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It's very strange to me that someone would keep using this word in those contexts even after being told that this isn't what it means. It's almost like "babushka" to the English-speaking mind is stand-in for "funny sounding Russian word". It does have a rhythm that sounds a little whimsical in English. It's also usually pronounced in English with stress on the wrong syllable. [Should be bábushka.]
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To me cubicles and open office are pretty much the same. Both are noisy and offer no privacy. Single offices or team rooms with maybe 4 people are the best.
> However, now, the place is just so loud with conversation/whatever on a daily basis that people are less bothered by individual conversations near them.

I cannot adequately describe the horror this sentence induces in me.
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I do. I disable animations on my Android phone and my desktop OS is animation-free.
> I've moved on from jobs due to this type of work environment.

Me too. The last job I had was with a top tier company whose products nearly everyone reading this owns and uses. The open office workspace is why I quit. It was an intolerable hell.
You did good in everything else, you honked and the guy snapped out of his stupidity and you gave him a good blasting. The guy was brain dead to not even look, had headphones on whilst riding (???) and ran a red light. Moron.

I don't know how bad it would have been if he hit you. A broken bone and a lot of scraped off skin. For some people that's a risk worth taking. Does that mean falling behind in work, insane medical bills and stress on the family? I don't know if cycling is worth it for everybody. It's not my place to say any of those guesses about what it means to you in real life. I'm curious what the stressors are for cyclists. Being in a car crash at least gives you the peace of mind that in a reasonable accident the car will take all the damage and you can walk away and get a rental.
I learned long ago never to trust dealerships to do what they say they will, unless I see them do it.

When I traded in a car, among other things I signed was a release of liability for the DMV. They claimed they would submit it.

They never did. 3 months later the DMV called asking about the lack of insurance for the car. I told them what happened, and they said its common for dealerships to never send in this paperwork. So, yeah, lesson learned. I can't imagine what a pain in the ass this would have been if the car were involved in an accident.
> The government-allowed monopolies are the sprawling health networks the turn medicine into a sales funnel.

Crazy levels of regulation is one of the most sure-fire ways to make monopolies or oligopolies inevitable by creating huge economies of scale. The red tape burden is much easier for larger players than smaller ones. They can keep a staff of dedicated pencil-pushers that know the industry, its regulation, and how to deal with the bureaucrats.

With less regulation and no more "certificate of need" nonsense, it would be not only easier for competitors to start but just as importantly easier and more economical for them to remain independent. The government has created the environment in which monopolists thrive and the free market is stifled; people then complain and turn to the government to fix it? We're in the insurance mess to start with because of wage & price controls. Even the EU makes it easier to try new drugs, at least from a regulatory standpoint. The market is smarter than any pencil-pusher or congressman; let it do its job. Corrupting it is what got us here in the first place.
Yes, cyclists should not run red lights. But we need to improve cycling infrastructure a lot. Right now there is a lot of incentive to break the rules in small ways here and there, because the situation is pretty bad.

There are quite a few places in my city, where I have no idea what the legal way to get from one side of a large road to the other. Sure you can always act like either a car or a pedestrian, but that is either dangerous or slow. For example, I find it quite unfair, that many left turns require me to either ride between cars or stop twice.

Some bike paths just look like the planners reserved space at the roadsides and simply skipped coming up with a solution at the intersection. And that is frankly disappointing.
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What is your evidence for this? The US is almost alone amongst developed countries in not having a government-run general heal care system, and has the highest costs (while not covering everyone).

And Medicaid, Medicare, and the Veterans Administration (the three big government run healthcare systems here) all run more efficiently by every measure than any private health insurance system.

Note that I fully recognize the problems that the VA has had, but when you really look at it fairly, they have many parallels to problems in the commercial side of the system, we just don't tolerate that when it comes to government (nor should we).
I think there is a site called r/conspiracy for this.

The interesting question is: who would launch a biological attack on them? And will this trigger a nuclear response?
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4G or 8G to me the most impactful is cpu/gpu. hardware rendering lets the cpu cool off. Without it webpages will peg the cpu, heating or throttling. Very annoying no matter the ram.
I find this deeply unconvincing as I've scaled multiple apps to the 10k range while on low-tier hardware using the setup Alex suggests is only appropriate for one user.

The old Stack Overflow podcast was also very instructive. They went a very long way on a single server and had the Reddit founders on the show to talk about their scaling during their process of adding a second box. This was on servers of the mid-aughts, running ASP.NET.
I haven't explored my feelings on it but this lines up with my limited observations and makes me incredibly sad.

