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$15B in all stock = $15B in collateral = as much cash as you can conceivably wish for in your wildest dreams.

"Hey, bank manager, I have $15B in stocks, will you loan me $150 million to buy this really, really nice home in Malibu?"

Bank manager: "Yesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyes"
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This person has never worked in an office, and has a quiet environment at home.

Ah, young and childless.
> computers with high-speed networking capability

What's high speed?

10mbps was high speed once, then it got obsolete. Now 1Gbps is standard, and while it's not lightning fast, it can be considered fast.

10Gbps ethernet is becoming bog standard in our servers, and they'll trickle down to consumers systems then.

What's next? MIMO wireless adapters?
This is similar to what I do but in my head the escalator goes down instead of up.

When editing (mostly C-like languages) I can "see" the execution thread pass through the code like a step-through debugger. At a function call I can mentally "step into" the function and the function is visualized to the right of the current function with its first line on the same height as the call site. Doing this for recursing functions means a visualization that progresses downwards and to the right.

I guess my mental model evolved this way after years of step-through debugging.

Mental models for code and other things are a fascinating topic. I also have a very specific calendar/timeline model that is not a straight line at all. A full year "view" arranges months in a 2D layout where some months progress "up", others "down" and they are connected in weird ways. For example 31/01 and 01/02 are adjacent, but 30/11 and 01/12 are not. 31/12 is the last box of the year and is adjacent to 01/01 repeating the pattern for the new year.
As someone who lives here, no, it's quite mild.
And then office, which made windows 95 look like a cakewalk.

I remember installing offie 4.3 and windows 95 from floppies - I assume office 95 at some point too. Dozens of floppies.
Economic stagnation, caused by population decline in the absence of robust productivity growth, leads to social problems and the so-called "deaths of despair" in the US. Haven't seen statistics on elsewhere.
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A pet peeve, thinking of web fonts, is that every license I’ve ever read makes you commit to not distribute the font at all in a way that an end user could get access to the font file. Which is impossible for a web font. It’s just litigious and ignorant

Other requirements are sort of nasty too. MyFonts requires you to embed tracking code into your website to prove you don’t go over your view count
Agreed! Rollbacks are easily explainable, show commitment to safeguarding the user experience and make your business users way more happy.
I think working from the office or working remotely is the last thing to worry about. There is so much nonsense in business that I think it's the last thing to worry about.
> learning LISP at MIT back when they taught

Oof, shade thrown.
It can output AC, I believe the new Hyundai can as well. This isn't the same as backfeeding to the grid.

If you have a cut over in your home you could run your house off the car power but without PTO you can't backfeed the grid. That requires inspection of your installation and external ED installed so your energy provider can disconnect your home from the grid when doing service.
I've read this post a week ago (gee I browse reddit too much)

Not sure how I feel about this, maybe flexibility is the real answer?

Some days I woke up and I don't feel like working from home. It feels good to go out and walk to our company's cool office.
If I don't feel like it, then I'd just stay home.
I worked on a team that was mostly Seattle people while I was based in the Los Angeles HQ. All my team members were in a different city. Needless to say "switching" to remote wasn't a big deal at all for me.
> You don't need find a meeting room

You have to pay for your own.

> you don't need to worry about making too much noise

Unless other people live in your home.

> you don't need to worry about adding one person from another location suddenly changing the entire dynamic.

That’s comparing all-remote to some-remote, which is a different comparison than all-remote to all-in-office.
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No, sadly I think we're going to get the endless "remote did/didn't work for me and that's why it's good/bad" posts every single time this is discussed here, forever.
> I’ve found that the best trick with Microsoft is: money talks.

It depends on the quantity. MS365 Business Basic/Premium customers are basically testers for the enterprise offerings. Look at release cadences for the different tiers and it becomes obvious.
Hi!

I apparently couldn't reply to this comment but it's been bothering me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27771747

This is actually not true. Regular 'vardcentraler' had no such requirement and far from every ward at the hospitals did either.

Some that did enforce visitor's restrictions (some at Lund University Hospital I had experience with) had no mask mandate but relaxed all restrictions in September.

UMAS in Malmo had multiple wards not mandating any mask wearing (including blood test section and endocrine) but enforced it across the street on the women's clinic.

One of my local Capio placed out some boxes of masks well into the reception area and asked people to use them, but it was by no means mandated.

So what you wrote is really not at all true, and it wasn't at all highly irregular. It was just depending on what wards you were visiting, and as for vardcentraler it was a joke.
Turbo lift scenes in season 3. Is the ship a f’ing TARDIS now where it’s bigger on the inside?
You mean "assault weapon". The laws invent the category of "assault weapon" and then define it arbitrarily to ban it. "assault rifle" is something completely different and actually has a definition, but is also something that's illegal for sale anywhere in the US (if newly produced). Assault rifles are defined by having selective fire between semi-auto and fully-automatic. (These weapons are still sold in the US, but only old weapons grandfathered in, and require special permitting to own.)

