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I would love for companies to spend money on desktops and permanent work spaces - at home and / or at the office.

But they don't want to do that, because leaving hardware at the office translates to much higher insurance costs and makes them a bigger target for theft.

But like, 32 core, 64-128GB workstation with all the ports and storage you'll ever need is very possible and attainable on a fixed workspace, along with 4K 120Hz matte color-calibrated displays and the best keyboards money can buy.

Laptops are an unfortunate compromise. I get it, and I can work with it, but I'd rather have a desktop.
>have its cake and eat it too

whenever i have cake, i tend to eat it also?
>What people are obsessed with is the idea that someone's "good at" something as an inherent trait, as opposed to skill being learnable and, therefore, transferable

I use to coach high school policy debate in a major metropolitan public high school and the level of "I can't do this, I'm just not good at this" that shows up the minute kids encounter difficulty/obstacles, and specifically in non-physical labor, is mind-blowing.

We tell children "anything is attainable if you put your mind to it" then turn around and imply to children through our actions, cause they're good at reading those, that some people have "it" and most don't, e.g. sequestering the smart kids into completely different tracks from the regular kids; math teachers demonstrating disappointment that a student doesn't understand something while praising the kid who grasps it much quicker.

What's striking to me is that social media, and specifically IG culture, has made strides in tearing at this contradiction in the domain of personal appearance, e.g. not only weight loss/fitness transformation but even the celebration of 'confidence is all you need' for women with more robust bodies. But in the final analysis, I find physical accomplishment in our culture to still be a distinct domain from mental accomplishment.
Maybe corporations just want to sell their products, and governments help them if they think it benefits the people. Like maybe the government noticed rents are high in the city, so they thought with cars people could afford nice homes in the countryside?

Even if that reasoning might have been wrong in the end, it just seems off to attribute everything to nefarious motives. It's the whole language - conspiring instead of cooperating, for example.
Seeing that he is one of the most popular indy app developers, I assure you he isn’t happy with Apple’s App Store policies.

https://marco.org/2021/06/03/developer-relations
Same, the inactivity makes me nervous especially since they had such a big rebranding over a year ago -- makes me wonder where their priorities are. Fortunately, I'm glad I moved all my e-mailing to domains I owned to make moving easier in the future.
The big takeaway in this post is this section

> I will always optimize career decisions based on a position's potential to improve my ability as a developer. I will optimize for this over title, benefits, and pay. I believed that working at Shopify would make me a better frontend developer.

Having spent the early part of my career working at small startups, I once took a job at a big, well known but not FAANG company with similar expectations of improving my skills and was similarly disappointed in a major way.

Shopify is (or at least was) going through a massive hiring boom. Companies experiencing this kind of rapid growth are rarely a good place to hone your skills. Funnily enough some of my coworkers from that same disappointing BigCo ended up there.

If you want to enhance your skills it's better to work on smaller team, ideally in a less rapid growth environment, where all the members of the team have some serious dev experience (look for teams that have a few people that are active in OSS). Good software/problem solving simply doesn't happen in a rapid growth environment where you are rushing to meet some quarterly KPI and recruiting is working to bring in as many devs as possible as fast as possible.

Software is always messy so people that only work on small teams tend to think "this code is a mess, I bet it's not like this at a real company!" only to find that most larger companies are even worse, use more legacy tools, and have byzantine systems that are perpetually feel ready to collapse, and on average have less talented developers (it is incredibly easy to hide in a larger company).
It’s not unusual at all. It would actually be more strange in 2022 if a tech company was trying to micromanage every hour of every day of each tech employee.
C++ is not obsolete, but it is not a language I would ever want to write anything in for any period of time longer than a month. Not for a lack of trying both in and out of Qt and several combinations of the technology. QML with a little C++ was bearable for a while until it wasn't between the runtime not being Node, the lack of TypeScript integration, Qt designer crashing multiple times a day, the UI designer rendering nonsense, and still having to deal with C++ and its ecosystem.

The closest thing to something acceptable for non-trivial projects using Qt that I found was NodeGui. But as soon as I realized I had to make some very verbose C++ bindings to qtmultimedia all the energy for the project went away. If this one attempt with Gtk4 fails I might come back to that since it looks like it has matured since then.
"Being a minicab firm" is a business model.

It is not a multi billion pound wave of the future business model.

Self driving cars doesn't help them in any way.
Happily!

- PHP gets you all the way from typeless prototype code to prove an idea, to expressive, runtime-enforced type checks that you can run in production.

- PHP doesn't require static compilation, but can be configured to compile to efficient Opcodes on the first run, making it competitive with Java/Kotlin/whatever speed-wise.

