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It doesn’t seem like it’s that simple. The fact that I enjoy my home life is precisely why I don’t want to work there. Maintaining an office space at home is a significant expense and I don’t hear much about tech employers paying for it.
How about they first do away with the culture of "have to show your face in the office until 7pm and then go drinking with your colleagues until midnight, or your wife will ask why you're home so early"?
I only care about outdoor high-accuracy positioning.

I love my Garmin, but the aggressive price segmentation (even though I bought the device at the top of the list) is vexing and I would love to help build an open-source alternative.

On the note of pushing data through a phone, I suppose I could stick a uBlox, ESP32, and tiny battery in a case on my belt, and push GPS data to the watch that way, but that's basically the same as the watch minus the display.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Shoemaker–Levy_9

An entire fragmented comet impacted Jupiter in 1994

> Over the next six days, 21 distinct impacts were observed, with the largest coming on July 18 at 07:33 UTC when fragment G struck Jupiter. This impact created a giant dark spot over 12,000 km (7,500 mi) across, and was estimated to have released an energy equivalent to 6,000,000 megatons of TNT (600 times the world's nuclear arsenal).[24] Two impacts 12 hours apart on July 19 created impact marks of similar size to that caused by fragment G, and impacts continued until July 22, when fragment W struck the planet.[25]
Unlimited access to housing, medicine, and food does not make you a responsible adult.
It's interesting and often missed that this strategy implies a view of human collaboration and organization.
Note that the memo says: 'All teams... Teams must... ...another team’s data store...'.
It seems that someone figured out that a (5-10 person?) team is the right human collective size to design and build useful stuff, but that collective shall expose what they build to other teams via APIs.
It's fine for the team to do things in a tightly coupled way - internally! In a way, tight collaboration between teammates can be reflected in tight coupling of internal components of whatever they build. But across teams the coupling shall be more formal and via APIs, reflecting looser and less powerful collaboration possible across teams.
Why is contract important to this?
I think most people actually fall somewhere in between and understand both. I think the people who are at the extremes are the loudest because they feel passionately. Don't let the internet convince you that everything is 100% polarised and black and white. It's a biased lens.
Obviously we should make the cost of recovering from an attack deductible instead.
Amazon supports the 8-day workweek for its warehouse workers.
Author here. Thanks for challenging my ideas.

If you keep the bag for yourself, and don't care that other people think you have a fake bag, then this is equivalent to the case of "consumable luxuries" that I discuss with Wagyu beef NFTs. I think this still creates pressure on the counterfeit economic incentives. The counterfeiter needs to acquire a real NFT for every fake bag they want to sell, and furthermore, this scam does not profit in units of cash - you end up with NFT-less real bags, which will be difficult to trade back into cash (caveat: this is assuming that no one will want to buy the NFt-less real bag).

I also mention the following in the post - it is not about guaranteeing the pairing of NFT and physical objects. I agree that there does not seem at present a reliable mechanism to pair NFTs with a physical objects. However, I changed my mind once I realized that it's about disrupting the economic incentives of counterfeiters. An even more roundabout way to achieve this goal would be to create legitimate jobs for people with these counterfeiting skills. Not all solutions have to be secure in the transactional sense.
I mean that Blackberry is pivoting. They're not a phone company any more.
Sure, yeah...that's the "haven't done their jobs right and are wasting my time" part
From my own research, those numbers requires you to make less than ~$65k for various tax rebates. Actual cost in CA for a Bolt is more like ~$200/month for a 10mi/year lease (which isn't a bad deal in itself, but far from $30).
As a motorcyclist, I would be sad to hear the story of the uncle's death. And I would gladly ride the bike.

The two are not necessarily connected except through premise.
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Why would any software engineer take an equivalent paying job that micromanages their every minute to make sure the company gets a full 40 hrs out of them, unless the pay were much better than what they'd get otherwise (eating in to that 50%) or they were desperate?

This would be a huge mis-optimization IMO. Good luck attracting "top" workers and retaining them with this model. It's just "butts in seats" taken to an extreme.
> the concept of a "salaried worker" doesn't really exist

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salaryman
I think it’s a confusing way to say “hourly and work as many or few hours as they feel like”.
How about benefits such as health insurance, vacation days, sick days?
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I think this could be a very effective use of your time. I always find the break from Friday to Monday very disruptive if I've got to carry work across, especially if I've had a busy/fun weekend. Being able to do 3-4 hours per day for a 7 or 8 day week, then taking 4 -5 days off would make for very effective work focus.
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> what you did disappears into the dark hole of failed ideas

If the work is for financing a life outside it, yes. But if the work is rewarding in itself, then said failure is—while highly disappointing—balanced by the relationships, stories and skills gained therefrom.

