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> I still work for the remainder of the day

Like, the full remainder of the day, until 5-6pm? I like your approach if the company in onboard and accepts that it means I might not be reachable for the same amount of hours during the day.

Not working but having to be reachable doesn't count either
My next mail will be "sorry I couldn't read you, my connection dropped"
… and the same people on Twitter freaking out about low birth rates are the ones condemning remote work.

Telework is the most pro-family development in work culture in at least three generations.
> and automation of their own "just scp jarfile to server". And if the solution of any team fails and the right person is unavailable, you're suddenly bleeding money because no one knows how to get it back working.

I think that's the heart of the issue. At a certain point, people other than the application developers bear responsibility for the operation of the application.

The situation is not _fundamentally_ different: when it's 1-5 devs, everyone is responsible for the uptime. If one of those devs doesn't know how to deploy, you're still in the same boat as a larger team when something breaks.

But the situation becomes _politically_ different: management decides there needs to be an additional layer of responsibility: the platform team. They are the backstop. And so, instead of the platform team agreeing to bear responsibility for N different bespoke systems, they prescribe some common API (kubernetes, etc).

Of course they COULD prescribe "scp to a server and restart systemd unit" but then that's just not flexible enough. Some teams want different restart strategies, and it spirals out of control. At least kubernetes supports all that flexibility in a well-documented, battle-tested package.

So, the parties to blame are two, with different degrees of culpability:

1. Management decides there needs to be more shared ownership (otherwise you bleed money, which is worse when you're bigger and make more money)

2. Platform team agrees to support kubernetes, because OF COURSE our developers need all the bells and whistles, and elastic beanstalk isn't good enough because what if we need* Feature X 3 years from now?
Pre-reqs are a simple way to ensure everyone in the course is starting at about the same place. Its very hard to teach a course if some students are lacking the foundational material you're building on.
I don't disagree that the CMake language is badly misguided. I think that the SCons approach of just writing Python is sensible rather then inventing a whole new scripting language as well as a build system.

But CMake probably will get you a program that compiles cross-platform within an hour or two, even for a novice. Autotools probably won't do that for you.
the article is about the Tech Tangent video, that is what I guessed and it is. the article writes about the dodgy video cable... which is shown in the first few minutes. so whoever wrote it, made a summary.

It plays pacman very shitty BTW, as the TSR control bar will stay on screen.
“Not perfect” is a straw man because obviously nothing ever is perfect or 100% complete. When shipping something becomes the priority, then “obviously broken” stuff just gets re-dubbed “not perfect” which is exactly the problem.

If your users are forced to use your platform because you mainly sell to CTOs who only need a list of checkboxes checked, and they strike a deal with you, then yeah. It’s a great business model to check as many boxes as possible, get that contract, then figure out what those boxes actually mean later.
It's not about the leak itself, but the lax of their operational policies that resulted into it, the low level of ownership they demonstrated in communication through the incidents, the weird design decisions that were made to leave parts of wallets unencrypted, that you would never know of since it's all a black box (1pwd for example opensourced some of their designs).
There is no single "you" in this scenario, there are two distinct persons. One experiences being transported to Mars, the other experiences the transporter failing and them being stuck on Earth.
> I'd still rather eat at ten places that have those than one place that has you.

If my making a scene makes other customers upset, then it's working. I know businesses hate it when people do this, and that's why I know it's an effective tactic. The whole point of the protest is to sabotage the business by making everybody else in the room upset.
Same. If you accept the game's assertion that souls and reincarnation have been proven, it go e's you a hard time for changing your answer based on new evidence. Very strange for a game purporting to explore beliefs.
Critical thinking is just saying "Hey this neighbor has a history of lying to me and my other neighbor said that they tried to get a court order to stop them from putting up a fence. Maybe I should check the forecast before canceling my fence building plans".

How is that not an application of domain knowledge (know your neighbours) with a bit of intelligence? How do you teach people to do that in general? How do you teach people to deal with questions when they lack domain knowledge?
I thought contactless payment was less secure than chip. With a chip reader, the POS terminal powers the chip on the card to do encryption on the card. The POS terminal cannot access the private key on the card. Contactless is much lower power, and basically reads a one-time code for the transaction, and the card does not perform any encryption. Is that incorrect?
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So to me, this view is technically true, in this case the worst kind of true.

I don't think we do the world too many favors with it; better to encourage people that their lives are more valuable than this.

(And please never take this to mean never-ever, e.g. euthanasia in cases of extreme physical problems seems fair too)
> A replaceable battery needing its own impact shell

Why ? Current battery replacements are sold without an impact shell, and the main issue is to have to remove all the parts to reach the battery at the very bottom of the stack and then deal with the dirty gluing.

