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> Withholding any self reflection to qualify myself as “high caliber”, I can say > I’m an experienced employee - and feel that my productivity dwindles in person > due to distractions and thus an inability to “zone in”.

> That means that I’m putting in extra hours outside work to achieve the same
> level of pre-RTO productivity. I’ve heard the same from others. Together, we’ve
> expressed concerns about the sustainability of these efforts.

I agree with this observation. WFH gives you the ability to mute chat where as with the office if you don't respond, its show up and discuss(aka interrupt). I've had some days in the office where I've left not knowing what exactly was done for the day but being mentally exhausted. I would say its the intangible items or project status such as all the information you dispensed or clarified, stopped people looking at the wrong problem, figured out the real problem, commented on a proposal, etc that is over-looked and not counted towards "work". This "glue" is what employers are really paying you for by being in the office, but don't want to recognize, instead basing what they pay you on the language you know, vendor products, projects, etc. With WFH you don't have to make the "glue" as much since you can focus on your project, setup the meetings you need, when you need, and you don't have to use non-work time for work. This makes other employees less effective, more-so caused by the organization than the individual, which leads to the perception/feeling that "more gets done" when people are in the office.

In my job experience good management recognizes the glue, can make the glue, account for needing glue or provide the justification for someone else to make glue. Poor management can not, thus everyone back to the office.
CS Grad here. The focus is mostly on algorithms and math, because they underpin everything we gotta work with afterwards. One may argue that this is fundamental, and everything listed is an application what we learn.
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It still has political side benefits, which is likely why economists who prefer it get funding to continue their research etc.

The "getting away with it" is that in some forms, the wealthy can say it's bad that poor people get money because "it makes inflation" but when rich people get money, it's ok, because the resulting cost increases don't show up on the CPI
did you study CS? not sure if you are criticizing CS students cuz "back in our day, we did CS in the snow, barefoot", or if you're criticizing the CS curriculum because you don't think it's necessary because you haven't needed it and they don't know what you know.
Its definitely money, but its not really competition, and more of a scam.

Universities have no vested interest in education of students - their money comes most often from government loans at the time of attendance. Once the student graduates, they have their money, they don't care how successful the graduate is in the industry.

As such, if you ever want to see massive education reform, all that needs to happen is make the state colleges run their own bank system and give out education loans, instead of the government adjacent banks. You would see massive changes overnight.
No…
But it might be good idea to ask it for our penetration testing and security
Three cheers!!!

So fine with new and actually improved technologies instead of the many GUI rehashes that some companies make money off delivering all the time.

I don't often use SVG, and am by no means an expert on it, but I dislike the experience every time. Like having to edit an .SVG file to fix a wrong displacement that places it a bit too far down. Trial and error, trial and error, until you randomly hit the spot that makes the thing begin to behave.

I think TVG popularity boils down to browser support and nothing else. I hope somebody with the skills picks up the task of integrating it into Chromium, then the rest of the world will bend and bow quickly.

Also, one might hope that a freeware GUI editor will see the light in not too long.

Perhaps the authors should do a new single-protocol Mail/Calendar/Contacts/Notes/etc. standard as well? I recall IMAP being a horribly clumsy and complex protocol, and didn't Einstein say:

Make it as simple as you can, but not simpler!
https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~rwest/wikispeedia/wpcd/wp/b/Bangko...

> As of the 2000 census, there were 6,355,144 registered residents in the city. However, this figure does not take account of the many unregistered residents and daytime visitors from the surrounding metropolitan area. More than 50% of Bangkokians have some Chinese ancestry.

They are still Thai, they often don’t even speak Chinese, just ethnically Chinese (and then I guess it depends on how you count mixed ancestry).
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> Our findings indicate that the importance of science and critical thinking skills are strongly negatively
associated with exposure, suggesting that occupations requiring these skills are less likely to be impacted by
current language models. Conversely, programming and writing skills show a strong positive association
with exposure, implying that occupations involving these skills are more susceptible to being influenced by
language models...

Am I reading this correctly that the assumption here is that programming and writing skills aren't reliant on critical thinking?

There is also a table which indicates exposure to LLMs in various models and it shows Mathematicians to have 100% exposure. This bit is more puzzling to me. Maybe I am misunderstanding something here.

edit: styling
> How do you know they provide negative value to economy?

Very basic understanding of modern economics and monetary systems would be more than enough to figure that out.

