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Depends on where you are. I've got to pay an extra 8 to 18 bucks a shipment to get things shipped via instacart or whatever, and nothing is ever in stock. Things I stocked up on are cheaper, otherwise I'm overpaying for all delivered groceries here in New York. Parts of the country hit by the pandemic are not having a fun time. Everything is more expensive
How does step 2 work? Are the creditors fools?
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> As for the long commutes, I'm from a big european city and I still have almost a one hour commute to work. Granted, it's public transit so I can use the time somewhat (netflix on my phone, ebooks or whatever) but it's still two hours that I could otherwise use at the gym, having beers with friends or watching a movie.

Yeah true. I was thinking more of the American-style car commute. While I agree that time spent commuting is time lost, also on public transit, the American car commute seems like an absolute nightmare to me, far worse than WFH ;-)
> Ideally that extra cash goes to wages or hiring.

That is adorable!
I have been working remotely for 6 years and I mostly love it. My wife has been working from home for about a month now and she is not a fan. Lots of people just like working in person with others.
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i tried on an online simulator and it actually works!
Okay, sorry, more useful response: What this leaves completely open is how you handle transitions between the state. How is a player picking up a gun implemented? What happens if the player clicks to fire if they don't have a gun?
> An office, with a door I can close

Honestly IMHO having office rooms with ~4 (in exceptions 5 or 6) people is the bottom line for allowing productive work for any job needing concentration (and it's healthier either way).

I never understood how some companies promoted the mass offices as a good solution for the employee, sure it's maybe cheaper for the employer but that normally the wrong end to save money.

I've worked in a large loft with ~10 people, a 4 person room a 5 person room and a pseudo single room (it didn't had doors and was ineffective 3 person room).

My experience:

- The more people in the room the less the productivity even if it's a large loft.

- But if having to share a room with someone who is chatting all the time is even worse even if its a 2 person room.
Many are plugging books here, so I will plug:
The Money Problem by Morgan Ricks

It provides a solid overview of different views of what is money, what is banking, and in what ways does the financial system impact the real economy? - These are all contested points in economics.

He goes on to lay out a different design to a monetary system, that he believes resolves the main fragility in our current system - panics on short term debt. It's a good read for someone who enjoys system design as much as they do financial/monetary economics.
Not a network engineer, but I expect TCP and UDP traffic are currently shaped differently by ISPs, possibly with preference to TCP. If your connection is solid, there isn't a huge benefit to QUIC, so you may end up seeing a slight degradation.

Syncthing uses a bunch of protocols by default to find clients, including TCP, QUIC and a few others. If you want to have some insight into how your network behaves with these protocols head-to-head, spin up syncthing and wireshark.
This article is odd. It gives a shallow treatment of the subject in the headline, and then takes a wild turn into talking about the 2016 election, his emotions around it and its hypothetical impact on a future climate change-induced apocalypse.
> Your own conduct so far would qualify as "confusing the issue"

Nope, it was very precisely stated about you making stuff up. Nothing confusing there.

> and your screed against these "pro CPP" is decidedly "off-track"

In what way? Contrariwise, it was entirely on-track.
Scary to see how many people here label this as word salad, congratulations you have the reading comprehension of a child for whom everything you say is a world salad. This is nothing close to a world salad and for every person that has gotten his college education in a boomer age, especially in Europe this would be just a Newspaper article.

To explain it according to your kindergarten intellect and reading comprehension. The Neo-liberlist and our whole economy take the stance of the Lion King and the circle of life. This Circle is normal and there is no other way, the Lions eats the Zebra, accept it. Of course we are not animals and this argument is made from a power position only. But the zebras don't need the lions, they would be fine without them.

And if Corona is showing one thing, it's that the landlords and the whole cruise ship/airlines stock industry does need the hoi polloi more than you need them.

Neo-liberlism has taken the form of religion without anyone being able to ask if it's true what it is preaching.
Reminds me how Google "upgraded" me to a better price when I moved from the Netherlands to Sweden. When I complained to them I got 3 months "free trial".
It's not a matter of "they haven't come around to my opinion yet, but they will." Some people just like working with others, in person, face to face. And some activities are impossible to do from a computer screen, miles away (fashion or product design, for example.)
For the same reason you move stuff in your room. You don't always put it into right places. Or someone else has put it somewhere.
At this rate I'm fast approaching the point where I would rather have an infection positively confirmed and roll the dice that is heavily loaded in my favor.

