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Most going this direction are, rightly, treading WFM as people treated travel reductions. Few are saying you never work face to face for any reason ever... but it shouldn’t be the default without any reason. For better or worse the days of just turning up at an office everyday by default are likely over in many places.

Same with travel. Default should be a Zoom (or similar) but if an in person meeting or workshop is warranted then do it and just be prepared to justify the travel cost. Offices are very expensive so rightfully so companies are re-evaluating how much commercial real estate they truly need to execute their mission successfully.
I really enjoy working from home however I have realized that I have become increasingly unhappy with the communication on my team. Getting answers to simple yes/no questions takes hours. Someone will ask me a question, I'll reply within a few seconds asking for clarification and then radio silence for the next 90 minutes. Personally, I also feel that I'm learning less in some areas.

This is not a commentary on WFH in general but I think most people who endorse 100% remote work do the type of work where they get their assignment and then go sit in the corner and bang it out with headphones on and not the type of work that requires active communication and collaboration.
The way these things tend to go is more that some illustrator does something a little different, others see it and like it, it spreads, and it’s now the new mainstream, until it all repeats again.

The ideological bent you choose to read into it is... interesting.

FWIW “large heads tiny limbs” has been a thing many times in the history of art, look at eg late 1800s caricatures
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Perhaps America is so free that it creates more opportunities for criminals. And because many criminals aren't that good, they get caught and thus incarcerated.

In a country that's so restrictive where you can't get a gun or drugs, then there will be a lot less people incarcerated for gun and drug crimes.
That worked because the federal government had guns and Civil Rights had widespread support in much of the rest of the country.

History is probably full of deaths of nonviolent (and violent) resisters.
No, it hasn't. The only way to really make the game challenging is to heap bonuses on the AI player, which is what the game does at higher difficulty levels.
NYC office space is not $100/sqft/month. You are off by more than an order of magnitude. Please avoid fake news.
Have you tried running it in Proton? I've noticed Proton seems to run at higher FPS than a lot of the Linux specific ports
That would only really matter if the poster were really close to the threshold. Moreover the gaming of the system would be unlikely to work forever, requiring too much coordination of effort.

But to answer your question, yes, it is turning the karma system on its head for people near the top of the standings; the idea being that having "titans of karma" in the community becomes detrimental at some point.
Great breakdown. WFH really is better at a societal level. The people complaining about it are tremendously self absorbed.
Did John Adams, founding father, take the founding principles seriously when he signed the Alien and Sedition Acts in 1798? How about Abraham Lincoln when he suspended habeas corpus or shut down hundreds of newspapers and ordered editors arrested?

The idea that the Constitution was an immaculate instrument forged in a gilded age of freedom, with a decline since then, is wrong. There have been bumps and missteps from the start. And in some areas, like freedom of speech, the right has been strengthened and clarified over years of jurisprudence into something that is more freedom-preserving now compared to when it was declared.
I've found that my work-life balance has simultaneously improved and worsened - I have more free time to relax, but I still end up working at like 10pm because I end up spending too much time binging Netflix or whatever and have to quickly make up the work. It's like I'm slowly reverting to my college days
Time for democratic countries - those with genuinely free elections and an independent effective judiciary - to leave the UN and WTO and form their own global Democratic Freedom Organisation - with members benefiting from Free Trade, common standards, and in the long term, freedom of movement plus a supreme court. They should impose onerous tariffs on corrupt governments like the PRC and lower tariffs on countries progressing towards democracy and away from corruption. Some short term pain as supply chains are disrupted but would be a massive force for the good of humanity in the long run.
“ Many people who work at these companies live in big cities where they don't have huge amounts of space and it's not conducive to being productivity, particularly if you live with other people, if you can't get some form of separation”

If you have a remote first company, it means your employees can actually move somewhere that they can settle down and own a house.

And yes if it’s mixed WFH and on-site then of course the remote workers will lose out. But both Shopify and twitter are doing perm remote for all employees, creating an even playing field.
If you are in conflict with enough other members of a community, you are de facto outcast anyway. And if enough other members agree with you, just break off and form your own community!

We’re talking about online communities — low stakes to join, low stakes to leave. There are exactly zero reasons that anyone should resort to doxxing/threats/etc in response to moderation decisions.
The country has elected a fraudster involved with organized crime whose response to power has been to envy authoritarians.

And that is the current US Federal leadership. Every other federal agency is going to follow suit. Then the congressional departments will do the same to try and maintain hegemony.

The Federal US is not just fucked ... the US Federal is actively fucking every nation state that the US Federal can fuck as a triumph of criminality.

This is also including US state & municipal governments.