> post scarcity economy

In fact it would maximize scarcity (imagine the Fed hiking interest rates to + 20% while inflation becomes negative, say - 20%. What do you think would happen?)
You got it wrong. The interest rate is used to manage the supply based on the rate/velocity of the economy. Not the other way around. If people want to build businesses, get married, have kids, build products, buy/sell, speculate, etc... having an interest rate, bitcoin, paper or gold, it simply doesn't matter. Places where the financial system is broken will use alternative means of payments.

Bitcoin is flexible. If there is a certain demand or necessity, people can build on top of it.
What's impossible about it?

There have even been other drm systems that have fairly succesful at attacking analog hole, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinavia

Of course, no solution prevents everything,but preventing a specific system from using the data in a way that is hard to get around is highly possible.
I have seen the 'manager does nothing' situation, and it is a bad idea. The notion that line managers just do people management and literally nothing else is just egregiously harmful to the industry. This is how you end up with three layers of people who do nothing, as explained in the article.

A line manager ought to be in the trenches, handling oncall, writing some code now and then, automating the bits of drudgery away, project managing, product managing, code reviewing and generally being an engineer. None of these things have to be done all the time and to the highest level of performance, but the idea that managers delegate all of these responsibilities leads to yes-men being promoted. If, as a manager, you do none of these activities, how on earth do you evaluate your people? You become the Vladimir Putin of your team, fed horseshit by people who have agendas or loudmouths while completely missing out on the concerns of people who do the actual work, with absolutely no idea of the actual performance and problems of the team.
Companies are deliberately limiting supply now as part of revenue management. Growing revenue can be simplistically thought of as maximizing a function of units sold * price per unit. You can decrease numbers sold and increase the price or the converse; 2 units * $10 or 10 units * $2. There is mounting evidence across countries and continents that this is what’s been going on.

https://archive.is/1EbGX
That is the point!
They can't afford it.
At my school (OSU) in the undergraduate CS program databases and networks were required but parallel was optional
We already do this with cattle and poultry in modern Western intensive farming.
Reassessing relative temporal lobe size in anthropoids and modern humans
Indeed, it depends on where you are studying.

At some level, we had SQL and network programming in my degree, but only for that level that we knew it exists and how to do it in very basics.
We did not have concurrent programming at all as mandatory course.

The most of your deeper expertise comes from the project work here, and depending on which project you end up or choose, they might or might not include above.
In many places in the US you cannot bring your children with you to vote. So many people rely on public schools as day care so that they can vote. In places that cancelled school on election day recently (people vote at schools often, and there were security concerns after recent shootings), the voter turnout was lower in segments of the population that statistically are less likely to have family/partner available to watch children, or the means to pay for childcare.
This keeps the question "what is inflation?"

If you consider that assets and results rents on those assets skyrocketed while "inflation" wasn't happening, then sure, but realistically, the dollar lost value and people got poorer in that time while having the same or increasing income
> Is this typical for CS undergraduate degrees because you get to pick your own classes?

Do an experiment: pick a handful of intern applicant resumes, look at their degree and then look at what the uni requires to get that degree. In the US, you will find often that there are ABET accredited and non-accreddited versions of the same degree. What you are looking at is commonly required for ABET but often avoided when possible. Or in the case of one person, I've found that the college they claim to have studied at doesn't have any such degree program.

Reminds me of a conversation with a new hire that was re-orged onto my team, and a machine learning engineer on another team. She said "Ah, you are lucky to join his team this way; they are all the people who took those hard classes like Operating Systems and said 'more please' instead of quickly dropping the course. Their interview process is very hard."

It's also worth remembering that the US BS program is not like Germany's old Diplom system. It's not 2 years of gen ed then 3 years of only computer science. It's 4 years total and entirely possible for a student to study SQL for one semester two years ago and never touch it again as part of coursework, if they took databases early and don't have a school job.
How is that unfortunate?
Average Chinese tourists often spend a lot more than Norwegian backpackers. And it is a relatively recent phenomena for Thailand to fill up with Chinese tourists over CNY. Why limit your tourist peaks to just thanksgiving and Christmas?
What is an unsound type system. Why and how is it relevant for programing?
Surely the government would keep giving them, with some proff that somebody actually wants to complete a useful degree.

I think in the future, those student debt punishments will be looked on in a similar way to indentured servitude. At best, forced to work (though for an indefinite, likely forever time period) for whoever gave the loan, and at worst, much worse.

Debts are risky, and should occasionally be discharged with bankruptcy. Zero risk loans make zero interest
I think it would be hard to argue it isn't. It is the only value that such a system could theoretically provide, so there is no other reason someone would use it. What would be the argument that it is not one?
Just casually browsing the SVG spec[0] looks like it covers a lot of ground. Different coordinate systems, CSS styling, paths, clipping, filters, animations, scripting, fonts etc. There needs to be an open vector format that supports all of those things, but maybe it is inappropriate that this is what get shipped by default.

