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Beijing authorities require companies to extends for a week unless the company is either critical industries or can fully work-from-home. My company started to fully work-from-home from today, for at least 2 weeks.

This experiment is massive, industries usually move forward only when it's mandatory. I believe this is a great chance that would make people see a lot of professions could be handled quite well remotely, and face-to-face is not that mandatory.

Also, some off-topic info/experiences in case anyone wonders - yesterday I was back from San Francisco to Beijing, here's what I saw:

1. Almost every Chinese I saw during the trip wares a mask. In SFO airport, during the flight, Beijing airport, and on the street. Not many people wear gloves. One guy even wears goggles. I wore an N95 mask and vinyl gloves (couldn't find surgical gloves, and masks are sold out for a lot of pharmacies) for the whole trip (like 15 hours), not the most pleasant experience but acceptable.

2. I filled in two additional forms on the flight which asked if I have been to Hubei (the province which Wuhan located in). One from the custom authority and one from Beijing authority, but the forms are almost identical.

3. When I tried to take a lift, I found Didi (Uber/Lyft counterpart) requires every driver and passenger to wear a mask or everyone has the right to reject and report others if they don't. I guess would I have to take the metro if I didn't buy a mask in the US, but I'm also not sure if the metro staff would let me in if that was the case. Simply put, there are tons of public places that reject people that don't wear masks, it seems to be a very hard time for people who are unfortunately couldn't buy/afford overpriced masks.

4. There are people on the street, but very few. It was the last day of the holiday, in prior years it should be crowded already because people migrate back from every province to Beijing.

5. When I back to my apartment, I found almost every apartment would have security guards stop visitors from entering the apartment, for those who live here requires to show a paper from the apartment to enter freely. Rumor says there are even apartments lockdown themselves that people cannot go out, I'm not sure if it's true.

6. Although Beijing is always easy to buy everything online, food delivery choices only have very few options left for now. Not sure if it would back to normal after the holiday ends. Other than food and medical supplies, things haven't changed much. And also delivery guys cannot enter the apartment, so people have to go outside the apartment to get the delivery.

7. For the rest of the week, I'm going to live on instant noodles and some simple foods. Wish me good luck =)
I expect a huge rise in depression the more people work at home. Some people are fairly isolated and get a needed portion of their interaction quota from work. Without something to fill the defecit they will struggle
I've created a temp account for this to be on the safe side :)

I work for a big (300k+ ) company with some tens of thousand office workers in CN
We are preparing since about 2 weeks to upgrade our remote access infra in China with partial success as something which would be a soft upgrade everywhere else needs to go through various levels of local subcontractors and partners of our provider

On top of that because of the Internet situation in CN it is not practically easy to use remote access via another location with higher capacity - the performance gets degraded very quickly - or use resources directly over the internet eg. RTC which is not hosted locally

I doubt that local authorities will change something in the future because of this example but one can only hope
One thing that often comes up with clean energy solutions is the fluctuations in capacity. In the minds of some this translates into a "OMG we need so much battery to survive the post apocalyptic circumstances that will surely make wind + solar insufficient". However in the real world, you can also address fluctuations by simply having over capacity.

If e.g. wind is half the cost of other solutions, you can install 2x the capacity that you need so that you still get 100% of what you need when winds drop by 2x. That of course creates the interesting problem of what to do with the extra energy that you don't need under normal circumstances. One solution is to simply transport it around by cable to places that have under capacity but if everyone puts over capacity in place, that's not going to soak up all the over capacity.

Solar has the same challenge. Having barely enough production + batteries can work. But when prices for solar + wind continue to drop you can start thinking about installing 2x, 3x or even 10x the capacity that is needed. That then creates a challenge of how to utilize that over capacity. This is not a problem but a huge economic opportunity.

Hydrogen is one of several ways to store energy and if we nail cheap & clean mass production, it becomes a very useful source of energy for all sorts of things. The German industry (i.e. Siemens + car manufacturers) are keenly interested in making that happen because there's going to be a world wide demand for components for all of this and that kind of is something they are good at. So, there's a very rational reason for bootstrapping the hydrogen economy like this in Germany.
"Jaywalking" isn't forbidden in Sweden.

The word "jay" is old American slang for "idiot", and the term was promoted by the car companies to push the blame for accidents onto pedestrians.
Seems like the experiment was a success: systems have very low margins to operate.
> everything that doesn't require a physical presence (factory, warehouse jobs and so forth)

I don't know what kind of fairy tale world you're from, but you need actual human on site to fix and mend broken machines AND broken operation processes, and also need managers to manage those men.

Also, employees are stakeholders, too, and it's often important to gather various information to gain insights into the operations of the company, so that they can speak up before it's too late. Being able to observe actual processes also helps managers to more precisely understand and analyze operations. (Not that these work as intended in real world, tho.)
What exactly is the issue with finding things stored on your local filesystem?

