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No one but management is forcing anyone to do anything. If I do well in person, then as a colleague I need to respect that other people might do well remote, and vice versa.
My employer is doing something similar right now and that's basically what all of us think. I have some colleagues who aren't near one of our offices and I hope we don't lose them.
Isn't the converse true as well? Rural people lack basic understanding of urban issues.
RAID is not a backup guarantee. Use zfs.
I mean that the quality is so poor in teslas that I would not call them a car the same way I think of a car that is a ford.
> should only take a few days

This doesn't work for everybody!

Let people learn in the direction that interests them. The highest energy reward function first.

Once they feel rewarded, then let them learn theory. They'll have a deeper appreciation and the stamina to press deeper.
And in the bits where there's no Esso, you'll likely find them hiding as Mobil.
That hasn't been my experience. Given the option, most the people-needers congregate at work, while the slightly more introverted types work from home.

Its not the screens during meetings that bother the extraverted ones, it's the lack of people nearby which sets the temperature of their workday.
To pay the journalist, perhaps?
Seriously, I'm already sick of "let me send you desktop notifications!" popups.
Didn't New York just create a "Rat Tsar"? Surely you solve both problems by stopping feeding the cats.
LE should be given whatever tech they need, to serve, protect, etc.

But not the ability to compromise the tech everyone else uses.
I've literally had to use knowledge of binary and number representation just last month in order to implement a lower level protocol. You may not use it in your simple CRUD app jobs but it's absolutely not "some old thing people only had to use back in the day."
Selfishly, I love remote work. But I also think I’m not quite as productive or engaged when I’m fully remote. Still pretty productive, but not quite. (Compared to a sane in-person company without copious interruptions)

That’s a fine tradeoff for me. I’d much rather get the same salary, work from home, and just be marginally less productive.
> the US government doesn't have a "god credential"

Why are you so quick to believe they don't, and that China does?

> process to request the data involving courts

Secret courts that rubberstamp agency requests without oversight.
Historic Native lands do not stop at today's borders. The term "United States" would be misleading, as some tribes owned lands that extended beyond the U.S.-Canada border and the U.S.-Mexico border.

https://native-land.ca/
Curious what integration you're using? I'm using direnv with envrc but I'm interested to see of any good alternatives.
Are you asserting that there's a correlation between physical attractiveness and how trustworthy, competent, and good people are?

If so, then I think it would be you that needs to provide evidence for it, if for no other reason that on casual inspection anyway, there is no hint that is the case.
>In a statement to Bloomberg on Tuesday, however, Reddit spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt sought to "clear up confusion," as Bloomberg put it, and said Reddit spends millions on hosting and is only seeking fair payment for API access.

>"Reddit needs to be fairly paid to continue supporting high-usage third-party apps. Our pricing is based on usage levels that we measure to be comparable to our own costs," Rathschmidt said in a statement to Bloomberg.

I’m the submitter of this. Source was Bloomberg but I didn’t link direct to Bloomberg because it is soft-paywall : https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-06/reddit-on...
I don't have sources at hand. I think I read a long time ago that he did use those channels, but I could certainly be wrong. I'm certain about having read knowledgeable claims that those channels didn't work, but if that wasn't about Thomas Drake, then I forgot the context.
My mum when I was a kid in the 90s: we don't store things in plastic, glass or ceramic only

Me when I was a kid in the 90s: mum is a f'ing idiot wtf is wrong with plastic this hippy shit is dumb

My mum 2020s: so plastic huh?

Me 2020s: ugh.
There are three categories of people:

(1) those who don't think about it much if at all, which is probably the majority of people

(2) those who understand it but benefit from it so want to keep it

(3) those who understand it and want to change it but don't have the influence to get it changed

The supreme court ruled that it is 100% kosher for states to gerrymander for the purpose of consolidating power and excluding other parties. It is not legal to gerrymander to disenfranchise minority groups, but frequently they amount to the same thing.

The only way to change it would be for some novel legal argument to come before the supreme court that convinces them that their previous decision was wrong (very unlikely), or for Congress to pass a constitutional amendment. The latter is not going to happen because the current system is designed in part to make those seats "safe".
>I would prefer to use a tool like rsync (and not an inflexible closed source GUI). So, things like Box don't appeal to me.

The good news is that there is a tool for this: rclone

https://rclone.org/docs/

It's basically rsync for cloud services and even supports your example of the Box cloud service.

You can do a lot of neat things with rclone like transparent encryption and even turning a cloud storage into a mounted local storage folder.

The other option would just be something simple like a RasPi or similar miniPC with a pair of HDDs mirrored, either automatically or manually by just backing up to both, or having the pc copy one to the other, with some retention rules etc.

