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Did you drop this /s? They obviously were not.

Is this really new though? In the olden days, you had some engineers that REALLY cared about linting, various architectures, standards design, and so on when the majority of engineers just follow the spec and standards as is.

You need those people digging into the latest newness and discussing strategy on how to best use new tools so that the "rest of the users" can follow and do the work.

Do you purposefully not use any products that could be used to do anything harmful?

A hammer is great for pushing nails into wood. It also can crack someone’s skull with efficiency. I’m assuming you do not use hammers then, right?

It would be even easier to track criminals if we required all people* in the country to wear always on devices with GPS, always on cameras, always recording audio that are illegal to disable or turn off.

But that would be OK as long as a warrant was required to access it, right?

* - All people unable to pay the government to disable the device.

And for this admin especially, 3. A way to censor content they don’t like or alter responses to present the admin in a positive manner

Care to expand?

Concerns about noise pollution and increased electricity costs are just morons?

What about concerns about air pollution from unregulated diesel generators? Or using large amounts of water in drought prone areas?

I think I'll vote with my VPN protected piracy.

If I'm not buying a thing, but instead a limited license to a thing, then I don't care about buying that thing anymore and I'll just take it.

I doubt I'll be alone and with Denuvo being regularly defeated on release day, I'm not too worried about availability.

> Sergey Brin ($154 billion), the co-founder of Alphabet and seventh-richest man in the world, joined Musk, Bezos and others in being seated behind Trump during the swearing-in.

You aren't cynical. Big tech absolutely bent the knee and are now wearing red kneepads.

> California's Public Utilities Commission has not been allowing SCE (or other utilities, like PG&E) to charge rates that would allow them to do the required maintenance to prevent fires.

Source requested.

SCE made billions in profit last year. If they cannot upkeep their infrastructure while making large profits, they should be regulated to spend more profits on infrastructure or they should be nationalized and controled entirely by the state.

SCE does not get to have both large profits and say they are not allowed to charge enough.

California pays ridiculous rates as it is, sometimes over 40 cents per kwh.

Yes. I work in tech and I'm either doing focused work or in meetings. This is the case regardless of in office or at home.

> But there are real problems that it solves and solves better than anything else.

I disagree. What problems does it solve better than anything else? Any examples?

The best solution is to NOT LIVE IN A SURVEILLANCE STATE.

> The only way radical authoritarians survive on 30% approval ratings is apathy.

And voter suppression, vote manipulation, or simply force.

I agree with you in that barring the above, there is no logical reason a vast majority of all elections should lean away from MAGA/GOP considering the state of the country.

We do not need Flock in this current iteration of society.

In utopia, we would also not need Flock.

Privacy should be a human right.

> Democratic party should've stood hard against Antifa

Democrats should stand against antifacism? What is your reasoning for this statement?

>This is just disgusting.

And this instance is just one of the daily occurances of corruption under the trump regime. They are robbing us blind, destroying the rule of law, and using the constitution as toilet paper.

This will take decades to fix, if it even can be fixed. I'm less worried about 2028 and much more about 2032 or 2036, when the next GOP POTUS takes over. Every GOP president is an order of magnitude worse than the previous.

I don’t have a good answer but would like one. I’ve got a not too old desktop with a 4090 and 64gb of ram, I’d like a local model also.

I’ve witnessed it first hand, WAY more work gets done when people WFH than in the office. The constant stop bus, or coffee breaks, or “let’s walk over to the other building for this meeting” taking 10 minutes rather than just opening teams and joining the meeting in time.

The WFH team I manage is one of the most capable and hardest working teams I’ve ever been on. You can take that outdated attitude elsewhere, thank you.

We collaborate all day long on teams. Various work focused and non work focused chats are constantly happening.

Many workplaces are global. Even when I’m in the office, I’m still on Teams meetings all day long.

Your conclusion is exactly my point. People should work on teams that fit their work habits. Where that falls down is when management hires for WFH but then asks those workers to RTO.

First, RTOers can work with other RTOers, right? Or are you suggesting RTOers can’t do their job unless everyone is in the office? Because that is the exact problem I’m describing.

Second, if WFHers aren’t available and responsive, they should be put on a PIP and then let go if they don’t improve. WFH is not an excuse to not work. With my team, everyone responds quickly. If they don’t, they don’t last very long.

You do what you want without forcing others to do what you want.

It’s pretty simple, in my opinion.

Unfortunately a lot of RTO advocates need to learn this.

This right here is the crux of the argument.

WFH people want to do work, take meetings, and just overall get things done. Sure they also want to be at home so they can use a 15 min break between meetings to start laundry.

RTO people want to do work, take meetings, and overall get things done while there are others around them working. RTO people need other people around them constantly.

This is the conflict. WFHers are happy without forcing RTOers to work in the same manner. RTOers are only happy when they force WFHers into the office.

WFHers want to be left alone to do their jobs. RTOers need others to be around them to do their job.

Let’s not pretend you’re not part of the problem. You’re ignoring the full quote that you keep asking people to reference.

Back your position with a response to the full quote.

I’m genuinely surprised they aren’t here in this thread doing exactly that. The defenders pop up in every corner of Reddit any time anything related is mentioned. That there isn’t a similar effect here is quite interesting.

Edit: I should have scrolled down more first.

Yes, but where’s the cruelty that this administration so strongly desires? These people need to be punished for what they’ve done regardless of if they’ve done it. Additionally, efficiency means lower revenue and that simply can’t happen.

This is really cool. Old school video game developers were really creative with their usage of technology.

Mildly related, in high school back when Power Point was new (yes, dating myself a bit), I used it to create an interactive tour through a historic house in my home town. Users could click on a door to enter a room, click back to move back, and explore the full house. It was a wild maze of click areas to numbered slides and I attribute this project to getting me into programming.

It is funny how often history repeats itself.

Facebook learned this same lesson when they were upset at not being able to control devices that were running their software.

OpenAI is going to learn that same lesson. No one wants a second device.

Just wait until advertisers can get in on your real-time mental stream of thought.

This is a Black Mirror episode coming to life.