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Ours did the same thing, although we generally vote on which friday it will be for the upcoming month - people often choose to line it up with another stat holiday to make 4 day weekends. I agree that the empathy part of this really means a lot to people.

I'm really curious how long we'll keep that in place, especially after re-opening the physical offices.

Not sure where you could get citations for general cultural references like this. For what it's worth, his description of it being an insult is exactly how I understand it to be used too. Someone who thinks they are more powerful or important than they really are. Native English speaker here.

It completely depends on the vehicle, and what the charging options are where you're going. Teslas have pretty quick fast-charging options that may line up quite comfortably with ordinary travel breaks, some other vehicles may not.

I think the reality is that people will need to accept that their use of the vehicle will just be a bit different than ICE vehicles for some cases. In some cases people will just need to have or rent or share specialty-purpose vehicles for things like camping or off-road experiences, at least until things like fast-charging stations are as common as gas stations are.

Buying vehicles that are optimized for the 5% use case seems really wasteful, but we do it now because the real (environmental) cost of that inefficiency is not paid for directly by the consumer.

The whole world runs on industrial scale chemicals. Virtually everything in our modern society relies on them. They are base inputs to almost every chain of goods from foodstuffs to textiles to manufactured items of every sort. Even your vinegar example is primarily produced as an industrial scale chemical.

Our kids have moved out so there's just the two of us now.

We solve the 'wait until the dishwasher is full enough' problem by simply having enough dishes and cutlery to last us the 2-3 days it takes to fill it up :)

We do the pots and baking dishes and other awkward items that aren't great for the dishwasher by hand after dinner, but they generally only take a few minutes most days. We try to run the dishwasher end of day or after breakfast in the morning (even if it's not 100% full) to avoid the problem of dirty dishes while it's running.

I agree the roommate scenario is a harder problem, but the same approach might work.

I have been a manager and manager-of-managers for quite a few years (many of which were WFH), and IC now. I'm curious about your statement that some might look at the behaviour describe above as "phoning it it"? I didn't see anything in their description that said anything about getting less done or putting less time in or not being available when needed. Maybe I'm misreading something.

I agree that remote management has very different challenges than remote IC - certainly you're likely to spend a lot more time talking with people so less-than-ideal WFH circumstances would be harder.

I've had my model y for six months now, and I have not needed to charge it away from home once yet. Yes, it's the pandemic so I'm not making long trips, but it's met my regular trip needs without compromise.

it's <winkey> AND <periodkey>. I tried <winkey> AND <pluskey> the first time too :)

Their series "For all Mankind" is actually really good. Worth the subscription price on its own.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7772588/

Perhaps you misinterpreted 'coming online'?

The statement refers to NEW energy generation, with the implication that renewable/green energy sources will eventually outpace fossil fuels as old plants are decommissioned and alternatives come online for baseload (batteries/other storage).

Hey, why not have a 'company store' where people can buy everything they need right at the office instead of having to spend precious minutes travelling to some questionable generic store. Think of all the time saved. While you're at it you could even extend credit to the employees for anything they might want to buy, and have their payments come directly out of their paychecks. How convenient! You could even issue company scrip instead of dealing with the costs of payment processors. There's lots of room for innovation here!

/s :)

our emergency backup for slack is zoom. Horrible UX for group chats, but everyone already has it installed and it's quick and simple to set up a new room for each team. For temporary use you can put up with a fair bit of annoying behaviour or lack of features.

There were some interesting technologies before computer aided design in sign shops. When I was a kid one of my first jobs was silk-screening custom-made signs (like in those photos) and stickers. Much of it was done with light (UV?)-sensitive film techniques. A master was created carefully letter by letter from a bunch of letter 'stickers' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letraset], then the light-sensitive film was applied to the silk screen, and the master laid on to it and a lamp shone on it for a few minutes. The parts NOT exposed to the light (behind the letters) were capable of being washed away with a solvent of some sort (water in some cases if I remember correctly), leaving a very high resolution stencil that would be used to print onto whatever material desired, with a number of different types of inks. Pulling a squeegee and stacking hundreds of placards for drying was my summer job for several years. :)

For the really custom stuff, our commercial artists were amazingly talented with both brush and penknife. Some of those guys could paint lettering by hand that was incredibly consistent and amazingly fast.

