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Could you be obsessed with effort reducing? If yes, you may want to look at it like an investment: you initially spend effort, time or money to learn something new only to get back more later.
> By pointing out that the products they are currently selling could be replaced by the reanimated spirits of the products they sold last year.

They can say that, but it makes them look like assholes. So it's not effective for them to do that.
Only in a very small, insular bubble.
Yes, Remote Automated INformation MANager... my sort of introduction to "programming" as it was. Almost two decades later, my co-worker at a startup was one of the original engineers at AOL (after the name change) and worked on RAINMAN among other things. Anytime someone brings it up, I have fond memories.
Deja vu?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31375924
> You’re lying and breaking the agreed upon consent.

“Consent“ is a mutual agreement. If you haven't represented to the potential employer that you haven't studied the class of common interview problems, you have not broken any “consent”. In fact, given that employer are aware of the existence of numerous platforms that exist to prep candidates by practicing the class of problems, and indeed many use one or more of those platforms as part of their hiring funnel, that you have practiced on them is probably more of the base expectation than that you have not.
I can’t take seriously anything that Kim says.
So the disease isn't over. And I hate to break it to you, in case it isn't obvious by now, it never will be.

But the panic and response are over, the public has accepted it as a part of the world now, the world is just the world and life is just life again.
Clinical depression isn't a "mood."
No public source but number seems approximately correct +/- 1bn. Their 2021 pnl was over 10bn though so they still up massively.
Ultimately I don't really care. I buy idevices not to "own" or tinker with them, but to get a job done or make my life easier. I own an iPad Pro purely as a drawing/pen input device, it does this extremely well. I don't care that I can't install a custom OS on it because I don't plan to. And history of owning idevices shows me that Apple supports these devices for around 7 years and they continue to work after support. This is good enough for me to be worth it. I see no theft here.

I am sympathetic to the environmental ewaste aspect of older devices, but on a purely value based judgement, the Apple devices are vastly superior to anything else on the market. An open source linux tablet would do the job I want done worse.
I very much suspect that LO will be fine until one day it isn't, and you wont realize until you are knee deep in pain that you are paying the price there and then. How much runway you have depends on the nature of the office work that you do. if you are trading complex documents with investors and their counsel for example then you may run into this immediately: docusign is gnarly, document review comments are gnarly, etc. All fixable, but at a time cost you might not have. Conversely if you are writing for consumption and not collaboration, LO might work for years.

The issue isnt whether LO is good (it is) but whether the LO team can compete with a trillion dollar corp that considers 365 as a central pillar of their business, invests in it accordingly, and whose changes to the software become the defacto standard overnight.
"My big concerns are support and training"

If you find an awkward corner case in any piece of software then you will find support rather lacking from the vendor. I use LO myself: I'm a business owner and can use what I damn well like! I don't force anyone else to use LO but we are a MS tin partner or something so get our tricks err drugs err software a bit cheaper.

Training: I was a trainer back in the day and it's all about concepts and not the implementation. I've used Word from v1 to date and 2.0 was a sweet spot in terms of functionality and performance (2 floppies worth of code but could do quite a lot of decent WP and rudimentary DTP stuff eg hanging indents, decimal tabstops and text/image frames with text flow. Modern LO Writer has a turtle implementation in it, coz reasons. Nowadays I struggle a bit to find things in the ribbons. Super Calc, Lotus 1-2-3, Excel and LO Calc all do the same thing in the end to a greater or lesser extent. I wrote a Finite Capacity Planner (yes: Finite) in Excel for a factory around 1995. I'd have to rewrite my functions in Python or whatever but it would run in LO quite happily.

Another anecdote: My wife is not IT minded in any way as such and has worked as a classroom assistant in schools catering for special needs and adult support services etc for several decades. She has had various IT offerings foisted on her from Acorn Axxx machines to PCs running Win 9x etc. At home she used to have Windows on her laptop but I eventually had enough at Win 7 when yet another graphics "driver" update needed a good six hours on the operating table to fix. She now runs Arch (actually!) and doesn't care. It just has to work. She also uses LO, which seems to work OK and isn't the oddest office suite she's been forced to use.

