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Calling the vandalism that took place on 1/6 at the capital an insurrection, is a grotesque lie.

Do me a favor. Call it an insurrection so I can call you a liar.
Or, if you prefer, pre-pandemic they didn't know how happy and productive they would be not having to go into the office five days a week, and post-pandemic, they do know.

Strikes me as an internal matter, frankly, I don't have a dog in this fight. I'm cynical enough to think that sunk costs on their enormous (and admittedly impressive) space donut is playing a role here, but it's their company to run, and it's the employee's jobs to negotiate.

I decided years before the pandemic that I didn't want to go into the office anymore, and plan to stick with it for as long as I can.
Again, your Foo always contains a bar, baz and a quux. And again, the third example in my original post talks about how not every test needs all three.
Damn, if this was officially available in Japan I'd be so tempted to reserve one right now...

Might still order one to my home in Germany, but probably will wait for further news on proper international availability first.

In any case, I hope this will create a fire under Nintendo's ass to release a proper Switch Pro. They've had the handheld market to themselves for far too long, and the lackluster upgrades are showing it.
The title is accurate, but misleading.

"Employees are now discussing how best to respond, whether it be through another letter or legal action. About 10 people plan to resign or know others who will resign due to the hybrid policy, the report said"

Ten is more than one, but the article makes it sound like an exodus is impending.
I know you're being sardonic, but that's probably the mentality at the top right now. They can ebb and flow as many employees as they want right now.
What is "PickOS"? Is it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick_operating_system?
Unfortunately, they have no serious competition.
Pretty much, yes. They're just more consumer-friendly in some ways, and they do some cool stuff. Also, trading cards.
In this context, 'mobile' does not mean 'phone', it means 'portable'.
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The newly gained experience of widespread working at home could be applied in creative, constructive ways:

For example, offices could be changed to provide some of the benefits of home. Napping could become normalized, for example. More child care facilities could be provided. What else?

Hours could be adjusted, so parents are home when their kids return from school: Instead of distributing hours in full days at the office or home, how about being at the office 5-6 hours/day and at home the rest?

Hours could be more flexible, normalizing people running errands and doing other things during the day.

Dress codes? Pajama Fridays? What else?

EDIT: This HN thread and many others are filled with arguments for working from home. It's a hot topic and you can find them all elsewhere. Here I'm asking a different question: How can offices be improved based on what we've learned?
I was too busy shooting more meat than I could carry back to the wagon, or fleeing low to escape the osprey.
Start with EEOC-CVG-2003-1

"May an employer require an individual to go to a health care professional of the employer's (rather than the employee's) choice for purposes of documenting need for accommodation and disability?
The ADA does not prevent an employer from requiring an individual to go to an appropriate health professional of the employer's choice if the individual provides insufficient information from his/her treating physician (or other health care professional) to substantiate that s/he has an ADA disability and needs a reasonable accommodation. "

Note - I'm not aware of this being common because employees will generally be better off having their own doctor release their own records or respond to employers questions about medical condition. Again, records are limited to the specific issue and need for accommodation / functional issues etc.
If voltage drops with lower levels of charge, then so does the current (assuming a load with a constant resistance). Isn't that just another reason to use Watt hours instead?
I meant those as two different issues.
I tried Steam Link on my Android TV and it ran like hot garbage - I think the main issue I had was bluetooth input lag was very bad. My physical Steam Link still works very well with my bluetooth controller.
Go try to hire 100 talented software engineers for non-remote work in this market and tell me how replaceable they are.
I bought a "AmazonBasics Replacement LG Water Filter" and it was FAKE, somebody mixed in fake water filters into Amazon's own brand!. Never again have I bought anything from Amazon that I put in my body.

They sold thousands of those water filters before they stopped selling them.
https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/guidance/enforcement-guidance-disa...
Just run your smalltalk/self on the js vm... https://lively-next.org/
I was going to say that idea would have helped so much back when I ran Gentoo, but then I remembered how often my 40 GB hard drive was full.
Had Gawker been sued into oblivion by one of the many, many non-wealthy that they humiliated for the lulz, would you be less upset? Or are you staking out a pro-libel position in general?
Sure, they haven't released an innovative product that made the entire industry sit up and take notice in like, a whole year now.

Losing their touch!
Even if we go for one bedroom for one adult, that's not nearly enough to fix the affordability problem.

> Americans are used to luxury poverty. Where being poor still means having a car and a smartphone and consider two bedroom apartments a minimum.

In most places you need a car to get a job, so you pay for a car out of your wages whether you can afford it or not. A phone is also necessary but phones are really cheap and there are subsidies. That's not much of a luxury. And while two bedrooms for one person is a luxury, two bedrooms for a family isn't.

