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I've worked remotely for around 12 years and love it (it's even better now that I have kids) I had a good 10 years in the office, when I was starting out.
I think that's a pretty plausible idea, but it has one flaw. If it was true, then companies would be announcing this as the cause. They'd be shouting it from the rooftop if they had any data to support it.
Of course they could, but they won't because it breaks federal law.

Tactical/emergency/etc vehicles can be exempted from federal and state emissions for obvious reasons, but most federal vehicles are not exempt.

> Contrary to past practices, vehicles owned and operated by the Federal government are not automatically exempt from having to under emissions testing and obtains proof of that testing. Some states, in their state regulations exempt classes of Federal motor vehicles, usually those for tactical use.

https://www.fedcenter.gov/assistance/facilitytour/vehicle/em...
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Police are gangs, though, definitionally.
Now we need a DNS resolver with these properties.
I completely agree that diet sodas aren’t good for you. But you have it right - between sugar and the alternative, I’d always pick the alternative.

I like monkfruit, Swerve, allulose, and various others.
I'm sure that the numbers indicate that, but it's quite a leap to pin WFH as the driving reason that the juniors not moving up and the seniors not moving into management. It's a good story, and I'm sure that's the sort of thing that top leaders in big tech are using. Except for the reporting that 60-80 CEOs got together and just decided to move, and that they aren't willing to share those concerns of low IC improvement in the communications.

If the story were true, then that'd be a reasonable thing to share in broad terms and would reduce the impact to morale as there's at least some shared, reasonable argument. Instead we get vague reasoning about energy of the workforce and spreading the corporate culture.

Everything I've seen aligns on three pillars:

* Real-estate strategy (lots of contracts and promises to commercial real-estate as well as local governments)

* Quiet layoffs (if they leave on their own, then we aren't firing!)

* Disconnection with reality (upper-management's job is harder remotely or they're bad at it, and having face-to-face conversations is really important for politics, their primary job)
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They did ship a replacement laptop for the screen fix.

I was in rural Australia at the time, I would have massively preferred to be able to fix it myself instead of waiting almost 3 months for a replacement. Unfortunately, while I could do the diagnostic check myself, there was no way of fixing it myself.

When the battery died I was in Berlin. It was out of warranty at that point. Paying a couple hundred euros for a replacement motherboard was by far the cheapest and best option.

My first Macbook also had a screen die on it (they just handed me a replacement as it was still in warranty), so from my perspective we're 1:1 on QC for Apple and Purism.
There’s a universe in which your Mac is a locked down device like your iPhone, with a proper immutable filesystem, carefully controlled persistent state, and a strong sandbox in which the terminal, Homebrew, and apps (App Store and otherwise) can act within the sandbox but cannot do things like, say, reading your entire iMessage database.

We do not live in this universe. Consider getting a Chromebook instead if you want to be in that universe. (But then you have a tradeoff: Apple itself seems pretty good about not using your data inappropriately. Google, not so much.)
Not thinking has never worked well.
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Can you reverse the function to buzz you when you're NOT on your back if you use a cpap? (It only works most effectively when on your back.) Also, what's wrong with being on your back?
The PS5 is definitely not dead, it's their main console. The Pro is a niche machine targeted at wealthy enthusiasts. It will only do a fraction of the regular PS5 sales numbers.
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If they're on Mac, they can import it into XCode and install it as a development app.
It would be a discount over physical CDs & floppy filled cardboard boxes on shelves too.

That doesn’t make it a win today.

The physical store vig didn’t just get you better customer access, it reflected real physical world investments by the stores to get you that.

And originally, Apple’s vig represented both new better access and innovative efforts they made to provide it.

But today Apple’s store vig only represents their gatekeeper status, not actual expenditures matching developers efforts.

The reason they’re vig hasn’t dropped to 2-3%, or alternatively they have innovated new ways to increase developer sales, is they ban alternative stores on a platform people are tied to via high switching costs. (Both reflecting real iOS ecosystem value & other walls.)
Before stumbling on to this I always thought the bizarre Thunderbolt issues reported every so often were just due to cable/connector issues.

But apparently just connecting an iPhone to a Mac, and doing nothing with it, can somehow induce OTHER attached peripherals to degrade in their performance! Regardless of cable quality.

And somehow even the order of attachment can affect this.

So no wonder there are bizarre Thunderbolt issues…
Could you not just feature your qualifications front and center?
If their weather forecast is really the best, power traders would pay them large amounts just for the forecast.
The executives must look out and see a bottomless supply of cheap engineers. And I doubt they plan on training anybody at all. It’s just a race to the bottom at this point.
Its with a different partner to my main one, one of the cheapest phone providers in Australia.