Don't overthink it. LO Writer and Calc are extremely capable apps and Base looks like a pretty good effort too when I've used it and you get all the rest of it but I tend to avoid Presentation type apps (such as "Poor Point")

If you are capable of running a start up then LO will work fine. If some of your staff are incapable of any flexibility - I'd start to reconsider my choice of staff. A startup is all about being flexible and seeing opportunity and so on. If any modern IT user is "incapable" of getting on with LO then I'd question their ability to work in a startup environment.
Just posted this in another topic, for those who want a up to date comparison:

https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/fossil-v-git.wiki
We might not listen to the same people then, Jim Sterling has been criticizing all this crap (including even gachas) for years... (though unless there are bigger news, this weeks' video will probably still be about DI ?)
ST, Infineon, ARM, NXP, and ASML are based in Europe. So nothing to sneeze at.
Right, but if you dig deeper into the article it's clear that the difference between the notification types is whether they override various settings. As per the chart[1], the main difference is whether it breaks through various delivery settings (eg. scheduled delivery, Focus, Ring/Silent switch). There isn't some sort of setting that the user can set that tells the os "I only want time sensitive notifications from this app" (I suppose there is, if you want to have focus on 24/7 or something, but that's more of a hack than an actual feature).

[1] https://www.plotprojects.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/inte...
Apple is at least on the leading edge here by supporting their iPads for 7+ years.
The alternative is worse, unfortunately. See the recent Aduhelm debacle for example, with big pharma profiting from desperate people, with a drug that doesn't work.
Worth mentioning Bourdain committed suicide.
I used to work at a company in Australia that was a pretty big feeder for the FAANGs in the US, and I don't think the salary alone explains it.

So many of my coworkers were completely aware that they could double (or even triple) their salaries by moving to San Francisco/Seattle, but chose not to. Nasty politics, homelessness, crime, public defacation, a general "fuck the poor" culture (on both sides of the political isle), gun violence, cost of living and the fact you'd be leaving your family behind if you left made it an easy choice to stay in Melbourne.
The people that did go often intended on going there for 5-10 years then coming back rich.

Point is, I think the reason that so many huge tech companies are there is much more complex than just "more money attracts more smart people" and perhaps some other factor at play too.
Watch 12 years of EV charging stations roll out across the USA (2010-2022)
Considering that this thread appears to be a fairly average doomer spiel about US debt and the possibility of losing reserve currency status, Kim’s putting a low ceiling on importance for his future Twitter output. (I’m not saying he’s wrong about the risks, just that he’s not presenting any new ones or offering any new insight.)
I mean I went with "renting a car at my destination" instead of trying to check my own car into baggage, but to each their own.
Wrote an article about this recently for Open Core Ventures:

https://opencoreventures.com/blog/2022-03-someone-has-to-pay...

Obviously OCV is partial to open core, but the idea of open source that can win in the traditional business sense is being pushed forward by innovative companies (ex. Supabase) and YC itself at this point via the investments they make. It’s not all doom and gloom out there.

That said, library authors are certainly one of last and hardest people to properly compensate. Projects like NestJS seem to do well.

Guess we can put a pin in the idea of CLI ad space for now (and hopefully forever)
Thinking about just giving everyone Macbooks instead of O-365? Think again. The Mac client is similarly limited vs the classic Windows fat client. Microsoft is balancing on a knife edge because if the non-Windows fat clients and O-365 had feature parity, there would be no compelling reason for many to run Windows. Unfortunately the user community is caught in the middle.

