People have been hailing WFH after COVID as a lasting change. But it has always been clear that non fundamentally remote companies will never accept this as a permanent solution.

Hybrid is a really bad in between, the advantages seem marginal (more flexible remote days, less needed office space) to the disadvantages (people will still be mostly remote in meetings, commute times still a factor, work environments need to be duplicated between home and office).

Guess he has only been working 250x as hard as the other employees

I feel like most things degrade as a matter of scope-creep, while trying to implement features that are actually complex and non-trivial.

Take the unholy mess of modern Microsoft Office. MS Office might have been a good tool for a single purpose back in the 80s, but the addition of multiple generation/layers of features that have been halfway abandoned but kept for compatibilitys sake, make any more complex task non-trivial. There are multiple approaches for implementing templating MS Word, none of which are really good. MS Macros have been great... if you are trying to get arbitrary code execution on Windows machines. And collaboretive editing features include halfway abandoned sharing features and a half-baked Web Version of Office 365.

As a matter of fact I don't believe this is purely out of corporate greed, but rather a lack of scope limitation during design. People don't ask if they should, if they simply can do. We shouldn't have macros inside of Text Documents, there should be another tool for that. We shouldn't have SQL queries pulling into Excel Worksheets. We shouldn't use Excel as a database, but people had to change names of biological genes to avoid these being autoformatted in Excel.

But as a matter of fact, in general one is limited to working with the tools one knows, so convincing someone to use the correct tool for a job will always be harder than just delivering additional features, that we know will make the overall product worse.

If this passes, smartphone manufacturers are going to register their devices as religious artifacts

I feel like the fediverse would be better off without a lot of current X users

I never knew I needed API fanfiction

Reducing human oversight and intervention in HR will definitely not lead to problems down the road.

I'll start with the German system. Here you are either automatically insured in one of the public insurances (there are many), which marginally differ in their cost (think single digit euro differences) and have to cover basically the same procedures. If one reaches a certain income level, being privately insured is possible.

If you are publicly insured, you wont see most costs, as these are directly handled between your insurer and the doctor/hospital. For some medications and procedures there are co-pays that are flat fees (5 Eur for Medications, ...).

Access to specialists mostly need a referral from your family doctor.

In private insurance, often you yourself will be billed and you will need to hand this to your insurance company.

The good side is that in most common situations I have never needed to worry about cost in public insurance, wait times for referrals can be very long and understanding what you need to get certain care can be very difficult. Private insurance often has better payment schemes for providers and less artificial limits on number of patients or which doctor is able to provide services, so access to most care is faster and more widely available.

Browser based blocking seems very out of touch and anything short of GFW as in China won't be very effective at actually achieving any blocking. Also enforcement client side will be impossible to control.

So not only is the law bad, but it will only make life more difficult for legitimate persons and organizations building browsers.

Art auctions are a scam, just some more so than others.

Maemo and Meego were so good

All this talk of elite makes the article so annoying to read and makes it difficult to take seriously...

If they can talk they can pay rent

Depending on your country contracts are also created just by spoken agreements, so sure any form in which intent is clear to both parties might count

At this point they should just consider disconnecting the UK from the wider internet

I wouldn't trust my country to competently run anything internet related

Well there was a similar incident a few years ago on Mt Everest involving a western climber who also died: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Sharp_(mountaineer)

Also FAANG salaries are also quite high in europe. Just look at levels.fyi. In local or non-tech companies in the US salaries are also much more in-line with europe and actual difference will be much much smaller

Some foss games I can recommend are Battle for Wesnoth and Endless Sky.

Are you a canadian indigenous person?

I was using the N900 when it came out and at that point Android was in no way superior to whatever Nokia was doing. Their main misstep was choosing Windows Phone and shipping the N9 as a dead-on-arrival product. Nonetheless the UX was pretty ahead of its time and we could have had a real Qt based Linux phone OS

Sounds good enough for my boss to me

Commonly they dont recommend embryotoxic medication in woman of childbearing age, as unecpected pregnancies happen and the chance for severe birth defects increase. Sometimes these can only be detected late into a pregnancy, so if the person might want to keep a pregnancy it would be not to take it.

Whats what we get for buying cars from a software company.

Windows Server is rather common in large enterprise software. All the stuff you pray you never have to interface with

Why not gallium

As a something for taking photos on vacation could be pretty awesome, as you can get many more angles

not to say all the places that I've been to reliability of stuff like Internet, and so on has been very has been very bad in most places you would like to be.  Given you're expected to perform your normal work. This might be quite stressful.

Glad that I can contribute to making the next Google Bard even dumber

Srsly most place dont really vet all hires. As long as you come off fitting your CV in the interview its fine

If you speak german the feddit.de communities (dach, ich_iel) are fairly active

Because currently Gaza is still officially occupied territory and Israel is reponsible

All the religious groups that emigrated to the US? This take has so many issues, but pilgrims, quakers and mormons are probably somewhere on the cult spectrum

For most linux users I'd say less security is a necessary evil. Security hardening is a tradeoff and I'd guess most people dont want their systems to be as locked down as ios or android. Or even modern MacOS, there are quite a lot of modifications that will require you to turn of System Integrity Protection, which blocks modifications of system files in normal use.

Can't imagine potato salad with either vinegar or mayo tasting good hot

Not sure how it works in NL but in most countries your health insurance takes over at some point

Is this supposed to be small or am I missing something? 400kb for hello world does not really sound small

I seem to have scrolling issues with wefwef on IOS. Memmy which is currently in Testflight is much smoother most of the time

Vorwärts immer, rückwärts nimmer!

Ok boomer https://youtu.be/nqa_Uyz1pBE