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Have a colleague who said the same. They had come in for reasons I can't remember, and shortly after launched a product that worked strangely similar to their offering. People got laid off, including my colleague, not long after that.
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I think you're completely correct. Most successful automation technologies tend to create two markets: the lower end mass consumption market and a higher end artesian market.

Power looms certainly drove out hand looms, displacing many artesians that supplied most clothing in the 18/19th century. Suddenly clothes were cheap because of a new technology! But does that mean there's no market for specializing in the higher end clothing that requires special attention and detail? No! Instead, the market tends to bifurcate into the mass consumption market and higher end artesian market (I certainly know many people who do like the higher end artesian products!).

I think we need to worry less about if we have X or Y technology that will disrupt a working class of people, and instead focus on building up a more robust welfare state to allow these people to have a meaningful place in society.
For the parser, we will be using https://github.com/LesterLyu/fast-formula-parser
Many people in big tech hubs don't pay for lunch. Work provides it. Now, they all have to pay for lunch that they weren't paying for before because the office is closed. Sometimes this isn't just lunch - but up to 3 meals a day. Same is true with transit. They took a company bus or work paid for public transit.

Now, people who were living in spaces where they didn't have a dedicated office space are dying for one. (like myself) And, unfortunately, the competition for homes with more bedrooms has skyrocketed. I'm looking at paying $2000 more a month just so I can get a couple more bedrooms for office work! Moving away for a year or more isn't a real option either.
If I were them, I would be signing perpetual data-sharing agreements with other sister companies and archives, and prepare to protect as much of the archive as possible in bankruptcy...
I keep most not directly work related talk out of work. Not because I think they must not be crossed, or because I'm afraid of someone disagreeing (I'm also fairly far left, so plenty of my views are en vouge at the moment), but because usually there is no time for any nuanced discussions during work hours, so it just ends up being people throwing rehashed phrases at each other while passing by.

I'll happely meet a co-worker over lunch/dinner to discuss things more deeply.

But since over time the workplaces is inevitably shaped by the society it is in, in my opinion we might as well try figure out ways to deal with broader issues while at work, instead of pretending they are isolated. (I'm not saying I have a good solution of how this would look like.)
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> On the flip side, a lot of the more abhorrent things to come out of the current President's mouth are things that were clearly not politically-correct, that a lot of America has been holding back, that are now back in the open.

It's not hard to see his initial popularity as linked to this. That is, the vilification of having views that are not the same as the majority leading people to feel repressed, and them supporting someone that's unwilling to bend to that, even if they don't support every decision he makes or view he takes.

I don't want racists and white supremacists spreading their rhetoric, but I also don't want our society so constrained by mob mentality that having merely unpopular opinions have dire consequences. If we take it as a given that mob mentality (to this degree) is an emergent phenomenon because of our hyper connected world, and that too much mob mentality is causing the problem, how do you mitigate emerging phenomena when you can't really alter what it emerges from?

I'd also be happy if someone could convincingly refute that it's an emergent phenomena, or that mob mentality is the problem, since those seem intractable to me.
Makes sense! We're also looking for other markets to expand into so that's really helpful.
Maybe take some self-examination. Your friends should be your most sympathetic audience, if you're afraid of expressing your opinions even to them, maybe you need to have an honest converstaion either with yoursself or with them.
Have you tried lowering to 60Hz in Windows to see if it helps? What about another switch?
Isn't it more like the mall owner opening a clone of your store right next to yours while charging themselves no rent in order to gain an advantage, all the while promoting their own store they opened to steal your business on the ad boards situated around the mall?
The most productive workers barely scrape 50% productivity; however, idle, chat, socialization and other “wasteful” time isn’t wasted. You learn things about the needs of other groups, colleagues, the politics and all sorts of things you’d never pick up on working remotely.
> "If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor" - Desmond Tutu

I don't really like this quote.

It starts off with a false premise, because neutrality is required in order to have justice. A neutral assessment of oppression is that it's wrong.

What Desmond Tutu is really getting at is that so-called "neutrality" which defends the status quo when the status quo is oppression is wrong. But that's not what actual neutrality would do.

And then the quote gets put forth to quash demands for actual neutrality as illegitimate, even when the people in need of it are the victims rather than the oppressors.
Nothing can be worse than the JavaScript monster we have today
Maybe I'm an asshole, but how about this: If you don't feel safe, don't come back. I will gladly hire someone else.
The core of any argument against Arch is that it's a bleeding-edge Distro, which means more breakage.
And thats why i like libgen..

havnt paid for a book in some time, cause most/all ebooks are overpriced af imo.

