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My company closed my old office. Most were laid off, but I got to work from home. The larger initiative was to get everyone into a strategic office location, with the goal of fostering these collaborative cultures. Eventually I was forced to relocate to an office. The big new office they built was in a city chosen for its low cost. No one wanted to move there, those who were there wanted to leave. I was originally supposed to go there, but then got routed somewhere else at the last minute.

Fast forward a few years. I’m back to working from home, after ever promise around the relocation turned out to be a lie. That new office they were bragging about never gets brought up anymore. It was in a location people didn’t want to live, they didn’t get great people as a result. Any good people they did find eventually left the company for an opportunity in a better location. The office I left, that I felt forced to move, is about to be shutdown. The brain drain that happened as a result of all of this has been massive. There is no culture anymore, just a revolving door. It used to be common to have a room full of people who had been with the company for 10-20 years. They knew each other and there was a deep culture. Now, no one know anyone, and no one cares, because they won’t be around long anyway.

These office-based business decisions are nothing if they can’t get good people, and they push away all the good people they have. Culture takes time and doesn’t exist with high turnover. At least that’s been my experience.
what is a "marketplace platform" ?
The general idea here is to wait longer than 72 hours before making the decision.
Say yes and then just don’t show up at the end.
i considered diving equipment, but I never investigated them properly.
I use SwiftKey with multiple languages and only need to switch when I want to use a non-Latin-script language.

But I agree with the main point, will wait for FUTO Keyboard to support multiple simultaneous languages before I try it.
Because they're doing it for a "vibrant team culture"

The type of culture that caused the company to shut off access to your laptop
> Overall, METEOR is certainly not a fully developed metasystem, as it clearly
adheres to LISP syntax. It does not use its own reader routine, especially.

Wow, that's ignorance that would not be out of place in 2024. :)

Tt's not True Scotsman's metaprogramming until it has its own lexical analyzer and LALR(1) parser!
give them a switch.
Can't upvote this hard enough. I'm fascinated by large scale games of this kind and have a loose acquaintance with some people who run them, but it's a very tiny industry that's almost exclusively based around DC for obvious reasons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Send_to_Coventry
I loved RHIDE, thanks for reminding me of it.
I wasn't sure about (2), I must admit, only that the history of the term is complicated. Stallman seems less attached to it than the others.
Thing is, it doesn't happen like flicking a switch, it's progressive and tricky to process as a caretaker.

I'm seeing this right now with a close friend and her 83yo mother.

It's seriously damaging to my friend, and no amount of my reasoning with her seems to help her process her mother's cognitive decay...

...and it leaves me defeated also, I don't have the tools to really be of true help.
"CX employees are now expected to live within 60 miles of one of seven "hubs" — Atlanta; Salt Lake City; Reno, Nevada; Dallas; Austin; Chicago; or Pittsburgh."

All of these places are aggressively poor choices.
The content served up from the server. I ran a site for a bit there for my college, in the early 90’s on my a/ux server.
your value is what you contribute to the economy by working and consuming, or helping others work and consume. You're not getting out that easy!
An up to date workaround explanation for using fixed aspect ratios in Figma
Imagine showing up to one of the hub cities ready to work after your manager assumed you were toast…

“Oh hi Mark”
Tight vs. sold out
Any support for diagrams?

I use PlantUML extensively and tools like Znai and others have native support for it.
> The company hopes to bring staff together at the hubs at least once every six weeks for in-person training, company gatherings, or "Activism Hours".

For 90 people it can’t be that expensive for a company of Patagonia’s size to expense travel every 6-8 weeks.

With REI’s union busting efforts it seems that two of the biggest outdoor companies I respected for their values have gone by the wayside. I’ll be buying more from the cottage makers going forward.
Very cool, looks like React frontend and NestJS backend, so Typescript / Javascript for both. Curious why you chose NestJS over other options?
Such a dumb complaint. “Werwolf” is the regular German word for “werewolf” which occurs in every single novel that writes about werewolves (including the German translation of Stephanie Meyer's popular werewolves-and-vampires stories), and going by Levenshtein distance, “WerWolv” as a username is no closer to the German “Werwolf” than English “Werewolf” is.

You know the Nazis had plans called blue, red, yellow, pine tree, Icarus, heron, sea lion, northern lights, typhoon, Isabella, Hercules, etc? Should all those words now be stricken from the German lexicon because stupid Americans aren't able to consider that a German-speaker would use a common German word appropriately?
Isn't this pretty much how Wechat works currently?
Bad impressions can be contagious. Some "incompetents" have political capital.
That probably disqualifies them from the generous severance package.
Our retros usually go well, even if there's nothing effective coming out of them. We have a board with things that went well, things that didn't go well, and proposed solutions. Everyone fills it in before the meeting. This helps prevent duplicates and anyone being talked over.
They let you donate plasma twice a week?! I thought there was a much longer cooldown period...
We did something like this for a long time. We found it was helpful to change up the questions occasionally. People fell into a rhythm and didn’t have much to bring to the table. When this happened we’d throw in a retro where instead of “what didn’t go well”, we might ask, “what frustrated you”. Asking these slightly different questions brought some fire back to the retro and allowed us to surface some new issues and get them addressed.

