Maybe the gov't (usa, suburbs) should not have divided areas into residential and business/retail? (I think industrial should be separated though).
Then that sandwich shop could be located near where people live instead of a 20 minute drive away.
Modern cars are all great for safety, reliability and performance (horsepower, handling, MPG).
You also get add ons you don't need. You get a radio for $1000 that an aftermarket radio could outperform for 1/2 (1/3?) the cost. My 1st 3 (used) cars ('74, '76 and '85) came from the dealer w/o a radio. I borrowed a '73 Corvette once and it had an AM radio w/ 1 speaker above it in the dash.
Power windows (& locks) instead of manual ones. A sunroof w/ motors to retract instead of a simple pop up installed later (which might have less safety than the builtin). Air conditioning, heated seats, powered seats, powered and heated side mirrors that cost 10x the old manual ones.
Those addons are why the $23k car is a $30k car. I definitely enjoy them, but if I was just out of college, saving 1/5 on a car is 2-3 months rent!
Well, golang is static by default...
Most of the NNTP readers had great threading and kill files (across multiple newsgroups!).
I wish Slack, RSS feeds, Google News, any forum group (reddit, etc) had something half as good.
Imagine being able to read news and have a kill file that blocks any mention of a celebrity. I'd love if my news feeds never had a weather report in them. Or to block from your feeds anything by that annoying user who posts/comment on Slashdot, Reddit, HackerNews, Facebook, etc.
My kids had chromebooks, lenovo 11 IIRC. And also had desktops, etc. The school ones are ok.
My daughter opted for a touch screen after the OS updates stopped but it is still her preferred.
My son does gaming & got a Windows laptop for college. But he's not doing tech and everything there is Office365. A chromebook would work for him.
I used one of the lenovo until the OS updates stopped. It was fine for youtube.
If you're having the problems you talk about, there is something systemic about the submitting process. If you do everything in the google ecosystem, it should already be in the cloud & just need to be shared.
At least +10 years BBC Basic experience....
A real recuiter would be asking for 45 years experience
Oracle managed to obliterate OpenSolaris. I'd argue Solaris is more successful than OpenSolaris.
They were not able to do it with ZFS. OpenZFS seems to be more successful than the ZFS in Solaris.
Microsoft SQL runs on Red Hat too
https://learn.microsoft.com/en...
These companies often tout productivity and collaboration as a reason.
Show the numbers. How productive were you before the COVID shutdown? How productive are you now?
How productive are you w/ 3 days a week?
I bet none of those companies's managers know. If they don't, how do they know the productive employees vs the not? How would having them in office change that?
I am mid 40s, and have spent over 10 years of my life working from home. They know I write quality code, I am fast at it. We no longer have an office in my country, so I don't see working in an office being a possibility for quite some time.
Plus - my internet speed at home is much faster than any office I have ever worked in.
I'm similar. I do have an office, but everyone I work with is in different time zones. We're an effective team, we collaborate and communicate well. Being together in one office would not improve that. PS My manager's time zone is > 8 hours away too
The printed books get changed too.
The college prof gets a free one from the publisher & the students follow
Publishers are switching to subscription models of electronic books too.
If you want textbooks that don't get redone for the shareholders: https://open.umn.edu/oen
We have 1/10 the people going into the office. So they are moving to a smaller office space. They save rent, heat, cooling, electricity, internet capacity.
When you don't own the building and engineer types run the business, you see logical solutions
I worked at one company in 2001 that did it. We used IRC like a water cooler. Our boss tried dialing in to meetings for a week (nothing like today's webcam stuff then) and it was great for us. Now, he was always online. He moved to Kansas (from Boston).
Our group split up into 2. One had all the people that would ask a question & go away. The other had the water cooler people. The water cooler people expanded across 4 time zones. The other group eventually couldn't communicate across the building.
My current job, precovid, all my group was remote from my office. My team was in a 12 hour away time zone. Essentially, i was going into work so I could work remote. There wasn't much change after covid when I had to work from home.
I'm on another team now. 2 of us in MA, 1 in Ontario, CA, 2 in Banalore, India, 3 in France, 1 in Germany, 1 in Czech Republic and several in Israel. We need to work remotely and the company works hard to ensure the culture supports it.
Neutrinos have bad breadth.
