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by asoneth 4y ago
At one point I was determined to move to a car-free neighborhood in the US. Unfortunately they all seem to be tourist islands: Fire Island, Monhegan Island, Mackinac Island, Bald Head Island, etc. I gave up and resigned myself to teaching m
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by asoneth 4y ago
I worked on Java apps around that timeframe. Despite spending a lot of effort refining our widgets and using some animated transitions (ref the "Filthy Rich Clients" book) the applications generally felt more dated and cheaper-loo
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I think more companies will start charging for human support and troubleshooting in order to incentivize customers to stick with the IVR phone tree unless they really need a human. That could be a subscription, warranty, price per call minu
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I think in the medium-term timeframe AI will handle talking with the customer as the first tier of interaction to collect the basic details of the problem and provide initial troubleshooting steps -- the kind of stuff where you can tell a r
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by asoneth 4y ago
I've worked on IVR systems and everyone involved was already acutely aware that most customers prefer speaking to a human as quickly as possible. The problem is that call center time is crazy expensive, especialy competent call center
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by asoneth 4y ago
The second order effects are obvious and negative. Fewer people will report crimes if doing so requires putting their DNA in a government database. If more crimes go unreported then everyone is less safe. For example, say the police routine
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by asoneth 4y ago
> Formatted text is less accessible. Is this universally true? I'm not an accessibility expert but from working on a couple 508 projects it seems that formatting such as headings improves accessibility and makes navigation easier. &
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> when bike lanes are added, nobody uses them People generally take the mode that makes the most sense from a time, money, safety, and comfort perspective. If a city wants more people to switch from driving to walking, biking, or transit
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by asoneth 4y ago
Bikes are a superior solution in some places, but they're just not compatible with the existing infrastructure and culture in others. You'd have to redesign neighborhoods, add transit for long distances, convince people to live mo
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Agreed. Every time I've tried to switch to using plain text I always encountered cases where additional formatting made my message easier to read and understand. I'd be perfectly happy with Markdown or likely RFC 1896 as someone e
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by asoneth 4y ago
If Tornado Cash implemented KYC requirements and a 100% traceable log, what fraction of their existing users would continue to use them?
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by asoneth 4y ago
Came hear to mention the ELF and PBLE. It's shocking to me that someone would expect an enclosed battery-electric vehicle to cost anywhere close to $2k unless their mental image is a cheap electric bike with a rain cape or something? T
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by asoneth 4y ago
Is there an example you have in mind where they were objectively wrong and did not admit it? In the examples I've seen their decisions generally seem reasonable and well-considered, even in cases where I disagreed with the outcome. The
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by asoneth 4y ago
That's unfortunate, we could use healthy competition between desktop environments. With respect to distros picking a conservative default, it does look like Red Hat Enterprise Linux ships with GNOME Classic by default, so perhaps that&
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by asoneth 4y ago
KDE, MATE, and Cinnamon seem like great desktop environments and potentially better implementations of the "Windows-style" (i.e. Windows 95 through Windows 7) desktop environment than Windows these days. I'm glad they exist e
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by asoneth 4y ago
That's awful, if I had your experience I wouldn't use demand response either. Now I'm also curious whether your contract was directly with your utility or through a 3rd party energy supplier. Where I live the non-utility ener
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by asoneth 4y ago
I'm curious who your power company is and how long ago that happened. If you're in the US do you happen to know if FERC got involved? Utilities and grid operators that run retail-level demand-response programs typically cycle air
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by asoneth 4y ago
The question was to get a better sense of the range of how people value the benefit of working remotely. If some folks are only willing to come back into the office for 3x (say high-six figures for US devs) that's helpful information r
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> If you knew that a couple were going to have a baby with whatever problems, and you did not inform them of this because in your mind, their decision might then somehow upset some other group of people who are neither the mother, nor th
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by asoneth 4y ago
Certainly all employers should provide an initial phone screen before requesting that a candidate do some kind of work including presenting or traveling. Or even doing take-home work if they still do that sort of thing, though I'm glad
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At the end of the day, everyone must eat and put a roof over their heads. Someone who uses an open source project in the course of their paid employment doesn't have standing to accuse volunteer maintainers of being overly motivated by
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by asoneth 4y ago
Similar to how you decline take-home projects after getting burned by it, I decline to provide candidate feedback after getting burned by it. Unless I have some personal backchannel to pass feedback through I typically send a form-based res
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by asoneth 4y ago
Thanks, that's good to know! My guess is that if the salary premium required for in-person workers ends up being ~2x or more, most companies will decide that going remote is feasible after all. On the other hand, if the salary premium
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by asoneth 4y ago
> The utility of money decreases as you have more of it. I think this is an important point. Especially for well-paid professions I'm betting that most companies cannot afford to pay high enough salaries to get skilled developers to
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I'm curious how you would determine the "actual value of their work" without considering peer review or award grants? I'm not saying that shoddy work with good marketing deserves to be successful, but doing brilliant res
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by asoneth 4y ago
Interesting, I haven't heard the statement used in that way, seems like taking things a bit past their logical conclusion -- after all, the presence of a door implies that the researchers had actual offices . (My prior job was the f
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by asoneth 4y ago
You raise an excellent point: I hope the shift to remote forces in-person companies to make their offices more attractive for workers (i.e. not open offices) to compete for the shrinking pool of people willing to work in-person. But for the
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by asoneth 4y ago
Thanks, that's useful input. > some employers muse they can lower those salaries That seems reasonable given their much larger labor pool of remote workers. They'll probably couch it as paying a premium to attract and retain in
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by asoneth 4y ago
> You can pay as much as you want but after a certain threshold I'm curious if there is a multiplier a company could pay you personally to convince you to endure the commuting stress and inflexibility of an in-person office? I.e. wo
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by asoneth 4y ago
That has been nearly the exact opposite of my experience. As one advisor put it: researchers who prefer to keep their door closed often publish more papers over the course of a year, but researchers who keep their door open often publish mo

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