https://support.spotify.com/us/article/ongoing-issues/

Hopefully not in the bad ways? Is the "ceramic coating" proven to not be harmful?

those folks have a reserved physical desk / office space at which they will be required to go 3 days per week starting apr 4th. They may switch to fully remote but cannot keep a dedicated physical spot if they do so.

source: googler

> Today, Apple is carbon neutral for global corporate operations, and by 2030, plans to have net-zero climate impact across the entire business, which includes manufacturing supply chains and all product life cycles. This also means that every chip Apple creates, from design to manufacturing, will be 100 percent carbon neutral.

But what they won't do is put the chip in an expandable and repairable system so that you don't have to discard and replace it every few years. This renders the carbon-neutrality of the chips meaningless. It's not the chip, it's the packaging that is massively unfriendly to the environment, stupid.

No exploding coal plant will render a whole region unlivable for >30 years. Both happened at Tschernobyl and Fukushima.

We can't manage systems that we designed to be highly decoupled and very manageable with out introducing bugs or triggering unintended consequences (sometime pretty catastrophic to the system in question). These are systems we ought to know everything about, because we built them, and that we've intentionally designed in such a way that a fault in one part of it shouldn't affect other parts of it. And yet, we often find they do in ways we never would have predicted. I'm talking here, of course, about software.

Genetic code is a system we don't fully understand, that's vastly more complex than any of the software systems we've built, and that is highly coupled in ways we're only just beginning to understand. Tweak a gene that we're pretty sure does one thing, and it can have effects in completely unrelated systems we never would have predicted.

And yet, we're going to mess around in that system and then release it out into wild ecosystems (another highly complex and highly coupled system that we don't fully understand). Ecosystems that we don't completely control. We have no rollback ability for these releases. No way to undo it.

And we have no way to thoroughly test these changes impacts on the systems.

Even in a culture with the mentality "move fast and break things" we don't act this cavalierly towards the systems we're working in. It's absolutely insane to behave this way. And it's only a matter of time before it bites us in the ass in a truly catastrophic way.

1) Almost never eat out. Home cooked meals that I've prepped / washed. This was single handedly the biggest factor that completely removed "getting sick" from my life.

2) Hand wash before touching face, or food.

3) Avoid sick people. If I hear someone coughing or sneezing, I move away from them. Call me a germ freak, I don't care, I've had 0 sick days in 6+ years since I started taking these simple precautions.

You don't even need to social distance... just avoid people if they're sick. SOME of this is impossible (on an air plane for example). Turns out, I very rarely travel so have likely just gotten lucky avoiding the dip shits that fly while sick.