I simply signed up and scanned the QR code they gave me to set up the esim. In settings I have it turned off all the time to save battery and its only turned on if its needed to sign up for services.
> Who are you to tell neurodivergent employees to suffer?

I found this line telling. I’m wondering if the Hacker News crowd is biased towards the “hacker” stereotype - the socially awkward coder who likes to be left alone and crank out largely independent work.

I have a couple of folks like this in my team, and they are absolutely as good (or better) working from home, as they don’t really talk to others much or contribute in meetings anyway.

But you can’t build a team/org out of those personality types. Much of the creative work and important decisions _does_ happen face to face, let alone the ad-hoc ideation and brainstorming from being in the same space.

I don’t think it’s a requirement that everyone be in the office 5 days a week (I don’t do that myself), but I do see the negatives of letting the team work from home whenever they want and expecting to get the same level of work done over Teams/Zoom calls and email.
The full letter from Intel's CEO is here: https://www.intc.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1710/...
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Look people, those foosball tables are a major investment.

Major.
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Sometimes a low margin business is all you need and have to keep the lights on, don't hemorrhage too much people and stay afloat until you get better winds.

Traditional MBA thinking sometimes is too short sighted. For example, PCs might not have been a Cash Cow for IBM, but the Thinkpad brand, the distributor relationships and the customer may had helped IBM more than the cash out selling this business to Lenovo. Maybe having a healthy bridge head with a popular brand of laptops could have helped IBM coming up with some innovative way of selling the overhyped Watson.

The same with AMD and videogames, it paid the bills, paid salaries and left a little profit on the table to be invested. Probably it helped them bridge from their hell days to what they are today.

There's a lot of intangibles and hidden symmetries, serendipitous opportunities that are frequently overlooked by our bean-counting master race overlords.
I probably shouldn't have replied to them at all—my comment was absolutely less constructive than I normally strive for—but 'much less substance' implies that there was some substance to the original comment.

This is the entire comment I replied to. What is the substance?

> I don't think OP actually disagrees, the chest pounding rhetoric is likely because they're covering up something deep inside that's saying "I know this is the right move for Amazon but I'm terrified of what that means for me".
The Intel Iris Pro graphics from about 10 years ago were actually ok. I believe they were matching the lower-end dedicated laptop GPUs of that era. The problem was Apple was the only company willing to pay for the Iris Pro Chips.
> The Reddit user made a claim

Did they provide any links or evidence at all? Reddit is a hotbed of misinformation and claims like this proliferate and grow on Reddit with little basis in reality all the time. Unless someone can find compelling evidence that this is both true and a substantial tax credit, I would assume it’s just another product of the Reddit misinformation machine.

Even if it is true, the majority of the RTO is a transition from hybrid to 5 days onsite. I doubt they would have allowed hybrid to begin with if it impacted some hypothetical giant tax breaks.
Is it possible that these RTO policies are actually meant to select for younger people and force others to resign? After all older people have more responsibilities outside of work like children and cannot work through Amazon’s meat grinder or do things like support brutal on call cycles. They’re also the ones with bigger commutes and other barriers to RTO, since they probably live away from city cores to buy houses and have space for a family. Meanwhile young people who live in the middle of downtowns in apartments that are near their work probably are unaffected by this kind of change.
Usually the tax incentives are relatively minor and are long term as well. The more important thing with the real-estate strategy is that there's a lot of capital and personal clout wrapped up in these massive building projects and investments. Amazon recently had 2 shiny new buildings built in Arlington, VA. They have a bunch of buildings that were built in Seattle. There's definitely tax incentives involved, but those tax incentives are tiny compared to the billions of capital poured into the buildings.
People burn out and have nervous breakdowns dealing with the stress of working retail (violent customers, sick customers, terrible hours, short breaks, coffin-like break rooms, benefits like "50 cents off a bag of pistachios") for $15 an hour. I wager most would go back in a heartbeat for $400k/yr.

