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I never understand why so many font studios do this. I don't mind paying a fair price for a good font that a professional has designed, for the same reason I don't mind paying for a good book. But the terms for using it have to be sensible. They are now competing with some high quality fonts that are also comprehensive and professionally designed but free to use with few restrictions, so the licence needs to be simple with no sense of danger or I will walk away immediately. Some of these font developers seem to think they are the reincarnation of Elvis or something with the level of hassle they think people will go through to pay them money!
> Your work goes away for any reason, and so does your social life.

Sure, as can be true after leaving school or moving away from family. Reason enough to always foster the skill of both making and keeping friends.
I guess social climbing and engagement in office politics are sure signs of maturity, then.
It's still doable. I self host and have managed to switch IP's providers and so forth without getting into trouble. It is, however, critical that you make sure you don't get an IP that was recently used by a spammer, and it's a lot of work to get everything up and running. Warming up an IP is difficult when talking volumes that small.
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if you do blocking DB operations before serving ads, latency won't be great. Assuming you don't have to wait for transactions to commit, you can probably push required operations onto a queue (Redis would be fine for that) and serve the content immediately?
For those looking for closure, this case was litigated to the Supreme Court https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/supreme...

To my reading the house was destroyed in “mysterious” fire, and then demolished for use as a car park by the adjacent hotel. The court ruled that the hotel owner must pay replacement cost for the house.
I'm still regularly meeting up with a group of ex-colleagues from a company I left 5 years ago
In my opinion this is an argument fallacy.Almost any economic activity causes pollution and spike in environmental and economic costs.

Moving to WFH will not do anything to reduce emissions and it could actually lead to an opposite outcome due to increased consumption as people would have more time to travel longer distances.
> they could try to adjust your login with @ and : symbols automatically if they see something is wrong

how specifically? especially the ":"
It could be that the islanders were supportive of the house being destroyed, or it could be that the islanders were scared to snitch on the bully that demolished it?
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> And walking into the private space of a desk and talking to a person working there is as invasive and interuptive as it was before in the office.

Hmm, do most people think that? Do they like or dislike it? In my experience, some of the less technical people seem miserable when they can't organically engage in conversations.

Personally i prefer remote work on my own for similar reasons, yet in my experience any sort of privacy or deep focus are impossible in an open office setting from the get go. And there's little difference between someone waving their hand at you from across the room and wanting to converse and them just actually coming into your private space, since the end result is the same.

That's the very same reason why i kind of dislike that Skype/Slack just lets you call people without asking them first whether they're available for a call at that time, same with phone calls. Now, as technical workers we might be spoilt in that regard, but somehow i feel like one's attention should be requested first, not just stolen like calls/ad hoc conversations do.
It says this:

> The reason Neville had returned to the island in the first place was a letter from the local council warning this house had been damaged by a storm, but an engineer’s report found that the house was most likely brought down by mechanical means.

So he was contacted, by the local council, and they lied to him.

Sounds to me like the island as a whole decided he wasn't going to come live in his house anymore and it was in the way, but they had to keep that secret of course.
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It may depend on the company and the team. In the office I get asked questions or interrupted frequently. I enjoy talking to colleagues and it seems productive. However the bulk of my important work is done alone in longer uninterrupted blocks of time (at home). If I'm forced into an office then unless the team around me is really good/organised, I end up working at home at night to get those uninterrupted blocks of time. My wellbeing long term suffers.

Collaborating with others works as well for me over a video call as it does in person. Further, the hours I save commuting to the office I can use to solve or collaborate on something else.

Most people I've talked to concerned about those not being in the office appear to think those out of office are on holiday. If a manager is worried their remote staff are not on task, why not give them a call?
You cannot profligate your time by expecting something miraculous to happen, or to just put the sick machine into your truck and look for the repair shops. For taking redemption over these troublesome, one should call Appliance repair in Burnaby. These companies are professional enough in finding the best solution for the problem.
> UI elements are gone or hidden until hover

Discoverability. It seems increasingly hard in modern UI to know what is something I can interact with and what is just a text label.
What the OP has alluded to was that sometimes you just like the people you work with, and if you are in a situation with long hours and hard work, for some people it's more efficient to endure that in person and not in isolation, and it's not always a BS manager thing. Whether you choose for some reason to cling to those people, or fully realize that this is a team that gets together to get shit done, not a family, is a completely separate issue.
Haha, was going to say the same :D
Yep, although there are now new games which kinda balk the trend - Iron Harvest has a pretty good SP campaign, Total War series is still going strong with its SP focus as well.
What numbers?