Even so to address the original question - it's been my personal experience that moving docs between MS users and LibreOffice also exposes lots of funny formatting issues, particularly in Word docs. If you're not exchanging docs with others that's one thing, but IMHO you don't want to submit your resume or any equally important document written in LibreOffice format even in compatibility mode. Better to print to PDF.
I feel it's best to let folks use what they prefer. While having a standard way of sharing information. Fighting with tools you're unfamiliar while trying to get work done with is a hidden cost on productivity.

Example, at our office we have a standard way of sharing info (Slack), and store shared information in Notion. But some folks use Google Docs/Sheet, some prefer Excel, or Markdown files for their on work uses
https://ciechanow.ski/gps/

https://ciechanow.ski/archives/
> Wouldn't this necessarily include "devices" like nuclear-reactor control systems?

I don't really understand the example. Shouldn't a power plant get access to their own systems?
There is some user benefit to this. There is an old saying that when the attacker has physical access, its game over. But modern products are making that less true. Sure if the government has your device you might still be screwed, but the average person can't do anything with a locked iphone like they could a locked Win 7 era laptop.

It would be fair to have a locked / unmodifiable initial boot step which shows a visible "unsecured" indication on every boot. If you installed a custom OS you can ignore this, if you didn't, you can worry.
Long live Warmane.
I don't think it is just money otherwise you would have plenty of silicon valleys in switzerland.

I think that large part of the reason is that government, public companies, academia and private investors in US have funneled a lot of resources into tech, or even invented it.

This created an ecosystem the rest of the world has consistently had a hard time to follow.
A good number of rural Oregon gas stations still follow the “park, walk in, give the cashier a $20 bill, go out and pump until the mechanical dial says “20”, then drive off” honor system.

Interested to see if those ancient pumps will now be accompanied by some new fangled electric thing.
We are currently far from overbuilding. Home charging is great and means we don't need EV chargers everywhere we currently have gas stations.

But highway chargers need to handle peak demand for highway travel, including holidays.

And we do need lots of slow chargers for those who can't install their own home charger. City street parking, offices, parking garages, apartment buildings, etc.
> Is this a joke?

This string of symbols is extremely ambiguous and confusing for me.

Do you consider it equivalent to,

“The largest committer on the project will say that the project is a joke when I ask him if it is a joke.”

“Destiny has written in his little book that the project is a joke.”

“Did you laugh when you opened the project?”

Awaiting clarification.
Do Kwon benefitted, everyone else was conned.

The depeg of UST is more akin to a short of Herbalife than the Soros GBP attack. Remember the weakness of Terra was orders of magnitude easier to expose than that of a national currency.
Are you allowed to charge your own electric vehicle in Oregon, or are attendants required as they are at gas stations?
Yes, but the combat is the core gameplay loop, and it's fun - unlike in WoW having to suffer through one after another fetch quest and the "real game" only starting after you hit max level...
Not sure about you, but I'd say banking apps being more secure is a benefit to me. Its were stuff like the encryption keys for FaceID sit. It's pretty much the only reason that while plenty of iPhone low level exploits get found, none of them ever expose your encryption key.
Even if we overbuild EV chargers, it doesn’t seem nearly as bad as overbuilding gas stations. Abandoned gas stations turn into nasty environmental messes — tanks leak, things spilled on the ground soak in, etc. Abandobed EV chargers are parking spaces with smallish, harmless machines that may even have some scrap value.
Fair enough: that's your experience. You mentioned tables blowing up - what happened there?

You can always dump docs to pdf with LO - I think it was first with things like "Convert to pdf and email".
For everyone asking why they don't just provide a download link: that bundle of open source software is probably treated as engineering work product, given a P/N, and stored in their PLM system with all the other design data for that model year. If it's already being treated as a Part internally, it's simpler and cheaper to ship a physical disc with the car than try to bring in other departments to figure out new process for weird edge cases. The automotive firms have well-defined process for both engineering data and product lifecycle management, and dealing with the physical item is a solved problem.
> Yeah, agree here. Even with a stream of continuous employment, nobody gets a job by submitting CV's to websites. You have to have a network.

