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Bees use flight movements and body wiggles to help their brains learn and recognize visual patterns with remarkable accuracy, according to University of Sheffield research that could reshape how next-generation artificial intelligence is developed.

I only use Rider because it's cross-platform. It's not inherently better (or worse) than Visual Studio with Resharper installed.

I really don't understand why it was necessary to publically mention why these folks were being laid off. Being laid off is humiliating enough as it is, without the added cruelty from ones former employer.

I was laid off from Intel in early 2023. As far as lay offs go, it was handled as well as can be expected during those times. I left with my dignity intact and I would jump at an opportunity to work there again.

What really sucks is the label "low performer" that will get attached to the reason you got laid off at Facebook. That was an intentionally cruel thing to do to people who lost their livelihoods.

These are actually amazing. I'm such a visual learner and these would have helped my high school years so much!

I don't think this is so much about this ONE ad but rather, it contributes to the overall feeling that real connections, like art, music, and architecture, are being lost daily. Music programs are constantly being cut. Architects can't find work. Woodworkers can't make a living making custom furniture. Sam Ash music stores are shuttering ALL their locations.

Everything has been commodified.

And Apple just piled on.

This! Music programs throughout the US, are getting cut. AI has fundamentally (and not in a good way) changed the artistic landscape in ways that we cannot recover from. My soon to be high school graduate daughter, was so looking forward to pursuing her artistic passions in college, and now is taking a gap year to really understand if that is something she still thinks she can make a living at.

One more opinion in the mix. I grew up in extreme poverty as a child who also happened to have a keen interest in music. I could never develop this keen interest because of course, the cost of instruments was too much for my mom to handle.

That same kid also got to watch Pete Townsend (and others) get superstar status, while breaking instruments during a performance. It was heartbreaking to me that he didn't just donate those instruments to disadvantaged kids and still bothers me today.

So, while I understand the intention of the ad, when you couple that, with Apple products being too pricey for a lot of people, yeah, it bothered me.

The only reason I'm using JetBrains at all right now is because Rider is cross platform. With Microsoft announcing the discontinuation of Visual Studio on Mac, I get really tired of the context shifting between Visual Studio at work and Rider at home.

Additionally, are the costs of Visual Studio over Rider. My work pays for my Visual Studio Subscription, which does not allow for personal use. The JetBrains Ultimate sub is affordable for me, but this AI integration has me rethinking this.

Boggles my mind that they lacked the foresight to seriously consider whether this was a good move or not. I always considered them extremely developer friendly, but with this latest move, I'm not so sure.

Did I love Windows XP? Yes.

But to me, it always looked like it was designed by Fisher Price.

Having worked in PowerApps the last year and integrating a rest API in Azure that then updates Dataverse, low code is just short for abstraction layers. As a developer, this irritates the hell out of me.

Sure, you can view your Dataverse database in SSMS, but it's read only and you get no autocomplete.

And don't even get me started on XRM Toolbox.

Have you tried the new pipelines built into PowerApps?

As someone who is of East Asian descent, and with a mid -8 diopter, I fall into this category. I am extremely grateful that I can still get 20/20 vision with corrective lenses, but I assume that at some point, that will no longer be the case.

I'm on old curmudgeon and just want to go back to saying, "C#...It's fast enough!"

Having to tell your employer what your sickness is in order to get sick leave approved (or not) is ridiculous at the outset. This is the exact kind of thing people are lobbying against. My employer should not have that much reach into my work/life balance. You give me PTO with minor stipulations and leave it at that.

My desire to maliciously comply with your company's policy would have me stating things like, "I have this red, oozing puss on my ass cheeks and would like a day off," or, "My balls are really itchy and red and it's spread to my fingers."

No. What's currently popular is normalizing talking about mental health and wellbeing. Not everyone has the privilege to get a diagnosis, much less, get proper care or treatment. Talking about these issues on social media is an outlet for people to not feel so lonely or isolated.

The article quotes a few people. One of the quotes is, "The accounting team is not happy with me providing this time off, because it’s a liability for the company". Another quote is equating not taking sick days to having a "work ethic".

Read the article. Companies just want to company.

What does 'abusing' sick leave mean though? You mention going to the ballpark using a sick day. Going to the ballpark with your son, looks a lot like taking care of your mental well-being if you ask me.

