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As a consultant, switching between my many clients, testing, and home accounts is simply Alt+F+B+Arrow down ("Open new container tab"), all within the same UI, in the same window, with colored tabs, with the same extensions, and same password manager.

I've been in situations needing up to half a dozen different Microsoft accounts (multiple Teams clients in Firefox, for instance), other browsers haven't solved this daily use-case for me.

It's an easier account management tool.

At least in France we’ve been saying that for 8 years.

The second best time to plant a tree is now.

I think you’re mistaken, at least about the French revolution. It was carried out by rich people, looking for more power, making use of a common and regular occurence of popular uprising (Jacqueries, in political science, is the name of those quite common « revolutions »).

Royalty does not necessarily cause misery, Sweden, Spain, the UK are all monarchies. Colbert and Louis XIV built a lot of foundations that you know France for today; even later non-democratic regimes such as the Second Empire (Napoleon III and Haussman) structured the Paris that brings tourists the world over…

The French revolution - that I know of - led to the invention of restaurants because rich people from remote cities came to Paris and wanted to live the fastuous life they envied from nobles. Social cleansing? Nothing of the sort, social exploitation as always, from where money and power came as always.

Can confirm, there’s only one Mickey, they time their exits and entrances and have a park coordinator (mostly women under the Mickey costume, by the way, because of costume size categories).

I work in data management for large companies and I can promise you the problem is not a technical one. Which organization has the maturity to actually follow-through with quality data for such systems? Which legislators have the power to enforce such an approach?

A chain of LLMs can work in that regard, using intermediary prompts that feed answers to the next prompt. Make the LLM build a list of sections, then make it fill them with examples, then make it enrich the text. Maybe a last layer for error correction, clarity, removing mentions of "as an AI model", etc.

I know you're joking here, however, increasing marginal costs products are well-know and studied in microeconomics.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/lawofdiminishingmargina...

That’s the core of the issue: when you’re so overworked that you (a) don’t have the time to reflect upon it and thus (b) don’t realize that the situation is terrible.

It’s a not a new trope, Jack London’s Martin Eden addresses the inability of physical workers to gain culture and reflect on their situation simply through the exhaustion they’re subject to.

We call them a chimera?

A friend working at Campari told me their strategy is to cut off supermarkets for a couple of years to focus on bar and restaurants, before an increase in pricing and a comeback in a couple of years.

Happened to me in management consulting: immediately after my corporate headshot, there was an increase in the number of messages from headhunters, almost three times as much. Ended up landing x2 salary in a smaller company, in a more specialized field, with bigger clients and better missions.

I use Alt+F+B+Down arrow to browse my containers when opening a new tab. For the most frequent ones, I use Ctrl+Maj+1/2/3/4, etc., I know which ones they are.

Those shortcuts are by default, I haven't had to tweak anything, and although they're not standard browser shortcuts, I prefer that option to a remapping of standards.

I advise using pen and paper lists of ideas, somewhere visible! Whenever I have my eyes wandering from a screen, I pick it up and start working on a couple of ideas.

I call them dolphins

Could be an opportunity to build a custom case hiding this bar

Can confirm, from experience in Data Management Consulting in large Banking, Insurance, Facilities Management and Food services companies: they build solutions and hope for ROI.

The basis of your comparison is a bit weak: you’re delving into legal entity anthropomorphism.

A person, sure! A company? I don’t think it holds up. A company has no sense of morality, no career duration, no children or relatives to take care of. It has a duty to take care of shareholders. When the way it choses to do that naturally comes to oppose our ethics, we legislate.

If you like this topic, what you’re describing is the essentialist worldview, and in my opinion a major part of societal debates today touch on the rejection of this worldview (classically by existentialists).

Is there stability to who you are? This question can also be asked of nations, of language… And this debate dates back to Plato.

Was money good enough to finance a ticket triaging job when you're off? Is there a startup idea right there?

VLC was born out of the need of Centrale students to share videos efficiently on-campus. Centrale being one of the top French engineering schools.

I disagree, emotional work is work, and « positive energy » sums it up quite well.

Edge cases exist, but when I’m sad, I just stop being sad at work, because it’s been clearly stated, from the first interview, that positivity was a requirement of performance.

One edge case: colleague lost her mother last year, of course we didn’t expect her to perform excruciating emotional work.

I'm young and that's probably the reason why I'm less cynical. Hurdles can't be a reason not to run the race. For me it's like project management: you're 100% sure that nothing is going to go according to the plan, and that you'll end up far from the target, but still, planning is better than not planning. And adapting the plan along the way is best.

High ceiling and large plentiful windows also increase the heating need. Should you want to reduce you energy consumption, you have to reach a balance. Within that balance light is pretty low in any energy budget. In France it's 10% of the electricity consumed by people.

Energy consumption for heat can also be solved by thicker walls and better insulation, but how are those walls and insulation produced? Are we talking about energy or carbon reduction? It's tough to analyze the whole chain. Burning wood is carbon-neutral, but can be carcinogenic when not fully efficient, and transporting wood can generate carbon...

What I'm getting to is that it's a complex system, and among that system, pollution due to light generation is really, really, really low at the bottom of the priority list.

I can't imagine it has a lot of manual work involved, exactly for the same reason you do: I haven't paid a cent for international or domestic wires in years. I'm in the EU, but I've done wires to Swiss or Lebanese accounts as well and no fees anywhere.

Maybe it's local regulations defining whether a human should be part of the loop?

European Union ; in French "Union Européenne", "UE"

Can you give examples of the Apple spyware you're mentioning? I'm familiar with the on-device scanning for iCloud-backups-using phones, but for me that's it. How wrong am I?

In the article, it's mentioned that people there are held in jail for decades for debts below $1000. That's the "debt trap" in the title.

I'd argue that I'd rather let someone steal than let them rot in jail for such a long time, for such a low monetary value, be it from debt or from theft. I understand you may disagree, that's why we do politics.

Additionally, which country has the best "rule of law", comparatively? Talking in absolutes in that regard is moot in my opinion.

We call it Data governance and Enterprise architecture, those are fields and we're hiring like crazy

I don’t think you’ve followed completely the phases that need to be gone through: the fact that microplastics are still being produced is the most straightforward demonstration that can be had on the fact that companies are still to be forced by the general public to stop producing them

Can you elaborate on the lingo, or point in a direction for learning?