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>Me and my teammates also become more efficient when we work together in the same physical space than remotely (we've tried bunch of things like perpetual video calls, among other things).

I tend to agree with this, and I've worked remote (hybrid) for over 12 years now. For me, a hybrid is the best. Most tasks and problems can be solved well asynchronously and for those, give me a WFH option. It's great for all the reasons this thread creator mentioned and time cannot be understated. The commute alone typically requires a vehicle and the much of maintenence time I spend in my free time comes from wear and tear of commute driving as do expenses to expedite repairs for necessity of a car for work. This stuff all adds up.

Once every now and then, in person meetings and problem solving synchronously is good where virtual just fails. Usually this involved external clients and so forth or some physical, hardware related aspect of work. Software alone I can typically do fully remote as it's assumed everyone is competent and can easily share needed information and visuals with one another.

>Unless you live outside big cities, I'm not sure if 2 hours of commute is that common (at least with my South West European perspective, maybe is different in the US/elsewhere?).

I lived in rural US and my experience is that commutes tend to be longer, both in distance and time, in rural areas. While traffic related commute times tend to melt away, with less density, people tend to drive further for better employment opportunities. Sometimes this involves living near but not in a large metro area and driving hours daily to pull in high income with low COL at the sacrifice of great commute times. I know a surgeon in Texas who commutes around 4-6 hours each trip (nearly doubles his income), someone near NY/NJ who commutes 6 hours daily to drive in, and people in small areas that would drive 2-hours to a nearby plant that pays more. One of my peers used to work 3 positions and one required driving an hour each way to. One of my older directors actually lived 2 hours away and purchased a condo near his job where he worked and stayed throughout the week then returned home on weekends. I presume his wife who didn't work would sometimes stay at his condo but never felt comfortable breaching that discussion.

For them, the time they lose can't be spent working elsewhere and average out to the same higher rates and they're willing to sacrifice that time to pull more in and provide for their families. This is ultimately because good paying opportunities are often few and far between in low COL areas and highly competitive as well. For me, living in a metro area makes more sense these days. You pay more for property but recover that in terms of commute time and TC. You also have more security depending on the area by there being more opportunities to transfer to should you want/need, without changing commute times too drastically. If you live in a rural area and the diamond in the rough position you found disappears, you have to consider significant lifestyle changes for you and your family or even consider uprooting and moving. There are trade-offs either way you go.
I don't have a mac anymore to check but there was a magic pref that I set from the commandline to adjust the auto-show delay. I set it to something like 10s which made sure that it effectively never appeared by accident. If you really don't want it I assume you could set the delay to a couple of hours.
I feel like that quote might have been intriguing and made some sense on a home computer in 1981 but has no hope of being true today. Home computers in 1981 typically had no hard drives, ran exactly 1 process at a time, had no virtual memory, no internet connection, no GPU, etc., etc. Even the article you linked to is primarily saying that Smalltalk provides it’s own interface to things the OS also does, but is not even attempting to address concepts like multi-process, security, safety, resource contention & prioritization, and all the other things a modern OS does.

So what insight is this quote giving us today, does it still say something interesting, and is it still true in certain ways?

I don’t have a Smalltalk history or know much about projects like LispOS or Toit at all, but I do have a clear (to me) picture of what an OS does that is useful and should not be part of a programming language. One example of that is working on console games, for example Nintendo consoles, before they provided an OS. It was a nightmare because the game developer was on the hook for handling a very long list of abnormal system conditions. The certification process for a game on a Nintendo console required all developers to conform to standards that specified exactly what errors needed to be displayed under what circumstances. Game developers needed to handle cases where a player would accidentally bump open the CD tray or pull out a cartridge in the middle of a level load, or repeatedly yank and replace a controller cable, things like that. Think about how silly it is that every single game developer, thousands of them, had to - separately and individually - spend tons of time re-engineering the same solutions to these things that the console itself should have handled, things that a couple of people at Nintendo could have engineered once for everyone. Well, now they have an OS, and this is only one of the many reasons why. It might not be immediately apparent that Nintendo’s certification standards have any bearing or say on what a home computer should be like, but UX standards in system-wide error messages are important, designated responsibility for which process handles hardware errors and user notification are important, and making sure that efforts that have to be common to all programs are implemented in such a way that devs can’t mess them up and don’t need to reinvent the wheel are important.
I don’t have a problem with the telemetry on windows. I’m unsure why everyone gets so upset. MS isn’t collecting stuff to shove advertising down our throat. It’s getting usage to figure out what’s wrong with windows and make it better. As you say.