[0]: https://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/
> Finance dude has a hard time understanding the concept of a sovereign government.

I don't understand what finance dude is saying. AT1 bonds can be written off before equity. It has happened before, albeit at a much smaller scale.
Wrong. I’m using it for over 15 years now! And I’ve never ever even just heard about this. And keyboard shortcuts are the first thing I look for in any app. Hence my surprise
There is a clear push toward RTO but rhetoric is more and more PR so what?

My two cents are:

- with remote work some big&powerful have suffered losses, airlines do work for tourism but do much more for business (witch include people who migrate to another country just to work, and more or less frequently fly back home), rails similarly, exhibition and conference industry obviously as well and so on. They want the old model, because that's the name of the office model, back;

- large real estate owners with big downtown's properties have seen the value of their buildings dropped, rents revenues as well, so as those above they want the office model, back;

- SME working in downtown's workers services are obviously together.

On the worker side:

- those who can't work from remote are probably envious of those who can and find their absence around them as a bad thing, since those who can't work remotely AND live in cities tend to have smaller revenues than those who can, being together, with those who lost their downtown's services jobs means the mean richness of a city drop and this led inevitably to a general local quality of life drop;

- those who can work from remote, in large parts (the least qualified, who are the most) have homes unsuitable for teleworking simply because they lack a spare room per adult + eventual space for children; another large and almost overlapping cohort do not know what desktop work means, so they try to work on a craptop on sofa, on the bed and so on and obviously find that not really comfy BUT they do not know and partially refuse the concept of having a dedicated desk with large screen(s), a real keyboard and so on, for they "for unknown reasons" offices tend to offer better ergonomics. Beside those MOST fear relocating and substantially change life, most have familiar issues in doing so etc.

Those allow to justify in credible manners the RTO push, without stating the substantial point of those who loose from remote working.

Another part of the game is the fact that at social level there are simply too many people who do not know what to do in a remote first, mostly tertiary sector society, they have no skill, they do not want loosing wages falling back to less qualified jobs in large geographical areas, similarly public administrations forced to act as an enterprise, especially those from big cities witch so far have much voice and "firepower" are scared by such change.

Since to really develop the concept of teleworking for ALL eligible jobs, not just for the most qualified who tend to know how to work remotely effectively, it would take years, as it would take years to calibrate suburban/rural infra for a far bigger number of residents, as it would tae years to re-structure companies management for such new model hybrid work will keep be pushed, imposed and most will accept it for years. After that long and slow adaptation interim, a small batch of people at a time, remote work will became common again. I can't really estimate how many years but something between 5 and 15 in the most probable range IMO...
it just shows that the management don't have a clue what they're doing.
they just fomo into trends.
We also lose consciousness every night when we sleep.
If we are really talking wish lists, I dream of a simplified PDF spec.
> There is no such thing as computers without programming.

not sure what you mean by this, because there's no such thing as programming without computers. (actually, the first computers were invented before programmable computers were invented)
Given that the primary author is OpenAI affiliated and some of the assumptions are far fetched (e.g., on programming - not even coding) this reads like a sponsored post pamphlet to me.
We almost exclusively hire new grads and have coops/interns from first tier schools. We kind of have this stupid bias against everyone else in our hiring process.

These engineers all turn out to be okay but we don't end up with any new or advanced ideas out of this pool. We cargo cult every behavior that Google does because a few of our senior engineers were ex-early-Googlers.

If feels like working with the blind. There's no interest from our engineering teams about new developments in the field and they don't even recognize when the work that they're doing is a fit for new patterns.

99% of these people don't know what a CRDT is and don't recognize when they're accidentally building one. Once every six months or so someone will post on Slack about their eureka moment of just discovering what a Bloom filter is and how it might apply to long-lived problems that we have.

To someone entirely from the practical/self-taught/trade side of things it's a kick in the teeth knowing what I bring to the table and how my org depends on me but doesn't respect me enough to hire other people with the same background.
> Would you have been a CS major if that had been an option at Caltech?

No. I wanted to design airplanes, jet engines, rockets, etc. I had a secondary interest in electronics, and a tertiary one in programming. I wasn't that interested in the academic side of computing.

P.S. nice to see other techers here!
While i don't disagree, it also probably isn't even in the top 10 scummy anti-circumvention uses.
Exactly.

The risk to which we expose kids must ramp from "as close to zero as we can make it" for newborns, to "non-permanent injuries are acceptable" during childhood, and, while this is incredibly unpopular, "serious injury or death" needs to start creeping onto the table during the teenage years.

