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Not even just mentions in a chat platform, but all the chat history I've missed out on. All the emails I've missed. All the meeting notes for the meetings I didn't attend. Read it all. Give the agent(s) what kinds of things you're likely to be interested in knowing about, if a certain project you were working on got mentioned or if they made progress on some problem.

Yeah I kinda saw this partially as a few hours of service after the sun goes down not an attempt at all day service.

I've had terrible experiences with most of the big computer name brands making Displaylink hubs. Frequent driver issues, unexplainable compatibility issues, hardware failures, and more.

My only "wow this thing just works everywhere" was actually the Plugable brand docs. Obviously can't do things like 3D gaming, but for regular desktop kind of applications dang have these things been largely bulletproof. Especially the older USB 3.0 ones.

I still remember running five displays (including the built-in) off a single cheap HP Split X2 back in the day thanks to a Plugable dock.

If you divide Watthours by hours you just get watts not more Watthours.

If it's 71Wh and it lasts 4.5h, the h cancels out and it just becomes 15.78W.

These days with AI it's a lot easier to come back after missing several days. It can often do a good job distilling things, especially if it already knows the kinds of things you'll really care to hone in on and prioritize.

I do agree when comparing developed wealthy nations the US ranks poorly on average vacation days per worker.

But on a global standard across all peoples, even those in the informal economies? US probably works out better.

Not that being a bit better off than subsistence farmers in extreme poverty is a high standard to cross, it's still a pretty low bar. I'd still recommend scoping your claims accurately.

It could have easily just been "f d zero zero colon colon 1", They're just trying to be fancy with their network addresses.

I don't have to imagine, in fact its even easier. I can just go to http://brother in by browser and it goes to my brother printer. Incredible!

> For everyone talking about how important this is, I'm curious how many have visited a library in the last 5 years to actually get a book.

At least every other week if not more often. I also use the library digital services a good bit. There's always lots of people at the libraries I go to browsing books, I imagine they're also checking them out.

> it could probably disappear and no one would miss it.

The libraries I go to have so many people using their various services constantly. People studying and reading. Kids playing, exploring and reading. 3D printers buzzing. Classes and events being hosted.

> one extra field trip for every school child per year

You're going to replace something lots of people use across all age ranges constantly with a single day event for only children once a year? Sounds like a terrible loss IMO.

I agree a library is way more than just a place to get books today. They do offer a lot of community center features, and I think modern library designs should cater to that need as well. But they're not homeless shelters, they're not daycares. They still have their own specific use, a general place of learning and knowledge for all people. A place for all the community to come together, not just little kids or just the homeless. It's just the way we go about sharing that has evolved a bit over time compared to the stodgy old libraries of the past.

Being careless in how you handle your corporate data will be evidence against your trade secret claims. You don't just get to claim anything as a trade secret, you need to actively go about trying to keep it a secret. Going with vendors who you know or had reason to believe were going to mishandle your "trade secrets" likely makes them no longer trade secrets.

Coca-Cola can't go dropping leaflets around with the recipe for Coca-Cola Classic and then claim the recipe is a trade secret.

IANAL. Talk to your own lawyer before you mishandle your data.

Speaking of nearly useless cut keys, the key fob for the Mach E reused a common Ford design. But the car itself has no keyholes, at all. So the fob came with the metal key part, but it was not cut. Just a complete blank.

> At least I assume it's most cars

Not a good assumption from what I've experienced. It seems quite the opposite to me. Even limiting it to the past decade of model year most cars I've driven do not do this, only a few do.

This is why I really love Fords having the keypad to unlock the doors. More cars need this feature IMO.

> Modern cars automatically lock themselves

There are plenty of 2026 and if not already soon to be model year 2027 cars which do not have this feature available at any trim level.

That some cars have it does not mean "modern cars" as a whole category have them.

In fact, my several year older car does have it, yet my several year more modern car does not have it.

A door lock with a PIN entry is incredibly cheap, and can be quite handy.

Then tying that in to be managed by a computer makes it even more handy. When I have family coming over, they can just use their own PINs to get in instead of having to manage yet another physical key. If its an even more one-off allowance to let someone in, I can easily just unlock from my phone. It also makes it easy to have doors automatically lock on a schedule.