Not knowing if you properly decontaminated that last batch of groceries is nerve wracking.
Some simple instructions about how to use a thread for conversation would be appreciated. Thanks!
Looks cool, just one suggestion about the photos: that effect looks like the dithering of a dot matrix printer and not like a newspaper photo, for that I would go with this kind of effect: https://i.pinimg.com/474x/9d/76/f0/9d76f0c303e7ea8352d10465d... - I think it's called a "screening" effect?
He's capturing availability, the manufacturer made the availability. There is no value-adding middle man role with a 10x value here (well value to anyone other than the middle man).
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I feel like the caveats prove my point.
My work is all meetings all the time, now. I’m on the phone most of the day. Little things that used to take 20 minutes now take an hour. I used to enjoy working from home a couple days a week because I got some peace and quiet and knew I could catch back up with people when I returned to the office. I went from loving to hating my job in the last three weeks. I am also constantly distracted by having the kids around and, you know, the end of the world. It’s not the isolation I mind it’s having to still work with others under these conditions. I think you have to have a very particular set of circumstances to enjoy wfh under these conditions and I doubt half of Americans have them. I suspect they just have a lot of free time around the house “working” and their jobs could largely be replaced with automation in the near future, but maybe that’s just a bit of jealousy on my part.
That is one of the questions.

The most important one though is how long the lockdowns will last.

The answer to your question actually depends on how long lockdowns last. The longer businesses are shut down, the harder it is to restart them.
well until the big manufacturers actually start delivering multiple models there is ample time for start ups in this segment to establish themselves or their technology. the key is, are they looking to sell cars or their technology?
The guy buying up all the masks and reselling them is likely buying them in similar markets to the people who he will be selling them to eventually. His net effect is likely going to be doing diddly squat to the availability.
I was affected by this as my plan was set to renew on the fourth. I was able to contact support and get my plan going again on the discounted rate. They ended up having to cancel my subscription and probably set some sort of flag for me to get the discounted pricing.

All in all while it was a bit of a pain I don't think any malice was meant in this. I'm betting they had just set the end of the renewals on the subscription to April 2020 and figured if the service is still going they would update the end date.
If you can find clients to hire you, anything is possible. I started freelancing during the Great Recession (because I couldn’t get a job) and was able to make it work.

Find at least one client before you quit, though. And make sure you have at least 6 months of savings so that even if that client fired you on day 1, you’d be okay.
A partner, kids, a family, those might last longer than work friends who will likely move on from the friendship once they change jobs. I used to be in a similar situation (living in an expensive city, my only friends were work friends, and home was a lonely miserable place). Started doing remote work, earning the same amount of money, own a pretty decent mansion, and have permanent friends and people around me. Isolation or not it doesnt really bother me. The notion that for a decent career one should sacrifice everything is a trap. While we slave away in large corps, earning money, our employers pretty much already do what i said i am. One can still be a great engineer or whatever without a shallow life.
I’m very curious about the sampling methodology here. This is anecdotal, but I am a millennial and precisely zero of my friends prefer working from home. So there must be bias in one of those two samples.
> If you were to split the 'Unsure' based on the current ratio of 'Prefers Home':'Prefers the office' between the 2, you're looking at closer to 42% 'prefer the office'.

I updated my post.

Given my prior experience managing remote teams, WFH tends to come with a honeymoon phase where people enjoy their new freedom but don't yet miss the social interaction of the office. Over time, some people tend to get cabin fever and feel isolated, especially if they don't have strong social networks outside of work. I wouldn't be surprised if some of the "Prefers Home' group switch to 'Not decided' or even 'No' over time.
A lot of us mid-career folks have retirement funds too. And a goal.
Indeed, the part that they illustrated with Pong does show that in environments where you lose packets or have to reconnect there should be a more noticeable advantage.
Re the last parts: I sure hope you're right, but I think we're both a bit jealous and/or afraid that it is we who are ill-suited for a coming WFH future :-/
> What failures do you see most often in this area? Alternatively, what popular software gets this wrong?

They don't even try in order to fail. They drop the alternatives and flatten consecutive parts - and that's that. You can't see the part tree, you can't fold different parts, there's no distinct rendering for "report", there's no representation of the "related" type, etc.

Consequently, there is no support for changing rendering settings or otherwise manipulating different parts, nor for removal or addition of parts .
People get used to most things. A few weeks after winning the lottery or losing an arm, they are mostly as happy as they were before. (Mostly! Not completely.)

But I read somewhere that the misery of commuting is strangely resistance to the hedonic treadmill.

See eg https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/may/01/change-...
I've been waiting for a book on C from No Starch Press, so I'm really excited for this one.