Perspective.
Hmm I am not sure what exactly is Amazon trying to solve for? I reckon only the managers know..
Moving to office-first does not solve the root cause - because it might be some other deep seated issues.
If it's really about boosting collaboration and communications in a remote working culture, that requires fostering by the Management especially the company does not start with remote first culture from the get-go.
I continue to be baffled by why there is a "General" section in Settings on macOS and iOS. Uhhhh, stuff.
That would kill a lot of old software, though. Especially games.
See also the "everyone back to the office because fuck you" discussion thread. Probably not the time to go long AMZN.
I intended to post a link directly to the article but I accidentally included the threads URL instead, my bad!
I don't think I will update to this version as I already have and utilize apps that provide said functionality.
Investors love layoffs right now. It's actually to avoid paying severance.
You are right, makes sense.
> to their own Graviton

For open source software loads. If you're running licensed software in the cloud you don't often get to make this choice.
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The reports of the US's death are greatly exaggerated. It's still the world hegemony. China is a regional power. The US is a global one. The US's force projection, alliances, economic integration are and will be unmatched for decades at the very least.
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> but they're going to get a lower quality of worker, and incur a lot of retraining costs as people quit.

This gets repeated a lot online but statistics don’t really support it. They will lose some number of employees but the significant majority of people just go along with RTO policies.

All of the headlines claiming employees will quit if their companies mandate RTO are based on self-reported surveys where people are asked hypothetical questions. When reality hits and people are forced to choose between their large FAANG comp or quitting, it turns out barely anyone quits.
"To enable those policies, America should embrace a “national power capitalism” suited to the current existential competition. Government must identify key sectors that are critical for national power and invest adequately to win the techno-economic war."

One could even call it capitalism with American characteristics. These days China is often framed as lacking soft power but the degree to which the US is basically adopting Chinese developmental policy, the sentence above could come out of a party study session if you reversed the actors, is kind of funny. I saw someone joke that Jake Sullivan moving the semiconductor factories to Ohio is his version of Mao moving the factories to the hinterland.
I am frustrated by the West. In my country alone (Australia), there will probably never be high speed rail between cities. The entire market investment is dominated by bloated real-estate. There is almost no progress. We're pretty much in decline.
I'm also in a supposedly "hardware" role. Early in March 2020, the people in my group were all watching the data that were becoming available. My boss came into our work area and said: "You guys can all see what's happening. Let's clear out of here, then we'll figure out what to do."

I went and got my minivan, loaded it with the contents of my lab, and took it home. Then I ordered high speed Internet service. A few days later the schools closed, and my family was all working at home. I already had some lab space at home due to my side business.

Now, I didn't really mind working from work. It's a few minutes bike ride from my house.

Oddly enough, things were happening so quickly that even being a few days or weeks ahead of the game meant that we were charting new territory within our company, which is a large multinational. For instance, with no specific location, we started collaborating beyond our original group. We improved our use of rapid prototyping services. We got a lot done despite, I think, having a more relaxed pace of work. Though I work in "hardware," what that means in this day and age is spending somewhere between 0 and 100% of your time programming. I spent a lot of time programming while looking out the window, taking a break and going for a walk, and so forth.

It was also comforting to go back, eventually. I like the people. It could get lonely at home. I'm definitely not a introvert.

(Edited to clarify: March 2020)
> I don't think the apple watch is as accurate as they claim

What is the claim that they’re making that you take issue with? You should probably let the FDA know.
I am all for pointing government mistakes, for they are legion.

But let's also not forget the pusillanimity of our MBA overlords and their mantras: Cut Costs and Stock Buybacks and leverage and merge and acquisitions.
For what it’s worth the change isn’t from full remote to 5 days a week. It’s from 3 days in office to 5 so it shouldn’t be as drastic of a shift.
Yes, and if I remember correctly at least one girlfriend for a few months
A leading innovator (not the leading) on metrics that you can disagree. Article's stats are about patents, "top 100 innovators", unicorns, number of supercomputers, number of innovation clusters(?) and almost everywhere China is behind US and sometimes Japan.

But also some of these stats do not show to me the amount of actual innovation. Approaching US on "share of highly cited researchers" seemed to me like maybe the biggest deal but then I thought how easy it is to cheat that metric...

> Foreign companies still dominate many key areas, but their IP has been eroded over time.

Oooh I wonder how!
IP CCTV and IP TV (think hotels) make extensive use of multicast, it's not completely disused; but only practical on LAN.
Most companies in the US are hiring workers at-will. There are no contracts and anyone can terminate employment for any reason. I don't think that would work in the United States for most non-contract roles. It might work for contractors and for people in Europe.
They'll be gone in 3 years. This will juice the stock price as investors will be happy with gaining additional tax benefits. By the time the problems bubble up from a weakened foundation it'll be the next guy's problem.
Yes what do people do when behind somebody that's chronically slow and incompetent?

