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> If I wasn't paid to work full time on open source software, I'd think very carefully about whether to do any open source work nowadays.

I've been maintaining open source software for two decades now, and I still love it when people ask for more stuff. It signals engagement and satisfaction and gives me very concrete directional guidance around where I should take my software.

I'm under no obligation to deliver on those requests.

My day job pays my bills, my open source stuff brings me joy.
People are allowed to have different preferences and lifestyles than the majority. I’m not a CEO so it’s not my place to decide what a company does or doesn’t do.
I've had a similar experience. Also that buying replacement power cables is easy and pretty cheap.

On Black Friday a few years ago there was an HP Chromebook with touch screen and 8 GB of RAM on sale for a really good price, enough so that I temporarily lifted my absolute ban on HP products to buy. It was my wife's beloved computer for many years until a kid threw it in anger and shattered the screen D-:
Note that Nue will probably work just fine for your use case. The list is not re-rendered when individual items on the list are updated or when new items are added. Currently only re-rendered when the whole list is sorted or replaced with a new one. Based on the feedback here looks like I need to optimize these two mass-operations as well.
Software is a creative process that requires brain effort. You can't always force progress. Work also happens when we aren't in the chair.
Having worked extensively with TDI Explore and Wavefront software on SGI machines, seeing this on my browser still blows my mind.
If they can, they should! This is true for all things related to employment.
Going from hybrid - pre-covid, and hiring as such - to 100% onsite is an asshole move and should be called out as such.

> apparent contradiction

I don't understand what you mean. Where's the contradiction? OP saying "never take an ultimatum" isn't absolute - there's an implied "in your best interest" there. If a cop tells you "freeze or I'll shoot!" do you ignore that ultimatum? Of course not, context matters. Obviously an H1B trying to support a family is going to most likely choose to comply with the ultimatum in the best interest of their quality of life. It's just unfortunate they have far less negotiation room.
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While you need a (burner) gmail to login, you aren't obligated to use Google services on a Chromebook. The built-in Linux VM scratches the Linux development itch for me.
That's for enthusiasts (super fit people)? From health benefits perspective for average person, what I've heard is that it's enough for the weight to trigger accelerated heart rate, heavier breathing, sweating etc. when walking. 10-15 kg supposedly should do it for most people.
While it's true that the financial discipline needed to protect an emergency fund isn't as prevalent as it should be, it's important to remember that an emergency fund only lasts if you don't experience an emergency. From 2017-2022 we had a pandemic that caused an enormous number of personal emergencies; between layoffs, inflation, disease, death, and all of the associated costs it's safe to say that a lot of people may have wiped out their emergency fund just trying to survive.
Ok, but that doesn't answer the question; it's more of an indication that those design(at)s didn't uncover "the true extent" until years later
Looks interesting. Can you share your email?
Companies seem to be under the delusion that return-to-office mandates will increase productivity, and I think this is absolute nonsense. Return-to-office mandates will demoralize your workers and make them seek greener pastures. Workers will become less happy and loyal, and top talent will leave for employers that provide greater flexibility. Executives that mandate return-to-office are crippling their workforces in the long-term.

If a company wants to increase productivity, then they should provide greater ownership and autonomy to workers, as well as better incentives such as profit sharing. If an engineer knows that they'll get a cut of the cost savings or profits of some project idea they have, then you can bet that many employees will take advantage of that to get valuable work done.

If I were running a company, I'd hire remotely from the global talent pool, and more importantly ensure that my employees are actually incentivized to get things done via ownership and profit sharing.

It's a shame that executives at big tech companies are opting for the authoritarian approach, and I firmly believe that that will be their downfall. There certainly is value to in-person collaboration, but forcing it via threats is absolutely not the right approach. A better way to incentivize workers returning to office would be via positive incentives (eg. more money, subsidized housing, free transportation) as opposed to negative threats (eg. firing people for not obeying the lord's commands)
Remote work is deprecating the Bill Lumbergs. RTO is driven by a mediocre middle management layer that most orgs can do without.

If Musk tells me to come back to work, well ok. But I've done lots of work for F500s and my response to them is "do you deserve having me in the office for more than just paycheck leverage?" Maybe, but in my experience not really.
> on the whim of whichever executive we happen to be serving under at the present time.

You're being too kind. Whims aren't the problem, lack of imagination is (and in leadership positions that should be unacceptable).

The problem is, few of the RTO office execs have WFH long enough to understand it. They have no clue how to lead WFH. They have no clue how to manage WFT. And they're not interested in learning new tricks. They simply wield their power and reinstate the status quo.

In a word...weak.

The RTO v WFH debate (?) is an opportunity in the market. An opportunity where WFH is the new up and coming opportunity. RTO is all but a fax machine. Who would feel comfortable working at a company where the executives lacked imagination and are all but mandating "Bring back the fax machine"?
cppreference is a great doc and can be download
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You have: 30kmph
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D-of-Ed is just federal funding, most education funding (unlike defense funding) is at the state/local level.
I echo this sentiment completely. I do 2-3 days a week in my office and I am personally mentally better off for it.