> If you’re too poor to afford more room then maybe don’t have a kid. We need to stop ignoring this and start educating people instead of just feeling bad for them when they have 3 kids and a minimum wage job.

Okay, what about two or just one kid? Even with two parents willing to work it can be crushingly expensive, in part because childcare can eat up a huge portion of someone's wages. Education is not the best solution. Making it so everyone can afford to have a child is the best solution.
When I was an undergrad I discovered blogs about peak oil, the limits to the growth, and Turchin’s cliometrics. As an adolescent I really enjoyed Asimov’s Foundation and all of this knowledge resonated with me.

I had a fried who read Von Mises’ Human Action and he labeled me as a neo-Malthusian . And, according to his “school of thought”, my understanding of the world and economics incorrect. We had many interesting discussions about what we thought we knew.

Now I’m in my 30s and my thought has changed drastically. I believe that reductionist (materialistic) approaches to analyze human endeavor are misguided. There is a bit of hubris in thinking that a computer simulation can predict the entirety of human action. I am definitely not suscribed to the Austrian school of thought, however.
>So theoretically it was already being done by the vendor.

Organizations with good quality programs know how to assess their suppliers, including those who are ISO/ANSI certified. There’s a lot of information that goes into evaluating a supplier beyond just asking them if they certify their material or have a quality program, including doing site audits. Things can still fall through the cracks of course, but it reduces the probability. I bet if you asked them why they don’t evaluate each lot before the mishap, at least some would claim it’s redundant and unnecessary because the supplier already certified it.
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A trick for remembering that 91 is composite is that it's of the form x² - y² (specifically 10² - 3²), so it's (x+y)(x-y) or 13 * 7.
Who said they had open offices?
Quite frankly, Apple is not a company that can be remote. All their stuff can be leaked, the attack vector is too large.

I understand the hard line stance here.

If you are working on a bumble fuck app, great, work from home. There are websites that are ready to publish any little rumor about a new feature in ‘Find my Mac’ because someone’s wife spied it, and told her friend.

Consider this a good problem.
> the occasional turning over of the whole controller to invoke the map

What?? Like you flip the controller upside down to open the map? How do you set that up?
Maybe the cynical definition.

I've used enough Apple products to wonder "WTF is everyone else thinking."
> Just don't give your children internet access till they are old enough that they can be responsible enough to use it correctly? Why this is not an option?

It can be very hard to enforce unless you are a stay-at-home helicopter parent who homeschools.

Peer pressure (not just on the child, but also the parents) and the need to fit in will result in your child demanding their own device by like eight at the latest, and mounting pressure to do so. (Apps are part of the curriculum in some places now!) And failing that they'll just buy and hide their own device by like 14. Though as you imply, if they aren't capable of self-regulating by about 14 you've probably already lost.

Everything from game consoles to the television to the fridge may be Internet-connected. Prepaid plans with data are as little as a single day's lunch allowance in some parts of the world. All their friends have electronic devices with internet access. Along with access at school. And probably some circumvented access at home... it's quite hard to actually keep kids offline.
In my experience, assertiveness in of itself isn't a virtue, but knowing specifically who you can be assertive with. For instance, some random middle manager that is making things up about a problem they want you to deal with but sound like they're doing their job. In reality looks like a complete moron on your teams end and don't even understand what they're talking about. Also, the obligatory cc everyone involved cya tactic.

These people you don't want to be assertive to. You want to milk them, play dumb, and make them feel like they're always right? You know why? These are the ego driven "mommy and daddy never told me I was wrong" types that will rat you out with every fiber of their being because they think they're entitled it. It's best you make them think you are so incompetent that they don't want to work with you in general. The kicker is, you need to have many of your team members and managers on your side vouch for you. That way when they tattle on you, you've got a solid defense that will fly back in their face to stfu and deal with it.

It's pretty disingenuous and sociopathic, but in order to not get walked all over, sometimes you gotta humble yourself to save yourself some stress. Not like a company is gonna fire you cause some Karen doesn't understand the complexity of some programming thing but demands you solve the technical problem asap.
> I think you'll find it impossible to define the difference

It's not that hard...

Value is the dollar value you assign a thing. In large part this is subjective except when it comes to money, which only works because we all agree it has the same value.

Wealth is the sum total value of all your assets, minus all your debts. If all your wealth is not in dollars, this can be subjective too depending on who is assessing the value of the assets.