And also how can i resell my ebooks? why would i pay the same price as a physical copy then..
For non-retail fulltime employees who have been successfully productive, working from home has saved time, money, getting sick from fellow commuters and colleagues. That time saved has gone towards living a much healthier life.
What are examples of this fascism and vicious racism?

I’m always interested to hear how people arrive at these extreme opinions.
try being a Libertarian

but work is not the place to discuss politics or sex. it is dangerous to have an opinion on anything other than sports and even then only at the team level.
The reference manual is at
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Better, more directional street lamps help, even in large cities. We can tune their wavelength to be less blinding as well. They do not need to illuminate the sky. More of them, and less powerful, would provide better light where it’s actually needed.

The other side is to reduce emissions of aerosols and particles that scatter light in the atmosphere.
Citation needed.

I didn't do any of that. It's kinda weird to me that you think that at all summarizes what I wrote.
I don’t think King was arguing silence is violence. His argument was against those actively telling black people to wait, to tone things down, etc.
Could add the same logic for the inevitable "self host it" when Github is down, or the "but we did it first!" comment from Gitlab whenever Github announces a feature.
I mean, that works until it doesn't. The same argument is applied to wages, and yet most skilled labor isn't paid minimum wage.
I have no idea--that's why I'm skeptical and would love to see evidence. In some of these companies, veteran outlier high-performers end up getting promoted several times to things like "Distinguished Engineer" and have enormous staffs of engineers reporting to them. They are executives in all but title, so I'd expect them to be in the executive pay bands and get executive salaries. Those aren't the people we're talking about. We are talking about regular "top performer" individual contributors (write code as their job, no direct reports). Why would a company artificially keep them at some low promotion level but pay them as if they were multiple levels higher?
> Honestly, the Left is the worst at this. They will actively try to ruin your life over wrongthink.

This experience must vary a lot with your locale. I live in a medium sized town in Canada and feel very uncomfortable talking to my conservative, suburban neighbours about issues I strongly believe should be a priority for everyone. Like climate change.

They know that them and me don’t see eye to eye on these issues but I can’t bring it up in a way that I would with my left leaning friends and it pains me. Because it’s something that both sides of the political spectrum should be able to rally behind. Many conservatives here fancy themselves as sort of “salt of the earth people” so I don’t get the hostility towards some kind of conservation.
I lost interest in Apple over a decade ago. Too many restrictions, and overpriced hardware. Plus, they've never once made a serious play in the server space (nobody uses OSX Server unless they really have to).
I doubt they store credit card data (who does that ?).
Last 4 digits would be to display "Your Visa -5555" in a payment method picker
I see a real rise in each company having it's own internal coworking/hoteling.

Getting together still has value but spaces will be transformed more for collaboration... and also small individual offices as work pods
In addition, this "centrism" isn't actually "center", ideologies don't actually fall neatly along a single dimension. These are just handy ways to reference and group ideologies.

The "center" people are referring to here is a United States-centric form of liberalism. It's not any less "extreme" than communism, it's just the dominant political force and, as you say, has the privilege of positioning itself as the comfortable default. In reality, it's a fairly extreme commitment to a different set of principles.
I was trying to get into Google 3 times in my life. Results so far:

- some (all? one?) interview failure (no feedback), rejection

- interviews passed, no degree in CS (which was known to them prior of the interviews), rejection

- interviews passed, this time missing CS degree is not a problem, no cultural fit, rejection

I think I am done. You are assumption is without merit though.
Anecdotal, but I've seen people in my social networks on unemployment say things to the effect of "If the government could afford to pay us this entire time to not work, then why should we go back?" Implying that the government has been withholding livable basic income from people this entire time, and coronavirus lockdowns have proved it.
Once they figure out UV, there are lots of in house innovations in the pipeline that could prolong Moore's law for the next 10-15 years. This is according to Jim Keller, who gave talks about how there could be up to 50x density increase. Most of that technology is proprietary and together with TSMC they are heading toward a quasi monopoly.
Maybe your business would have a hostile work environment because you are an asshole. Why would you retain the talent to thrive?
As others have commented there are lots of costs and logistical complications involved in a traditional photo shoot.
You need to have all the garments of the outfit, the model, the photographer and all support staff in the same place at the same time.

Replacing this with all digital models and clothes would be a big cost reduction.

However, it is still relatively hard to render photo-realistic faces and there's still a long way until all clothes are available as 3D models with realistic simulation of fabrics etc.