Does your OS not index file names and content, allowing you to search for a text fragment and get meaningful results?
And yet, startups have been started as fully remote. Stack Overflow, Zapier, Seeq, just off the top of my head. And there are countless of successful open source projects as well.

Personally, while I agree that the bandwidth is higher locally, I don't agree you are prevented from expressing what you wish by communicating remotely; it just takes a bit longer, which is more than compensated by the time saved on other things.
The virtual numbers come from a few different suppliers, one being Twilio for example.

The physical SIM numbers are infrastructure that we built, using racks of GSM modems, SIM card switching devices, and our own software to manage everything. The SIM card switching devices reduce maintenance requirements since when a customer no longer needs a SIM, we can electronically switch the modem to a new SIM without needing to visit the datacentre. We just have to go every so often to replace the used SIMs before the pool runs low.
Have you ever visited a city like Mumbai? In the larger cities of most less developed countries it's not only very accepted but even necessary for the safety of everyone to honk at every corner or crowded situation.

The main culprit is the staggering amount of scooters, that usually ignore all rules and zip through any opening they can find. You'll be saving lives by honking in every situation, people kind of count on it. I'm not surprised this behavior translates into an increase in meaningless honking at red traffic signs.
Apple really needs to have a "maintenance year" for software - where the majority of work is fixing bugs and simplifying complicated features, and minimal new features are added beyond those necessary to support new hardware.

I personally had so many bugs with Catalina that I decided to just wipe my device and start afresh with a clean install of Catalina off a USB stick. It helped a great deal, but I still have some bugs.

It looks like a lot of testing at Apple is done on either clean builds, or a simple upgrade from a year ago (while most real-life users have 3-4 upgrades stacked on each other)
That depends on the compiler, and I'd expect most to optimize this into a cmov
OK, my $0.02 as someone who's used lots of psychedelics.

Start with a couple grams of dried Psilocybe.

And don't combine it with alcohol, marijuana, etc.

If you liked that, after at least a couple weeks, try two or three times as much.

Then repeat until you're experiencing a little ego loss.

If you liked all that, try some LSD. Maybe start with 50 micrograms or so.

Then repeat the dosage increase regimen until you experience total ego loss for several hours.

And if you liked that, then try some DMT or 5-MeO-DMT.

But not otherwise. It's only 20-30 minutes, but it could feel like forever.
> he idea that, somehow, your actions do not define your value is so fundamentally broken

? I never said that.
In Germany/Netherlands, this is called pfand. It's quite effecti e. Even if you don't bother to reclaim the pfand, someone else will.
This video seems off to me. Sure the idea is fun, but in no way am I convinced that this really happened. This is just cute editing and CGI. At least as far as I can tell.
Thanks, shmoogy!
It'd also make syscalls a bit more expensive...
Interesting, Crappsy looks remarkably similar to an [1] Adult Swim parody of startup companies from 2014.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJklHwoYgBQ
Alas, Warsaw, the capital of Poland, now has more cars per capita than New York. A car is very much a symbol of status in Poland now, and that's in part thanks to American movies. American hype in Poland is still very strong. You have to endure car talk at work, if you're commuting by bike you're the odd one.

I know the story of railroads in America. In Poland, once communism was officially over, they realized rail transport generates big monetary losses. So, over the course of several governments, they insidiously extinguished rail and bus transport. They did it in such a way that it appears citizens don't want it. For example they made the train arrive in a city at 08:10 am instead of 07:55 - a big deal for school kids. Or they broke stopovers - one train would arrive at 11:30 and another would leave at 11:40, so you could catch it. But they made it 11:30 and 11:35 or even 11:30, so you're likely to miss the other train.
To give you an idea, the number of passengers transported per year fell 4 times since 1989. There are books popping up describing the process and how most people in villages feel forced to own a car.
Link’s Awakening was from 1993. It aged so well that the highly successful 2019 remake for Switch is basically just new stylized artwork.
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That's weird. Google maps seems to prefer to direct me on a kilometres long detour than to take a simple u-turn into an empty driveway. They do seem to have rules about u-turns, they just don't make sense.
Exactly, but somehow my post below gets two downvote. I wonder why.
Oh. I forgot about the crates. They have a deposit too, but i don't use them because I'm not buying that much at once.
Not true for 5-MeO-DIPT. The trip lasts for hours.
How about the possibility for HPPD, I think that's universal to all psychedelics?
I think it's a misconception that remote work has to be async.

You can breath down people's neck just as well over a video link, and there are multiple apps to help scale that.

Whether that's desirable or not is another topic, but why not solve one problem at a time?
FYI https://github.com/le0pard/pgtune/issues/35
Will ubuntu hang up in frozen state after huge sql query in psql ? (without tools like earlyoom)

(Yes, it will)

How in 2020 ubuntu (and linux-desktop in general) can be recommended as desktop operating system when it can't protect Xorg/Gnome/KDE from swapping out of RAM?

