Readit NewsI believe that the value from WFH varies a lot from person to person.
If you were working from the office before and the company changed to a WFH policy, you might see it as a nice to have. You already made some life choices to accommodate going to the office. Maybe you even go to the office anyway.
But, if you were hired when the company already had WFH, you probably made some life choices based on that (buying a house far away from the city, having kids, not buying a car,...). In that case, mandatory RTO is a complete disaster (especially with the housing crisis) and you pretty much have no option other than resigning.
I assume NYT was doing WFH since ~2020, so a lot of employees probably took decisions based on WFH, therefore the strikes.
> Eventually, though, the theory of quantum mechanics showed why it wouldn't work.
I was familiar with the information theory arguments (the same presented in Wikipedia[1]). Is that why they mean here by "quantum mechanics" or is there another counterargument to Maxwell's daemon?
1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell's_demon#Criticism_an...
I don't remember the whole details, but I believe it installed an autorun.inf file on all USB drives so that inserting the drive on another PC would install it automatically.
Edit: I just noticed that this article is also writen in the archival reason. I'll leave it here anyway for those that miss it.
I wonder what the post-mortem on this initiative was like. Seems like they didn't pursue it in future consoles but dang it would be pretty cool if there was a hobbyist section of the PS5 store that anyone could put small games in.
I don't think this is entirely true.
Sure, there was nothing like the Net Yaroze, but the PS2 came with Yabasic[1] on the demo disk and had a Linux distro[2], and the PS3 also had a Unix support[3].
While some of this might have been for tax benefits, I still think it fits in the spirit of Net Yaroze.
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yabasic#PlayStation_2
Why the heck not use AI when it's better?
I think that, in its current iteration, it is not that easy to know.
I haven't tried GPT 4 (which I've heard is much better), but my experiences with 3.5 have been extremely frustrating and underwhelming. I absolutely hate when it starts making stuff up and I have to fix it via the traditional way, it just wasted my time!
I guess this boils down to personal preference, but so far I just prefer a good old Google search.
I was quite happy with copilot auto complete, though. Mostly because of how low friction it was.
So you end up having to choose between stable libraries in the old style or experimental modern libraries.
While some features can be retrofitted to work with old code (e.g. Java 8's SAMs were smart a way for old libraries to support the new lambdas), in a lot of situations you'll have to wait years for the stable libraries to support the new features.
Having said that, it's nice to see PHP catching up. I haven't used it in a long time, but I like to check the changelog once in a while.
I remember, I had to file one paper from the landlord and my ID and that was it. Took 5 minutes.
While not awful, comparing to Portugal, where I just need to register in a website an then wait to get a confirmation code by mail, it feels like going back to the stone age.
This is gonna ruffle some feathers, but it's only a matter of time until it'll happen on the Rust ecosystem which loves to depend on a billion subpackages, and it won't be fault of the language itself.
The more I think about it, the more I believe that C, C++ or Odin's decision not to have a convenient package manager that fosters a cambrian explosion of dependencies to be a very good idea security-wise. Ambivalent about Go: they have a semblance of packaging system, but nothing so reckless like allowing third-party tarballs uploaded in the cloud to effectively run code on the dev's machine.
- Packages are always namespaced, so typosquating is harder - Registries like Sonatype require you to validate your domain - Versions are usually locked by default
My professional life has been tied to JVM languages, though, so I might be a bit biased.
I get that there are some issues with the model, especially when it comes to eviction, but it has been "good enough" for me.
Curious on what other people think about it.