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>it feels like decisions about office placement are made with things like management or prestige in mind

Our company made that management focus explicit - our main office is on the Peninsula and before COVID hit we opened an east bay (Pleasanton) office, which happened to be close to the homes of the CEO, CFO and a couple other C-level execs.

Employees that lived in the East bay thought "Great! We can go to that office and avoid that long cross-bay commute", but no, "Finance and Marketing are moving to the East Bay Office along with senior leadership, it is not available for drop-in by other employees". Which didn't please a lot of people that had organized their life around the Peninsula commute and now have to go to the East Bay
It's even easier than that - there are even saliva tests:

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its probably part of a pipeline to make a reliably isolated and scared voting base that will always vote to give big brother more power because they don’t know how to socialize so they are more susceptible to propaganda
Sure, but leaving your company would be the same. If you can't afford it, well, yeah, it's not an option.
Neat tool and a fine introduction to doing very basic things with ffmpeg.
A tool I'd find interesting and useful is one that lets me graphically do everything with the advanced filter graph that can be done with the commandline, in an easy and intuitive way (spoiler alert: extremely hard to impossible task)
It shouldn't be a situation where the firefighters just watch the place burn down but the owners made the decision not to pay. A compromise should be for the owners to pay a very large fee if the fire department has to put out a fire. Even if they have to show up. It should be large enough so people will prefer to pay the fee. Otherwise it's impossible to have a fire department in the first place. And then everyone's home is at risk of burning down. Ultimately the fire department did what they need to do to keep the fire department available for all.
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> That being said, as much as I'm not a fan of this at all, it is good to see that the execs are included (or at least the email was sent to them, so I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt). Often the people at the top who are pushing for these policies don't apply the same to themselves.

I don't agree.

Speaking as a manager, management are the usually the ones who want to be in the office because our jobs require so much communication and human interaction. Given the choice, of course I'd want to have my days and days of endless meetings in a shared space where I can read body language and so forth!

It's the ICs that don't want to commute, and I completely understand that! When your job is 50-60% heads down focus work (as opposed to myself, where I'd bet it's 20% at best), going to the office kinda sucks.

So there's nothing terribly heroic about requiring execs to come in. In fact, a huge part of the reason there's a fight about remote work is because management and ICs fundamentally have a different experience of work and want/need different things.
And that's how you get less informed private persons (ie. the public, ie. the "economy") over-leveraged on real-estate or junky assets holding the bag.
They are master quality violins for the time period and they pretty much set the standard for modern violins.

If they were being made today they would be considered very good quality violins and fetch in the $10,000+ range or more most likely, especially considering the location they are made in, the materials, and the methods employed to build them.
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> * There are more subsidies for the poor. It sounds funny to type, but the $250k families might have a harder time to make ends meet than the $60k ones. Childcare being a big example. This is specific to a HCOL city like NYC where subsidized child care starts at 6 weeks old, but a $250k family will probably be spending $3k+ per child per month

Yeah it sounds funny to type because it's not true
FWIW we’ve been using ffmpeg-wasm on one of our products [0] for a couple months and the main issue is garbage collection. You’re limited to 4GB memory, but if you don’t kill and restart the workers every N operations it crashes the browser tab (even with proper unlinking of files in the virtual FS).

I suspect you could still make it work with clever usage of the File System Access API as a cache, and process larger files in chunks. Then you’d mostly be limited by the Blob storage limits [1], and memory required to merge processed chunks together.

[0] https://nft-inator.com/app

[1] https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/224e43ce1ca...
There was a full 100 key keyboard with LCD keys made in 2007. It they were still available I would buy one myself

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimus_Maximus_keyboard
K8S is not easy.

It helps standardize:
- deployments of containers
- health checks
- cron jobs
- load balancing

What is the "old way" of doing things?

Is it same/similar across teams within and outside your organization.

If not, what would it cost to build consensus and shared understanding?

How would you build this consensus outside your organization?

For small organizations, one should do whatever makes them productive.

