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And also more than most people want to have setup in the living room. My wife would rather have ads on YouTube occasionally than an ugly computer plugged in all the time. It’s also more difficult to deal with than a remote you can work one handed.


Small PCs and drawers exist and i would rather have a whole damn server rack than 30 seconds to 3 minute ads every 5-10 minutes / video. It's worse than TV...and no im not gonna give google money for a continually worse experience despite paying.


You can get a pi and tuck it behind the TV. Then get a mouse that's styled like a remote. There's also plenty of OSs designed to look like a proper smart TV OS


It's not ugly, it's hidden inside the cabinet that the TV stands on.


I haven’t programmed this issue specifically, but Billy Strings has sat in with Trey Anastasio a few times. For me if they do a cover of the guests song, I would say it’s a cover until that member is added to the lineup. I would check how the PhishNet API handles it (I think they have a is_original Boolean). Phish does “covers” of the 2001 theme, I’d wonder if that’s considered a cover even though it was just a small tone poem from 100+ years ago??


This doesn’t square with most of my experience with React, especially if use it to generate static code hosted by nginx. I’ve found my personal site to always be wicked fast, even though it’s not that complex.


Accommodate religious groups??? They literally have forced re-education camps for minorities. This is off the wall crazy


And what? tumpy is set to make those same co- religion members, illegal, again! my point is that it's America that is sliping, relative to what it was, and that China has real advantages that will insulate it from almost anything that anybody can do. And let me be personal for a moment, in that amongst other heritage, my paternal grandmother was of Mongol origin, and it very very difficult to read about the banning of teaching Mongolian, and then there are many other sub-groups there in China, suffering a slow forced dissalusion. But that is ongoing, everywhere, like say the undermining(unintentional pun) of the Sami, the last semi nomadic indiginous population in Europe, who made the greavous mistake of spending the last 15000 years living on top of valuable minerals.


Yeah, we all go through it. I got a degree in economics and we used a program called SPSS developed by IBM to do regression analysis. No one in the industry uses it and it was very frustrating looking for a first job and no one was wanting the software I learned in university. But university isn’t about leaning to uses tool and apply it somewhere else, it’s about the underlying concepts and the people you get exposed to. I don’t use regression analysis in my job any more, but I’m much more prepared in doing numerical analysis than my co-workers who have traditional CS or marketing degrees.


>But university isn’t about leaning to uses tool and apply it somewhere else, it’s about the underlying concepts and the people you get exposed to.

You’re not wrong at all on the software side. With regards to the concepts though, we did a whole bunch of theory, but fairly often we did not do even the basics of applying it. I mean we literally did not do any, we did zero circuit/PCB design (the thing I’m trying to currently learn).


Not even design? This was a EE degree?


Outside of the dissertation no not really. Best we did was in the group projects where at most we attached a couple sensors and maybe a motor to an arduino.

*Technically I did a robotics degree but the difference between mine and the EE degree at my university was at the most 5 modules, roughly 60 out of 360 credits.

The replacement modules certainly were not in anything to do with design or fabrication either. No soldering, no CAD, no ECAD.

You could have got through the entire degree without having once picked up a soldering iron or built a circuit. As long as you were good at maths you would get through, nothing else meaningfully mattered, except the dissertation of course.


I feel like the problems airlines face when not running a hub-and-spoke model would be a good market for quantum computing? Could be totally wrong though. Lots and lots of variables and permutations and options to sift through.


I set up a form to send basic email info for wedding RSVPs for my wedding, no validation, and never got a single piece of spam. Granted it’s hosted in Cloudflare so don’t know if they blocked out all the hard work for me.


That’s plain false. For the last 10 years of my dads career he was remote full time because the technology was finally available. Your experience wasn’t universal and some people have grown up where it’s normal and expected for a parents office to be at home.


I’d disagree and tell you that you fall into a minority. I’m fully supportive of remote but to suggest it’s normal implies some majority, or close to. That’s not been the case.


According to this pre-covid article, up to 25% of US workers did "some or all" of their work from home [1]. That matches with my memories.

[1] https://doi.org/10.1111/ntwe.12097


“Some or all” in that article is really “at least 1 day a week”. I would offer that in 2024, people would not consider 1 day a week at home (or even 2-3 days a week) a “remote work” position. We call that hybrid work nowadays.

So while this article says remote work was increasing, and I am sure it was incrementally in certain tech, marketing, and sales positions, I don’t think its a good example of remote work (as it is defined today) becoming a norm then.

Pre-covid, I worked around 1 day a week remote, but was in the office the other 4 or traveling for work. I believe I knew maybe 2 people in my social and business circles back then that I would define as having a “remote work” job (by our present definition).


And that doesn't indicate its normal, it just suggests that at times people have lives outside of work.


Plain false? You are thinking that it might be normalizing for a certain class/type of work, but “plain false”, please.


lol I remember that asshole. They fired almost the entire Denver based corporate office in 2018 to relocate to California because this guy didn’t want to move to Colorado.

Feel bad for the Bux.


What a funny way to think about it. Gordo again gets all the blame.


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