But there are already solutions being used today that achieve some of the benefits without using completely generated content.

Looklet[1] provides a system where each garment is shot individually on a mannequin. This is done by a couple of operators in a custom studio, typically placed in a warehouse or similar where samples are received.
The images are then combined with other garment images and previously shot images of models to produce photo-realistic catalog images without the need for a traditional photo shoot.
The web page has sample images and a list of retailers using this technology.

Take a look at e.g. Saks Off 5th's[2] catalog and see if you can spot the images that have been produced in this way.

[1] https://www.looklet.com

[2] https://www.saksoff5th.com/c/women/apparel
Centrists see themselves as imminently reasonable, sure. But virtually everyone believes "that different people see different parts of various problems and that solutions can come from people who aren't subscribed to a set political party." It's not a defining characteristic of centrists, it's a a defining characteristic of people who think of themselves as reasonable. IMO, the defining characteristic of centrists is that they think that they're the only reasonable ones and that everyone else is an ideologue.
Hi eastdokota, nobody got in touch with me. Could you follow up with the team? Again thank you.
By this logic, no legislation can ever seek to reduce online child sexual exploitation
fwiw instacart says it is credential stuffing : https://news.instacart.com/a-security-update-from-instacart-...
In the very few games I play 60Hz is way too low so I haven't attempted it at all -- I want the maximum Hz/FPS.

As for another switch, I am open to ideas if you have them. In my local market I was only able to find like 2-3 of them [that support DP 1.4] and they are all north of $250 -- which I don't mind but it would be non-pleasant to buy 5+ of them just to experiment.

Maybe my requirement for DP 1.4 is silly though. Maybe HDMI would be fine.
The "human factor" is still why we don't have AI replacing doctors! There's a lot AI can and should be doing for improving worker efficiency in many industries, but ignoring "human factors" leads to 737 Max sort of screw up for deploying automation technologies.
Kind of pointless to bring it up then, huh?
This reminds me of another article on IKEA's catalogue: at least 75% those photos are 3D renders[0]

I can definitely see how a major fast-fashion brand can adopt this practice.

Won't kill Paris and NYC fashion week, but certainly will decrease the number of models that are currently paid for more trivial modelling jobs.

[0] https://kotaku.com/most-pics-in-ikea-catalogues-arent-photos...
We can do fast, pregnancy-test-style serology now. BD is pushing one to market. 15min turn-around time.

The problem is that their % positive agreement is too low (<90%), and their % negative agreement is based on the PCR benchmark which already churns out a false negative rate of roundabout 30%.

And even their positives are only reasonably reliable (<90%) during peak symptoms. If you're pre, post, or low symptomaticity, its accuracy isnt even characterized (but believed to be low.)

Given all of the above, hyping them up is ... well, ignorant of all of the above, one hopes.
A sample template that I believe would go a long way to restoring trust:

"Thursday in King County, contact tracers tracked cases from 301 of the 672 new cases identified Wednesday. They contacted and referred 5,000 people for quarantine and testing. Tuesday's contact tracing efforts identified 15% of the cases reported Wednesday, up from 5% a week ago. The number of contact tracers working in King County will expand from 300 to 1500 in the coming week.

We continue to see a high volume of cases associated with the Home Depot on Aurora, the Wallingford QFC, and UW's fraternity row. If you have been to any of these places within the last two weeks, we encourage you to seek testing immediately.

Testing is free, takes less than two minutes, and wait-times are less than ten minutes at most testing sites across Seattle. For more information, visit covid.seattle.gov or call 206-555-1212.

Your assistance is deeply appreciated. The sooner we can contact-trace every case, the sooner we can stop the COVID-19 outbreak and return to life as normal."

As daily reporting of this sort becomes part of the rhythm of life, it will both build trust and point the way for the community and government to reach to ~90%+ contact-tracing coverage. When full contact-tracing coverage is achieved, the case count can begin to drop rapidly.

This fight can be won. Winning saves lives.
IMVU became a mobile metaverse when no one was looking
Hi sonstry, sadly nobody got in touch with me.
Predicted headline about 1 year from now: "U.S. companies decide to move away from WFH arrangements, return to office".

(saying this as someone who's been WFH for a few years now)
Haha. Yeah, me too. Still no 10nm pro laptop cpus, desktop cpus or server cpus.
The list is misleading. Angular.js was superseded by Angular 2. Google hangouts was superseded by Google Meet...
Is it wrong to say some beliefs should be "shamed away"?

