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by asoneth 4y ago
Individually I think remote workers will be more productive. But collectively I do not yet know. I find it plausible that the average in-person organization may turn out to be more productive than the average remote organization. Either way
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by asoneth 4y ago
This is the crucial question. Colocated employees clearly cost more in the form of office space. They can also command higher salaries than similarly-skilled remote workers because they constitute a significantly smaller labor pool. Despi
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by asoneth 4y ago
I once worked on a user interface for passenger use in military vehicles and field testing similarly showed that hardware buttons were superior. I wasn't even a driver interface so glanceability was not the issue, it was the improved h
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by asoneth 4y ago
The "CICO diet" most here are referring to is when people attempt to estimate their "calories in" and their "calories out" and keep the former slightly lower than the latter. To my knowledge this has not been d
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by asoneth 4y ago
I said above, it's not that CICO is wrong. No point I have raised could possibly disprove CICO because CICO is obviously correct from a physics perspective, and I'm not sure if anyone here is trying to find loopholes in simple law
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by asoneth 4y ago
Note the caveat in your quote. It's not that calorie in/out is theoretically wrong, it's that it is an unhelpful/antiquated strategy " when it comes to weight loss ". First, note that the calorie est
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by asoneth 4y ago
If you or your team believe the lies that you tell external stakeholders then failure is inevitable since your decisions are not based on an accurate model of reality. Assuming you are ruthlessly honest within the team, chronic lying to ext
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by asoneth 4y ago
I was most surprised the degree to which Buckminster Fuller lied throughout the development of the car and afterwards. Of course it's heartbreaking that bad engineering killed two people, but that is not unheard of in automobile design
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by asoneth 4y ago
It's true, jokes are hard. I've come to the conclusion that it's simpler to take jokes in discussions like these at face value. Sometimes statements seem to be framed as jokes as much for plausible deniability as humor. And
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by asoneth 4y ago
I think we may be coming at this from different perspectives. You clearly know a lot about food and seem to enjoy it, which is fantastic! I do not cook professionally so the idea of me spending literal weeks in a cooking school or reading c
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by asoneth 4y ago
At least in my case I do not think cooking jargon like "mother sauces" is gatekeeping. These discussions are a great way to learn about new things and I appreciate when people share their knowledge. The part that seemed like gatek
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by asoneth 4y ago
Not only do I not know how to make a bechamel, this is the first time I've heard this word or the expression "mother sauces". (Maybe because I'm only a quarter Italian?) If we're going to gatekeep cooking behind a l
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by asoneth 4y ago
> UIs have dropped key affordances and visual cues in favour of oversimplified design elements. Definitely agree, it's not quite as bad in enterprise products, but consumer products definitely prioritize aesthetics and visual design
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by asoneth 4y ago
Self-driving cars make driving easier so they will increase the demand for private vehicle travel and make it even less likely that we can satisfy demand. I'm not even sure it is possible to satisfy this demand in a city. Houston has 2
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by asoneth 4y ago
For me it is a balance. I had opportunities to earn significantly more (~3x) but it was work I despised and I'm not sure I would be happy right now if I was retired but my life's work felt like a net negative. On the flip side, I
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by asoneth 4y ago
One thing to keep in mind is that Project Xanadu predates the web by a decade or so. Whereas the web settled on simple unidirectional links embedded in linear text documents, Ted Nelson's Xanadu was aiming for bidirectional transclusio
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by asoneth 4y ago
I appreciate that you still care about getting these specific issues fixed, and I also hope they fix them. It still feels a little odd to me though, because the initial blog post is an analysis of where Gnome's committers come from. I&
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by asoneth 4y ago
I'm not sure I agree that would be another rehash. A comment that draws from the data in the original blog post to make the case that Gnome is driving away new contributors seems like it would be interesting and on-topic, and could lea
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by asoneth 4y ago
I get that their design direction wasn't everyone's cup of tea, and I get why many abandoned Gnome 3. > politely interjecting with the occasional "we don't like gnome" From my perspective these comments seem neit
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by asoneth 4y ago
If that is the case I am curious what motivates you to chime in on news about Gnome then? Gnome threads seem to bring out a lot of anti-Gnome commenters and I've never quite understood why so many people who dislike Gnome are neverthel
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by asoneth 4y ago
I just don't get these comments. It's perfectly reasonable to prefer KDE because you like Plasma or it has the functionality you need. It's a nice desktop environment with a lot of functionality so I can see why it appeals to
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by asoneth 4y ago
umanwizard already said what I would have said, but I will add a few points: First, you may be underestimating the value of your expertise and the investment required. Second, I'm glad we're not gatekeeping Linux as much as we use
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by asoneth 4y ago
> OOI, why System76 for those? Not the original poster, but +$200 would be reasonable for me. The last computer I built was twenty years ago so I would have to do at least a couple hours of research to find out what sites and stores are
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by asoneth 4y ago
> The Ubuntu Edge (2013) had no effect on the Unity project or on the OS convergence project. The failure of Ubuntu Edge to meet its lofty ($32M) crowdfunding target did not immediately result in Canonical abandoning their convergence as
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by asoneth 4y ago
I respect your question and have the same question from the reverse side. I similarly have difficulty understanding how Christians who follow a doctrine that appears to be so kind can behave in ways that seem so cruel and heartless to the r
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by asoneth 4y ago
It looks like as of a couple of years ago Deno is something the Tauri team was experimenting with: https://dev.to/tauri/use-deno-to-build-a-tauri-app-1f7h My guess is that there's only so much change you can foist
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by asoneth 4y ago
You raise some good points, but I wanted to touch upon this one: > Paris is implementing this and if you live in the suburbs, going out to Paris is a logistic nightmare. The needs of a neighborhood's residents are distinct from and
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by asoneth 4y ago
Beyond the validity of the legal arguments, I wonder about the second-order impacts if this goes through. For one thing I'd imagine there's a significant amount of private land with negligible monetary value because it lacks trans
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by asoneth 4y ago
I agree with you on the coffee but not the commute. I had a long commute for a few years -- 9 hour workday with 3.5 hour round-trip commute, 5 days a week. I traded ~50% of my free time for ~50% more salary. After factoring in commuting cos
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by asoneth 4y ago
Greek Out?

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