Honestly for important data I would do both a cloud backup and local, unless you have too much data where cloud would be too expensive. In that case just keep the most important stuff in the cloud and keep that and the less important stuff local.
A lot of people here would still probably take the fine if it were only $20.
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Well, no, I'm not discarding them. I understand the cynicism, but I also hoped that there was some sort of deep reason for making decisions that are clearly not aligned with the interests of their user base. I've been on Reddit since the '10s and if one takes care to curate the sub list, it can be a truly wonderful and pleasant place. Would hate to see it circle down the drain. That's all.
Why stop at Republicans? I would think that a bill that allows for more people data would get bipartisan support no problem.
One of my previous teams had little to do with software at all. It was simple office processing. Zero physical presence needed. Now, some managers did want to stand over your should to badger you to 'speed up' review, but I would argue that this only introduced more issues ( you only make more mistakes with someone watching over your shoulder ).

There a lot of jobs like that. Phone customer service comes to mind as well.

Now, there are jobs that can't be remote ( butcher for one ), but we shouldn't pretend its just development that benefits from remote.
Treatments (in mice) are one thing but hazards (in mice) is a totally different thing. Most things that help a mouse don’t help us. Most things that harm a mouse do harm us.
Godwins law has existed for a while now.

The only thing Putin has in common with Hitler is being a jerk. There's no commonality between Nazi ideology and the Russian state, and beating the nazis is a huge part of their national identity.

Hilariously, you're more likely to find Nazi fans in the Ukranian militias.
Never been to Benschop, but I've just checked, and Google says it's 1h 17m driving and 1h 36m on public transport from my place. It's a bike ride to Amsterdam Centraal, then a train to Utrecht Centraal, then a bus. No big deal, if once a week.

So what's your question?
I don't understand this way of looking at things. I sometimes learn something new by answering a question from someone who is looking at things from a different direction than I am, or discussing something I don't have a quick answer to. That helps both of us. If I don't even have to think about it, it helps the other person be immediately productive (and learn something) at the cost of taking me out of "the flow" as opposed to having them beat their head against it for who knows how long while I get a a couple more minutes of uninterrupted time. I can hop back into "the flow" pretty much immediately.

If it happened every five minutes that's a different story.
Honestly, learning binary isn't something that will take any significant amount of time. This is not a tradeoff you need to make.
For some additional critical context here, switchgrass can be grown in "marginal" soil that is too salty or otherwise can't handle food crops well. In this case it really doesn't need to be a trade-off, and we've known that for decades too. It barely even needs fertilizer because it contains little nitrogen.

Thus, this simply isn't surprising, we should obviously do this if cellulosic ethanol works well enough now.
This is where feeding all written communication, tickets, docs, etc into a model solves this.

The model provides that "Google search" experience, but for specific to the company.
You know your requirements better than we do, but at first glance this appears to be a mistake. You can see what's going to happen: when you go to restore the years-old VM backup, everything is so out of date that it doesn't work and the updates fail. "Do it once and forget about it for years" is essentially always a mistake with backups.
I think for me it's more that the pros/cons need to be stated clearly and evaluated honestly, which I sometimes feel they aren't.

Recently a company I work with (but not for) announced a similar policy: everybody is required to be back in the office. Through informal conversations with two senior managers I know that this is effectively just a fishing expedition to reduce the amount of people that will be involuntarily laid off in the next round (here in Europe it's much less costly if they walk away on their own). Aside from the fact that this is a terrible way to make a selection (you will lose good employees), I find it also immoral to use a list of bullet points to justify the move when there is a totally different reason behind it.

During COVID I also saw a lot of middle managers nervously squeaking through the pandemic ('maybe all of those meetings COULD have been and email' syndrome), and now that it's possible to bring people back to the office there is lots of rationalization about why it's good and/or necessary to do so. When in reality their job depends on it, not the company's success.

I think if commute time was even partially employer-paid we would see a much more honest evaluation of the pros and cons of remote vs office-based work.
Absolutely nailed it. Remote work requires a bit more upfront involvement but the payoff is a more independent and healthy workforce (generally speaking). This will 100% highlight any failures in your current system/model.

Our onboarding system has been terrible for as long as anyone here can remember. Remote just made it stand out but it was always shit.
Oh, quite likely (especially if it there is a plausible justification as I gave), but I think the GOP would be more likely to push it initially.
Hasn't Apple been providing Sketch resources for several years?
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> In the past we had systems based on wealth or families, with the concept being that fairness is about stakes in the political outcome. Why should anyone get a vote if they don't have a stake in the outcome

I would think those with no/ little wealth have a large stake in the outcome of politics.