However, as soon as you need to standardize across teams and projects, you can either build your own standards and tooling or use something like K8S.

Once you have K8S, the extensibility feature kicks in to address issues such as:
- Encrypted comms between pods
- Rotating short lived certificates

I don't love K8S.

However, if not K8S then, what alternative should we consider to build consensus and a shared understanding?
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More like everything can become a bubble. I think many have started using "ponzi scheme" to reference bubbles that appear to be crafted or manipulated by bad actors.
>I think the drive for a household to become dual income was probably the HCOL and not vice-versa.

I'm not sure that's correct. I don't have the statistics off hand, but I believe the average home prices were much smaller multiples of household income when most households had a single income.
> go deeper into cooperation with car manufacturers to provide builtin navigation in cars.

I feel like this is a dying market as well. Why would I pay $200/year to update the maps in my car's mediocre navigation system when I can just turn on Apple CarPlay/Android Auto and get the same excellent navigation system I enjoy on my smartphone?
> how companies become corporations

Aren't all companies corporations?
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Sure there’s overlap, and DisplayPort could mostly do what HDMI could do for the past 10 years (apart from minor differences where one standard eg supported 4K a but earlier).

Nevertheless HDMI stayed the main interface in the TV/Entertainment world. So I doubt this will change anytime soon
In my late thirties, I noticed a decline in my problem solving ability.

However, I began to exercise more, and get good sleep, and also worked on problems that were more interesting to me, and I found that not only did my problem solving ability not decline when compared to my younger self, it was actually better since I could bring years of knowledge and experience to bear on the problems.

Sometimes, there is a lot of fatalism about growing older, however, if you can take of your body, you can find you are often better than you were at a younger age.
I think this Kelsey Hightower quote has summarized my experience working with Kubernetes:

> Kubernetes is a platform for building platforms. It's a better place to start; not the endgame.

https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/93525292372179353...

Everywhere I've worked, having developers use and develop Kubernetes directly has been really challenging -- there's a lot of extra concepts, config files, and infrastructure you have to manage to do something basic, so Infra teams spend a lot of resources developing frameworks to reduce developer workloads.

The benefits of Kubernetes for scalability and fault tolerance are definitely worth the cost for growing companies, but it requires a lot of effort, and it's easy to get wrong.

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Such a non article without any details and filler sentences. Nothing of substance here, turn around HN’ers.
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Not op, but I did use Handbrake multiple times, and thinking of just going back to cli ffmpeg. I wanted to see the exact incantation of ffmpeg that Handbrake issues to more easily switch, but from what I saw it doesn't fork into an ffmpeg process but probably uses the library, and it's hard to tell what the exact params are.

My problem with Handbrake was that it wasn't correctly copying creation datetime/makernotes/camera info into the new video and I had to manually later on issue bunch of ffmpeg commands for copying stream metadata, at which point I might as well do the whole conversion directly in ffmpeg.
For a lot of people, their companies don't pay for a gym membership or don't have an office gym, and if the gym is part of their lifestyle not working from home means needing a gym membership in the city near the office.

The logic is pretty simple, if you are going to be stuck in rush hour commute home for 2 hours or you can walk to a city gym and work out for an hour, then jump into your commute and be home in an hour and 45 minutes, so it costs you 45 minutes of total time for 1 hour of gym time + you arrive home to take a shower and get ready for the evening vs trying to work out after the drain of a commute.

Meanwhile if you work from home, you can afford the space to have a home gym that you can use whenever you have time and don't need the drain of the commute at all, because you live farther from the city.
>> I'm a business owner myself

>Ah, there you go.

Ah, there you go to you as well.
If you target the spam business model, it won't route around it.

But yeah, a healthy set of search engines will get us better results.
mdfind is a built-in terminal command that finds stuff. No need to spend $6
I remember TomTom being a lot better than the competition, though. Most other units were terribly slow and sometimes borderline unusable. Not to mention the updates... not software updates, but the map updates. I still remember my parents, with the help of my siblings, spending weeks trying update their cheap Chinese GPS using instructions from random internet forums, only to give up and get a more expensive TomTom unit. The Chinese unit was given away at a Facebook group to someone more adventurous.

