I've been programming for decades and I like... three finger type. Two index fingers and a thumb. I don't look at the keyboard though (I know where the keys are relative to each other inherently through years of typing this way) and I type at a very high rate of speed for someone using so few fingers.
I used Carvana for the first time this past year and found the experience very good as a buyer.
The price was reasonable for what I bought, they delivered the car directly to my place and handled all of the registration in CA (came with dealer plates, and the CA DMV paperwork and plates arrived in the mail within weeks).
It may be a terrible place to invest (I have no actual opinion on this, I'm just commenting based on the contents of the linked report) but I have no complaints about them as a customer.
This is a big factor for me, especially as someone who has been doing software development for a long time. When I first started it was typical to have individual offices, or at worst office sharing where you shared an office with one other dev who was likely trying to keep distractions to a minimum as much as you were.
Now almost every workplace is an open office plan, hot desk swapping hellscape.
If offices were like they generally were when I first started I would be a lot more personally pro-RTO, but the way they are these days I much prefer to work at home in peace and quiet.
(Of course, the peace and quiet aspect will vary based on the particulars of everyone's homes/families/etc).
Traffic is of course the other major factor. As someone who lives in Southern California, the commute time from where I live to where I work is either 15 minutes or an hour and a half based on traffic congestion and its pretty freeing to not have to worry so much about preplanning your commute to minimize the likelihood of landing on the bad side of this.
I say this as someone who’s worked from home for the last six years of my career pre-Covid
I would never want to work at Amazon or Facebook or whatever while being remote. You’re leaving half of the benefit of being at those places on the table.
I'm trying to make sense of someone being as irrationally skeptical of the reporting as you are who also somehow believes that a screenshot of all things proves anything and I just can't do it.
BlueSky is a for-profit "Public Benefit Corporation". Let's be honest, it's in their interest to look as popular as possible to attract investors, partnerships, and users. Inflated numbers, if they existed, would be nearly impossible to detect from the outside. So why should I blindly accept these figures just because they’re reported? A screenshot doesn’t magically prove transparency, either. Companies can cherry-pick data or only show specific slices that make them look good. Real transparency would mean regular and verified reports accessible to the public, not just one-off announcements about user growth that we can’t independently verify.
When I said, "Publish the screenshot. Not that hard," I wasn't implying a screenshot would be the ultimate proof, but more that if they claim these numbers are legit, they should be willing to share more than just a headline. If they're not, it's fair to question why.
Very coincidentally I actually found myself needing a Go TUI library for a small program I wrote just last week with pretty simple needs (some basic dynamic list views including a file picker view) and I spent about half an hour messing with bubbletea before tossing it away and switching to tview
I don't doubt that bubbletea is a far more elegant and powerful library than tview for writing Go-based TUIs but for my relatively simple application I didn't need that power and yet bubbletea still expected me to pay for it in terms of understanding its architecture at a pretty deep level just to make it do anything at all.
It very much does not adhere to the idea of "keep the simple things simple" (which IMO makes it kind of a strange fit for Go, as that's the primary thing I love about Go).
And this is coming from someone who spent a lot of time in the past doing C-based Win32 programming which actually has a lot of similarities to bubbletea's message-based architecture and despite that I still couldn't be assed to deal with learning bubbletea's complexity when my needs didn't feel like they called for it.
Even if you could see the replies they would almost all be off-topic attempts by paid "verified accounts" to take advantage of the eyeballs on the popular post they are replying to.
Twitter replies to any post that is semi-popular have been a worthless jumble of engagement bait for about a year now.
> I saw a demo of some software that can scan at 24 frame per second all of the workers behind a cafe counter, and classify them by which products they are working, their throughput, and special states such as using their phone, talking to a coworker, looking at the window.
jeez. when the guillotines eventually come out I hope nobody is actually surprised by it.
There are an awful lot of currently employed people who are neither remotely entertaining nor creative-minded enough to fill a more behind-the-scenes role for someone who is (assuming jobs like that even exist in this hypothetical near-future massive employment shift).
I am easily able to spend 24/7 consuming content that I like - and I have very specific niche tastes, but even there enough content exists basically until the end of time.
I could see this work if we develop even more exotic and creative tastes, creating even more hyper-specific niches and tiny communities around them.
I'm not the person you are replying to, but I happened to do an Amazon return at the UPS store in the last month and it didn't require a shipping label.
It was actually a super clean process on my end, couple of clicks on Amazon, they emailed me a QR code, I walked into the UPS store, flashed the QR code to them on my phone which they scanned, put the item on the desk and walked out.
Literally was in and out of the UPS store in less than a minute.
I have a lot of qualms about modern Amazon, mostly related to how value from Prime is continually diminishing in the form of things like ads in Prime Video, etc, but I have no convenience-related complaints about the return process I recently experienced.
Everything old is new again (except me, who is old enough to remember a lot of hype around this sort of thing back in 1999 in old video game and general tech magazines like Wired):
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