This might not be too deep a question on the C language in regards to this book, but I've been wondering, why did you decide to have an eldritch horror as the book's cover?
Nothing to it! Just hit the reply button on comments you want to respond to. You can also upvote anything you like by clicking on the up arrow to the left of the comment.
"Poland (radical right government) and Hungary (far right government) have a pact where they veto any EU actions against one of them."

Same will happen in Italy in a few years.

"I think kicking them out of the union is only way to proceed if their system does not fit into the EU anymore."

To keep the EU clean, yes, but it won't accomplish anything locally: far right governments would actually love to get out of the European Union so they can do their nasty stuff unsupervised.
FreeBSD network stack has always remained rather stable. In terms of performance Linux caught up and even overtook at some point, but lately Netflix did a lot of performance improvements for FreeBSD. So, your information could be outdated.
For every positive WFH anecdote, we can find someone who performs worse with WFH.

That's the problem with using anecdotes to make sweeping decisions for entire companies: It doesn't acknowledge the differences between people.

Ideally, we'll end up with a mix of remote companies and in-office companies, and the people who prefer each style have plenty of options to choose from.
Its crazy how exactly this describes my mental state when i am "working" from home.. I have colleagues that swear by it though, so i guess it differs from person to person
I do like working from home, but I will admit that my hygiene has suffered. I don't shower daily and that bothers me. Obviously not enough to actually do anything about it.
I used seán as a username once. I gave up after I realised it was fine on my own personal computer but once I jumped on to an azerty keyboard or something simpler tasks just became more difficult -- finding the letter with a fada just results in searching the charmap rather than keyboard.

You can have fadas in URLs e.g. seán.dev using a technique called Punycode.

Ogham is another Irish script and is vertical but unique in Unicode because its space charcter is a line - the only language to do so.
I don't know how anyone can trust the stock market right now. We're living in unprecedented uncertainty and on top of that, [literally] everything's closed and no one is buying anything, how can the economy possibly be growing like the market right now?

Hot air that will crash eventually.
We are programmers we can work anywhere. The majority of working people the world over cannot. Hacker News readers are not the majority of people.

It's nice to be able to work from home as an option but don't assume it's a panacea for everyone either.
Basic corporate finance should be required in high school. People need to understand their employers’ motivations.
For me it's 90's/Amish Paradise/Gangster's Paradise.
I would also advise listening in a context where you have the lyrics on hand, or listening very carefully. It isn't just some random guy using computer terms that happen to sound good; he knew his stuff. There's a correctly-done NNTP newsgroup joke in there, for pete's sake, and even at the time it was a number of years after that was topical.
When your goal is to initiate those in the out-group, it's counter-productive to use an in-group term in the title, especially when that term refers to members of the out-group itself. Insulting has nothing to do with it; in-group terms are not welcoming to the out-group.
I have an office with a door, and I generally prefer to go into the office, but the company is converting to cubicles, one floor at a time. When my floor gets the ax, I will probably transition to 100% WFH. This experience has shown me that I can do it.
Just anecdotally, I've been hearing from friends that work from Upwork hasn't been affected from COVID. I think platforms like Upwork/Fiverr might even be more enticing for employers during recessions. Of course the pay there is not very competitive, but just giving you 1 data point.
I assumed that it was real, because it is xkcd. Now I tried it in https://playgameoflife.com/ and it works! It works because it is xkcd!

I can't find a simulator with a permalink. It would be nice if someone knows one, because copiying the initial pattern is very error prone.
I stopped reading when I hit "baby boomers"
This article (like most discussion of these work styles) conflates remote work and work-from-home. I feel it would _greatly_ help clarify discussion to keep in mind that these aren’t the same thing: the latter (WFH) is _mostly_ a subset of the former (work from a location of your choice), and of the two, “remote” is _much more enabling._

WFH is okay. It beats an office. But it blurs the lines between work and not-work life further than they already are unless you’re highly skilled in setting boundaries, and if you have kids or other dependents it’s a fresh challenge to stay focused every day.

Working remotely, in non-pandemic times, opens up real possibilities. The young and the restless can try the nomadic worker thing; that looks like it’s be fun for a while. Coworking (in the small community sense, not WeWork) gets you the separation of work and home on your own terms and can be a fabulous balance for the extroverts (and also introverts) among us. And WFH gets rolled in there as well.

