Only a matter of time before it becomes possible to decode people's internal monologues remotely.

Or just train yourself to think unsexy thoughts, think unsexy thoughts, thin unsexy thoughts...

Personally I find that gnome ranges from OK to cuckoo bananas (moving modal dialog boxes moves the parent) to downright offensive (trying to kill middle click paste, even though everyone else has got onboard with that for terminals).

Oh it's also a massive CPU hog

Here's a thorough review I agree with

https://woltman.com/gnome-bad/

Maybe it's the onset of middle age taking over from knee-jerk skepticism talking, but at this point I firmly disbelieve in total any PR materials invoking any hot topic in the news, lefty news, righty news, and nominally straight news alike.

I mean sure Japan doesn't have nukes.

They've got a large nuclear power industry with reprocessing and etc and socks of literal tons of plutonium.

They keep trading places for the top fastest supercomputer.

They have a solid fuel scientific satellite launcher with mobile capability from when you just need to launch a satellite from an undisclosed location after a long time in storage. It's not an ICBM no not at all. But if it were it would probably be the best in the world. Good job it's for scientific satellites.

Japan's been hovering around the "we could have nukes by next Tuesday" point for quite a few years now.

Aw man :(

No a double standard between people driving cars and literally everything else.

Motor vehicles are (in American terms) a 9/11 equivalent every month, year in year out and it barely gets a mention Dave for the odd bit of victim blaming especially if the victim was on foot or on a bike. Nothing else gets the same bladse treatment.

Can we finally know whether or not there is beer on the sun?!

I'm sorry to hear that. I have CFS/ME which seems to be similar, so I know a bit of what you are living with.
At least in my case things did get better eventually, so don't give up hope.

Thanks. For me, it played hell with my joints (that was the main symptom) to the point where I even (probably due to inflammation) got minor nerve damage. I basically couldn't stand still for more than about 5 minutes without one foot going both painful and numb. I also picked up wrist, shoulder and some other injuries. Basically everything started injuring my joints while I had it. The problems are slowly fading, thankfully. Amazingly it wasn't even a bad case. It was basically like a really nasty cold until I had taste loss (oooh COVID) for a few days but also covid toes. I'd had worse before, without the long term effects.

Whether SARS-COV-2 was real

It was.

or rebranded flu

It was not.

It dropped to 99.8% if you were over.

This is not true.

forced medication

No one held a gun to your head and injected you. But conversely you have no right to breathe your virus on anyone. Freedom means you can choose to not be injected and a building owner can choose to not open the door to you.

Personally I'm not a fan of Ivermectin.

This is an almost fractally stupid sentence in only 7 words, congratulations. It's not a club. It's a medication for treating certain parasitic infections.

It causes infertility.

It does not.

Tim Truth covered a lot of it (his videos were delete from YouTube, but you can find them on Odysee and Rumble

No thankyou.

including how the "main-stream-independent" media was pushing Ivermectin.

The who with the what now?

where as the official jabs also caused turbo cancer

They did not.

First vaccine I had made me feel like utter shite for a few days to the point where I took a day or two off work.

On the other hand I'm still suffering the after effects of mild long covid 6 months later.

If they could create a generic flu one that would be great,

Ain't gonna happen: it mutates too fast, but that's why the mRNA one is good since a shorter lead time leads to more accurate predictions.

Are you happy with 30000 deaths per year from the intended and correct use of a product?

I kind of feel that SDCs are the wrong technology to make a paltry 30% improvement, and also might not succeed that well[*]. The problem is the Great North American Stroad, a result of poorly designed road building rules and poorly designed zoning rules. It mixes high peed and local traffic in the worst possible way making a unique combination of poor safety, bad traffic, low efficiency and astoundingly high cost.

[*] well they might... if enough cars tick to the rule traffic will grind to a halt.

I believe the goal has to be "better than humans" because humans seem to have a double standard for bots per screwups.

It's not so much we have double standards for bots, we have double standards for humans driving cars specifically.

I have such fond memories of EA from the '80s, but as far as I'm concerned, that's a completely different and unrelated entity.

Exactly - And there is the interesting part. The typical angry response does not allow for any deviation from the idea that people who work from home are the most competent, most productive employees who will have the world beating a path to their door.

Yes this is true. There are of course some good remote jobs, but not enough. The first part is obviously true. So why not the second part? Well it must be an army of incompetents and quislings like you and I not just standing in their way but actively fighting them.

Certainly some people do work better alone.

It's certainly true that some people can work better alone. And it's also true that some people can figure out what the right thing to work on better alone. The intersection isn't close to 100% though, and I think quite a lot of people can end up working effectively on a task that's not especially important. It's the useless interruptions which can let you know what the important problems are.

Another thing is despite what appears to be the norm on Slashdot, most people need a bit of actual humanity around them. Or perhaps most people are cowed into silence by their histrionics if some dares to disagree. But humans are by and large social creatures. Introversion is not the norm. Nothing wrong with introversion, but there seems to be a conscious effort to force on others these days.

Also introversion isn't absolute in most people.

Finally, a person who wants to slack off ie, a lazy person - will have a marked tendency to love WFH. Just sayin'!

Yeah, and not just that. I've noticed a tendency among a certain sort of programmer to also convince themselves that say upgrading from yesterday's must have web framework to today's must have web framework (while incidentally learning all about today's must have web framework) is really really really important actually so guess what gets done on the WFH days? The big boss is in an idiot you see and doesn't understand the pressing need to update a working, relatively bug free and lightly used end point. So they might be working effectively in as much as writing company code, but not usefully.

Also slackers. Slackers love WFH.

Yes, some people have the need to make shit up

This comes back to your first point about the presumed superiority. Providing counterexamples attacks their presumed superiority so it is equivalent ot a deeply personal attack. So you get the kind of response as if you've insulted their mum or whatever.

That hasn't been my experience

No one EVER replies as quickly by text (I'm guilty too). The in person-ness does some effective filtering. Person not there? Well, wait. Person busy? You may be able to judge if your needs are higher priority and they better be if you interrupt. Every text system I've had always gets a high proportion of near spam which necessitates mental filtering which stop instant responses often.

What you describe sounds a little like that.

Yeah could be. I wouldn't class myself as either introvert or extrovert. I can do and enjoy people stuff but it does completely knacker me after a while.

Observing that some people aren't responsible enough to work without someone breathing down their neck is a wildly different claim than saying the work itself couldn't be done remotely.

I don't think it's that simple. Sure, if you're talking about physical possibilities for single instances. But those aren't anything other than a bound because you have to have people to do the tasks. Once you've got low to mid skill people in a dull, dead end job, you have a problem. For certain kinds of job, I reckon it becomes more or less impossible to motivate the majority of people who will actually do the job.

At that point what does it matter if someone could in theory do it remotely?