My experience is the opposite.
I miss my office. It’s an actual room that has 3 desks, windows, lights, and a door. Although it does have a glass wall.

I’m so used (conditioned) to working in an open office plan that my desk faces a wall with my back to the room. Idk, it helps me focus.
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Absolutely. Remote working is absolutely devastating to the development of junior team members and people just getting started in the world of work.

If you're just getting started in your area (whether development, sales, marketing, devops) having immediate help and guidance from your peers and manager is really helpful - documentation helps, structured training helps but they're not the full solution. Those momentary 'quick' bits of guidance help, and whether we like it or not "face-to-face conversation" is the highest form of bandwidth we have.

The other element people don't talk about enough is that getting used to "working" is a journey in and of itself. There are lots of elements of being productive in the world of work - not just churning out code - and it's not obvious how it all works. In some areas I see a lot of "hollowing out" where we don't have as many entry roles.
I wish I knew. Besides generic praise (like saying I'm a rockstar at my job) a few of my managers said that they loved how they could drop me into a situation with little to no information and have me come out successful. Other than that I really don't know how to measure myself. Sometimes I've pulled off things that other engineers said (to the product manager) were impossible; a couple times I've had humiliating failures that still make me sad to think about; most of the time I get my work done.
I have a little heuristic I use for pretty much every particle/quantum physics phenomena I come across, I assume “theoretical” until such time I’m presented with evidence. These fields are so dominated by theoreticians that experiments are considered by some in the field to be a “different discipline” and something they need not worry about.
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100%

My organisation just opted into open area hot desks instead of offices. One day in there and interrutped about 5 times in 30 minutes by people who otherwise would have pinged me on slack and allowed me to reply in a manner more respectful of my workload. They see this as a big advantage of the open area "instead of making meetings you can just go over and quickly chat to someone!"

When you think about what software people do when they are most productive it is almost a deep trance-like state, I would compare it to meditation. Imagine proposing that people go and do their meditation out in the corridor where everybody is walking past and talking to each other, getting coffee and randomly interrupting you. It's insane anybody ever thought it was a good idea.

Unfortunately closed offices are a huge status symbol now and asking for one is akin to declaring you think you're more important than everyone else in the office.
Not in London, or the tech hotspots of the US, I'm sure. I bet it's a free for all. It's a big reason for my apprehension of a return to the office. In London, at least, it's very common to find significant numbers of people on buses and trains without a mask.
> maybe, you're blocked by Geoghegan's pf-badhost rules for PF

yea, maybe ... using thirdparty-curated blacklists for network-level security is a reciepe for unhappy users.
I believe that climate change is real and man-made, but I don't find the "consensus" argument convincing.

It's well known now that science is heavily politicized, most published research is wrong[1], fraud is common[2] and largely ignored[3], and many promising scientists have been excluded from the field for a variety of reasons from politics to prejudice to simple personal conflicts with the superstars. Funding and continued employment can be endangered by publishing politically incorrect results - if those results are allowed to be published at all - while publishing the "correct" results is rewarded.

In an environment like this, it would be almost impossible for anyone who openly disagreed with the consensus to stay in the field. And once qualified people are driven out for these unscientific reasons, their opinion is no longer counted among the "consensus" of scientists, because the consensus is usually only measured among people working for a university or government agency.

In short, if you exclude everyone who disagrees, it's easy to manufacture any consensus you like (even something as completely wrong as Lysenkoism, to cite a rather extreme example of the principle).

1: https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jo...

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27884233

3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25922799
But I can't even remember the name of the other billionaire who ran in the Democratic primary this year, so I don't think it's a sufficient condition. Nobody will be concerned with Bloomberg's 2020 run in a decade, heck, nobody was concerned with it a month after he joined the race :)

Ah, it was Steyer I think, just came to me.
I have been in a similar position, where I felt like standing with my back to a wall and no longer having the energy to deal with the stress of changing anything about my condition.

Now looking back, I think I could have faired better if I would have had a different attiture towards my job. I have come to realize that my hardest struggles are not with the environment but with myself: How I think about myself with respect to the situation I am in.