I keep hoping they are just in a cycle that lasts a few years and I'll see them pop up again soon.
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You seem to be in a very small minority, then... I have to agree with most of the opinions I've read through the thread, open floor plans are a total productivity killer, way too many distraction sources and most of what communication there is, is irrelevant because no team stayed separate or respected anyone else's audio boundaries.

Cubes are still rather poor, but at least I odn't have to see what my neighbor's doing, or listen to any but the loudest noises. I'm three steps away from everyone else in the team, and if we need an impromptu discussion the aisle is at least a cube width, so plenty of quick standup space.

An office / separate workroom away from the team opposite me would be great but I can earbud them away.
Ironically, we have collectively forgotten why cubicles were invented, and why office workers originally hailed them as wonderful things: they ended the open office workspaces that were dominant at the time.
I think you may be taking "privacy" a little too literally. A "privacy fence" in your backyard does not literally shield your entire property from observation. But it interrupt sightlines and lower how "social" the space feels. When it comes to focus and productivity, that is often enough.
So is the consensus:

* private offices > shared offices > cubicles > open-plan offices
I always do an infotainment system reset when I rent a car -- both when I start using the car, and just before I return it. I don't know what apps or other data other people synced, and I don't want anything I synced to be available to the next person.

I'd be doubly sure to reset the car at the end of a lease.
> A lot of these (Babel, prettier, Webpack) just need a good starter configuration and can be mostly ignored afterwards.

Hilariously, the more difficult, time-consuming work I've done over the last couple of years has been getting these kinds of configurations setup appropriately for my org. It always feels like an enormous cost with hidden tech debt.
This book?

http://www.mmds.org/
I used to work in the semiconductor equipment industry in the 90s and it was quite cyclical. One year the demand was great and they were hiring like crazy and the next year things were looking dismal and they had to do layoffs. This repeated many times though the overall trend was of growth. I managed to stick around for some time since I was in R&D and with a bit of luck. Things smoothed out considerably over the decades.
> it’s a great space to hold company all-hands meetings.

I've never been in an all-hands meeting that was actually useful. Usually its a bunch of guys bragging about how great they are in roundabout ways.

> There is Sonos in both open-office areas

Oh god. That alone would want me to not work there. I don't want to listen to someone else's music (most of the time, I don't want to listen to music at all -- I work from home now, thankfully, and spend most of the day without any noise or music at all. Silence is amazing. I don't want to be overstimulated all day every day)
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Great riddles.
>But now that my expectations have been lowered further... I'd take that cubicle setup over an open plan office any day.

Scott Adams nailed it in his book from 15 years ago:

>After your boss has taken away your door, your walls, and your storage areas, there aren't many options left for the next revolution in office design. One of the following things is likely to go next: the floor; the ceiling; your happiness. I think the floor will stay, but only because your company would have to dig a huge hole all the way to the other side of the earth to get rid of it. As you can imagine, a huge hole through the earth would represent a serious threat to office productivity.
Odd, they forgot to mention his use of emacs.

/me ducks and runs for cover...
Democracy is the root cause, let alone able to fix it. And when people finally have a referendum to cast off their overlords, the overlords decide that democracy doesn't matter and jail your leaders.
There are enough street labels visible on the map of the car location in the screenshot from the myford site to figure out where that is.

I was kind of surprised the article did not obfuscate that.

It looks like it is at one of these businesses in Milford, CT: Stevens Ford Lincoln, Stevens Ford of Milford, Steven's Collision Center, or Colony Ford.

I wonder if one of those Ford dealers is the dealer that failed to do the reset when processing the lease return?
I like open offices. I feel like you only hear the angry voices on subjects like this. I would get so depressed in a closed office that I just wouldn't work there, so you'd never find me in one.

I'm also a person who had to be at cafes or libraries to do good work. Working at home drives me crazy.

But I think offices should accommodate every kind of person.
Open offices are popular because they're cheaper to build than private offices, no one making these decisions ever believed they were doing it to "increase collaboration."
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While always good to turn non-essential features off, this doesn't mean that you can't be tracked. Many vehicles, even if non-rental, now come standard with cellular voice/data connections. GM pioneered this with OnStar in the mid-90s[1], and other manufacturers soon followed. Combined with the "black box" recording of _every_ sensor in your car, there can be some pretty damning evidence against the driver in the event of a wreck, etc.

There are no switches for the driver to disable regarding the data inside your ECU[2], or Event Data Recorder[3].

