Why do you think Amazon Sidewalk exists? lol.

You didn't think that they would let you skip out on sending them all that valuable data, did you?

If you don't share your WiFi, the day is quickly coming where your smart devices will piggy back on your neighbors WiFi, or the Amazon delivery vehicle, or another smart device, or any connected car that comes near your house.

Itâ(TM)s usefully wrong producing code. Itâ(TM)s buggy, but not overly so, and itâ(TM)s much faster to write test cases and fix it than it is to do it from scratch.

I was chasing down a bug in a generalized crc16 yesterday and asked it for help. It gave me the wrong error, but a correct enough way to quickly find the error myself.

Sometimes it writes code that I look at and think âoethat canâ(TM)t workâ, and it does work, especially on things like micropython. Sometimes it makes up non existent libraries, though, so I have to go back and walk it through it.

Interestingly, itâ(TM)s often much better at writing code to do a thing than doing a thing.

You can also place an order on Digi-Key and wait. Retail price, no scalpers, but you wait a while.

Nobody got paid 20 percent less, because they werenâ(TM)t paid hourly.

If US employers can get the same amount of work in 32 hours as 40, they will cut hours for hourly workers which will cut pay.

For salary workers, itâ(TM)s different.

So you work harder at work, accomplish just as much, and your employer gets to pay you 20% less for it.

Sounds like a win for the employer, but I donâ(TM)t know why an employee would want it.

If a worker truly does as much in 32 hours as 40, those extra 8 hours are essentially being paid to accomplish nothing. That doesnâ(TM)t benefit the employer, but it does benefit the employee.

> Linux distros don't do this.

Unless you happen to like the way your init scripts work.

https://www.pcworld.com/articl...

That argument would hold water if the US electoral system was based on 'one person, one vote'

It's a representative democracy.

Individuals have representatives. Everyone has one, and they are popularly elected by the people they serve.

States have Senators. Each State has 2, and they are popularly elected by the people in that State.

The President serves all States, and is elected by the State electors, because the President serves all States. Those electors are appointed in such manner as the State legislature (the representatives of the People in that State) choose.

"that removes governors and state courts from the decision-making process on election laws"

You mean they might follow the constitution?

Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress

The Constitution explicitly gives that power to the State Legislature, which is accountable to the People. It does not give that power to the feds or the State governor to dictate additional terms. It's extremely explicit: "in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct". Not "in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, plus the feds require the Governor to certify it."

while giving state lawmakers free rein to change rules to favour their own party which for the most part favours the Trumpublican party

The votes belong to the State. They have been able to do what they want this whole time. If CA wanted to pass the "electors are always chosen by the Democratic party" law, they can. It's literally in the constitution that State legislatures can do whatever they want with State votes.

Which is why the People control both houses of congress.

MagSafe is optional. It provides more power than the USB-C PD spec (and classic MagSafe), if you want it or want MagSafe.

Who is your ISP that offers gigabit at $75US/month? I would be interested in switching to them.

You mean that your high tax country agreed to a slightly lower tax rate to attract a business that will pay more tax euros, and put more money in the pockets of the Dutch?

Yeah, you are a moron.

You just fired a potentially lethal weapon under situation that obviously doesn't require a lethal weapon. Enjoy prison.

You don't shoot at someone unless you are doing it for the necessary and immediate preservation of human life. A warning shot (of any kind) demonstrates that it's not immediately necessary.

Or they had a whois crawler. Which they did.

They crawled all expiring domains for marketing purposes, and potentially to scoop them up for auction if they thought that it was a good domain.

By working from home, you’ve decreased your worth to the company.

You’ve also made yourself drastically more replaceable, as the pool of “not near the office” workers is drastically larger, and the pay demanded by other workers drastically lower.

So, yes, your “reward” for being less valuable, and more replaceable, is that the market price for your labour goes down.

“My question is: Since they are willing to accept remote workers, then why are they not making the cut across the board for all employees As soon as they deem their position remote-work-okay?“

Because we prefer in-person workers.

I’m opening up a new office in Vancouver. If I want employees to have a decent work-life balance, and be able to afford to live in the area rather than spending hours commuting, I need to pay a wage that makes that possible.

If I’m hiring remote and not getting all the benefits as an employer that come with office work, then it’s less valuable to me, and the market rate is lower. Lots of people want their “live in podunkville” remote work, and so the supply of labour is much higher.

Since the price of a thing is (for the most part) where supply meets demand, that means lower wages. It gets the double whammy of us being willing to pay around 30% less to begin with due to the loss in quality and performance, as well as the competition being willing to go much lower for higher quality employees (who value lower cost of living, and work from home flexibility).

We have a general policy of paying significantly above market wages to attract better talent (roughly double), but that’s still related to the prevailing market wage for the position.

In other words, we don’t make the cut across the board as soon as we make the position remote eligible, because we don’t want remote workers. We tolerate it, when business and operational necessity require us to do so. It introduces a lot of operational headaches, hurts our security posture, removes some of the synergistic effects of having people working in proximity (especially with regards to junior developers working with senior developers), and in general contributes to human isolation especially for certain types of developers.

If we actually wanted remote workers, then the lower wages would already be priced in.

For hunting down my bike when some asshole steals it again.

These “privacy” features really cut down on the utility.