They tailgate them
I guess I just don't follow why you'd discount an entire feature for such a minor, niche reason but you do you
I was a robotics software engineer on a project that built a mecanum wheeled robot. The big problem is that the rollers are small relative to the wheel. You know how bicycles handle rough terrain better than skateboards? The actual rollers on a mecanum wheel are pretty small compared to the diameter of the wheel they are mounted on. Our robot could handily carry a person on a flat floor (the engineers mounted a chair on a prototype and we got to sit on it and drive it with an Xbox controller - an actually extremely fun activity that could make a nice carnival ride). But if the robot encountered a pencil on the ground, the rollers couldn’t roll properly and things would get messed up.

I think I’ve seen suggestions of using the wheels for mars rovers, but a mecanum wheel that works in sand would need the rollers to be very large, so the actual wheel would be huge. That would suck up all your weight budget for your robot. Ackermann steering is lighter.

All that said, when you have a controlled environment with a flat floor, mecanum wheels are pretty rad!
Amazon, Google or Meta design their own chips for the most part. They have chip designers in the company but most of the work is done companies like Broadcomm.

Intel can sell design and manufacturing.
You sound entitled, phrasing it that way. No one owes you an answer here. Discord updated to the new API already, as one example.
> Intel currently can't use any of its new nodes to make their leading chips

Xeon 6E was released on Intel 3 in June and Xeon 6P is launching next month. Data Center is currently a smaller market than client CPUs for Intel, but its still a $10B+ market segment for them.
As someone who spent half his career in executive management of globomegacorps management is for the most part total bullshit.

Every global company is already working remotely because teams are spread out everywhere. Even if your team isn’t your dependencies are. The more senior you get the more you work on zoom these days. Before the pandemic it was in conference calls.

In fact the half assed in office approach is worse because not everyone is on the same foot. The remote offices from the leaders don’t get to have the on mute influence with the leader. When the call ends the people in the local room with the leader have a little meeting to make the real decisions. That’s grossly inefficient and unfair, to the point it’s started to make me sick to my stomach when I see it happen and I refuse to book rooms for in the office meetings.

In fact a role I had prior to the pandemic was figuring out how to shut down most offices of a megacorp to save money. We called it “bring your own office.” We analyzed deeply the interactions and determined in a global corporation the percent of time we make better decisions in office was less than 20% or 1 day a week. When the pandemic hit our predictions came true. But our elderly CEO couldn’t understand how the strategy he agreed to to save money would work once his ideological hackles got raised so he mandated everyone return 5 days a week even tho we were then 5 years into the bring your own office plan he agreed to. There were no metrics or reason other than, basically, he likes working in the office because it made him successful in his career and he can’t conceive that anyone could do anything different.

There are people who work better in the office and having a small office with plenty of high quality meeting areas and private places to work is smart. Management should allow knowledge workers to work the way they work best and figure out how to maximize team efficiency as managers are required to do. It’s a hard job. I know. I’ve done it. But RTO is a short cut that fails to recognize the incredible inefficiencies inherent in the approach, especially in a global company.
I don't fall on either side. I am AI-neutral lol

But my hunch is that NVIDIA is overpriced, with a P/E ratio of 55. It is not a growth company.
With the amount of money AMZN has at its disposal. I’m surprised they didn’t take the Apple route of making their own chip in house. Apple realized how bottlenecked they were with Intel, and took steps to remove that dependency.

Could have been Jassys equivalent of Beso’s AWS, but unfortunately he’s a lousy leader with no imagination beyond the quarterly results.
> Much of the creative work and important decisions _does_ happen face to face, let alone the ad-hoc ideation and brainstorming from being in the same space.

Maybe for you. This is not a universal experience.
Of course it’s the former. However, you need to contribute over a threshold of years before getting the benefits. This is currently 15, and will gradually prolong alongside with the retirement age, to I think 20.
I think it's apt that you're comparing it to the developer kit, because it is essentially a developer kit. They should have marketed it that way, but I guess they wanted to capitalize on the big spike of initial interest/excess money in the metaverse fans. After using it, I think that the vision pro needs a better optional input device for precise input.

I think that hope that they are working on some kind of 'magic wand' that uses the same haptic feedback and gyroscope-type tech that is in the Apple Pencil.

Once the weight is reduced and the input UI is fixed, it will be truly useful.

> The only way Apple can create market fit is by inventing a new price segment (read: Stupid Expensive) and leveraging their branding to do the heavy lifting

Meh, sounds like something steve ballmer would say. The price will drop. By the way, have you actually tried it?
Right, because this time it's different! /s

Raising such speculation without any explanation as to why there's even a limit to free market societies, much less any proof that the US is close to reaching such a limit, is very poor pandering.
Compared to China? I don’t think that’s where I’d bet the difference is.
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