I have issue with Facebook and Google blatantly collecting whatever they can to build profiles of us all to shove advertising down our throat that isn’t even relevant to us.
When my commute was biking 30 minutes from the inner sunset to SoMa a few years ago I found that I really enjoyed that. Honestly a 30 minute bike ride is my ideal commute I think.
> Google probably doesn't want to validate users' age (because selling ads to impressionable kids is very lucrative) but they have to now.

I mean, I hate this age validation as much as everyone else, curbing advertising to impressionable kids doesn't sound too stupid to me...
I have trouble even understanding the point of this. To me "automatic test generation" seems as bad an idea as "automatic code generation".

The point of tests for me is to express intent for what the software should do. The code then expresses the details of how we do it.

I could see a use for evolutionary algorithms to probe code for hidden bugs. But even there it seems limited. I definitely see a use for things like Hypothesis, which makes test expression more powerful: https://hypothesis.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

It makes sense to me that this comes from an academic perspective, and not from people who actually make software for a living.
Does hydro have drawbacks? Yes. They change ecosystems. In many cases the new ecosystems are less desirable from the human perspective, but the reservoirs and rivers that are changed are still plenty viable for all sorts of ecosystems and life. This is highly different from fossil fuels, which produce pollution, toxins, and directly contribute to all of the evils of climate change.
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Joe Rogan (Spotify Podcast) had Neil degrasse Tyson on a couple of days ago for a discussion on all the UFO/UAP videos and information. It was interesting how Neil basically tore apart the whole subject. I'm no where near as smart as folks like Neil or Elon and both have dismissed the UFO phenomena as unlikely. Their arguments really are pretty strong but people want to believe there is something more out there.

Anyway, it was a great discussion, Neil is a pleasure to listen to.
Personally I really like the updated design. I switched back to Firefox a while ago because I get weird rendering artifacts in Safari.

The only thing I didn't like was the way the UI looked, so this update comes as a very welcome surprise for me.
Now if only we can break it down to a 2:3 method,
> keep their neighborhood as white as possible

I know that these same mechanisms were used to keep out minorities in the past. But I'd say now that they are more about forcing conformity to stereotypical average white middle class appearances than against minorities per say. Variety is not tolerated. It is ok to be a minority, as long as you don't ever act like one.

I personally think that's oppressive, even scary, and not good for the culture over the long term. But some people are into that.
I’d use a temp card from privacy.com or something.
I like some of the ideas toward the end for metadata capture, but this guy just has too much shit open. Close things when you're done with them my dude.
Wow great stuff!! Found smth to add to my internal newsletter :)
Different work places are different. At mine, all of those are wrong, except "You cannot change the room temperature". Fortunately, it's already good at mine.

Also, I guess technically I have to "look a certain way", like have clothes on. But I'm going to look that way anyway.
> Lawmakers often forget that millions of people aren't born into the system, and do not always fill certain preconditions like the native population.

That should be quoted and hanging upon the wall of every politician. Very easy to fall thru the net and undue social and mental stress trying to fix that when innocent and a local, dare imagine the nightmare of somebody less fortunate who just wants to have an honest life.

The aspect that Germany have a clear approach to dealing with those who they deem illegal, it clearly does not help those who fall into that definition without doing anything illegal. Rent the wrong place and suddenly the burden and fallout is placed upon the renter who becomes a victim of the process.

This isn't isolated to Germany, and the same thing patterns out in every country in one form or another.
Who do I speak to to get my blue checkmark on Twitter?
"The digital wallet will securely store payment details and passwords and allow citizens from all 27 countries to log onto local government websites or pay utility bills using a single recognised identity"

I find it amazing that anybody would think this is a good thing. Then again, I shouldn't be amazed. There are numerous examples of people eagerly trading privacy for [perceived] convenience.
> My employer doesn't believe that. If they did, they would pay me sufficiently that I wouldn't need to choose. The Bay Area doesn't believe that: if they did, they'd address the housing crisis.

There has to be a name for the logical fallacy of treating the market as some kind of oracle, as if it was a global optimizer, instead of a greedy optimizer that will happily ignore the costs it can externalize.

"The Bay Area" doesn't "believe" the housing crisis needs to be addressed because for most interested actors, it's in their personal interest to further the crisis. You paid a lot for your house, and you want it to appreciate in value. You paid a lot for your house, because others who bought before you wanted theirs to appreciate in value. Someone else will pay a lot for their house, because you want yours to appreciate in value.
Even that resulted in an hour each way for me pre-pandemic. Then you also need to factor in the exhaustion that comes with using Bart, especially in the evening.
Another great Internet snafu brought to you by over reaching EU technocrats.
Wow. You get a lot more out of the office than I do. I hate small talk and at work it feels like a distraction. I am friendly with coworkers but I'm not actually friends with many/any. I have tried to decouple my sense of belonging from work as much as possible since that is very unhealthy because its not a situation I control (if I get laid off is my belonging gone?)

