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I hate open office. It's required to wear headphones to focus or you get migraine. And whole day with headphones is not comfy and probably not healthy.

The coolest work I've had outside my personal office was in rented house and room per team.

Although having office in city centre has it's perks that you could have lunch, beer, meet somewhere after work with collegues and I enjoyed that - but I feel it only worked as I had mostly same age, childless peers there.

Still commuting kills most of joy. I would move to village outide of city if only I could cook. Maybe some tourist place in the mountains will work.
Rome lasted for many centuries, so I imagine they were familiar with what worked and what didn't.
B-1B is not as stealthy. B-2 Spirit is in a different league along with the F-117.

Also I learned something new: It's not 'ordinance', but 'ordnance'[1]. Almost looks like a spelling mistake.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordnance
Hey! Thanks so much for the feedback.

You're right that there's currently no way to simulate the mock data view without actually adding a Firestore query or API call. That's a useful suggestion.

For the positioned issue, you can set the alignment of items in a Stack (same as the Align widget in Flutter). In our experience this tends to cover the vast majority of cases, however you're right that we don't currently support the Positioned widget! (For absolute positioning in pixels). And in general there are plenty of other widgets we still want to support. We're adding more and more widgets every week so we can deliver as much of the power of Flutter to folks.
Dont forget ego: "why would I give control over _my_ idea, over _my_ company that _I_ created to simpletons without ideas, without ability or will to execute?" This ego is also why software devs are allergic to unions.
I had a classic cubicle for over a decade. Dilbert stereotypes aside, it was pretty much OK. The company had offices--mostly for managers--but to be honest we also had an open door convention (keep the door open unless you really needed it closed for some reason--generally related to having a private conversation). So you really didn't have a situation where people with offices generally closed the doors.
I wouldn't call Oodle Texture a hack. But there's also https://github.com/BinomialLLC/crunch and https://github.com/BinomialLLC/basis_universal. The latter has the advantage that it can be decoded to multiple different compressed texture formats, so that all GPUs can be supported from a single file (different GPUs support different formats so you can't necessarily send the same compressed texture to any GPU).
It's not very obvious, but if you click the "5 hours ago" next to the username you get the option to favourite a comment.
> Or have their system of governance proportional based on number of slaves (3/5s, electoral college distribution).

Uh... you do realize that 3/5 hasn't been true for close to two centuries now? You sound like you're just grasping for something to complain about.

> Most countries are capable of realising and admitted bad things, and working on making them impossible ( see Germany).

We did. See the US Civil War.

> The document is obsolete ( as you said yourself, it literally dates from a different time, a time with kings, slaves, the fastest travel method being a horse or a boat, literacy being rare, etc.) and needs to be rewritten before being torn down.

You've argued that it's old. That doesn't make it obsolete - that's something different.

You sound like people who want to re-write their program in the new shiny language, just because it's new and shiny. That's a terribly wasteful idea. If it's broken (not just old), then fix what's broken.
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The costs you list are dwarfed if a company scales to any reasonable size and by that point they have enough of a team to consider moving elsewhere in the EU to better manage them. In fact, moving to the US might open up as an opportunity which some people take.

The biggest problem is funding due to the risk aversion of EU institutions and limited alternative sources. You have to be incredibly qualified to acquire the funding need to drive a startup forward in the way that happens in the US. This ranges from the small angel investors through to the first series of VC funding.

In the EU, if you are a business like a biotech or pharma you may be able to navigate this because those are well trodden paths with high risk adversity baked in. A software company has many unknowns, so you encounter problems with expectations. You can't fail in the EU because you only have one shot and won't get back again with another company/idea. In reality, it's very likely you'll stumble a lot initially and won't have the leeway that you have in the US. If you compared bankruptcy on both sides of the Atlantic you'd notice similar patterns.
Regulatory technology will dominate for the rest of 2020s, while we are trying to replace the Wild West of unregulated Internet with something that has less negative effects on society and less overhead.

Privacy and accessibility are extremely difficult and challenging tasks. Fake news, disinformation, echo chambers and cultural bubbles are growing problems. We basically need to rebuild plenty of things that are part of our daily life, and this will distract significant resources from the „next big things“. More likely digital society 2.0 is the next big thing, that will replace Meta and Google.
I'm with you on detesting car maintenance when owning a vehicle.

To be fair, most of those maintenance options do go away with fully-electric vehicles. For example, you could lease a Tesla Model 3/Y. The process is impressively streamlined: pay $100 using Touch ID and Apple Pay, then select a pick-up date on the calendar. Now you have a vehicle with basically no maintenance, apart from topping up wiper fluid. All managed with an intuitive and highly-polished mobile app. In 3 years, repeat process.

