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The blog post is confusing the nature of policy changes being bullshit with the in-office being bullshit.

Star ICs crushing it at remote work doesn't mean star teams; and if their coworkers are avoiding them in reviews it does sound like there are communication issues at play.
The discussion here tends to ignore the posts about people working multiple jobs or not working 40 hours a week remotely. Can't have your cake and eat it too
> What's less clear is whether WFH productivity is relatively high because it leverages structures and relationships that were established pre-pandemic, when working from the office was the norm.

Hasn't there been a massive amount of turnover since the pandemic began?
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Organization is always the key. The minute people are treated as isolated cases they are exploitable.
The point is that a byte focus will often frustrate users.

e.g., a TUI with columns will have to truncate "long" strings in each column, and that truncation and column-separator arrangement really should be grapheme aware.

e.g., a string search (for a name, let's say) should find Noël regardless of whether the user input ë via composing characters or the pre-composed version.
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I enjoyed the flexibility of WFH but I still prefer working with local teams in the office. There are pros and cons to both, but it's silly to assume everyone has the same preference as you just because your preference is strongly held.

This is my response to both your comment and TFA. There is less consensus on this topic than the very-vocal WFH crowd would have you believe. I know plenty of other talented engineers that feel similarly to me. They aren't dogmatic about it, but they prefer working with their teammates in the office.
Audio calls are fine on FaceTime and Teams (and, I suspect, most other products). But if you and (especially) your team are still talking to your screen instead of using a real headset, then yeah, the quality is going to suck. One doesn't need use the pricey headset and mic I normally use for music production, just something that doesn't have the software DSP constantly trying to filter out background noise while still picking up your voice.

But if you're referring to cell calls, yeah, we lost a lot of quality when we ditched landlines.
What an interesting mess!

It occurs to me that a canonical semantic representation of all known (extracted) language concepts would be useful too.

Now that we have multi-language LLM's it would be an interesting challenge to create/design a canonical representation for a minimum number of base concepts, their relations and orthogonal "voice" modifiers, extracted from the latent representations of an LLM across a whole training set, over all training languages.

While the best LLMs still have complex reasoning issues, their understanding of concepts and voice at the sentence level is highly intuitive and accurate. So the design process could be automated.

The result would be a human language agnostic, cross-culture concept inclusive, regularized & normalized (relatively speaking) semantic language. Call it SEMANTICODE.

We need to get this right, using one standard LLM lineage, before the Unicode people create a super standard that spans 150 different LLM's and 150 different latent spaces! :O

Stability between updates would be guaranteed by including SEMANTICODE as a non-human language in training of future LLM's. Perhaps including a (highly) pre-normalized semantic artificial language would dramatically speed up and reduce the parameter count needed for future multi-language training?*

Then LLMs could use SEMANTICODE talk to each other more reliably, efficiently, and with greater concept specificity than any of our single languages.
Not OP, but not everyone has an ideal environment to work from home. They might be in a small apartment with two adults trying to both get work done without disturbing the other. They might have young children that need full-time supervision.

They could leave to find a coffee shop or something similar to work from but not everyone enjoys working in that type of environment or has a job where that would be appropriate. My wife, for example, works on things that require a security clearance and are on a years long secretive development cycle. Having those conversations overheard in a public space could be problematic. By the time you get to the point of renting a workspace to get a little privacy, you might as well let your employer pay for it and go back to the office.
I think they meant, if you're going to work at all throughout the entire month, only 2 days would be onsite, the rest are WFH.
This smells like corporate propaganda to me. Notice how there is no "about us" page that tells you who created the page, who funds them, absolutely no way to attach this site to any living human?
This is exactly why vinyl actually does sound better sometimes. Because of the physical limitations of viny, vinyl masters were less affected by the "loudness wars" and they have greater dynamic range.
Where is the kid then when they are at the office? Probably in childcare then not left alone with a stove if they are at the bug you all day age. You can put them in childcare wile working remote too.
I haven't trusted LTT benchmarks or opinions for a while, and I don't plan on supporting them post-drama. That said, GP just posts a video where they use a relevant product in question, and I can see the operation for myself. I think that still contributes to the discussion and is a useful enough resource. Probably the monitor was hand-picked as one of the best-working ones, but this is the normal skepticism I approach any video showcasing a product sent by the manufacturer.
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Oh, yeah this probably got lost in my wall of text. I 100% agree with this; I might even say that all the fixation with it by people like me is a way of coping with general anxiety, or a brain that always needs something to do, or a person who was so consistently let down by the knowledge, traditions and ways of their people that they groped around wildly for any idea of how to feed themselves / live their lives.
>pulled off right, this "shared ecosystem" approach across manufacturers can be very strong, and from a competition perspective is probably pretty healthy.