I wouldn't want to have to go back to a world where I have to carry house keys with me every time I leave the house. It sounds way less convenient day to day, for the minor effort of swapping some AA's every six months or so for frequently used doors.

So many of my trips I leave with just my phone. Its my car keys. Its my transit pass. Its my money. Its my map. Normally I wouldn't want to take so much extra junk with me every time I'm just going to grab some groceries or getting lunch with a friend or going to the library.

I have an even harder time now since one of my cars automatically locks when I walk away while the other doesn't. I've been so spoiled by that functionality.

Luckily the other car will at least notify me if I leave it unlocked and can lock it through my phone. Would be nice if it just also auto-locked.

> that can be done with a key-press on a key

Only if you're like right next to the car. I prefer to remote start my car when I'm more than a few minute walk away from it so it actually has a chance to warm up or cool down. Starting it ten seconds before I get to the car is practically worthless.

Big money, big money, no whammies!

They are under public domain. But they still could theoretically distribute them. Theoretically, pretty much anyone could, but most of this list is just essentially lost to time. They couldn't even if they wanted to for a lot of these. They put in a good bit of work to republish and remaster a select few pieces of work forever but the vast majority of stuff just sits and rots. The same is true for videogames. A small slice gets recycled and republished as some retro game pack or whatever. But most of it gets ignored.

But sure, let's go to more modern examples. Are all of these easily acquired "new" these days?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Universal_Pictures_fil...

> For the most part, Universal Studios is willing to sell me an old movie for a fair price

So I can go to the store and buy any of these? No? Huh. Sounds like this is largely untrue for most films ever produced commercially.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Universal_Pictures_fil...

Need for Speed is trademarked, and they do actively continue to publish and sell games under that trademark. They don't sell some particular older games, but they definitely do make and distribute videogames games bearing the trademark "Need for Speed".

https://www.ea.com/games/need-for-speed/need-for-speed-unbou...

This same failure to defend concept doesn't apply to copyright, at all.

I dunno. Probably some kind of firmware interface standard. Hopefully it'll be extensible so the same base design can adapt to a large range of hardware profiles and features. It sure would be nice if it was a unified concept as well so there could be wide ranges of compatibility.

Only kind of kidding. I imagine the future for a while will either be continued growth into proprietary firmware platforms (like Apple and how tons of other phones/tablets have done) or a reworking/adapting of the main concepts behind UEFI but maybe making it less like ancient Microsoft-like patterns. Potentially something like u-boot becoming more common, or things like LK (Little Kernel). I think we'll see more evolution instead of hard replacement of concepts.

> but it seems to be the best system i've witnessed

How many systems have you actually witnessed firsthand? Have you spent life uninsured with medical issues before? Have you ever actually had significant medical debt?

> Medical debt can't effect your credit score, and they can't garnish you wages to pay it off

This isn't true across most of the country. It really makes me question your idea "the best system i've witnessed", as you're repeating commonly held beliefs which are not based on reality.

https://www.moneylion.com/learn/debt/medical-debt/can-medica...

This then only really applies for emergency healthcare, and even then only really to stabilize you enough to send you out the door. Sure seems like the worst way to administer kinda-sorta-not-really-free healthcare. Wouldn't it be better to just provide solutions to remediate and manage issues before they end up in the most expensive form of healthcare, probably over and over?

> There's no reason I need someone who went to school for 16 years when i break an arm or feel sick and want some over the counter drugs.

This is already a thing and is rapidly growing. Urgent care centers largely staff NP/PAs, which can write prescriptions. Its becoming more common for these providers to have many shifts with only NP/PAs as the highest clinical position instead of having an MD/DO as well. PA's didn't go to school for 16 years.

That said, if I break my arm I'm definitely going to want to go to an ortho if I've had even a slightly significant break. Not healing right will mess you up for life.

Once again, are you sure you understand this system you're claiming is the "best system"? If you don't even begin to understand the basics of the claims you're making, how are you so confident this system is the best? Random internet memes tell you it is so? Yeah, sure, you're more likely to survive some uber rare cancer. You're more likely to die in child birth or due to some random disease, all while spending more to subsidize some billionaires yacht habits.