Of course, mobile apps have definitely caught up years ago, and I believe you that they're even better now.
Android Auto is crap. It only works with Google apps and some third party media players, when it starts. I gave up on it a long time ago.
The exception makes the rule. If you're truly working a job where you only advance by leaving, then you likely aren't in a position where you can advance at all. Or you are in such a job, but you've neglected the value of visibility to your career growth (PSA: this is far too common amongst programmers).

It certainly happens, but it's not a counterargument to what I'm saying.
Are children of immunocompromised caregivers doing all of those activities?

Unlikely, since it could kill said caregivers.

> And protecting the teachers and staff isn't a justified reason either because the vast majority of them are removing the masks when they leave the school also.

That implies they’re removing their masks and being unsafe. Citation needed.
My car's built-in navigation can do things Apple CarPlay can't, like HUD, dashboard mapping, dead-reckoning navigation in tunnels, fuel management, etc.
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I am 25 and i have a course that routinely makes me feel likr a moron and i might fail it even though i am actively trying really hard for it :(

It feels that over the past year i lost my edge. I am overwhelmed and tired.
> Would this allow you to mark a "class" (or individual members of that class) as "hot, please monomorphize" by making it always_inline, or "cold, please use regular pointers" by omitting always_inline?

From my understanding of the technique, this is correct.
In America, yea. I think the issues we face with other American cities, like Columbus, or Austin, or Nashville, etc. is that they're not built like small cities - in that they try to be a New York City, when they should instead model after Copenhagen or perhaps Amsterdam.
> There is no way to statically guarantee that the method isn’t called twice, that’s up to the user.

Couldn't this be solved by giving the user a dummy object that isn't Clone and that the method takes ownership of?
And yet there are a bunch of Japanese instruments that are made from Paulownia which is one of the fastest growing trees around, and not dense at all.
Tell me more please. There’s always something new to learn.
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This is funny for me since I was in Maps in 2010-2011, and "fake locksmith addresses" were a problem even then.
that seems crazy low?
I had a dip at one time. Solutions attempted (linearly in path):

- Adderall: task execution increased, but general success did not

- Caffeine: same as above

- Spend more time with all friends, weighted higher for closest: Positive pleasant experience. Work performance did not improve

- Better Sleep Timing: Mood improved, but general success did not

- Sleep Tracking: Watch revealed low pulse ox. Sleep Apnea tracking device did not. However, deviated septum and enlarged turbinates. Intervention (anti-allergy meds period of use not over and surgery I did not follow up on)/

- Exercising regularly: Got addicted to this (1x Barry's a day for 60 days, my weight lifting numbers at end - I already knew how - 375 lb DL, 275 lb back squat, 225 lb front squat, 175 lb bench [lame], 135 lb C&J, 105 lb snatch). Work outcome dropped - I'd rather hit the next PR than submit a PR, if you will

- Diet modification: Attempted zero-sugar, attempted high-greens+high-meat, attempted ice-cream-only (no significant change except lost weight), attempted take-out-only (gained time, but wasted the gained time)

- Switched job: Quitting had the best outcome on mental health. Performance did not spike at new job.

- Switched out of remote to in-office: Massive improvement in mental health and performance.

