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There are a number of problems with WfH.

There's no work community or camaraderie at home. Doggo should count. Kittah jumping on the keyboard is just using you for food and grooming.

There's no grabbing lunches.

There's no visiting X down the hall.

No grabbing a beer after work.

Boss G, H, or J can't see you around.

Colleagues M, N, P, and Q don't have a sense of your performance or amount of work that happens far away. "Out of sight, ..."

Pair programming becomes less effective.

It's typing away by yourself like a writer, occasionally seeing "holograms" of other people on screens, or taking calls like you're working a call center.


I disagree on the lack of work community and camaraderie, and I don’t keep animals at home, period. I also don’t see pair programming as a huge plus in any event, but when it’s needed I’ve not found it to be any less effective remotely.

As for the rest, I (personally) don’t see them as positives anyway…


> typing away by yourself like a writer, occasionally seeing "holograms" of other people on screens, or taking calls like you're working a call center

You say this like it's a bad thing .


I think it’s really depending on the specific area someone is working in. For me the main benefit of the office is to discuss things on the whiteboard with three people and everyone is adding something to the discussion chaotically. Maybe that’s a dynamic that isn’t present somewhere else which is fine but that’s what works for me and every alternative that is online simply didn’t work as good. On the other hand when I’m working alone on tasks, WfH is great.


>No grabbing a beer after work.

>Boss G, H, or J can't see you around.

So you're saying you can grab a beer during work without issue? Sounds pretty good to me.


Nothing is preventing you from meeting colleagues for lunch or grabbing a beer after work.


Honestly most of these are positives not negatives.


As an introvert, the majority of these read like upsides to me.


How's the food?

What do you do for fun after work?


> What do you do for fun after work?

This is nice as a casual social question, but it isn’t related to the job and shouldn’t be relevant. If your goal is to understand if all they do is work, asking about working hours is more to the point.


The timeline seems like an unknowable due to the nature of technological progress: discontinuous jumps that usually require discover manufacturing techniques in secret.

Not as a UFO or conspiracy theory, but as a realization that there are some technologies intentionally kept secret to maintain military, political, or economic advantages.

When that distance between in-the-pipeline reaches a magnitude delta of 2, then I'd be concerned about what's already being designed or kept in secret.

Scaling QC is a difficult, unsolved problem of manufacturing.


Muhaha.

As a DoS of DOS: x:\> copy c:\config.sys CLOCK$

Also special DOS filenames:

    CON PRN AUX NUL {COM,LPT}[1-9]
https://superuser.com/questions/1362080/which-characters-are...

Print autoexec.bat to the dot matrix printer on LPT1?

    x:\> copy autoexec.bat lpt1
    x:\>
Create a file called foo.txt without an editor?

    x:\> copy con foo.txt
    whatever
    whatever
    whatever
    whatever
    ^Z<ENTER>
    x:\>

A social DoS of any machine with BASIC or similar.

    10 INPUT "Press any key to continue..."; $X
    20 GOTO 10


When good floppies go bad:

    General Failure reading drive A:\.
    Abort, Ignore, Retry, Fail?


No one is "boring" with diversified interests. It's how to listen to others first, find common ground (human condition is easiest), and emphasize the highlights of one's own interests now and then.

If nothing done actively in work, consequences include:

Lower salary.

Fewer oppy's like management track.


The very rich by ability and the very poor by inability to attain family planning, and everyone else in TX.

I maybe in a skewed population (FAANG) but women are much more aggressive here in urban areas. While I was walking downtown, a woman pulled her Mercedes over in traffic and shouted an offer at me. I thought she was hilarious and bold but not attractive enough.

In the past, this was sometimes a thing too: in 1943, my grandmother (15) decided to have my grandfather (21 - war vet at 17 by lying). Their 70-year marriage was technically illegal too.


i mean, there are a certain subset of intelligent, highly competitive women who move to urban areas and are also kinda ugly, so they know they have to be aggressive to have a shot since most men judge women heavily based on appearance. I have been approached and asked for dates by two women in my life, both were intelligent but both were not very attractive.


Hey, we don't need any Aladdin djinns showing off their magical puppers here. Definitely against guidelines and regulations. ;)


2^(>64) combinations to put it back together. I find the empty set plus a Hackintosh seems to have fewer bits but work much faster. It must be those repairable qubits.


High status to whom? Anyone not an east-coast academic or urban professional?

I don't think journalism is widely-respected by the general population. Most local TV news anchors are an embarrassment because they to regurgitate Sinclair's "must airs" and bleeds/leads gore.


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Every public K-12 teacher entered the chat.


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