If there was ever a time for a coalition of forces to invade the US it would be with this president. Trump would give up Alaska to Putin in a trade to stay in power.
One common way queues can be used to give an async like feel to your applications and flatten out spikes of activity without having to add hardware.

So, for example, you would have a CRUD that takes requests, and when there is background work to be done, places a message on the queue, and immediately returns to the user. This frees up the server for more requests. Meanwhile in the background, a worker process chugs through the queue and does its work. During long spikes it will take longer to get through the queue, but your end users will not have disruption of service.
Precisely, it's a rate. People are driving shorter distances on average and that number dropped less than the number of fatalities.
Right now, there is _zero_ reason for companies not to announce permanent work from home. It gets them positive attention and makes them part of the buzz. They are already paying the comp they are paying.

Putting aside the fact that these policies can change on a dime (it's really "permantnet work from home _for now_"), what's really crazy is that people are seriously planning to take companies at their word and are considering leaving the Bay Area and are assuming they are taking their Bay Area comp with them.

Ok, cases:

1. company does NOT to geo-based adjustment to any current employee, but DOES use adjusted salaries for new ones (in other words, path-dependent compensation). Two people, same job, different compensation. This is not that unusual in other industries but can be a source of serious resentment. Suppose a bay area employee moves to India..

2. company uses relocated employees to establish new comp packages for those geos - this will only go so far. many cases will be employees moving to less expensive areas.

3. company sets a "standard" compensation package world-wide that everyone gets - this is impossible to really execute on, or it will be very low relative to peer companies.

and so on. Employees who end up in a case 1 situation will find that after AVERAGE_TENURE they go looking for a new job and end up geo-adjusted. From a company perspective, this is a no-lose golden handcuffs situation and anyway the problem resolves itself quickly.

I tend to believe companies will walk this back as soon as covid-19 dies down, if not right away then as part of executive transitions where someone decides to "transform the business." But in the end it makes no difference - the long term trajectory, if it sticks around, is probably case (1) or some blend of (1) and (2). For developed nation engineers, case (3) is dire, the end of the career.
I'm only talking about creating a certification, not enforcing which orgs do and don't use it. A lot of software isn't important enough for such a thing, but a lot of it is. The point is that even when decision-makers do want software to be highly reliable, they have nothing but very blunt instruments for attempting to enforce that, because they're working in the dark.
I've experienced that with AirDrop too, but that's because the iPhone knows the Mac can view them.

Also you don't need an external tool -- Preview will convert HEIC to JPEG for you relatively instantly, even in batch. (Though I really do wish the phone would ask first if you want to convert, when Airdropping.)
I loved the earlier Civ games, and almost everything else with Sid Meier's name attached, but these new ones feel so focused on being pretty that they forget to have good mechanics. I honestly can't remember anything special about Civ 4/5/6, or anything that would make me want to play one of them more than the others.

Plus they've been putting so much of the interesting content behind a DLC wall that giving away the base game is basically pure profit for them. Paradox proved this business model with CK2 and EU4, which is why CK2 is like a $400 game now.

I think I'll just go play Alpha Centauri again instead.
Not OP. I've been providing my own meals and snacks working from home (like I'd imagine most people are?), but the free food at work is usually better/more expensive than I'm willing to make for myself for any given lunch, and I'm not big on spending money on snacks. The free food + the social interaction + the increased productivity I get from being in an office all make working in an office most of the time way better.
Agreed. From what I've seen, Taiwanese people are very welcoming of Hongkongers especially in the current political climate. An example would be that of Lam Wing-kee.[1]

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-52425350
What are "28-day commits"? Are you talking about commits to source control?
> We need some sort of standard for software engineering quality. I don't think this is an academic question anymore. Real people's lives are being impacted every day now by shoddy software, and with the current crisis they often have no alternative. Software that you or I could probably have executed better, but that the people who were hired to do it either a) couldn't, or b) didn't bother. It's nearly impossible for non-technical decision makers in these orgs to evaluate the quality of the systems they've hired people to build. We need quality assurance at an institutional level.

Even if you were to put this in place today (which I don't necessarily agree with) you would still need bean-counters to sign off on paying for replacement services for their sweat, tears and duct tape solution. A good half of the electorate and the politicians, give or take, whip up into a frenzy if a bureaucrat so much as looks at a dollar bill the wrong way, so I doubt this would gain any traction.
You are justifying invasion because that is history which just happened. Ridiculous indeed.
That defeats a lot of the benefit of remote work though. My output in 3 days of work is gonna be a week's worth in my experience. Padding it with face time is mostly me eating a loss.

