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> Using a hash table for at most 3 entries is astronomical overkill!

Here is the given reason for using a HashMap: https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/commit/f107c7065230c6...
There's a lot of speculation and talk about motivations. Isn't Apple primarily a hardware company? Maybe someone who works there can set me straight, but it seems logical for Apple to need at least some of its workers in an office. They cant be shipping prototype phones, laptops etc.. all over the world and then expect nothing to leak? Or even effectively develop it?
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Complete protection? Does this mean that the reports of deaths following fully vaccinated people are incorrect or does this skin patch provide some extra protection sufficient to warrant the word 'complete'?
Because the phrase "conspiracy theory" comes with a lot of negative associations and can be used to effectively discredit otherwise at the very least worthy of consideration hypotheses.

No need for "conservative influencers" to get this, it's such a simple publicity trick a child can come up with it.
Not looking for a job, yet every time recruiters reach out to me on Linkedin I now ask if the role is remote. If they say no I say “sorry, only remote”. I hope more people follow this movement :)
If it’s their room why would they be forced to maintain it to another person’s preferences?

My comment was about this mythical socializing that kids presumably needs so much.

Not all of them do.

School as an institution exists to free up housewives to participate in the workforce and maximize employers’ profit while preparing cheap workforce by giving a minimal education to the kids. Any benefits for the children are secondary - let’s not buy in too much into the PR.
Thanks for expanding on it!

I feel the all-platform abstraction would be very difficult and leaky but at least some minor convention would indeed be great. Though I’m not sure how perfect the nix language is for very high-level abstractions —- I think the documentation problem is also in part due to not having static types.
Huh, surely only a little subset of that group would refuse injection and agree to take a pill?

You can probably only make them take it when you ground the pill up in their BBQ sauce or Kale juice or something similar...
How did you get exactly a 3x slowdown? I thought unordered_map is a vector of vectors aka separate chaining?
It depends on company culture. Some places are "remote friendly" and some places are remote friendly.
Let people choose where they want to work from!

Now if people who want to work from office find themselves in empty office then they need to adapt to this new paradigm shift the same way rest of us adapted to loud open offices where anyone can walk up to anyone and interrupt the flow.

Some people adapt to whatever reality is while others force their responsibility of adaptation on their peers/environment.
I started using a bidet during the pandemic and I am dreading having to use normal American toilets
What? No. Not even close if you look at tax revenue versus GDP.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_rev...

Western Europe is over 40% while the US is at 27%. And the US figure include all public healthcare spending which is 60% of all healthcare in the US. So even adding private spending it’s still lower.
I take offense in the proposed alternative pictures. There are lots of war related gear shown - military propaganda - potential disturbs pacifists. Also there is a pretty lady shown, too. (I actually did not get, why this is supposed to be sexist?)

Seriously, I doubt you can find any picture at all, where no person find reasons to be offended.
That booklet is nice!
Most of us don't have a separate room for an office, or might be stuck using our own equipment (pc, phone) for our job now, which blurs the lines on home/work.
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I don't remember seeing Erlang as the main criticism against Elixir.
The common problems as far as I recall:
1) Stale or missing libraries
2) Small community (hard to hire, missing resources)
3) High learning curve (Genservers, OTP etc) and the fact you basically need to learn 2 languages at once (Elixir and Erlang).
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Huge difference between Erlang and another language shoehorning concepts into it.
For many, many people the cat is out of the bag. I went through this 5 years ago and couldn't stand being back in the office. I was the rat that escaped the maze. There was no going back for me.

Most people have never in their lives experienced the autonomy and self-direction of WFH. They have been running from obligation to obligation, expectation to expectation with no time to digest or consider if there's a better way. Now, for many people they have lived that better way and they will never go back.
I mean, this is relatively speaking. It’s a lot better than the old version, which was a lot harder to understand and navigate at a glance.
Me too, a purely mechanical even :)

Would a metronome count for that?
WFH is an instant 13-20% raise for most people because they're not compensated for the commute. The same economic effect that results in SWEs being paid well above minimum wage will also result in widespread remote work.

If you like socializing you can still do that, in fact you can do more of it since you're not spending an hour or two every day in a car, alone.
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From Russia this article seems saddening, and actually a reverse of what we have experienced in the past decade. Alcohol consumption dropped from historical top 18 L of pure spirit/year/person, to 9, which is lower than during Gorbachov's anti-aclohol campaign and at 1950-60s levels. [1][2]

My version of why it happened, is that

1) in the 2000s, Russians had an impression that everybody drank and had fun, and they tried to match the common standard. Same thing was revealed in sociological studies in Western universities: every student said he wasn't drinking much but others were drinknig, so he had to do the same.
2) In the USSR, propaganda condemned drinking and at the same time we had an impression we were the most drinking country (according to statistics, it was completely wrong in the 90s, but was almost true in the 2000s). The reasoning (to abstain or strictly limit drinking) was ready for anyone.