And you forced to use earlyoom and again drawn in some more configuration.

Also, snap packages are failure on idea level: people just need simple base system and sdk, without complicated security and other overcomplicated nonsense.

Back in the days ubuntu developers gained momentum in linux-desktop, but now it's lost.
Nowadays in Poland fenced neighborhoods are very popular. Houses with a gate, an intercom and a fence. Beaches are also fenced and claimed with folding screens.
https://www.printerrepairnearme.com/troubleshooting/hp-eprin...
I'm brown. While Poland is amazing for its food (Pierogi, mwah!) and sights (Zakopane is breathtaking), I was uncomfortable sometimes with the subtle hints of racism and how less diverse it was, compared to the Netherlands or German urban areas where I feel like my own.
The amazing community of TF2 is unmatched by Overwatch. From nope.avi to DWL1993's various remixes, they were an integral part of internet meme culture of the late 2000's and early 2010's.
It doesn't make you slower either. And shooting at a jumping target is still a bit more difficult than shoot at the linearly moving target.
Roundabouts are great for cars, and awful for just about everyone else. People, bikes, buses, trucks: all face difficulty or death in their presence.
Open source firmware for the TSDZ2 mid-drive motor on DIY e-bikes
Don't make a mistake of generalizing on communist countries, there were huge differences in a life style between them, especially in rural areas.
That's ridiculous actually. don't they euthanize stray dogs in Colombia?
I'm living in Finland these days, but seeing the Dizzy image definitely made me want to buy a set. I've good memories of playing all the Dizzy games on my ZX Spectrum, back in the day.
We got waged labour instead of serfdom from Black Death in some places.
If I was forced to be at home, I would probably not work much either. My productive WFH days are when I actually want to be at home.
Depends on what you define as "do this". It's pretty common for pointer heavy datastructures to replace the pointers with a narrower offset, and then a single base pointer which the offsets are added/subtracted to.

If the compiler can be convinced to keep the base pointer in a register through dereference heavy code, the cost is often negligible. And more than won back by better cache efficiency.
I'm running a fully remote engineering team. There are plenty of difficulties and downsides unique to being remote, but one of the major benefit is that performance evaluation becomes much simpler, as you're not biased by seeing people sitting or not sitting at their desk.
And when enabling strict types you will get an error anyway if you have the wrong order because the types will not match.
Somebody has to actually make physical stuff. At least food, water, and utilities. More if this goes on.
what laptop is that in the pics?
Wouldn't number verification systems (for example, Facebook) eventually start blacklisting your numbers? I have seen this happen with VOIP numbers. Do you have a plan to tackle this?
That's true, also water was super cheap so if you had a garden you would leave the hose pouring water under trees for hours or days.

Today, courses like that are very popular in Finnish schools. Every Finnish school has a serious workshop. Not only that, but when the school is over, plain citizens can come and use the workshop as they need.
On 1, how couldn't silent operation be anything but a boon. Airdropping battery packs would appear to be safer than gas right?
Any ELI15?
It's so rare it isn't studied, so I can't say if 5-Meo can cause it.

HPPD in theory is caused by a strong intense memory, and when something familiar to that memory occurs it brings that person back to that mental place. If this is what is going on, then you're going to have a hard time forming a strong memory to something when you're passed out or so out of it you're not paying attention to the setting around you. So, I imagine HPPD is not a thing in 5-Meo, but as I said there are not studies on it. HPPD is rare.
PHP 5 was what made me make peace with PHP.
The fact that most people have never before had exposure to work from home (due to not being given the option until now) has to be taken into account. I doubt people would continue to treat it as an excuse to slack in the long-term.
Wow, sounds like even if you pay for a company to do then still might not go to inbox 100%... I noticed marking things not as spam still sends things to spam, I figured be doing that would tell it it's not spam...

I was recently thinking about the email problem myself, and was reading about IP Warmups. Seems like every provider has different recommendations too. So sounds like not an exact science either. But maybe if it was an exact science it'd be hard to tell the good and bad guys apart. I guess one of the tricky problems with decentralized systems.
Yes.

Do you believe that these behaviors are necessary and excusable because of the lack of development or that these countries are less developed because of these attitudes?

Which option is a proactive philosophy which promotes change?
> It’s not even Agile. Agile is about tight loop upfront planning, and avoiding last-minute distruttive changes and meetings...

That's an abomination definition of agile, probably influenced by scrum. In the agile manifesto it says nothing about "tight loop upfront planing", however it does explicitly say[1]:

> Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

> [...]