Let's say we both have $10 in cash. The total wealth in our economy is $20. I exhaust $2 to make the taco, you give me $5 for the taco. My wealth is now $13, we can all agree. Your wealth depends on the value. Since it is a taco, it has no intrinsic dollar value attached to it. The amount of value you assign the taco will depend on how hungry the buyer is. But if you eat that taco the taco is gone. Forever. Your wealth is now $5, and mine is $13. $2 is now missing from the economy, but like the second law of thermodynamics it all depends on how you define the bounds of the economy, as it's likely circulating elsewhere now and potentially creating assets rather than consumable goods. But you can see in this case I didn't actually create any wealth. I created value, and it was destroyed by you, but I ended up wealthier.

If you resold the food in your restaurant for $10 all that means is someone else valued the taco more than you. The analysis is the same though.
If Intel ends up buying AMD's (former) business, then damn the tables have turned.

Considering the way things are going I am more than a bit intrigued, but not surprised.
IGN claims it should have power similar to a PS4‐ which means it should do a good enough job on current games if IGN is correct.
What is the highest integer you know?
In my experience USB-3 generates interference that messes with wireless gaming device dongles. I use a Logitech wireless headset and gamepad and they work far worse in USB-3 ports.
I'm afraid that this is simply a hypercorrection by analogy to color and such.

Indeed, we could not say "the black of feature branches"; it would have to be "blackness". Something that is black (adjective-wise) doesn't "have black" (the noun); it "has blackness".

The word "evil" doesn't conform to this restriction; "the evil of feature branches" is fine. Therefore "evilness" is just superfluousnessitude.

The word "bad" is color-like. We need "the badness of feature branches", not "the bad of feature branches".

But "evil" functions in such a way that it can substitute for "badness", and therefore for "evilness".

When we say "the evil of feature branches", the grammar is very similar to "the hypocrisy of using feature branches" or "the iniquity of using feature branches" or "the stink of feature branches" and such.

None of these words require an additional suffix; "stink" need not be worked into "stinkiness".
Yes, no one at the advertising agency is going "let's make sure each person gets relevant ads." They are saying, "let's make sure we can charge more by assuring the buyer that their ad went to the demographic they asked us to show it to."

They need to track so that they can "prove" they did what they sold.
I should add that the model 3 warranty is similar on paper (but the model S/X is 160k miles). Older Tesla's have so far shown to largely outperform this though.
Ruby is much closer to smalltalk than python and js (in the evything is an object sense, and partially in the clean and comfortable sense).

Maybe the closest "real world" examples would be Lua, and scheme?
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If you look at the home page for Racket, you won't see the word "Scheme" anywhere.

Same thing, basically: neither language wants to be beholden to what's come before, nor to their peers.
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Facebook reports ~20 million instances of child sexual abuse materials a year. My understanding is that this material is largely transmitted by message (i.e. people aren't posting it on their wall, but sharing it in chat). Regardless of your ideological convictions, the fact remains that one trade off of end to end encryption is a reduction in ability to detect, track, and report CSAM.

My intuition is that our current trajectory will lead us to a "worst of all worlds" case where governments continue to spy on and suppress people by subverting end to end encryption at some level, but pedophiles will trade their material with impunity. Ideally, I would like to find the opposite compromise, where we could detect and catch criminals while maintaining privacy. This has been attempted by law, due process, warrants, and such - but that attempt is subverted by the government not following the law.
Give the developer no library and they will find a way to slam the bits into VRAM.

That said, the friction among modern devs to go from zero to cross-platform app is much lower with Electron than it is any other framework. So learn to love Electron because it is here to stay.
There’s an old maxim from marketing. If one person is pissed off enough to write your company a letter, than there’s 100 other dissatisfied customers with the same experience that you’re about to lose.
What bothered me most about this was that there was very little consideration or toleration for anyone suggesting it may have been a lab leak, could have been a lab leak, and hey let's really look at this lab leak theory so we don't just dismiss it out of hand due to media manipulation, and politics. America let politics dictate its response to COVID and in doing so let China off the hook. One hopes we don't make the same mistake in the future.
Will this work be released? I'd love the other way too- to be able to download.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-54714692
China's forest carbon uptake 'underestimated'

reforestation is booming, not to discount how devastated green heavy regions like the amazon are
Well, Globalfoundries was exactly in the same situation directly after they were spun off from AMD and they bought Chartered Semiconductors to get foundry knowledge into their company. They also hired a lot of ex-freescale and ex-IBM people.
Well, keep in mind that Jerry Garcia was, what, 24 in 1965? And I've heard some pretty iffy tapes of what they were doing at that time, but I've also heard quite polished things, too. 20 years of 150-shows-a-year might have improved them.

