Microsoft has been late to the party for most things in the last decade+. I wonder if has more to do with being late to the party rather than being the adult in the room. They were late to the party with the over the top data collection (Windows 10) and are just not up to where the others are.

Our code of conduct at the company I work for says family can't report to family. That doesn't seem to prevent daddy from managing son who manages brother (and at a prior point another son/brother also reported to daddy). It didn't stop 3 out of 4 new hires a couple of weeks back all having direct nepotism ties within the office. Sure they can fire him for it, but given the lackluster application to their own rules when it suits them it doesn't bother me when they get a dose of their own medicine. It reminds me of the article about a guy that had subcontracted out his work to a guy over seas that was posted a year or so ago.

So they are using AI to add house rules to the game? I enjoy the round board variant. I also have Nightmare Chess which adds cards that change rules for a single move or the whole game.

The right thing and the legal thing are not always the same thing. When the conflict there is a real issue. The responsibility to do the right thing is not always stopped or mitigated when the wrong thing is the legal thing.

If the company is at a point it recognizes that this is needed then it is probably really bad and at a point where people probably need 3-4 weeks. It takes companies forever to admit to an issue and they never seem to enact a solution that gets things to where they need to be. They love half measures. It lets them feel good about "doing the right thing" without actually expending the needed resources to do the right thing.

I don't work in that industry. I don't particularly work much past 40 hours a week. Stress and burnout are still at the point it takes the whole weekend on a normal week to finally unwind. A bad or stressful week can take 4 days. That is time needed without dealing with other crazy (home repair, etc) but actual down time. Assuming you lose half a day to other stuff that spins me up I'm at a half day in the hole each week to be refreshed for the following week (on a normal week). That builds up over time and has impacts.

I can stream games inside my LAN now via the steam linking. I use my nice gaming computer to play games in the living room with a less powerful PC and it works well. I'm not playing twitch type of shooters, but it ran Red Dead Redemption 2 just fine. I have also tried the internet streaming thing for couch co-op via Steam to much worse results. For some simple things it works fine (Overcooked for example) but less well for anything with any real system requirements. I can't imagine trying to play against a machine running it remotely all the time for anything other than basic or old school styled games. I do find it funny that they keep trying to force the remote thing though. What will it be like when the gamer never actually has the software to run the game? We'll be 100% at the mercy/whims of the developers. They certainly aren't going to keep some game operating for 30 years or more like some of the stuff I still can (and do) run from time to time.

I had a choose your own adventure style book on my Kindle that would be impacted by this. It had its own mapping and everything on one of them. It was really slow and in some ways a pain, but it was really neat and I wish more stuff like that could have been done.

I enjoy a couple of their videos seeing the logic in how they get to some of the answers. I get the basic solutions, but some of the advanced finds are challenging. Seeing some of the ways they get to the next step can be fun and useful. I like more of the wonky puzzles with other constraints.

What I'd really want out of something like this is a virtual card # I could use for online shopping in lue of my actual card. I can get a virtual card #, use it for a specific transaction, and it ties back to my main card that I don't have to give the number out on. If shitty company that happens to sell what I need gets hacked or sells the info it doesn't damage me or compromise anything useful. You'd think the CC companies and banks would be all over this as it would give better visibility to the source of frauds.

Those pensions the summary says he is protecting own a large amount of those assets the summary is also saying should be erased. Those large funds get tons and tons of money from pension and 401k plans. Overall I still agree with the thought. People who can't eat and pay rent need help. Companies can get help after everyone else. Especially those companies that are currently taking help and laying people off anyways.

I tried working from home and hated it. I have nicer monitors at home, but the overall setup is not driven around work. I do not have the extra space to dedicate solely to do a functional work setup that would work. However, I am back in the office and most everyone else is working from home and I love it. Sure people are up here for 20-30 minutes once to three times a week to pick up items that have come in or need shuffling, but overall it is much quieter and I love it. Many have complained about feeling isolated and not part of a team. That isn't an unknown feeling to me, but it can and has been like that even when in an office full of people. I'm hoping several/most of the people working from home stay that way after this crisis.

It is amazing to see the influences of Sojourn that made it into EQ. EQ was the evolution of the text based MUDs. It was visionary in its day and execution. While it seems clunky by today's standards, it advanced us forward and its influence will be remembered. McQuaid was the key player in that step of the evolutionary process. I thank him for his contribution to the main entertainment in my life and wish his family well as they deal with his passing.

Hopefully the site I'm required to give health info to for insurance purposes isn't turning around and selling the data. I suppose technically/legally they are offering the choice to do it. If you don't the prices are double, but hey, choice!

I am not a tech worker (accountant). I have been here 16 years. I am good at the job I do. It is in a great location to where I live. I hate to have put in a decade and a half work only to be run off by people being assholes. I also dislike massive change (stability is huge deal for me). Also a good chunk of fear in that type of massive change (my voluntary job changes have not typically been great in hindsight). Some of those are good reasons, some are bad. I own my pieces of those.

I've seen people complaining about truly inappropriate and unprofessional behavior get sidelined. We have a nepotism based regional manager that doesn't get to travel without his babysitter since he gets in trouble. We have a local person that harasses people and the local HR rep protects him for some unknown reason. People that complain are retaliated against. None of it is right, but it is the way things are. In previous companies I had not seen the active protection of bad behavior like I've seen here, but those other companies do sideline/ignore/remember anyone who complains. People shouldn't have to leave a job because other people can't act some minimal level of professional. What type of self-created justice can people get when the system abdicates its responsibility for maintaining some minimal level of professionalism?