Agreed. Especially when the argument isn't we are doing it to stop infections. It's always been to slow down, delay etc. I get you can't be completely reckless, but lets reason through this. Say the county (or whatever level of government making the call) says hey we have 500 repirators, 200 we need for other things. So we need to slow the curve so we don't get past 300. Ok, agreed lets work with that. But then they say: theatres closed, no alcohol between 10-5am (why do bars magically become death traps at specific times), gyms open but no showers etc. They are arbitrarily deciding who's activities are allowed and which businesses/employees still get to make money. The governments need to limit cases shouldn't mean they get to arbitrarily decide who bares that burden. IMO that violates equal protections.

Does remind me of the quip Rogan brings up a lot though.Something to the effect what he screwed you so good he broke you and now you can no longer work? I get giving settlements to get people back on their feet and get started out while they get back into the workforce, or maybe even a reasonable retirement nest egg if they are out of the working age. Hell even factor in opportunity costs that they reasonably had available too them, Ie you get the trophy model/lawyer spouse, then you need to compensate them for all the years of model/lawyering they didn't get to do while you had them stay at home. But tying the amount to life style you are "accustomed to" is complete bs.

Haha truth there. Dropping $1000 every time a new iGadget comes out just to run FB, Messenger and Instagram don't get it. Guess same thing as people getting gaming rigs and then playing minecraft. Sometimes you just get the nice new gadget just because you can.

I wonder if they can proactively run it? Ie run the thing at 2am so it doesn't kick in an noon.

True, 10% seems like a lot though. I guess the same thing as the local corner store's squishy machine always being out of order though. Usually that's because it's in the process of freezing a new batch of sugar water though which I guess gives them a bit of a pass.

Fair enough. I suspect it's at the moment a less economical way of doing things, basically it's R & D spend to work towards the scenario where you don't have the $15/hr lift driver and still a $10/hr factory worker following it around for labels, wrapping binning etc. + all the extra cameras, computers and office space. Getting better but a lot of warehouses have really crappy wifi too so they'd need to make that way better to handle multiple cameras per truck. 5G-6G maybe a better way especially since a lot of places have outside storage or warehouse building across the road from each other or whatever.

What are you going to do put an inclinometer on each pallet? I don't mean the forks of the forklift but the load on the pallet, or say you didn't get your forks in all the way and you are only picking up the front of the pallet, or the pallet has broken boards so even though you are lifting straight things aren't lifting right, or the pallet is catching the edge of another pallet or the rack etc lots of things. Again the cameras help but sometimes you have to get off the truck and look at things from a different angle to figure out what's happening.

Yeah exactly. Also I know probably just a photo op but the two drivers in the pic in the article are probably closer together than warehouse folks are most days besides lunch breaks. Unless you let them work from home you can almost guarantee people working in an office will be closer together than someone in the warehouse/shop floor.

Another thing: irregular skids, ie having to move the forks around, or swap it out for a barrel lifter. I mean you can have a grunt around I suppose to handle that for the lift drivers but what are they going to do drive around the warehouse to find the guy (and/or phone home and have the guy walk over to them) every time they need something? Hey we are shipping to walmart they want everything on Chep pallets and 30 per instead of 40 that came from the factory ok lets call a guy, or drop it off at a work station or whatever. I mean other workers in a warehouse will still be around of course but sometimes easiest to just get off your ass do it yourself in 2 min right now so you can get that pallet on the truck.

It's not just a problem with the forklit. The pallet has a label that's coming off, or you aren't shipping a full pallet, or you need to shrink wrap it before sending it. Also maybe the cameras can be repointed, The other thing us unless things are put right on the racks and nothing shifts you might have to lean out or get off the lift and walk around to make sure it's not leaning weird or whatever. Do these forklift drivers just drive the forklift and they still have staff to do all the other stuff on site? Shrink wrap, repalleting, labelling, etc?

They are also more likely to be married, just ~10% (60 vs 67% (https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/28/no-republicans-arent-hypocrites-on-family-values-215873)) or so but that tends to correlate with happiness too. In polls they are more likely to be in their first marriage, and correspondingly less likely to be divorced, more likely to be in a "very happy" marriage, and also correspondingly less likely to be single parents (which as much joy a kid can give you would imagine would generally make you less happy than if you had the kid and a spouse to help out with all the work/cost).

Kind of makes sense to me. Higher tendency to religion which gives a sense of community and meaning. Also: in as far as things are illiberal happy with the status quo: no stress needed keep it going boss. Vs liberals: constantly having to protest to try to change stuff, which presumably means also not happy with the way things are.

Yeah exactly like I'm thinking. He should be and will, but he might either be dead or say 80 with terminal heart failure before it happens. I just think at some point someone will bite the controversial bullet on this, because the controversy will get more distant and policies might go more towards open spying and banning secret plans on US citizens etc. Basically at some point it'll be long enough and a different enough time that someone will pardon him, whether it happens in his lifetime ...

Agreed churn is high in the field even for good people. if you are good (and interested in) a few years and you are an architect, team lead, scrum master whatever else besides hands on keyboard coding sort. Sometimes without choice, ie you are experienced guy with 3 intern workers for a 4 mth project guess who's going to be playing team lead, whether or not it's their title or they volunteered?

No one's perfect at it but I think where scale really comes in is in both number of layers of complexity you can keep in your head at the same time, and number of small projects you can handle at a time. Have a guy on my team that can handle a half dozen customer support/reporting type issues, remember the status of all of them, what needs to be done where and prioritize them. Another guy give him a moderately complicated task and he'll disappear in the weeds for days. Ask him what he did the day after finished and he won't remember. Not necessarily just a dev thing but the ability to jump levels of complexity, language to audience, and manage your work varies vastly between people. At some level doesn't mean that the devs as devs are less effective than each other just the other 60% of the job suffers because of individual quirks.

I'd say in my experience more like 3-4x. Study is flawed they took 10 trainees and compared them. You really need to compare imo developers that are worth having. Lots of people can hang a shingle and call themselves a developer but in my experience at least 25% shouldn't be. It's not just they are slow, given infinite time they won't growk it. They can do the simplest tasks and will a lot of hand holding can help out. But the ability to actually develop something of any size by themselves is completely beyond them. They aren't developers they are typists that happen to write code for a living ;)

Some of it comes down to skill level too I think that and personality. Some people don't have the discipline to stay on task. For junior people it's even harder because without people around to notice they seem stuck or a great amount of awareness of when to ask for help they can get ignored for hours, if not days. Spinning wheels getting frustrated, and ultimately generating nothing of value for the company. Herding people all in the same space helps. You see people get stuck aka not a lot of typing happening (which is a problem if you are coding ;)), or playing with their phone all day (a different problem, but one none the less) etc. Also generally have some lunches together or both go get a coffee together or whatever and it might just come up casually. You don't think you are stuck, you think you are doing things right but 2 min chat with someone waiting for the coffee machine and you find out another team tried it a couple years back and it didn't work because x, y, z. That casual knowledge sharing is very hard remotely. People go on breaks and they are offline, or browsing porn for all you know.