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I'm not proud to say that I was technical lead on a project that ran a customer's business for about 6 months from an old laptop under the dev's desk. This happened last year!

In our defense, it was because the server we wanted to move the code to was under control of another of the client's vendors and they were dragging their heels about giving us access. But still!
I would be lying if I said there was zero "I'll be found out" stress and that was part of the motivation for this post. Hearing that other people do this too would reduce that stress. Although this has never been a particularly big stressor for me. That is especially true over the last couple years in which the world has presented us with so many bigger concerns. I also know that most companies aren't going to fire someone for poor performance with zero warning and I have never received any type of warning about performance in my career. I don't consider the possibility of being fired as an immediate concern.

I mentioned in another comment how working remotely has been a big productivity boost for those non-working work hours. Similar to tayo42 in another reply, it provides me the opportunity to do a lot of things that I previously did outside of work hours. One example is that I used to wake up an hour earlier to get exercise in before work. Now I sleep in and get that exercise in during the work day.
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Fast feedback, communication and fix. Always impressed with them...
'At will' has noting to do with it.

When payment is made for services not rendered, it's Fraud.

If the employer has expectations that the employee 'does nothing' then it's fine, but that's almost assuredly not the case.

This posture is not only toxic, but it's also unjust will spread into much greater malaise as others take up the mantle of 'doing nothing'.

Literally a colleague I had over for dinner last night left his job, and the primary reason was 'many of my higher paid colleagues are not doing anything'.

I'm not sure if he was more frustrated or jealous, and there were other issues, but he left just the same.
Really makes you wonder what kind of utopia we'd be in if politicians acted fully in good faith.
For others who might be curious, here's how you break into the app dev market: 1. Dev an app.* 2. Market it.

* abbreviated for clarity
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I work on the avionics side of the industry and really enjoy when I run into your posts in discussions. You explain things to people not in the industry much more eloquently than I could.

While I'm not in my company's fly-by-wire group currently, I have been in the past.

> Two independent computers controlled the automatic stab trim. They were custom computers, designed by two groups that weren't allowed to talk to each other. They used different CPUs, different algorithms, and different programming languages. The computed commands were run through a comparator. If they differed, both computers were instantly electrically isolated from the trim system.

Current thinking in fly-by-wire software is a little different. There have been studies performed that showed nearly all software issues at this level are due to a misinterpretation of requirements. These misinterpretations were shared between the different software teams, leading to the two different units outputting identical (though incorrect) commands which would pass through the comparitors. So in essence you're doubling your development cost for no actual safety benefit. I can see if I can dig up those studies if you'd like. It will take a while, though, since almost everyone at my company is already on vacation for the year.

I'm simplifying what follows a little as I'm not sure how in depth I can get on our hardware design. What we do now is essentially run the same fly-by-wire software over multiple computers. These computers must have a mix of CPUs, including having differing endianness. If a single computer miscompares the comparitor turns that computer off. If more end up failing, the system falls back to a much simpler failsafe mode without a CPU in the loop where the flight controls in the cockpit are interpretated directly by the electronics that drive the actuators.
Man, that must be nice. I've already worked about 62 full time weeks this year and we aren't 52 weeks into it, I just worked my 16th thanksgiving in a row too and even with all of that OT I won't even make the median household income for my state this year (which is lower than the federal quite a bit). Meanwhile my CEO went from 11 million to 54 million in compensation over the last 2 years.

Every second of my day is logged and reports are made by someone and reported to other persons about how much I'm doing and how fast. My brain similarly has to be firing all day, the entire time I'm clocked in. Visually scanning data from imaged documents, processing that in my head figuring out what to do with and how to classify items in the case, then trying to remember what special handling procedures apply for any specific element. I start the day sharp, by the end of the day I can't even sit down and pay attention to tv because my brain is just shot from having to keep track of multiple phone-books worth of rules/regulations/procedures and tariff numbers. I've been working 6 days a week for 6 months now, Sundays once my wife and I come home from church I just check out and stare in the general direction of the TV while my mind just goes somewhere trying to find rest.

I however do not work in software.
A number of people in this conversation are fixated on the idea that advanced disclosure allows the market to front-run the congressperson and therefore remove the advantage of inside information.

But this still allows lawmakers the other corrupt path of trying to pick policies which benefit the companies or sectors in which they have holdings. Might there be federal efforts to ease housing shortages if members of congress didn't have investment properties?