It's not that you can't get away with anything anymore, it comes down to minor infractions are now enforceable (with the lucrative fines that follow) and that your car can present evidence against you.

[1] https://smart.gi-de.com/automotive/a-brief-history-of-car-co...

[2] https://www.plaintiffmagazine.com/recent-issues/item/beware-...

[3] https://www.jstor.org/stable/26167752?seq=1
>a very large percentage of folks in our industry seem to have social anxiety-spectrum issues.

It seems like it, I wouldn't like a cubicle. I think open offices aren't ideal. I'd prefer a team room, but between solitude and open I pick open.
I feel the same way (about the principle). There is no justification for not having an easy online cancellation option.

That kind of tactic used to solely be the domain of companies with no faith on their product. They expected low retention so it made sense to add an extra step where they could hard sell, knowing that a reliable percentage of the population has a hard time saying no to a human.
It seems the writing that he was referring to is this: https://billwadge.wordpress.com/2020/02/06/honest-wes-just-f...

I'm not really seeing where that could have been offensive. Its easy to disagree with, of course, but was it attacking anyone?
Right I'll be all over the vanilla 101, 303 and 909 Behringers, probably I'll get the Pro 1 too. And honestly: probably the MiniMoog too. Never could afford them in their original form and Roland is not making them. The TR8 from Roland is nice since you can pick and mix sounds from all machines but it isn't analog, which is what people have been asking for all the time.

The MonoTribe to me already is a classic. I'm kind of hoarding them. I do have some older Rolands and something like a 606 is really magic to play with. You can destroy it completely through the ESP of an MS-20 and it still sounds good.
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You're against colonial extraction of raw materials? Congratulations on your keen insight! Have you considered USA's recent misadventures in Latin America? A CIA-backed coup with this very purpose has so far succeeded in Bolivia. [0] Fortunately the one in Venezuela has up until now just embarrassed us. [1] Where will we try this next? Stay tuned!

[0] https://thegrayzone.com/2019/11/11/bolivia-coup-fascist-fore...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/06/opinion/international-wor...
> a huge part of craft is communication, and open offices are great for that.

But they aren't great for that. For most people, they're the opposite. That's the point the article is making, and the article agrees with what I've personally observed.
I get easily startled when I am very focused and people walk around in my peripheral vision or behind me. It really stresses me out. I work remote now so life is good but when I was at the office I was completely exhausted every evening because of this stress
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Did you not read the entire article?

> The Harvard study, by contrast, undercuts the entire premise that justifies the fad. And that leaves companies with only one justification for moving to an open plan office: less floor space, and therefore a lower rent.

> But even that justification is idiotic because the financial cost of the loss in productivity will be much greater than the money saved in rent. Here's an article where I do the math for you. Even in high-rent districts, the savings have a negative ROI.
The fact that you're citing the TOS is not exactly helping your case, since it's well known that basically no one reads those. I'm not as concerned about techy people as I am about the average person's understanding of their identity privacy on Twitter.

But even as a techy person I was surprised by how easy it is for a random person to link millions of identities. And I'm obviously not alone given that this post made it to the front page. So when you say "what do you expect really?" - well, most people expect that a random person can't discover their email from their twitter handle. I think that's a completely fair expectation, and people should rightly be concerned about this "feature". Posts like this should be upvoted, because a lot of people aren't aware.

Your incredulity here tends to come across as "it's in the TOS, you're all pretty ignorant, I knew about this all along." which isn't all that helpful, even if it's all true.
Does this include things like Windows ME? Testers didn't do such an amazing job on that one.
> To make the abstract concrete. Canadians living in the US are often thought to be "just like" Canadians living in Canada. But they're often not. Often they're the Canadians that sufficiently didnt fit into Canadian culture, or found something immanently attractive about US life (at least the perception of US life)...

Or were just good enough to be offered a high paying job outside their country, such that emigrating was their next move.
It looks like the Clear Linux Github has some code related to power management: https://github.com/clearlinux/clr-power-tweaks

const char doc[] = "Power Tweaks -- adjusts runtime kernel options for optimal power and performance";
I don’t know about this!

There are so many bad management fads. How does one choose?

I am actually amazed that people don’t take management more seriously and don’t follow actual research. It’s amazing that we spend so much on employees and then leave so much of what happens to essentially personal beliefs and astrology.
According to this at least one satellite with the new coating went up in December... anyone know how that's working out?

Also, why are they so bright, given that they're pretty small?
I suspect it’s merely a function of personality. Introverts will find it tiring and invasive. Extroverts will probably find it energizing, and will probably have the most vocal opinions shared.