My intention isn't to advertise for Tesla. I'm just pointing out that options exist nowadays for people who dislike the entire hassle of vehicle ownership (dealing with dealerships, negotiation, financing, scheduled & unscheduled maintenance, etc.)
With this policy, you'll keep the 20% capable staff. Anyone else (except a few both too afraid to leave and too comfy with their current pay) will leave.

That'll leave you with a few 10x staff, too lazy to leave, but capable, and a lot of ballast.
Let's not add partisan lies to the headline. He has support of the communists (which isn't surprising since the main opponent was praising Pinochet's sadistic dictatorship), but he's a social democrat associated with the Progressive International, not any of the many communist internationals.
It would be "my pawn", translated more literally.

Some people find this amusing.
I think the problem was that you mainly entered typically saturated (product) markets. All those ideas have been on the 101 "first product" lists to programmers, for as long as you've been trying.

And the fact that you worked alone(?) just makes things even more difficult. You have entrepreneurs in SF with networks and capital to launch products in mere months - hell, their marketing budget the first months would be more than your revenue the first x years. Point is, it's incredibly hard to compete against players like that, and if you have some easy / low-hanging fruit idea, there's a good chance you'll be playing against those. Remember to do your market and product research!
The explanation in the article is fascinating, but I wonder how much the Romans knew about the durability of their concrete at the time, and to what extent they just got lucky by the mix of material that happened to be available in their area.
Step one. Go to bed early.
There is no step two.
What does this mean? Can you please rephrase?
> I have only been responding to people that are saying that the dot makes this setup "unusable". The machine you're describing is not possible without a dedicated hardware I/O device because the OS always has access to display devices and apps cannot override that.

This seems to be the crux of the disagreement in this thread. You're equating the effect of two quite different things:

1. A pop-up that's quite intrusive / potentially embarassing, but has (say) a 1/100 chance of happening any given show, and in any case would only be there for a few seconds; the rest of the show would be unaffected

2. A small but intentionally noticeable orange dot that's there 100% of the show for every show

Yes, if you want to be a top level professional, then you can afford to have neither. But I can certainly imagine people / venues where #1 would be considered a normal cost of doing business, but #2 would not.

That said, if fixing them both is as easy and inexpensive as people in this thread seem to think, then the small "nudge" by #2 to get them to fix #1 is probably beneficial for the ecosystem overall.
Yes, that too happens. Gitlab is a good example of this.
As someone who has spent 4.5 of the last 7 years working from home I'm tired of spending 23+ hour days inside my house. Even one day a week in office meaningfully interacting with others would help my mood.
Yeah piss off Joe Manchin so he goes independent and caucuses with the Republicans. That will definitely allow the Democrats to pass a pro abortion bill.

With a 50/50 Senate, Democrats need Manchin more than he needs them.

He’s also the only Democrat who can possibly win in WV where trump won by 40 points.

> but he’s not the only centrist in the party

Legalized abortion isn’t an issue that centrists oppose.
I can't imagine those good words ever came from anyone that has actually used it.
I've taken a look at the generated code very quickly. You're using a lot of paddings in columns for example where I would use a SizedBox with no child in between the elements. Or even better, expandables. It makes for less nested elements, plus padding used like that feels like a translation of css to flutter. I rarely need padding but maybe its just me. Also you may have a good reason for doing so.

Also I think the standard is to prefix class members with a _ - although I dont like that since it hinders readability (maybe you dont like it either and want to instore your own standard)

I would definitely work at having the fewest levels of nested elements as possible as its a main thing that average prog dont like in flutter. Also eliminate the need to hardcode sizes whenever possible (expandables, percentages - using layoutbuilder is the example of top of my head, etc)
Sure, if only narcotics were all we were controlling. But there are plenty of other schedule 1 drugs (marijuana being the most popular) that don't have this issue, yet remain illegal. Meanwhile alcohol use most certainly has a devastating impact on others, both in terms of drunk drivers, and alcoholics committing crimes to buy more alcohol. The difference being alcohol is considered "acceptable" by the powers that be, while marijuana is not.

It all boils down to them enforcing their morality on the rest of us.
The financial consequences are nothing for the company, even less for those responsible. For accountability there need to be personal consequences for cases of extreme and wilful negligence for cases like Boeings.

I’m not advocating for life in prison for the top brass, but some prison time surely.

Unless we just start issuing fines and warnings to the regular people to deal with manslaughter of criminal negligence.
Tax residency.
Then you're a paragon of honesty. There are many others who aren't, sadly. Rather than assume people are liars I use the live coding test more as another filter. It verifies the resume, sure, but it also showcases or sometimes exposes other aspects of the candidate that a resume or maybe just their resume cannot.
Off topic but wow your farm is beautiful
Most of the numbers available are from 2019 or 2020, but they would have to go up quite a lot to be near where they were in 1980, 1990, or 2000.
I grew up in the south of the state but I remember them flying overhead when I was a kid now and again. Always stood out like a sore thumb, left a particular contrail too as I recall.
Interesting! I tried to write an Ogre game for my high school programming class in 1987. It was in Pascal, building and running on a TRS-80 Model 3. But it didn't have time to finish the display and interface, and I didn't even get to gameplay and AI.
Are you OP? Have you looked into a minisplit? You can install it through any wall. Some come with linesets long enough to run to an interior room.