That said, personally is the key word. I manage a team. I love seeing employees together and aligning on things in person where possible - but totally understand if this does not suit their schedule that day or week. It often does not work with mine.

It's the small human mistakes that are innocent and spontaneous - like inevitably spilling coffee on myself - that keep us humble.

Some fit the remote world entirely never wanting to see the inside of an office again, some thrive off rubbing shoulders with colleagues. I found it difficult to not have social engagements outside of family during the darker periods of the COVID-19 pandemic. I also found myself working longer hours, not having solid disconnected time or neglecting my health physically and mentally.

I believe we still have a lot to learn about how to work best remotely. Businesses should invest in making this as normal as possible - for example enforcing a work-from-desk policy for calls has helped normalise communication. I do worry slightly about those younger graduates coming into the industry now that have never had the experience of working in an office.
I feel like people are misremembering POTS voice quality--it's roughly equivalent to AM radio.

POTS truncates to 300–3,300 Hz and downsamples to 8kHz (if it goes through a digital switch, which it has for 50+ years)

The improvement with "HD Voice" on 4G cellular networks 10+ years ago was stark and welcome.
I’ve used these tools on all sorts of network configurations and there’s always lag.

One thing I will say is that this was all within Australia. Surely the packets aren’t going overseas, but perhaps whatever servers they use in AU just aren’t optimised for ultra low latency.
Google offered custom domain support to individuals decades ago, and slowly pivoted that offering to become Google Workspace. Their systems don't differentiate between personal users with a custom domain and giant-ass corporations. As such, many Google products reject logins from custom domains until the offering is beefed-up to meet enterprise demands.

Music and Photos started this way, but eventually upgraded to allow custom domain accounts. Stadia was always gmail-only. Google One too. Home/Nest kind of works with a custom domain, but you can't share your devices with family members. There was a whole year there where it stopped allowing you to set reminders from a custom domain, and it still doesn't reliably work.

It's been a long time since I've set up a Google account - you might be able to use a non-gmail domain now and still be treated as a person (e.g. an iCloud user who wants to login to non-gmail Google products), but stay away from any sort of Workspace account as an individual.
Don't pretend those people are getting work done in the office. The fact is a few of us do the lion's share of the work while most employees, wfh or in the office, are dragging ass.
In person I can walk by the person and see if they are available for a quick chat. Typing a novel is a pain when a water cooler chat will work. IF the person is busy then you dont shoulder tap.
My absolute favorite application of this tech so far is The Beach Boys singing 'Hurt'. It's the first time I seriously didn't notice any artifacts, and it just works so well even though it really shouldn't.

Enjoy: https://youtu.be/gmNSFqyg_Z8
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> Walking over and talking to someone is still far superior to any online communication.

Hard disagree. That not only distracts that person, but also the six+ sitting around them. Most questions are fine as a chat message. We found people starting asking more questions to colleagues when Covid wfh started because they were afraid to earlier, communication actually improved.

The office is imo necessary for quite some things (onboarding new people, coaching juniors, people without a good place to work at hone, people who like the social aspect of the office) but walking up to someone for a quick question isn't it.
> Immigration exists because market demand for workforce exists

The massive wave of migration the US is seeing from (say) Venezuela is due to market demand in the US? Are you sure there isn't a bigger factor driving this?
Lag is one of the issues I've never had with any of those services. I think they all have their CDNs built up enough so thats not a real problem for the vast majority of people.
It used an *.xml file to store all the things which needed to happen to setup the system. File copies, registry entries, installing dependencies of various types, running scripts, configure windows features, IIS sites and directories and app pools and what-have-you, some other misc. stuff I forget now. Also would restart the computer if a restart return code was received, and would provision a user it would set up for auto-logon to resume install progress after the restart.

Each type of entry in the config file had a module which knew:

- How to check if the entry was already done and in a good state

- How to uninstall cleanly the thing (not actually needed; this was for system imaging)

- Usage of variables that would dynamically configure the system

- Variables also could conditionalize what gets installed

At the end of the day it was somewhere between a true installer engine and Powershell DSC (DSC would come about a few years later). This installer is probably no longer in use, as you can imagine more robust ways of solving this need exist now.

It was a heck of a lot of fun to build and watch it working though!
That's true in the US, but probably to a lesser degree than in Europe.

If you had good enough SATs, you can often get full scholarships to your state's public universities. Other states' schools as well, although to a lesser degree—it would be more selective, like scholarships for private schools, since public colleges obviously prefer to subsidize their own states' residents over others, given equal test scores.
I even think a quarterly off site is too much. Yearly is fine. Organizing flights, pet care, etc every 3 months is such a damn hassle, and I don't even have kids.
It’s not that simple - it’s a stupid control thing.

When you have these top down mandates with measurements, now you’re introducing new surveillance and metrics that are both disruptive and counter-productive.