I wish the Steam Machines didn't fail, they were pretty much this https://web.archive.org/web/20160303080731/https://store.ste...

One can say the Steam Deck is a better successor but I think mostly because of Proton itself became mature through the years (compared to 2016)
Pulling out of that market is far easier
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Absolutely agreed. Beyond the need in the name of science, you're more likely to bring every onboard with an idea if you transparently study and share the pros and cons.
It's even worse when you have to go into the office just to sit all day on video calls with people that are remote.
Well, proper Unicode support affects pretty much any area handling data about, used by, or created by, humans. That’s a pretty broad scope, and certainly wider than just web software.
As a father of a 1 year old, my focus is immediately broken when she's throwing a fit or even just making unusual noises moving around, even if I rationally know my wife is taking care of it and she's probably just crawling around. I get twice as much done at the office.
Is there a directory (wiki) of dark-money funded left-wing think tanks?
Spending is what you do in an inflationary environment. There are 2 reasons for that:

1 all the basics cost more

2 any savings will get depreciated quickly though inflation so your ability to save is limited
They may be looking at you with a "what? I can't remember a thing after the second round of vodkas"
This seems like a lot of conjecture without any numbers or facts to back it up. You assume that making Group B return to office won't affect their productivity, while making Group A work from home will. However, I know for me personally I'm far more productive when I work from home. I know I'm not the only one where this is the case. Forcing me into the office would drop my productivity considerably.
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The 2 hours max is so no hotel room is needed. Two hours would be a hellish commute if it were every day, but it’s no big deal only two days a month.
A cup of orange juice is typically pretty small and resturant juicers work pretty fast. A big banquet hall that does mimosas probably already has the equipment to accommodate this request. (Or close enough, I'd juice a bit the night before to get a sense of the time and have some in case we run out)
So you don't have to fly people in.
Yeah, as soon as I see that 2 days a month thing, I'm not applying for the position. That's my only critique.
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Well, the post shows that the given function is a functor.

However, I might argue that calling the function a "parser" is a bit of a stretch. In a toy, abstract sense, sure, and maybe there's a formal definition of "parser" that it conforms to, but just because it's named a "parser" doesn't really mean that's all a "parser" is when we talk about it in other contexts.

Parsers, to me, in a professional software engineering sense, need to have error handling, performance and memory guarantees, the ability to do "best case" parsing and return a number of errors all at once, and so on.

So one interpretation of "No, a parser is not a functor", despite the proof here, is "I reject that the toy example here being called a parser is sufficiently close to what I would call a 'parser', and what a 'parser' is to me is not a functor [because of these other things not captured by the example]".

I tend to agree with that. Haskellers don't have an exclusive claim to terminology, and I don't think "parser" is defined formally enough that we all must agree on it.
The issue is time. They absolutely work better than microwaves, but microwaves are popular precisely because they are just much faster.
Video conf indeed sucks sometimes. That's when that "video" part is mandated. Actual work meetings where people look at someone presenting something or simply listening in background and working meanwhile are just fine. As long as some lowest rung PM is not mandating turning on cameras, "video" conf is great :)
I worked at Google for 4.5 years. If you are video calling into a meeting from MTV where other people in MTV are in person, you are probably not doing real work. It's not seamless and it's orders of magnitude less productive. Meetings take longer and rarely produce useful follow-ups if you're remote.
I've received relocation assistance and signing bonuses where it was stated I would need to return if I left within a certain time (a year I think)
“To discover how tall their coworkers are in person”
> I wonder if employees would personally cover the cost of a one week meetup once per month if their other option was move city and office all the time.

Nah employers paying out of pocket makes so much more sense for this arrangement, just pay the remote worker less and make it clear they need to come in for one week a month. It's basically the same thing.
No, subscription hardware was not done anywhere to my knowledge.
You bought your modem at a local store like CompUSA or through a mail order catalog. Actually finding a service to dial in to was left as an exercise to the user. (Hence why AOL famously mailed out floppies (and later CDs) to every household in America on a regular basis.)
I was wondering why remote work didn't become the golden standard even in the 2000s.