I disagree. I've only gotten jobs through submitting CVs to websites. I've received over a dozen offers and had 6 jobs through this method.

It does actually work. It gets better the better your resume gets. I've never used a referral to get a job offer even once.
The fresh-off-the-line uni grads I talk to are still doing Office training as a first year course.
I've read a few workers say that they take up smoking because smokers get a 10 minute smoke break every hour or two. Of source the legally-mandated breaks are often missed.
I wasn't a big Word user prior to the ribbon so I can't compare before and after, however I've found applying styles about as easy as it can be (select text, click the style in the ribbon). Were they in a more convenient location before?
Software can't rape you.

I'm serious.

I think that automated taxis will be a boon to women who want to go somewhere at night but don't want to go there by means of an unscrupulous stranger.
Yes. There is extensive literature on bank runs and similar failures caused by fractional or fraudulent reserves and lack of confidence, insurance, and regulation.
I do suspect its much like Raspberry Pis where people buy them on the thought of doing something with but don't ever get around to it. Still very nice to have the option and if you do actually have a use, you can buy these devices very cheaply second hand. Much cheaper than a pi + touchscreen + battery would be.
> a business desperately trying to reach customers

Also read: "a business that thinks its entitled to dozens to thousands of people's attention"

I think my biggest gripe is how dramatically we undervalue people's attention. Not just the businesses but as a culture as well. Studies are finally coming out shining a light on the incredible long-term harm the attention economy has on people's mental health
Interesting! Anecdotally, I have one friend who has vivid, very involved dreams that she can recall almost nightly, and she works as a professional artist who is talented and prolific across a few different areas of visual art.
Seems like a lot of new players don't know they start with upgrade points. I'm winning most fights with default code because I have 100 more health than the other lvl 1s.
I guess we're still asking if Java's bad.
No, it was years ago that I tried in a small startup and it just wouldn't scale as much as MS stuff. It's mostly Excel that needs to be top notch or you waste time massaging data to make the libre office Calc thing accept it.

I like Google a little bit for its ability to remote code the spreadsheet and the sharing feature, but now in a large financial institution, Excel works perfectly fine.

I suppose the Word and PowerPoint alternatives are not as bad in LibreOffice, so if that's your main tools, go for it.
That's amazing news. A close friend of mine recently died of this same leukemia (pretty sure.) I wish you and your family the best of luck.
> but Google Docs handle it fine

As opposed to files that consist of a '1' in them [1], or .ds_store files [2]. Not to mention the risk of Google just decided to lock your account for no clear reason and you losing access to all of your files, like the hundreds of horror stories out there.

[1] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-drive-...

[2] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-drive-...
Right or wrong, better expect the unexpected. We'll see then.
I did not know that, that's a nice origin story!
No, almost every single person (8-10?) that I've talked to about buying a house in the past year mentioned HOAs, and almost exclusively negatively, too.
I've used LibreOffice for years. However, I've had many issues when editing a document alternatively in Excel and Libre. The alternate document editing works for some time, but Libre eventually always does something to the documents that they stopped being properly editable in one way or another.

I always use the same software that the C-suite uses for those files we transfer between us.
I’m just waiting for the next VCS that brings significant changes.

We’d absolutely switch over if there was some feature we wouldn’t get elsewhere. But it’d need a couple of months/years of sustained advocacy.
haha I stopped playing when I hit max level.

I'm not a team player when it comes to games and the whole raid thing just didn't work for me as such.