2 days/week working synchronously with people? Of meetings? I can't remember a time when a project I've worked on needed that to succeed.
Dan has better things to be doing than this; he runs the entire site. It's not like individually dealing with jerks is meant as his whole job.
These keys are effectively serial numbers, not blinded tokens, right? Why don't the original sellers just revoke ones that were obtained through credit card fraud?
Try the Historic Speed mod on Gathering Storm. It brings Civ VI into better balance, its a blast, especially if you like the longer game speeds. (I also turn down the storms and turn off city states altogether). But I agree there's too much tedium in the late game and movement takes too long -- like a decade to move armies from one side of a continent to the other. Another good mod is the trade mod that lets you automatically renew trade routes.
I've got NoScript installed and set for default deny of all javascript. I read the article, but did not have to contend with any popover autoplay videos.
Subreddits for any location go completely against the grain of reddit. The point of a subreddit is to group people with a similar interest, but the people who live in a city don't have that shared interest, they're just in the same place. Even on the bigger side, you end up with this cross section of the entire site, shrunk down and fragmented so that it's too big to ignore the inevitable arguments between the different factions, but also too small for the moderation to be any good.

Since the concept of a city subreddit is so obviously pointless, the only people who stay are the ones who like the conflict, exacerbating the problem; or in worse cases like the Canada subreddit, there is a hostile takeover by one side. If you want to talk to people who happen to live nearby, I think you should do so on a different website; reddit doesn't work at all for that usecase.
This, sadly, is so accurate. That, or the fact that as difficulty levels increase, the game just gives the AI opponents crude modifiers - they don't get smarter, they just get cheat codes.
Visual tools often involve direct manipulation via pointing and dragging. This doesn't have to be the only mode of interaction. It is entirely possible, probably highly desirable, to have visual tools which can be 100% keyboard driven.

Many programmers explore ideas with pen and paper, beyond the restrictions that code as a sequence of characters would have. There are definitely benefits to be had in those areas.
Before your comment I thought the more likely reason that Microsoft qualifies games is to reduce the amount of development and support effort needed for their emulator. Even Halo 1 struggled to get some good framerates, IIRC.
The amount of "I"s in the above message is staggering.
In addition to other answers offered here it can be a good addition to an existing business. For example if you do some IT consulting with local companies you can offer them hosting as well without building out your own hosting infrastructure.
Your comment ends at your claim but you do not provide any sources, evidence, or reasoning.
I was a moderator on /r/blackpeopletwitter and the amount of racist and outright vitriol we received was fucking insane. There are people out there who really have it out for BPT and we banned dozens of users daily who were legit there to only drop the n word with a hard r and make jokes about monkeys or something.

I deleted my reddit account in a panic after someone sent me a DM saying they knew where I lived and I saw a guy wondering around my apartment complex with his phone out like he was recording. I never want to be highly visible on reddit again.
Bingo. I'm pretty sure this is just an attempt to move more DLC and pump the Civ franchise for a few extra bucks.
The historical record strongly indicates that people didn't care that much about the 1918 pandemic after it was over. It's not like history was poorly recorded in the 20th century; if people were fighting wars or implementing policies because the public was still angry about the pandemic, that would have been reported in the daily news.
Not stalk and harass moderators.
US military are at the mercy of their population. Think Nazi Germans with their superweapons vs punny Russians. Germans east front were utterly destroyed that it was preferably to surrender to West as fast as possible even though it came at a huge toll on Russians side. American military at most top to 1-2 millions which is only about 1-2% of their population. Whatever weapons that US military got, they can be easily commandeered by the population should it turn evil like Nazi. A lot of ex-veterans including ex-special forces are part of population who are very well verse with military tactics. Unfortunately this is uncommon in Europe or Asia side. If you reside in this places, then you pretty much have not seen some US private citizen collections that can rival 3rd world armies. Remember USA was beaten by Vietnamese. What makes you think their own citizens can't keep them in check? The parents who their children are military are part of population too. These are what most governments are scared of and ban weapons. The intention for these governments are never for the safety of their population but their own. USA people are way more smarter than most people giving credit for. They known this concept by inventing a written document that guarantees 1st and 2nd. Even UK dares not to do this even though most early Americans originate from there.
Ragnar Locker ransomware deploys virtual machine to dodge security
Node debug mode runs a websocket, but the address is something like ws://0.0.0.0:9229/1cda98c5-9ae8-4f9a-805a-f36d0a8cdbe8 - without the correct guid at the end, you can't open the websocket and communicate. You can only detect the port being open by timing.
... and/or any of the multitude of Arch install and setup scripts available like this one