- PHP handles HTTP requests statelessly, starting with a blank slate in extremely short boostrap time. This pretty much eliminates memory leaks for common work loads. This execution model is very simple to reason about, and the major edge, I would argue.

- PHP has an exhaustive ecosystem with a great package manager. All code is namespaced, fetched directly from the source repository (eliminating several security concerns), and usually of high quality. Common frameworks are mature, solidly built, and feature-rich.

- PHP can also be used for other workloads outside of web applications: I've built a realtime message processing system handling thousands of messages per second, spread out across a dynamically scaling number of worker threads. It still happily processes messages as far as I know, and if you've ever received a business communication via messaging apps, chances are it was sent by my system.

All of these things make PHP an excellent choice for a wide range of projects, even compared to statically compiled languages, which you seem so keen to compare a dynamically interpreted language to.
There's a saying something like "people don't leave bad jobs, they leave bad bosses" that can be extrapolated a bit. Work can be very positive and rewarding, or it can be negative and abusive. Everyone's experience is different; sometimes I feel that the fact r/antiwork has attained such saliency is maybe a sign that there's too much of the latter experience and not enough of the former.
Just like they cannot affort to use their OS to push Edge? Doesn't seem to be stopping them.
They're made of ABS, which doesn't begin to soften until a bit over the boiling point of water (~104-105 C). It's a bit close to risk it, but even the hot cycle might be fine as long as it doesn't go much past boiling off the water.

Definitely avoid cleaning with acetone though; that'll turn it into goo.
I still think they could have been improved by thinking about what the call to action is supposed to be, other than just being inspired. It's like, okay, you got people's attention. What are you going to do with it?
Fair point, but even in an abusive relationship the solution is to take on responsibility and get out of the relationship, not whine until somebody frees you from it.

With regard to cars, bicycles already exist. I personally have never owned a car in my life.
Yes, I don't fly as much as I could nor do I drive. I do agree with jstx1 however in that the main responsibility for reducing emissions lies on governments and global corporations, not on individual consumers. By yourself you just can't make an impact. It has to happen on the political level.
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I have no interest in Tether ...

Pitiful excuse. Tether should interest you in the same way (and for the same reason) the Federal Reserve does.

It is involved in more than half of all crypto trades and provides much of what passes for stability in the crypto marketplace. And Tether is based on debt-is-now-money --- only worse because the debit is unsecured IOUs at best and at worst may be totally non-existent.

The fact that no one really knows if Tether is backed at all, yet it easily maintains it's 1 USD peg points to possible/likely widespread collusion and fraud.
I think they all went to r/workReform after that

Look the media is not your friend, for any movement, for any media left or right biased, you are clickbait to whatever they can hype you into for their own profit.

But going on Fox believing you will accomplish anything but arm the idiots is just lack of critical thinking skills.
That's Cory's whole schtick - he critiques big corps. I follow him a bit and most times his analysis is good and other times he dismisses things that don't fit in his ideological viewpoint.
Anyone who dislikes their job enough to slack off at home will likewise find ways to slack off in an office. You think the stereotype of people wandering the hallways, bugging people over cube walls is anything other than the office equivalent of Netflix?

Sit in a conference room with some team members, and you guys can just chat all day. Take long lunches. Go really slow back and forth to the bathroom. Get snacks from the kitchen. If you are in a big office, just walk laps around every floor. And definitely take the longest path to any destination.

Or there are even ways to waste massive time while being "productive" - every time a question arises, be the guy to handle it - by walking to the desk of everyone involved, making yourself the middle-man of all communications. You can kill 3 hours getting to the bottom of a problem that would have taken 10 minutes with some emails. And get office kudos for "taking ownership of problems".

This idea that offices enforce discipline is woefully uncreative.
Genuinely curious: Has anyone here personally experienced a <20 year old doing real engineering with the modern "studless" technical Legos? You can find truly awesome contraptions on Youtube, sure. But has anyone seen it first hand?

The old "build from the bottom" Lego Technic was just so inviting for technical tinkering. We built all kinds of machinery out of them. Not kids any more on this occasion; we dug out the Legos from the late 1970s to play with them just for fun once we were grown up. But representative.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw3dUbRfMSw

The "What it is, is beautiful" aesthetic. Who cares what colour a piece is; it's the shape that matters.

In this respect, Lego has changed. Sure you can still get buckets of basic parts to build with, but the Technic sets of easy-to-engineer-with parts, with lots of the studded beams and the ever so handy 40 tooth gears have gone away.
For what it's worth, English is my native language and I was unfamiliar with the term. I couldn't figure out the definition without more context either.
This looks promising if it scales up well it could make a big difference but if there's limits to the scale of it then I imagine it won't be adopted widely.