Exactly what are you advocating for here?
I mean, this isn't much different than the true believers in the liberating value of cash. And, at large, if you meet someone carrying 100s of thousands in cash with them, you have met a criminal. :D

Just like if you have a small vendor that takes cash only, they are probably tax avoiding. Buying drugs? Heck, even legal drugs for some states require cash.

I'm also still highly amused at just how inappropriate blockchain techs are for crime. It is literally recorded basically forever.
One meeeeeeeellion stray dogs.
Want to say thanks! I really like Monica. I haven't upgraded to 4.0.0 yet (waiting for Debian bookworm to release so I can have PHP 8.1 supported).
That should be the top comment!

The US is not (anymore?) the center of the world attention. In a way, it's just that more countries "open their eyes" on the impact the US has on many countries. For instance, the US is an "ally" of France, but does a lot of damage to the French economy, on purpose.
I personally find prefix and RP notations to be pretty easy to read, but writing is harder for me. I've introduced bugs into FORTH programs because I did a + b instead of a b + out of habit. I think both notations have their place and not everyone will be able to make the switch
or just "Hello, dekhn" without any additional context.
shrug I bought it for $39 about 11 years ago.
The loss of magazines in general is a shame. I spent many magical hours perusing the back issues of Scientific American in my school library in the 60's. Some of the "Amateur Scientist" projects I built steered my career.

As a teenager, I grew up avidly reading weekly Time magazine during lunch.
There are so many developers that seem to have a hard time with the notion that, just because they wouldn't abuse a feature, doesn't mean someone else wouldn't.

I was actually against web push notifications as a feature precisely because I knew it'd just create a thousand push notification pop-ups on the web.

And behold.
How about Science and their "Theory of Everything"?

There's lots of fault to go around, everyone is doing their best!
Given that the article is also kind of a PSA for New Yorkers, I'm surprised that it didn't mention ear clipping. If a feral cat has already been spayed or neutered, its left ear is clipped so that people know to leave it alone and not trap it again.
All browsers should have a setting that just tells all sites that notifications are enabled but never actually shows them until the user opts in so sites can't present those stupid prompts.
I tolerate it because i dont care. politics is a random walk. caring seems like delusion to me.
Question for the author since they’re semi active here: How do you choose to investigate these malicious extensions in the first place?
> It's just not a viable technology for todays' ecosystems.

I disagree, obviously. The problem you cite is very real, of course, but there are numerous ways to address it.

I think that applications that avoid shared libraries do so because that's the path of least resistance.
> Oddly, while parallelism didn't turn out to matter much, concurrency did

This is true, but I don't think for the reason the author may think. Basically, parallelism in a single process is hard as hell and nobody can do it reliably. On the other hand, concurrency is easy (mainly due to not sharing memory between threads). Basically we just achieved the parallelism we wanted by utilizing concurrency within individual processes, but the processes themselves are parallelized at the OS/hardware level.
The company at large doesn't care about your individual performance review when making decisions that effect everyone.
> There are TV shows I cannot meaningfully discuss with others who did not see the original broadcasts, because the music that played an essential and culturally relevant / connected role -- as important as the role of a principal character -- has been swapped out due to "rights" issues.

The only show I know of that suffered such a fate is Clone High. Any examples of other such shows?
Right, to me this is the challenge of "freezes". You lock in the an existing state of the world, regardless of how that begins to vary from reality.

Wrong team sizes, wrong skillset matches, etc.

EMs become greedy and hoard whoever they have regardless of the quantity need or size fit.
During the pandemic irresponsible morons adopted cats to alleviate the loneliness only to abandon their new friends on the street once the restrictions waned. This inhumane treatment has resulted in thousands of feral cats added to city streets. This is not good for the city or the cats.
> Rattling off statistics that she has internalized as a volunteer, Ms. Adams points out that eight out of 10 street kittens die within their first six months. Those that survive are often disease-ridden. Winters here can be deadly for a species that originated in the Mediterranean climate of North Africa. And traffic takes a big toll.

I wonder if those kitties show genetical adaptions specific to their challenging environment? Is their population and breeding speed enough to allow for useful (micro) mutations to appear?
All I can say is: to those who have never used hot glue or caulk and are thinking of using caulk -- try the hot glue first. You can always pop open the caulking tube if it doesn't work to your satisfaction.
Energy usage standards will soon be considered obsolete and counterproductive. They made sense before but as zero-carbon energy policies come into force, energy efficiency becomes less important. After you decouple the carbon from the energy, policies will change.
They conquered the whole Sinai peninsula and then gave it back! Beats Russia's track record.
Private offices, minimal monitoring, high pay, and lots of schedule autonomy, are perks of the higher tiers of management, and, more generally, are markers of upper-middle class norms in a work setting.

