I see you're trying to post a dupe on /.

In theory, that's an argument for adding a "bathroom break" button to groupware more than for RTO. Managers would get metrics to find employees who misuse the break button in excess of what labor law encourages employers to allow.

Ultimately, that depends on the nature of the position. Do you work call center or something else?

I'm in development, not operations, so my manager tends to be more accepting of my habit of dropping offline for an hour at a time to avoid the 23-minute interruption penalty associated with complex problem-solving.

Or just idiots, there's quite an overlap.

Musk becoming so prominent and popular and insisting on not shutting up about anything had one positive benefit: we saw that the establishment in this country is largely made up of rich psychopaths who neither care about the impact of their policies on normal people, nor understand the impact or even understand how self defeating it ultimately is. And often are just nasty not because they think it's necessary or helpful, but because they can, and they get pleasure out of making other people's lives a misery.

Oh sure, we all suspected, but Musk spoke the quiet part out loud. And he crapped on various groups in public until inevitably he crapped on one you or I was a member of, and we saw what a load of bullshit it all was.

If we survive the next few years and ever get a government that cares about people in again, even to the ludicrously low level that Democrats did (hey, at least they made a half-assed attempt to get us all healthcare), one of the first things on the priority list has to be strengthening the rights of employees and reforming how much businesses prioritize profit compared to their employees and customers. The focus, profit wise, should be on long term sustainability, not on shareholders.

You made a rather huge leap there, and I'm not sure why you committed to doing so.

I've never heard of this van. I work in several metropolitan areas on a regular basis and I've never seen one anywhere. I fully acknowledge they exist, but I've never seen one. I could well be unique in having never seen one, but if they aren't in any of the markets where I frequently drive then there are likely a lot of other people who have never seen them in the wild either.

The point I was after is that there are a lot of people who love to dunk on the automotive industry - particularly the American Big Three - any time they can. The Big Three are far from blameless. However, ripping to shreds a discontinued vehicle that you've never seen isn't exactly a fair thing to do.

Say an employee with attention deficit or sensory processing disorder uses Teams on a separate device as a way to improve productivity on their primary device. Refusal to accommodate these conditions can get an employer in trouble under the ADA and foreign counterparts. If you end up fired for this, ask an equality lawyer about your options.

"And your etymology is a fantasy. "

You've confused c.f. with e.g..

Only if you want your delivery to be very expensive. The article kind of didn't bother to mention that only the ZQ-3's first stage is reusable, so it's more like a "Starship-esque Falcon 9", both in terms of reusability, size, payload, diameter, etc..

My manager is an expert at doing my job. I cannot express how much that helps.

Seriously, what's the point of using AI to generate details that even bleeding edge hardware can't run at a decent framerate

I don't know what you're talking about. This is as far as I can tell about the process of creating game assets in the first place - not about generating them in realtime. It doesn't have any impact on performance.

I've used AI model generators (mainly image-to-model), and for game-type assets, they're usually good enough, though you still of course want a human to exert control over them. But it's way faster than from-scratch modeling. For say 3d printing, though, you really need to decompose the image into smaller components, process each individually, and merge, because otherwise too much fine detail gets lost into the texture instead of being part of the actual model. Regardless, they've been improving at a good pace. I haven't tried (as I've not had a need) but I think they now have model generators that even rig the models.

Without wage suppression, food will cost twice as much or more.

That explains why they're flailing. They should have laid off a Cyrix instead.

Are you saying Trump did 9/11 so he could have the bigliest building?

That's exactly what's wrong with USDA Organic and other similar labels. The founders of the Organic gardening movement absolutely did not mean that. Organic farming was envisioned as a cyclical system where human feces returned to fields and soil health and community health supported one another. We kind of, sort of do that with sewage sludge, but it's terrible. Even if you didn't mix in all the various stuff people pour down their drains (which is pretty much everything you can imagine, if it will go down a drain, someone is pouring it there) you'd still have to deal with modern pharmaceuticals, many of which survive intact through both the human body and the sewage processing system.

You cannot successfully reduce a concept like organic farming to a list of approved products and still have it be true to that concept.

It's a pretty safe bet that no one person could do all the things when the system is this big and complicated, so that doesn't prove anything.

Also, Amazon apparently can't either.

Perhaps I'm salty because Bethesda just let the world down with announcement of a Fallout 4 rerelease (which is just going to fuck up all the mods and implement a little more eye candy, and fix almost no bugs, if history is any indication) but I'm pretty tired of rehashes of old games. Halo CE also has the problem that a significant percentage of the game is just fucking boring, namely the part where you're going through a maze of twisty passages, all alike. They're not likely to change that part substantially. The rest of the game is great, I'm not a Halo hater and in fact I bought the MCC edition on Steam, but introducing a new generation of gamers to one of the series' greatest misses is a poor substitute for a new title in it.