And if you never take sick leave, like I did during my almost 30 year career, the toll it takes on your health is tremendous. My employers have never cared about my high blood pressure or that I'm pre-diabetic.

What Covid showed my household, despite me working from home, was that ALL of us being isolated at home, meant no more sickness. No longer were my kids bringing home crud from school and making me sick for weeks at a time while we all passed it around until the crud got sick of us and moved on.

This is why it still boggles my mind that companies with antiquated RTO policies aren't embracing remote when they can. There are many days I'm not feeling great enough to get dressed up and drive a couple of hours into an office, but I can get up, put on my shorts and a t-shirt, and sit down in my home office and work.

The guy's story about never taking a sick day and falling asleep at his computer while on meds, only to eventually get fired, would be a huge wakeup call. It's just not worth it to give that much of yourself to a job.

@danseop08 Stuck? What a weird and interesting thing to say since I deliberately chose and applied for jobs I was not only good at, but had the most experience in. And to then add in that I haven't seen anything other than Microsoft to boot?

Don't you think that over a 30 year tech career that I've touched and used many different products and technologies?

Oh for crying out loud, I’m so over this holier than thou attitude.

Every company and every vendor has strengths and weaknesses. Laughing in someone’s face for choosing to use one platform is ridiculous at best.

My entire almost 30 year career has been Microsoft centered, except for brief stints with Novell, mainframes, and OS/2.

And based on my anecdotal evidence over many companies and many years, Microsoft has been pretty solid.

I have conversations all the time over Teams with any peers that I'm interested in having relationships with outside of work. This gives me the opportunity to be selective in doing that because I'm not interested in being friends/pals with everyone at work.

Also when we lived in the same city, we would meet in physical locations for a beer and a burger.

Now that I don't even live in the same state, we make plans to fly to each other's cities and get together. We'll also carry over convos to Slack or Telegram and phone calls.

Remote workers falling through the cracks is wholly on the company and not on the remote worker. It takes a very concerted effort on the companies part, to ensure that everything is remote first.

None of the other things you mention (bonding, siloes, etc.) happen because a worker is remote. They happen because companies treat remote workers the same as in office workers, without putting in any effort to become a remote first company.

WFH for the past couple of decades, gives me the choice to live where I want to live (internet dependent and time zone dependent of course). I can make a West Coast salary and live in the midwest if I so choose.

Having lived in PDX and commuting there, what would sometimes take me a 30 min drive early in the morning, would be a 2-3 hour drive coming home. Absolutely absurd and guess who it was costing? Certainly not my employer for sitting in traffic for 2-3.5 hours each day...

I cannot even begin to tell you how much my work/life balance has evened out since I stopped having to be in an office. Additionally, I get far more hours of singular concentration at home versus an office.

I have been fortunate enough to work from home since early 2000s. For many reasons I don't want to use my own hardware for doing that though. The main one being e-discovery. If your company is forced to go through a discovery process, if you've accessed company resources via your personal hardware, it becomes part of that discovery process. Additionally, licensing issues crop up, etc.

But it doesn't surprise me that companies who are forcing people into the office are having a hard time recruiting. If Covid showed us anything, it was that we could all work from home and be just as productive, if not more so, doing it.

IMHO, forcing me into an office is actually a punishment. Why punish me for the high cost of your real estate?

There is a component in contentment that I think is lacking in complacency...that of general happiness. So to me, they are not the same.

As someone who has a growth mindset I can assure you that in corporations like Microsoft or Intel (I worked at the latter), one's own personal growth is not only fostered, but highly encouraged.

Corporate life ain't for everyone and I get that. As a 56 year-old being squeezed out of the marketplace due to ageism, some of us aren't just after the highest pay or the most prestige at our jobs.

What you call complacency, I call contentment. Some of us don't like job hopping. Still others of us don't like startup or hustle culture. Some of us have families to support and are quite content to work hard for better than average salaries and benefits, live and work where we want to, engage with friends we've made at work (even across business teams), build retirement. Some of us have even spent many months out of each year, traveling the world with some of our coworkers.

I had a look at this site and something stood out to me. The Google Docs Spreadsheet of VPN providers, hasn't been updated since 12/19/2019.

Being legally required to do something as a landlord, seldom translates into something convenient or even in one's favor, as a renter. Most landlords I've ever had use "legally required to do so" as a way to do the bare minimum and let you initiate contact with a lawyer or court, thus dragging out whatever it is you think they're legally required to do.