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by asoneth 3y ago
Making the FSF less inclusive seems like it could hamper their efforts to encourage more people and organizations to choose libre licenses, software, and hardware. In their zeal to defend Stallman from both fabricated and legitimate complai
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> Grid-styled menus and icon-focused, color-coded items are easy to find and remember. Reminds me a little of radial menus ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_menu ). They don't handle dynamic context menu conten
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by asoneth 3y ago
Totally agree that hiring locally is much more constraining. I'm having trouble filling positions and we're in a major tech hub and can afford to pay near the top of the range for our area so we have it easier than most. Logically
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by asoneth 3y ago
> But that does mean that those people are actually needed in any way. True, the presence of people who spend time coordinating is not sufficient for success, nor is their presence in any way evidence of success. But the absence of peo
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by asoneth 3y ago
I'm not sure what more there is to say. I'm happy that you have created remote processes that work well for your team. I wish we were better at that. My personal experience is still that groups of high-velocity rockstar developers
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by asoneth 3y ago
I think you may be on to a useful distinction there, but I'm not sure I agree with your implicit values. Folks who consider themselves "high-velocity" seem to look down on process and prioritize their own productivity over th
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by asoneth 3y ago
Normally I agree, but the differences were particularly stark. After a couple of years the top junior performers were almost all in-person. They were more self sufficient, more likely to still be working at the company, generally made the p
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by asoneth 3y ago
In talking to the junior folks the two things they bring up are mentorship and socialization. With mentorship I think you're spot on with regard to adhoc interactions. Senior folks know who, how, and when to ask when they're block
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by asoneth 3y ago
I don't doubt your experience, but it is not my own. There are absolutely exceptions who prove the rule but on average we found productivity plummet with remote junior hires and remain similar for folks who have been at the company for
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> Just because YOU are unable to work remotely or YOUR leader is unable to lead you effectively when you're remote doesn't mean that your coworkers or their leaders are ineffective when remote. This does not match my experience
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I think this is the crux of why people have such disparate estimates of remote productivity. Senior folks seem to experience more upside and less downside being remote whereas junior folks seem to experience more downside and less upside. D
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> the trend is to make easy money by cutting staff and just printing AP or Reuters click baity news A "newspaper" that stops doing journalism and just reprints AP/Reuters articles and blog posts has already died. Whether t
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by asoneth 3y ago
Agreed that eliminating drunk and impaired driving is important. (For example, if there was a well-tested and reliable technology that could reduce drunk and impaired driving, I would be in favor of mandating it in new cars.) But this is no
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by asoneth 3y ago
> buyers regularly expressing the sentiment that they would rather be in a large vehicle to keep themselves and the other occupants safe Yes. This is precisely why this sort of decision cannot be left to individual consumers -- the end r
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> Because of their mediocrity, media are dying. This is normal free market that is working well. The problem with this mindset is that there is a negative correlation between investigative journalism and corruption. (e.g. https:/&#
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I would think consumers annoyed by politics would gravitate to companies that attempt to remain entirely neutral and avoid making statements one way or the other. However, the article describes consumers gravitating to companies that match
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It's certainly a risk that these cuts might be going too deep. Personally I would have made the process more gradual but who knows, maybe they're running out of runway, or their research gives them confidence that a sufficient num
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by asoneth 3y ago
If you happen to be in the Boston area there is a tDCS study going on right now that is looking for participants. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36152197
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There is a NASA research study going on right now to evaluate whether tDCS helps with tasks such as docking a floating satellite to the International Space Station. If you are in the Boston area and meet their criteria you can sign up at:
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Multi-ton vehicles capable of moving at highway speeds are dangerous and kill roughly a hundred people a day in the US[1]. So whether these changes are driven by regulatory capture or not it makes perfect sense to tightly regulate automobil
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Many people are pointing out that they're going to lose a huge number of users over this, but that seems to be the point of the "cutting" phase of bulking and cutting. (By bulking and cutting I mean eating a calorie surplus t
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by asoneth 3y ago
> The system is broken. That may be university-by-university thing. I briefly managed an academic department at an old, highly-ranked university. Professors regularly caught cheaters and there was never any question that they would fail
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About three-quarters of the way down the page: "There would also be a text input. If the user couldn't do something with the UI, they would enter what they are attempting to do. Using a natural language processor, like ChatGPT. Th
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by asoneth 3y ago
Yeah. I vividly remember how it felt to drive all the way to the office one day only to spend my day in video calls. It was essentially like working from home with a longer drive and worse lighting.
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Agreed. I've worked remotely and in-person. Both are nice once you develop the right processes. But having half the team in one office and the other half remote seemed to be the worst of both. When I was remote I felt relief when every
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by asoneth 3y ago
Remote workers do not push coworkers to work from home but they do push them to spend their workday in video conferencing software. You many not feel like this is a substantial imposition, but many people feel that it is easier to have disc
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The headline style reminds me of Matt Winkler's "Bloomberg Way" which specified headlines that summarized the article into a single line, see: https://wildtech.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites&
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by asoneth 3y ago
Inertia mostly. It's a question every grad student asks at some point. If anyone is actually curious: The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) started a Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI.org). Later, th
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by asoneth 3y ago
> in Europe we call it HCI Well CHI is being held in Europe this year, so apparently you don't! But more seriously, the field is "HCI" everywhere, including in America, and has been for at least thirty years. I have vague
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by asoneth 3y ago
> After demonstrating that this is indeed how our service works and them consulting the prosecutor they left without taking anything Setting aside impacts on customers, I wonder how common seizures would need to be to support a purely fi

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