For more see:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault_weapon
Most european countries were already industrialized by the 1920s. None of them had literacy rates that low, and not one of them made it to space.
It's frustrating. Especially now that I'm nearing 15 years as a professional coder, I already spend less and less time typing and more thinking and working on different views on the problem. Typing or reading text is not difficult!
I wasn't trying to, but go on.
That does work. Before the pandemics I worked many years with the majority of my team being overseas, in multiple companies. There's nothing wrong with the hybrid approach and never was. For many companies it's always been the default approach, for global companies specifically. I am also not sure why you put "that doesn't work" and "I prefer" together - your preferences are not really relevant to this case.
Not if done correctly. Have a look at this link: https://github.com/void4/notes/issues/41

There is no issue with just limiting resources (unless there is unpredictable overhead). It doesn't have to be hardware resources either, it could be abstract/higher level resources like interpreter steps or managed memory slices.

I'm creating a series of VMs to show that this is possible, like rarVM, the recursively sandboxable virtual machine: https://esolangs.org/wiki/RarVM

Showcase: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBymOp6bTII

When calling a function you can specify how many interpreter steps it can run until it aborts (and optionally gives you a continuation so you can "refill" and resume it later).

Stackless Python can do this too, but unfortunately due to the reasons discussed above will never be a safe language, also this specific mechanism works only in trusted environments since the called function has the ambient authority to increase its own resource limits: https://stackless.readthedocs.io/en/2.7-slp/library/stackles...
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Do the majority of gaming PC owners spend most of their time doing those tasks though? I think if the answer were yes, we would be discussing VFX and ML workstations, not "gaming" PCs.

If we can legislate less environmentally harmful ways of doing commerce, why can't we legislate less environmentally harmful forms of entertainment? This is simply the logical conclusion of that line of reasoning.
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That, but also:

- Low quality parts

- Bad build quality

- Incompatible & proprietary motherboards, coolers and power supplies

- Bizarre part choices, like severely underpowered cooling and power delivery or using just 1 stick of RAM when 2 sticks would be significantly faster with about the same amount of money

- Windows installation filled with unwanted software and/or outright malware, like McAfee, which can have a double-digit % effect on game performance.

- The purchase process can involve dark patterns, like cleverly hidden support contracts with a monthly fee

The PC hardware channel Gamers Nexus has been reviewing prebuilt systems for past few months [1]. None of the reviewed computers have been great, and the ones from big manufacturers (namely Dell and Alienware) have been the worst of the bunch.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsuVSmND84QuM2HKzG7ip...
I always wondered what stops a now powerful country like China from ignoring Pharma Intellectual property and cloning and creating their own giants. Surely it is not as easy as it sounds, but may be doable in a decade or 2 ?
I'm still waiting for the day something trumps Source Code Pro for me...
In my company the only ones that want to go back to the office are those engineers and managers that spend most of their day just walking around, talking to everyone about non important stuff, inviting you to have a coffee, and making jokes until 5pm. Just the people that have nothing to show at the end of the quarter.

The most productive engineers, and the ones I enjoy working the most are the remote ones. The only way they have to justify their time is with what they ship.

I don't go to work to be a family, a brotherhood, or whatever....I do that at my pub, at the gym or with my friends. I go to work to work, ship stuff, grow my career, learn and earn money.

Problem is when people mix the office with their entire social Life.
Just trying to eat. Unlawfully discharged after getting sick with Covid.
I often wondered why doesn't everyone want to be a construction worker. We've all seen what they can do. Make huge structures appear out of thin air. Change the way space is. It's magic. And all the gadgets. Gigantic hydraulic arms, cranes, tractors of all sizes.

Instead we're paid heaps for programming. Which kind of makes sense. In my mind, programming is about making sense of a mess. Untangling all the seemingly conflicting wishes, concepts and circumstances into something simple. Programmers live off complexity the way insects live off a compost bin. Or, to be more romantic, the way a lotus flowers in dirty water. We recycle, break down and refine. Apparently, it has its place.
Can you really compare these two without completely ignoring reality? With Bubble you can do some limited MVPs. With AWS you can deploy services to billions of people.
I already have actually, finished it near the start of covid.
It's a great set of books.
Input Sans is a great proportional coding font. My personal favorite at the moment is Trebuchet++, my customized version of Trebuchet MS. (I wish I could distribute it; now I will have to find a way to do that.)

The Input Manifesto (that's what I'll call it) has a nice explanation of how proportional fonts are beneficial for code:

https://input.djr.com/info/
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Ironically this is the most needlessly toxic phrasing of an opinion I’ve seen in this thread.

