We're giving it a go for July and August this year. Originally we were going to move from 5 x 7.5 = 37.5 to 4 x 8 = 32, but it was turned out to be a huge headache on the payroll and benefits side to adjust the day length like that, so we're going to 4 x 7.5 = 30, with no cut to pay.

We'll be monitoring our billings pretty closely to make sure it's sustainable, but if all goes well we hope to make it a permanent summer perk. We see it as a way to increase total compensation without drastic impacts to our payroll. I fully expect to see improvements re. burnout, ability to attract talent, and employee morale.

Yeah there's nothing magic about a 5-day workweek. It wasn't that long ago that a 6-day workweek was the norm, and society decided to change that.

Dude... the whole point of this thread is that there are people who can literally cannot "visualize" them.

Images disappear literally as soon as I close my eyes. It's not surprising when I open my eyes though - there are other aspects to object permanence that aren't visual.

Sounds like you can visualize, just not fully. If you click the "red apple test" link you'll see that there's different degrees. My GF is a 1 - to hear her tell it she can literally create and watch movies in her head. I'm a 5 - it's just empty blackness in there. You might be a 4 or 3?

Yeahhhhh that's not true at all. I can't visualize things, but I can certainly understand and design mechanisms. I my situation, I do it by "feeling" my way down a path.

My GF, who is an artist, says she can close her eyes and literally "see" a picture in her mind, just like I can hear voices in my mind when I read a book. However, I am incapable of "seeing" anything in my mind.

I cannot visualize a copy of the laptop. I can estimate the space it takes up. I can "feel" the movements of mentally placing a laptop and opening the lid. But I don't "see" it.

Well... the extreme religious do believe that. Masturbation is a sin because it's ejaculation that cannot result in conception.

I highly doubt they actually practice what they preach though. Most likely they give in to the very natural urge and then pile on some more self-loathing.

Canadian here. There's a reason those areas are mostly empty: there's not much reason to be there, and communities need a reason to exist. Those areas are not great for agriculture (and a changing climate isn't going to fix that - they have thin soils), and they're far from the rest of civilization. There's lots of resource extraction in the form of forestry and mining, but there's not enough growth potential there to support population growth. So yeah, you could fill those areas up with climate refugees, but how are they going to support themselves?

It would also cost trillions of dollars to build the infrastructure necessary for large-scale settlement of those areas. Why not just spend those trillions of dollars on fighting climate change?

There's a big difference between being banned from flying and being banned from driving. Flying is a frivolity; it's a hobby, it's optional. Driving is pretty close to mandatory in modern North American society. Sure, you can get by without it, but at significant impact to your quality of life.

Exactly this. Don't get me wrong, I hate billionaires as much as the next guy, but this is just a distraction piece. All this narrative does is encourage blaming someone else instead of making meaningful change.

The issue for car manufacturers in switching to EVs was always that auto manufacturers work in cycles of "platforms" and build each generation of car around a specific platform. For awhile there they had to shoehorn EVs into existing ICE platforms, and the result was a bunch of underwhelming frankensteins. But we are now reaching the point where manufacturers are rolling out their next-gen platforms, and they're having to make the call - go EV, or lock yourself into ICE for another generation. It's becoming clear that the call being made is to make the transition.

The result is that the end-game for ICE is near, regulations or not. It doesn't make sense to run two full separate platforms (along with their respective supply chains and manufacturing tooling) to keep legacy ICE around, and there's a very real risk of locking yourself into old tech for the next decade or two by focusing on a next-gen ICE platform. This transition is going to happen fast and furious, whether we like it or not.

They're dropping support for Zoom and Google Meet on the Nest Hub Max, which was one of its key selling features. So it seems like Google smart displays are not long for the world either.

As an avid pusher of USB-C, even I can recognize that Lightning is the technically superior connector. However, Apple screwed its long-term future by keeping it proprietary (though they made billions for many years because of it). If awhile back they had pulled a Tesla and opened the standard for use by others I think we'd have seen it become the standard connector.

Often "better" ends up being about critical mass rather than technical superiority.

Yeahhhh, this just seems like one of those movies where the robot says, "I've run the calculations and the biggest threat to the planet/universe is humanity. For the good of all you must be destroyed.