I think the goal of any such carbon capture technology should be to be as cheap as possible so as to gain wide adoption in areas that have a carbon tax system. If the carbon capture tech is cheaper than the carbon taxes in those, that will become its own incentive for businesses to change and economies of scale could help to drive costs down further, potentially doing the rare thing of rewarding early adopters the most.
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> OK, but Steam has a near-monopoly on games,

Playstation, XBox and Nintendo all want a word with you first.

After that Fortnite and PUBG developers are waiting.

> Spotify has a near-monopoly on music,

ITunes wants a word with you too it seems.

> and both of these are working great for me as a consumer.

Good. That is because both Valve and Spotify know how vulnerable they are.

> Netflix had a monopoly, but now not, and it's shit.

Unlike Spotify they weren't humble.

They abused customers by enforcing the dumb rules of the film industry.

I'd almost say good riddance to them but it's not in me to enjoy others misfortune.
I stock up on Apple gift cards when they're 20% off at Costco. I'll buy $200-$300 and add it all into my account.

So I'm getting 20% off all purchases, effectively, until the credit runs out.
I play videogames and I haven't been inside a game store in 5 years.
Absolutely noone was shocked GameStop business is dying.

Don't get me wrong I'm as nostalgic of browsing walls of videogames as the next 30+ year old gamer but nostalgia rarely makes money.
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Warzone is weird. I can't understand why speedhacks, 'silent aim' (you can shoot in a direction different from your view angle) or flying cars are even a thing.

This was impossible in Q3A (1998) without introducing an input lag thanks to client side prediction. Server also didn't send you updates on other clients that are too far away, behind a hill - you'd pretty much only receive positions of those you could see, hear or that could see you. In Warzone, you can see everyone on the map with a wallhack.

I really wonder why the game is designed this way. I guess it might be to limit required computation power of the servers? They still do stuff like hit detection, so server surely has some idea of the physics.

On top of all that, this stuff is possible even today, months or even years after such exploits being widely known. They do have a kernel-level AC driver, but they don't even seem to detect trivial hacks from the server-side.
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Here's Doreen's website. A lot of early posts on the sub were from here: https://abolishwork.com/about/

They use a specific definition of work, so they maybe aren't necessarily anti-work in the way you are thinking.
Laminas is Zend rebranding :)
Your comment:

> It's against the rule to say that you did not read the article, so I won't say it, but:

>> In the modern world optics are EVERYTHING and that cannot be understated. Imho the first thing they need to change (which they have with their move to the new subreddit) is renaming it from r/AntiWork to r/WorkReform.

> /r/WorkReform exists already.

Could have been shortened to

>> In the modern world optics are EVERYTHING and that cannot be understated. Imho the first thing they need to change (which they have with their move to the new subreddit) is renaming it from r/AntiWork to r/WorkReform.

> /r/WorkReform exists already.

And it would have been better.
"Defund" can be a relative term that doesn't necessarily mean to fully remove funding. E.g. we've had decades of hyperbole where relatively small cuts to defense funding are referred to by opponents as "defunding" US troops.

We spend a whole lot on policing compared to most other developed nations, and we're not getting terrific outcomes either on civil liberties or crime rates. It might be time to take a different approach where we spend a lot less on direct policing, and redeploy a lot of those resources to fight crime in other ways.

The developed countries that spend more or similar amounts tend to do it by spending on more highly trained officers than we do.

On the other hand, maybe we're just so socioculturally fucked that it requires massive authoritarian investment to keep a crummy level of peace. I'm undecided.
Once you eat the cake, you can no longer possess it

EDIT:

Let me make it more clear, as English may not be your first language, if you're asking this question in truth (I sometimes miss sarcasm online, sorry).

Cakes can be beautiful things which people (of a certain time period, especially) wanted to show off as a sign of their wealth, as refined sugar was expensive. Once it was eaten, you could no longer display such wasteful extravagance.
People _do_ care deeply for the planet. Climate change policies are widely popular, despite what the media might tell you.

https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2020/06/23/two-thirds-of...

However, our political and capital power to do anything about it has been systematically and purposefully limited.

When we discovered the dangers of CFCs, we didn’t depend on the public at large to stop using items that produced CFC byproducts. We didn’t point to personal CFC footprints and little CFC calculators that guilt trip you for existing. Why should we do the same with CO2?
Is it surprising that it isn't? To operate a car in the US, not only do you have to pay for vehicle registration fees, you also have to pay drivers license renewal fees and fuel surcharges.
2020 was marked by a 10x increase in comment volume, largely coming from both incredible, pandemic driven, market volatility as well as stimulus checks and stay at home orders.