A design where you remove the bottom first, unglue the battery through pull tabs and stick the new battery would have exactly the same properties, the body would still act as an impact shell, the only difference being it's a 5 or 6 step process instead of literaly 55.
That would not have helped much with the jobs where I needed to use some proprietary IDE, or which involved some OS on which Emacs was poorly supported.

(If I had already been an Emacs fan, I suppose I could have found some way to forcibly bodge things together and use my preferred editor regardless: but I'm afraid it's never appealed to me.)
Haha I wonder if we worked at the same company. Anyways, I also remember that a lot of those same teams never read the documentation that explained how any of that stuff worked. In general, most of Scala stuff was made out to be super hard and complicated by other people, when really they just needed someone to explain to them the basics in simple terms what was happening.

I don't get to write Scala anymore and now I really miss it for certain things.
I still watch Tintin's animated series and the movie from time to time. They're just so well made, such amazingly adventurous stories.

Idealistic guy, always standing up for righteousness, not afraid to be in difficult situations for people who are close to him. Many great moral lessons can be found in Tintin.

They're on YouTube so whenever I feel like watching the 'Uncharted before Uncharted was a thing', I put up Adventures of Tintin (1991).
Not only that, they get likes comments and free protection from spam which is easy to moderate from their standpoint.
Secret security isn't a common use case, as it has an uncommon but critical property - it's binary - either the credential is leaked / stolen or it isn't.

If "convenient + good" isn't good enough and your credential is compromised, your solution fails completely, 0% score.

If "inconvenient + better" does prevent the compromise of your credential, then it is an absolute success, 100% score.

Prioritizing convenience over security while selecting your password manager is like prioritizing keyless entry over functioning brakes while shopping for a used car - it's clearly a stupid decision even from the perspective of a layperson.

I'll shed zero tears as I play the world's smallest violin when people who've made such decisions have their identity stolen, home forclosed, and savings drained because "muh convenience!"
* don’t make me think
* refactoring UI
* rocket surgery
Doubts creep in about wisdom of ‘no-kids zones’ in South Korea
Is the map on https://ns-global.zone/ actually the MicroMirror map? There seem to be a lot more dots on the map than in the traffic graph. If that map is accurate, I’m curious where the Minneapolis-ish node is (network wise). I’m not seeing 23.128.97.0/24 via MICE.
I've replaced batteries with tools. It's a slab inside the phone and it tends to get somewhat hot, there really aren't that many places to put them, I have a really hard time believing making repairs difficult is not the main reason defining the current standard.

Now, things like bluetooth earphones, those I'm curious about.
I too make the server tell me what's on the menu, because I grew up in the 8th century BCE when literacy hadn't yet overtaken the strong oral chanting tradition of preserving and transmitting information, and I believe that the written word is a debasement of human intellect.
Op clearly hasn't seen a 2 years old trying to press anything on a phone. Their fingers might be tiny, but they manage to press the whole screen.

Lol
> one failure and the bad guys are in.

You don't have to store passwords in an off-the-shelf password manager; you can store secure notes and files. In other words, you could continue to use your current method of hints but with more organisation.

Point being that what you’re doing is not meaningfully different from using a password manager, you just manage your passwords in an uncommon manner.
Snowy is the name of the dog, in English at least.
It's pretty cool, that these comics have been read so far and for so long. Being from a bit later, I had no idea they were already famous all the way to India.
> Distribution would like to override a default. It can patch the file but that is somewhat harder to discover (it would require reading the package source). Alternatively it can add a drop-in. That drop-in goes into /usr too since it's a distribution file.

> User would like to override a default. They should not edit /usr because that belongs to the distribution. They drop their override in /etc.

Larry Wall elegantly solved these problems 38 years ago with the "patch" utility. Debian is a good example of how its use has been standardized to solve these problems.

The patch approach to managing distribution-provided configuration files is superior to the systemd unit approach for at least three reasons:

- Non-experts can read the configuration files from top to bottom in linear order, so the documentation can be inlined by the distribution provider, which means they can add maintainers notes as necessary.

- It also works better than the systemd unit style of configuration for sophisticated users. In particular, if you add a now-incompatible option to the file in the suggested place (next to the documentation and commented out default version of the setting), then the package management system can detect that you've made a potentially breaking change before installing the new software, and ask you what to do. This works in the absence of sophisticated data modeling, schema mapping tools, etc.

- The implementation of all this is factored out and standardized across 1000's of packages, so it only needs to be implemented once and understood once.
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True, but net worth is far from the same thing as income. That $1m house costs him money to keep up.

FWIW, I don’t think $750k would be too much for a Justice’s salary. It wouldn’t hurt, and would likely pay for itself just through the reduced motivation for corruption.