This is absolutely a risk tolerance and personality matrix thing. I just want to push back against this recently-popular philosophy which idealises the Western European work ethic and lifestyle. It is one among many local optima.
If I partition the entire drive, eventually all blocks will be used, depending on how the filesystem allocates, right? So to guarantee some free space it's better to over-provision by under-partitioning. Now how do I make sure that on a used drive?
My impression is that the men are abandoning their wives to manage the ids, their own careers, and housework, not pressuring the men to stay away.
At this point is mostly a filtering mechanism for me. The types of people that want contract are typically more used to (and want) an environment without the HR bullshit.

Some, not all, but certainly some people use work as their only form of social life and interaction. Which leads to a lot of time not working. I’m not saying this is inherently bad. It’s just not the type of company we’re building. Filtering for contract work has taken care of this so far. Will continue to evaluate as we scale up.
To answer your question of motivation/appeal to know more about your grandparents' parents (and beyond), here is one data point - I grew up hearing that my mother was related to the Alsatian polymath Albert Schweitzer (1) and I've wanted to see exactly how we are related. Also I've heard family stories that on my father's side, his grandfather's surname was changed upon entry at the massive Ellis Island immigration facility (2) and I wanted to know more about our previous family name and history back in Sweden.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Schweitzer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellis_Island
These are somewhat orthogonal issues.

1. Test and encrypt backups.

2. Don't get hacked. Defense-in-depth philosophy and rigorous, routine social-engineering training/testing. If you get hacked, it's usually game over. Defend systems like the business depends on it because it does.

3. Limit exfil: extra security for PII, exfil detection, and [HN]I[DP]S.
Contract means no perf eval, no 'culture' events participation, no leadership trainings etc., what OP classified as HR bullshit (true).
Very neat, I'd never heard of this! Here in Melbourne we have a much smaller version set out along a ~6km walk by the bay: https://www.portphillip.vic.gov.au/media/svodom2p/solar-syst...
> If you keep scrolling you will find many individuals whose experience did NOT match this person

So I read this comment some time ago then scrolled quite far down the comments.

I have to report that there were very few people not expressing similar experiences than OP. It seems it is predominately resentment from people claiming to have worked for Amazon all the way down.
As the brother of a homeless person, many do have a place to go, but choose the homeless lifestyle. My brother moved to a big west coast city to be homeless. Cheaper housing there wouldn't have helped him.
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How would the government of Japan do away with this? If it was more important than backing the 4 day work week, why don't you think it happened first?
D: What slave-drivers.
I read team topologies and found some of the information highly inaccurate. Even the idea of recommending that the shape of your team shapes the architecture of your software seems suggest an extremely low discipline and foresight of business needs
An elliptical orbit has, instead of a center, two foci, or focuses. In a very eccentric, or sharp and skinny, ellipse like this object's orbit, there is a focus very close to each pointy end. The sun is at one of these. (There is nothing at the other.) At the point of closest approach to the sun somewhere inside (the radius of) Saturn's orbit, it will be going twice as fast as Saturn, but at almost a right angle to it, swinging past the south pole of the sun, and will then shoot out to an immense distance, slowing all the way until it slows down enough to fall back in again for another go.
From a review on Lois Rossman's channel it looks like it leaves out major industries, automotive and health, and has been scheduled so it can quietly be killed with no one being to blame.

Make sure to keep writing your congresspeople.
There a middle ground. As a remote worker I have to seek out opportunities for socialization outside of work. I miss being around actual live humans (besides my immediate family). And at the same time, I'm not willing to lose 1-1.5 hours a day commuting. I don't need or want to spend that much time commuting just to socialize and collaborate. I'd rather socialize with people that share a common non-work interest or hobby after spending all day working.
I swear I need a scriptlet for this because this is awesome.
The article you linked is from five years ago when the new badges were being initially tested. They have been rolled out for years with color photos. Both styles still work and if you don't go into one of a few big offices you might not have easy access to the newer style.
If you look at the list some are enablers that help to achieve the others.

If you get this ones:

- Get to where they need to go conveniently and inexpensively.
- Get access to education, training and credentialing.
- Get access to things that support their health, whether that is nutritious food, adequate exercise, clean air or medical treatment.

It is easier to get this other ones:

- Access housing that is within their budget.
- Get access to earned income.

All this seems quite basic. And it should be in place as it benefits everybody in the long term. But, I guess that that's the problem, short term some people will get more if this does not happen. Long term investment is lacking.
And the Polish mathematicians who reverse engineered the Enigma machines weren't invited to sit at the table once they shared their work with the British and French
If you leave un-partitioned space on the SSD, how the heck does the SSD know it is ok to erase it? Wouldn't it be safer to partition it as an extra drive letter, format it, and then leave that drive alone? That would allow the OS to trim all the "empty" blocks.
We offer equity comp, health stipend, and equipment stipend for anyone contracted on a 20 hour per week minimum.