The thing is, aside from traditional liberal and conservative views, it has been documented how the Internet gives play to a variety of essentially delusional belief systems; flat-earth, anti-vax, 5G fears, "crisis actor" conspiracies, etc. Basically, things that in earlier times someone might imagine one day but give up through realizing that their friends and neighbors might (correctly) think they were crazy if they continued to entertain such idea.

And this isn't to say such ideas are absolutely distinct from political ideas - just about any type of delusion is now given a particular kind of political spin since the committedly delusional are an easily directed group.

The situation is - once people got their ideas from the neighbors and maybe their schools and churches. Gradually, they came to also get their ideas from mass media. This was already somewhat artificial but at least it kept a single social authority. Now, people get their ideas from mass media and "the Internet"("dispersed", "narrow-cast" media), with mass media struggling to keep up some unity of beliefs (though mass media itself easily cast as a manipulator of its own sort).
I think the one of the big things that makes things political is coercion. If you are using the power of the state to advance a controversial goal then it is political.

Take for example how we got to religious freedom. In the past, if you were the wrong religion, you would be tortured and executed.

In a lot of places, this led to horrendous religious wars where literally millions of people died. In the end, we ended up with freedom of religion as a compromise. The state would no longer compel you to choose a religion.

Of course each religion thought they were right and the others were wrong. But they stopped using the power of the state to compel conversions. They would still proselytize and try to persuade other people to join their faith, but they stopped trying to use the power of the state to compel people. After that, religion became a lot more apolitical.

Sometimes begin apoliticial means you don't think it is worth using the power of the state to change the status quo. You may be against the status quo, and think debate or persuasion is more effective.

In addition, reference to the status quo in the quote is simplistic. A lot of times the status quo is like an armistice line between two warring sides. Many times the status quo includes things you are for and things you are against. Maybe the way the status quo is right now, the benefit of the things you are for, is greater than the burden of the things you are against. If you try to change the status quo, you may end up destabilizing the status quo so much, that when the new equilibrium is reached, you end up losing some of things you were for.
If you are not against the oppressor, if you are okay with allowing oppression to continue happening for any reason, you are on the side of the oppressor. You cannot be an ally from a neutral position, you need to pick your side and commit.

This is why if you want to be an ally to people of color it's not enough to not be racist, but rather you need to be anti-racist. We're seeing more and more how neutrality is dangerous in allowing systemic issues to exist and flourish (see elected Democrats in major American cities, the "not racists", allowing the police state to exist and perpetuate systemic racism). If you want to be an ally, you need to become comfortable admitting that the privileged position of neutrality isn't compatible with allyship.
Unless you _really_ like your coworkers, or have a horrible work environment at home, if your job can be done remote its almost a universally better experience. I worked exclusively remote for 3 years, and I _never_ want to go back to working in the office full time.
IMHE, centrists generally have a self-image of pragmatism, but are as ideologically driven as any other group.
> "Trump has pretty well established himself as a racist, and I can imagine how that would not go over well with employees of color."

So tell me then, why do you think someone supporting Trump "would not go over well" with "employees of color".

Your words.

Please, tell me more about how 'employees of color' think
Democrats have been swayed by extreme leftists

As an extreme leftist, I need an example of this. Because where I sit, they are all pro-big-business big government centrists.
The country agreed to the starlink satellites as well, considering they received FCC approval.

The country can still decide against it and now allow any more launches, and the satellites that are up there will come down naturally in a few years time. You may even be able to forcibly deorbit them if they still have propellant left (not sure if they do or not).

No-fly zones are almost always created for the government to do government things, and not for the direct benefit of the public (ie reducing airport noise for nearby residents).

A US plane passing over your house doesn't impact people in India either negatively or positively(except for the consequences of global warming). These satellites passing over the US and India can equally benefit people in the US and India. It's not like starlink is a US only service and SpaceX is going to prevent anyone in India from having access.

Satellites also have proven utility, as does the internet, which is why groups like the UN General Assembly HRC declared access to the internet as a basic human right.
The reason I won’t be coming back to the office is because my managers love not having to come in anymore. It’s that simple.
I'm still amazed the fight seems to be "everyone works from home" or "everyone works from the office".

I've been fairly productive since we all started full-time from home in March. However I prefer working at the office. As time has gone on I've found myself losing routine. Either working sporadically through the day or longer hours in general.

Being somewhere does a better job for me of time-boxing work.

That being said, I also have my work and personal machine in the same room. So now I'm spending most of my time in one room! I'm working to rectify that situation.
You’d fit right in in a 1910s factory.