> sending enormous quantities of subsidized agricultural products into Africa

I can get behind winding down enormous amounts of food aid when there aren't active famines happening. If we're really wanting to help, it would be far better to give aid to help jump start their own food production, enable them to be self-sufficient instead of the corporate farm welfare we had. Defined road maps to taper aid when good infrastructure is in place and well supported would be important.

Its still not exactly wise policy to suddenly one day completely cut it all off. Its also not the only thing that was suddenly slashed. Tons of people reliant on medications to live were suddenly cut off without any possible supplier in the area, among many other things.

You're then also so worried about how expensive these programs were. Its like worrying about how much crushing debt you're in financing luxury cars so you decide to cut back on buying a candy bar every other week. Problem solved guys! We did it! Good job! Applause all around! Just ignore how we've actually increased spending after all these rounds of government efficiency cuts!

Sure seems like the last time we had someone focusing on getting in and cutting wasteful budgets, focusing on actually getting consensus on what was wasteful, we actually managed to have a budget surplus. Who was that guy again? Which party was that?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Partnership_for_Reinv...

Maybe Musk should have learned from history instead of assuming he knows everything already. Maybe he would have actually been successful.

> Does anyone still use UEFI?

Yes. It's extremely common.

> If I start looking into the latest and greatest Qualcomm Nuvia ARM Windows laptops, does it use UEFI?

Yes, those use UEFI.

> Or regular BIOS?

Almost nothing widely produced today uses old "regular BIOS". Even those which seem to use "regular BIOS" are largely UEFI systems acting like a legacy BIOS. Even things like Apple MacBooks which don't use EFI use an Apple custom similar firmware concept far removed from legacy BIOS.

> Why are my tax dollars going to foreign healthcare, education, and food banks when we could definitely use that here?

I somewhat agree. You vote for universal healthcare, or against it?

Either way, addressing communicable diseases in far away places also helps keep them from becoming nearby diseases. It's far cheaper to fund some vaccines in a far away land than deal with widespread disease domestically. And in the end, cutting these things did practically nothing for the deficit. It was a rounding error of spending to save so many lives around the world.

And they want to argue they're instituting a "Christian" nation. How about following His red text words?

Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy, drive out demons. Freely you have received; freely give.

I've seen the golden Cybercabs rolling around in DFW. Not sure if they're actually accepting fares or not. I know they offer services with a Model Y operating "autonomously", I know in the past they had chaser cars monitoring but I've heard they've stopped that these days.

How many billions do your close friends and family have?

Seems like that might have something to do with it.

> I think there is just too much software between gas pedal and the machinery of the car.

There's a shit ton of software between the gas pedal and the machinery of just about every car on the road today whether that be an ICE, hybrid, or EV. We're a long ways away from the go-go pedal directly pulling a cable opening the throttle plate.

That's their point. The software they want to use often assumes its being run on a platform with systemd, so running that software on Alpine which makes a point to not use systemd causes challenges for them compared to using a different distro.

> We can improve work output by improving life, but the reverse isn’t really true

I've definitely experienced the "improving work output improved life", in that being better at my job has led to continual job growth which has put me in more fun positions and better compensation.

> the person could advise the employer on how to improve conditions so that employees want to do the thing

For large organizations (especially government ones) this is often a sisyphean task. Feel free to keep rolling that boulder though. Personally I'll choose to improve myself for some percentage of my personal time, and suggest to others to do the same. That might be improvement in your current role, or improvement towards a role you actually want to do in the future. I'll also try and suggest to my management to ensure they are ensuring their workers are staying sharp and figure out good ways to keep them so with what company resources are alloted to them. But in the end, you are the one most looking out for you, don't expect your employer to have your best interests at heart. If all your work improvement solely comes from your employer, there's a good chance you won't continue to be relevant after a while. I agree this shouldn't be the case in a "good" society, but its the reality of life. Even for an employer who isn't overly profit-focused and does choose to invest in their employees growth, you can't always assume the ones choosing your future development are actually in touch with what is coming in your future.

> While some people may coast on job security, others thrive because they can take risks and don’t have to be afraid all the time.

In a lot of these overly bureaucratic orgs we're talking about which create these roles which are hard to remove people from allowing such workers to coast forever, they're also often not great about rewarding risk taking.