And as I said, there might be a fair amount of sour grapes going on there, too. A lot of folks have really funky egos. One of the other old dudes I used to play with in Kerrville, TX was Marc Benno... I read a rolling stone interview with him where he claims not to have known who the Doors were when he got hired to play on the LA Woman sessions... I dunno if I believe that, but either way it seems like an easy way to characterize a lot of the almost-famous folks I've played with.

I perform dead tunes pretty routinely (I've been working up Dire Wolf on pedal steel and ac. guit lately)... I feel pretty strongly about the music. You don't have to sell me on the goodness of it.

I'm just reporting what old dudes told me.
One of the more sensible eggcorns out there, admittedly.
In my experience, people talk less with coworkers while work from home. Not only that, but I don't have to be concerned with my coworkers screwing off while I pick up the slack. It's completely out of sight out of mind. The best part in my opinion, everything is in writing for the most part. "Hey Chuck can you take this ticket? Sandra can you forward that to me?" It forces the lazy people to get smart or get to work. Fortunately for me at my company, they basically said all non-essential IT is permanently work from home. Essential are people who need to maintain hardware. So I kinda lucked out.
I don't get your Disneyland example. I replied to comments saying users are getting to use Facebook for free but that is not true, they are paying indirectly via ads. Did anyone claim that you get Disneyland for free? No, you pay for it. Some part with the ticket price, some part when you pay food and drinks, some part with merchandise, some part maybe later when you watch your next Disney movie as the whole thing is to some extend a gigantic ad.

And it matters how you divide it up. You could have a high ticket price and give away all the food for free but that big upfront payment would probably be off-putting for many even if they end up not paying more. For people who only want to ride some roller-coaster and not eat and drink your offering is now not attractive. Other people would exploit your offering, eating only the most expensive stuff in huge quantities.

You could also do it the other way around, have no tickets and pay for everything individually. This will change the entire experience and you have the added complexity of processing payments in many more locations. And all this also applies to you tax example, some services are only used by some part of the population, the other part might be unhappy to also pay for it. If you do not have a driving license, why should you pay for driving license renewals? On the opposite end of the spectrum you might have healthcare where you want to spread the risk across everyone and not only have those pay that actually need it. Its all mostly a matter of trade-offs and incentives how you structure it.

To make the analogy more fitting, imagine Disneyland not charging you for tickets. But they put up cameras and track you all day long, record what you eat, with whom you visit the park, what merchandise you buy, and measure some chemical indicators when you use their toilettes. And then they sell this information to other companies to pay for your visit to Disneyland.
Molten Salt / steam turbine energy storage is 33 times cheaper, safer, and offers a much longer deep cycling lifespan than lithium ion solutions.. i dont understand. we using lithium ion for grid.
For what it's worth, IBM is suing to try to get its $1.5 billion back, claiming that GlobalFoundries didn't uphold terms of the deal: https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/2021/06/11/ib...
Labels polarise.

Criticise the behaviours while allowing the perpetrator wiggle room.
> 4. At different points in the Earth's history it has been both substantially hotter and colder than it is now;

The atoms in your house were much hotter when they were being formed by fusion inside a star, but that doesn't mean you'd be happy about someone committing arson.

I'm saying it's not really relevant whether Earth has experienced higher temperatures before, what matters is how long it will be able to support 8 billion humans for.
There were some shady arcades in over a decade ago, but now usually not shady (unless you choose shady area like where massage parlours and hooker bars exists, arcades are ubiquitous). Every young people visit there to play games, get items, and shot photos.
My in-laws live on a mountainside overlooking one of the flooded towns.

It's a devastating sight, especially knowing that direct family had to be evacuated, while you are sitting in "watching" distance in more or less absolute safety.

The reactions of our politicians are not inspiring much confidence, but I guess at this point it is to be expected.
Hey Martin, thanks for that step-by-step description. Quite helpful.
> The board has to keep the market happy.

With Zuckerberg controlling 60% of the votes (and thus able to remove any of them unilaterally), the board has exactly one person they need to keep happy.

Zuckerberg could decide tomorrow that Facebook should be converted into a christian singles dating site, share price be damned, and the board would comply or they would be replaced.
Depends on who you ask. For some, because Trump lost, the fact checkers, media, etc. were justified in burying the lab leak theory because in doing so was a "resistance" to trump.
Her struggle for equality and dignity didn’t strike me as particularly ideological.

If a person doesn’t succumb to learned helplessness, they might instead fight against an oppressor with whatever they can wield.
huh? so a gameboy on steroids? that's what gets hackernews excited? at first i thought, finally a competitor to Oculus quest and what do i behold? a little notebook with domain specific keyboard ... come on, give me a break