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by cmiles74 4y ago
This page outlines the rights of the person being laid off, there are a couple other pages out there that outline the responsibilities of the company[1]. Among other things there is a requirement to notify the UK government if they plan to
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Is that really true? I believe that this is exactly the sort of negotiation in which Google UK decided they wouldn't participate.
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I strongly disagree; my reduction in spending doesn't lead to job losses at any particular company. Perhaps if said company is providing such little service that many people choose to reduce their spending by all spending less on the s
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When I cancel a subscription to Disney+, no one loses their job. I think that's an important distinction.
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I'm not sure the distinction here is all that useful. From the point-of-view of the UK government, employing people and paying taxes are important roles companies like Google need to play. It seems to me that the rules around redundanc
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by cmiles74 4y ago
My expectation is that they won't explicitly announce an end to support, instead the launcher will update and then cease working on these older versions of Windows.
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by cmiles74 4y ago
I had some time a while back to work on a project of my own, I coded up a bencode parser in Janet. It was a fun project, I liked Janet alot. :-) https://github.com/cmiles74/bencode/blob/master/src/be
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by cmiles74 4y ago
LinkedIn has started pushing generated content it would like me to edit, I think they said they use ChatGPT. All of the content is "okay" but there's no depth, out of the handful of articles I read they both had a section tha
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by cmiles74 4y ago
IMHO, the push-and-pull between insurance companies and hospitals is a big problem here. They seem to be in a co-dependent battle to consistently raise the costs of everything. I don't think any solution to managing cost will succeed u
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by cmiles74 4y ago
ProPublica has a tool that will provide the average wait time for hospitals in your area. https://projects.propublica.org/emergency/ Where I live, all in driving distance have an average wait time more than 2.5 hours.
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by cmiles74 4y ago
I am fully insured in the United States. An appointment with my primary for something urgent is typically a week out, if I can't wait a week I am advised to go to an emergency room. An appointment with a specialist, if I can get one, i
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by cmiles74 4y ago
During the pandemic, libraries closed and weren't lending out physical books at all. Did the emergency policy lend more digital books than the number of physical books locked in libraries? We'll probably never know, but I think th
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by cmiles74 4y ago
IMHO, a union would make a big difference here. I get that the "future of the economy is uncertain", it also strikes me as unreasonable that every time the stock market moves around I have to worry about losing my job. > Amazon
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by cmiles74 4y ago
Nothing is wrong with bus drivers! :-) I'm not sure comparing software developers to bus drivers is a metaphor that gets us very far... In fact, why some bus drivers might want to really be flying fighter jets also had me scratching my
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by cmiles74 4y ago
It's a little depressing that after all of the work the industry has put into graphical interfaces and making software easy to use, the mark has been so widely missed. It seems to me that a big part of this post boils down to people fr
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by cmiles74 4y ago
I'm not down with the "bus driver" metaphor, but the bit about a vocal and active minority steering the direction of the technology for the rest of us certainly rings true. I think a read an article on HN about exactly this,
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by cmiles74 4y ago
Amazon is definitely making money on these subscriptions. IMHO, they simply want to make even more money by pushing everyone onto "Unlimited". Maybe more like "how to super-monetize it".
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Who is going to buy them? Most US citizens have less than a month's worth of income in their savings account. I'd be surprised if they enough confidence in their own income to tie even half of that up in war bonds.
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by cmiles74 4y ago
It's worth pointing out that the software will recommend leaving apartments empty for the sake of keeping rents high. This is briefly mentioned in the article, but implies that we would need a lot of excess supply to make a difference
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With the search query as the prompt, they could probably cache the response and use it several times. That might keep the cost down to something reasonable.
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by cmiles74 4y ago
Industry should pay more for people that motivated to do the work. That this level of motivation would be used against employees strikes me as more of an indicator that there is a problem with the industry, perhaps collusion among the big p
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Maybe just let advertisers vote. I mean, they are the ones really paying the bills.
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by cmiles74 4y ago
MacOS is probably not helping that 2019 MacBook Air feel responsive. I have a Dell that's a little older than that running Linux and it doesn't feel slow or sluggish.
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by cmiles74 4y ago
Isn't the "verified" check mark meant to indicate that the account doing the tweeting is the famous or notable person they claim they are? In my opinion, Twitter puts the verified check mark on accounts as an aid to help othe
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by cmiles74 4y ago
In my opinion, it's the employers that are pushing us to view these as two opposing extremes. I suspect this is because for so long (as long as I can remember) they've had all of the power and control. Clearly something more perso
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It's easy to forget as literally no other application works this way.
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You can definitely call JavaFX from Clojure. There's also the cljfx project that is "declarative and functional". :-) https://github.com/cljfx/cljfx
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by cmiles74 4y ago
Isn't it the employer's demand that everyone holding a position even somewhat related to software development have a CS degree the real mismatch? I think this is starting to change, for instance, front-end developers being hired f
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Strong disagree on this one. I'm pretty sure someone looks at the service that lacks (to their mind) sufficient advertising and is making decent revenue and thinks something like "Wow, a couple (more) ads and this could make a lo
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by cmiles74 4y ago
I drove a brown 1989 Volkswagen Jetta with a manual transmission around western Colorado, it was really an experience. The car was older by then (late 90's) and it required a certain amount of skill to get it really moving such that it

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