> Responding to change over following a plan

While that doesn't mean all planning is bad (it isn't and the manifesto acknowledges that), the planning is not the agile part, it's the leftover of the original traditional management, because it is necessary to a certain degree (e.g. for alignment but also for a lot of other business related tasks).

If you're running a pure kanban approach, you don't even plan in tight loops and I had much better experience with that (and a single team lead with a good strategic vision) than I had with Scrum. Scrum is just easier to handle for big (old) organizations and gives developers some protection from bad management.

[1] https://agilemanifesto.org/
8-Core x86 CPU from China(Zhaoxin) Goes Up for Sale
Bunny hopping is still there in CS:GO, just harder to hit multiple jumps. And, in reference to the thread, CS:GO is the best shooter you can play in 2020. :)
If you are working with robotics, the software engineer still have to come in to test their software on the actually hardware.

Software engineers may have simulators to allow testing SW at home, but mechanical engineers also have their 3D modeling and finite element analysis that they can do at home. Oh, and redlines and pushing PLM paper work should be doable at home.

I'm not saying its one-to-one, but MEs and SEs in robotics both have things that can and cannot be done remotely.
I'm super interested in this! My job is pretty CAD heavy but the stuff I work on can get pretty big too. Can you elaborate using the email in my profile?
This. And I do agree with all the point parent mentioned about PHP, it is just now I am a lot older I am starting to question this higher value of "prettiness".
While this matches everything that I know, and I have no reason to doubt the information on that page, i would love to have a concise summary like that with more citations than a single paper from 1992.
It may be caused by Firefox, but "being robust to misbehaving applications" is one of the qualities it's reasonable to expect from an OS.
Yes hiphop compiler was very fast when they started but shortly after normal php was faster than the hiphop compiler. So the hiphop compiler transformed into hhvm which was php with some really nice additions. But at some point the language inventions got more and more in conflict with the increments in the php language so they dropped php support and its now only using its own language which is a very improved version of php
I mean most people when they first start working remotely have trouble adjusting. After all, up until then their home is a place for rest, not for work!

It's probably that people are not accustomed to this flow
I don't get it? Was that a class in the game?
There are also restrictions on livestock and game in Northern Europe, in areas from Britain to Finland.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidnikel/2019/06/08/chernobyl...
Population density, and growth, are also functions of social organisation :)

Obviously some things are much more difficult to manage than others (i.e. controlling reproduction is probably harder to tweak than traffic flows), but nevertheless - the prevailing conditions are usually an outcome of some collective choice or lack thereof.

Consider the paradox of the 'dirty city': most cities with garbage laying about, also have very high unemployment. We might think 'oh, they have no money to clean it up', but this is upside down, a city with high unemployment has more slack in the labour force than elsewhere. In clean (usually rich) cities, it's often hard to determine where value can be created but in a dirty city, it's obvious - everyone wins if they just clean up, it's an obvious investment, and the labour should be cheap. (Money is a social contract, its fungible, intelligent administrators should be able to find some kind of distribution that works.) So why are they dirty? With so many people not doing a whole lot?

Even by this 'they have no money' logic, poor cities with slack/cheap labour should be much cleaner than rich cities, wherein it soaring wages etc. should make it more difficult to clean up. Rich cities might be dirty as the cost of cleaning with high wages etc. should be way, way more.

But it's the other wary around: high degrees of social organisation create wealth. Many 'resources' (waterworks, social services, cars) are functions of that social order, except natural resources of course, which are obviously important.

Obviously, it's nary impossible to fix 'one social problem' (i.e. garbage or traffic) without really well established social conditioning on a basic level, and of course, some very powerful external forces can prohibit such development (i.e. constantly flooding plains ruin agricultural industry every decade, never allowing it to develop as an economic base, there was a war, famine etc.), but even then - it does not take 'resources' to have safe/clean/moral/lawful organisation (though it can certainly help), nor does it require wealth - in fact, wealth is created by such organisation.

I don't blame the Mumbai police or any single citizen, but collectively they make their own bed on traffic - and most other things.

Yes, it's going to be 'tight' and yes, they are a little 'natural resource poor' but they can get along and make it work if they really want to. And when they get better at that, there's a 100% chance they'll be getting better at everything else as well, and subsequently, a lot richer.

The same applies to the rest of us.
Hydrogen embrittlement isn’t the bogeyman it’s made to be, especially for mass-insensitive applications.

Steel fatigues faster, but predictably so. Ultimately the pipes themselves are replaced with thicker material, but it can be done incrementally and along existing right of way.
This is really interesting. Do the team that work on the physical prototype work remote as well?
Far from everybody lived in commie blocks. And commie blocks varied widely from what you think as commie block in a major city to a weird things with missing and/or ad-hoc utilities in rural parts.

And commie regimes tried to stop people from moving to cities to have enough workforce to work in terribly inefficient farms. So rural parts made up much much bigger part of population.