Around the holidays we’d switch it up as well. We did a Festivus themed retro where we had the Feats of Strength, Airing of Grievances, etc. Things like that helped keep it interesting. I miss that scrum master…
Behind Davos, Claims of a Toxic Workplace
Chr – terminal editor inspired by Turbo Pascal editor from 1997
This looks pretty polished. Does anyone else here use MessageEase?
LLMs can do this for you (although no guarantee it will be a hit)
> The big hurdle now becomes that all collaborators now need to know emacs;-)

As God intended. ;)
They actually don't though, if they prefer to remain heathens see bottom of this reply.

> Although I am curious as to how clicking on TeX leading to scrolling the PDF to the corresponding location in the PDF would work (and vice-versa).

Could be wrong, but I think the synchtex files produced by builds are for that. I usually have the PDF open in one Emacs buffer (you can view pdfs in Emacs), and the TeX file open in another. Ctrl-left click in the PDF jumps to the spot in the text buffer for that spot in the PDF, and in the TeX buffer there is a keybinding to do the reverse. Probably a way to click and get there too, but I use the keybinding.

> I'm assuming you need to host an emacs server

No, Emacs runs locally and interfaces with the cloned git repo on your machine. Your collaborators could use Notepad for all Emacs cares, as long as they work in the same repo and push to the shared remote.
> being disingenuous and/or lazily finger pointing

This makes sense because confidently saying “it just sort of happened” is less nebulous or lazy. It is intellectually dangerous to attempt to connect decisions made by groups of people to either the people involved or their decision making processes.
> There's now also the problem of competing with a free alternative that increasingly almost everyone knows about.

If you read through some of the incidents in bugzilla, you get the strong impression that Entrust’s market is specifically the people for which something like LetsEncrypt isn’t currently a viable alternative (or at least a difficult one).

In trying to justify not revoking misused certificates, one example they gave for a customer they were granting extended deadlines to was some organization that was contractually obligated to their customers to provide at least 90 days notice of any certificate updates.

While the deliverable is essentially the same, I don’t think Entrust and LetsEncrypt have really been in competition.
Maybe I should clarify the type of logic I mean. Standard HTML contains instructions for how content should be rendered. But it has no control flow structures to control what content should be rendered.

Embedding loops and if/else logic in htmx tags creates scenarios where the content is potentially modified in the rendering step, meaning you can't rely on just looking at the data the backend sent over the wire to determine the source of a result that renders incorrectly. Instead of having control flow in one place, and a single source of truth, it creates an additional point of failure.

Stock price showing up wrong? That might now be a problem in your backend logic or in your complex htmx engine, buried in some template tag.
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>> Is there a tangible difference between source first / source available and open source?

Yes.

Source First: https://gitlab.futo.org/alex/latinime/-/blob/master/LICENSE....

Open Source: https://opensource.org/osd

Notably, Source First does not allow for the software to be used commercially ("You may use or modify the software only for non-commercial purposes...") whereas Open Source does allow commercial use ("The license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away the software..." and "The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor.").
I came here to ask this question as well!
they're heavily regulated which is a good thing. the odds are completely transparent.
I tested several open source keyboards last year looking for a way to get rid of the distracting gif search in gboard, and was also very disappointed and went back to gboard. After trying this one for just a couple minutes, this looks much more usable than those I tried last time. I don't use voice texting, and mostly just need decent swiping and prediction. I'm hoping this will meet those needs!
It's not stealing content if the content is still in the original place. Stop trying to redefine words. It's copying.
The original book was a virtual money press for Jack Canfield. No surprise he'd form a business around it. Near as I can tell, the Chicken Soup stuff was generic motivational stories intended to lift your spirits. Canfield was a motivational speaker as well, and like many motivational speakers, eventually found that the only takers for his services were multilevel pyramid schemes.
Usually right before deadlines.
Oracle and Google Cloud Announce a Multicloud Partnership
Because layoffs are, rightfully, in the spotlight as distasteful, cruel, and usually not based in financial reality right now. They get severe negative press, because they're severe negative actions (while companies rake in record profits - I'm mostly not talking about little seed-A-B-round startups going under here). And so companies are trying to find creative ways to avoid that negative press, IMO.
What job title will DevOps roles shift to? Will it be "platform engineering" as some in this thread suggest, or will it be the traditional title of SRE?
Doom3: https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM-3
Yes they do, and they look as ridiculous as you think
> Energy = mass * distance. The further people live away, from each other, the more energy is consumed, for doing everything

That only holds if things stay just as centralized as they are today. If people live further from each other they have more potential for producing their own goods. That also means everyone around then has that potential as well. For example, living in a dense area means any lumber you buy was shipped in, and likely even crossed national borders. Living in a less populated area can mean access to lumber from a local lumber yard that processes trees grown locally.