Hypocritically, it’s whining about the very topic it claims it’s toxic to whine about.
In California they absolutely are. Canada has wild land that have been undergoing a natural burn cycle. In the US, fires have been put out, leading to 150 years of built up fuel
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> Purchaser further acknowledges that the long-term effects and efficacy of the Vaccine are not currently known and that there may be adverse effects of the Vaccine that are not currently known. Further, to the extent applicable, Purchaser acknowledges that the Product shall not be serialized.

Since a government who signed this contract would bear all costs for long-term and adverse effects, wouldn't serial numbers improve traceability and cross-referencing of manufactured product with patient effects (good or bad)? e.g. if some vials were performing poorly, live data monitoring could stop further administration of related vials. Hopefully other governments are requiring serialization, or can require this in future negotiations for booster or v2 shots, now that initial data is available on efficacy and adverse effects of v1 shots.
Why not just bring your own?

Like, serious question. I didn't do it until I had to but I can fit more crap in my own bags, and they're not going to break on me when I carry them up the stairs. Its kind of just better.
Just like everyone who thinks no-code solutions are a good idea, you are fundamentally misunderstanding what programmers do. We're not assembly-line workers banging out code as the product. The assembly line is the compiler. We're researchers, engineers, and artists; the code is the design document. You're saying you'd like the sandwich maker at Subway to make you a brand new sandwich that has never existed before without having to micro-manage what they actually put on it.

Writing code is nothing like micro-managing muscle movements, unless you're development an action that has never been done before (in that particular environment, circumstances, etc.). The level of abstraction in programming has been increasing every year since the 50s, and most of the code I write is me simply stating what I want to have happen at a very high level. When you want a BLT, you call getBLT(), unless a BLT is a brand new thing that has never existed before.

The "don't reinvent the wheel" crowd massively under-estimates the size of the problem space we are exploring. The space of possible problems to solve is unimaginably huge. There's always reason for new wheels when there are 10^10^400 different terrains to drive on.
if you add news in there, i would sign up. nothing is more toxic and addicting than the news. check out in the book trust me, i’m lying by ryan holliday and you’ll see what i mean
"decades of anti-union, anti-worker propoganda, elevating CEOs to philosopher-kings"

It seems you have a political axe to grind.

I think this is just another instance of people being "small c" conservative about what they are used do since they were young. The first Stone Age hunter who used a primitive bow was probably chastised "what's so bad about spears?" by other members of his tribe.
I was working in a hospital when they discovered the blood lab was not prepared for the Joint Comission, and I saw the panic based on the scale of consequences you describe.

My question refers to blinded testing meaning the lab in question does not know which, and handles, [in this case unexposed swabs from the factory] and it might range around 1-2% of samples on a continuing basis. To me that is the more industrial and continuous connotation of "QC". And the potential importance of "blind" testing.

AFAIK, in any hospital lab there are tests which are still sent out, because they are either more challenging to build and train the right [accurate, low-error] procedures around, or too rarely done for the local investment. What if PCR tests for Covid were also too challenging to ramp up to mass scale in a regional startup lab? There are reports around of horrible controls -- perhaps true or not. That is something sending "blinded" samples through, proportional to mass testing being done, could disclose.

Again, in the industrial setting there is the procedure you reported to the last ISO9000 auditor, and there is the actual procedure. The true spirit of that is that you should also build in procedures to detect when the production procedures are not being followed. Again back to ongoing QC.
Button button button, button button, click slide, button.
It just means that for a lot of people "going to work" was the thing which was adding structure to their life and when WFH started they lost that"structure", that is when "not shower for a week and have ketchup stains on your face" these things happen.

Looks like lotsa people build their life around work instead of work around life.
That goes both ways though. It also means that you can get hired by some company on the other side of the world that possibly offers better conditions than anything local.
There was nothing shocking in this agreement imho. Imagine you're at the negotiation table with Pfizer/Biontech. This is somewhat expected, when one party holds all the cards in the game.
> I am also not sure why you put "that doesn't work" and "I prefer" together

Here, "that doesn't work" is short for "that doesn't work for me". It is in fact a statement of preference, colloquially phrased.
It isn't implemented anywhere near the natural level, let alone the required levels to offset 150 years of suppression.
Exactly. True experience: two weeks ago I was in a Target in Florida and got a plastic bag with my purchase, just a normal grocery store grade bag. One week ago I went to a Target in Burbank and paid for a plastic bag with my purchase. This thing was some sort of fancy heavy-duty tote.

The bigger problem is attempting to modify behavior through an open market by way of legislation. As opposed to using legislation to prevent damaging behavior directly.
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I'm missing the ancient IBM 3270*, which has strangely achieved a permanent status as my go-to font for (personal) monospaced.

* the modern, open source revival → https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font
> at the scales we’re interested in we can assume its value doesn’t change.

