Someone who slacks off at home is going to do the same in the office, you just get the 'feelies' that they are working harder because of a warm body mentality. Either get better employees or give them more tasks and track their workloads. Usually if employees have the skills required but aren't doing the work, there's a motivation issue that points at lack of empowerment, bad management, bad culture, lack of clarity in role.. something that making them demotivated

"Only doing the work assigned" literally means they are doing their job. Work is a false-family; the workers get all the insecurity, the layoffs, the pay cuts when times are tough. Not the owners, not the corporations, not the upper management. It seems stupid to me to kill yourself for an entity that does not care about you, we are just interchangeable widgets on a spreadsheet. If you think working hard is going to protect you from layoffs at a company of any size, I got a bridge to sell you.

> You can haul people into your office and give them a serious talking-to right there on the spot

You can just start a 1:1 chat at any time?

> If there's an emergency you can pull a working group into a conference room right now and get things straightened out.

We do these online all the time as we're geographically distributed.

> Contractors are particularly prone to this, they have no skin in the game anyways.

Right. So why do you need so many contractors? It's the company trying to keep costs down. FTE don't like to engage with contractors, contractors just want their paychecks for minimal work. It's a business failing to be employing a bunch of contractors; they're trying to save money but it causes more problems than solves. At least in IT with any non-monkey job.

Create buzz and artificial demand based on controlling output. Nothing makes people want something more than being told there's limited numbers and they can't have it.

Just because you don't use something doesn't mean it has no value.

Stitcher was free and easy to use. Their premium was cheap. This is just more consolidation of podcasts behind the major corporations that get yet more information about you.

I can already see the response. "Just don't listen to podcasts!"

Apply that to everything. Just don't browse the internet! Just don't ever use a mobile app!

> Also this tool doesn't seem to check robots.txt

Right, then he whinged on about it, closed the issue and in a linked issue offers to let other people do the coding for robots.txt

What an epic douchelord. Entitled, expects the world to change to suit his behavior and ignores existing solutions while berating folks for not sharing his worldview.

If only that was true. You know what is worse than renting in a loud annoying area? Owning a house in a neighborhood that turns out to be full of crappy people who throw loud parties until 4am, have loud barking dogs etc. Nothing ever done about it. There are endless horror stories from homeowners stuck in a bad situation that seemed fantastic on the surface.

There's only so much vetting you can do ahead of time to figure out the vibe of the area, and guess what - one neighbor moving out and new one moving in can change the whole homeowner experience. Don't expect an HOA to protect you; they're more likely to endlessly harass you for minor crap than fix any real problems.

Now you're looking at a financial hit to sell early, or in a down market vs "well my lease is up in 4 months and I can gtfo".

No single change will be 'the solution'. The problems are too varied and complex. It's the aggregate of small changes that will make a huge difference, ie harm reduction model.

If we waited for people to 'be ready' then it'd never happen. People like the status quo & stability vs some unknown future because change is scary. Future change is slightly less scary than "things are changing in the next few years".

If we had waited until everyone is ready for solar, the price of installing solar panels would still be astronomically high instead of plummeting, producing electricity cheaper than fossil fuel.

I guess I'm not understanding your argument. It's obvious that adoption will be slow even in the countries you listed as an example. Without something driving it forward though it'll never ever happen.

Nor should they. That would *actually* be a violation of freedom of speech, not "someone was mean to me on twitter so shut it down".

The private sector though? Don't go, don't host, boycott, pressure advertisers.. all fair game imo. That's called protesting.

Almost everyone protests things they don't like in some way.

I plan on moving rural and this is what I want too. Plug in hybrid since charging won't be great. Waiting for a much better battery range though, like 100mi would be sweet.

1. Knuth is alive

2. That's not even the quote, it's "premature" optimization.

However employees shouldn't be at the workplace when they are not working.

There are liability issues, there is also the fact that it's a place of business not to hang out.

