I dont know, somehow since Apple decided it was going to force spyware onto its most dedicated (all-in-on iCloud) users, my excitement about the M1 and all the cool things I was going to do in the Apple ecosystem has withered away. I am looking around for alternatives, the way I was in thn 00s, when I abandoned Microsoft, initially embracing Linux, but then happily transitioning to macOS and later iOS. Unless Apple does an about-face, I know I will be going back to Linux, on some privacy-friendly hardware vendor. We have cross platform communication tools and decent alternatives to most of what Apple has to offer. Obviously it is not as pleasant an experience, but there are limits to what I can tolerate for the sake of comfort.
These are not the only alternatives. Messaging apps allow people to stay in touch with each other without any of the timeline corporate surveillance society nonsense.
Did you bring it up with your manager? How about your colleagues. You can significantly affect your chances by talking about it, making clear that you see this as a major benefit (that doesn't cost the company a dime and, in fact, opens up for saving money on office rent), and highlighting that you can be as productive at home as you can in the office, if that's actually the case of course :)
Several of us where I work have been doing this over the past year, and in my last conversation with my manager I got approval for working from home permanently even after the restrictions are pulled back. It's hard to say for sure, but I don't think I would have gotten the same answer if we hadn't been very clear and vocal about our preferences. And of course it helps that the company outperformed its pre-COVID19 projections :)
What this argument misses is that the supplier should be paying its adult employees living wages that are sufficient to pay for the upbringing of the employees’ families. This is especially true when the customer is the richest company in the world that likes to engage in virtue signaling on various other topics.
While I have been using MacBooks as my personal and work computers for the majority of the past 10 years, I used to work exclusively on Thinkpads, and used two generations of them as my personal computers. Both of them still work and I expect them to keep working thanks to their almost unlimited repairability. While I still prefer macOS over any other operating system, I think young people with lots of spare time on their hands could benefit a lot from spending a few years working on Linux, to pick up command-line skills and general computing awareness that is useful on any platform.
This guy’s upbeat editorials in the Swedish media have consistently applauded our transformation from a world leader along just about every metric of human development, to a country that blindly adopts market solutions to societal problems whose political leaders settle for goals such as “being on par with the rest of Europe”. His focus on the positive provides the winners of this transformation with the conversational ammunition they need not to feel guilty, and diverts attention away from the glaring issues (growing inequality, racial tensions, exploitation of employees by employers, etc) that I’ll assume Norberg doesn’t have much insight into, given his writings.
"coffee shop" on the other hand yields 20 results. I agree that some support for fuzzy search is needed, but there is a reasonable amount of data there.
When will we start recognizing fake surprise as an enabling linchpin of the current economic system? These "bad apples" aren't outliers, they are the very essence of the system.
I would prefer they leave the oceans unexplored until we have found a way to curb our tendency to exploit any resources we find, without regard to ecosystems (which we may not even understand until the harm is done).
I would consider https://www.nand2tetris.org/ for a similar from-metal-to-application understanding of computing. It is a ground-up course that covers the construction of a CPU using only a NAND circuit, and ends with implementing Tetris on top of this computer.
I hope somebody makes an Eclipse plugin out of this, and integrates it into the TeXlipse LaTeX IDE. It is a sad state of affairs that this aging project (last release was in 2011) is still the most versatile TeX editing environment. For example, it is the only one that I am aware of, beyond command-line editors, that that lets you open up an arbitrary number of views of the same file, which is often needed in large TeX projects. Its current PDF viewer (Pdf4Eclipse) is broken on Hi-DPI displays.
Performing such experiments only on humans, who are capable of consent, or not performing the experiment at all, and finding other ways of understanding the world that don’t involve doing things to animals that we consider ourselves too civilized to do to humans.
After reading Peter Singer's Animal Liberation, I can't help but recoil in disgust at what it must have taken to produce the results for such a paper. Sure, this is interesting, but is it really worth the cost? Did the researchers or those who funded the research even reflect on it?
There are conditions that are considered incurable by "proper" medicine (e.g. Alzheimer's disease) and discouraging people from looking elsewhere (e.g. http://www.aging-us.com/article/100690) in those cases is just as dangerous. People are capable of considering multiple options simultaneously, and should be encouraged to inform themselves about the available treatments. In cases when two medical theories are truly incompatible, give people the right to decide what gamble they want to take, and understand that, in both cases, outcomes are uncertain.
I was surprised not to see a reconstruction of your own face as one of the animoji options. More than a novelty, it could be very valuable possession to a family member, after someone passes away.
It's funny how you classify "space to get into the zone" as an employee benefit, while all that does is increase your productivity. But I guess that could mean going home earlier...
Philosophies of life like Buddhism and Stoicism came about in times that were much less comfy than even the sad reality we have to endure. I am not saying people shouldn't demand things of society (quite the opposite, I think the level of organizing among the poor is the root of many of the issues we are seeing today), but I am saying that they can benefit from separating their happiness from the fulfillment of those demands.