I guess I was using it wrong. To me it was just a fancy chatbox with some busywork though I did like some of the druid questlines.
Things are much more complicated than this twitter thread suggests. Some parts of the US national debt need to be serviced with interest payments and some don't. Some parts have to be repaid and some don't. Some parts are effectively the government owing money to itself for book-keeping purposes.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if Dotcom's conclusion is roughly true, but he is no economist and shows no sign of understanding the details.
https://wiki.openraildata.com/index.php/Delay_Attribution_Gu...
Also Thinking Forth http://thinking-forth.sourceforge.net/
Such patients have opportunities to access experimental drugs, either in clinical trials, or through compassionate use waivers.

https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/drugs/access-e...
3D Chess from Star Trek
Oh you.

In all seriousness, charging a car is far safer than filling it with gas; no attendants needed!

* so long as you believe the premise of the law
As mentioned by the authors, the causal relationship cannot be answered by this study. But if you want to recall your dreams more frequently, I highly recommend keeping a dream journal (also mentioned in the link). In my teenage years I went from remembering an average of a dream per week to vividly remembering 3-4 dreams per night. As soon as you wake up, immediately start writing all details you remember. Whether or not this increases your creativity in the waking world, it's fun to see what your brain constructs while you're asleep.
I only use my iPad for Procreate. Sure it would be nice to have the option to do anything, but I wouldn't use it or get any extra value out of it. It's like when iSH came out and you got a full linux shell on ios. Very cool, used it for a few minutes and then never used it again because I don't need anything extra on my iPad.
SysV? Are you thinking Solaris?

There have been various implementations of M:N threads for some time now. The concept is simple, but the devil is in the details.
But only some kinds, right? I mean, protect the neo Nazi's right to speak, but get rid of the ability of SJWs to call out the neo Nazis because that's cancel culture and CRT.
> Not quite the same thing as heroin

If it was, do you think it would stop them?
Thanks darius, I appreciate it!
Allow me to introduce you to an exchange called Mt Gox...
What is LibreOffice's collaboration tools like? GSuite was awesome for multiple people editing at the same time and it allows for great synergy in that regard.
Yes! Dexie has been a great help with interacting with indexeddb
Thanks, it means a lot.
Because the iPad Air 2 is still getting updated and its almost 8 years old now. There is no need for ipads to be updated any longer than they already are. The non Apple market is just not worth buying. It's cheap junk.
I am well aware of the long term outlook of it all. I am fully vaxed, living life as I always used to, and I am all for returning to normal now that we have done all we can with vaccinations. But society globally is still changing and being impacted very seriously by the pandemic and will be for years yet.

Keep in mind that both places, people and policies change state to state, country to country. You are talking like your experience is the only possible one. Where I live is seeing the most deaths it had the entire pandemic, we have still removed all restrictions but that doesn't stop people changing their behavior. Some places are still having lockdowns. Some borders remain shut. You get the idea.
I did pledge years ago that my next car was going to be electric only, but now there are a bunch of 30+ mile plugin hybrids, and some of these stories about chargers make it sound like it hasn't gotten any better than when I had my Leaf about 8 years ago. Maybe I want to use gas for road trips and electric for everything else...
From my memories of "Down and Out in Paris and London," it sounds like little has changed in a century for fine dining except 70 hour weeks instead of 120 hour ones.
4 chargers per location?! That's not a good way to have reliability.
There are a ton of systems built into living organisms that handle regulation and repair. These systems make us incredibly robust to many different types of insult. We don't build our systems like that, unfortunately humans are incredibly stupid and short sighted so we need to work harder to build robust systems. That's on top of the fact that nature has had such an incredibly long time to build these regulatory and repair systems
And most people will stop at the gas station in their neighborhood before they get on the highway for a long trip. The experience at those interstate fueling stations is absolutely analogous.
If you submit identical software engineer resumes, one with a typically white male name and one with a typically white female name, do you think one will get more interview opportunities?

That seems like something that could be experimentally tested.

My guess is the women's resume will get more interviews because tech companies really want to hire women software engineers.
Definitely. I used it, LibreOffice of course, exclsively in many businesses, including rolled it out to a business with 150 staff migrated from ms office to LO. No issues at all.