The reason submarines can be neutrally buoyant at specific depths is because water is compressible, and water's density changes with depth. Adjust the submarine's density to match the water's density at a certain depth, and the sub will be neutrally buoyant at that depth.
Yeah I agree. Bad choice of words on my side.
What do you mean their preference is not relevant? They're providing an example using their personal experience.
That is not accurate - take a look at Page 9 of the product compliance datasheet: https://downloads.dell.com/rdoc/dell%20alienware%20ryzen%20e...

WOL and similar features do not change power consumption and this is not where the listed PC's fail. They fail on idle/standby power consumption and to be clear - there is NO reason they have to. Similar spec'd PC's can be purchased that meet these requirements.
I was thinking of renting cheap one person office, so I get out of the appartment. And have a distinction of enviroment. Not really worth the money in my current job. But when I get remote job for “western” company it will be peanuts.
>after July 1, 2021, the kWh per year limit becomes 50, 60, and 75.

RTX 3080 consumes 250W when mining, so it would hit those limits in 10 days?
A0 -> 1RB
A1 -> 1LC
B0 -> 1RD
B1 -> 1RB
C0 -> 0RD
C1 -> 0RC
D0 -> 1LD
D1 -> 1LA

I'm guessing A0 -> 1RB means 'If the state is A and the symbol read from tape is 0 then change the tape symbol to 1, move right, and change the state to B'
If they make me go back to the office during the delta wave, I am organizing a strike or quitting.
But you cannot get notified about a specific Zulip topic, can you? *That* blocks me to try to switch to it.
I hate that people keep framing it as a "preference" issue. There are HUGE economic and environmental costs that go along with working in and (often) commuting to an office. Not to mention the consistent 20-30% productivity drain working in an office seems to have across the board at most tech orgs.

We don't need to destroy our planet, dramatically increase costs, and dramatically lower productivity just to appease the minority of people that prefer playing office space, and I think more and more people are starting to see it that way.
I dont mind being in office, but I meetings are much much better online. Especially those long ones. You can stretch legs, exercise a little, eat or whatever.
The exact math was off, but high end gaming PCs are still not being banned.
You can do it gradually. Just look at Netherlands and New Zealand
Even before the pandemic, in the office, most of the collaboration was remote. Even with people in the same building, because lack of meeting rooms, noisy open-space office and loong looong walks down endless hallways we'd all rather do a quick telephone conference. My direct colleagues were just a table away of course, but collaboration isn't just with them. On the other hand, teams were also spread out across half the world, so lots of things could only be done remotely. Working from home wasn't much of a change there. In total, 90% of communication wasn't done in person but by some kind of remote com.

And since the current trend in our company (and I guess a lot of others) is "hotdesking", where you pull a ticket when entering the building which tells you what desk might be free. Well, no sitting near direct colleagues anymore. So the last advantage of the office is gone as well. Unfortunately it doesn't stop management from hallucinating the great back-in-the-office future after the pandemic...

Yes, I'll also be looking for a new job.
and that the entire program is about 2mb. Would fit on an extra high density 3.5in floppy.

https://www.photopea.com/api/accounts
My main employer is always very flexible, even before the pandemic, I just met one day in the office (everyone else had to be there too) and the rest I was free to chose. Perfect combination of seeing eachother and WFH.

We had small rooms so distraction was not a point. Commute was 25minutes.

I do believe we should get more flexibility where possible.
Pay attention to the camera & directing the next time you watch an episode, it's an absolute masterpiece.

One example to look out for is the back-and-forth between Columbo and the baddie. They would usually stand in opposite ends of the room and shot from two (sets of) cameras. One camera is closer to Columbo and the other is closer to the baddie, so when the detective is "winning" an argument, he'll look bigger on the screen and vice versa.

This usually starts with a shot where Columbo looks super small somewhere in the back of the room, then he'd ask his famous "just one last question", and then they switch the setup. Now Columbo is bigger in the front, and the baddie looks small while they are in trouble.
Because it's not as fun as a kid using building blocks. You'd just be doing a single job over and over again into monotony and it's filled with permits, inspections, waiting, etc so projects get dragged out and you don't get thr same gratification as you would if it were done faster and all parts done by you.
>And that's a perfectly reasonable approach to hiring for a new company.

And likely discriminatory.

I prefer working from home because I (am caring for an ailing parent|just had a baby|am not neurotypical|have a disability|etc.)

WFH is going to start being seen as a "reasonable accommodation" because the last 18 months have proven that lots of jobs can be done just fine without a physical office and denying that to employees who benefit from it for protected reasons isn't going to fly.

In short: suck it up. Dialing a few people in to an in person meeting is fine. Maybe it doesn't work exactly as well for some reasons but so what? Getting along well with your coworkers doesn't require colocation.