My thoughts are “Why do they need one?”. It’s not like UEFI stops you doing anything.

UBIOS’s unique features over UEFI include increased support for chiplets and other heterogeneous computing use-cases, such as multi-CPU motherboards with mismatching CPUs, something UEFI struggles with or does not support. It will also better support non-x86 CPU architectures such as ARM, RISC-V, and LoongArch, the first major Chinese operating system.

[citation needed]

I would say this is about increasing the level of control of the platform, not about technological issues.

Edit: For example, here’s the RISC-V UEFI specification.

Baking

I find that response rather disappointing. It seems like your goals are not aligned with the people who are attending. You’re on a recruitment drive and they are trying to effect political change.

Dsa? Psl?

Government ministers are bound by collective responsibility and so if Milliband states something definitively it is taken as government policy. All other members of government would be expected to say the same thing.

So the weasel words here are because it’s not agreed government policy that they should leave X. I expect they haven’t discussed it. If he’s more definitive it would potentially expose a split in opinion within the government (Oh the horror!).

Understand the code words. His opinion is that they should leave. This is his way of making it a topic for discussion in the government.

Agree with everything you said, but if you’re going to ask me about anything, then the thing I do 40 hours a week every week should be a safe subject. If I’m interviewing a chef, I’ll probably ask them about working in a kitchen. I may even ask them to demonstrate something.

I think it’s a reasonable expectation.

The key thing is to be as relaxed as you can be. Interviewing is a skill you learn, so go for a few interviews that you’re not as interested in. Try not to go for your dream job first, because you’ll be stressed to hell. Get a couple under your belt first if you can.

Interviews aren’t an exam. They’re a conversation.

This is a good point. Being interviewed is a learnt skill. You get better at it by doing more of them. I always advise people to start a job search by going on a couple of interviews that you’re not that interested in.

I don’t prepare, because it’s testing a task that I do pretty much everyday. If I can’t do it on-demand I don’t see how I can call myself a programmer. That said, I do have some strategies.

Often the interviewer isn’t looking for people able to recite detail in the documentation. They are looking at the quality of the code you’ll produce. So I concentrate on explaining my approach to the problem, rather than the code.

• How am I going to structure it?
• Where are my concerns?
• What choices am I making about performance?

…and so on. If it’s on a whiteboard I’ll often write in pseudo-code that looks something like a language, but I’ll state that I’m not trying to write perfect, compiler ready code.

I let them guide me to the level of detail they are looking for.

If it turns out they want to score points on me for missing a bracket, or getting the order of arguments wrong, then I take that as a negative against the company. Interviews go both ways, and you’re looking for people you can work with too. So if they’re going to nitpick in an interview they’re probably going to be horrible to work with day-to-day.

You asked the equivalent of “What’s a limey bastard?” at a British pub. It’s quite funny, but basically everything you kicked off answers your question.

Or he’s old enough to be able to been schooled in handwriting?

You’ve misunderstood the thread.

They refused to sign on to the new requirements along with everyone else.

I’m not the only one seeing the 20 or so deals like this in the last few weeks. Right?

Is this because the SEC is shutdown?

Yes. I was taking that part of the equation for granted.

Well tariffs are import tax. Imports are driven by consumption and consumption doesn’t go up in response to heavy new taxes.

I thought I saw it was no longer maintained.

Also China require local representatives in subsidiaries management in China, possibly even Chinese leadership. The Dutch are only playing from the same rulebook.

This feels we’re going to get a movie like The Big Short in a few years time. “The Big Hallucination” or something.

Conflict often arises because somebody is pissed off and nobody is listening. The first thing to do is listen and understand where they are coming from.

Tense situation is a karen yelling at one of my colleagues because her father’s operation was postponed because I kid you not 4 doctors called in sick today. Rumor has it they’re striking for better pay.

So, this “Karen” has a sick relative that she wants be helped, and nobody is helping. Sounds like she’s got a fair reason to be agitated. Now you may not be able to do anything personally about it, but ignoring her makes the situation worse. Try listening and then explaining why you’re unable to help, maybe pointing her in the direction of somebody who has responsibility.

The first thing is to listen, then show a little fucking empathy.

Lets start by assuming the balloon stays the same size as it rises in the air column and we’ll ignore the temperature drop. The pressure and density of the gas inside the balloon remains the same, but at some point the air density outside the baloon will drop to match the density of helium inside the baloon. At that point the balloon would stop rising as the weight of the atmosphere it displaces is the same as weight of the helium filled balloon. It’s like a little boat on a sea of air.

However, balloons don’t stay the same size. As they float up the atmospheric pressure drops. The balloon will expand because the pressure inside the balloon is higher that the pressure outside. It still has a bouyant force on it because the weight of atmosphere it displaces is still larger than it’s own weight, so it continues to go up. Outside pressure continues to drop. Balloon continues to grow. Eventually the balloon bursts.

Flakes should never have happened the way that they did IMHO. The situation it’s left the project in is awful. It’s stuck. They can’t move forward and accept flakes because they undermine some fundamental things. They can’t move backwards and remove them or even make breaking changes because they’re in such widespread use.