I think the real challenge we have today is that we are stuck in the middle, our society is neither designed for dense populations or low density populations. There's nothing that I've seen that can definitively show that dense populations will always work better than less dense, more independent populations. Either can work well and either can be much better utilized than what we have today.

What I really take issue with is a central authority forcing one approach on us. Because we can't show why one path has to be the best, and because we don't know what we don't know, the decision should never be made at all by those in charge. The beauty of a federal model is to allow smaller regions to go their own way and try different approaches. I wouldn't balk at all if Los Angeles wanted to try a land value tax, let's see what happens. I personally don't think it will work well and I think there isn't a good answer for how to appropriately value the land, but I also don't live there and as long as my federal tax dollars aren't given to LA I have no dog in that fight.
Sometimes I think we have lost the plot completely with complexity as a metric. Increasingly we are seeing algorithms which have optimized the complexity metric to an insane degree but which aren't actually useful.
Hey Carson! I'm using HTMX on quite a number of internal tools. It's completely revolutioned the way we've done things, especially coupled with Django. Extremely grateful for your work - you're a net positive for humanity.
Post on Reddit unveils college student's fraud: 'I have built my life on lies'
The article mentions they specifically didn't choose the corporate headquarters in California as a hub because it wasn't low cost of living
this is the twentieth year that "change from fossil fuels now" is imperative. When does the Emperor have no clothes?
You usually need to return relocation costs if you quit within a year, and they'd lose out on the severance as well.. But yes, it does make sense for some people especially ones on a work based visa.
My interpreter only accepts print and addition to a predefined variable. Let the attackers print and count all they want.

The problem isn’t the execution, it’s the scope of what it means to “execute”.
I think you should use what you like and if you like Overleaf then by all means use it.

That being said, I think the package you want is macTex, installable via `brew install --cask mactex`. As stated in the previous post, it's also pretty easy to get it working with Nix, even on macOS (which is my primary OS until T2 Linux becomes actually usable).
Two tiny 65816 DTV consoles
> A recent Johns Hopkins study claims more than 250,000 people in the U.S. die every year from medical errors. It is ok to be an imposter.

Is what I was originally replying to, which, at least to me does seem to imply preventative deaths are some kind of training tax during ones 'imposter stage'. Perhaps not the intention of the poster.

Thanks for your thoughtful reply.
The plug is just a plug. The more important part is the charging protocol and standard. That's CCS going forward. CCS now supports three plug types: Type 1 combo, Type 2 combo, and J3400.

Older Teslas can't charge on these chargers because they don't have CCS support. Those cars will need to get a CCS retrofit.

In general you shouldn't take anything Tesla says at face value. Lying is just too much a part of the company culture at Tesla.

Tesla lies about things as dumb as quarter mile stunts. There was absolutely no need to lie about it, yet they just couldn't help themselves and they went ahead and lied about it anyway:

https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/tesla-cybertruck-beast-vs...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J3H8--CQRE

https://insideevs.com/news/699260/tesla-cybertruck-porsche-r...

Tesla never even ran the quarter mile. And the worst thing about it is the Cybertruck's lead engineer trying to rationalize the lie:

https://x.com/wmorrill3/status/1746266437088645551

When your engineers lack commitment to basic honesty then you've got a sick company culture.
Actually Overleaf was called WriteLatex before. They renamed themselves in 2014. The ShareLatex came later.
Jargon terms are necessary for specialists, it's true. Berry, for instance, technically includes tomatoes and cucumbers, but not strawberries or raspberries. So if somebody says "I just bought some berries" you should inspect their purchases and correct them accordingly, because maintaining correctness is important.
Yeah.

That particular scam sounds like the old "binary option" scams out of Israel. Those involved large numbers of people, typically recent immigrants to Israel, working in call centers to con people. The scam binary options brokers were not only rigged, cashing out was next to impossible.
Those were finally shut down, after the Times of Israel published a many-part expose, "Predators work at night"[1] Also, one of the big operations tried spamming Wikipedia really hard, which resulted in so much pushback that it attracted significant negative attention to the scams.
The people behind those scams were not punished much, and pivoted to crypto, "contracts for difference", and other related scams.

For the simple scams, see r/metaverse-blockchain. This is currently full of pump and dump memecoin scams, promoted as such. Get in and out before the dump is the pitch. Of course, the issuers of the coin are guaranteed a gain, while, collectively, everybody else loses.