I think for politicians above a certain level, we should go full Rawls. When you leave office, a random citizen from your constituency is selected, your net worth is set to their current net worth, and for a period of k years after leaving office, your income is funded by the public to match the income of that constituent.
but what if his 5-10 hours are equivalent in output to the 40 hrs of his coworkers?
> What Does It Mean for AI to Understand?

What does it mean for a human to understand?
Increasing political polarisation seems to be a worldwide problem at this point. Precious few regions seem (currently) exempt from this most dangerous path.
My regular work is similar. Some days I don't work at all. At most, 3-4 hours. But I think this is because nothing I'm working on is particularly urgent. I'm well ahead of deadlines.

When I really get into my own side projects in code, the last of which I got heavily into about six months ago, I literally forget to eat or sleep and can go on 24-hour marathons - compulsively, without intending to, because I need to make something work. When there is a once-a-year crisis on my regular job, the same thing applies. It's actually beyond my control.

I wish I could harness that level of motivation to e.g. take on 3x as many clients and expand my studio, but just thinking about that makes me shut down. I feel lazy when I spend a whole day reading news sites or something... or even engaging in hobbies like music. But I don't want the burden of 3x as much work that I have to do. I earn low six figures and it seems enough.
"Embarrassed because it's hard to understand how they couldn't be more ambitious at work"
If everyone was aggressive at work, there are still only a limited number of promotions available. Why cram at work for something that reality dictates is unobtainable for most.

"it's not that companies are that great at rewarding getting things done (sometimes they are…), but it's that getting something cool done is rewarding in its own right. Why don't they want that feeling… ?"

So they finish the task and then what? Move on to the next task and then the next until retirement. There is no real purpose to it, its just a treadmill.
I wouldn't be surprised if a high number of us is now really doing 3-4 hours of real work a day, filling in the rest with stuff that we'd have been ashamed to do in front of our colleagues (or called for) in the pre-covid world.

This is a good thing. The pre-covid world was mostly a circus in that respect.

As long as the 3-4 hours of daily deep, profitable work are still there, we're good.

Edit: this comment does not apply to small startups where your productivity as an engineer is much higher and it (sadly) makes sense to work for 8+ hours a day.
imo, the problem with Matlab is that Julia is better in pretty much every way. even numpy has managed to outclass it.
Something that's more efficient can be disastrous to society. I was shocked in the us by how common it is for people to estrange their parents over trivial things and essentially leave them alone in old age to work at Walmart to be able to afford a place to die in
In the gay space, it’s actually the opposite, receivers are disproportionately weaker, more men would like to be fucked than to fuck.
> They should not be able to act upon material non public information.

That's not what insider trading is, though. Insiders are, well, inside.

If you come across non-public information as an outsider, you are of course free to trade on it. Congresspeople are, theoretically, at odds with companies (as they impose regulation restraining those companies) and it's hard to view them as having a duty of any kind to the company itself.
I've been saying something to that effect for years, actually. Here's an example:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18150284

> As a vocal critic of the Linux Desktop, even I feel that soon Microsoft will have succeeded in making Windows so horrifically awful and user-hostile that the Linux Desktop will start to look good by comparison.
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You probably shouldn't be able to disable touch. If you can disable it then malware can disable it.

I'd highly recommend using the `fix` option instead of `on` to make sure it can't be disabled.
I don't think there's anything wrong with this. If your management had a problem with it, they would have said something. I don't think you "owe" anyone anything that your management has not asked or required you to give.

At one point in my career I was working 90+ hours per week, and while I learned a lot in that time (and at least convinced myself I was having fun), the end result was burnout. These days I work less than 40 hours a week. My management is more or less fine with that, and I'm fine with not getting stellar perf reviews, big raises or equity grants, or promotions. I've also been at my current company for a while; I've already done the 60-hour work weeks here in the past, and contributed a lot. I still contribute and add value, but less, and on my terms.

Just be sure what you're doing is sustainable. If you have to leave your current job for any reason (new manager who sucks, layoffs, company folds, whatever), will you be able to get good references so you can get another job? Will you be able to keep up the same low level of work at a new job? Will you even be able to pass interviews for a new job since you aren't really growing yourself technically?

Also be sure that the company is large enough that you're not harming things by doing minimal work. If you work for a multi-thousand-person company with bureaucracy and redundancies all over the place, it's probably fine. If you work at a 15-person startup, where you not pulling your weight could mean the company is significantly more likely to fail, it'd be pretty shitty to stay in that situation and risk causing problems for your colleagues.

