50 miles is an insane distance. That could be hours of daily commuting for some employees. I thought about this for a whole 30 seconds before coming to the conclusion that a time-based commute threshold makes a lot more sense, and should probably depend on whether you are using mass transit (can multitask) or driving yourself.
Posts by Randy Hudson
195 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Nov 2009
IBM Software tells workers: Get back to the office three days a week
Google Chrome pushes ahead with targeted ads based on your browser history
Mozilla calls cars from 25 automakers 'data privacy nightmares on wheels'
From browser brat to backend boss: Will WASM win the web wars?
Man who nearly killed physical media returns with $60,000 vinyl turntable
Shareholders accuse Tesla of overegging Autopilot, Full Self-Driving capabilities
Hold off on that 2046 Valentine's date, asteroid might hit Earth
Accidental WhatsApp account takeovers? It's a thing
> The security hole stems from wireless carriers' practice of recycling former customers' phone numbers and giving them to new customers
No, the security hole stems from using phone numbers as the username.
> we strongly encourage people to use two-step verification
Seriously? Anyone with your old phone number will also receive any SMS to that number.
Marketing company chases Twitter for $7,000 over 'swag gift box for Elon'
5% of the cloud now runs on Arm as chip designer plans 2023 IPO
Everyone's doing it: PayPal sends 2,000 workers packing
2002 video streaming patent holder sues Amazon and Twitch
Forget the climate: Steep prices the biggest reason EV sales aren't higher
White dwarf study suggests planets are as old as their stars
Apple sued for collecting user data despite opt-outs
Meta approves four programming languages for workers and developers
Meta accused of breaking the law by secretly tracking iPhone users
AI detects 20,000 hidden taxable swimming pools in France, netting €10m
Intel shows how chiplets will form Meteor Lake CPUs
Tesla Full Self-Driving 'fails' to notice child-sized objects in testing
Star Trek's Nichelle Nichols closes hailing frequencies
Thunderbird 102 gets a major facelift, Matrix chat support
Coinbase CEO cuts 1,100 jobs, warns of 'crypto winter'
EV battery can reach full charge in 'less than 10 minutes'
EU lawmakers vote to ban sales of combustion engine cars from 2035
AMD nearly doubles Top500 supercomputer hardware share
The sad state of Linux desktop diversity: 21 environments, just 2 designs
Demand for PC and smartphone chips drops 'like a rock' says CEO of China’s top chipmaker
Hooking up to Starlink might be pricier than you thought
Misleading
The hardware rise is effective immediately? That is misleading. If you order today you won't receive the hardware until 2023. Just like Tesla, Starlink is doing the right thing by attempting to predict future costs, and then locking in prices for preorders and honoring them.
I ordered a Model X in Feb 2021, but I'm not expecting it until July or later. But Tesla locked in my price and I'll be paying significantly less than someone ordering today, because they would be ordering a car to be delivered in January or later.
Billionaires see wealth double during pandemic as tech bros lead the charge
Google emits Chrome 94 with 'Idle Detection' API to detect user inactivity amid opposition
AI caramba, those neural networks are power-hungry: Counting the environmental cost of artificial intelligence
See what's on the slab: Apple reportedly mulls stretching the iPad Pro to 14 and 16 inches
iPad and MacBook are converging
It's really just a matter of input preference. Do you want to touch the screen, with the detachable keyboard, or do you want a touchless screen, in which case the keyboard needs to always be there. macOS and iPadOS will continue to evolve until they meet in the middle, unfortunately.
I recently bough the 12.9" iPad Pro. They basically force you to buy the removable keyboard by disabling the split, on-screen keyboard. Why can I use split keyboard on my 9.8-inch iPad Pro, where my thumbs easily reach the middle of the screen, but not on a larger iPad, where reaching the center is a real problem (when holding the iPad upright with the rest of your fingers).
Microsoft and Google, sitting in a tree, working on browser compatibility
Apple's app transparency rules: Google's privacy labels for Chrome and Search on iOS highlighted by DuckDuckGo
Blackberry Cylance's consumer antivirus product won't work with macOS Big Sur until end of January
And now for something completely different: A lightweight, fast browser that won't slurp your data
Apple now Arm'd to the teeth: MacBook Air and Pro, Mac mini to be powered by custom M1 chips rather than Intel
This is great news for people buying a notebook but then use it as an iPad.
Seriously though, it's going to be years before you can do actual laptop tasks with these. Just this week I've flashed firmware in my Jeti ESC and receivers, used Fusion 360 to design a part for my plane, and used Cura to slice the file for printing.
Node.js 15: What's new, what's coming, and keeping pace with Deno. 'We're not going to reinvent' module ecosystem
Supporting TypeScript at runtime is just encouraging more runtime bloat.
npm packages are a mess. It's not uncommon for 95% a package's footprint to be unit tests, documentation, or other crap someone decided to publish, but serve no runtime purpose. On top of that, files are loose on the file system, causing more waste due to slack space.
If you're going to fix the mistakes of node.js, look at what java did right 25 years ago. Support optionally running packages from an archive, and have developers publish their runtime separately from their SDK (source code, etc.).
Trump's official campaign website vandalized by hackers who 'had enough of the President's fake news'
GitLab scans its customers' source code, finds it's as fragile as you'd expect
Re: Don't build on sand
In the mid 90s I had a buddy like that in college. In his AI class, they had to write a program that navigated a 2D maze. When he presented his program, it was a first person view of some creature running through a 3D world similar to DOOM. When the teacher what software packages he had used to achieve visuals above and beyond what even the professor considered within the reach of undergrads, his reply was, "a C compiler"