I am worried, both about the situation unfolding, and the fact that a lot of people are almost in classical denial. It’s like watching “Don’t look up” in real life.
I didn't know that, thanks for sharing! It seems to be a lot more civilised version of what I was doing for years - test by licking it... Can do it almost in one gesture: hold the battery between thumb and middle finger, lick index finger and touch it on one end of the battery, then lick the other. With some practice can get pretty good accuracy in 0.5-1.5V range. Bit barbaric though :)
I wish there'd be more architects avoiding using full-glass facade. This design looks interesting, but (at least to me) somewhat disturbing. Yes, they make the "artistic" statement, but we're not talking about a picture in a gallery, this is going to be visible by a lot of people and for a long time. The urban environment is affecting people, so I think they should be more careful with these experiments...
https://geneticsofdesign.com/2019/07/27/how-bostons-glassy-s...
In the surrounding sea of glass (including three large spaces on the same building) the crack looks really out of place, and draws the attention too much, It's also not regular, which fights against our desire for uniformity. Just feels very out of place, at least to me. Interesting nonetheless, but I wouldn't want to look at it every day for years... :)
I don't think 2h is exactly accurate - you have to get to the airport ahead of departure time to allow for security check/etc. Then there's transfer to/from airport on both sides, whereas train stations are usually in convenient spots to continue the journey (office/home/whatever). Nonetheless, the base argument holds true - flying is cheaper and quicker...
If you have control over the router that's connecting to your ISP, and assuming it allows such a thing, try changing its MAC address. EdgeRouterX for example allows this. Chances are, you get different IP.
Well, I think he's mostly doing that, because he is actually working remotely, while camping:
> If you are going to work remotely anywhere in Australia from a van, you need damn good internet.
In that context it may not be an overkill. If you're 2-3 days away from nearest wifi enabled spot, then having a solid backup strategy might be a good idea...
> At that point, whatever you output, is exactly the same as the original and has exactly the same dignity.
Except that it's not made by a specific person who lived 100's of years ago. That is impossible to restore, no matter what.
I get the idea of art being human movement, but I'm wondering if what's valued in the west is the act of movement by specific individual rather than the output artefact?
yup, that sounds strange. if the environment is that advanced, then there shouldn't be a problem of taking the node in question out of the service pool and let the devs loose on it (assuming there's no info that they aren't supposed to see). when they're done, just recycle it.
> The end of summer is approaching and the water is getting colder, I am exploring the indoor pools in my vicinity.
I don't know where you are, but would wetsuit help to extend the time you can swim in the open waters? Obviously, I'm just assuming you're not doing that already... :)
Exactly that. Top brand tools are expensive, but lower mid range these days is surprisingly cheap, and even for one off projects might "pay for itself". And they get cheaper. Labor costs are increasing. Obviously this comes with few caveats: a) you have to enjoy what you do, so the labor is free and you treat the time as me-time and b) you actually know what you're doing... running in to a disaster and then getting someone to fix it can be very-very expensive :)
I'm with OP. I think in a way hurts nerd's ego. At least I tend to see marketing without details as condescending. "Do they think I'm not capable of understanding all the tech specs? >:-E"
It's not about the actual numbers. It's the WHY. How come the company was ok to pay X when the employee was coming to the office, but now that the same employee is WFH (and thus may be saving some dosh) they are only entitled to 0.85*X? Presumably the said employee was producing a value of Y (where Y may have been > X). Has Y changed? If yes, then it's fair to do the reduction, but I doubt that is the case.
It might be ok to lower the salaries of the new hires, but why punish the current employees?
Intuitively, I'd think, it should be the opposite - no need to pay for the office space, money saved, can give that to the employees. But no, instead - save money on the office, and then save even more on the salaries. Just wow.
I do have legal coverage as part of home insurance package, however, it seem that it's only against direct "attack" towards me, and employment disputes aren't covered. Pretty useless tbh.
I'm in this pickle right now. It's a scare tactic. New employer would not take a bet, and that's understandable. Current employer responds with the most vague legalese possible to my straight up question "are you going to enforce?". The choices are: a) take a gamble against an entity that has so much more to fund their legal team than I will ever dream of or b) suck it up. Take a guess what most people pick, even if "most likely outcome" of enforcing non-compete is very slim. It's in UK btw.
Turn up with a bunch of fire engines, and a gas company van. Knock on your door, and 3-4 neighbors on each side, for good measure. Tell there's been a report of a gas leak, and you need everyone to leave their houses/apartments immediately for the inspection. 15-20 mins later - you can come back in, all's safe. Thank you for your cooperation.
But it can also have a different effect. If you don't reply, the requestor does not know if you even read the message, so they might try resolving the problem by themselves. However if you say "I'm busy, will check later" they know they don't need to even try, as you are going to resolve the problem for them. That's the best case. Worst case, they'll report to their manager that you're "blocking" them and they aren't able to work for the next 30 mins because of you.
Another anecdata point - an acquaintance got Tesla. And now instead of just rocking up to a nearest petrol station he's in constant mode of planning trips, checking for available charging stations, leaving the car few blocks away for charging, etc, etc. He's still happy apparently, because it's very pleasant ride and so on. But from my point of view it's a massive downgrade in comfort.
Just a crazy idea - they say you can do farming from anywhere using their app. So... What about Farming-as-a-Service. You assign users small patches, where they can do whatever they like, and how they like it, and any surviving vegetables are shipped to them. Sounds silly, and is mostly for lolz, may not be sustainable either, but who knows :) ?...
I'm not so sure this is a good idea, I'd even say this is quite dangerous. Shock therapy for someone with anxiety and depression might backfire big time.
They are anxious already, and you're suggesting going and joining a company that may put a lot of stress and cause burn out?..
For people like me who can't remember all 100k acronyms: "GIGO" is "Garbage In, Garbage Out".
I agree with the sentiment though - a lot of stuff on Amazon are not exactly what is written on the tin, and so when you read official spec of a component you may get stuff that's way off - noisy opamps, that sort of thing.