It is very unlikely (I hope) that this environment will happen again.

Nonetheless, can you express exactly what it is that "just [isn't] the same anymore"?
Considering Facebook directly lied about the acquisition of Whatsapp I imagine an antitrust lawsuit coming their way which forces them to divest that property
> i could get $100k freelance contract only after 1 meeting and bit of paperwork, but tech bros won't accept me cause i don't do puzzles

I’ve hired both contractors and employees.

Contractors almost always arrive with more of a verifiable portfolio and verifiable references.

Contractors are also much easier to cut off early if we realize they aren’t delivering. A $100K contract could end up being cheaper than the amount of money we waste on a bad hire from start to finish by a factor of 2X.

The bar for hiring full-time employees is higher than contractors.
If you want to detect obvious cheating behavior shouldn't you train the recognition software on cheating behavior not elite players?
This is a really well-written and insightful piece, and makes a lot of sense of the dynamics and personalities of fringe SRs.

Pure gold:

You’ve come across the gentrifiers before, I’m sure. They browse the front page of reddit and the trending tab of YouTube, buy Ruth Bader Ginsberg figurines and wear Che Guevara T-shirts. They vote for Bernie in the primaries and Biden in the general, first outraged that anyone could want Biden and then outraged that anyone could not. They share articles about how the 2020 BLM protests were overwhelmingly peaceful and then hop online to cheer “ACAB” and “F — — capitalism” graffiti and pictures of burning police precincts. They shout “Defund the Police” while angrily asserting that nobody wants to abolish the police. They manage to boldly stand at once for every fashionable cause and against every unfashionable cause, embracing the aesthetics of radicalism while denying complicity or knowledge whenever that radicalism gets too real. And /r/antiwork was the perfect community for them to turn into a cause celebre.
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At this point, Valve has yet to disappoint me. Even their failures, like the Steam Controller, were amazing pieces of tech. The Steam Deck is no exception. It's exactly what I've been wanting: a SFFPC that doubles as a portable gaming console with Linux natively installed. Bravo Steam!
My family purchased our first PC the summer of '97. It took me 6 weeks to go from Packard Bell Navigator to discovering MAME and other emulators.

I miss those early internet days, when finding new things online seemed magical.
It's just to stem any bleeding while they appeal.
> And as developers, we accept that we need to make sure we check that documentation before upgrading

Not everyone does. I think I've read a couple times how people commented that Python2->3 was the worst decision made by Guido. (I'm personally grateful that Py3 makes unicode default and more sane than Py2)

With every compatibility breaking release, you run the risk of splitting the language into two. Perl suffered that fate (though not only for that reason), and Python almost did (Py2 is still used in so many places 14 years after Py3 was released in 2008).
Poll: How ethical is your work?
How moral / ethical / good for the world is your work? If you're doing something very good, what is it?
Very positive ethically
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Neutral ethically
Slightly negative ethically
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Communism isn't really about "free shit", though. The slogan is "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" -- not that you get to sit on your butt and somehow everything still works out. You're still very much expected to work, in fact if you have any ability it's probably illegal for you not to.

Now whether communism actually works or not is another matter, but I don't really see where you get the "free shit" angle.
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All recent MBPs have this, and these are known for their fantastic screens. Nothing Windows (nor Linux) comes close to it. But of course, you are entitled to your informed opinion. Please share with us, which specific laptop screens you prefer.
There's also a lot of overlap between these jobs and ones that were essential to keep society running during various lockdowns, so the value these jobs provide doesn't seem to be reflected in the remuneration.

What I don't understand is why many see it as acceptable for any business to pay less than a living wage under any circumstance, it's just a roundabout way of making taxpayers pay for a businesses labour force
You did say it implicitly. Dont understand your point about the underlying cause. If a homeless person is peeing on a subway and you keep them off subways. the problem IS solved.
> Removing damn near all city parking spaces. Regulating away even more. There is still some parking in garages and private lots but it is $$$$.

The key thing to understand here is that the parking wasn't cheap before and it didn't get expensive suddenly when it was subject to market conditions. It was always expensive, but government was subsidizing your car-centric lifestyle. Now it's not and the true price of that lifestyle has been revealed to you.
I disagree with this, at least as a blanket statement. Plenty of workplaces are a deeply negative factor in people's lives.

If what you're saying is really more along the lines of "having a project and way to spend the time is a net positive", then I completely agree, but I don't think that has to be tightly coupled to work (as in employment) per se.
If you subscribe to a subreddit literally called antiwork that clearly states its ideology in its sidebar, you shouldn't be surprised by Doreen celebrating laziness as a virtue. Just like with politicians, just because your representative is a disliked doesn't mean that they aren't your legitimate one.