Letting programmers have all those things would cause a great deal of class distress among managers ("why, these middles and proles [Fussell's terms] are getting the same perks as me, their superior! Now how are we going to distinguish between those and the upper-middle, at work?") so they try to avoid the ones they can. High pay, can't do much about that (though they do their best); schedule autonomy, not universally available, but in general we do OK there, at least; they've had a fair amount of success keeping us under frequent monitoring that would be seen as an intolerable insult if applied to higher tiers of management ("Agile" has been a huge boon for them); and private offices, ooooh boy, offices, they've managed to all but eliminate them for us, and we helped with the same free-spirit fuck-traditional-office-norms hacker attitude that (on the flip side) also got us some of that schedule autonomy.

IOW we threaten their class security, if you will, and giving us private offices would be a big step in the wrong direction on that front, from their POV, especially since that's the one aspect of upper-middle work perks they've been the most successful at keeping us from accessing.

The "professional class" set of the Fussellian upper-middle has been under steady attack, with only lawyers mostly still hanging on (non-lawyers can't own law practices, is probably the only reason, or they'd be under the thumbs of MBAs and private equity just like doctors are these days) such that higher tiers of management are increasingly the only remaining large group (sans lawyers) who still enjoy an 80s-style upper-middle life at both work and home, and I think they'd like to keep it that way. The last thing they want is a whole bunch of software dorks "leveling up" a class, and becoming their social peers. It was bad enough when the '80s-and-earlier "analysts" were kinda-sorta upper-middle—luckily they nipped that in the bud by combining "analyst" and "programmer" and ensuring the new role tended to get only the latter's social status.
It does matter under which government that is, though. And it isn't just surveillance. TikTok is in an excellent position to manipulate opinion.
There was something like 10 times more hectares being burned as far back as 1850.
https://www.publish.csiro.au/WF/WF22090

We've effectively stopped this with modern fire suppression techniques and have fewer managed burns...Parks Canada only had 12 last year. And here's a story where they ran out of funding and had to defer burns:

https://www.rmoutlook.com/local-news/parks-canada-prescribed...

Not good. I think you can focus on climate change while at the same time have a conservationist approach.
The cloud version & enterprise support.

At every F500 or other large Enterprise I've been at you need to have some sort of support and escalation model. Lotta pushes to SaaS offerings too, esp. turnkey ones where it's their cloud and you pay an all-in price for software+infra+support.
Doesn't matter. I've worked at a lot of "top 100" Internet properties over the years, many of which you probably use at least once a month. You would be surprised how many companies don't test their product on anything other than Macs and Chrome.
What might be seen as exponential progress could actually be the accumulation of a few tremendous leaps, I believe. For instance, within the architecture realm, we've witnessed leaps such as:

Stacked neural networks (deep learning) / CNN / Transformer

From the application perspective, there are also areas that have seen significant progress:

AlphaGo (An application of reinforcement learning) / AlphaFold (An application for biological sequences) / ChatGPT (An application of Large Language Models / Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback)

You may pick different ideas. However, what I want to say is that these great advancements happened approximately once every two or three years. It may take some time before we witness another major leap.

In truth, the majority of research and development does not contribute to exponential progress. It's sad. However, this does not render such effort meaningless. Although it may seem as though there's too much competition within a narrow field, this may not necessarily be detrimental to humanity.
Sure, but that is less the remit of the CDC.
I wouldn’t say it’s the same as any major city. Major cities typically have an entertainment district and a vibe. San Jose doesn’t have that. It’s lack of a real entertainment district and general lack of walkability is a recurring problem at city council meetings.
Also just the shift in the economy generally. We've entered a new era in the longer term economic cycle. Many of the "rules" that applied from 2008-2022 no longer apply:

Annual two digit increases in ad impressions and clickthroughs and CPMs etc are not necessarily going to happen for Google.

Access to cheap Chinese hardware manufacturing may diminish as more things near-shore, supply chains continue to be messed with by wars (trade and physical) and economic disruption generally.

Tech employee preferences are shifting in terms of what they are willing or able to work on, and where they want to work.

VCs have cut back a huge amount in general, but their emphasis is also shifting.

So, yes, it will be really hard looking back to see what's WFH/RTO related and what's just a result of a rather massive restructuring generally.
> The state (Legislature) could decide that the Electors are actually always for one party's candidate and that no state wide election is necessary.

There is plenty in the constitution and in case law that would apply if a state effectively tried to prevent citizens from exercising the franchise. It's not like the topic has never come up before.
Wistful comment on the site: https://hackaday.com/2023/06/01/farewell-american-computer-m...

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How many times did computer magazines predict the paperless office?

It finally caught up with them

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On the nose, it's been quite a few years since I've seem the "paperless office" mentioned - faded into the foreground, I guess ...
Your mistake was taking the BART and your use of the word "sundries" caused me to chortle.
To keep the cats out