We shouldn’t have top-level public servants that are struggling financially. We shouldn’t make them ultra wealthy, but paying them enough to live comfortably even if they’re terrible with money and live paycheck to paycheck seems like a reasonable approach.
> What is the difference between slowly replacing [...] and instantly replacing [...]

Not to be obtuse, but... the speed.

Really this is a shortcoming of the thought experiment. Progressive replacement is subjectively more continuous than complete replacement. A better thought experiment would be to feed it out something like:

* What if we replaced every atom of you body progressively over 24 hours?

* What if we replaced every atom of your body suddenly all at once?

* What if we replaced every atom of your body, but delayed by 1s?

* What if we replaced every atom of your body, but delayed by 1 day?

* What if we replaced every atom of your body suddenly all at once, but moved about 1mm?

* *What if we replaced every atom of your body suddenly all at once, but a day later and moved by thousands of miles?"
He had a different risk tolerance and definition of safety. I would not agree that he made wise choice, but there is a difference between wanton recklessness and literally suicidal.
So, how does that tie into incel culture?
As I said in another comment, if we had more easily available rental cars that would be more commonly used outside of a vacation context, we could buy cars that match the need we have 98% of the time, rather than optimize for the 2%.

I also think that this is another corrective action problem. The benefit to everyone from having most carsm in our cities be much smaller would be huge, but the inconvenience from having a smaller car is the thing an individual can control.
As a European citizen I agree that the way car manufacturers are given the satin glove treatment is despicable.

That said, the EU does regulate every market it participates in. If you can find it on a store shelf, you'll find EU regulation about it.

One of the major driving forces behind the Brexit vote was to "get rid of all of the EU paperwork". Of course they still have to get their paperwork in order if they want to export to the EU now, but for their internal market they're free to ignore all the EU regulations if they want to. As it turns out, most of those regulations were quite reasonable so a lot of the old regulations remained unchanged, but they were definitely there.
In this example I do think it is a lie, and one that fits your definition.

Think back to when these models were first released, or even back to v2 and v3. The models would have just “tried” to answer and it would have likely been a mangled mess.

But this version gave an erudite answer to an unasked question.

If the original prompt was “Can one write a password generator in INTERCAL?” I might agree with your claim of “johnsoning”, but it instead just said “Please write…”.

I think this points to the fact that the model is filtering its own answers, similar to if you ask it be offensive, or do your homework, or quote psychadaelic scifi.

This was what I wanted to highlight. That the model has been specifically and intentionally productized to lie to save the parent company’s coffers.

Responding with ~“I would but it’s just too complex” would satisfy most without the accompanying article, but the author is well trained and so provides a solution that would even fit within the model’s current meager token limits.
You don’t have to connect your tv to internet though.
The best resources I know are these two video lectures [1][2] from MIT's 2018 6.170 course [3]. They consist of a set of heuristics that summarize the best of decades of UI/UX research, very well presented by Professor Daniel Jackson.

There is also the deeper MIT's 6.813 " User Interface Design & Implementation" [4]

[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qblmdoZIJQ4rYGgCPLNusEn2yWi...

[2] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Cvco6r8a6oV3Sy89RKdIfrZCrGi...

[3] https://stellar.mit.edu/S/course/6/fa18/6.170/materials.html

[4] http://web.mit.edu/6.813/www/sp18/
This is the easiest answer ever: It's not meaningfully "free/open source."

It didn't even have to start out that way; sure, keep that competitive advantage for a few years. But by today, you really should be able to develop an app or whatever for the iPad with ZERO friction and ZERO permission from Apple.
The map is a latency heat map. I should probably replace it with a POP map
> There are no actually meaningful ways to get in touch with a service that can cause immense harm to your or your businesses reputation and trustworthiness - in similar ways that defamation can

How isn't this defamation, actually? Or at least negligent tortious interference? If people can get sued for honest reviews...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/posting-a-negative-review-onlin...

If a customer posts a review that is factually inaccurate or contains accusations about your business that are untrue, you may have grounds to sue the online reviewer for defamation. - https://www.freshbooks.com/blog/can-you-sue-over-a-bad-revie...
I agree but I'd round it out by saying copywriting and information architecture are the keys to the kingdom.
Sounds like you’re incredibly lucky that current products just happen to barely not exceed your deal-breaking threshold. A few years ago you wouldn’t have found any products meeting your requirements.
as far as i know there have been improvements? not sure what kind of "revolution" the author wanted but having a medium-form-factor portable computer with the power to do stuff like writing recognition (well) and speech synthesis is pretty helpful

then again, the hard truth is there's no percentage in accessibility software. not to say no one can make money doing it, but it's basically a bounded market. the driver of improvements will probably be as boomers start aging more: they'll live longer, but at a lower quality of life, so need stuff to help them get by. and it'll be a big enough market to justify serious attention.

i think this quote from the guy illustrates his misunderstanding pretty well: "It’s hard to think that non-disabled consumers would be expected to accept the same slow pace of incremental improvement for as essential a human function as speech." see of course it's reasonable to expect that tech for normal people improves faster, it's a massively larger market.