At present moment, as the world suddenly is all doing this at once, while confined at home—of course these concepts will be conflated. But let’s be deliberate to ensure we aren’t setting ourselves up for a world where managers get suspicious of you for leaving the house during work hours. That sounds worse than the situation we started with.
This sounds like the perfect kind of thing for class actions. Another commenter mentioned that there's no arbitration clause so that shouldn't be an impediment.
> Now would be a great time to try a new morning exercise routine. Getting out of the house for even a 10-minute morning walk can make all the difference in the trajectory of your day. You can build up to a 30-minute run over time, but it's easier to engrain the habit if you start with a very low bar. Just get dressed, prepare a to-go coffee if you like, and go for a walk around your block. You might be surprised at how this sets a different tone for your day.

It sounds like I'm about to quibble with you; that is not my intention, but: I have tried. I know how incredibly effective exercise can be to kick me out of a ditch in normal situations, but it's having next to no effect currently. It still makes me feel better, but it doesn't turn my brain on. I strongly suspect I need the human interaction :-/
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100% agreed. Important patterns for me are having the same breakfast, lunch and dinner times with dedicated time to eat without work. Shutting down work at a fixed time at night. Waking up at a fixed time.

If it stick to those I tend to automatically start making other patterns to make those times work.
There are very little formatting options when writing posts, for better or for worse: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
I have a staff member that sounds similar to you. It's not that she's unaccountable for her own actions, she just has a hard time 'turning on' her work brain without some kind of incentive or external motivator.

I worked with her to come up with regular (weekly) check-ins, monthly goals, and changed the annual review process to include those items. I would never have that amount of micromanagement for anyone, except her, because it's what she wanted/needed for productivity. Maybe look into that with your direct supervisor? It helped her immensely. She has an external motivator that she needs.

For me, it helped, because measuring remote worker productivity is hard as hell, unless you have sales, you make something, or you decide to measure by number of lines of code or some other arbitrary measure. It was a god-send in a very 'grey' work area.
wouldn't be so sure. small businesses probably have a somewhat higher ability to go into a sleeper mode where operative costs are reduced to a minimum.
Can NLP model like BERT or T5 learn regularity to solve arithmetic problems?
Planet money and the indicator, both great podcasts that break economic data down into the macro/micro.
Temporary error maybe? I'm not in the US and can watch it perfectly.
I can communicate in English even if it isn't my native language. That's true for many others.

If anything, I see an argument for being bilingual, not for English as the only language.
A synchronous function cannot yield, but it can make sure another thread is available to take its place before it issues a blocking syscall. If properly constructed, synchronous stdlib functions would be safe to call from async functions. Any "executor" implementation that uses a fixed-size thread pool and is vulnerable to all threads in that pool being tied up this way at once is BROKEN.
One book NOT to read: "The Ant and the Grasshopper" by Aesop.

He got it completely wrong - for quite some time, Grasshoppers have been routinely bailed out with money stolen from the Ants (through interest rates way below inflation).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ant_and_the_Grasshopper
Predictions for a Post-Coronavirus World
For a once every hundred years event? Probably not.
I suspect any mental health issues are far more likely to do with the virus, and lockdown.
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At first I thought you were talking about your mom/spouse but then I realized it's a computer analogy :)
It's a longish story, but people do seem to like the cover. We started equating the idea of C == Sea, so we had some early drawings of the robot riding various undersea creatures including a giant squid. I thought that looked overly phallic, so I suggested the robot ride Cthulhu instead, an unofficial mascot of NCC Group.
Depends a bit on how you are accounting.

Your employer doesn't directly pay for you to go to school, but most people would still see that work eventually pays for education.

Commuting is similar.

But I agree with the gist: if you figure out how to be more productive, eg by doing some task faster or by eliminating your commute, there's no moral obligation to hand over all the gains to someone else.
Work from home does work better when you have daycare. The isolation of wfh gave me a lot of anxiety (other life problems factored in as well). I think a good balance is 1-2 days/wfh. Wfh degrades into work from coffeeshop.

If your meetings aren't productive there's definitely a problem in your org. I suspect meetings are being driven by those without a clear goal and intend to fill a whole hour talking. Just a hunch, thats some good ole internet armchair analysis for ya.

Long meetings are a symptom of a lack of planning imho.
> Most governments have been running deficits since forever

I don't think that's a fair assessment. The US has certainly been running deficits for a long time but the deficits of the last 10 year have been much larger (as a percentage of GDP) [1]. Some other countries [the exception not the rule] have been more prudent with their finances. In my part of the world New Zealand has been running a surplus since 2015 and prior to COVID-19 starting Australia was due to have a small surplus this year for the first time since the GFC.

> Keynesian policies would be to try to offset a fall in aggregated demand by increasing fiscal spending

I guess you can argue that spending hasn't been Keynesian enough.

[1] https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/government-budget
Companies are ultimately dependent on working people income because in the absence of big government, companies are ultimately dependent on consumer spending.