https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/LARBS
This was a bit dense in some paragraphs for me as a layperson, but the conclusion sounded like we may have found a more reliable (read understood) way to tackle this virus. Is that the case? (I realize a lot more work would have to be done for effective drugs and vaccines)
I think the biggest problem with reddit is that the simplest subreddit name is going to attract the largest audience, and if you don't like the moderators or community there, then there's nothing you can do about it. There's only one /r/politics, and if you don't like it then you'll have to move to, say, /r/notpolitics, which is going to have less visibility and a smaller community simply because of its name.
What would help would be, for lack of a better term, "namespaced" subreddits. There wouldn't be a /r/politics, there'd be a /r/namespace1/politics and a /r/namespace2/politics, and there'd effectively be no problem with visibility: if someone's looking for a subreddit to discuss politics, then there isn't a default, and you'll have to explicitly choose which community and moderation style you want.
The best way to implement this would be a federated reddit, with each server being it's own namespace. If you don't like federated-reddit1.com/r/politics, then move to federated-reddit2.com/r/politics. There'd be a problem with bubbles, but that wouldn't be any worse than what already exists.
It's also a lesson in rates vs. absolute numbers in reporting.
I've been a member of centuryclub for a long time, which is for Reddit users with over 100k karma. Gallowboob has been posting photos of his ass on that sub for years and was open about the city he lived in and what he did for work. Its hard to feel bad for him here; he should have known what he was getting himself into.
Ask HN: Are there any API review sites?
Aaaand suddenly the discussion took the un-charming turn where suddenly deceased human beings are possibly property.
If you read the article you'd see that it was a survey of only black and Latino business owners with no stats on businesses that actually closed down and no comparisons to other ethnicities (white, south and east Asian, etc...).
That's unidirectional. Websockets allow fully stateful bidirectional data transfer (just like a regular socket). They're wonderful when that's what you need.
I just got Civ 6 a few weeks ago. I've never played it before. Does anyone know good resources (websites, videos) to learn basics of the game?
For (2), allowing conversation as a general solution seems tough at scale, e.g., targeted misinformation campaigns on fb and twitter.
> I forgot that one-size-fits-all solutions are the norm when it comes to economic and political solutions to complex problems

That's a strawman you made up.
Your comment reminded me of a video, where a man who had lived in China for many years explained that in China the default behavior is to not to care or get involved. So that's why something as audacious as human trafficking can happen in a broad daylight, and rarely a bystander gets involved. It doesn't mean of course that everyone in China is like this, but I guess there's a seed of truth in that.
> Due to the photo’s size, the conversion took over five minutes.

This seems unlikely. What is the largest possible size phone photo coupled with the slowest reasonable Windows computer and Internet connection? There's just not that much data or processing involved in converting a 12 megapixel image.
You seem to have your dates mixed up... The 1918 pandemic is largely accepted as being exacerbated by the end of WW1.
This is a recent curated list of online jobs, 'Modern Day Jobs':

https://moderndayjobs.com/
Taiwan needs to have nukes in their arsenal as a deterrent.
> all stories are reported at "equal volume"

Coincidentally, that's where oldschool print media was better, if only due to space being limited and budgeted. Computers, otoh, are only good at dealing with things that are all alike.

But also because articles were all laid out right there on the pages next to each other and could be compared in physical terms.
I'm curious to know how well unsupported titles work.
I love the civ games and Civ 6 as well, but I fully agree that the gameplay can become a little tedious at scale. Moving large groups of units deters me from wanting to play really large empires despite it being my favorite playstyle
If I have the time I do like to browse used merchandise, as well as find stuff on craigslist etc. that I know I can fix up or deal with rather than buy a new one.

Often it's cheaper given the bigger picture just to buy a new one, though. But, finding some old tech t-shirt in a thrift store is fun!

I definitely don't buy new vehicles.
New sweat, tears and duct tape solutions are being created every day. Let's start by focusing on the ones coming down the pipe.
I don't see it as a fundamental problem with remote work, but remote work requires that many things work a lot better than they on average do. You can try and fix everything from team dynamics and documentation or drag everyone into the office and have the problems kind of be fixed by default.

You run into this issue with documentation too. A lot of the "go chat with X" really should be "go read Y on the wiki." But fixing that, especially after long periods of neglect, is a project likely to fail.
You realize China has a history of invasion, right? So I guess that's also ridiculous to you.
Support it by performing client-side conversion to JPEG. The device obviously already has the license.
Erasing and replacing = Erasing the parameters and replacing them with ad-hoc polymorphic functions generated by the compiler. Like what C++ does with templates.

Basically do all languages with parametric polymorphism do that?
This seems like a very interesting move from Epic's side. Their giveaways had some pretty nice giveaway games in the past (Assassins Creed Syndicate, Darksiders 1 and 2, Amnesia, Into the Breach and Towerfall)[1], but recently they've started giving away far bigger games like GTA V, and now Civ 6.

I wonder if this'll actually kickstart their market share.

[1] Source - https://old.reddit.com/r/EpicGamesPC/comments/e9vj2c/updated...