Alcohol consumption soared in 2000s, from 12 to 18 L/year. But when many tried drinking to have fun and discovered that it wasn't much finnier, but was definitely more painful, they decided to abstain and took the reasons from media/propaganda, which were bulletproof.

Another reason is that

3) Social fabric got denser, and you could find more and more ways to socialize and have fun: hobbyists groups, community meetings, debates and enlightment, etc. Grassroots socialization was moderately persecuted in the late USSR, while Communist party and trade union meetings were obligatory, hence until mid-2000s Russians were allergic to any collectivism.

So, many started having more social activities, and had less need to hang out with drinks, or drink at home.

Compared to 2000s,

* it's extremely rare now to make jokes, sketches or comedy shows around being drunk
* people stopped having lots of drinks at office parties, stopped keeping alcohol -- nowadays nobody would care to bring wine or something else to the office in the first place

But generally, the culture is still quite restrictive towardrs drinking: student dorms strictly forbid alcohol, drinking is forbidden in most public spaces and in many cities it's enforced -- my friend got taken 5 times to police station to write a verbal, and then had to pay fines. (That said, in other cites one may walk down a street with a beer, nobody would care.)

[1] Road traffic mortality attributable to alcohol in Russia, Razvodovsky YE. DOI: 10.15761/MHAR.1000122
https://www.oatext.com/Road-traffic-mortality-attributable-t... alcohol consumption charts
[2] Population Drinking and Homicide Rate in RussiaRazvodovsky YE*, DOI: 10.41 72/2167-0358.1000182 https://www.longdom.org/open-access/population-drinking-and-...
Recently I read an essay pointing out that what we call “environment” is our de facto biosphere. It is not surrounding us, it literally keeps us alive, permeating is with every breath and every bite of food.

Destroying the biosphere is the end of life.
I don't know why but "your CAB archive is a folder" really took me back. It's nice to read something that makes me nostalgic for a time when Windows was a big part of my life. I don't know that I ever loved Windows, but we were intimate.
I work for Google and live in Switzerland where food is really expensive so my situation doesn't generalize well.

However, if 1) I cook all my food, and 2) try to have a healthy diet I spend easily the equivalent of 30USD/day. Going to a restaurant sets you back around the same amount per meal.

So, assuming I work 200 days/year going to the office and get free food would save me 6k USD/year (also assuming I cook 100% off my meals). That kind of money would pay for holidays or other stuff.

Finally, my back of the envelope math didn't include the time I spend cooking and all the "premium" stuff I get at the office like fancy drinks and snacks, which I usually don't buy when WFH.
Hm, no mention of free software? Just open source?

I know it's the same software, but the way it's referred to gives me pause.
Plain single-stream download-only TCP should fit without compression, probably even without Delayed ACKs.

IME, the line starts to choke when you actually want to send requests and they compete with ACKs and your internet stutters and crawls in both direction. Though that was with a slower connection - it's harder to fill a bigger pipe.

BTW, is the ACK compression counted for consumers benefit?
Yes, Republicans made a mess of politcising everything and here you are politicising an unpolitical issue and not even in a reasonable way but "everything bad that happens is THEIR fault, and NONE of the fault is ours".

I'm going to echo a sibling comment and say that Americans have indeed gone rabid with this politicisation of everything and turning your neighbours into enemies.
> Your original claim was: "anti-EU support is on the rise". I argue this is a baseless claim.

But you argue that on even less evidence than he does. He has at least some anecdotal evidence; you have presented none at all.
US dollars wouldn’t be worth very much either if you were the only one using them.
A lot of people say they enjoy working from home, but I suspect it's more the case that they enjoy things like not feeling watched by managers, or being interrupted as much, or fewer meetings, or being able to work with things like a television on or music with headphones. Those things could be achieved in an office environment with some thought and fewer open-plan spaces.

Even people saying they prefer WFH because they no longer have to commute could be solved with some (huge) infrastructure changes.

What remote working highlights is that there are big problems with offices and that the simplest solution is to work somewhere else. That doesn't mean working from your home the best solution.
I'm a little bit active as in asking questions and sometimes answering questions I google and find the solution to. Yet, 50% of my rank points comes from one answer I made soon after I created the account.
Could you provide some examples?

I am speaking of roles who successfully performed 100% of their work from home in the last year.