It's what I use for my "server room."
No, it’s not a valid comp at all.

1. Those prices came only from certain resellers, majority Texans were not affected by this.

2. People ended up having to pay that. ERGOT said those prices were valid and people got fucked.

This happened because ERGOT temporarily remove a cap on prices to retain stability during shutdown, allowing certain entities to take advantage of this. In my opinion, while this was not against the law, it was criminal in nature.
Salesforce, Oracle, Workday, Microsoft
Exactly. Inventory loss is an expense just like any other of the company (cf. rent, utilities, labor, etc.). For those retailers operating on a thin profit margin, an increase in inventory loss expense affects profits just like an increase in rent, utility, or labor expenses.
You'll have to scroll down or change the sort (or both) as newer or larger quakes come in at the top of the left panel.
We had one guy, who completely isolated himself from the world for 6 months during Covid. Total 0 interaction - he even ordered groceries online and he would wait a few days before unpacking them.

Before Covid he was great. During the isolation he developed mental health issues. We tried to help, offered paid sick leave for a while, but eventually we couldn't help. He is unemployed for last few months. I meet with him sometimes, but he is still unfit to work. I can't think of something I could do now.
Thank you for the reply - this was one of the first things I did but it's actually fairly difficult to find an accountant or lawyer who's willing and qualified to discuss my particular situation. Would love for links if anyone has folks they can recommend! We do have a meeting with a financial planner at our credit union scheduled, I'll be interested to see what they say!
XML is bad for TinyVG as it is too large in several regards. XML kinda requires DOM parsing, XML is a text format (so inefficient encoding) and XML parsers need to be large so they can be called XML parsers.

All of these properties contradict a embedded world where you can render vector graphics from 32k RAM on a chip that doesn't even have enough memory for a framebuffer itself.

Also implementation complexity of XML is so high that i gave up on impementing a correct parser. I don't want to have a half-assed parser that cannot parse XML, but only "XML light" and making this is a huge amount of work which i don't want to waste in my leisure time
It happens all the time. You have to focus on what is best for you. There isn't an experienced developer on this site that hasn't had an offer that they walked away from even after they spent a lot of time and energy interviewing and negotiating with the company.

As someone who has interviewed lots of candidates it sucks to invest a lot of time into the process and think you have your candidate only to have to start over. Yet we all know that is the reality and I don't know anyone who has ever been upset or belittled someone for not taking our offer. The consensus is generally "good for them sucks for us, lets get back at it".
In Europe there is a huge number of open positions for the lowest end of qualifications: testers, junior developers, web designers etc, but a very small number for senior developers, architects. This correlates with salaries, jobs with entry level salaries are all over the place, but not the higher end. Again, this is in Europe.
The prices are in Danish crowns, and aren't that far away from the German ones, although some consideration should be made for the higher cost of living here.

Glass bottles, normal cans: 1kr = 13¢

Small plastic bottles: 1.5kr = 20¢

Large plastic bottles (≥ 1L): 3kr = 40¢

https://danskretursystem.dk/en/about-deposits/deposit-marks-...
> Absurd to think civil war is likely because a bunch of uncoordinated idiots followed the crowd.

Not a bunch of uncoordinated idiots, but multiple insubordinating military, and law enforcement units, with one general ready to subvert the primacy of civilian leadership.

This is way more scary than "a bunch of uncoordinated idiots."
I agree that there are problems that should be debated, solutions proposed, agreed on and implemented. What I disagree on are:

1. That a revolution would help the above process occur (namely solutions proposed/agreed on specifically). Just governance is about balance and this is incredibly hard to achieve in a vacuum if history is our guide.

2. That the problems are insurmountable. This depends on what insurmountable means. I mean that we can make progress on these issues over time using the framework of constitutional democracy. States as recently as 2018 [1] have moved towards ranked based voting.

3. That slavery is part of our constitution. 160 years ago they fought a bitter war that culminated in the outlaw of slavery. Are you arguing for reparations? That's very different from saying that slavery is baked into the constitution.

[1] https://www.maine.gov/sos/cec/elec/upcoming/rankedchoicefaq....
Everyone thinks they only care about their interests.

It's just that as they see it, it's not in their interest to do such things as admit they were ever wrong, and rarely in their interest to risk losing nebulous prestige from abandoning costly but disastrous policies, etc.
What happens if I want anchor a view to the bottom of the screen in a stack?