Company sports are great but those can be replaced by sports with friends. Dating at work is... Well I'll leave that alone. And food I cook is better than any office food I've ever had. That being said I havnt worked in a FANG office that has a chef.
I agree it is nothing new, but that's the point being made, which is that plagues cause discontinuities with societies - they are a driver of change. And that will happen here, too. People will go back to being people, I agree, but just different people, in some ways :)

Also, I have thought about the generational divide part, and tell me son that he'll be telling his kids and grandkids about what it was like to live through covid!
I mean we're in the middle of a pandemic right now, but with my WFH life currently I leave my house once a week to pick up groceries. (Where I pop the trunk and they put them in)

I feel like it's really easy for people to not get out of a comfort zone and meet people just /randomly/ on the road or at the Grocery store. Especially to the point of being friends.

Sadly our community has died, church attendance is massively down in most of the world. Which killed that social circle, clubs seem to not really exist anymore. Basically we're down to meetup.com, work, and bars.
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Very true the average day is drive to work> drive from work to home maybe stopping at a supermarket on the way.
This kind of black box solution gives you nothing but a false sense of privacy and/or security.

I've come to a conclusion that either you want an OS that respects your privacy, or you want Windows. These two are fundamentally incompatible and at most, you're going to end up doing damage control.
It's pretty infurating that I've had a Youtube account since 2006 (15 years ago), and now they're asking me whether i'm over 18. A basic calculation on their end could filter the accounts based on age, given the TOS of when they were created (e.g. if the TOS specified that I must be over 13, a 2006 account would mean I'm at least 28, therefore automatically verified).
I know what you mean, but I would hesitate to call Euler angles naïve. ;-)
Yeah, it just hides office politics behind private slack channels and zoom calls.

I certainly have reduced visibility to what's going on. On the other hand, not having a ~40 minute commute is a real perk.
Oh, I see those in comp.lang.lisp, too. They outnumber actual posts by about 4 to 1.
The thing is this script is not only about telemetry, but also about disabling some annoyances that are especially annoying in server or workstation environment.

I don't think there's an up to date resource describing all these tweaks. My recommendations:

- Use the original script, it's slightly more up to date, last update was in november 2020: https://github.com/Disassembler0/Win10-Initial-Setup-Script
- Read it's library of tweaks, especially the notes about potential unwanted side effects in comments. If you don't understand what each feature does, google it. The tweaks are grouped.
- Don't enable any tweak where you don't understand what it does, especially in the security and network tweaks categories.
Speaking of gimbal lock - it was a real (as opposed to only theoretical/mathematical) concern for navigation during the Apollo 11 moon landing [1].

Euler angles are fugly and annoying. Quarternions are clean and refreshing.

[1] https://apollo11space.com/apollo-and-gimbal-lock/
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So this is why I said we have to define what we mean by ethics. You said "when you're doing something with someone else's creative work, you have to give someone an opportunity to say no". Why, other than that's how you feel?

I'm arguing from a utilitarian aspect - ethics as a means to maximize overall utility would dictate not to ask. But I'm curious what perspective you're speaking from, other than, as mentioned, gut feel (which will leave us at a bit of a conversational impasse I'm afraid).
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They do need a warrant for all the mentioned things in Germany (except birthdates if accessed in public registers).

The GDPR does apply to governments in general (see Article 2) but criminal law enforcement authorities are exempt.
4% of the population is a massive amount of people
If your program doesn't need to care about public opinion, you can test to failure, and thus can estimate the limits much better.

The public sees destructive flight testing as failures so if your program relies on public money, that's a problem.
A few of the biggest cities have. Most give lip service to the idea, but their actions show that they care about public transport more for a place to send money/power to their friends than any ability to get people around. (Money meaning cash to contractors and unions regardless of results, power as in another appointment to someone who helped them out)
Random Firefox UI observations:

- Tabs have been redesigned to look like buttons. Why? Surely altering the appearance of an interface component or control to reflect something it isn't is basic UX 101? And why remove the outline of non-selected tabs? Isn't "affordance" of components also UX 101?

