jfrunyon

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by jfrunyon 5y ago
But more and more, good, efficient software is becoming abandonware because most people want the flashy new interface that makes a lot of stuff harder to do, makes nothing easier, takes more resources, but looks better.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Big businesses are the end users of computing. But that doesn't change anything. Why do big businesses have to upgrade their computers every few years?
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Could be additional cargo space. Airlines would be quite happy, they could accept more cargo = more $.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Right? Moreover: why is this guy who's never been in it before allowed to go down there and walk around, completely unescorted?
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
The lag looks more to me like waiting for network response with the imagery...
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
I was assuming that 4KB/s is peak speed, not sustained speed.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> Optimizing for a short commute is a choice that people can make if they want Uh, no. I can't afford to pay twice the rent I do so that I can cut my commute in half.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Try a touchscreen (preferably with marker-like stylus). :) Of course, "come in for collab meetings once a week" is most certainly an option for teams who really need it.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Why is your idea of an employee's value relative to who that employee is?
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Things don't take unexpectedly longer all the time. No, you can not make this judgement based on a single week, or even a single month. That's true whether the employee is remote or not.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> Sure, you can take the position that it's managements responsibility to figure this out and fire you Absolutely it is. > how vehemently most developers reject any form of tracking. Huh? I don't know a single professional d
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> Maybe the old trick of cranking up the Mhz and call it a day doesn't work the way it used to, but in terms of performance results we are getting improvements. Except... we aren't. Intel's CPUs haven't gotten signifi
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> But if a company has you down as being in country x, how do they know to apply the laws from country y? This is a practical rather than legal point Not really. If you take Google to court, and Google tells the judge "yo, he was co
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Better yet: you have to trust the people you hire. You're trusting them with your trade secrets, you're trusting them with your reputation and brand, you're trusting them with your customers' data... etc.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Most Americans drive to work. Most people will eat better at home (with plenty of their own groceries to cook) rather than at work (where they either have to prep ahead of time, or eat out). And I've literally never seen a single room
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> Most people in the US can't afford or even get enough bandwidth to support two simultaneous video conferences ?!?! How much bandwidth do you think it takes??? Zoom requirements: For group video calling: For 1080p HD video: 3.8Mbps
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> A year of WFH transformation under COVID seems to not have broadened our understanding of it That's because WFH is/has been be temporary for most in management (i.e. the people who could actually drive change to procedures to
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
But the people who work poorly when others are regularly distracting them with office chit-chat don't deserve respect? I can guess which type of person you are...
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
There is no spying involved. There is no expectation of privacy in data that you broadcast publicly, using public airwaves, which are mandated as public by the laws of literally whatever country you live in.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> There is a disadvantage for me, because the privacy laws in Europe are stronger than Asia, I lose some privacy protection. You don't lose privacy protection by virtue of Google changing your location. You lose privacy protection b
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
We clearly are, in fact, talking about residency. > As someone who travels a lot (not recently!)
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> 4KB/s (basically dialup speed) I guess if "basically" means "takes 10x longer"?
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Here's the lesson: we hit the ceiling on our current technology a while ago. Developers continue to behave as though computing resources will continue growing as they used to, even though they've been stagnant for years.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Until then, you just have to list the other columns in the GROUP BY... You should usually really be listing which columns you need explicitly, anyway.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
They get the data from people who have opted in to providing the data to them . https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3467281?hl=en#loc... If you don't want them to have data for something which is only
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
Or, maybe it's because cryptocurrency isn't actually useful for the things people claim it's useful for...
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
It's also just as obvious that everyone will agree for the foreseeable future that USD can be used to buy things, do things. Given that people already disagree about the status of Tether, it's not nearly as obvious.
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
I honestly had no idea it was hidden behind a setting, I've had it turned on for ages (though I rarely use it)
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
> even if its location services are turned off cite?
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by jfrunyon 5y ago
I'm not sure why you expect news to target people who aren't even in their coverage's audience.

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