No, I'm not advocating for burying landmines on football fields, which is what safety cultists would have you believe ("You can never be too safe!" is their customary mantra). But teens need to engage in dangerous activities in order to develop fully into adults, meaning that a non-zero number are going to be maimed, crippled, or killed.

And yes, I have kids, and once they're old enough, they're going to do seriously dangerous stuff. Maybe one will break his neck end up in a wheelchair from downhill mountain biking. Or get stabbed and bleed out during a fight. Or lose a hand while working with power tools. Or...

I can and will do my best to prepare them, to train them to make good decisions, but what I can't do is try and keep them locked in a crib for their entire lives, because if I did, they would never develop the skills to handle real-world dangerous, life-or-death situations.
> needless killing of animals

I contend it is not needless, and I contend that you are cause of just as much loss of life as I am through your actions. Though those lives may not meet your qualifications because you also make a judgement about what deserves your empathy and what does not -- and you have every right to. However you have no right to judge others.

People who do that come off like that 'born again' uncle everyone has who you have to avoid because you know that they are constantly thinking about how 'saved' they are and how you are walking the wayward path and every second sentence has to do with Jesus or politics centered around Jesus.

You don't care that he has his beliefs but you realize how he has taken one thing that he feels strong about philosophically and refuses to allow anyone else the same dignity of having their own moral compass free of side-eye and proselytizing. And that makes him extremely annoying to be around.
> "why does this movie exist?"

"What is art?" I started to enjoy film more when I understood that the best directors are just telling a story and not don't care if you like it or not. Of course you are free to hate it.

The same applies to any form of art.

If you want a movies easy to enjoy, there's the superhero blockbuster movies and Star Wars, I guess.
Lazy in this context doesn't mean “lacks work ethic”. You might be unfamiliar with the Gates quote. Point is devs often whine when they have to take the scenic route even if it’s safer for the user.

Anyway, I’m not saying they’re at odds and you can only pick one. So we seem to agree. I’m saying devs should be applauding better security and not whining about the transition away from user-domain security which is kinda what is implied in the OP. We should be whining about not having access to to the system in ways we need. Better security needs to accommodate valid use cases not stifle creativity. We probably also agree there.

Opining Linux because it’s still the wild west of software and you can do shit like zip up the user’s browser history, logins, and cookies, or idk dump entire hardware profiles without any user interaction, or prompt the user to install a new boot loader or drop your rootkit into initrd because your program “just needs their password to update” is just that.
You're just stating a tautology, not providing an argument.
probably pretty likely to happen when you've built a company that basically spread misinformation for a profit, things will get pretty confusing.
To Combat Food Shortages, North Korea Deploys the Military
I think it was somewhat common trope in sci-fi novels of 80s and 90s to justify virtual commute as a camouflage for loading time. Back when fastest Internet was 56k, it made sense.
If you don't already have a device for reading and writing EPROMs it's probably easier to just download ROM images from the internet.
> very different model of the world than we have

Who are we? There is no we. There is no we against them.
That's the thing about diversity. My background and world view is different than yours.
The pulses at fb/meta are meant to improve areas that don’t score well. They are also anonymous.
https://archive.md/xvbmC
> their shareholders walked away with nothing

Not true. The shareholders and executives walked away with millions in stock grants and bonuses for about a decade, benefitting from their strategies that led to the bank's downfall. If they are fined their entire earnings in the last 10 years then I would consider them walking off "with nothing".

So will they do this again in a similar situation? Of course! There are millions to be made!
Could you just use API's IG app uses itself to manage accounts? And scrape the data you need with GET requests behind a proxy list? Before any public APIs everybody was doing it, is it any hard these days to fall back to regular user API instead of some fancy regulated 'developer-only' API?
Garbage In, Garbage Out.

The motivations of the average freshman picking CS major has changed over time.
As a workaround on iOS, you could make multiple contacts for yourself with varying amounts of metadata, pick one to share from the contacts app and share it using AirDrop (only works if the recipient also has a Apple device, of course)

Alternatively, use a QR code generator to generate codes containing whatever you want to share and store them somewhere on your device such as in a note taking app.
Why does there need to be a metric? People with management experience can decide these things based on intuition. It's practically impossible to quantify anything in this industry, but 'data-driven decisionmaking' is fetishized to the extreme. Ultimately it just becomes another buzzword and method for people with little or no experience to override people with experience.

Phrasing the whole discussion in terms of 'metrics' to justify the common-sense conclusion that junior people need more direct supervision is clearly sugarcoating it for junior recipients for whom the message is intended.