Also I hope you're working remotely now and can do fun/useful/productive non-work things with most of your day. If you had to sit in an office for 8 hours while pretending to look busy (but actually just goofing off on the internet), I don't think that's a good use of your time (being paid or otherwise), and I doubt it'd be great for your mental health, either.
> What is artificial scarcity?

The copyright system allows artificial scarcity to help fund things by restricting copies. But it doesn't have to be done that way.
I'm including Chinese system integrators here, they just figured out that these devices were hackable prior to the western maker community. I have it under good authority that those weren't espressif's original target market either.
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So should your toaster, your dishwasher, your smart lock, your light switch, your insulin pump.

Usually it was anarchists who proclaimed that ownership equals theft — no we go to the other extreme, with corporate slowly trying to turn owners into renters. Instead of selling you something they try to become your landlord.
Yes, assuming i.i.d. samples. If the first batch is "warmup samples", this goes out the window.
The problem is that an unregulated free-market economy guarantees monopolies to form, which ironically allows them to use tactics that prevent fair competition. This is why mixed-economies are most efficient, as they take advantage of capitalism while preventing some of the edge cases where capitalism falls apart.
I don't think it's too heavy handed to make the practice of implementing SMS 2FA straight-up illegal. If credit card processing requires PCI compliance why wouldn't we apply similar thought to 2FA?
The weather dataset has a bit of an unorthodox schema IMO, which gives the model more trouble than usual. That’s kind of the point of this demo, though: to what extent is generated SQL like this useful—despite its flaws—in the context of real-world datasets? Jury is still out :)
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How would it know how long a loop is ahead of time? Is this solving the halting problem?
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Did you have our key on a yubikey and that yubikey set to require a touch for every operation?
I suspect you have seen it and just don't recognize it. If group X can insult group Y and Y is forbidden from insulting X, is that going to make Y get along with X? Or, will it mean that X insults Y a lot disposing Y negatively towards X?

I don't think the problem is going to be Asian people calling white people "cracker" while they tour Asia. I think the problem is going to come from young white men getting irritated by demonstrably unfair treatment. They will live online with hypocritical rules where people are allowed to insult them for their race and gender and they are punished for returning the favor. This, in turn, will encourage at least some of them towards racism.

Ultimately, it's just not a reasonable thing for Facebook to do. What benefit is there in preserving racism and sexism against men? I think it makes sense to ban racist and sexist things, but why make a special carve out to permit it against specific groups?
CircleCI still very slow/returning 504s, not sure if related?
2FA included in the free tier and there's even a 10% discount on the paid tiers if 2FA is enabled!

That's an incredibly cool and generous offer
> I think for politicians above a certain level, we should go full Rawls. When you leave office, a random citizen from your constituency is selected, your net worth is set to their current net worth, and for a period of k years after leaving office, your income is funded by the public to match the income of that constituent.

This is a novel idea to me. Are you referring to https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rawls/? If so, could you elaborate a bit on the philosophical underpinnings of this idea? My meager googling did not raise anything substantive.
Nothing in any of my FTE contracts has anything beyond "at-will." No explicit "money for such and such services rendered."

There's literally no fraud here for a typical American FTE at-will employment arrangement. The worst-case scenario is getting fired from the job with no additional repercussions.
I cannot speak on Android Auto specifically and what the requirements are currently (though I intend on migrating to an Android device in the near future) my '22 Subaru only allows Android Auto or Apple CarPlay to work via the cable, as you can link the phone over Bluetooth to the 'generic phone' controls, but not the phone-specific-display controls.

Though I haven't had issues in regards to the headunit failing just yet - I've had the phone lock up a few times, but I think that is in part due to the age of my iPhone (6s) and the lack of processing power/ram.
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I hope so. I enjoy programming for myself, and taking some challenges in Python currently, I'm not sure how it will go as a job. Hope is confy enough to not regret the change, I'm pretty tired of having a low pay but high complex job.
Latin Americans are a lot more receptive to birth control and sterilization compared to Africans/Arabs/central Asians
This more|less also describes Nim. The recent automatic memory management ARC/ORC alternative is not really even what most people think of as "garbage collection". Its macros give you full AST accept & re-emit powers and it's had generics since before Go existed. I realize it probably does not score highly on "gets used", but it deserves more attention.
One thing many comments are missing is that you don't have a simple 1:1 relationship with your company and their backlog. You said you have a stand-up, which means you have a team.