I hope that this meager reply can be of some help to you.
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It’s almost impossible to imagine this in light of the “all or nothing” approach American law enforcement has toward its job. Would it really be as simple as ignoring the police that would undermine their authority?
That video is both annoying, frightening, and yet weirdly cool.
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One of the nicest work environments I've had (in these specific terms only!) was when I worked 15-20 minutes away from where I lived. In summer months, I could walk in — and it helped that there was a park on the way. In the winter, or if I was really in a hurry, I could take local transport. That short commute was perfect to clear the head and prepare for the day. Unfortunately, it's a very difficult setup to achieve and my last commute — nearly 2 hours there and back — was the final straw before I decided to wfh pretty much full time.
So given that ML languages don't require tail call optimizations, and allow for mutable data structures....
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It's not a bad thing imho.

I joined a banking grad scheme many years ago in my first role out of uni. Have about 10 friends from there now 20 or so years on that I am in regular contact with.

I have moved to several different jobs since and pick up maybe one friend along the way but nothing as close as from our first job. Obviously age / place in life at the time was a big factor.
It's common knowledge that Microsoft considers everyone to be spammers until proven innocent. Getting to a point where your mails end up in the recipients' inboxes is a long path -- Microsoft doesn't care if you set everything up perfectly, as spammers can do the same -- and one has to provide them with enough data to learn to trust one's IP's/ranges/domains.

Contacting Microsoft means you have to go through a difficult dance through multiple canned replies, multiple escalation requests, and being lucky enough to get someone to actually escalate.

Silently dropping emails isn't Microsoft-specific, though. It's quite common to have a Postfix/Amavis setup set to discard spam over a certain spam score threshold.
I don't want to make a weird boast but I have a mint condition Windows 95 CD (and manual etc) from my first PC. Could've saved you some time, maybe..
> they'll probably need to be x86-based phones for the sake of being able to run old programs.

Maybe its the other way around?

Maybe we need to wait until the old way of doing things is so forgotten we can accept the phone-way as a valid way. As long has people have their x86 applications, they'll want to use them. Once people stop caring - well then there is an app for that.
Have you seen the Astro Slide? Name aside it does look pretty interesting.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/astro-slide-5g-transforme...
“It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.”

I've lived in both, I'm happier in a city...
I don't think anyone is advocating for a position in which companies insist you work in the space you live in. The dichotomy here is between a) company forcing you to work in specific building and b) company giving you some say in the matter. People want different amounts of 'say', of course, but even a fully-remote company isn't going to prevent you from, for example, working from a shared office that's local to you.
It is coming along, however in the age of security and distributed computing, what most applications really want are multiple processes with OS IPC anyway.
> Clearly since the people on the island are human beings they too would hate with a passion anyone who did this.

Other way round: since they're human beings they have loyalty among each other, and a relationship structure they're unwilling to compromise. Destroying the house of a resident obviously wouldn't stand, but who's going to be a snitch for the benefit of the outsider?

This happens a lot in abuse situations. You will find out afterwards that a lot of people knew to some extent what was happening, but were unwilling to have the confrontation that would result from speaking out about it, or to put up with the long term social consequences of being the person who spoke up.
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Actually it sounds like it is hard, but you pulled off something of great value by thinking about it, taking ownership, and iterating towards solving a problem.
Um, yep, I see macOS and iOS advertising that all the time, not only through their mainstream TV ads, but also in recent years like every time I upgrade one of my family's Apple devices.
The guy who made the page is a talented musician...
He seemed to think 54 thousand pounds wouldn’t pay for a “chicken coop” on that island so maybe it’s a bit more pricey there than one might suspect? From my understanding island life can be a pretty expensive proposition all around.
True, but less office space is cheaper than even that.

My employer is looking into allowing 3-4 days remote each week going forward and is then expecting they can downsize their offices to save money.

Would 100% remote be better? For some. For others who don't have the means to work at home, they need the office.

The open office environment is completely detrimental to good deep work though.
> On the other hand, I strongly distrust Google to maintain my data securely. As far as I can tell, aside from backwards compatibility/legacy reasons, the major reason people use Office 365, for better or worse, are issues like compliance and security.

Out of interest, why do you distrust google to maintain your data securely? Having done no actual research, my impression is that google has a pretty good record when it comes to security (though obviously not perfect).
The difference is that cultural differences can be expressed in Europe. You can't do that in those contested regions because everyone wants to violently force their own cultural difference upon the rest of the population.
The author of Bvckup2 has a very interesting blog with articles about the ui developement:

https://bvckup2.com/wip/
>I also said there is a difference between TRANSFER-encoding (which is a choice of middleboxes) and CONTENT-encoding (which is a choice of client) - and that its not clear from the author which they were talking about.

