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Comment Re:Useless Studies (Score 2) 62

People COMPLAIN about the cost, but they do nothing about it. Case in point: pickup trucks are almost never used as pickup trucks. 70+% of people with pickups don't tow with them or use the bed for more than a car trunk could provide. Trucks are enormously expensive and even when gas is expensive, people still buy them.

We had a carbon tax here in BC and I think it worked a bit, but I still saw an enormous number of trucks on the road during that time. People just blame the government and don't change their behaviours much. People that do change were probably already going to.

I don't think that means giving up on carbon taxes; if nothing else, they're a good source of revenue and can be used for other green initiatives. Even if you make them carbon neutral, it's a good way to transfer money from polluters to non-polluters.

Comment What qualifies as 'drip'? (Score 3, Insightful) 110

The story isn't clear and I haven't been able to find a link to the actual study yet.

If 'drip' is really just coffee from a coffee machine, this is easy to believe, since coffee made for most coffee machines is going to be cheap garbage. Does it include Nespresso machines and the like?

I assume they're not talking about espresso or Americanos, nor pourovers or French Presses. The language is too vague here.

If I grind fresh beans and put them in a high-end drip coffee maker, like a Technivorm, I'm pretty sure people will be able to tell the difference between that and instant, and I'd be able to find something that they enjoy.

So yeah, garbage coffee compared to a different way to brew garbage coffee isn't really revealing much.

Comment Re:What's next? (Score 2) 59

Housing is a human right, and the pricing is relatively inelastic (particularly right now) even before landlords collude to price fix. So it's a pretty different situation than Walmart figuring out what the optimal price for tomato paste is.

But also, this is just straight-up price fixing, and we don't let gas stations do it either.

Comment Re: Sure, work sucks (Score 1) 187

We are also (I assume) college educated professionals. Not the guys with hs diplomas being fired for being 4 minutes late from their potty break at Walmart where they are treated like kids and can't have their phones out etc. all for 35k a year.

These are American statistics of course. Terrible management who are a different breed rule blue collar jobs. It goes back to slavery and class structure for these roles.

Only 25% are college educated. Terrible work environments motives my education

Comment Re:Is the workplace itself toxic? (Score 1) 187

Is it? Or were many wanting revenge and payback for increasing salaries since 2019 and doing remote work?

The frustrating thing is wages were constant from 2000 to 2019 for most folks. A few professionals they did skyrocket which skewed some data. As a system administrator 75k remained constant for 18 years! Now it is finally like 115k, but adjusted for inflation you are screwed if you tried to buy a home or rent today.

75k could get you a mcmansion in 2000. Today it is not enough for a starter home, even in an affordable area. It is 1 bedroom apartment only.

Meanwhile, CEOs and leadership are furious and think prices need to return not realizing at all that $ sign doesn't have the purchasing power it did for so many years. So yes people are angry at both sides.

Comment Ending WFH and doing Return to office (Score 2, Insightful) 187

Employees who do not want to spend over 2 hours a day and $300 a month in gas just to join Teams meetings in a shared open office when they can do the same at home, so they can be watched by managers who do not believe in remote work or self atanomy and feeling stressed and disgusted by disrepect. SHOCKING!

Musk brought micro management and Style X Management from the 1950s back in style again, and away from Style Y and empowermment. It is all the rage now in leadership. Attendence, attendence, and attendence, and firing if you make a mistake. Forget about trying new innovative things and being creative.

THe pendelumn has swung back to the employers HARD from the employees and it is showing. I wonder if this is revenge syndrome from the C Suite who felt blackmailed to pay people more back when in 2019 they paid the same in 2005 and in office attendance where workers finally got a pay raise and gave the finger to in office work? Now the jobs are paying closer to 2020 levels.

Comment Re:Early days? Seriously? (Score 1) 16

Easy ... this.

Sony can't order chips 2 years ago that will be fast or up to date a chip from next year. That is not how technology works.

  They can work on algorithms or existing hardware to do things at a much smaller scale, but if Sony/'AMD released chips every 2 to e 3 years it would be obsolete anyway.

As soon as a prototype is ready IT MUST GO LIVE within 4 to 6 months or Nvidia/Intel will beat them to the punch.

AMD and Sony have also partnered to make things off camera not render. AI assisted ray tracing researchi s almost done but that takes a efw years.

Comment Re:Question is (Score 1) 162

Because your great-grandfather who hated loud noises, family gatherings, and was at his happiest tilling the fields in extremely straight rows day after day.

When he retired, he built ships in jars and organized all of his stamps in his spare time. Of course he was autistic.

We just didn't say that, we said, "ah yeah, Grandpa Joe was eccentric. Helluva farmer, though."

Comment Re:Rookie numbers (Score 4, Interesting) 61

I was a programming lead, and this is pretty close to how I worked. We scheduled my time as 50% management and 50% programming. If I started getting over 50% management, it was usually an indication of something else significant happening. Sometimes that was fine and sometimes it wasn't, and we'd do something about it.

But doing that "individual contributor" work was the only way I could ACTUALLY manage. If I'm not reading and working on the code, I have no way to assess the programmers I'm supervising, and no way to know if as a team we're actually achieving our goals.

Management for the sake of management is honestly a bit insane to me. I understand that not everywhere has a structure like a game company (fortunately), but I firmly believe if all you do is manage, you'll always be easy to manipulate and lie to, and you'll never actually know what's going on. It makes you a worse manager.

Comment Re: Obama can't run for a 3rd term (Score 1) 248

Obama love him or hate him is very popular.

People would live a return to the good old days. High grocery prices and rent is how Trump won. Plain and simple due to inflation Trump caused that Biden got the blame due to tarp payments and 0% interest rates and artificial scarcity all thrown in together.

I am not saying he should and 1/3 of America is hard core far right wing Maga and would go ballistic but they are not the majority

Comment Re:Will he be as good as Tim Apple? (Score 1) 28

Oh, it's because people with success, people that are demonstrably skilled at something—they start to think that their knowledge in one field means that they're smart at EVERYTHING. You see it with physicists all the time. Doctors, too.

They start believing their own hype and think they know better than actual experts. Then they end up dead, like Jobs. It's sad, but it feels like maybe it was inevitable.

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