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I'm fully in favor of shorter work days regardless of how many days one works. However, when forced to pick between the two options, I strongly prefer working 4 full days, which I have been doing for more than a decade.

It could be just me, but I find the value of stopping around 3-4pm versus 5-6pm to be pretty limited. You still have this feeling that the main part of the day is almost over and you can't do any substantial personal tasks or serious relaxing before the dinner ritual.

Also, when you're the exception in your team to leave early, you're effectively "disappointing" your team every single day that you work. Where others might have 4PM meetings, you're never available. This invites a feeling of guilt, where you start to make exceptions, and incidentally stay longer. Others are learning that your 4-6pm unavailability is quite soft. Further, every single morning you're behind in email and chat, needing to go through what happened late in the previous day whilst others are already up to speed.

With a real day off (4 day workweek), you have a full day to do something really substantial. Time feels plentiful rather than scarce.

A full day off is a barrier that is much easier to defend. You're just not available at all on that day, and work and expectations easily adapt to that.

Overall, I think the problem with modern office work is that it's far too collaborative. We've normalized being in meetings for half of the day and having hundreds of emails and chat messages to wade through, whilst the actual work takes a back seat.

If you'd have a clean and clear work package, you could do the work in that package at your convenience in whatever way fits best in your life. But we don't have that. We start the morning fresh with an idea of goals for the day in mind, and at the end of the day we did almost none of it. Everything changed throughout the day. Too many dependencies, too many moving parts. That's the real problem.
IIRC some lake users (especially sailors and paddlers) had “real” objections to it on the basis that it would create less usable lake easily accessible from downtown. Granted, it's a much smaller group than would benefit from the airport.

(I count myself in that group, but I was mildly pro-expansion on the basis of having less reasons to go to Pearson.)
Well that's certainly one way to overcome it.
I couldn't imagine why not. You just to to a ticket machine and buy it, no need for a passport or anything. Enjoy - Sylt is waiting for you, and you'll be there along with a million like-minded people!
That’s fascinating! Totally orthogonal: how does PG store data? Do they use columnar specifications such as Arrow & Parquet?
It will consume more energy, when they need more trains or train cars. Excluding the energy needed for devices and in the restaurant on board.

edit: clearified a sentence.
It's interesting to read comments like this because this sentiment has literally always existed. When I used Reddit in 2014 people used to say the exact same thing, yet nothing ever changed from my perspective. It was always bad.
I guess 4 day school days wouldn't be a bad idea either... of course the other day should be filled with something productive, which may or may not include "schooling" (learning) or "working" (as in creating, not paid/unpaid labor) or other form of activity.
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I love this feature but maybe only 80% of services I interact with support it. (https://support.google.com/a/users/answer/9308934)

I'm assuming it's NLP and parsing of the email body by Google.

My two questions are, is there a way to flag when this isn't working for a service? IE it doesn't work with popular train booking sites like omio.com

Secondly, if we are running our own business with calendar events, what would we need to do to make sure our own events are also parsed?
Denmark is doing a similar thing ...
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Physics degrees were the gateway into data science before there was such a thing as a data science degree. So it's possible that he works as a data scientist but was trained as a physicist.
Sources for claims? Genuinely curious.
Yeah definitely not little money. Here people travel to the country and buy tickets to large music festivals with the only purpose being collecting bottles and cans. While a calculated hourly pay would be bad compared to most salaries here, it still end up being much more than it is possible to make many other places.
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>and then give them UBI obviously

This has to happen first. Automation will put them out of work way faster than the UBI system will come online - and that is assuming the UBI system is not completely stonewalled to begin with.

As soon as we know the work is definitely automatable, we should start pushing for UBI. Once people who do not want to work leave the workforce, everything will get better.

I think people get so wrapped up in the concept of "free loaders" that they overlook how sandbagged our economy is by forcing those same people to engage with it.

We dont cull the weak anymore, which is fantastic, but they are still weak. We need to care for them and get them out of the way of people trying to accomplish things.
I watched the welcome vid to try working out if it's suitable for my pre-teen. The welcome vid is! Based on this, I suspect some of the content will go over their head, but I'm going to try them with it and see where we get. If it turns into a family project with me learning + teaching alongside my kid (or doing the bits they can't manage yet), that'd actually be a bonus.
Awesome! I might do some holiday travel :)
All of them in my country.
That TODO item is just the receipt for a few bytes of technical debt you took with the universe. A few bytes is nothing compared to Management's roadmap, so it gets ignored. But have no doubt: the universe always returns to claim its technical debt...
The market for post-consumer recycled plastic materials is arbitrarily close to zero. Plastic recyclables just go into a different landfill than regular waste.

The recyclable symbols on the things you buy are there to make you feel better about buying plastic products, not because there's an actual functioning recycle usage chain.