Imagine fully-remote Internet dot-com era companies that don't require any hardware, can hire from anywhere in the country or the world, don't need any real estate investment, and can pass the savings onto competitively hiring best talent.

There hasn't been any compelling reason for most internet-only companies like yahoo, google, facebook, etc to have ever waste billions into huge office campuses.

And no, the reason isn't "video conferencing bad".
One of my favorite cultural artefacts from Europe is that "Oh you pay tuition? Sorry your grades weren't good enough"

My university only charged you for retaking exams (after 3 tries) and for redoing a year, if you didn't make a baseline of credits. 1 re-do was free. You can re-take any class for free as long as you're enrolled. I used this to take classes from past years that I didn't pass.

While I'm a bad example of using free schooling well, this is exactly the sort of thing taxes should pay for. If the world's richest country can't pay for schooling, ...

edit: I also remember various professors explaining how paid tuition and good education are opposites. You can't have good education with high standards, if people expect a return on their investment (a degree). How can you look someone who paid $100k in the eye and say "Sorry, you do not meet the bar. No degree"?
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If certain members become known as being super important or valuable, management's response will more often be "fix this risk" not "great, let's reward that person". In the short term it will bring that person some degree of job security, but in the long term they are viewed as a threat to the org.

It's the assembly line mindset -- if there's only one person who can operate the machine or build a part, remove the part.
I would love to go back to an office. But not the new offices and workplaces that have shaken out in the post-COVID era.

Reserving floating desks. Insufficient office space for the number of employees (because they overhired in 20/21). Declining quality of local employer options generally. A more hostile environment overall. Before I left Google it was clear that the rather nice environment we had before was never coming back. So without the perks, and the pleasant... why stay other than money? I decided I'd rather just cut spending. (Obviously others don't necessarily have these options)

I don't actually like working remote (though I don't miss the commute). But the only way to get meaningful work and work that pays decently for me now is remote.

I think many employers doing mandatory RTO are overplaying their hand and they will suffer for it. Or they are giving a clear signal of the values that actually hold in their workplace, and so basically telling picky and probably higher quality senior talent to stay away.
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There kind of is precedent for that - the Japanese internment camps that were built in the US during WW2.

Not necessarily something we should try to repeat, though.
There's also a group C that struggles in most office environments, but excels at home.
Why it always need to be only about productivity and not what is better for people? I get that company need to make money but surly productivity is not dropping 50% and company makes significantly less
It is a Taylor Swift economy.
iMessage has had several vulnerabilities related to this. Whatever the difficulties are, even Apple can't handle them sometimes.
They took our offices away while we were gone and got us to return to cubicles. It’s some cynical bullshit. I hate my job now because of it.
My issue with every piece of commercial software I’ve used is the lag. Slack, Google Meet, Zoom… All have noticeable delay which make conversation unnatural and painful.

I’ve been using FaceTime Audio to communicate with family on the other side of the world and it’s incredible. Zero latency and great audio quality. It’s an extremely underrated piece of tech. Not sure about FaceTime video as I’ve never used it, but I bet it’s equally impressive.

Amazing that no one else was able to solve this problem considering the demand for such software during the pandemic. Not my area of expertise, but I assume it must be quite difficult.
The biggest issue for Mac users is the placement of the `command` key on the US ANSI keyboards - which is the layout for pretty much all mechanical keyboards. And the missing left `fn` key.

It requires you to curl your thumb awkwardly when resting on the home row or WASD.

It is between the Z and X, but on MacBook keyboard it is directly under the X so your thumb can rest straight.

The only keyboard I have found that has a similar MacBook layout is the Niz Plum Micro84[1] with dome switches.

There was also the discontinued NuPhy F1 that had a fn key but still had a terrible command placement.

I don't know why more Mac users don't complain about this.

[1]: https://epomaker.com/products/niz-plum-84-bluetooth
[2]: https://nuphy.com/collections/keyboards/products/nutype-f1
I also love Apple's OS and first-party apps' seamless integration. However, Google has a better story with cloud apps in gsuite. My Mac is overkill hardware for running a browser, but I like the build quality.
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