- Themes: Isn't one of the goals for a web browser to minimise the "chrome" (the toolbars, tabs, status bar) so that as much of the browser page is visible? Theming a thin toolbar strip seems a bit pointless. (It's pointless in Chrome too, why copy them?)
This idea that voice/video ostensibly reduces empathy may not be all bad. It's easier to set personal boundaries when the poorly equipped project or engineering manager on the other side of a voice or video bridge can't escalate with implied threats or histrionics. Cajoling and haranguing people to work for its own sake is not management, and the tech sets a boundary on a lot of that behavior.

I'd argue the human contact in offices is rarely used to foster healthy long term relationships, and the improved mental health of remote employees appears to have a productivity benefit. Think of the anti-patterns that people use in offices because it works for them, and how those anti-patterns don't work anymore and they must find better tools.

I can see how it's hard for superfluous managers who must compete to extract value from the same set of resources, but for a well aligned organization, remote is a potential renaissance.
On one hand, people have given up their credit card for worse pre-Internet or outside of the Internet (like "free" or nearly free trials that turn into a subscription service).

On another, Google already has a lot of peoples' credit card numbers by way of Google Pay. Does this expose those people to any more risk?
He probably will. And use it as evidence that it was never a big deal and nobody should get vaccinated.
Good UI developers are incredibly hard to find. If they let them go, it will take a couple years to get a new team assembled and integrated into Mozilla.

I agree with the idea of other UX initiatives though. They could definitely have the team work on other parts of Firefox even though that isn't as immediately visible to all users.
Don't be over dramatic. It's still tabs and an URL bar, there's nothing to adjust to.
Some of us would argue that the year-long (and counting) lockdowns are the result of neurotics imposing on the rest of us. Some of us have been arguing since the beginning of all this that the old and infirm should have been the ones to isolate themselves — with accommodations and support from the rest of society — while the rest of us took sensible precautions and continued on with the business of life. Some of us trusted that "two weeks to slow the spread" was the sensible policy and what our governments would follow. Instead, what happened was an extended and irrational panic by some forced on the rest of us.

So, I think it's terrific if people would accept their neuroses and not bother the rest of us. But there is no evidence that that's how things work.
> extremely privileged but obsessed with their own psychological frailty which they flaunt like it's something to be proud of

This type of judgement about mental health is what drove Naomi Osaka to withdraw from Roland Garros yesterday.

It’s about time that as society we open up about mental health and how to deal with our issues, instead of blaming the people with the issues and calling them weak or snowflakes. People with issues need help, not bullying.
This is really exciting, I've been waiting forever for elastic scrolling. It seems like they fixed a majority of the issues that made Firefox feel awkward and out of place on MacOS. I might actually switch over now!
This is parents’ job, not Google’s.

If you legally require Google to act like a parent, they have to do it to everyone.
AvE is a jewel in the cesspool that is Youtube :)

He's a private dude, but I think his wife is french-canadian and he's at least bilingual. And from what I've gathered he has to have done some kind of mechanical engineering for a LONG time. Dude knows his stuff about anything mechanical.

His teardown of the Juicero is pure gold: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cp-BGQfpHQ

It's an amazing insight into a startup with endless amounts of money, bunch of really smart people, but no real business model. =)
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It took me a while but I've got all social media off my phone. I allow myself 5 minute of twitter in the morning (I use a block to keep me off it otherwise) and 15 minutes of hackernews.

My brain feels radically calmer than it did a few years ago. My parents have Instagram accounts. Why?
> now they ask for a credit card number or an identity card to prove it

Related, I can’t install my telco’s app because it’s region-locked to Australia and Google Play Store seems to think I’m in the USA—never mind that my account was created in Australia over fifteen years ago and it’s only been to America twice for a total of less than three months, and that my phone was bought in Australia and set up in Australia, as was my first phone. Seems like a case of an absurd and harmful default. Anyway, the only way to convince them I’m in Australia is to add a billing method. Nope. I’m not giving them billing details. (Now if only the telco would unlock it, as their support staff said they were working on, never mind that the whole process takes less than five minutes and I gave them the help page over a month ago. Or better still, if the telco would just provide a web interface like literally everyone else does, rather than just Apple and Google Android apps. Sigh. If only they weren’t the cheapest for my needs by a large margin.)

Also related to the whole age thing, I just started the Google Settings app half an hour ago for other reasons and it triggered a notification asking me to enter my birthday “to help us comply with the law”, expressed even more strongly on the page the notification takes you to as “Your date of birth is missing. This info is needed to comply with the law.”, with a “learn more about why Google asks for this info” link to https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1733224?hl=en-GB, where the only sort of thing that they could conceivably be referring to as a legal compliance matter would be the minimum age of 13, and… I’ve been using that account for longer than that anyway.
Oh, Macs don't have the middle click? Oh, my.