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by gigel82 4y ago
Not for the time you're on vacation. Explicitly, no one expects you to "make up" for that time, and you might even get a few days or so (depending on your vacation length) to ease back in.
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by gigel82 4y ago
In other words: we expect you to deliver 100% of the time at 100%+, constantly, throughout the year. So if you take vacation, you better work your ass off when you come back to make up for it. That's the difference from normal PTO.
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by gigel82 4y ago
Can you build a viable society on volunteer work alone? I'm sure there are a few (1:million) saints among us that just selflessly give their all, but why would anyone else take any shit from their boss or customers? I like fantasies to
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by gigel82 4y ago
Even in a post scarcity society where we fully automated food production (as well as the production / continuous repair of all machines and systems that produce and distribute food -up the chain) this is not tenable. What would motivat
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by gigel82 4y ago
A single 4-week vacation. He used to save vacation over 2 years and go on a 6-7 week Europe trip over summer break. It was painless and guilt-free (using the accrued / earned benefit he was entitled to), just logging the time off in wh
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by gigel82 4y ago
Heard from a friend that they'll now need GM+ level approval for a 4 week vacation :). Overall, this seems like a net negative for employees; add a level of stress / guilt to what used to be a simple use of earned / accrued b
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by gigel82 4y ago
Talked to a friend there, they don't seem to happy about it. Apparently, you need GM+ level approval for a vacation of 4 weeks. They regularly saved vacation days for a couple of years then take a guilt-free, earned 6-7 week European v
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by gigel82 4y ago
Sprinkle in some deepfake on top and you get a killer combo.
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by gigel82 4y ago
Why buy the cow when you can have the milk for free? (well, $1 billion, but basically free for MS).
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by gigel82 4y ago
I wonder what computation resources are needed to generate these in real-time (if it's even possible to do real-time). Very impressive.
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Amazon opens its Sidewalk bandwidth-sharing network to third-party devices(engadget.com)
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by gigel82 4y ago
Since we were talking the other day about Dumb / Smart TVs and how they might spy on you without ever joining your WiFi. I'm 100% sure Sidewalk will be used for this purpose (if it's not already).
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by gigel82 4y ago
I wouldn't put Games / Software in the same category as media. I wouldn't pirate software (can you even still pirate games with everything being online / server-side?), but I do "pirate" Spotify / Youtube
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by gigel82 4y ago
Ooh, this sounds very interesting; if they can pull this off, I can totally see Google taking a serious hit (especially with the quality already declined due to ads / SEO).
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by gigel82 4y ago
Amazon is working on things like Matter which is just turned on by default on all Alexa devices and I'm sure they'll sell access to this "backchannel" if they're not already using it. And there is precedent with App
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by gigel82 4y ago
I wish a reputable manufacturer would just make "dumb TVs" (aka monitors). I don't even need a TV tuner, just a display panel with the latest HDMI, ARC and CEC support such that I can control all features from my media player
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by gigel82 4y ago
Have you seen FluidFramework? It's open source (MIT): https://github.com/microsoft/FluidFramework I think the first product they're building on it is Loop: https://www.zdnet.com/article/m
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by gigel82 4y ago
That's a fun little project but it'll never work in the real world. After the collectors empty the bins, they never set them down gently in the original spot (almost always it ends up a few feet away, sometimes knocked over on a s
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by gigel82 4y ago
Appx packages are not where the bloat is. These are "store" / UWP apps which are generally sandboxed / very restricted in API access - so they take up disk space but not much else after you close them. Sure, if your goal
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by gigel82 4y ago
I'd really like a filter for local co-op and split-screen games; played a couple of games with the kids over winter break, and it was very hard to find which ones we could enjoy together (mostly older xbox360 titles, newer games don&#x
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by gigel82 4y ago
*for you It's all about trade-offs; you decided to trade better performance and native look&feel for faster/easier development. Perfectly reasonable, but for others that are making different trade-offs React Native totally is
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by gigel82 4y ago
I'm not an expert or anything, but is this making the assumption that there is 0 loss? You put 1Kw into a microwave transmitter on earth and expect to get 1Kw out of the receiver on the moon? That's preposterous - I would be surpr
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by gigel82 4y ago
> Not encrypting the URLs is just such a baffling choice, i honestly don't understand how that ever happened. That's obviously a design choice in order to extract data that can be monetized.
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by gigel82 4y ago
We don't know enough about what happened but I disagree this should be an automatic red flag from the provider's side. I'm sure Azure has spending limits and alarms that one can set up (and probably should). The attitude of &
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by gigel82 4y ago
To play the devil's advocate, why would Azure be liable for OP's security lapse? This would've been much easier if someone stole your credit card and bought things with it (the CC company would help with the chargeback).
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by gigel82 4y ago
This is a conundrum. On one hand, I understand how frustrating something like this can be. But on the other hand, your cloud provider did provide those services that you're being billed for. So they did incur costs, why would they just
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by gigel82 4y ago
They recently made Amazon Music worse (you can't skip songs in playlists / radios), to force you into upgrading to Music Unlimited. I also haven't watched a show on Amazon Video in years (Man in the High Castle was the last o
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by gigel82 4y ago
"Community run" is code for dead. See ChakraCore as an example.
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by gigel82 4y ago
Until you start asking for free support, free consulting, etc. People are generally a-holes. I stopped working on most of my open source projects because of it. I still open source stuff that I actively use / work on, but don't ac
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by gigel82 4y ago
So... abusing free labor?

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