It is very clear, no reason to be rude.

>HTTP is TRANSFER, not TRANSPORT. It is an OSI layer 7 protocol. Transport compression (in TLS) occurs at a different layer (OSI layer 5, the session layer).

People still believe that the world can be neatly divided into 7 to 8 boxes? Incredible (spoiler alert, modern HTTP in form of HTTP/3 is also Transport and Transfer, OSI Model is outdated). In a more serious maner, this is pendantic at best, HTTP's Content-Encoding is a transport compression, plain and simple, unless you worship the things that OSI made (in which case, have fun with X.200 I guess).

>Lets be clear - by proxies, you mean non-transparent proxies, and by middleboxes you are talking about deep packet inspection, because nothing else could possibly have a problem with the content encoding as they wouldn't even be looking at it.

No, I'm talking about things like caching proxies like they are in common use in places that are bandwidth starved or in literally any serious corporate setting.

And yes, this is very much Cloudflare's problem to fix, because the very people that pay them to be their CDN are the people who deploy those middle boxes that break everything. These aren't "deep packet inspection", most of the times it's a forked and patched Squid Proxy.

Squid Proxy very much looks at the encoding because you can in fact configure it to decompress content or compress content regardless of what the server actually sent as well as saving compressed contents to disk.

As other people in this post have pointed out, if you even allow Brotli over HTTP, a lot of middleboxes will serve this brotli compressed content to all clients, regardless of compatibility. Even if you set Vary: Content Encoding.

If Cloudflare allowed this to break then A) paying customers would tell them it's broken and to fix it and B) they'd loose traffic from people unwilling to surf on cloudflare through their proxy.

>Im of the opinion that this was a BREACH mitigation and cloudflare accidentaly applied it to http instead of https, as given their position of trust, they surely wouldnt be assisting other actors with content filtering/inspection...

That seems very far fetched indeed, in which case I hope you have proof that this is a mitigation for BREACH applied to plaintext HTTP?
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I understand your point, but saying that Google has no incentive isn't accurate. There's always an incentive not to pay for bug reports, simply because it results in a short-term gain. Whether it's a good decision in the long run is another question.

It's more helpful to analyze the situation from a game-theoretic standpoint. Bug bounty programs are a typical example of a cooperative game. If someone reports a security issue, they start the game by cooperating. Google can then choose to cooperate by paying a bounty or they can defect by refusing a reward. Like in the classical prisoner's dilemma, both parties can typically maximize their rewards by choosing to cooperate.

My case is a bit special. While I don't know the exact reasons why Google chose not to reward me, it's possible that they thought I would continue to cooperate even after they defected. But like most rational players, I chose to stop cooperating, which ultimately leads to the worst possible outcome.
It only works with a lone police officer. It's extremely hard to cope with being totally socially excluded on a remote island. Any situation where the police themselves can form a community because there's enough of them, this approach won't work.

(I would note that one of the great American novels, To Kill A Mockingbird, deals precisely with the loneliness of trying to administer justice without community support)

Then there's horror classic The Wicker Man, about a police officer sent to a remote island to investigate a vanished girl and wall of silence ...
>This may just be my experience as a young person in San Francisco / Silicon Valley, but it's very common for office life and social life to be highly intertwined.

Damn, I've seen some random ass video on yt called "normal day of Googler" or something like that and it shocked me hard that "normal day" meant hanging out with coworkers

Don't get me wrong, it's not like we don't do it "here" - like going to pub or something, but it's definitely not normal day.
That being said, I think many people underestimated increased processing power over ages.

1gb of ram on win 7 equals 4 times of 256 mb win 98 era. With 8gb it's 32 times larger. That's just ram though, not to mention processing power between pentium 3-4 with multicore i series.

The difference in ram caching and cpu processing is big that some additional process won't give much problem.
The law is just an agreement with a large group of people that says "don't do anything bad and we'll watch out for you". These people have just replaced that with their own informal arrangement.

They probably prefer their got-your-back arrangement because they trust their neighbours more than they trust people outside the community. In addition it tips the scales in their favour because their law doesn't need to protect everyone equally. In this case outsiders are not afforded the same benefits as islanders.

They just need a reasonable belief that they won't be steamrolled by the actual law, which comes from having a tight knit community where people don't run to the police.

You see the same pattern amongst cops, the mob, remote communities, etc.