Edit added: According to the EPA data less than 9% of plastic put into recycling bins is actually re-used (and most of that re-use is of much cleaner and more uniform manufacturing waste, not actually post-consumer waste)[0]

[0]https://www.epa.gov/facts-and-figures-about-materials-waste-...
But wouldn't that also make the street more dangerous? Seems like there wouldn't be a net gain of safety.
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I am 100% sure anyone can buy it. And I am almost equally sure, anyone using it will not get fined.
The tickets aren't personalized (some regular monthly passes for public transport are/were though), so you should be fine. Since they aren't personalized and there is no way to check who the owner actually is, I would even expect them to be transferable.

Edit: looks like I was wrong -> see replies. You can also search for "9-Euro-Ticket übertragbar" (übertragbar = transferable) yourself to get a number of different German sources for that.
Sure they do.
https://www.popsci.com/seagull-garbage-eating-plastic-litter...
Soo, i could travel throughout Germany and Denmark for quite cheap?
In c++, the sort algorithm is polymorphic and inlined because it automatically generates those sort variants for you.

Op is not trying to say “the code as is” but “written in c++ style”.

I don’t think they misunderstood anything (and their beef with seemingly unprofiled use of always inline attribute is probably correct too)
Some context is given here: https://www.dw.com/en/germany-introduces-9-ticket-to-offset-...

The ticket is part of a support package signed off by the German parliament. The will pay approximately €2.5 billion for the ticket offer, as a response to rising energy prices and the resulting high costs of individual mobility.
Imagine something like this for the whole EU.
those 2 hours (actually 3+ since it's normal for 9+ hours over here) include everything from shops, sun, avoiding traffic and other things I didn't mention or think about. also allows you to plan your day differently, like working 12-6 instead of 9-3 for example. imagine waking up at 6am and only starting work at 12pm...
Ah, the Ol' Chug-a-Lug. I took the midnight train from Rome to Paris almost 15 years ago on sabbatical in Europe with my wife and largish dog. We had a sleeper car. It had a bit of Old World romance but I wouldn't say it was luxurious back then. 14 hours overnight. We were train noobs and didn't know more than a smattering of Italian so were quite confused when we found our compartment. Where were the beds?!?! After an hour sitting uncomfortably on a bench seat, the conductor arrived, schooched us aside, and pulled out two fully-made bunk beds hidden in the wall. He also impatiently demanded we let him take our passports for unknown reasons (Switzerland!). Compared to the wretched discomfort and inconvenience of contemporary, public, red-eye plane travel, it was preferable, and even charming. Would recommend.
Your only supposed to add stuff when it solves a problem
This isn't the argument. People vote with their wallets. If the corp makes recyclable glass bottles, customers will buy a competitors plastic ones. It is still mostly down to the customer to either buy something more sustainable or to recycle it at least.
According to the Japanese Ministry of Land, Industry, Transportation and Tourism, 29% of kyu-taishin buildings suffered major damage in the 1995 Great Hanshin earthquake, with 14% totally collapsing.

For post-1981 shin-taishin buildings, the rates were 8% and 3% respectively. Reducing your chances of damage by two thirds, or of collapse by nearly four fifths, is pretty substantial. https://resources.realestate.co.jp/living/are-you-prepared-f...
Well M1 has the advantage of going into an entirely known and optimized-for system.

Intel needs to go into multiple kinds of motherboards and work with billions of combinations of other hardware.

For Apple building M1 is a much more integrated approach which is why they can produce better performance. If they built a similarly general purpose chip as intel they would likely not produce something as good as M1 or current Intel.

M1 is less than 5% of than the total chip market, intel are obviously not doomed, intel/amd/arm is powering like the other 95% including billions of servers etc. that M1 will never compete in.

No consumer buying intel is suddenly going to not buy intel because it isn’t on par with M1, unless they were buying a mac anyway.
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I'm sure the private bus operators, who usually are the only cheap option to travel in Germany, are just thrilled by this additional market distortion.
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Germany has about 1000 railway locomotives operating 40k runs a day. A conductor job pays on average 50k€/yr. Most trains I've seen have more than one conductor, and you need to plan for weekends, shifts, time off, etc. but the lower bound should be easy to agree on 50M€/yr or 12.5M€ for the duration of the program? Then there is the entire infra to sell tickets online, in machines and in person.

At the same time there are about 2 million rail customers a day, so the 9€ ticket will bring 18M€. I'd say they probably break even.

Math is fun, but the entire point is a bit moot. Germany is a civilised country and if you laid off the entire staff for three summer months with no pay, the union would eat you for breakfast.
Interrail?
Yes, it would be a violation of EU law to restrict it.
I am not really familiar with assembly, I only tried it once, but a game in assembly seems a little too complicated!
No. It's paid for by the government and expected to cost around 2.5 billion EUR.