Sick/vacation days are harder because we pay for whatever I get an invoice for. Since we don’t track what people do on a day by day basis (I often don’t even know if someone is working that day until I reach out to them or slack, or vice versa), there’s nothing stopping them for billing me for extra hours. And to be honest I really wouldn’t care. I just care about output and quality of that output.
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"Billable hours" != "Working hours". A lawyer may work 70 hours/week to produce 40 billable hours/week. That doesn't mean that they aren't working for 70 hours per week. It just means that the "8 for what we will" and "8 for sleep" have been shaved thin and added to the "8 for work" by shady accounting of time.
I've had MS and fully recovered with a carnivore diet (started with "paleo", similar to Whals protocol). I've come to believe it's all about gut permeability. There's a clinic in Hungary practicing this with various illnesses, calling it a "paleolithic ketogenic" diet (very high fat, low food volume, again for fast gut healing).

I'm fully convinced that I would have been crippled by now if not for the dietary changes.

I mention this often in online discussions and usually get a lot of pushback. It's very strange to me how people can doubt that diet plays a MAJOR role in health.
> I think the contract only + no meetings + no HR (no culture bullshit, no “get to know people” social events)

So, gig economy. Or, at best, hourly wage at Amazon warehouse, but for developers. I heard those warehouses are super extra no-bullshit efficient.
I considered using Gramsps because I have a big family and I am not good with names. I was not interested in tracking back my family many generations, just understanding who was who among all of my living family members, even those I would only see once a year or less frequently.
I kind of remember reading this shortly after joining Google in 2015 (have since left), and thinking yeah he's got a point, esp. regarding point 1: "All teams will henceforth expose their data and functionality through service interfaces." and point 5: "All service interfaces, without exception, must be designed from the ground up to be externalizable."

It's like, if we hit upon something useful, it better be available as a network service with a well defined interface from the start. And I do remember looking around at how things were, and thinking, yeah, Google could definitely use some of that philosophy (without, all these years later being able to cite any specific examples). It definitely felt like it hit home at the time.
I’m the same way. I’m very efficient - when I get in an actual full day of coding it’s amazingly productive, but my usual output is still enough to satisfy my manager.
Because the whole pandemic became politicized, and majority decisions are actually driven by politics. The countries are going against the narrative that they are purposefully trying to kill people with vaccines as a method of population control.

There was also heavy disinformation campaign against AZ because AZ was the only non-profit vaccine made and its presence was standing in the way of Sputnik V being introduced into EU[1]. J&J has similar issues and it wasn't affected as much. Pfizer[2][3] was also targeted similarly, but the problem was that not much could be found on mRNA vaccines. I guess the worst one was some inflammation of hart in young people that resolves on its own.

[1] https://www.biospace.com/article/russia-sees-opportunity-in-...

[2] https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-pfizer-covid-disinformation-s...

[3] https://www.euronews.com/2021/04/29/eu-slams-russia-and-chin...
Not everyone chooses to be homeless, so painting all homeless with one brush would be disingenuous.

For example, I know 6 sane, smarter-than-average, old guys who drift around the SF Bay Area mid-Peninsula region who don't drink or do drugs, but are poor and cannot afford housing on their own. 2 have managed to get accommodations, 1 by the COVID lockdown. That's 4 left looking for 24-hour coffee shops, laundromats, bus stops, and diners.
Huh it looks like she horizontally mirrors the camera so that the writing appears forwards not backwards. At first I thought she might have been writing in reverse, which would be doable on simple graphs but harder with more words. Later shots show her writing on-camera, forwards from her perspective.
Then it should not be called a 4-days week in the first place. It's confusing.
I'm from Italy and moved to Canada. Buying italian books is a nightmare. You can't buy them with your canadian account, but you can make an italian account only if you have an italian address and an italian credit card. So I had to resort to some serious hacks to access some of this ebooks. Horrible.

And there is no legal path, to be clear, your only option is not buying ebooks, but the physical one require me to travel to Italy, which is insane.
In theory, I think is a good idea. An even better benefit in my mind is that it addresses the original articles complaint by providing a form of means testing without actually means testing. The free compartment is available to everyone weather they need it or not (that is to say, weather they can demonstrate in a satisfactory manner that they need it or not), however the people that don't actually need it will self-select out.

The problem is political. At least in the US, this approach would be opposed by both major political ideologies: the right because it is a government hand out, and the left because it is unfair to have a "poor" section of the bus (see the reaction to mixed income apartments having a separate section 8 entrance, or restricting the amenities that section 8 residents are allowed to use, which is essentially what you are proposing).

