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I've never really liked that reasoning. If that's the case, then right-handed people should be playing "left-handed" guitars, with their right hands doing the fretting.

Personally, fretting with my left hand just doesn't feel natural. When I first got interested in playing, I asked a salesman at a Guitar Center about left-handed instruments. He handed me a standard guitar, and showed me the fingering for a G chord. It was uncomfortable, but that's obviously expected for the first time I'd ever held a guitar. However, when I flipped it around and fretted with my right hand, it felt much more natural. So ever since, I've played left-handed.

I still have no first clue what they're finding interesting about all this.

Did you ask them? I'm primarily a casual contester and POTA hunter. Most non-amateurs (and quite a few amateurs) find that boring.

CW sounds cool, but I don't have a peer group it would impress, so: boring.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but does an activity have to impress a peer (or any) group to not be boring? Amateur radio as a whole is unimpressive to many (most?) people, but why should that stop you?

One of my main uses of ChatGPT or CoPilot is as a less-opinionated StackOverflow. Either way, I still have to verify the solution, but the LLM gives me a more direct answer.

I also use it to generate (hopefully) fictitious names when I need a name. "Elara Nightshade" is more interesting than "Test1 Test" or "Jane Doe3".

From my experience, companies are more concerned with "in an office" than "working together".

Yes, when the whole team is working from a single location, there can be advantages. But that situation is uncommon. In fact, the only time I can recall being in that situation during the last 20 years is a short stint I had at a startup; about 10 people, from CEO to intern, in a single open office. And even then, they only _required_ in-office three times a week.

More common, teams are split over two or more cities/states/countries. I'm currently in Colorado. I'm never going to have a water cooler chat with my colleague in Budapest.

So you're not charging back up to 100% until the overnight stop?

When I think about how I would do a long trip in an EV, I envision getting a full charge, because first, that's what I currently do with gasoline, and second, I want as much range as possible to account for unplanned detours and/or other unexpected issues.

I am so happy my team, and most of my company as a whole, has an unstated "camera off" custom. There are a few project/product managers and higher-ups that like to be seen, I guess, but there's never been anyone announcing "Please everyone turn on your cameras".

It's interesting when we have meetings with external partners that appear to have a "camera on" policy, and they are the only people with their cameras on.

Depending on the location, soon enough million dollar listings will be average family homes.

I'd put more faith in the claims of valuing spontaneous conversation and just walking down the hall if companies actually had full teams in a single physical location, where this would be possible.

I've been in the software industry (QA and dev) since 2000. Other than a short time with a startup, I have _never_ been on a team where everyone has been in the same state, never mind the same city.

It was, however, a step up from the shared network drive with a bunch of zip files.

If nobody in the company is working in Colorado, they can probably more easily justify excluding Colorado residents, and thus not have to conform to the salary posting requirements.

As long as the range is on an exterior wall.

"just listen" isn't necessarily any easier than all the other "just <do the thing>" phrases.

They don't have to admit being wrong, they should just state that they have evolved and now have different thoughts on the subject.

No plan to come back != a promise to never force employees back to the office

That doesn't apply solely to Amazon, or even the rest of FAANG. _Any_ company, even those currently remote-first or remote-only, are just one CEO change away from an open-plan office.

force the building of refineries to process domestic crude.

Who would want to build a refinery when the current President has stated he wants to shut down the fossil fuel industry?

In addition, for things that can't be done easily with ActiveRecord, you can write your own SQL, but then you really need to know SQL to get the performance right.

Where I work, our main product is a Rails monolith, over 10 years old at this point. The few serious performance issues we currently have are due to complicated SQL queries written back when the DB was much smaller.

E.g. What if Microsoft has a job opening with a range of $110k - $170k, and the candidate they selected used to make $180k and would like $200k?

If I was reviewing job descriptions, and the max of the posted range is less than my current salary, I'm probably not going to apply.

All new smart meters come with an IHD (In Home Display).

Not necessarily. My local utility (Xcel Energy in Colorado, US) is in the process of moving to new smart meters, and as far as I'm aware, there is no IHD. My apartment complex was converted a couple months ago; I can get hourly usage via the utility website on about a 3-4 hour delay, but no realtime usage.

I have the same issues with my .name domain. Most of the reason I have a gmail address as well is for the sites that don't think "first@last.name" is a real address.

It only seems like they do.

I did not need to know that.

So do the companies. When it's convenient for them, they have no problem splitting up a team over multiple timezones/countries/continents. If physical presence in a shared space was really that important, they wouldn't do that.

It does say _part_ of the severance is the membership, so there must be _something_ else.

Not quite a magic machine, but take a look at Lab-Box: lab-box.it And maybe pair it with Ilford's pop-up darkroom: https://www.ilfordphoto.com/catalog/product/view/id/2071/s/p... (but there are probably better ways to get a sufficiently dark space). Once you have developed negatives, you can use a digital camera for scanning, if you don't have/want a flatbed or dedicated film scanner.

Note I haven't used any of the above yet; I've just recently revived my own interest in film, so had the info handy.

In the production issues I've been involved with, I was not forbidden use of Google, API docs, consultation with others, etc., and I did not have to work out anything on a whiteboard.

Isn't there a fortune to be made by engineering toys that can endure a kid's strength?

Maybe, but there's probably a bigger one to be made selling replacements for those toys.

Or are women not pursuing those fields because of the _impression_ that they are hostile.

you might end up not having a meaningful conversation in the flesh for weeks

So pretty similar to the last 18 months.

Delta doesn't really change much of that, they are not the primary victims nor spreaders. And yet, in some parts of the US, government guidance requires masks from age 2.

Less strange than the Department of Education having one.

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