You can use Align for that.
Can you elaborate that and provide some sources on what a mesh gradient is?
It is submissions like this that keep me coming back to HN.

Even though I understand little of the OP, I understand more than last time, and have the hope to be able understand more in the future.

Thanks for the inspiration OP!
I experimented with adding this to the embedded system Toit. I wrote up the experience here https://medium.com/@erik_68861/trying-out-the-quite-ok-image... and also used it for this little demo on a 2 inch screen: https://twitter.com/erikcorry/status/1470023885026467848

It was pretty good, but in the end I don't think I'll be making it part of the graphics system. I would really like a bit of random access into the image without having to divide it up into multiple tiles. And the spec took a direction that didn't really suit me - i wanted to use it for Gui-like textures which have slabs of colours and anti-aliased edges with varying alpha. In the final version of the spec there's no way to code "the alpha changed, but the color is the same". without spending 5 bytes on a single pixel. Previously that took 2 bytes.

So I'm still looking for a format with:

* Very small amount of decode state (GIF's 16k is probably too much - PNG's 32k is certainly too much).

* Fast decode (these embedded chips are not as fast as desktops).

* Alpha channel (not just on-off like GIF)

* A bit of random access like the parallel PNG, but hopefully less bolted-on.
FYI-- if a user right clicks to "View Image" on an SVG, the new tab will run any scripts contained in the SVG.
What about performance? I assume a TinyVG decoder will be much faster than an SVG one.

I expected to see something related to performance in the benchmark[1] but it's only focused on file size.

[1] https://tinyvg.tech/benchmark.htm
I don't think the UK is really any special - for better or for worse, in this regard. It's probably company or even industry specific regardless of country.

My old company (bank) has a huge UK presence. They are adamantly anti-WFH whether you're in the US or UK or Asia, etc. My understanding is most banks and other financial services companies are likewise, and aren't a large number of UK SWEs working in finance?
I think you underestimate how many people like the socialising in the office if you have a relativly short commute.
I agree that the motivation is pretty confused. One of the straightforward goals is to be faster than PCG-64 or xoshiro256++ -- that seems reasonable.
Here's what it boils down to:

notifications = low probability

orange dot = 100%

The risk of an embarrassing notification got traded for the certainty of the orange dot.
I recently found out about this sad column repurposed in 608 AD as an honor to the Eastern Roman Emperor, Phocas.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Column_of_Phocas

The city had been sacked multiple times at that point and I suppose it was the best they could do.
Since we are planning on raising kids and are still fairly young I'm not sure we're quite at that point yet. If 2022 is a good year it might be in the cards to retire in the or at least have the freedom to work how we want and for meaning/purpose rather than money. :)
It is possible someone is trying to develop these commercially (likely, I'd guess) but if they're just observing natural mutation and reporting it I'm not sure there needs to be a timeline.

They have evolved, but there aren't a ton of them yet. It's not very surprising to me that this happened. Just consider how many times covid has mutated and then extrapolate out to how much genetic diversity is likely in play.

I do think if it were being done by humans in a lab intentionally even directed evolution would work this out in a few years. In the environment they're competing against other microbes that eat sugars and other easier to grow on stuff so I'd expect these to be a niche species.
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The point you're not addressing is that in practice, before this change, people usually had close enough to full control, except for maybe a <1% chance of something going wrong. The OS can, in principle, do anything, but in reality it usually doesn't. Whereas with this new orange dot, there is a 100% chance of it being there.

It's easy to imagine a pretty wide range of people for whom a tiny theoretical risk of the OS going crazy and showing some kind of notification even with notifications disabled is acceptable, but an orange dot that's 100% deterministically guaranteed to be there isn't.
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The tag thingy is an interesting idea, could you create a github issue on the specification repo for that?

=> https://github.com/TinyVG/specification/
Well, it doesn't suit the preferences of someone who wants "their team" back in the office most days. And it may also not suit the remotee whose team decides that if they're not back in the office just screw them.

But ultimately people who can do so will just have to find situations that work for them.
Jonathan Blow makes a bunch of great points about our simplified view of ancient people, versus the reality of their complex achievements which could only be brought about by lots of ingenuity and iterations.

https://youtu.be/pW-SOdj4Kkk
> the key difference is that the dev teams are the ones who are using the production management tools, not the sysops team.

That doesn't make your team a devops team. The devs are in fact the devops team. Engineer is ostensibly a better title so, because reasons, the engineers are just calling themselves engineers.

What you're doing is really internal tooling, dev tooling, infra, prod, those kind of team names.
I forgot to add that our office is not in San Francisco, so you can get decently priced apartment within walking distance to the office, without people injecting heroin at your front door and a good public transport.