Mind you, tech leans towards introverts and it’s much easier to find temporary loud spaces than temporary quiet spaces so... probably not ideal
You can get that, but not at consumer-grade router prices. I have a separate router that I put behind my stand-alone cable modem. I paid for that separate router about $200.00. And another $100 for the modem. A wifi access point cost me another $100.

So it's about $400.00 for a router that has updated firmware(pfSense). Or you can cheap out and spend only $100.00. This is what you get by doing that.
People are now beginning to realize that cellphones send out too much data. Well, modern cars are far worse. Do you know that some of them have weight sensors in seats? Do you know that they send this info out? On your phone, you at least have some control. You have zero control over your car's cell connection. I'm not even sure you can disable over-the-wire updates.
I've done the class and can't recommend it highly enough (except for Ullman's lectures). I recommend the advanced track if it's still offered.
As a cyclist, there is a much bigger energy expense in starting and stopping than on an e-scooter. With the bike you have to dismount (or track stand) when you stop then get back on the bike and get your momentum going. With the scooter you just stop, you are already standing up. Similarly getting going again on the e-scooter you just push off and you are moving.

I don't see a problem with bikes running red lights. It's not that much different from crossing any other intersection where cross traffic isn't stopping. Generally I avoid traffic signals on my commute, but there is one place on my commute where I almost always run the signal. In this particular intersection, it's less dangerous crossing by myself against the signal than crossing with the signal next to a bunch of cars trying to pass me.

The fundamental problem is in most places traffic controls are designed around the needs (and safety) of people in cars. Bikes and pedestrians are usually an afterthought.
Im pretty sure EE and AeroE engineers at Boeing have their FE and PEs
This is my favorite layout. My hunch is that tech companies shy away from this in part because team sizes change pretty frequently and it's more hard to physically accomodate that.
There’s a huge asterisk to this selection effect, though: illegal immigration from Mexico and Central America.
> Modern password cracking rigs with multiple GPUs can try out billions of hashes a second. If you know the salt or blinding factor, you can often recover the password.

Isn't that what the rounds protects from?
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> I am now convinced that the more appropriate question may be “Are our streets safe?”

Ya think?

It's insane to mix car traffic and people.

It was deliberately normalized by a systematic campaign of propaganda. (This is true, it really happened: "The Real Reason Jaywalking Is A Crime" (Adam Ruins Everything) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxopfjXkArM ) We went from "speed demons" to "jay walkers". Fast-forward several decades and more Americans have died from cars than from wars. (The rest of the world also has horrific death rates from cars but more time of war.)

> These clips make the civil engineer in me cringe.

As well they should. We're looking at a system that is, inadvertently but fundamentally, designed to kill people.

> One potential solution is to add a bike box to increase visibility of cyclists and scooterists.

And that's the Stockholm Syndrome, if you will, causing cognitive dissonance leading to blatantly illogical statements from otherwise sane and intelligent people.

Anthropologists point out that every society succeeds at getting it's children to act like it's adults. Part of this is the normalization of whatever weird stuff your society/culture has going on. I'm reminded of what the New Guinea man said the missionary, "If God didn't want us to eat people He wouldn't have made them out of meat."

Putting car and non-car traffic on the same road is our cannibalism. "Once you see it..."
Calibration is a huge issue for clocks. Your pitch water clock would have issues knowing the correct month after 10,000 years. But, if you just want cheap and long lasting, erosion of a large stone is worth considering.
Some of the best content isn't searched for by anyone at all before it was written, though. In the extreme case, consider the Harry Potter series—fantastic content, but it would have been horrible SEO content when it was written.
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Xiaomi Mi Book 12.5 also has 4 GB and it's really snappy and good enough for me with a tiling WM and Emacs. Sadly not sold outside China anymore.

Any other cheap machines worth considering? This was fantastic given build quality, fanless m3 Intel CPU and all Intel components.
> you can't lead from the trenches

Not sure why this analogy is applied to software development. The best managers I've had lead from the trenches where we all work.
Most of the cyclists I’m referring to have been cycling since childhood, so 15-20 years of experience, a lot of it in cities. Taking up the lane at the intersection is unrealistic in a lot of city scenarios, nobody I know advocates for getting in front of cars in the crosswalk or waiting in the middle of a long line of stopped cars at a red light.
Interesting, good to know re the Core2Duo. I have an ancient Thinkpad T61p that I was going to try this out on as speed differences on hardware that old become obvious. But I guess I'll stick with Fedora.