Further, the nature of bureaucracies in our economics system (be they for profit or government) is to prioritize profit centers at the expense of cost centers, so it would be difficult to maintain the "poor" compartment to an adequate level. Compounding on this is the fact that the poor and homeless tend to be the least politically powerful groups, and maintaining adequete funding for this scheme would be difficult,
Seems to have a fair few spelling mistakes in the item headers:
GitKranken -> GitKraken
HardperDB -> HarperDB

Might be others but I wasn't actually looking, those were just the ones I noticed.
Not speculating as to the reason why mtmail is being downvoted, but for those wondering, the reason the nazi Yellow Badge comparison is almost always off-limits is because there's really only one hard and fast rule as to whether the comparison is valid:

Is an entity imposing an identification system for quickly singling out populations with invisible but immutable characteristics? If so, the Yellow Badge comparison is apt because that's exactly what the nazis did with their badging system.

Amazon identifying people within certain buckets of employment doesn't fit this comparison because opportunities exist (in theory) for people to take other roles, to quit, or to be terminated, making Amazon badges identifiers of a mutable characteristic.

Now, is badging people by employment class a crappy thing to do? Probably. Easy way to enable eyeballing a worker and denying certain perks, for instance. But it's also useful in determining whether a person is qualified to hear certain company-confidential information.

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tl;dr: There's never a good reason to compel visible identification for an immutable trait, but that's also not what Amazon's badging scheme is, so using the comparison risks cheapening the original sin.

Hope this helps anyone reading. And to any historians who probably know better than I do, kindly fact-check me. I only know enough to be dangerous, not useful.
But free housing in that west coast city could have reduced the amount he cost that city.
> If the government doesn't make laws that define broad principles, capitalism will eat you alive.

Has it? Levels of life of the whole world are on the rise for the past 20 years at least - if you want to make that argument the current data does not support that at all.
That's what the trim command does.

It runs periodically and lets the SSD know about unused areas.

So as long as you don't fill up the drive and let trim do its thing the unused areas effectively do the same thing as over provisioning.
I hear this a lot, but it isn't as much of a problem as it would seem. The emery go round in Emerville and Oakland, and the Alameda Loop shuttle are both free and don't have this problem. It seems like the solution here is everyone disembarking at the end of the route. And you have areas where public transit isn't free that do have this problem
I miss vacation so much.

I just fly home from the US. And … I still have to work instead of just spending time with my parents that I haven’t seen in years.

I earn more than 200k. ( not west coast ) it’s a decent salary right?
Why can’t I have vacation, too? I asked and putted and asked again…

All that will accomplish one thing: one day in the next 2 years I will wake up, look at my bank account. And quit. To have actual free time.

I told that to my boss in those term, we have a decent relationship. But … he gave me some HR bullshit.
Yeah, the 55s have added AES/Dante output with the caveat it has to be downsampled because HDCP. That said, 24 bit/48 kHz to the speaker is into placebo territory.
> At the beginning of civilized society? From the government itself.

You seem to have no understanding that powerful states is a VERY recent invention in History.
Transport within Melbourne's entire downtown area is free: https://www.ptv.vic.gov.au/assets/default-site/Maps-and-Time...
Good luck to you my friend. May you find some mental ease soon.
Then you probably need to ask why.
> ... the question is what is the benefit?

I don't think I should have to explain this. It has nothing directly to do with violence against developers, that's taking many leaps.

It simply gives you what you expect, which is kinda the basis of safety and security.
No need to be that dramatic.

Put a little one on the steering wheel aimed at your heart, primed for airbag insertion. :-P

I fall on the "safer stuff = safer" side of the equation, against the "safer stuff encourages more stupid" BTW.

I mean, my car has ABS and I could brake a lot later for every corner but the shuddering, squealing and G forces don't feel like a nice UX.
How much of that is working time, and how much of it is sitting in a room not being productive? Every productivity study I've read finds that per-week productivity drops off tremendously with that level of overwork.
Big auto has the money to keep buying the politicians. They don't want consumers resetting dumb sensor issues for free or fixing their own vehicles, because that's how dealers make their money.

Nit - spelled: Louis Rossmann

Lois is my late grandmother's name.

(In general, it's a good idea to get people's names spelled correctly because they tend to take offense to it.)
I don’t think centralization is a universal problem. In many cases (one could argue the majority of cases), centralization is not an issue.
I find the whole balance rather interesting.

The worker thinks 'without my work, the owner would have nothing!'

The owner thinks 'without my business, the worker would have nothing.'

The truth is, both are right, to different degrees depending on the circumstances. A good owner should make workers feel they have a stake, whether by salary or ownership. A good worker should make the owner believe they are making a good decision by paying them.

I have no answer to the debate in the title, I just find this little sub-argument fascinating.