Work you don't do is work that someone else has to do. If you're literally not working at all some days but claiming you did during standup (as you said in your OP) then the work assignments must be flowing to your team members.

In essence, you're asking your peers to pay for your lack of activity with their own work.

Nobody expects you to be crunch mode 8 hours per day, but you do need to make an honest effort. Don't be the guy on the team who makes everybody else do most of the work.
Because most people are heterosexual. If this was an article on health problems for overweight people who make a significant amount in the west you could say they’re not giving enough exposure to underweight people who should be equal represented.
Yes - it's perfectly fine if OP isn't stressed or not doing a lot - if their 2-hour genius contributions are worth $200K to the company that's perfectly fine.

This however, is probably not the case.

The common case is that due to lack of proper oversight and bloat, people just coast and do nothing.

It's incredibly hard to have 'true oversight' in software, which frankly is 'just fine' if everyone does their jobs properly.

But if the cost of 'little oversight' is that slowly but surely 'nobody is doing anything', it's not going to work out now, is it?

It's also a moral dilemma.
Are you delivering more value to the company than you take from it in salary/benefits/overhead? That's all that matters here. Who cares if someone else is more productive on paper. Who cares if someone else has more visible progress.

If you listen to people posting here, you'd think that you need to be sitting at a keyboard, typing furiously for exactly 8 hours a day, or you should be immediately fired. It's saddening to see that people in our industry still think that way, and it's a good reminder that even if you bring value to the company, you can still be canned if you don't play the political game and clang pots and pans whenever you ship a one-line bugfix.
Doesnt that force people to not only use smartphones, but "approved" smartphones (read Android/iOS) with locked bootloaders and no root access (or the bank authenticator app will refuse to run)?
> If you're fighting the borrow checker in Rust, you'd probably have been fighting segfaults and use-after-free in C / C++.

That is in my ( admittedly limited) experience just not true. There's plenty of things that are perfectly safe that the borrow checker just doesn't understand.

The borrow checker can prove that a subset of things is safe. But the borrow checker being unable to prove something doesn't mean it's not safe.
There's a good example right in front of our eyes right now. In order for inflation to get back to normal, the index has to drop around 20%. A drop would be pretty much inevitable as the liquidity would have to be pulled out. Powell has all his reported holdings in the index. People who influence his decisions are likely also very much invested in the index. Is anybody gonna do the right thing?
I would like to upvote this comment for it's clarity of thinking.
> Taking money from people with expectation of value, while not providing that value is Fraud.

Taking time from people with expectation of opportunity to build career by building things, while not providing that opportunity to build career by building things is Fraud.

fixed it for you. j/k

this is not constructive. if i join a company and their internal dysfunction gets in the way of me getting projects done that further my career and that comes at a steep opportunity cost, that doesn't mean they defrauded me (even though it may feel good to think that when letting off steam), it just means it didn't work out.

name-calling and accusations of bad faith don't really serve anyone in the end.
> Apple's default web browser is Safari on iOS and no one ever sued Apple over it.

Apple doesn't have that kind of market share to warrant it. Tangentially, Apple products are aspirational, so they never won't have it, that would lose the appeal. Microsoft, on the other hand, pushes their products every way imaginable, and many of their users use them because they have to.
An incentive that is completely offset by the professional and career consequences of leaving one's industry for nearly two decades. Many women struggle to resume their careers after just a year or two of absence -- are we supposed to seriously believe that Hungarian employers will shrug off an entire child's development worth of absence?

There is always an incentive to re-enter the workforce, in the sense that you (hopefully) get paid to work. But the existence of an incentive doesn't mean that incentive is sufficient. In the absence of other incentives and the presence of Orban's reactionary social politics, it's unlikely that this one is sufficient.
> I like how you conveniently "forgot" that Russia signed that too

I'm a Pole living in the west and the perspective of Putin's greedy gaze turning so close to my motherland is quite terrifying. I think your conclusion that I somehow "conveniently" forgot about Russia being the culprit here is a bit too far fetched here.
> To keep it on the up and up, they literally bought a copy of VS for every system they sold

Their dedication to licensing is admirable, but I wonder if this was because they didn't know which DLL's were redistributable and which weren't?
"How do I make a transaction / mine a block?" that's a "how does it works ?" kind of question, you need to know how all the small parts work to explain the functionality.

Yes, some aspects you need to look at the code, others you will find documented

i would recommend https://learnmeabitcoin.com/ which has very in-depth resources but it seems to be down at the moment