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timeimp··on Billionaires Want People Back to Work. Employees Aren’t So Sure
Interestingly enough, there is also now, with the explosion of co-working spaces, services for that part of the market that wants to work "in town" but without a commute to the "big smoke" (so to speak)

I wonder how WeWork will fare when an entire 2 generations of people realise they can work close to home and be more productive...

timeimp··on I've screwed up plenty of things too
"SEVerity" level I think...
timeimp··on Drive drunk twice in Quebec, get ignition breathalyzer for life
Stop spam I would imagine. If you have to pay such a "high" price for the query, then you're not going to enumerate every license combination (unless you had deep pockets)
timeimp··on Makers, Don't Let Yourself Be Forced into the 'Manager Schedule'
I wonder, sincerely, if this is to do with the sun / the idea that other people are awake and there is opportunity for disruption...
timeimp··on Facebook to Exempt Opinion and Satire from Fact-Checking
Not gonna lie, I read the title as

Facebook to Exempt The Onion and Satire from Fact-Checking

timeimp··on Uncomfortable AWS Truths
>Everyone likes to make fun of outages in us-east-1 that break the internet, but Azure takes outages and everyone's websites all stay up. One wonders why.

huehuehue, doesn't the have i been pwned service use Azure? I can't recall that ever being down due to Azure outages...

timeimp··on Unencrypted patient medical information is being broadcast across Vancouver
Like this: https://media.giphy.com/media/12NUbkX6p4xOO4/giphy.gif
timeimp··on Firefox 69.0 Released
>Finder on macOS now displays download progress for files being downloaded

It's the little things that are making me go back to Firefox more-and-more

timeimp··on Running Games on a MacBook Pro with an EGPU
I have a mid-2013 MBP with TB2. If I get a TB2 -> TB3 then this should work ok?
timeimp··on DPAPI security flaw in Windows 10
Doesn't this happen on macOS after an update? I mean, I have returned to my Mac to see my login sitting there as if nothing happened...
timeimp··on What Intuit knows about its users
Or, you know, have your federal government implement self-filing online which covers 80% of the population.

Tragedy of the Commons at its finest.

timeimp··on John Carmack on QuakeWorld latency and business model (1996)
Any idea why the would not implement lag compo for projectile-based weapons? Too much processing power required?
timeimp··on Notarizing Your App Before Distribution
How would this affect things like Steam?
timeimp··on Approval Voting versus Instant Runoff Voting
And what's great about said form is the order is determined by draw of a hat. Literally.
timeimp··on FaceTime bug lets you hear audio of person you are calling before they pick up
Oh damn, they can do it just like that?

I thought FaceTime was a P2P thing... but it appears group FT requires Apple's servers?

timeimp··on IRS: Review of the System Failure That Led to the Tax Day Outage [pdf]
"By early afternoon on April 17, 2018, the contractors had determined that the root cause of the Tax Day outage was a cache overflow issue causing repeated warmstarts and had deployed a preventive script on the storage device that will monitor and correct the issue if the condition reoccurs. At 1:40 p.m., all IRS mainframes and databases were fully operational and ready to resume tax processing operations."

overflows... even happen to the best of us.

Props to the IRS for having the processes in place to handle. It took hours, sure, but at least it was ordered and the rest of us can benefit from this

timeimp··on Starting an ISP: Deploying Fiber
>We just launched in our 2nd city; Scranton, PA.

That's not... the Scranton, PA is it?

timeimp··on What do Stanford CS PhD students think of their PhD program? [pdf]
Would you do it again?
timeimp··on MacOS Mojave removes subpixel anti-aliasing, making non-retina displays blurry
So THIS explains why the beta Apple News app on Mojave looks _so bad_ on my 1x display...
timeimp··on WWDC 2018
Apple clearly has a sense of humour here. Checking the schedule, there is clearly something FISHY going on. I mean, no squidding around here...
timeimp··on Australians will no longer be able to order from Amazon’s American site
Not so much "new" but "now enforced to all the things"

Already happened with Valve. Buying from the store has 10% in the price, but not all prices changed.

timeimp··on Jeff Bezos' annual shareholders letter
"Alexa – Customer embrace of Alexa continues, with Alexa-enabled devices among the best-selling items across all of Amazon. We’re seeing extremely strong adoption by other companies and developers that want to create their own experiences with Alexa.

There are now more than 30,000 skills for Alexa from outside developers, and customers can control more than 4,000 smart home devices from 1,200 unique brands with Alexa."

Meanwhile, Siri recently was able to tell me cricket scores :/

timeimp··on Facebook retracted Zuckerberg’s messages from recipients’ inboxes
"Do as I say and not as I do"

-Facebook Privacy Policy, circa 2018

timeimp··on Tar and Curl Come to Windows
Who is this new Microsoft?!
timeimp··on Netflix, Microsoft, and Google just quietly changed how the web works
If the closed part of EME and the remote possibility of being thrown in jail for researching such extensions was removed, would there have been such an outcry?
timeimp··on Two years after Windows 10: Windows 7 is still threatening a 2020 EOL meltdown
They decided to have crazy small upgrade timeframes. Instead of 'once every 18 months' on average, they decided to go every 12 months.

I cannot think of a single enterprise environment (including education) that upgrades to the latest macOS version on release day (or year) anymore.

Many I know are still running El Capitan and will move to macOS Sierra when High Sierra comes out due to core apps no longer working / lacking updates to the latest macOS offering.

timeimp··on U.S. student debt: $966B as of Q4, 2012
Here in Australia, the Federal Government will cover the costs of your Tertiary Education (namely, Uni fees) under a scheme known as 'Commonwealth Supported Places' for most Tertiary Education places that have applied to be a part of it.

Universities usually charge in the neighbourhood of $800-1900 per subject, however many students simply put on HELP/HECS debt (and will pay it back later. Much later.)

You pay it back before when you start earning above a certain threshold, you must start paying it back, along with tax. Currently, that threshold is $44K per year and above. Similar to the UK, you pay a base rate + the consumer price index (read: inflation) for that financial year. There is NO interest rate (as such) whatsoever.

As part of the tax system, you have to declare to your employer that you have CSP/HELP/HECS debt and they usually take this into account when its payday.

You are then paid your gross amount -tax -CSP/HELP/HECS debt.

There are plenty of people who can take north of 20-25 years to pay off a full, 3-year degree of their choice.

If anyone is interested:

http://studyassist.gov.au/sites/studyassist/helppayingmyfees... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tertiary_education_fees_in_Aust...

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