I would be happy with my employees unionizing but there would be a strict law about not hanging out and socializing when you're not on the clock. If you're meeting coworkers for lunch, either meet them at a restaurant or wait out front, you don't need to be in the building.

Obviously Amazon is using this as an anti-union tactic but I happen to agree here. If you're an employee, you don't hang out in the place of business when off the clock.

I've been totally happy with windowmaker since the 90s. It consumes very little resources, stays out of the way and does everything I care about. My configuration has barely changed in literal decades and I consider that a totally awesome feature. I need a solid terminal, web browser, great package management (on Arch lately, totally happy).

I honestly have no idea what the author of the article wants. A unified vision? Join the Lennart clan. No choice? Join the Windows/Mac tribe.

I was forced to use Mac at my last gig; really gave it a shot but was totally unhappy. For starters, the accessibility for visual impairment is total shite. In Linux, I can get every single application I care about to use the fonts and scale I want. In Mac, I need a retina display to get scaling. I fought with karabiner to get basic sensible keybindings. The only thing I actually liked was iterm2 - especially the "highlight and copy" feature.

I'm way more productive in my Arch desktop than I ever could imagine in OSX; sure it's a matter of familiarity but the fact that I can get such a consistent environment that stays out of the way is a beautiful thing imho.

The beauty of the Linux ecosystem is the choice he's complaining about.

I never bought that analogy. Sure, you consume a real resource to product btc. However that resource (electricity generating the compute power plus a small fraction of the cost of the hardware in wear and tear) then disappears and can no longer be used.

If you mine gold, silver, diamonds.. you have an object that is a store of value representing the work that went into it, which can then be used.

BTC just seems to take, not give. It's value requires being translated into fiat, you can buy very few things with it directly. Somewhere in the chain of purchasing an item, crypto is converted into fiat. NFTs asides.

I'm sure I'm just dumb though and it's totally not a speculative asset use nearly exclusively for criminality and grift. Or won't be in the future. Or something.

> The West's solidarity with Ukraine makes it tempting to support such a radical act designed to capitalize on family grief, said Stephanie Hare, a surveillance researcher in London. But contacting soldiers' parents, she said, is "classic psychological warfare" and could set a dangerous new standard for future conflicts.

Russian citizens are being lied to about the scope of the engagement, everything is clouded in secrecy. Russia military was bringing mobile cremation units ffs. The parents would have zero idea of what happened to their children if they weren't notified by Ukraine. Russia did the same thing in their Afghanistan adventures; burials were in secret, if you were a high ranking party member maybe you get to attend your childs funeral.

My view of Clearview aside, I think this is more of a service than anything, with dual purpose. Inform the parents of what happened to their children, and expose the lies of a dictator invading a peaceful sovereign nation. Is it traumatic for the parents? Of course. Better than being lied to though. I'd want to know how my kid died and how they were just left behind like an animal by my country's military.

"This product is no longer profitable and will be discontinued. Also all that data belongs to us so you can't even get access"

Relying on any service without secondary backups for anything important is madness.

> Imagine someone being so toxic that if you refuse to accept their worldview they will disrupt the group in retaliation until the group acts in according to this worldview.

Do you know how many people and organizations you just described? It's hardly unique to the so-called 'SJW' - which I don't believe this person described herself as, it's a label people are giving her. Preining specifically. This entire article is very one-sided.

It's all too easy to dismiss people we disagree with by giving them labels like MAGA-ite or SJW.

Reading Preining's blog post in this article, he paints a very one sided narrative imo. Linus himself recently (well, in 2018) apologized and owned up to being over the top in his criticism; https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/9/1... - the same behavior Preining appears to be defending and normalizing.

Inclusive behavior means more contributors and a healthier ecosystem with a longer life. Personally I'd rather have to suffer the burden of having to be polite & professional than deal with egotistical abrasive types that drive away quality contributors.