except that office building is also heated/cooled for the 1/2 to 2/3rds of the day when people aren't there. Better to just ditch the office completely.
Posts by Blank Reg
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IBM Software tells workers: Get back to the office three days a week
BMW deems drivers worthy of warmth, ends heated car seat subscription
Bombshell biography: Fearing nuclear war, Musk blocked Starlink to stymie Ukraine attack on Russia

Re: So Musk has blood on his hands
Russia has no chance of winning, they just don't have the capacity to keep their troops armed. meanwhile, the west can just keep production going as long as they like.
Besides, it should be obvious by now that the Russian military is completely incompetent, they really aren't good at this war thing.
From browser brat to backend boss: Will WASM win the web wars?
Musk's latest X-periments: No more headlines, old posts vanish, block gets banned
OpenAI's ChatGPT has a left wing bias – at times

Re: Not really
I've always found it funny when conservatives claim that you will shift to the right as you get older. I like to point out that this means that there is a correlation between those likely to be in cognitive decline and the tendency to be right wing. But it makes sense, you'd need to be out of your mind to support the right these days.
What does Twitter's new logo really represent?
Apple seeks patent for devices with roll-up displays – iRoll?

Re: Nokia
yes there were a number of companies working on roll up screens a decade ago if not more. I saw a few prototypes but as far as I know none ever made it to production. one likely problem is that bendy screens will tend to not lay perfectly flat after a while, then your very expensive phone would end up with a screen resembling a fun house mirror
Producers allegedly sought rights to replicate extras using AI, forever, for just $200
Starlink satellites leak astronomy-disturbing EM radiation, say boffins

It would be better to run fiber, it will likely be cheaper in the long run as it doesn't need replacing every 5 years like the LEO satellites used by Starlink. If you're really so far out that fiber is never going to happen then there are terrestrial radio solutions that can get you higher speeds and fewer issues with less atmospheric signal loss.
Former Twitter employees accuse it of holding up 891 arbitrations
Canada plans brain drain of H-1B visa holders, with no-job, no-worries work permits

Re: For once, Trudeau's government has made an actual smart move.
I had a PhD and 2 MSc in comp sci tapply that failed miserably. One even did their thesis on a topic very closely related to the problem I gave them, it didn't help. Every candidate claimed to have a degree in software, and most had work experience.
And it's not like the test is a surprise, I tell them ahead of time the topic that they should study up on.

Re: For once, Trudeau's government has made an actual smart move.
half the applicants didn't even submit running code, and abour a quarter of them submitted nothing. Most barely showed any meaningful ability to write code beyond what you would expect from a first year comp sci student.
I had several that just gave up after 30 minutes, they had 3 hours.
There is no point hiring someone that doesn't even exhibit the potential to learn what I need them to do. I would hire someone that failed to get it fully working provided they showed that they at least understood the concepts and were on the right track. Sadly few managed even that

Re: For once, Trudeau's government has made an actual smart move.
Not around here in the Toronto area, there just aren't enough good programmers at any price. I had to interview over 30 applicants to find one that was suitable. Granted what we do is extremely complex and challenging, but more than half of the applicants couldn't even come up with a bad solution to the problem I gave them, and it wasn't that hard.
Missing Titan sub likely destroyed in implosion, no survivors
Elon Musk's Twitter moves were 'reaffirming' says Reddit boss amid API changes
WFH mandates bad for staff morale and stunt innovation
Whistleblower claims Uncle Sam is sitting on hoard of alien vehicles and tech

I believe aliens exist, they have just never been here. Some alien species just randomly finding earth is highly unlikely. The most likely scenario would be that they detected some of our radio transmissions. The tiny little bubble around earth representing the furthest any of our radio signals could possibly have reached represents about 8e-25% of the volume of the universe. If those odds aren't bad enough you need to also factor in that these visitors would have to exist at just the right time with sufficient technology to detect the signal, figure out where it came from and then travel here.
It hasn't happened, it won't happen.
Metaverse? Apple thinks $3,500 AR ski goggles are the betterverse
Smartphone recovery that's always around the corner is around the corner
Twitter now worth just a third of what Musk paid for it
Leaked Kyndryl files show 55 was average age of laid-off US workers

Re: Some real oldie hate in here
It's sounds like some of the posters are angry that us old guys make so much more than they do. I don't make 2-3x what my junior developers make because I'm old, I make that much because I can do things that they can't. They just don't have the experience or confidence to pull it off. But I'm teaching them all I can, then when they are up to speed I'll move on to even harder problems
Dyson moans about state of UK science and tech, forgets to suck up his own mess
Elon Musk finally finds 'someone foolish enough to take the job' of Twitter CEO
Of course Russia's ex-space boss doubts US set foot on the Moon
Fed up with Python setup and packaging? Try a shot of Rye
Microsoft cries foul over UK gaming deal blocker but it's hard to feel sorry for them
Quantum computing: Hype or reality? OVH says businesses would be better off prepared
With a mighty hand, and an outstretched arm, Musk scraps Pope's blue tick
Seagate hit with $300m penalty for selling sanctioned storage to Huawei
Stratus ships latest batch of fault-tolerant Xeon servers

Re: Close (but no cigar)
Sometime last century when I worked for a mobile operator we got our furst fault tolerant system. As I had some involvement in the selection of the machine I wanted to see it in action after it was installed. So down to the switch room I go and in talking to the guys that installed it I found out that our very expensive, fully fault tolerant system had both of its power supplies fed from the same UPS.
Cardboard drones running open source flight software take off in Ukraine and beyond

Re: costs less than $3,500 apiece
There's likely a lot of profit margin in that $3500. But it's not new idea. Back in the late 70s I built a cardboard RC biplane from plans in a magazine, The plane itself was essentially free having built it from free cardboard from a refrigerator box and some scrap wood. The only cost was the engine and rc system.
Diving DRAM prices are a problem not even AI can solve
UNIX co-creator Ken Thompson is a… what user now?

Re: ...on the feeble pretext that he designed the C language.
long ago at work I had to set up and install a system that would used by 100s of thousands of people. We also used it internally and so I was told I was not allowed access until I had completed the training. Even though I had more experience with it than everyone else in the company combined I was forced to go. I eventually did go and spent most of the time asking questions that the trainer couldn't answer