"To compensate for the small market size, developers backed into a convoluted business model that required a physician or licensed speech pathologist to formally “prescribe” the device, strategically (and astronomically) priced to subsidize the cost of its development." case in point. stuff made for a small group of people is gonna run pricey, that's to be expected. feels like this guy is mad no one's built a 99 cent app for an ipad so his daughter has that tech easily. i get the frustration, but it's a pretty tiny market so if i'm fred the app builder i'm not about to go out and address that as my first choice.

new tech starts off pareto optimal: putting in 20% of the effort to capture 80% of the market. that's also how we iterate faster. i think it's one of those cases where insisting accessibility software be given equal attention at every stage of the technology life cycle would long-term slow things down for everyone, all in the name of some fuzzy principle of equality of outcome.
Oh man this brings back memories. Internet was not a thing and I couldn't afford to buy them. So we had these makeshift "libraries" where you can "rent" books. Id pester the owner of the rental to get me particular Tintin/asterix books that my friends had read before me!!
This is essentially the same argument that Paul Graham made, which is that WFH worked decently during the pandemic because people were able to "coast" off of previously built pre-pandemic relationships, but as time goes on that the difficulties in building new relationships that are as strong remotely shows up. I get particularly worried about younger employees and new grads. I learned a ton as a new grad being onsite, and I had the benefit that the first company I joined after college had a "bootcamp" training onboarding for new grads - a quarter century later I'm still friends with many of the people from that bootcamp and have gotten many professional jobs through that network.

The strife over WFH vs WFO is what I call a standard "all of these are true" problem, meaning that the points people make on different sides are both true - the problem is people want to optimize for different things. E.g. I think all of these are true:

1. People can save a ton of time and money WFH.

2. The additional flexibility from WFH makes it easier for people with outside responsibilities (e.g. child or elder care) to contribute productively in work.

3. Overall productivity, especially for non-rote tasks, goes down measurably when the vast majority of people are remote. The FAANGs appear to have data to back this up. For everyone that says "but I'm more productive!" it's not hard to believe a bunch of other people are taking multi-hour lunch breaks.

4. The overall strength of work relationships goes down when people are remote. Again, not for everyone, but in aggregate.

5. People are spending much more time alone. The article shows the data for this. I think long term this will be particularly bad for society. It's much harder to empathize with people from different groups if you never interact with them, nevermind that loneliness in and of itself is something of an epidemic.

6. WFH makes people less likely to be "career obsessed" in the first place. I think this is the thing a lot of companies are realizing, that if anything the masses are actually getting to see the "wizard behind the curtain". That is, pre-pandemic, loads of tech companies wanted to motivate their employees with grand talk of "changing the world", and it's a lot easier to feel that motivation in a colocated group. Of course, for most companies, you're not actually changing the world, and most importantly, the company doesn't really give a damn if you change the world or not. They just want to make money. So I think WFH leads a lot of people to re-evaluate their priorities into what they want out of life in the first place, and this is overall bad news for companies that want to convince employees that they should put work above all else (primarily for the benefit of shareholders).
The people, themselves, are the ones electing EU officials and passing these regulations.
An iPhone SE is half that. A budget Android half again. Both completely usable, just won't replace your mirrorless camera just yet.
Huh. I had never even considered the possibility that it wasn't just a kinda neat handle.
I switched my mother, who also has cognitive decline, from the iPhone 7 to the iPhone SE to keep the same shape and the home button. She was never able to master the upward swipe on her new iPad.

Changing to the newer iOS was challenging for her due to the significantly smaller and pushed to the top call answering buttons. Apple does a lot for accessibility, but I really wish they had an “old persons mode”.
I use this one: https://github.com/elias-sundqvist/obsidian-annotator
IMHO, the body, the psyche and the soul can't be separated like that. A body without a soul is a cadaver. The soul is whatever makes the body not a cadaver. The psyche appears from the interaction of the body and the soul.

So, in question 1, the teleportation kill you 100%. In question 2, unsure but both choices is probably equaly deadly. And question 3 is pure fantasy because you can't have a living body without a soul.
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Zero-visibility interfaces are a challenge even for me.

Often they overlap with other "swipe" features giving unexpected results

There is no manual to explain them (that I know of), one must stumble across them which often leads to frustrating results.
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