There is no "metaverse" component to these coins any more. There used to be claims that the money being raised was going to develop a 3D virtual world. A very few of the "metaverse" coins actually got something going, but most just took the money and ran. Even the ones that got something going didn't do a very good job. The result either looked awful or was so expensive to run server side that they could only run it for special events.

There's several new crap memecoins each week. The promotions look like they come from a template.
This looks like a low-effort operation.

Where's the SEC when you need them? (Mostly dealing with higher-dollar scams, actually. They bring the hammer down on one or two crypto scams per month, but there are so many.)

[1] https://www.timesofisrael.com/tel-aviv-binary-options-firm-a...
Yeah but why bother if the severance is that good? Just take the money and run.
I think you overestimate the voting public and underestimate the institutional support he has. Rumors of his political demise have been floated for years, "This time, for sure!" and he is the nominee for all that.
It sounds like a cool product but I'm unable to read the text because of the white font on a very light colored background.

I'm on Brave for Android
Not a problem. The fighter-mafia part of the AF has no interest in the next war and have no use for NGAD. An A2A platform with the legs to get from Guam is a complete non-starter.
The paperwork matters far more than the actual work. Having your Jira tickets (or whatever) up to date and highly granular, and organized into all the taxonomies of sprints/epics/etc, and of course actually communicating status with teammates, tends to be significantly higher-valued than any actual code you're getting done, at least as far as winning brownie points and promotions are concerned.
I understand that in the US, the ADA can make for a nasty sting which can make them care in a hurry.
The idea that you have to lock your employees out is so incredibly antagonistic that I cannot imagine how people stand it.
Does it [also] support wordstar keybindings like 1980's Turbo Pascal did?
I love the kawai logo
A few reasons.

1) Markdown is considerably less verbose than LaTeX.

2) Not a fan of rich text. MS Word has kind of ruined it for me, every time I write something in MS Word there it feels like some funky invisible formatting ends up messing up my document. Markdown is still all plain text so weird formatting bugs won't sneak in and I can version control it trivially with Git.

3) LaTeX has some bullshit that consistently screws me up, like having to differentiate between forward quotes and backward quotes using backticks.

4) With the Pandoc flavor of Markdown it is easy to drop into LaTeX for equations, and I can also directly use BibTeX citations.

5) If I use Markdown, I can very easily get Pandoc to directly convert it to nearly any document format I want, and it does a very good job doing so, this includes LaTeX or XeLaTeX or ConTeXt if I want to render a PDF.

I don't hate LaTeX or anything, I just find Markdown more pleasant, and with Pandoc I can easily convert it to LaTeX later to render.
I don't think they can really allow ads on here but I am very interested in what the "ventilation" is and think that temperature control and extra armrest adjustments are great.

Anyone know if it's possible to get some of this without paying $700?
"The researchers were also perplexed by the incredibly small sizes of these systems, only a few hundred light years across, roughly 1,000 times smaller than our own Milky Way. The stars are approximately as numerous as in our own Milky Way galaxy...but contained within a volume 1,000 times smaller than the Milky Way."

If the diameter of a galaxy is one-thousandth, then its volume is one-billionth. They can't both be one-thousandth.
I paddled through the Erie Canal's locks in Lockport (where I live) last weekend! A lot of history passed through here.
yes and its really great that exchanges have been disintermediated by liquidity pooling systems. a lot of these extortionate practices were because projects use to need exchanges for any liquidity, so exchanges gatekept that. and now thats not necessary. anybody can spin up a permanent liquidity pool within 1 second.

regardless, purchasers should be more discerning as the technology provides the necessary transparency. many are discerning. many arent and those purchasers and the people they are influenced by have created a culture of strange metrics to judge a project by - such as growth of members in a chat channel, or mentions, or exchange listings. Playing along with that isn't fraudulent unless saying something happened for a reason it didnt. What you are describing to me is analogous to suggesting an organization directly tell all the technical analysis traders that their charts had nothing to do with anything, and if the organization didn't say that then its fraud.

In any case, crypto assets would work just as well if their creators said “they’re connected to this consultant” but for now thats just an omission thats necessary because the consultants tend to be in a position to harm the projects and its not clear they’ve delivered until the separate exchange moves forward with the listing.

I wouldn't consider that fraud on the project’s side in any sense, but I can see why you think that is - where either Ive created a protective layer of rationale for myself or the entire ecosystem is fraudulent and any individual’s way of navigating that is irrelevant. I don’t agree with that assessment, my contribution is to point out that there is a niche of scammers that absolutely will do meticulous, convoluted fraudulent things reminiscent of what the article has shown. And if you want to know about that niche, then I’ve detailed it. If you dont, this isnt really the thread for generalized crypto sentiment but I’m sure there will eventually be others on hackernews and you’ll find someone to entertain what you actually want to talk about.