I’m not a remote zealot - I probably average two days a week, sometimes half days. I live a 20 minute walk/5 minute drive from work in a central business district. I’m a senior leader with hundreds of employees.

Personally, I’d prefer smaller offices with hotel space and generously equipped collaboration space. Require that people live or be available at regional hubs monthly or quarterly. My aunt had an arrangement like this for a airline in the late 90s - they setup a router and PC in her basement and would have meeting or two a month at the office.

For me, top down dictates that remove business unit autonomy and don’t understand reality are always a net negative. WFH flexibility reduced sick and family sick absences by 60%. People who’d take an hour off to go to the doctor now take a half day.

Now, I have two employees reporting on this stuff instead of doing something productive. So I’m losing thousands of man-hours to absences and spending 3000-4000 more to figure out how many asses are in chairs in dozens of facilties across the world. Managing professionals like fast food employees is dumb. The only winners are the CRE and banking people.
> but in many states in the US there is so-called "implied consent", and refusal to do the breathalyzer results in your license being suspended regardless of any DUI conviction.

It depends. Certainly most states you can refuse field sobriety tests and portable breathalyzers. But as the station later you generally can't refuse the breathalyzer machine. Check the laws for your state. This isn't to say I condone consuming alcohol before driving. It's about knowing your rights in law and protecting yourself.
Relationships, be they personal, business, or otherwise, include dealbreakers. When a dealbreaker arises, there are two ways to handle it: unilaterally end the relation, or present it to the other party.

The latter is an ultimatum, there's no way around that. Whether or not the ultimatum is reasonable depends entirely on the specifics, especially in the workplace, employers have expectations which they need to have met.

It's especially distasteful to bake in the assumption that a romantic partner setting conditions to stay in a relationship is automatically being abusive. If someone is presented with an ultimatum to quit problem drinking or lose their partner, which is more likely: that the partner is abusive or that the other partner is an alcoholic? It's certainly not automatic that it's the former!

A policy of never meeting an ultimatum is one way to live your life, I prefer to consider whether the demands are reasonable and proceed on that basis. For me it shows a stronger sense of self worth to consider this kind of thing on the merits, rather than pre-committing to stick to my guns, which is in effect a counter-ultimatum. Sometimes that's the right move, sometimes it isn't.
well, but UL Lafayette was where Bill Evans went. So it's got that going for it.
The fact that this person is so angry shows one thing:

They do not understand that the employer/employee relationship is purely transactional. Employers can fire you at any time, and likewise you can quit at any time.

Only when you accept this, will you understand that employers never owe you anything. Therefore they can’t disappoint you either.
What type of "raising the bar" do you have in mind that would be detrimental if done?

If MIT and Stanford raise the bar on education, isn't that a good thing? Don't we want them to be giving the very best education that they possibly can?
On the popular press I can imagine three reasons.

One is that the mRNA vaccines were brand new, while VV was old enough that most people have already taken a few shots using it. The media has a very non-linear response to novelty.

Another one is that the most profit-seeking laboratories were working with it. And they are the ones with closest relation to the media.

Finally, it may be some reflection of the experts hype. People were very rationally hyped due to the lack of restrictions, easiness to ramp-up new vaccines, and the bare beauty of the idea. It's possible that journalists perceived that, even if they couldn't understand or explain the reasons.
I think one thing which wasn't obvious to me early on is that halving the number of office days doesn't half the requirements for desk space. In my experience people have a strong preference for going in on similar days, particularly Tuesday and Thursday. So if you ask all of your employees to come in 2 days a week you end up needing desks for almost every employee.

The result in my experience is you have either fullish remote or you need just as many desks so very little saving from a company point of view.
Yep. Management acted like none of us knew how to work remote and we were all learning. Actually folks, no, I’ve been working like this for a while. And now I need to listen to our leaders say we work better in person and remote folks don’t know how to collaborate. What an utter failure in leadership and communication. The author said it best: these people are assholes. I’ve been so frustrated since people started going back to offices with management trying to undo what I worked to put in place prior to covid under some guise I’ve been underachieving all these years.
Arguments such as this one make accelerationism look attractive in all reality.
I think it’s important to remember people had been subjected to literally decades of propaganda that remote work didn’t work.

When everyone was forced to do it, many learned that it is not only possible but results in better overall life satisfaction.

I’m sure some people learned they really hate remote work, but my guess is there were more converts the other direction.

Also, the commercial real estate market is getting fuct. And a lot of big corporations hold commercial real estate in their portfolio.
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education is good compared to sitting on your hands for four years. it's not necessarily good compared to all the other things a person could have done in that time or the other ways those resources could have been used.

personally, I don't think that giving every 18yo a full ride to study whatever they feel like for four years is a great use of public funds. I would rather see targeted funding to fill in demonstrable gaps in the labor force.
There are metropolitan areas in Utah and Atlanta literally is a metropolitan area. They didn't say SF/NYC in that comment.