It's part of this: https://www.bundesfinanzministerium.de/Content/DE/Standardar...
I'm surprised that's economical. We did a three day sleeper train (Toronto to Saskatoon) about ten years ago and it was already enormously expensive, like 4 times the cost of flying. Presumably transporting a car is relatively simple compared to actual passengers since it just sits there and doesn't need a seat or meals or a washroom, or its bed turned down, or whatever else. But still, it's adding logistical complexity at both ends.
Yes, you are right, knowing the clock rate and duty cycle would be interesting to know. And knowing what the MCU is actually doing. Powering an MCU from a lemon or potato is nothing new and has been done with more than 30 year old MCU's, implementing clock's etc.

More challenging is probably to power a complete system, i.e. everything around the MCU, like driving Ethernet or WiFi or BT as well as some analog sensors and the like. Embedded MCU's do not require much and if you can spread out the computing needs over time, no big deal.

Look at Casio watches and the like which you can run for 10 years and they provide quite some features. It's okay as long as it is features that stay within the MCU/Display realm. Now, the watches which provide BT, GPS, different sensors etc kind of suck in this regard.
You don’t actually check any tickets, you just pretend that tickets will be checked at random, regularly. Put up signs to with heavy fines & travel bans for breaking the rules, run some fake newspaper stories of heavy enforcement etc. Make it socially embarrassing not to pay etc etc
> more sustainable, permanent offer

Seems pretty unlikely that they'll be able to after a 3 month period of operating at a loss (for the government) and likely having more issues due to increased usage.
This is because people don't want to make it work. It works in plenty of European countries.
and any vliw compiler worth it's salt would bundle the load, div/mul/alu, store into one instruction packet
There are – coke even sells them:

https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/productdetails/822719/coc...
Wild - that gets me barely a days worth of tube travel in london (6.5 EUR a day)
for me it was 30 minutes commute for only 2 days a week, usually at least one direction was carpooling with a coworker so beyond tolerable, even enjoyable at times. but more than 1 hour while driving x5 days would be a no-no for me.
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My job is easy, crisis-proof and generally fun, not to mention 6-7-hour workdays which many can only dream about (not a common thing to find at my location). I just hate getting up in mornings, having fixed time schedule and spending many days in a row working this way. But that's the standard almost everybody has to deal with. So I don't feel like changing the job. Perhaps I'm going to return to flexible-schedule gigs someday, that felt better except too insecure. I just hope the society is going to move to 4-day workweek. It's been so long since it last decreased the workweek length.

In fact I only share details about my sub-optimal perceived well-being because people tend to come up with useful suggestions of relevant supplements and practices. E.g. from my own experience I can say homemade kombucha can boost after-work evening well-being significantly (feels like some batches boost serotonin or something like that).
They seem to be working on that too[0]. In the article they mention both glass and plastic bottles. As far as I understand, reusable plastic bottles are more environment friendly than glass ones, because they require less resources to make and transport.

Note that the article title claims Coca Cola to be 'industry leading', but I do not think reusing plastic bottles is new? I remember returning plastic bottles to the supermarket back when I was a kid ~20 years ago, and I believe the higher quality plastic bottles were collected to be re-used not re-cycled.

[0] https://www.coca-colacompany.com/news/coca-cola-announces-in...
Im really curious to what extend this will affect how full/busy regional transit will be.

I also wonder what happens to the people who control tickets fulltime. Their job seems pretty pointless when almost everyone has the ticket.
A lot of trains this covers don't even have first class so they can save on those but I'm not convinced the savigns are all that big.
I'm extremely not excited about how insanely rammed the public transportation is going to be for the next three months

Already here in Hamburg the busses are not at all empty!
I’ve slept on the aligned bunks and I agree, the perpendicular berths are a relic of the compartment era. Also a better packing efficiency, e.g. the ones in Thailand:

https://gotothailand.com/thai-sleeper-trains/
> I can't seem to find information on whether it is possible to purchase the ticket as a non German citizen.

Biggest hurdle will be getting a Germany ticket machine to accept a regular credit card!

But otherwise, isn't discriminating based on nationality for good and services illegal?
When is there not a crisis? If you're running a train anyway, the marginal cost of attaching a couple more cars for the extra demand seems pretty small.
I knew plenty of kids who would still pull off the ones that are supposed to stay detached because of the "fuss" of having something near your mouth. I can see this happening with the new design, people won't want to drink with the cap next to their mouth.