Also, why are engineers being forced to come back to the office?
I would like to see a focus on making linux desktops secure. Just because we are usually running non-evil code, it doesn’t mean that it doesn’t process evil data that can easily exploit the numerous bugs (especially with the everything in C mentality) found in open-source software. And frankly, flatpak is not a good direction (especially written in C), it is no solution to the dependency hell problem, nor to proper sandboxing.

A new userspace should be built similar to Android with proper capability-based sandboxes.
how do you measure your minutes of focused work?
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Why aren't you afraid of good matches? Good matches open up far more horrifying possibilities.
> The goal is to find projects and funding that allow us to both invest in the GNOME community and find new ways for FOSS to benefit people who aren’t already in our community.

The statement of their specific goal for the future refers to FOSS.
Oh, interesting, it looks like Lin Clark is now at Fastly. I knew I recognized tho at art style…
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When working from the office I would not really speak face to face with teammembers - many of my colleagues are in different cities.
Well, look at what 9/11 did to this country (Patriot Act, NSA, Iraq, Afghanistan) and that was only 3,000 people dead and a few city blocks covered in cancerous dust.

Now imagine an entire timezone covered in radiation?
^ This. Going to the office was my social life, because I'm an expat and the office was full of other geeky expats. I even went to the office when the rest of my team was in another timezone, but I had lost all opportunities for pair programming. When 100% WFH hit, I was talking about maybe 2 days a week in the office being the right balance, but now I'm thinking I could WFH effectively a maximum of 1 day a week.
Why do so many people work at ad and spyware companies then?
For this niche it is specifically document management - CAD drawings, PDFs and MS Office files.
You can just drink whatever you want, the vast majority of people who drink wine have no idea and no interest in talking about the wine or food/wine pairings. If someone is giving you a hard time about your wine choices you could either turn it around on them and ask them to order for you. If it was me though I’d maybe just ask them to be less judgemental though.
Ah yes those. Le Cruix here I come.
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I keep mine for 5 years on average, and pay a little more for a model that will work reliably with an open-source ROM in case the manufacturer ceases support (or when I've had enough of their bloat).
Have you ever been fired from your family? For some that analogy has happened, but for most people it's an exception, but for a job it's a much more real possibility. I'm a mercenary at my job. No allegiance but to my interests, because the leadership and shareholders have the same perspective
Private transport is also one of the biggest sources of greenhouse gas emissions.

Reducing daily commute seems like a good way to improve our carbon footprint.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200317-climate-change-c...
And those two people likely don't eat remotely as well as Facebook or Google employees.

Even if you value your labor/time to cook to be worth of zero dollars, when I was at Google my cafe had fresh seafood (a rotation of different types of fish, scallops, shrimps, mussel, crab, etc) and good quality regular meat dish (I particularly liked the skirt steak with guacamole), great vegan/vegetarian options, in-house made desserts including fresh made chocolate truffles every day prepared by the chef.

And that's just lunch, at one cafe, not including breakfast and dinner and options at the other 3 dozens cafes on campus.

If you can recreate all of that for two people with a $60/week budget, then kudos to you. I know I can't.
One could argue that spending 2 hours a day in traffic or $1.75M+ for a modest house is more absurd.
I speak to a real mix of people. There are a lot of dimensions in the logic matrix for working from home. Managers who want it or don't want it for either selfish or practical reasons. Employees who want it so they can slack off more (and managers who know that) Employees who want it because they can organise their lives better. Employees who don't want it because they like the separation or don't want it because they get too distracted at home. People who just miss the banter and camaraderie of the office. All these factors are at play in different ways for each individual and each department and each company. I don't feel there's a very clear consensus in any particular direction, except perhaps more people will have the option of WFH in general than before.
> dynamic languages have been struggling with inefficiencies imposed by some of the Java-orientied paradigms

If you think the jvm is bad for dynamic languages, wait'll you hear about wasm!

In fact, I would expect the jvm to work much better for dynamic languages; not only does it already have a[1] gc, it has inline caching built in, which is frequently crucial for getting good performance in dynamic languages. (Though granted, as the niblings hint at, this requires type inference without invokedynamic.)

1. Arguably 'the'. I don't know of a platform with a better one.
For values of "now" more recent than, uh, the Meso-Paleolithic?
Given that the mission statement of Gnome is explicitly "to create a computing platform for use by the general public that is completely free software." I'm not sure why it would.
You are speaking about your personal experience. You never wanted to work remotely, you never prepared for it and as a result it has been a traumatic experience for you.

On the other hand there is people out there, like me, that have been improving and refining remote working skills from decades.