An example in Vancouver, Canada

https://news.ubc.ca/2016/09/15/structure-of-ubcs-tall-wood-b...

However, a sibling comment makes a really good point - that's exactly how we treat pharmaceuticals. We don't allow consumption (except in dire cases) until the product is proven safe (with a very conservative definition of proven safe). One could argue we should have the same approach with foods - the health food supplement industry has had a lot of criticism for not having enough controls. 'artificial food' of this sort seems like it should be in a similar category.

Figma is able to import and export svg files pretty well (for my purposes) - I wonder if that's sufficient for a good number of workflows/projects?

I doubt the click-through presentation stuff can be exported in any way, but basic design work could be persisted and collaborated on by multiple people with different tools if that approach was used.

If you want to buy an existing dairy farm's quota, you can. Similar to Taxi licenses in many places, no?

I think most Canadians feel that the supply-side management of dairy and some other food products works for us fairly well, and that the Taxi license system doesn't. I guess that means the reasons for them working well or not are something other than the concept of supply-side management?

I think it's fair to say that the root of most/much war is greed in one form or the other.

But it doesn't work without being able to convince other people that they'll benefit from joining that cause, based on being members of your group/nation. Those wars are justified typically by generating a shared sense of fear and/or hate for the other side. If people's ties or shared identity to that group were weaker, it would be harder for people to buy into that propaganda.

I find this interesting, because without some unifying forces I don't think our modern society would be able to function well. I'm just not sure Geography and national identity/culture are the best way to unify people. Can't say that I have any better alternatives though, other than thinking that if our personal identities were less tied to our national identity, the world might be a little friendlier place.

I'll take that as a sarcastic response and that you doubt that reducing the influence of nations would promote peace.

Tribalism (Nationalism) is the cause or justification for most wars, no? Us against Them. Whether it's Nations or Religions or Races. I think tribalism is so deeply rooted in most of our cultures, that ideas that challenge it are hard to process for most people. I think there's a lot of value in challenging assumptions. This specific proposal has a whole host of problems with it, but there is still merit in the idea of dealing with the cultural forces of nationalism.

If the money comes from the public purse, they are paying for them also... Seems fair to me.

I don't think so - because the ranchers would still bear all of the costs of the problem of having wolves exist. Insurance doesn't transfer costs to the whole group that benefits from the existence of wolves. Having the costs come from the public purse seems like a good way to do that fairly. Although in the case of wolves, it seems like politics seem to play as much or more of a role than fairness.

I expect the amount of heat one could extract would be absolutely negligible compared the the amount of heat in a supervolcano caldera, so I doubt there would be any affect at all.

Only some of the geothermal tech requires injection of fluids along the lines of Fracking. The article suggests for those cases the risks are lower, due to the different pressures and fluids required. Other techniques (closed-loop systems) don't require it at all (but do require advanced drilling tech).

Where is this? I would expect that teleoperated vehicles on public roads are not legal in most jurisdictions.

It's not terribly uncommon for some jurisdictions (sometimes at a municipal level) to not allow self-serve gas stations. Usually presented as a safety measure, but also an economic one (requires more employees).

This is the 3rd article on this blog I've read recently from beginning to end, and thoroughly enjoyed.

I also just subscribed to his Patreon - it's worth supporting this quality of work.

Pair programming anything as urgent as a hotfix works really well. It takes some pressure off of the developer working on it and turns it into a team event.

We will even sometimes keep the video call open until deployment is done and production validation is complete - the devops guys get the information they need, someone else is keeping an eye on the checklist and calling out items if necessary, etc.

100% confirm on the wire nut thing. It's possible to get a good twisted connection with a wire-nut without pre-twisting, but conditions have to be just right, and must result in a properly twisted wire pair in the end, or it's just trouble waiting to happen.

I apprenticed with my Dad. The first two rules he taught me have stuck with my my whole life:

1) Treat every wire as if it was hot. Even if you know it's not. 2) A good electrical connection must first have a good physical connection.

Not sure why that second rule sticks with me :) but there has been more than one occasion when I'm fairly sure the first rule has saved me from a bad shock. And you're right - treating the wires as if hot means you can actually work with hot wires for a lot of simple things.

I still turn off the breaker though :)

I don't think I've seen a reasonably modern building around here (Vancouver, Canada) over 2 floors without an elevator. I expect we have accessibility rules that require them for anything other than individual private residences.