I can't guess at what your experience is, but this is a summary of my raw experience. For background info, I am in my 30s, live in San Francisco, and I am fortunate to have lots of friends across backgrounds and genders to whom I am as important as they are to me - this part was important since it provided a base level of self-esteem through their support. Completely normative otherwise.
We have a number of those rooms and a greater number of one or 2 person "phone rooms", even now without everyone back in the office, those are fully booked at some times. It was a big problem before COVID too -- we'd usually do 1:1 meetings outside because it was easier than trying to find a conference room -- you'd have to find an open spot in each person's schedule and an open room at the same time, which was hard to get.
Working 40 hours a week is not a 'lifestyle business'. It's a limit imposed by law in a lot of the civilised world and exceptions to it are rare in every company I've ever worked at (inc. successful/exited startups). You don't have employees working more than 40 hours a week because you're working on a super hard problem and changing the world. You do it because you've convinced them of that bullshit and you want to minimise staff costs.
They stopped using TomTom in the US in 2020: https://www.wired.com/story/apple-maps-redesign/
According to another comment here, display port is OSS! Ive always liked it more anyways since it has like 2x the bandwidth IIRC, like 80Gbps. So almost any displayport 2.0 cable/connector pair can do fast refresh rates at high res. In contrast HDMI is confusing with weird versioning numbers.
I'm not the exception, I'm the rule.
You can’t measure how useful someone’s research is. That’s what drives business school graduates nuts about academics :) Research isn’t a product, and researchers can’t be managed like assembly line workers.

The fact that almost all governments of developed countries subsidize their university sectors means that the burden of argument lies squarely on those who think that they should not. I understand that you’re one of those people. However, I disagree, and you’ve given no argument in support of that aspect of your position.
> its probably part of a pipeline to make a reliably isolated and scared voting base that will always vote to give big brother more power because they don’t know how to socialize so they are more susceptible to propagand

No.

1. You're describing a deliberate conspiracy, but providing zero evidence for it. It's not enough to show that the policy will lead to the results you allege (which I do not grant you), but that the policy was deliberately chosen for that reason and not another.

2. From what I've read, the actual result of masking and COVID has been increased behavior problems and acting out in students, not increased compliance.
I'm reminded of the Church–Turing–Deutsch principle[0] which states that a universal computing device can simulate every physical process.

Putting that another way, I think it means that anything that can happen in the universe can be modelled by sets of equations (which we might not have yet) which can be calculated on a universal Turing machine.

There is the question of what can quantum computers do polynomially or exponentially faster than a classical computer, but I think it's accepted that all quantum computations can be achieved classically if you don't mind waiting.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%E2%80%93Turing%E2%80%93...
Question of when not if: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/the-pitchfor...
same story, different spin.

but if it helps you ....
I'm not the parent, but not necessarily. You can have this same exact "GUI" implemented as a TUI, using something like Bubble Tea[0], Textual[1], or by hand. You'd get a similar experience without having to go back and forth between the terminal and a browser.

[0]: https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea

[1]: https://github.com/Textualize/textual
Like cloud APIs, K8s replaces a ton of by-hand work that formerly made up the profession of systems administration (among others). I see my career progressions from sysadmin to devops as being a pretty natural development of "automate your (old) job away". So today with cloud and k8s, I can be as productive as ten of my old selves fifteen years ago. Back then, it would have been almost unimaginable for a company like the one I'm with to be able to thrive and grow during its first 18-24 months with only a single "IT" staff who can still maintain a great work/life balance.

TL; DR - K8s and cloud let me do the work of ten of my old selves.
Through an API, really.
From what I read, she didn't anticipate the variants and didn't anticipate the war in Ukraine. The latter I understand, the former less so. I am curious what was she anticipating? Every goes great? Sometimes I wonder if a system engineer would not be a lot better this type of thing?
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So far I've only replaced my motorsport subs (mostly F1) with Autosport Forums, a bona-fide old-school and vibrant community to this day.

Years ago I enjoyed the discussion on bluelight.org - happy to know it's still going strong.

What's missing in my life is a forum for movies, TV shows and one for video game discussion. Any suggestion?

--

My issue with Reddit is I started using it in my 20s and now 15 years later, the average age is still 20. The quality of discussion is on the floor, though some love to mention subs like /r/askhistorians which are an exception among a sea of memes, one line puns and terrible moderation.
If advertisers felt motivated enough, circumventing PiHole would be trivial. Since all they do is block DNS requests based on a blacklist, an ad company just needs to serve their content from a trusted domain. Google owns plenty of domains which few PiHole users are likely to tolerate being blacklisted. They already do this with ads on YouTube.
What about cloud?