It would probably cost more but the pull and click lids are better because you don't remove them, you just drink through them. Not sure if these work with soda though without killing all the gas.
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Thanks. Then I don't understand commenter's "helped the railway operators a good deal"
For comparison: The equivalent, non-subsidised "Quer durchs Land"-Ticket costs 42€ for one person per day (70€ for 5 people per day) -- https://www.bahn.de/angebot/regio/qdl
I can't remember an office in my past 15 years, where anything got done after 2 or 3pm. When I started WFH I optimized for my "peak times" and mostly blew off trying to do anything off-peak. MUCH happier now.
An excellent article and an interesting method that struck a chord with me. I've been on both sides of the student/instructor podium and it seems genius level and would work well. His final move (no spoilers) instantly generated a 'what a dick move' response however. 9/10
> The `inline` keyword usually isn't necessary anymore to get the compiler to inline stuff, the compiler has some pretty good heuristics for determining whether to inline a function call or not.

Not really. The heuristics are pretty much based on a rough idea of function size (e.g. if it believes the call overhead is larger than just inlining the function, it will generally always be done if optimization is on), and/or functions it can prove is used only once (e.g. because they are static). That's it. There's no good idea of e.g. “this looks like a tight loop, and if I inline, I can maybe special-case away this cruft here”. The programmer's hints are very much relevant even in 2022.
I'm on a slightly similar position and woke to a rude awakening when a few people in my company were layoff. Even though I'm not really afraid about my position in that company, that event really prompted me to look deeper into the financials of my company to try to understand why that happened.

I came to the similar conclusion that we see on NASDAQ, growth companies, i.e. dependent on debt, are struggling. But also, they seems to have been dancing all along at the edge of the blade, posting loses quarter over quarter, burning through cash and pilling on debt.

So with that on mind I decided that, not only based on the market, but on my personal concept of a healthy business, I didn't wanted to be part of such company. I have no doubt that the company I work at will get through this but I don't really want to stick around either way. So, I see the rescission more as a shaking and it has showed me things that I wasn't aware of before.

I'm currently talking to a couple of companies and the criteria is established companies that are posting profits, lean towards the "boring" side of "things are working and we just need to keep up" instead of "ready to revolutionize X industry with Y product".

The market for hiring is still really hot judging by the emails from recruiters that I've received over the past few days after my company's layoff came to light (~40-50 in a week) so is not a terrible time to explore options and find some place that you feel comfortable at

The comments in this post [0] where super helpful for me. TLDR; cash is king.

[0] <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31386994>.
Very important caveat for all of you who are thinking, “woo hoo, no need to buy that EuRail pass! Or to buy an expensive ICE ticket!”

These tickets are good for all “Nah- und Regionalverkehr,” explicitly excluding ICE, IC, EC (international) and long-distance busses (like the one between Munich and Zürich)

If the train number begins with RE or RB, you’re good, but of course, those are the slow ones that stop in every village along the way.

This is for the benefit of people who live here and are struggling with 2 EUR/liter fuel, not the kind of people who blithely paid 60 EUR to take the ICE. There does not appear to be any residency requirement, but remember, you’re not the target market for this (unless you live here and are struggling with fuel prices…)
Another pro is that it's often possible to beat the performance of said compilers in places where that matters if you're willing to put enough time into it.
It's also an experiment. They need to know how people react and change their behavior with this cheap ticket. And they still need to check tickets anyway. And the price also serves as a kind of barrier to animate people to at least thing a moment, whether they really need the ticket and can "waste" the monety for it.
They also can get these devices. You may have heard that.
You are making a strawman.

Ask meteorologists about their models and they will honestly tell you the limitations of such models and the success rate at predicting the weather. They have little incentive to lie.

It will be difficult to find meteorologists with clear "anti snow" or "pro rain" biases.

Same goes for getting a blood check: they are not 100% reliable, yet it's difficult to find a lab with an ideological bias skewing the results.

Then, ask economists and you'll quickly find out that their predictions and advice on economic policies aligns with the school of though they belong to.

Politicians routinely ask for advice from this or that economist depending on what they want to hear.
A lot of regional lines are already at max capacity in terms of rolling stock and track capacity. This will incentivise less car use for journeys where direct connections are available.

It will also give access to public transport to those in extreme poverty who have no other means of mobility, whom Germany has been prosecuting as criminals and putting in jail when their fines add up enough. Speeding and parking offenses are civil offenses. Public transport without a ticket? Felony.
> You will still want an Uber after 5pm, or a shop or restaurant to be open on a public holiday.

No one says this change doesn't apply to people in those industries or in shift work. You have to remember that the idea is more to reduce work from 40 hours per week to something like 32 hours per week (30 in OP's case).

In this case, you can still have restaurants open late, it would just mean the schedule would be shorter for all staff.

> But all of these initiatives are focused on the wealthier office workers and sometimes factory/shift workers who are non-customer facing. But it totally ignores the service industry which is a huge part of our society (and arguably even more so if we end up working less!).

The service industry could make up for the lack of coverage by hiring another person. Giving jobs to more people.

I do believe that the question of having a livable wage (supplemented or not by UBI) is a separate issue that should not impede giving people their time back.