking the other way.
States that are not run by Modi Inc are in a lot of trouble. That's the point though... conformance.
Toyota recently pulled out of the country due to ineffective bureaucracy and that's when they're pushing for more manufacturing. In cases like these there's no way for them to fight if they're against you.
Toyota is NOT pulling out of India, and neither is it not expanding/investing more money. It was a newsbyte spread by some papers w/o citing named sources. The news was refuted by Government officials as well as Toyota India's Vice Chairman, who said Toyota would be investing about 20 Billion INR over the next 12 months.
Re. conversion - nilsocket, do you believe that every individual has agency in choosing their religion? Or do you believe that these choices should be made for them by “those that know better”? An analogy, do you think that your occupation should be something you can choose? Or should that choice be made for you by “those that know better”?
If the conversion is “forced” or “fake”, nothing changes on the ground anyway, and it doesn’t matter. If the conversion is genuine, why should society have a say on an individual’s belief?
That twitter handle is far from an unbiased source.
Again, my question here is -
Who decides that the reason someone has chosen for their conversion is “wrong”, for what is essentially an individual’s choice. I for one trust nobody but myself to make those judgements, within the framework of the law. I do not want the state to infringe on my personal freedom. Anti-conversion laws are a dangerous step in the direction of the state telling people what to believe and what not to.
I have no problem with sex, and if people really want it they pay for it, it is then called prostitution.
I do not have a problem with sex or prostitution. But we all know where it would lead - drugs, gun violence, sex trafficking, child trafficking, mafia, money laundering, government corruption/blackmail.
The certain organised religion/s have the same problem, imagine a neighbourhood mafia backed by a trillion dollar international conglomerate.
And this statement here (one I’ve heard before from others as well) demonstrates one of our biggest problems (speaking as someone who grew up in India) - and makes my blood boil.
Without respect for the individual and individual rights, Indian society will not progress.
Sitting on your high horse and making judgements about how the poor and uneducated (or any other group) aren’t ready for free speech is not the way.