When I traveled to former Soviet Republics it shocked me how helpless old people felt doing the most basic things. As young people they were trained to delegate everything on the State. The State did a very bad job almost at everything but there was no alternative, so they never developed the skills .

When they were old,it is difficult to learn anything new and they had not the necessary skills to survive on their own and were nostalgic about communism.

That made me realize that most schools and Universities and jobs just train you to obey orders and do not leave space for resourcefulness and independence.
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Laws can be made very broad and can generally lay out a ban and leave it up to those impacted to figure out how to comply with the law. A hypothetical law could criminalize possession of all cryptocurrency wallet keys for all US citizens and all corporations that operate in the United States, with a regulatory agency tasked with adding to the list of “cryptocurrencies” each time someone launches a new one. There’s no reason in principle that a law couldn’t treat cryptocurrency wallet keys the same way that the law currently treats child porn, i.e. destroy all of your keys by X date or go to jail if you are discovered to still be in possession of them after the date the law goes into effect.

This would immediately destroy the entire cryptocurrency industry, and mining power in most or all networks would collapse to the point that the networks would essentially be defunct. Transaction volume and coin price on surviving networks could collapse to the point that it would be infeasible to pay an $XX million ransom, and ransomware developers would be back to where they were circa 8 years ago, with no real mechanism to untraceably receive millions of dollars.
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Since you're home, you're free to make whatever food you want, anytime, for the 2 hours daily commute.
Sure, but as long as the phone works productively, I'm able to send messages or browse the internet in a pinch, that's all I need.

Fwiw, I still use my old Honor 8 and my wife her Redmi note 5 as a daily driver.
I agree (differential geometry as well). Ironically, though, implicit differential equations tend to melt my brain, or rather modern approaches to them melt my brain (contact form on the first jet bundle anyone?) and classic ones look sensible at any single step but utterly magical on the whole (what the hell is a discriminant set? why do we have exceptional solutions?).
Why wouldn't you eat something free that's prepared by highly skilled experts with top quality fresh ingredients and a healthy recipe?
You are right, if one reads it very charitably but in my experience "a lot of people like X because they hate Y" is very often used as a writing device to make a point and denigrate X. In this case, no, it doesn't say that all people who work from home hate their jobs but it says that the probably of people working from home hating their jobs is higher without proof to further their argument. I've seen a lot of that on both sides of the fence in the WFH.

So, when Wework's CEO says that people who work from home are the least engaged, when I read in this thread that people who don't want to work from home must not like their family (paraphrasing), I take it to mean for what it is, an insult in order to push one's favoured view and I dislike this.
They claimed it was off-topic. It's a link to the same blog in 2005, they were just interested by the glimpse into the past.
You're missing the value of military pensions and healthcare when you speak about O9 compensation.
Just wanted to point out that this whole ecosystem is built on the principle of "censorship first." If you take a look at the docs [1], you'll notice that they're not hosted on GitHub (which allows content critical of the CCP), but rather on Gitee, which is a Chinese-grown alternative. Scroll down to the bottom of the page, and you'll see the option "违法和不良信息举报中心": "Control Panel for Reporting Illegal and Harmful Information." Virtually all Chinese apps are designed from the ground-up to support purging information deemed undesirable (there's a great in-depth discussion of this system from someone who worked at 抖音, China's TikTok) [2].

I find it ironic that this new toolkit, designed to entice we software developers onto platforms designed for total Chinese state control, is being released on the eve of the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Masacre. The technology may be interesting, but please also consider the baked-in issues around censorship and privacy.

[1] https://gitee.com/openharmony/docs/blob/master/en/release-no...

[2] https://www.protocol.com/china/i-built-bytedance-censorship-...
Europeans are not allowed read that article because the site owner cannot guarantee GDPR compliance.
What a dude. I too was forced to study that book in school and if my teacher would have let me do anything else they would have had my lifetime loyalty.

I hate that book.
I really like my current company and will be of the first in the office at least 3-4 times per week. I agree with your points, but also understand that it doesn't fit everyone's life.

My social interaction has pretty much always been online since a kid and most of my long term friendships and social interaction came from in-person work. I miss the people who genuinely made my day better on a consistent basis at work, and I get almost none of that remote. Being single through COVID has been hell.

I also have zero work/life separation. I enjoy the routine, the excercise, less distractions than being at home. I feel like I could absorb more and know a lot more of what was going on.
Yes absolutely. Commuting does not automatically cause socializing.

Commuting causes back pain, exhaustion, pollution and lots of traffic. Oh, and traffic accidents. 100% of my 2 traffic accidents were during commuting.
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